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shadowkatI should do my taxes but I am procrastinating. But I need to do it, so that Turbo Tax will stop nudging me to do it. I miss the days in which everyone trying to sell me something didn't have my email address.
Knee has been bugging me off and on today - I did laundry and alas, had to stand to do it. For a long while. My knees don't like it when I stand for longer than ten minutes. I stood for thirty. Suffice to say? They weren't happy campers.
Television Bits and Pieces:
David Boreanze cast as the lead in the Rockford Files Reboot by NBC
" David Boreanaz is taking over the iconic role of Jim Rockford in NBC‘s upcoming reboot pilot of “The Rockford Files.”
The drama pilot was originally picked up at the broadcaster in January. Rockford is described as a “witty, world-weary and chronically broke private investigator whose charmingly gruff exterior masked a strong moral core.”
Boreanaz takes over the role from the late James Garner, who played Rockford on the original NBC show from 1974-1980 and across six made-for-TV movies on CBS."
Can we just not? I told mother, who loved the Rockford Files when it first aired.. in the mid-70s, actually, I enjoyed them in reruns and whenever I saw it at night. And my father loved it - it was among his favorite shows. For those who don't know what it is? It was a private detective series, featuring a down-on-his-luck PI. Reminded me a little of the Trevor McGee mysteries.
Me: So they are rebooting the Rockford Files, you'll never guess who they cast in the lead..
Mother: probably not.
Me: David Boreanze - the guy who played Angel.
Mother: Ugh. You've got to be kidding me? Well, that's one show I will definitely not be watching. Boreanze is all wrong for the part - he doesn't have the sense of humor that Garner had.
True. James Marsters has that same dead pan sense of humor, as does Nathan Fillion and Jensen Anckles, not David Boreanze.
Oh well, at least this means that it is highly unlikely that he'll appear in the Buffy Sequel.
But I really wish they wouldn't reboot "good" old television series. There's a list of classic television series that should NEVER be rebooted: Rockford Files, Gunsmoke, the Original Star Trek, The Prisoner, MASH, Fraiser, Hill Street Blues, Homicide Life on the Street, ER, LA Law, St. Elsewhere, Gilmore Girls, Friends, I Love Lucy, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moor Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Supernatural... leave the classics alone folks. Come up with something original?
I don't necessarily mind sequels? Although I'm not watching Scrubs (I barely watched the original.).
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Almost done with the Buffy S7 rewatch, yet woefully behind on the Angel S4 one. Mainly because Angel S4 kind of goes off the rails post Orpheus, and I find it hard to watch? (All the character plot holes give me a headache.) The Cordelia Arc has plot holes you can drive a truck through. I was thinking about what went wrong? And decided it was a combination of all the back stage drama between various collaborators and the fact that the collaborators did not agree on the direction of the plot, what the show was supposed to be about, it's general themes, and character arcs. In short, the writers weren't all on board. Greenwalt who was the main show-runner up to and including S3, definitely was going in a different direction - one counter to the trope/genre, and his partner in crime, Joss Whedon. Whedon was more interested in Firefly and annoyed it didn't fly. To give them credit? They tried. It should work. I mean the foreshadowing and plot bits are there in the earlier seasons and do kind of track up to a point? And it kind of does up to ...Tomorrow - when Cordelia is elevated to a higher being. The whole higher being bit is confusing as all get out. I think the plot arc started in To Shanshu in LA when the demon WRH hired to bring Darla back - hijacked Cordelia's visions and planted the idea of the shanshu in Team Angel's head - cleverly distracting them. Also, Cordelia is constantly getting knocked up by demons in S1-S2, until she finally agrees to become part demon in S3. They do try to take her visions more than once - in Pylea, with Groo, and in S3 Birthday. So it's really the twist on the Visions that Doyle gave her - which were probably fine until Shanshu in LA when they got hijacked and the story went from case of the week to serialized noir drama.
But, you know a plot arc isn't working - when the explanation is a convoluted mess and takes more than one episode to explain all of the insane plot holes. The higher being to demonic monster bit was giving everyone including the characters a migraine.
I kind of want to skip ahead to Home.
Buffy S7's problem is too many characters, while Angel's is comic book/soap plotting that kind of gets garbled in translation. I can see why the network was flirting with cancelling Angel in S4.
Touched and Empty Places have an insane number of group scenes. End of Days is slightly better? Actually, End of Days is rather rewarding - since everyone who dumped on Buffy in Empty Places, from Faith to Caleb - gets pummeled in various ways in End of Days and Touched, while Buffy gets bolstered.
The problem both seasons had was well..show-runner burn out. I give the actors credit for solidering through. Gellar in particular was a work horse - I can see why she was the most annoyed filming S7. Unlike all the other members of the cast - Gellar was in almost every scene, in every episode, and had to play two characters (the First and Buffy). She also gets beaten up a lot during it.
The best part of S7 for me - is the Spike/Buffy love story. I really like their love story - it's among my favorite love stories of all time. It's a favorite trope - the enemies to lovers trope. And the writers built it well over seven seasons, and it wasn't planned, which made it kind of organic to the characters, and more emotionally satisfying. Planned romances in fiction are often clitche (see Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Riley) but unplanned, tend to be more natural and interesting. At any rate the Buffy/Spike relationship hits it's climatic point in Touched, where Buffy actually listens to Spike tell her that he loves her and why, and when he attempts to leave her be - she shows him that she heard him, not only that, she trusts him - by asking him to hold her. Something she used to just ask Angel to do. (That said? I think they filmed Angel holding her better than Spike holding her - which was a combination of the actors, and the direction in Touched. I felt the direction was slightly off in Touched, and could have been better.)
Off to make something for dinner. I don't know what, but I'll come up with something. Maybe salmon with broccoli.
Knee has been bugging me off and on today - I did laundry and alas, had to stand to do it. For a long while. My knees don't like it when I stand for longer than ten minutes. I stood for thirty. Suffice to say? They weren't happy campers.
Television Bits and Pieces:
David Boreanze cast as the lead in the Rockford Files Reboot by NBC
" David Boreanaz is taking over the iconic role of Jim Rockford in NBC‘s upcoming reboot pilot of “The Rockford Files.”
The drama pilot was originally picked up at the broadcaster in January. Rockford is described as a “witty, world-weary and chronically broke private investigator whose charmingly gruff exterior masked a strong moral core.”
Boreanaz takes over the role from the late James Garner, who played Rockford on the original NBC show from 1974-1980 and across six made-for-TV movies on CBS."
Can we just not? I told mother, who loved the Rockford Files when it first aired.. in the mid-70s, actually, I enjoyed them in reruns and whenever I saw it at night. And my father loved it - it was among his favorite shows. For those who don't know what it is? It was a private detective series, featuring a down-on-his-luck PI. Reminded me a little of the Trevor McGee mysteries.
Me: So they are rebooting the Rockford Files, you'll never guess who they cast in the lead..
Mother: probably not.
Me: David Boreanze - the guy who played Angel.
Mother: Ugh. You've got to be kidding me? Well, that's one show I will definitely not be watching. Boreanze is all wrong for the part - he doesn't have the sense of humor that Garner had.
True. James Marsters has that same dead pan sense of humor, as does Nathan Fillion and Jensen Anckles, not David Boreanze.
Oh well, at least this means that it is highly unlikely that he'll appear in the Buffy Sequel.
But I really wish they wouldn't reboot "good" old television series. There's a list of classic television series that should NEVER be rebooted: Rockford Files, Gunsmoke, the Original Star Trek, The Prisoner, MASH, Fraiser, Hill Street Blues, Homicide Life on the Street, ER, LA Law, St. Elsewhere, Gilmore Girls, Friends, I Love Lucy, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moor Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Supernatural... leave the classics alone folks. Come up with something original?
I don't necessarily mind sequels? Although I'm not watching Scrubs (I barely watched the original.).
***
Almost done with the Buffy S7 rewatch, yet woefully behind on the Angel S4 one. Mainly because Angel S4 kind of goes off the rails post Orpheus, and I find it hard to watch? (All the character plot holes give me a headache.) The Cordelia Arc has plot holes you can drive a truck through. I was thinking about what went wrong? And decided it was a combination of all the back stage drama between various collaborators and the fact that the collaborators did not agree on the direction of the plot, what the show was supposed to be about, it's general themes, and character arcs. In short, the writers weren't all on board. Greenwalt who was the main show-runner up to and including S3, definitely was going in a different direction - one counter to the trope/genre, and his partner in crime, Joss Whedon. Whedon was more interested in Firefly and annoyed it didn't fly. To give them credit? They tried. It should work. I mean the foreshadowing and plot bits are there in the earlier seasons and do kind of track up to a point? And it kind of does up to ...Tomorrow - when Cordelia is elevated to a higher being. The whole higher being bit is confusing as all get out. I think the plot arc started in To Shanshu in LA when the demon WRH hired to bring Darla back - hijacked Cordelia's visions and planted the idea of the shanshu in Team Angel's head - cleverly distracting them. Also, Cordelia is constantly getting knocked up by demons in S1-S2, until she finally agrees to become part demon in S3. They do try to take her visions more than once - in Pylea, with Groo, and in S3 Birthday. So it's really the twist on the Visions that Doyle gave her - which were probably fine until Shanshu in LA when they got hijacked and the story went from case of the week to serialized noir drama.
But, you know a plot arc isn't working - when the explanation is a convoluted mess and takes more than one episode to explain all of the insane plot holes. The higher being to demonic monster bit was giving everyone including the characters a migraine.
I kind of want to skip ahead to Home.
Buffy S7's problem is too many characters, while Angel's is comic book/soap plotting that kind of gets garbled in translation. I can see why the network was flirting with cancelling Angel in S4.
Touched and Empty Places have an insane number of group scenes. End of Days is slightly better? Actually, End of Days is rather rewarding - since everyone who dumped on Buffy in Empty Places, from Faith to Caleb - gets pummeled in various ways in End of Days and Touched, while Buffy gets bolstered.
The problem both seasons had was well..show-runner burn out. I give the actors credit for solidering through. Gellar in particular was a work horse - I can see why she was the most annoyed filming S7. Unlike all the other members of the cast - Gellar was in almost every scene, in every episode, and had to play two characters (the First and Buffy). She also gets beaten up a lot during it.
The best part of S7 for me - is the Spike/Buffy love story. I really like their love story - it's among my favorite love stories of all time. It's a favorite trope - the enemies to lovers trope. And the writers built it well over seven seasons, and it wasn't planned, which made it kind of organic to the characters, and more emotionally satisfying. Planned romances in fiction are often clitche (see Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Riley) but unplanned, tend to be more natural and interesting. At any rate the Buffy/Spike relationship hits it's climatic point in Touched, where Buffy actually listens to Spike tell her that he loves her and why, and when he attempts to leave her be - she shows him that she heard him, not only that, she trusts him - by asking him to hold her. Something she used to just ask Angel to do. (That said? I think they filmed Angel holding her better than Spike holding her - which was a combination of the actors, and the direction in Touched. I felt the direction was slightly off in Touched, and could have been better.)
Off to make something for dinner. I don't know what, but I'll come up with something. Maybe salmon with broccoli.
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Date: 2026-02-14 02:00 am (UTC)I hear you. I have twice tried to unsubscribe to Netflix's emails -- why send me stuff about something I already have in my watchlist???
I planned to begin tax work next week. I know one document that was mailed to me never arrived. I had to file a report with the post office about it.
I agree with you about Boreanaz. Didn't he have some sort of sexual harassment suit filed against him in the past? Surprises me he'd get that kind of role.
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Date: 2026-02-14 10:52 pm (UTC)Yup. Once I subscribe to something - it won't let me unsubcribe (unless it's for a price - then when I unscubscribe - it will plague me with emails asking why I unsubcribed and don't I want to get it again for much cheaper?)
I'm having that problem with the Atlantic, New Yorker, and New York Magazine at the moment. What's it take - to get these bots to stop sending me emails?? At least I finally got Mel Robbins and Amanda Palmer to stop doing it. Now, I just need to get all the Democrats running for office around the US to stop. No, I'm not funding some obscure congress person's campaign in Iowa.
I planned to begin tax work next week. I know one document that was mailed to me never arrived. I had to file a report with the post office about it.
How frustrating. I feel your pain. I had a minor panic attack hunting for a tax document I'd received a few weeks back. I think I have them all now. So I'll probably do it tomorrow or the next day. I usually do it this weekend. But not on Saturday or the 14 any longer - not since the year I got my lap top stolen out of my apartment with all the tax information on it. I'm not exactly superstitious...but...
I agree with you about Boreanaz. Didn't he have some sort of sexual harassment suit filed against him in the past? Surprises me he'd get that kind of role.
Yes. It was on Bones. They made it go away. It was an extra. (These cases never end well for the actresses filing them and are impossible to prove. The same thing kind of happened with Nathan Fillon on Castle (resulting in the "actress" getting fired and the show ending the next year and Fillon jumping over to the Rookie), and with Michael Weatherly on the Dr. Phil Jury Show (Eliza Dusku filed that one - against Weatherly - in a case that makes the other two look like a walk in the park by comparison - and Dusku got blackballed, Weatherly's show lasted at least one more season before finally getting cancelled. Dusku left acting, got a degree in social work and psychiatry and is now a professional PTSD psychiatrist specializing in trauma counseling.)
Here's the link to the Boreanze allegations: https://www.slashfilm.com/1699672/david-boreanaz-bones-extra-lawsuit/
I don't know what to think about it or the actor to be honest? The actor kind of rubs me the wrong way - I've listened to his interviews and Q&A's and, let's just say, I'm glad I've never interacted with him in person and most likely never will? I'm not quite sure why he rubs me the wrong way - he just does?
I've admittedly never been a fan of the actor? I liked him as Angel and that's about it. I do find it annoying that he's had a great career (and he's basically a doofus), while actors like Marsters, Denisof, Acker, Gellar, Kane, and Head have fallen more under the wire.
Life just keeps rewarding the wrong people in my opinion. It's all very depressing. I wanted Bones to fail (it was more successful than Buffy and Angel combined - I really disliked Bones), and Seal Team (it did well). So...
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Date: 2026-02-14 11:47 pm (UTC)I have the same response to Boreanaz. EVen before we heard about his behavior on set I didn't care for him. I liked the character of Angel but not personally. I could see why other people found him attractive but he wasn't my type.
Agreed about who did well and didn't. He got the Bones offer right off the bat while everyone else struggled. Alyson Hannigan was the only other one who got steady work after the Mutant Enemy years.
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Date: 2026-02-15 02:28 am (UTC)The laptop? When it got stolen - I jumped around various credit agencies, banks, etc - protecting content. Nothing happened. The kids just wiped it - apparently. It was kids. They didn't take my wallet or anything else. The local police laughed at me and my concerns - which has tainted my view of law enforcement ever since. Although the ones who came to my apartment were discussing the Buffy television series - it was back in 2005, different apartment and local. But it's made me oddly reluctant to do my taxes on February 14 (as if that had anything to do with it).
I have the same response to Boreanaz. EVen before we heard about his behavior on set I didn't care for him. I liked the character of Angel but not personally. I could see why other people found him attractive but he wasn't my type.
Same. He's not my type. Marsters, Head, and Denisof are - but I find Boreanze unappealing. I never fell in love with the character of Angel. I liked the character - certainly enough to enjoy the series, but he didn't grab me the way Spike did or Wes for that matter. I'm not sure why.
He got the Bones offer right off the bat while everyone else struggled. Alyson Hannigan was the only other one who got steady work after the Mutant Enemy years.
David got the work for the same reasons Fillon did - they both fit the procedural trope - tall dark and handsome, and they can play that role well. Police procedurals love to cast folks who look like Nathan Fillon and David Boreanze. And all you have to do is look at the ratings, what's on most of the television channels, and what people list on television talk most of the time - to know how popular and prolific police procedurals are in the US, Canada, and the UK. Brendan (Criminal Minds) and Landau (Bosch) both got steady work from police procedurals in supporting and guest roles. If you don't fit that trope - it's hard to find work. Marsters got guest star roles on a few procedurals here and there, as did Gellar, but neither could star in them - they are too tiny and don't have the right look.
Hannigan got it - because of the American Pie Movie Series - she was able to get a sit-com with the same brand of humor as American Pie. She's actually more widely known for American Pie and How I Met Your Mother - and it's where most of her money comes from. Unlike Gellar who did teen horror flicks while doing Buffy, Hannigan landed in teen comedies - and that's far more lucrative.
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Date: 2026-02-15 06:02 pm (UTC)About a week later (after we'd cancelled everything and changed locks), a man contacted us saying he'd found the purses. There was no cash in them but perhaps we'd want them back? Turns out he worked construction in the area and had seen the dumped purses from a roof. He took them to the same police station and they told him they weren't in the business of returning stolen property but he could contact us if he wanted.
(I offered him money for his trouble in returning them but he wouldn't take it.)
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Date: 2026-02-15 08:22 pm (UTC)Rockford
Date: 2026-02-14 02:18 am (UTC)Dead pan? I see James Garner's infectious smile, which I don't think DB can pull off. I don't think DB could successfully play Bret Maverick, but given a little personality change to the character, he might be an okay Rockford. DB isn't going to be as charismatic when he smiles, but Rockford was more of a complainer than a happy-most-of-the-time guy like Maverick, and DB can do complaining. I think a lot of the humor and charm in Rockford came from the rest of the cast. Who are they going to have to back DB? A sweet old guy to take Noah Beery's place as the dad, Rocky? Someone to play a total spaceman, like Angel (Rockford's walking disaster, Angel, not DB's Angel!) like Stuart Margolin? A young lady lawyer/romantic interest, like Gretchen Corbett's Beth? A bland Dennis Becker, like Joe Santos was, to give him a mostly understanding "in" with the police?
These days I can't see Rockford living on a beach in California even in a trailer. James Garner's Rockford was too poor to do that in 2026! But, I guess it would not be much more unbelievable than Monica's infamous apartment on Friends.
Re: Rockford
Date: 2026-02-14 10:20 pm (UTC)I don't remember any of that. I don't even remember the trailer or who played the father, let alone that he had a love interest. I just remember James Garner's cheeky smile. Garner had a charisma and charm that David Boreanze does not have in my opinion. Garner was also a lot better looking and aged better and a much better actor.
Monica's apartment was actually more believable than you think? She was sharing it with Rachel (Rachel had family money) and Monica was a "chef" at a restaurant. They were NOT poor twenty-somethings. Chandler's apartment was completely believable. Actually Friends, weirdly, wasn't that bad regarding NYC apartment living. Ross was a doctor, I think. Chandler was in finance, so his apartment should have actually been better than it was.
Re: Rockford+Friends
Date: 2026-02-14 11:12 pm (UTC)Ross was a PhD who worked at a museum, at least in the beginning. Somewhat later he was teaching at a college and got involved with a student, a great way to get fired!
A running joke in the first year was Rachel using her dad's credit cards and talking about getting one of those "job things" because she never had any cash. She worked at Central Perk for a bit till she got a job at Bloomingdale's (eventually as a buyer I think). But her father may have paid for her share of the rent till then.
Chandler was a junior executive. I don't remember anything about the job being in finance or definitely not being in finance, but his job seemed to be mostly data entry (and perhaps other things he never could quite explain to anyone), which depending on where he worked, could have meant he was well paid, and he certainly had a more steady income than Joey.
Re: Rockford+Friends
Date: 2026-02-15 02:36 am (UTC)The rest I do not remember - and I rewatched Friends about five years ago.
Re: Rockford+Friends
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