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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.).
***
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.