TV Slut Strikes Again
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shadowkatComfortably numb from a glass of sauvaign blanc (Cupcake - yes that is the name of the wine) with a touch of St. Germain liguor. It makes the wine tast a bit flowery. Sort of like a Reisling with a touch of pinot grigo. Tastes of peach, citrus, light yellow flowers that you can eat which I can not remember the name of. Told one of my co-workers that whenever Friday arrives I feel like I've run a marathon. Co-worker's response - yes, and the kicker is it never ends. LOL! I like to work, so this is a good thing, I think. But I am too tired to do the social and/or gym thing afterwards.
On the fall tv front? I don't think I've laughed so hard during a tv show than I did watching Glee and How I Met Your Mother This Week. I like absurdist comedy. In Glee they had a scene in which the entire high school football team on the field did a dance to the number "Single Lady". It was a side-splittingly funny. I laughed so hard I was coughing. Then they won the game, because the other team was all WTF??? On How I Met Your Mother - Ted Mosby relates to his kids the story of his first day as a professor. He says he got one question, but he took his friend's Barney's advice and said no questions. If he had allowed the woman to ask her question - he would have found out that he was in the wrong classroom. That this was really Economics 301, not Architecture 101. But instead he says no questions. At one point he asks a student - "Why do you want to be an architect?" The student replies - "I don't want to be architect." HE says that's a good question. Another point, he says so what is it about architecture that you like? Everyone raises their hand. HE says no questions. Then he says if you aren't interested in architecture, you don't belong in this class and are wasting my time and yours... you should leave now. The entire class gets up and proceeds to leave. Panicking, he says, wait, wait, don't leave. At that point the economics professor arrives and tells them to take their seats and informs Mosby he's in the wrong room. LOL! (It's hilarious, because I've actually witnessed this in my lifetime. Also Mosby is a bit of an ass.) The funny thing is? I wasn't planning on watching it - HIMYM is hit and miss like most sitch comedies...but I couldn't watch Heroes because it was two hours and conflicted with House and Gossip Girl (sorry, Heroes, but I like Gossip Girl and House much much better.). I've decided I probably enjoyed House, Gossip Girl and How I Met far more - all were stellar, on target episodes that made me happy.
Heroes - to be fair I gave plenty of chances too - I watched S2-3, when it jumped the shark so many times that I lost track, also it got incredibly sexist and misogynist in places...while I admittedly have a high tolerance (you have to in order to adore noir), Heroes is not noir, it's just offensive and at times, illogical. They really should have killed Sylar and Nathan and Peter off in the first season, just saying.
Haven't seen Flashforward, SPN, Smallville, Castle, Mercy, Modern Family, Good Wife,
Forgotten, Mentalist, Project Runway, Vampire Diaries, Eastwick, Cougar Town or Accidentally on Purpose yet, but they are all on my DVR, along with the last ten episodes of MAD MEN, Warehouse 13, two episodes of Defying Gravity, Wallbender (Masterpiece Theater), and sigh, Eureka. I also have a DVD from netflix of S3 Dexter to watch. I have too many tv shows to watch. Plus Dollhouse tonight, Desperate Houswives, Georgia O'Keefe, and Brothers and Sisters. Ugh. Some of these shows really need to bite the bullet - will need to make some choices, I'm thinking Warehouse 13 may go, as well as Vampire Diaries, Mentalist, Accidentally on Purpose and Cougar Town.
Also Grey's Anatomy is very close to getting the ax - this week's funeral episode was belabored writing. Too much telling. And a bit too heavy handed. They could have said all of that in one episode - not two. Also it was beyond sentimental. Daytime soap operas are written better. I think they've finally lost the characters...it felt very paint-by-numbers to me. I'm not sure that Sandra Oh's Cristina and Kevin McKidd's Owen are enough to keep me tuned in. We shall see.
Syfy ain't helping me with the decision making - it has a Prisoner remake, yes they are remaking the PRisoner..I kid you not. ( Dollhouse, also, is in a way a remake - a critic online stated Dollhouse was in a way a remake of the Prisoner - this never occurred to me before, but yep, that works. In some respects more than the La Femme Nikita comparison. Dollhouse is sort of the Prisoner meets La Femme Nikita.) The Prisoner remake is going to star Caviele (an actor I have mixed feelings about) and Ian McKellan (an actor I'd watch read the phone book). It is based on, in case you have never heard of it - Patrick McGoohan's classic Prisoner series which ran for only 17 episodes and you can watch marathon style on IFC this weekend. I watched it marathon style one Thanksgiving way back in the 1990s, driving my family crazy in the process. If you are a BTVS fan - S4 of BTVS references the Prisoner quite a bit. The Initiative is in part based on that tv series.
Syfy also has Star Gate Universe - which may or may not rope me into the Gates. I didn't like Star Gate or Star Gate Atlantis because the script and actors bored me, not a Richard Dean Anderson fan - although the guy who plays Daniel is admittedly hot and I watched for a while just for him, also watched for Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who are actors I'd watch read the phone book as well. Yes, I went ga ga for Farscape, when I finally got the chance to see it. But Star Gate: Universe has actors that I would watch read the phone book - also it has a much more interesting premise. Yet, I have no time for all of this geek tv.
I watch too much tv. I know this. And I'm geeky about it - don't tend to like the mainstream stuff. aka Procedurals, sitch comedies, and reality shows. Actually I am a girl geek. I admit it. I am about as far from standard and mainstream as a person can get - as more than one person in my life has pointed out to me, repeatedly. The masses are on one wavelength, and I'm on another. Left of Center, off of the strip...as that old Suzanne Vega lyric goes. People either get me, or they really really don't.
On the fall tv front? I don't think I've laughed so hard during a tv show than I did watching Glee and How I Met Your Mother This Week. I like absurdist comedy. In Glee they had a scene in which the entire high school football team on the field did a dance to the number "Single Lady". It was a side-splittingly funny. I laughed so hard I was coughing. Then they won the game, because the other team was all WTF??? On How I Met Your Mother - Ted Mosby relates to his kids the story of his first day as a professor. He says he got one question, but he took his friend's Barney's advice and said no questions. If he had allowed the woman to ask her question - he would have found out that he was in the wrong classroom. That this was really Economics 301, not Architecture 101. But instead he says no questions. At one point he asks a student - "Why do you want to be an architect?" The student replies - "I don't want to be architect." HE says that's a good question. Another point, he says so what is it about architecture that you like? Everyone raises their hand. HE says no questions. Then he says if you aren't interested in architecture, you don't belong in this class and are wasting my time and yours... you should leave now. The entire class gets up and proceeds to leave. Panicking, he says, wait, wait, don't leave. At that point the economics professor arrives and tells them to take their seats and informs Mosby he's in the wrong room. LOL! (It's hilarious, because I've actually witnessed this in my lifetime. Also Mosby is a bit of an ass.) The funny thing is? I wasn't planning on watching it - HIMYM is hit and miss like most sitch comedies...but I couldn't watch Heroes because it was two hours and conflicted with House and Gossip Girl (sorry, Heroes, but I like Gossip Girl and House much much better.). I've decided I probably enjoyed House, Gossip Girl and How I Met far more - all were stellar, on target episodes that made me happy.
Heroes - to be fair I gave plenty of chances too - I watched S2-3, when it jumped the shark so many times that I lost track, also it got incredibly sexist and misogynist in places...while I admittedly have a high tolerance (you have to in order to adore noir), Heroes is not noir, it's just offensive and at times, illogical. They really should have killed Sylar and Nathan and Peter off in the first season, just saying.
Haven't seen Flashforward, SPN, Smallville, Castle, Mercy, Modern Family, Good Wife,
Forgotten, Mentalist, Project Runway, Vampire Diaries, Eastwick, Cougar Town or Accidentally on Purpose yet, but they are all on my DVR, along with the last ten episodes of MAD MEN, Warehouse 13, two episodes of Defying Gravity, Wallbender (Masterpiece Theater), and sigh, Eureka. I also have a DVD from netflix of S3 Dexter to watch. I have too many tv shows to watch. Plus Dollhouse tonight, Desperate Houswives, Georgia O'Keefe, and Brothers and Sisters. Ugh. Some of these shows really need to bite the bullet - will need to make some choices, I'm thinking Warehouse 13 may go, as well as Vampire Diaries, Mentalist, Accidentally on Purpose and Cougar Town.
Also Grey's Anatomy is very close to getting the ax - this week's funeral episode was belabored writing. Too much telling. And a bit too heavy handed. They could have said all of that in one episode - not two. Also it was beyond sentimental. Daytime soap operas are written better. I think they've finally lost the characters...it felt very paint-by-numbers to me. I'm not sure that Sandra Oh's Cristina and Kevin McKidd's Owen are enough to keep me tuned in. We shall see.
Syfy ain't helping me with the decision making - it has a Prisoner remake, yes they are remaking the PRisoner..I kid you not. ( Dollhouse, also, is in a way a remake - a critic online stated Dollhouse was in a way a remake of the Prisoner - this never occurred to me before, but yep, that works. In some respects more than the La Femme Nikita comparison. Dollhouse is sort of the Prisoner meets La Femme Nikita.) The Prisoner remake is going to star Caviele (an actor I have mixed feelings about) and Ian McKellan (an actor I'd watch read the phone book). It is based on, in case you have never heard of it - Patrick McGoohan's classic Prisoner series which ran for only 17 episodes and you can watch marathon style on IFC this weekend. I watched it marathon style one Thanksgiving way back in the 1990s, driving my family crazy in the process. If you are a BTVS fan - S4 of BTVS references the Prisoner quite a bit. The Initiative is in part based on that tv series.
Syfy also has Star Gate Universe - which may or may not rope me into the Gates. I didn't like Star Gate or Star Gate Atlantis because the script and actors bored me, not a Richard Dean Anderson fan - although the guy who plays Daniel is admittedly hot and I watched for a while just for him, also watched for Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who are actors I'd watch read the phone book as well. Yes, I went ga ga for Farscape, when I finally got the chance to see it. But Star Gate: Universe has actors that I would watch read the phone book - also it has a much more interesting premise. Yet, I have no time for all of this geek tv.
I watch too much tv. I know this. And I'm geeky about it - don't tend to like the mainstream stuff. aka Procedurals, sitch comedies, and reality shows. Actually I am a girl geek. I admit it. I am about as far from standard and mainstream as a person can get - as more than one person in my life has pointed out to me, repeatedly. The masses are on one wavelength, and I'm on another. Left of Center, off of the strip...as that old Suzanne Vega lyric goes. People either get me, or they really really don't.
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:03 am (UTC)