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Why do I keep falling for this stuff when I know what’s going to happen eventually?

January 18th, 2012 | Comments Off

I had intended to post on another topic today but between slowly recovering from a cold, a bad elbow that’s limiting my typing and family activities over the weekend that post isn’t ready yet. However a mini-rant came to me out of the blue a couple of nights ago so you get the benefit of that. Anyway, I was in the mood for some detective shows and had sat down to watch the TIVO recording of Monday’s episode of the new Hawaii Five-O and immediately noticed that the description was only two sentences – not unusual – but one was about McGarrett’s personal life, the other was about Danno’s and there was nothing about any case they might be investigating during the episode. My brain did a full stop and … Read entire article »

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Series finales, ugh

May 17th, 2011 | Comments Off

I hate season finales on television. Not series finales where they wrap up the whole thing, although those can be seriously hit-and-miss in terms of satisfaction level. Season finales, though, year-to-year, are almost torture for me nowadays. I have a strong suspicion it has to do with the obsession with cliffhangers endings for season endings, in particular in broadcast American TV, and I never really noticed this until I started watching stuff like Doctor Who on BBCA which doesn’t end in cliffhangers each year. But there’s two of my favorites this year that I can’t yet bring myself to watch the season finales on because I just know they’re going to be cliffhangers – Hawaii Five-O and Castle. And it’s annoying to no end. Will I give up on either of them? Probably not. At least not right … Read entire article »

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Someone who gets “it”

April 6th, 2011 | 5 Comments

I found this today on the blog of the man who basically wrote the definition of what fan fiction is: And yes, I know what Fillion’s worried about — he’s worried about seeing something like what has happened to House this season. But the problem with House is not that House and Cuddy are in a relationship. The problem is that the writers do not have a clue how to depict a relationship between House and Cuddy in a way which shows any kind of emotional maturity, any kind of psychological depth, and any kind of personal growth. I often suspect that Hollywood’s inability to depict relationships that grow over time has everything to do with the divorce rate in the entertainment capital, very little to do with the constraints of the … Read entire article »

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Curiouser and curiouser?

December 7th, 2009 | Comments Off

Is anyone else watching the Alice mini-series that’s the “grown-up version” of Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass showing on SyFy this week? I am primarily because I absolutely loved the Tin Man they did last year based on The Wizard of Oz. That was last year, wasn’t it? Anyway, I absolutely loved that and fully intend to get it on DVD eventually. Oh, it had it’s bad points but it was so imaginative I can forgive those just for the storytelling experience. It was also longer, six or eight hours or more maybe while this one is only four, plus I’m a much bigger fan of the Oz characters & universe than I am of Alice. So, I can’t figure out if all of that is why the first two hours last … Read entire article »

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Wow, that was good

December 5th, 2009 | Comments Off

The Monk finale last night was possibly the best I’ve seen in a long time  and that’s saying a lot. I’ll admit I hadn’t been watching the series full time for the last few years but did catch several of the final episodes as they wrapped up the major threads and I think they did a fantastic job overall. But the finale itself? Truly, wow. At the very least, it ranks up there with the some of the very best in terms of being appropriate for the main character and simply right for the type of series it was. No flash and bang but just a great send-off for a solid series while at the same time leaving things open for the possibility of future TV movies if that’s where they want to go with it. Which is never a bad … Read entire article »

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Thru the rabbit, er, wormhole

July 27th, 2009 | Comments Off

There are few TV series that I feel truly deserve the honor of being collected in their entirety. Stargate SG1 is one of them. Truth to tell, I’ve only recorded two other start to finish in my entire life – Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. I still haven’t gotten the DVD version of ST:TNG – eleven years worth is damn expensive, you know. I have upgraded to the DVDs of L&C. We didn’t record SG1 ourselves either. Not sure why, but this was simply a series that one knew was going to be merchandized so we waited and got the complete collection all in one shot. Translated, this means that my son conned his father into getting it for us. Whatever … Read entire article »

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