Just saw the Caprica pilot on DVD last night. Pretty good! There's a fair amount in the VR nightclub that's not going to make it past the censors (like nudity and sex movements). Tons of great set-up. So far, the only character who is in both this series and Galactica is Bill Adama; in this series he's only 11 years old.

I'm amazed at how far the plot took the story--there's already a Cylon (although no one knows it yet) and the creation of another virtual sentient being-Bill Adama's sister. I think she's going to be a force for good; but we don't know her very well at all at this point. We do know the daughter of the computer Bill Gates type guy much better. You have to see it to understand. I think her role is going to be much larger as the show continues. Really looking forward to it.

I did have some trouble with how the Taurans are portrayed as something like a Sicilian or Jewish style mafia, complete down to fedoras. I mean, I *like* fedoras but...I suppose it's better than bowler hats or cowboy hats? I love the actor who plays Bill Adama's father. I don't think Bill Adama had any idea who or what his father really was, aside from being a tireless civil rights activist lawyer. I think the guy had much darker things going on. Love it. He's sort of the reluctant mob boss on the rise, like in the Godfather. I think.
I have never watched this show. I have never seen an episode all the way through. I have never seen an episode PART of the way through. It has flown UNDER my television radar for its entire run. EXCEPT for the interminable, neverending, breathless, special advertisements each and every week. I'm especially relieved that the damn show is over so I don't have to be subjected to the "IT'S THE FINAL TOUCHING EPISODE!!!" advertisements all effing season long.

No more ER soap opera. No more "why is that actor leaving? OMG this actor is staying!" stuff. No more rotten soap opera special episodes advertised. No more mentions of it except in nostalgia articles, or Special Remake Episodes or perhaps a reboot 20 years from now (god help us).

Thank you, God, it's OVER.

Milk is spitting out of my nose---slash the brothers? That's sick!

Brilliant stuff so far! (about 15 minutes into it)

Mentalist

Mar. 23rd, 2009 07:08 pm
There was an article in the Sunday Mar 22 LA Times about the Mentalist. I thought this was interesting. Like other procedural shows, 60% of its audience is women 18 and over.

And, "Despite conventional pressure to remain in familiar narrative territory on a network, the show is trying to avoid predictable story lines, said Heller. (the show's creator) For instance, those fans hoping for a love connection between the show's stars may be disappointed. It's unlikely--neither actor wants to explore that well-worn territory for now.

"I feel like Simon (who plays the lead character) is my brother," said Tunney (she plays the female head detective). "I don't know what would happen if we took the show down that road. I don't feel we have to."


Well, much as I'd like to believe that they'll never go down that road, there's too much precedent for badly thought through romance on shows like this between male and female leads.  The shippers always seem to win, and with that large of a female audience, you know they're getting a shitload of mail trying to get the leads together. Of course that's why the second leads are having a UST thing going on that they can not consummate because the female in the equation is too effing smart (so far) to go down that road. But you know they will. At some point, especially when the ratings start to droop.

And as soon as they do, either "couple", this show is ded. Ded, ded, ded.

Just by chance, I caught last night's Castle and the Guy decided to watch it with me, mostly because Capt. Hotpants from Serenity  and Firefly was on it (the *actor*, okay? LOL).

We both liked it. The perp was not who we would have suspected in the usual detective drama. We did figure it out about ten minutes before the end of the program, and would have figured it out sooner, but we were having so much fun with the dialogue and the characters and discussing how similar it was shot to Law and Order that we probably missed some of the cues.



My FAVORITE moment in the most recent episode of Psych is when Shawn tells Gus that Henry will get over being pissed at him for not going fishing: Shawn will go over there, make-up, and then they'll watch two hours of the Mentalist.

LOL!

Nice to know Shawn watches the Mentalist, too! I'd love to be a fly on the wall and listen to *their* commentary.

Garret Dillahunt's on Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (my new favoritest show).

In his role on SCC, the dude's played several roles: a smarmy C-grade actor in Hollywood, whose face is stolen (through plastic surgery) by a Terminator from the future. Then he plays the emotionless Terminator called Cromartie. While he's Cromartie, SCC shows the real person actor in a really bad movie. Wow, nice muscles. And now that Cromartie's brain chip has been destroyed, his body is being used by a new AI called John Henry, who is being 'raised' by a liquid metal terminator disguised as the owner of a high tech company.

And he's done a really good job. And, through wiki, I now find out he's been in Deadwood, X-Files, NYPD Blue, Life, Damages, and the 4400. AND he's been in the superviolent No Country for Old Men. ( And he's one year older than me!)



Now, didn't I say the cast for T:SCC was hot? I left out the guy who plays the Terminator. My mistake!



And of course, since I'm such an on-line TV duh, I only JUST found out that you can watch full length episodes on Fox of the earlier part of season 2 of Terminator: SCC. It's weirdly lacking episodes one and two, but...okay. Whatever.

Oh, dudes! They got rid of John Connor's ridiculous bangy emo-hair! And now the actor really DOES look 15 or 16.

About that.

Why does Lucas have alien beings speak with very obvious accents? The last episode had a bunch of marmot people speaking with Highland Scottish accents! And the bad guy had George Takei's voice! Every time one of those two spoke (either in a Scottish brogue or Takei's voice) it threw me totally out of the story.

Overall I've been enjoying Clone Wars. What annoyed me in the movie isn't so annoying now, with one exception: it bugs me that I KNOW that Anakin is going to go Dark Force, and that he or the clones supporting the Jedi now are going to waste just about every Jedi we meet in this show. What happens to his annoying Padawan Ashoka, whom we have not met before this, and is never mentioned again in any of the live action films? Does she survive getting hacked to pieces by Anakin's light saber?  Does she go into hiding? I guess that's the only real question going on with How This Ends.   Sometimes, though, I kinda wish Anakin would do the audience a favor and eliminate her character a little early on in the storyline.
I've just finished watching the first season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles over the past two days.

I'll get the shallow out of the way right now: ALL the actors, and I mean ALL the actors in this show are drool-worthy.

Here's the main cast:
Okay, so the image is kinda small, but look at them. If you see them in action, it's even more of a wowser, and let me tell you, I was glad they added this guy to the mix so I wouldn't feel like such an old lady pervert:

Brian Austen Green plays Derek Reese, John Connor's uncle. He makes a good match to Richard T. Jone's FBI Agent James Ellison, who at this point has unexplained backstory and straightforward motivations.

 Thank you, casting. The emo hair hanging down over Thomas Dekker's face I could do without, but he's a good actor and jeez. How old is this kid? (ah, Wiki says he's 21...phew)

I have been enjoying the show. I like how it keeps referring back to the Terminator 2 movie (although they never directly mention or talk about Ahnold's Terminator and his affect on them-although it's gone at sideways with Summer Glau's terminator's relationship with John Connor).

I haven't watched any of the second season, and might wait until it's out on DVD. It was great to watch the first season without commercials or breaks between episodes OR network scheduling screw-ups making the show hard to find and follow.

The show itself? Well, it's CALLED the Sarah Connor Chronicles, and, much as I love to see Derek Reese's actor onscreen, I'm very worried that the show will end up focusing too much on the male characters. Already, Cameron, the female terminator seems too much like a prop, and the addition of Reese as the Adult White Male to Richard T. Jones' FBI Agent James Ellis.  And I've read that the school love-interest for John has a purpose, also, in that she's being used by another woman! to get to John and wean him away from his emotional dependence from Cameron, the female terminator. It wasn't until the third episode that I finally got to see Sarah Connor fight in hand-to-hand combat, and although I think the sound effects are *slightly* over the top, Hedly makes a decent vicious Sarah Connor, when she has to be. Hedly paints SC as less the automaton in the T2 movie, but here, she's recovered her humanity from nearly murdering Charles Dyson...maybe a little to much, because now she has to hold back Cameron and Derek Reese from killing people left, right and center. She doesn't seem to question Cameron too much when she doesn't actually SEE Cameron kill a human, or let someone die through inaction. She's got some code that I haven't figured out yet-but I think it's somewhat flexible and pragmatic, but struggles to keep the high road.

Yes, I am worried about how the female roles in this are going to pan out. I want Sarah Connor to be the center of the story, but that seems less and less likely, especially if the other characters start thinking she really IS nuts, thanks to her enforced stay in a mental institution for three years. None of the characters are especially stable, really, when you really *think* about all the death that surrounds them. I wasn't thrilled when Ellison's female FBI agent co-worker, Greta Simpson, who he'd won over to his side ended up murdered (along with an entire FBI swat team). Why? What was the point? It's not as if death is a particularly powerful statement when it happens all the time--and even on this show, where two of the main characters are female, you'd think they'd try to keep as many female characters on the side of the law to make it interesting.

BSG 4:11

Jan. 17th, 2009 10:53 am
I'm still thinking, Holy Crap! because the implications Moore and buddies have brought into play are, if not entirely a surprise, unexpected in its expression.

Cut for more talk about the episode and spoilers galore! )

And that's it for now. Any opinons on what you think is going on?

Holy crap!

Jan. 17th, 2009 01:47 am
That's about all I can say at the moment. I'm still processing exactly what was going on and all.
He had dinner last night with Mallozzi. Saw the sets. Read some scripts.

Even so, I have very little hopes that this show is going to be any good. It's a step in the right direction (very small step) along with the casting of a reputedly very good actor from across the pond. But still...
Oh my. The expectations of SG-1 fans when a favorite from that show is shown on the final episode of its spin-off, Atlantis.

Carter was *there*! Why did she not use her stupendous, brilliant brain to solve the problem and get right to it? Huh? Huh?

Now, think about it for a moment. Is she the current star of Atlantis? Is she the resident brain or even ONE of its resident brains? Is it called "Stargate: Atlantis: Carter"?  WHO and WHAT is that show all about? Now, think on this for a few minutes. That's right.

Now, what is your conclusion?

Think on this, then: virtually every base commander has huge responsibilities...usually to give commands and make command decisions. That means that base commanders can't futz around in laboratories, nor spend time diddling around with the problem when they have a larger view to take--that of EVERY one under their command. And yes, that means even temporary base commanders.

Now, think on this. Had Carter used her Commander Cojones to ORDER Sheppard to the Ancient's Chair at Area 51 right off the bat, no wasting time on stupid heroics, the chair would have not been destroyed, and the entire final section of the battle would have been avoided. In effect, it's CARTER'S fault that the earth is now defenseless!

Of course, none of this is the *character's" faults. They're only as stupid as the writers who write them, and man, everyone (except Zelenka) shared in massive stupidity in the final episode of Atlantis.

So, dear SG-1 fans who love Carter...no, of course she wasn't going to Save the Day (tm). That was not her job. Too bad her many scenes eliminated so many from Teyla. I would have appreciated more lines and scenes with her.

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