9 posts tagged “tv”

I have seen the first two parts of Sci-Fi Channel's The Lost Room starring Peter Krause, and I can't wait to see the third one tonight!  I'm not sure what about it is so good - the writing, the acting, or what - but it's really captivating.  To give you an idea of how good it is, I am going to watch Part 3 tonight instead of watching CSI:NY which is about a deaf family - I'm giving up a deaf show for The Lost Room!  If you missed the first two parts, they will probably rerun them plenty of times.  The third part starts tonight at 9:00pm.

Firefly! The show was created by someone who had proven himself successful in the television biz, and yet for some reason he wasn't given enough time to let Firefly prove itself, too. There were so many questions left unanswered - was River really psychic? why did Book have connections within the Alliance? - and it was a total shame for it to go off the air so quickly. I wish we could have seen the cast develop their characters further.

That's it, it's all done.  There is no more Firefly to watch.  I even watched all of the special features.  We still haven't gotten the Serenity movie but the show is gone.  And it was so good!  I wish there were more.  Perhaps I will have to read some Firefly fanfic or something...but can anything match Joss Whedon's writing?

First, Las Vegas. I think it was a new episode, wasn't it? I was not at all impressed...it was a pretty typical CSI episode, nothing jumped out at me as being noteworthy. The bit when they find the rapper in the trunk and tell him to climb out so he can be taken for treatment was not particularly funny - it felt like he was mocking transvestites rather than self-mocking.

I don't think Miami was a new episode last night. The only thing I remember about it was the obviously computer-generated tidal wave graphics. You could see the CGI waves, the CGI lighthouse, the CGI palm trees...it was nicely done, but it wasn't realistic at all.

Last Thursday was the first time I played along on CSI Interactive at the
official CSI website - unfortunately it wasn't working properly so I didn't get the full experience. I'll give it a try again this week if I'm not working Thursday night.

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. I missed the last ten minutes because family was chattering around me; I stuck my fingers in my ears and read the captions for a while, but gave up on that eventually.

This was a major Greg episode. In fact, it had so much Greg, that Nick and Sara weren't even there...a bit odd. I used to like Greg when he was the nerdy kid in the lab, but now that he's morphed into just one of the team he doesn't interest me as much.

I would have liked to see more in this episode about how the woman predicted her own death. Greg talked about it a little bit, and Grissom brushed him away with his power of suggestion comment. Of course, I guess I'm just "wanting to believe" - if she had predicted her own death, this would have been more like an X-Files episode. So perhaps Grissom was right.

The show was weak; it's been better ("Grave Danger" anyone?).

I like Airline but my wife hates it. Sometimes she lets me watch it, sometimes not. Yetserday's episode was rather funny, though: it was filmed on April 1st and had some practical jokes being played on crew members. One was slightly malicious - a guy pretended to have cataracts so he could preboard, then admitted he does this all the time and chortled at Southwest's falling for it - and the other was just hilarious. In the second, a passenger trying to check in wants to get preboarding for his "invisible wife." At first I thought it must be an April Fool's joke, but he was so convincing I decided he must actually be crazy. After all, he had a ticket for his invisible wife, and who would buy a ticket as part of a joke? But it turned out the check-in staff convinced a passenger to help them play a trick on their supervisor, and they printed up an extra ticket. The supervisor had handled the situation with aplomb - he didn't laugh too much, and he acquiesced and gave the guy preboarding because "not all disabilities are physical." But then the guy admitted it was all a joke, and it was a big "gotcha!" on the supervisor. It amused me.

I was a little surprised by how quickly one of the stars of Black. White. let out her secret. I fully support her reasons for doing so - she needed to in order to be comfortable - but I was surprised that it happened in only the second episode ever.

I don't really like Carmen. After she called Renee a bitch, Carmen turned it around and tried to make herself seem like the victim - "I'm very sensitive, and you have ideas." She also couldn't understand the difference between "wearing a dashiki to church is a good idea" and "if you are going to wear a dashiki to church, that is a nice one." It's really not that hard a concept! And her speech for Rose's poetry group was completely misguided.

As for the other family, I think Brian has a pretty negative outlook on the world. As NPR commentator John McWhorter said in an opinion piece yesterday afternoon, Brian sees racism everywhere he goes. I don't think American culture is as all-embracing as Bruno seems to believe, but Brian takes it to the other extreme and thinks everyone is racist. It doesn't help that the show takes place in Los Angeles, far away from Brian's home in Atlanta but near Bruno's home in Santa Monica.

It's an interesting concept for a series, but its success will be largely dependent on the people starring in it. If the producers had picked different families, it could be a very different show.

First of all, I switched the TV to Sci-Fi a minute or two before 8:00, and I was quite surprised to see subtitled signing! It turns out to be a show called John Doe. What disturbed me most was that all we saw of the character "Trenchcoat Man" was his gloved hands - it is essential that the face is shown in sign language, or at least the "signing zone" that includes the torso. I found him difficult to understand - his signs didn't seem to match up with the subtitles. The woman he was signing to didn't do a great job either, but I think she was supposed to be a new signer. Anyway, the show seems to feature disabilities a lot, so I will have to keep an eye on it.

Anyway, about Stargate. I can't help but wonder if Stargate has jumped the shark with the introduction of the King Arthur mythology. Suggesting that the ancient gods of various cultures were aliens is one thing, but bringing in King Arthur just seems like a really bizarre tactic. (Then again, it might also have jumped the shark when O'Neill got replaced by the other guy.)

This episode was also not particularly innovative. It reminded me of a dozen other episodes, including episodes of Atlantis. And the show has been getting more and more Trek-like: tonight Daniel actually said "why don't you just beam me over there?" And we're warping in a ship instead of gating through a Stargate half the time.

I guess I am just not satisfied with SG-1 anymore. I would rather watch old shows than new ones. Episodes like Heroes and There But For The Grace of God and even the recent Prometheus Unbound were much better than the drivel we've been getting since the battle in Antarctica. I think it just lost so much when Richard Dean Anderson left the show. He was so funny and so perfect that it hasn't been any good since.

One more note about tonight's episode: the space suit scenes. The music just did not seem right at all. And what happened to the panel she removed, did it just float away?!

Last night's CSI episode was not as good as I was hoping.  When I saw the bit about the reality show in the TV guide, I thought of the X-Cops episode of X-Files, which was clever and funny.  Unfortunately CSI didn't do it as well, and the result wasn't very good.  The few self-referential jokes (about a six-hour experiment being cut to 30 seconds, etc.) were funny, but the reality show part of the plot just wasn't well-developed.  The only part of it I liked was Catherine's reaction to the cameraman invading the victim's privacy while she was still in the hospital.  The rest of the episode just didn't do it for me.