Have Battlestar Galactica and Lost screwed the pooch? Jumped the shark? Smacked their monkey’s? Of these shows and others I will now speak because I’m not just about writing about important stuff and myself baby.
Lost. Alot were pissed a couple of weeks ago after the whole 3 big secrets will be revealed angle ABC played up. Lots of complaints when as I predicted e got one secret and that wasn’t a particularly big one. I had joked before hand that we’d find out how Hurley manages to not lose weight without a tv around, why Sawyer was so obsessed with Star Wars references despite being a guy who gets laid alot, and why Paolo can’t hold his bowels.
As expected i was kind of closer than the promos. And alot of people are annoyed. But this is more ABC’s fault. Cuse and Lindeloff have apparently said they were a bit bothered by the promos. So you even have them admitting there were no secrets revealed. But unfortunately the show is on this shitty network that put that pro Bush 9-11 mockumentary on the air with Disney’s backing to slander Bill Clinton. And they just keep on misleading people.
Because the only thing we really found out was that Jack’s tattoo says, “he walks amongst us but he is not one of us.” And even that doesn’t explain the whole thing he has going on up on that arm. There are pictures, symbols, numbers, interactive 3-d graphics, I mean it’s like the Rosetta Stone of tattoos on there. I did get a little chill though when Isabella spoke it’s meaning and Jack said its what it says, not what it means.
And it was cool seeing Jack actually say stuff most of would say in these situations. When Tom asked him what kind of people he thought they were and Jack simply and sensibly said the kind of people who steal children, hung Charlie, and abduct people, I nearly bust my jeans. Sawyer got a little in too when he made the stealing kids off raft project comment. This stuff stands out more than it should because usually everyone on this island acts like retarded Survivor contestants.
But overall the flashback was lame and a waste of time and we found out nothing new. Cindy’s alive. Oooh. Who the hell is Cindy? I don’t think alot of people were on about her or Jack’s tattoo ABC. The kids are milling about. That’s something I guess. But we kind of knew they weren’t dead. We really didn’t find out much about what they’re doing there beyond a vague reference to giving them a better life than Gilligan and the Professor could.
And I’m still troubled with the time travel thing with Desmond. Or a whole hour being given over to the results of a bump on the head. And now I have to wait a year to see Penny again.
But though this week once again progressed plot about as much as Dynasty has the past 15 years, it was an enjoyable episode. Stuff like Hurley making the Scooby van into a symbol and all the fun that ensued with him, Sawyer and Jin can be cool. And was in this case. Just need a bit more drama in between these episodes.
They said something big was supposed to happen about halfway through this season. Something huge and paridigm shifting. Tonight is episode 11. Halfway point. Something that makes me go wow or look for circling sharks better happen in the next couple of weeks.
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Britney Spears is the Jack Bauer of rehab.
24 hours at a time baby. She went all G.I. Jane on that mother and gets in and out until the next bad day.
Don’t kick the baby.
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BG. 2 episodes ago was Bloody hands. The union episode. This was a frakking great show. They really got into gear there managing to capture that potential the show has shown to be able to make pertinent modern political and philosophical points in a realistic futuristic setting.
And the stuff with Baltar and his underground pamphlet was genius. This is so the way to get him back. He made alot of valid points that are easy to see connecting with people. There really is an aristocracy of privilage amongst the colonies and their survivors. Some may be unavoidable, or at least understandable but that doesn’t lesson the legitimacy of the fight to uphold a higher standard and like Adama once said, to be worthy of surviving.
And when he did that accent thing for chief i kind of got a chill. And so did Chief. Which is why Baltar is coming back baby!
And then we got the much ballyhoed perspective shifting huge Starbuck episode we knew was coming.
And it kind of sucked.
It was like a poor mans Close Encounters abducted by 2001 with the mandala substituting for the potato mountain and Starbuck going all Dave Bowman into the maelstrom of the cosmos as some kind of sacrifice for the future.
It just didn’t work for me dog, as Randy Jackson might put it.
This might have been her final scene. She should have gone out better than Tasha Yar. And all that whiny ass my mom sucked, i like pain and suffering and its my destiny because some equally whiny ass Cylon who Roslin put out the frakkin airlock to be with his own personal Jesus in the slimey muckpool of the Cylon rebirth chamber, was all, like you know, a bit pitchy for me.
They didn’t bring it dogs and at this point in the competition you have to take it up a notch unless you’re having sex with Paula.
But there’s only 3 eps left and they need to pull something good from this Starbuck mess to redeem what they’ve done. Word is they just might do that. The finale is supposedly a doozy. Hopefully not a silly one.
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I like Heroes but Studio 60 is the most riveting and best written and made show I’ve seen in a while much less new one of the season. And not it’s on hiatus. It will be back for its final 6 eps of season in April probably but it has little chance of renewal. It’s my fault for watching a show I new was doomed. Masochistic part of me that wants a cause to rail against I guess. From the first episode when it’s rating plunged in the second half hour as people had to actually pay attention and deal with allot of stuff as opposed to its lead in Heroes, which as fun as it can be does not exactly demand more than cursory attention to absorb it’s rather superficial veneer, I knew the show was a gonner.
And I watched anyway. As I watched Arrested Development even as I knew it’s life would be short. But at least they got 2 and a half years. 60 does cost allot of money. Something like $3 million per ep. But you can see it on the screen. It had its portentious and self absorbed moments early on but its really started finding a nice balance and flow since then.
I could go on but seeing as no one reading this has ever seen the show I won’t bother. no save the show campaigns or posts like with Arrested are going to happen on this site. I accept 60′s fate. I even blame myself to an extent.
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Heroes:
April 23rd?
We have to wait another 6 weeks?
All these shows need to go the 24 route.
The last 2 eps were pretty good. Really like Malcolm McDowell as Linderman. I hope he peronally kills Nikki. And Jessica. Which is the good one? I don’t even know anymore. I don’t care. I just want to use her upper lip as a sling shot for some large object aimed right back at her like in a Loony Tunes cartoon.
And Momma Petrelli is a player. Kind of suspected she might have some involvement but was caught by surprise by her being all over the Claire-Haitian thing. And that morphing chick taking on HRG’s wife’s form made me feel violated.
And that shot with Hiro and Ando in a post apocalyptic NY with cranes starting reconstruction in the background was pretty damn cool. I’m not even going to bother with the timelines involved right now because quite frankly Scarlett I don’t give a damn. I know how Peter got his scar now and why Indian guy was given a degree in something from a reputably respectable university. He finally caught on to something. Maybe was a bit daft for thinking some Indian spices would kibosh all Syler’s powers but he figured something out all on his own.
And for that I’m grateful.
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Oh yeah Scooter Libby was found guilty.
His master still roams the Earth free to conquer and destroy in the name of his small and cowardly penis.
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