So I've been watching a fair amount of TV this week (thank you, end of semester and thank you, TiVo).
What gives with ending Angel on a cliffhanger? I felt awfully cheated. I know it probably ain't gonna happen, but I wish they'd move over to UPN and continue the series. I was actually starting to get into this, but I really wish they'd begun building up the cunning plan a little earlier than an episode or two before the end. Maybe I've watched too much Babylon 5.
I'm very torn about West Wing. Those first few post-Sorkin episodes were positive execrable -- simple-minded and very out of keeping with the subtlety and complexity the show used to possess. But they actually started to turn it around, I think. Some of the literary references and such seemed a little clumsy, but they were starting to get the general feel back. I really didn't like the new tendency of the show to move off the White House staff and show events, since it's all supposed to be about how the president and his staff react to or do things, not about the events themselves.
And then they had to take that a step further and start blowing things up? This is so ER. When in doubt, make big boom. They have the chance to recover, and I'll watch the beginning of next season. But I'm this close to giving up.
And the end-of-season cliffhanger was pretty tired.
Enterprise. Enterprise. Still slightly ham-fisted and morally uncomplex, as virtually all Trek has been. But it's gotten seriously dark lately, and they don't seem to be pulling punches the way Trek usually does. I don't think the writers really knew where the Xindi story line was going when they started it, but I like where it's going. It's quite compelling. And it beats the consequenceless meandering in which the show was mired before they started down this path.
And I've gotta say I adore the T'Pol's addiction/emotion/internal conflict subplot.
Get the damn trailer up for Amazing Race 5, dammit! Jonesing seriously here. My favorite reality show.
Still waiting for big Babylon 5 news. I check JMS's site every day, since it was strongly hinted we'd have an announcement from Warner in mid-May. Hello? Mid-May is about to pass away. Some of us have been waiting nearly six months to find out what the deal is.
I suppose that's enough for now. More Mythbusters, dammit! More more moremoremore!
What gives with ending Angel on a cliffhanger? I felt awfully cheated. I know it probably ain't gonna happen, but I wish they'd move over to UPN and continue the series. I was actually starting to get into this, but I really wish they'd begun building up the cunning plan a little earlier than an episode or two before the end. Maybe I've watched too much Babylon 5.
I'm very torn about West Wing. Those first few post-Sorkin episodes were positive execrable -- simple-minded and very out of keeping with the subtlety and complexity the show used to possess. But they actually started to turn it around, I think. Some of the literary references and such seemed a little clumsy, but they were starting to get the general feel back. I really didn't like the new tendency of the show to move off the White House staff and show events, since it's all supposed to be about how the president and his staff react to or do things, not about the events themselves.
And then they had to take that a step further and start blowing things up? This is so ER. When in doubt, make big boom. They have the chance to recover, and I'll watch the beginning of next season. But I'm this close to giving up.
And the end-of-season cliffhanger was pretty tired.
Enterprise. Enterprise. Still slightly ham-fisted and morally uncomplex, as virtually all Trek has been. But it's gotten seriously dark lately, and they don't seem to be pulling punches the way Trek usually does. I don't think the writers really knew where the Xindi story line was going when they started it, but I like where it's going. It's quite compelling. And it beats the consequenceless meandering in which the show was mired before they started down this path.
And I've gotta say I adore the T'Pol's addiction/emotion/internal conflict subplot.
Get the damn trailer up for Amazing Race 5, dammit! Jonesing seriously here. My favorite reality show.
Still waiting for big Babylon 5 news. I check JMS's site every day, since it was strongly hinted we'd have an announcement from Warner in mid-May. Hello? Mid-May is about to pass away. Some of us have been waiting nearly six months to find out what the deal is.
I suppose that's enough for now. More Mythbusters, dammit! More more moremoremore!
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