Sarah Connor Chronicles. Canned.
Caprica. Canned
Dollhouse. Canned.
Firefly. Canned.
etc
etc
etc
Until you get to this one:
Primeval. Should have been canned when 4/6 of the main cast were written out.
Should have been written out 1 series later when it went down hill.
But no! It's back!
Fecking unbelievable.
Labels: primeval, tv
Only 2 episodes [no pun intended] but Episodes is looking pretty sharp. It stars Tamsin Greig (the neighbour from Black Books - albeit not the best characters) and Stephen Mangan (who's face I know from somewhere I can't remember), and Matt LeBlanc playing ... Matt LeBlank.
Great set up where Tamsin/Stephen play British scriptwriters trying to launch a remake of their hit UK TV series into the US, and the interplay between US/US TV people is what drives the series (Episodes, that is, not the one that the characters have written).
The best characters are definitely the US people, which doesn't say much about the UK view that the Yanks don't have any sense of humour.
But it's a BBC production, so that makes everything alright again.
Well worth a look.
Labels: tv
Another couple of episodes down, and only 2-3 more till I get to the end of season 1, and it's keeping up the pace.
John Noble (Denethor from Lord Of The Rings) is fucking brilliant in it. He deserves a best actor award, certainly.
Labels: sci-fi, tv
Good final episode. Some humour, some good acting, nice wrap to the story.
Here's hoping Heroes can go out with as much class.
Labels: sci-fi, tv
Just watched the double-header of Dollhouse, with Summer Glau.
Love her librarian look.
Creamed myself over
Labels: sci-fi, tv
[I can feel myself going weak at the knees due to all this recent news]
Check out the images
here about BSG: The Plan. Don't read the text, as it's a bit spoilery (apparently, as I've not read it myself). But check out the pictures.
Especially the one with...
... ah, fuck it, you'll know which one I meant.
Can't wait :-)
Labels: battlestar, sci-fi, tv
"Hmmm. Wonder what Wikipedia has got to say about Dollhouse..."
"Tahmoh Penikett... Odd name. I'm normally pretty good with names, but no idea where that came from.... Oh, look, a Wikipedia entry on him, that's bound to say...."
(A few clicks later)
"Hmmm. Something to do with 'First Nations' who are apparently Canadian natives."
(Back to Tahmoh's wikipedia entry)
"Oh, he auctioned off lunch with one of his female Battlestar colleagues as a fundraiser. Don't recognise her name, 'Kandyse McClure'... who did she play?"
"Ah, 'Dee'. She had LOVELY eyes. Seriously lovely eyes. That Wikipedia photo is REALLY noy good though. But look, there's a link to her official website. Let's see..."
"OH MAMA!"Labels: scifi, tv
Just watched another couple of eps. Nice to see Alan Tudyk appearing again, great acting. Also great acting from the FBI agent's neighbour when their relationship turns sour (and generally all round on her part, actually).
Just got the final ep to go (plus the unaired "20 years from now" ep). Very muchy hanging on a cliffedge, so no spoilers!
Labels: tv
Dollhouse: Lovin' it. Not finished yet, so no spoilers, but some nice backstories, twists, etc. Plus Ms Dushkins easy on the eye, and the guy from Battlestar's pretty good as well.
The IT Crowd: After watching one very funny (and WWAAAAYYY too close the bone) episode where the guys learn to speak "footer-speak", I've gotten round to watching series one (in one night, believe it or not) on Virgin On Demand. Very funny. Must get series 2.
Labels: tv
Whether you watch Dr Who or Torchwood still, or whether you tried them and turned off, this is worth a shot. Some of the best sci-fi I've seen in a while. Even K liked it!
Labels: dr who, torchwood, tv
Just watched the last two episodes ("Meat" and "Reset"), and ... well, I'm just bloody disgusted.
The first one of the two had a strong plot element about Gwen (the Welsh bird) and Rhys (her non-Torchwood fiance), and ... get this.. they kept this bit hidden for a long time, didn't they... wait for it. Rhys is a "he". And Gwen is a "she". Which means it's a fucking
hetero relationship!!!
It gets worse!In "Reset" (no spoilers here), one of the Torchwood team asks out another one. And they're opposite genders as well. Hold on, one of them two also asked out another one of the team in "Adam", and that second person was also of the opposite sex.
That's three hetero encounters in three weeks. It's a fucking consiracy, I'm telling you!
Labels: dr who, torchwood, tv
Just catching up on the latest episode of Torchwood ("The one where Martha Jones visits"), and she's investigating a spate of sudden deaths in south Wales, being described as suicides.
A bit close to the bone given the recent teenage/young adult suicide trend in Wales, but I'm sure the program was written first. Spooky, though, eh?
Labels: dr who, tv
Now, as you'll know, I love the new version of Dr Who. I've said elsewhere on this esteemed blog how I absolutely loved the "Blink" episode, and rated is as some of the best television I've seen. As did The Fly.
So I started watching the spin-off Torchwood (variously described as "more adult", "with added sexuality", etc. Started watching it... wandered off... and came back for the finale of the first season, as it tied into the main Dr Who arc.
And so, with the second season just starting here in the UK, I popped over to Wikipedia to catch up on what I'd missed from the first season.
And it seems that every character is either gay, bisexual, or straight-but-strayed-the-other-way-once-or-twice.
The writer is openly gay, and I've heard that he'd gotten fed up with the big-chested, big-gunned "beer, cars, birds, and football" overly-hetero/over-testosteroned adventure series on TV.
I understand that. Not everyone (ie, the majority of the readers of this blog) are into beer, cars, birds, and football. Well, we're not evangelical about it, anyway.
But, dear writer, not everyone is alternately sexual either. I'm finding that the idea of yet another gay kissing scene is about as appealing as watching Dog The Bounty Hunter puff up his chest and pull in his old-man's belly yet again.
Tone it down, old boy. We've got the point. It's OK to be gay without ramming it down everyone's throat, so to speak. You don't really need to make everything a gay issue. Please.
Labels: dr who, torchwood, tv, tv sci-fi primeval
Don't think any of you guys were watching it, but the 4400 has been cancelled, just as it started picking up steam again.
4400
Bionic Woman.
What next?
Labels: tv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5paYvm2bBk
Like the first few seconds...
Oh. Spoiler alert. In case (it's not obvious)
Labels: heroes, tv
Worth a watch. Although it's a bit odd to see Starbuck (major baddie in the series) and 'Chief' (minor role, probably a one-off) in a series together.
The girl from EastEnders (Michelle Ryan, is that right?) impressed me, even though I don't watch EastEnders and so haven't seen her before. OK American accent (to my ears), although there's a lot of complaints about the mock-Oirish guys in Heroes (by real Irish people) and I thought they were OK too.
I'll keep on watching it I think.
Labels: sci-fi, tv
OK, I've gotta stop reading the forums after an episode. Too many fuckwits. Here's a post I just couldn't not write. The bits in italic are other people's comments:
Some thoughts on other people's comments:
"I wonder how in the world we are supposed to believe Matt Parkman took 5 bullets to the chest and lived to tell about it - especially considering he was in badphysical shape to begin with.4 months later he is up and running around as if nothing happened. Supposedly D.L. is dead, from 1 bullet to the lower abdomen, yet Matt survives 5 to the upper chest? The writers botched that one. "
Matt didn't get shot. He got 5 bullets "flung" at him by Sylar's telekinesis. Obviously, TK is not as strong as a good load of gunpowder, otherwise he would be dead (unless there's another healer around that we don't know about, and who was there at the scene, and I don't believe the writers are dumb enough to use that sort of cop-out).
"Mrs Petrelli and Hiro's father may be at the base of the company?"
No sarcasm this time: Didn't we see this in series 1, when Hiro's father first appeared? I can't remember that far back - was it something to do with handing Claire over to HRG? Also, remember Ma Petrelli had previously known the haitian, who was a company man, so obviously she had ties.
Re: the latino siblings:
"The Spanish brother and sister was kind of the only real boring storyline last night IMO. I do think that the brother has super speed/stamina with all the running he did, especially when he caught up the truck. What exactly is the girl, Mayas power??? All i saw were people with like blood drops coming out of their eyes. I didnt really get what she did to them. "
Someone else: "I also thought that her brother may have the power of speed because he was able to catch up to the truck by foot. We all know powers run in the family.... "
Really? All I thought was that A) they died relatively quickly once the brother was left behind, and B) the brother caught up... eventually. Or maybe I missed something that said "10 minutes and 400 miles later, the brother catches up" ???
And as for all the comments about how the episode didn't answer questions like: Why is Peter in a trailer in Cork with no memory? Why is Matt divorced? etc etc.... well, that's kind of the point of having 24 (or however many) episodes in a season - to spread things out. Get a life. Have some patience.
"He's [Kensei] english? Maybe he's claude's ancestor."
Yeah, that's right. The UK (or England in those days) is such a small place we're all related. I forget that, being a Brit myself. Heck, the Queen is my second cousin.
And where are Nikki/Micah/DL? Who cares? Hanging out with Sylar, Candice, and Claude, for all I know, as they weren't in it either. It was a 52 minute episode. They'll be back (well, maybe not DL). Just like in series 1 - not every hero was in every episode, thank god.
Oh, and GeigerdolylWodd [a twat who posted like 10 posts saying " HIRO chANGED THE PAST WHEN HE CAME BACK!", complete with the all caps writing] - why not watch the bloody program in one sitting without stopping every 10 seconds to post about what's happening on-screen? Go see a doctor and get some ADHD medication.
Andy
Thought some of you would appreciate reading that.
Anyway. Nice episode. Some good questions/plot elements to pursue in the coming series. I'm liking how messed-up Ma Petrelli is looking. And how does someone as small as George Takei (Hiro's dad) have a voice as deep as James Earl Jones? Unbelievable.
And I'm loving HRG (Horn Rimmed Glasses - cheerleader's dad) and Suresh and their plan - could be the best bit of the story, which is odd given that neither has any powers (OK, Suresh's blood can cure the virus that got his sister and nearly got Molly in the last series, but that's hardly a power, is it?)
In fact, HRG rocks generally. Nice scene at the office. Great round-the-dinner-table conversation, with more unsaid than said.
Shitty bit is that there's another fucking break in the middle of the season. I thought they'd promised not to do that after it lost 20% of it's viewers last time?
Ah well.
Actually, this series sucks.
After watching 2 episodes every 2 or 3 nights so that the missus can catch up to series 2 by episode 2 or 3, I'm hating having to wait another week for the next episode.
Life sucks.
Still, NCIS tonight! Yay DiNozzo!
Labels: heroes, ncis, tv
Two things happened today:
1. I used Google's Picasa for the first time (see comments about
Ali Larter).
2. I've started listening to
a podcast, which is actually pretty good!
Labels: babylon 5, tv
And another thing.
Watching Nigella Express last night, in keeping with the mad "cooking from scratch" thing we've got going on at home.
Nigella said, and I quote, something about "tender morsels of soft white flesh".
I *think* she was talking about the scallops she was cooking at the time, but my eyes were somewhere else, and it all made perfect sense to me.
I *like* Nigella. A bit of my posh-totty thing. Loves food. Cooks well. Flirty. And dirty, I'm sure. Yum.
Labels: tv
The good lady and I finished watching series 4 of NCIS last night... spoilers ahead! I've put them in white, so you'll need to highlight them if you want to read them. Actually, not so much spoilers, as possible plotlines/background. Anyway, if you're watching NCIS but not finished series 4, don't highlight the text below....
[START SPOILERS]
So... Mr French Gunrunner meets DiNozzo and calls him DiNardo the film professor. Rumours abound amongst the 65 fecking pages on TV.com about this one single episode. Possibilities that I read on the 3 or 4 pages I managed to read:1. Apparently, we've never heard Jeanne called Tony anything other than Tony, and never made a reference to his work at NCIS. So... is Tony undercover, trying to get close to Jeanne in order to get to Papa? However, when Jeanne was held hostage by the two junkie drugrunners in the hostpial morgue, Tony reached for his gun... so maybe she does know. Also, Papa called him DiNozzo when speaking to the shifty double-agent British-accented CIA guy (still haven't worked that one out yet). So Papa knows full well who DiNozzo is.2. That would explain why Tony's having doubts... maybe he actually HAS fallen for her, even though it was supposed to be an undercover thing.3. It would also explain why DiNozzo went to see the Director to speak about his sex life, of all things. You just wouldn't do that, no matter how close you got. Mind you, that director... Yummm. Nice with the shorter hair that she's got nowadays. Very, very nice.4. Someone else posited that as Director Jenny still gets pissed off everytime she gets close to Papa Gunrunner, then loses the trail, then she obviously doens't know about Tony going undercover and gunning for Jeanne to get to Papa. So he must be on a CIA sting for some reason.5. My own theory: Gibbs has been strangely unsarcastic when it comes to Tony not being around, not answering his phone, etc, etc. So I reckon it's Gibbs who's asked Tony to go under cover, to protect the Director from making mistakes in her obsession to get Papa Gunrunner.[END SPOILERS]
All very exciting.
Even more exciting when I found out that series 5 starts in the Us in 2 weeks. 24th September.
Second, obviously, Heroes starts on the same fucking day.
I think I just wet myself with excitement.
If only Battlestar Galactica could have started the same day - I'd have died in apoplexy.
Labels: heroes, ncis, tv
