Vague Wisdom

A meme, a meme!

Sat, 29 May 2010 02:46:47 GMT

serenejournal pointed me to this meme on autographedcat's Livejournal. I guess the idea is to answer one question a day from the list below. The first one is:

Day 01 - A show that should have never been cancelled.

I have many answers to this question. Many many shows, but the most recent is probably Firefly. I love Joss Whedon's stuff with the exception of Dollhouse. It's so disappointing that Dollhouse was given the time to develop a following even though it wasn't worth it, but Firefly got no chance. I could also include Studio 60, The Forgotten, Pushing up Daisies, Dead like Me...

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The Lost finale

Wed, 26 May 2010 19:20:07 GMT

I'm sure everyone is dying to know what I thought of The Lost series finale. Sorry it's taken me a while to get to writing this. I'm struggling with feeling pretty isolated (all my fault, but still).

The thing is that I think I may be one of the few fans of the show who didn't really care how it ended. Well, that's an overstatement. I cared but I didn't expect everything to be tied up in a nice neat bow. I assumed it was going to be left a little ambiguous and I was right.

See I enjoyed all of the mystery of the show. I liked its grandness. It was a Greek tragedy that I reveled in its setup, the characters, the themes. I didn't really want it all to be resolved. So I may not have been as disappointed as some and I'm certainly not as excited as others were about the ending.

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Disability and Glee

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:28:15 GMT

The most recent episode of Glee, the new Fox television show about a struggling Glee Club, has stirred up some controversy in the disability community. At least in my corner of the disability community. You see a continuing character on the show is a wheelchair user, at least the character is a wheelchair user. The actor playing this part is able-bodied.

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Stuff

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:54:57 GMT

Saw V on ABC last week. I thought it was good enough to continue watching at least for now. The SyFy Channel (I *hate* the name change) played the original series the week before. I managed to catch a few of the old ones and just hated them. Even more than I remember when I saw them the first time around. Then I saw the very first episode before the premiere of the new V and genuinely enjoyed several scenes. Inexplicably the SyFy Channel scheduled the old series 2 hour premiere so that I could watch the first hour, but if I wanted to see the premiere of the new show I couldn't see the second of the old show. Are you following me? :-) So I only saw the first hour of the premiere and then went right to the premiere of the new series.

I'll watch it for a while.

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:40:43 GMT

In an orgy of television viewing yesterday, I tried watching an episode of the original "V" television show. I remember it not being good, but I had no idea. I've seen better shows put on in grade schools! I'm still looking forward to the remake though. Yes I am a sick puppy. :-)

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Whoops, I forgot

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:39:34 GMT

One show that I didn't have a lot of hope for that is worth checking out is The Good Wife. Its is really another lawyer show, but Juliana Margulies plays the wife of a politician who got caught with a prostitute and may have participated in other kinds of misconduct. It starts with the now almost routine press conference with the politician admitting "minor" indiscretions. While the good wife stands quietly in support beside her husband.

I didn't expect to like it, but I now have OnDemand on my cable service and was bored. So I took a look. The first episode doesn't do most of the things I expected it to do. There are some nice unexpected twists, nothing mind blowing a thoughtful and smart writing. The cast is all well known and well thought of by me. We will see if it continues to be good, but I'm willing to watch a few more episodes.

Another show that I do not recommend but I didn't hate was Eastwick. It's a television version of the movie (or was it a book originally?) Witches of Eastwick with Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and who was the third one? Oh right Susan Sarandon! How did I forget that? Anyway the guy they took Nicholson's part actually pulls it off some extent. I don't know that I will go out of my way to see any more of it, but it didn't make me foam at the mouth.

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TV

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:40:07 GMT

There hasn't been much to talk about on television this fall. Of the old shows coming back. I caught Heroes and liked the first episode, but I've decided to ignore last season. I don't see how I can reconcile what happened last season to anything. It just seemed to be a big reshuffle of heroes with villains, powers, who's alive and who's dead etc. etc. My problem is a couple of the "heroes" like Peter Petrelli and Mohinder (it occurs to me that a I don't remember what happened to Moinder. He wasn't in this premier) killed people and unless they somehow deal with that culpability I just can't think of those characters the same way. So nevermind last season and let's see how this year goes. The addition of Carny superheroes seems interesting and especially the addition of Robert Knepper to the cast will be great.

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Hello out there, hello

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:09:23 GMT

With the goal of first trying to get back to writing in this thing and second not to think about all the *shit* going on with various members of my family, I'll write something inconsequential. Has anybody been watching Being Human? It's on BBC America here in the Bay Area. The show is about three roommates basically, one is a vampire who fought in the first world war. Another is a werewolf and the third is a ghost of the previous renter. It started out fairly mundane even a little boring, but the last two or three episodes have really picked up. It doesn't hurt that I think the woman who plays the ghost is very cute. Although it started fairly light weight, specially the last episode has some interesting conflicts.

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