TDTVS

The Long Slow Reveal

We have started watching Season 5 of TDTVS in anticipation of February 2nd. This was a season full of long slow reveals. Seems alike at least once an episode they filmed something in a manner that a character would enter a scene and in an effort to surprise the audience they would be filmed from the back or side or in the dark. If they were a new character they were made to look similar to a regular cast member and vice versa. We just finished Episode 11 and it has almost become comical.

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3 Gargoyles and a Potato

It came down in buckets all morning, so we watched some DVDs to pass the time, TDTVS Season 5 Episodes 2 & 3 and Disc 1 of Series 1 of an English police show called Blue Murder.

About mid afternoon we couldn’t bear to stay inside any longer and hopped in the car with GPS in hand. There were several new caches on the north side of town that were begging to be found. And we found 6 of the seven attempted. One was in a magnetic key holder, another in a Jack Daniels bottle, three in small gargoyle statues and another in plastic potato. The one we missed must have been hidden using a Romulan Cloaking Device.

Tomorrow a road trip is planned to continue our state challenges. We are aiming to fill a couple of holes by bagging the elusive Sumter County and DeLorme Pages 45 & 47.

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Post #3,290

Just watched last week’s season premier of FlashForward and it wasn’t too bad, very interesting premise and just like the premier of the show it is being compared to most, LOST, one needs to suspend their grasp on reality to buy into the carnage of the opening scenes. But like TDTVS, I think if given a chance this may be an interesting show.

Before watching FlashForward we watched the contents of the red envelope on the coffee table, The Jane Austen Book Club. I’m a guy and I have never read a Jane Austen book and I think that may have helped in my enjoyment of the movie. I’m pretty sure this was classified as a “chick flick” when it first came out and I would have never even thought of dropping it in the rental if not for the recommendation of a fellow MMC member. Why did I trust her suggestion? Because she likes a good action flick as well as the next guy, that’s why. I so bought into this movie that I didn’t even recognize Emily Blunt and I saw what I thought to be an actual familial resemblance between Amy Brenneman and LOST’s Maggie Grace who played a mother and daughter.

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Numbers

96,000: Saturday while leaving of town the Emperor crossed over that many miles.

398: Number of the Emperor’s top transitions since 10/24/08

194: Total number of caches we’ve found so far.

37: Number of caches we have DNF’d

14: Number of SC Counties we have found caches in.

11: Number of pages of the SC DeLorme Atlas we have found caches on.

7: Number of minutes left until the next episode of TDTVS2 starts.

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4.5 Months To Go

Until Season 6 of TDTVS. They are already filming episodes in Hawaii and like the junkie I am I’m already reading the spoilers…

I had downloaded all the Season 5 vids from a back alley of the interweb and burned them onto DVDs. I lent these out to a co-worker a couple of weeks ago and yesterday he came up to me and asked what he needed to do to get another set of discs. Seems he has misplaced them. He has turned his office, home and cars inside out with no luck. Curiously a Neflix disc of Air Bud: Golden Receiver (AKA: Air Bud II) is also missing from his possession. Coincidence, I think not.

This Sunday is Episode 5 of TDTVS2 and AMC is going to run a mini-marathon of the first 4 episodes leading into numero cinco. Guess where I’ll be from 6:00PM until 11:00PM?

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Mad Men Yourself

That's me with the briefcase.Bonus post tonight.

Wanted to show you what it would look like on my first day at Sterling Cooper if I flashed back to 1965.

Less than 3 weeks to go before new episodes of TDTVS2 and you can amuse yourself until then by recreating yourself in Swanky ’60s Style With MadMenYourself.com.

Lost Afternoon

Instead of listening to the FRS ballgame on the internet I spent an hour or so watching the videos from Comic-Con of the panel for TDTVS (only six months to go.) The producers answered questions from the audience (as cryptically as they could on some, more honestly on others), they had several of the shows actors join them and there were several videos shown, including a phony America’s Most Wanted segment on Kate Austen. But my favorite was this commercial for Mr. Kluck’s:

When I finally decided to see how the Sox were doing I went to their home page and there was a large photo of John Smoltz pitching and this bit of verbiage underneath: J.D. Drew singled, moved to third on Adam LaRoche’s single and scored on Jed Lowrie’s sac fly as the Red Sox broke through in the fifth. Reading that you might think things were going well for Boston, but in fact it was just the opposite, they were losing six to nothing when the run scored and Smoltz had already pitched his last pitch in the game. With this loss the FRS will have won 2 out of three games in this series and usually when you are winning 2 of 3 you are playing good ball, but they can’t catch the Yankees playing like that because right now the MFY are 9-1 in their last ten games.

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