Normally because this is Wednesday I could use the upcoming broadcast of TDTVS as an excuse for not writing anything here, but we have at minimum 197 days before that happens again, so I have no real excuse.
A lot when you are a LOST fan. The sixth and final season of the show starts in less than 7 months and now news comes that instead of just 17 hours of island madness we will be treated to 18.
If my guess as to when the sixth and final season of TDTVS starts is correct there are only 206 days to go. See more like this over at Springfield Punx where the author has just finished up a week of Ghostbuster characters.
Even better than Simpsonized characters is the Wrong Side of Art, a sight chock full of high-res scans of movie posters, specializing in ones from Horror, sci-fi, exploitation, cult, trash, B-movie posters. I linked to the gallery instead of the home page because some of the posters are NSFW and there are a few on the front page right now.
In just under 2 months Season 3 of TDTVS2 starts and I can hardly wait. Might do like we did for LOST last year and watch one episode a night leading up to the season premiere. There are 26 episodes, so we should start one-a-days on Tuesday July 21st. That would mean we would watch the last show of Season 2 on the Sunday night of the Season 3 opener.
Unlike TDTVS there isn’t a group of coworkers who meet up the next day and discuss last night’s Mad Men episode, so I’m not sure I will watch it live. Probably download the torrent to avoid the commercials and watch it on Monday night.
While discussing last night’s Season ender of TDTVS around the water cooler in the office today I mentioned that I sort of enjoyed the way it was done and I’m looking forward to next season. The only part I thought was really overdone was the Juliet being sucked into the hole with Sawyer trying to save her. While poking around the net I found a TV writer from USA Today or the Boston Globe that thought that scene was the highlight of the show and Josh Holloway should get an Emmy nod for it.
I would tell you that the whole nuclear bomb to prevent the plane crash in the future bit was when the show jumped the shark, but I’m not sure that term could even apply to LOST. It has been doing that since the pilot episode. Maybe if they didn’t have some harebrained out in left field thing going on, that would be their version of jumping the shark.
Donna and I took the afternoon off to go see the new Star Trek flick. We picked a Thursday afternoon in hopes that we would be some of only a few folks watching. Should have waited until next week, I guess it is still too new, because there was a big crowd, probably 25 people in the theater.
You can tell the people who made this movie are fans of the original because the casting was near perfect and the Nimoy scenes were there for a purpose, not just thrown in as a fan appeasement. Two and a half stars out of 4. Will I go to the theater to see it again? Nope. Will I buy the DVD? Nope. Will I watch it on TV if I stumble on it in a couple years? Probably. My only real complaint is the same one I have about most new movies based on older TV shows or movies (with the exception of the second X-Files movie); because we can, we do, with the special effects.
A murderous ex-dead person, psycho doctor with a H-bomb, a love triangle handcuffed together in sub, a giant ancient statue and a mysterious metal box.
This is goin’ to be good.
Tonight’s Final Jeopardy category is “16th Century Thinkers” and I think the odds are pretty good the answer question will also be the name of a character on TDTVS.*
The title of last night’s LOST episode was ” He’s Our You” which is how Saywer described to Sayid who they were bringing him to, the Dharma Initiative’s very own “torturer”, a fellow named Oldham. Both Donna and I felt he looked eerily familiar. My initial thought was Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector, but knew that wasn’t even remotely possible.
It wasn’t until I read something today that gave it away – “Hi, I’m Larry, this is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl.” That’s right, William Sanderson. Probably what really kicked him from the depths of my addled brain to near remembrance was that he played a character named J.F.Sebastian in Bladerunner and he seemed to be wearing the eyeglasses of anothe Bladerunner character, Edlon Tyrell.
*It wasn’t, it was Martin Luther.
