TDTVS

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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No Real Excuse

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.

Lets Go Krogering

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What’s An Hour

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.

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206 To Go

Simpsonized LOSTWar of the Colossal BeastIf 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.

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Men With Hats

Mad Men

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.

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To Each His Own

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.

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Shhhh, LOST is On.

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.

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