TDTVS

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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Three years, no burning buses, y’all are back for one day…

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.

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Maybe I’m Not Ready…

…for baseball season. At least the FRS may not be. Last night I posted that they were tied with the MFY 1 to 1 in the 8th inning, well in the bottom of the inning the Yankees scored 6 runs, unearned runs mind you, to win the game 7-1.

I am ready for tonight’s episode of TDTVS.

I am also ready to get the brakes fixed, but that ain’t happening until at least Friday night now. The parts got to the dealer on Tuesday, but I decided I didn’t want to deal with driving 60 miles with the last 8-10 in hectic capital city traffic, so I had them ship the stuff to me. Parts arrived today and wouldn’t you know it, they were the wrong ones. I called the part’s guy back and he said, “Oh yeah, there are two kinds of brakes for your year car, you must have the hard suspension. I’ll get the right parts and ship them right to you and they should get there Friday.”

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SyFy

WTF? The SciFi Channel is changing its name to SyFy. I’s must be out and Y’s are now the it vowel. I guess I’ll change the name of this place to “Lyfe of Bryan.” (looks vaguely Gaelic)

And because TDTVS is about to come on, in leiu of me writting something, Some scifi goodness from around the web:

Via io9 – Alien vs. Predator Game night – the chess game image is my new wallpaper.

Via Vimeo – Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon – sometimes obsession and too much time on your hands can be a good thing.

Via Trek core – Genuine Tribbles – literally “As Seen On TV”, these babies appeared on an episode of Deep Space 9.

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Charlie

I have been hunting Mr. Pace on ebay for the longest time, but my $15 was never enough. In frustration I went hog wild and upped the limit by a buck and a half – we have a winner.

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Mother, Jugs & Speed

Every time the MMC goes out for a breakfast run I take a few pictures, usually shots of the cars in the parking lot, people at the tables, the place we are eating at, what we might be eating, etc. While standing outside the restaurant lining up one more photograph of a row of Miatas I decided no more generic photos. This picture is the result. Fresh & New? Or Lame & Amateurish?

Stumbled on the last half of M, J & S on Fox Movie Channel tonight and instead of watching the news we opted for classic cheese. The cast included a Battle of Network Stars Dream Team: Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Dick Butkus & Larry Hagman. The soundtrack listing was fun too, the only mid-seventies band missing was Geronimo Jackson.

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