If you are a fan of the original show and are not spoiler adverse for the new mini-series event take a look at this vid. For Donna and I it was 20 minutes well spent. I am now officially more excited to see these six episodes of TV than I am about the new Starwars flick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R1WiuzIQbM
defunct link to a X-Files promo for Season 10
A different look promo, perhaps trying to capture a younger hipper graphic novel reading audience as opposed to us old-timers who were X-Fans from the beginning.
Forget Fortitude. Episode 9 was so graphic that Donna left the room and there were even a couple places where it was so creepy/gross that even I fast forwarded through them. We started watching episode 10 after work today and it wasn’t gross, but it did kind of veer into slightly ludicrous territory.
Episode 11 solves the opening episode’s original mystery, leaving us now with the secondary mystery of why there were some folks on the island going bat-shit crazy. This too gets revealed in #11 near the end in an X-Filey way. We are left with a cliff hanger of a cast member doing something so stupid that it could only happen in a TV show.
Episode 12 opens with our cast member being saved by something that could only happen in a TV show, filling the room he is trapped in, that is also full of what is causing the madness, with oxygen and hydrogen and having him ignite it by flicking his lighter. The ensuing explosion knocks out the glass wall in a ball of flames. When the dust clears, the 2 folks who pumped in the gas, then stood outside the glass and watched, stagger to their feet and drag our cast member out alive.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was the lighter, we had never seen said cast member with it until episode eleven where he is sitting in a bar nervously flicking the Zippo open and closed as the camera slowly zooms to a close-up of it. Three minutes into the season finale, we stopped watching the show.
As a pallet cleanser, watch this short video of scenic arctic beauty, this time from the antarctic:
httpvh://vimeo.com/124858722
In my never ending quest to watch every obscure, but critically acclaimed, television shows, I’ve found another, Fortitude. It starts out sort of as a north of the arctic circle Broadchurch as a murder mystery with an outsider cop arriving to help, but we are about 3/4 of the way through watching it and it seems to have morphed into an X-Files like show about a maybe thawed out wooly mammoths with polar bears.
It is jam full of people with questionable origins and motivations. The cinematography is stunning like Utopia, yet totally different in its beauty. While it is “set” in the town of Fortitude, it is really sort of based on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Where can you watch this you ask, where else but on the cable channel called Pivot. What never heard of it, neither have I, but I have heard of Amazon Instant Video.
…this will be worth watching, but more than likely it will be painful. The X-Files are returning for 6 new episodes on Fox.
What have our dynamic doing for the last 13 years? This only works for me if they both left the FBI and Mulder moved to LA and became a self-loathing, sex addicted, alcoholic writer:
While Scully moved to London and joined the Met:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkizwJUiVjA
This started almost as a quid pro quo with a co-worker that I got to watch Orphan Black, but now I’m kind of waiting impatiently to see this.
In our conversations of TV shows to watch she mentions that she is excited to see that one of her favorite book series is finally coming to the screen. Starz is producing a TV series of the Outlander books written by Diana Gabaldon. She tells me it is about an English Army nurse from WWII who gets transported back to the mid-1700’s Scotland.
I’m a sucker for time travel, books or movies, so I’m interested. I check out the trailer(s) and now I’m intrigued. I read a bit of the blog that the author writes and I like her style and sense of humor, so now I think, maybe I should read the book. Jamie has a copy of the book on her Kindle, but can’t seem to find her, you know, ink on paper with a glued binding, circa sometime last century version, so I will have to see if I can find a copy of a book that was published in 1991.
Turns out it was pretty easy. My local supermarket has a paperback copy on their book aisle because book No. 8 of the series is just out in hardback and the paperback was re-issued because of the upcoming TV series (even has the two main actors, in character, on the cover.
Now my favorite book series will always be Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels, tough guy private-eye with his own moral code that always gets his man, usually in a one on one violent confrontation. The writing is direct with short sentences in short chapters, double spaced on pages with large margins. A couple hundred pages of the literary equivalent of a can of sour cream & onion flavored Pringles.
Outlander is the polar opposite. There are densely packed pages filled with minute, detailed descriptions of the surroundings and stuffed with personal observations, sort of the literary equivalent of a Martha Stewart Poppy Seed Grapefruit Torte. Think Stephen King length, this baby is 850 pages. I’m not a big fan of period pieces, but I’m still with this one at the 500 page mark. I think I recognize the seed in all the flowery, descriptive text as the writing I liked in her blog. Still, I’m not sure I’ll read any more of the books, but if the TV series turns out as good as it looks in the trailers, I’ll be watching.
Tonight is the MLB All-Star Game and I considered tuning in just to see all 44,000 teary eyed fans at Target Field watching Derek Jeter’s final tip of the hat. But then I realized that Atlantic Broadband, in their continuing efforts to force a cable box on me, has removed the HD feed for FOX from my available channels, so I didn’t turn it on.
It wasn’t until the 4th inning that I realized I could watch it in HD using my MLB.TV package. This turned out to be a good thing as Jeter was already out of the game so I didn’t have to listen to the FOX announcers lavish praise on him. That reminds me, I have been lax in keeping up with Grantland.com’s fictional Derek Jeter Diary, The Captain’s Log.
I was also very lucky and missed the FRS’s “all-star” pitcher John Lester give up a single and two doubles, allowing two runs in his 2nd inning appearance.
The Purple Whale swam past the 44,000 mile mark on the way to DD this morning.