Eryk Davis Ester
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: Life After People was pretty groovy! Is that an ongoing series?
I love watching the history channel specials. The one about Krakatoa is simply fascinating to me. I also watched the gloomy one about 2012...my friend said it best: "looks like shit is over in 2012." The special is a little over the top in being alarming and trying to scare you. Its like Fox News or something.
Yeah, they just started an ongoing series of it, on Tuesday nights! Tomorrow night pigs take over the world or something!
The History Channel is definitely a mixed bag. A lot of stuff is extremely good, but a lot of times it seems more like the National Enquirer than National Geographic.
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Yeah. I really couldn't stop watching the 2012 thing, but I was half-smiling the whole time. I was like, "jeepers, these people are trying so hard to convince me we're done in 2012 that I almost feel bad not believing them!".
But for the most part they have some good stuff.
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Over the past week or so, I caught up on the last 10-or-so episodes of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". These episodes really brought out the potential in the show that had been evident in the first season and the first part of this season. It's a shame that this show is pretty much guaranteed to be cancelled because it was exploring some storytelling back alleys that the Terminator films never have time for. Really, the whole concept that Jim Cameron created has so much more potential than what got distilled into a hand full of white knuckle chase flicks, and this series was realizing it.
There are a lot of astute and demanding viwers of television on this site, and I think many of you would have been pleasantly surprised by this series. It was on the cusp of becoming another Lost or BSG, and it looks like it would have jumped that cusp based on where they were apparently taking the series based on how the last episode ended. I think that was quite admirable seeing as how it was obviously working with some effects budget constraints.
I'd encourage any of you to check it out on DVD or whatever. With a new movie coming out, it's a shame that a series with such potential may be all but forgotten.
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Lardy, I'll see about getting that added to our Mega-Flix queue. It sounds like just what I need to be watching right now.
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Alright, so after I caught up on my DVR backlog of "Terminator: SCC" and "Pushing Daisies", I caught up on the last five episodes of "Life on Mars". I've mixed feelings about the finale...
Click Here For A SpoilerIt fell somewhere around "St. Elsewhere" and "Newhart" territory with the solution that was offered. On one hand the writers worked hard to show you that everything fit; on the other hand, I would have preferred something that didn't relegate the series to an 'imaginary tale'. (yeah, they're all imaginary tales, but you know what I mean... )
Yeah, there was always the chance it was the delusions of a guy in a coma from the beginning or he was crazy or something, but the story seemed to be leading to a greater significance behind everything Sam was experiencing. Like maybe he was there to change the future for the better and learn more about his past (particularly with his father) in the process. And God, Time or Whatever was behind it all--but that's the "Quantum Leap" fan within talking.
But we do get some resolution in 1973 and see that Tyler no longer wants to return to 2008 before the Big Reveal. Interestingly enough, the original UK series it was based on had a much different, possibly more satisfying ending. I Wikipedia-ed it!
But the series title sure got added meaning here, eh?
In the end I really enjoyed the series a lot and hope to see Jason O'Mara, Gretchen Mol and Michael Imperioli doing more great stuff in the near future.
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Am nostalgia tripping yet again by watching The Critic on disc. The whole fat-schlubby-guy-hooks-up-with-hot-chicks routine gets old fast, but the satirical bits like the Trek-Hee Haw show are just as funny as they were a decade ago.
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Watched 'Fringe', the season ender last night after 'Idol'.
William Bell is Spock!!!!!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahah.
I love 'Fringe'!
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Eryk Davis Ester
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Fringe got better and better over the course of the season. Glad that it's coming back next year.
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Can't figure out why. I thought it one of the better super-hero flicks I've seen. Plucked all the right stings with me and for once in a movie, the ending was actually in doubt. Wasn't sure which way they were going to swing with it.
Maybe I'll track down some reviews to find out why I'm wrong for liking it.
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Just saw Kevin Smith's Zach and Miri....
Ehhh... I guess it was okay. No surprises. I guess it's supposed to be a When Harry Met Sally that guys can enjoy because it's got cursing and naughty bits to season the usual rom-com tropes.
Whatever.
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From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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Why on earth had I not seen this film until tonight?
"Miller's Crossing" has just been bumped to #2 on my list of all-time most wittily dialogued films.
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quote:Originally posted by rickshaw1: I'll see zach and miri if Miri is nekkid.
TBH, I can't remember if she was totally in the raw. Can you tell this film just didn't make much of an impression on me?
She did wear a see-thru Princess Leia dress in one or two scenes, though.
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