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 I CAN HAZ MOAR SARAH!
 

 

I'd almost resigned myself to its imminent death but T:SCC is being picked up for the full season!

Even more counter-intuitively, it's possible that Fox are doing this simply because they like the show and are prepared to put their money where their subjective assessment is. Nielson's be dammed!

TV whorage

Sep. 16th, 2008 08:03 pm
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White rabbit moment. Happy Birthday [livejournal.com profile] heyiya, [livejournal.com profile] ann1962 and [livejournal.com profile] vonnie_k!

Seem to have watched a lot of terrestrial TV last week. Including the final of Maestro, the BBC’s “Strictly Come Dancing” for conducting (music not buses). Not being great with the classical music appreciation it shouldn’t have worked but it was fascinating to watch the competitors in their very different ways struggle and learn, to hear the difference between even the best of them and the professionals and to observe the subtle interactions going on between the panel judges and the orchestra (who got to decide who was to be eliminated each week). I wanted Goldie to win because although it was clear that Sue Perkins was more consistent and more in tune with the musicians, Goldie just every so often was able to produce what I’d call a George Best moment. Something to make someone like me (classical music mostly goes over my head) suddenly sit up and listen. He was obviously the judges’ favourite but the audience (and I suspect the orchestra) went with Sue.

Lost in Austen is something else that also shouldn’t work unless you’re a really big Bridget Jones fan. But it does, it takes the ridiculous, totally self-indulgent premise just seriously enough and like good fanfic gives some unexpected characters a chance to shine.


Expand T:SCC 2.02 Automatic for the people  )
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That what show are you watching meme?

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - the “when Sarah met the very scary robots” show. Or for the last episode the James Ellison/Johnny Cash on a white horse show.

Heroes - in the first season I think the only thing I wasn’t watching was the “Sylar is the only character worth vidding” show. Three episodes into the second I really have no idea. Possibly the “Angela Petrelli back in the day Company Chronicles” but hopefully not the “West is really annoying but I can’t put my finger on exactly why” show.

Battlestar Galactica - the “note to self, religion freaky and where have all the real Cylons gone” show. Plus the “Mary McDonnell/Tricia Helfer/Katee Sackoff” is totally awesome show.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8 - Expandspoilers are what a slayer breathes )
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I think Ashes to Ashes got better this week. Maybe it just got different but the change was at least enough to make me want to keep watching. After all it’s not as if the parent series were perfect. Trying to remember the first few episodes of Life of Mars I do recall thinking it was going to make more of the case Sam Tyler was supposed to be investigatingin 2006, that there would be more of a standard mystery/thriller element to the whole thing, a “who is Sam Tyler and what is his mysterious back story?” Instead it became very much a stranger in a strange land story, the strangeness of history in the collective sense, while Sam’s personal history was reduced to Freudian cliché. Sam had daddy issues, Gene was his faux-father figure. It can’t be the same with Gene and Alex, he’s not who she fears growing up to be or being less than. In the new story Gene is really Annie (but never tell him I said that).

ExpandSpoilers are pretty on the outside )

Then I watched the pilot for The Sarah Connor Chronicles

ExpandSpoilers are never safe )

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