Post by tjaman on Jan 22, 2007 16:52:58 GMT -5
First and foremost, Happy New Year!
I know it's a new year because I finally got all of my Christmas stuff down and put away this a.m.
This weekend I was a media consuming fool! I woke up Saturday and taped the episode of "Six Feet Under" I couldn't tape last Monday because I was taping something else. And then I watched the "Battlestar Galatica" marathon they ran during the day last Monday.
I can't say that I loved it, but I found it engaging and interesting. The nonlinear storytelling was exciting to me and made for some intriguing storytelling. If it was on while something else was on it wouldn't have a prayer, but since it has an encore after the "Dresden Files" encore following "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers & Sisters" Sunday nights (I'm beginning to recognize a problem, here) I can watch it with no worries of missing anything else.
The one-act play I'm in rehearses on Sunday nights from 7 to 9, so I have to tape my 'Wives and B&S. And this week's B&S was fan-frakkin'-tastic. All sorts of family drama in every direction and I love, love, love Rachel Griffiths. She's just so damn' cool, y'know?
Shake that in alongside "Prison Break," "Heroes" and "Studio 60" and "Six Feet Under" and I can't miss a second!
I'm ... not even a little bit well.
As for right now, the work day is coming to a close, the sun is shining, my landlord is giving me a break on my rent (letting me pay it Feb. 7, which is when my first check of the month arrives) and my apartment is slowly returning to some semblance of order. I've got time to take a good long walk when I get home today, and exactly the right weather for it.
Gotta say, I'm pretty well stoked to be me just now.
I know it's a new year because I finally got all of my Christmas stuff down and put away this a.m.
This weekend I was a media consuming fool! I woke up Saturday and taped the episode of "Six Feet Under" I couldn't tape last Monday because I was taping something else. And then I watched the "Battlestar Galatica" marathon they ran during the day last Monday.
I can't say that I loved it, but I found it engaging and interesting. The nonlinear storytelling was exciting to me and made for some intriguing storytelling. If it was on while something else was on it wouldn't have a prayer, but since it has an encore after the "Dresden Files" encore following "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers & Sisters" Sunday nights (I'm beginning to recognize a problem, here) I can watch it with no worries of missing anything else.
The one-act play I'm in rehearses on Sunday nights from 7 to 9, so I have to tape my 'Wives and B&S. And this week's B&S was fan-frakkin'-tastic. All sorts of family drama in every direction and I love, love, love Rachel Griffiths. She's just so damn' cool, y'know?
As for Mondays, I wish I knew how to quit Jack Bauer, but I just freeqin' can't. He's a gorram superhero and if he spent the next 20 hours on a couch in therapy I'd be entirely fascinated. He's so amazingly well-written, and at some point someone needs to explore how someone who has lost as much as he has, suffered as much as he has at the hands of the leadership he has had to unseat or endure, can remain as committed to the service he undertakes. The man's been through the meatgrinder over and over. He's lost his wife, become estranged from his daughter, he has died and come back to life, he's come back from a heroin addiction, averted nuclear disaster a dozen times over, he's been betrayed left and right, lost love, lost friends, lost his identity and spent two years being tortured in a Chinese prison for an assassination he didn't commit, only to be released and handed over as a human sacrifice. In the wake of this, he's saved hundreds and thousands of people -- in a few instances, millions -- and the only insight we've got on his actions is that he saw a young child in Season Two walking with his mother.
I don't understand what's driving him. We saw him break down in tears maybe twice over the course of the series, we never see him smile and I've gotta wonder what's behind all of that.
But just like Joss' favorite equation of Buffy+pain=interesting, Jack Bauer+incredible odds+irreparable damage+irreplaceable loss=incredible.
I don't understand what's driving him. We saw him break down in tears maybe twice over the course of the series, we never see him smile and I've gotta wonder what's behind all of that.
But just like Joss' favorite equation of Buffy+pain=interesting, Jack Bauer+incredible odds+irreparable damage+irreplaceable loss=incredible.
Shake that in alongside "Prison Break," "Heroes" and "Studio 60" and "Six Feet Under" and I can't miss a second!
I'm ... not even a little bit well.
As for right now, the work day is coming to a close, the sun is shining, my landlord is giving me a break on my rent (letting me pay it Feb. 7, which is when my first check of the month arrives) and my apartment is slowly returning to some semblance of order. I've got time to take a good long walk when I get home today, and exactly the right weather for it.
Gotta say, I'm pretty well stoked to be me just now.