Tuesday, January 30, 2007
TV ramble
I'm not as much of a TV junkie as I used to be. When I was a kid, I had two or three shows a night and more on the weekends that I watched. I once had a meltdown when we were on vacation and I got sent to bed before one of my favorite shows came on TV. (See, Aidan is indeed, my punishment for my childhood. LOL )
Now, I don't watch so much. I generally have the TV on, but unless one of the shows I follow, or a rerun of one of my old faves, or a good movie is on, I really don't pay much attention to it. The ones I follow are
CSI:,
CSI: Miami,
CSI: NY,
NCIS,
House,
Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and
Criminal Minds. In my younger days if it was even remotely science fiction or fantasy I was all over it. Nowadays the sci fi/fantasy stuff has gotten so gorey and gross, I can't really get past that to enjoy the stories. I tried to watch
The Dresden Files the other day cause it looked really interesting, but couldn't make it. I'm tempted to start watching
Battlestar Galactica because everyone says it's so great, but I just can't get past Starbuck being a chick. That's just so not right.
So I was flipping around last night since it was Monday and nothing I watch comes on until 10:00,
CSI: Miami.
Miami is on the bubble with me. It's gotten to be such a soap opera and Horatio has gone from being a really cool dude, to being a really pathetic characature of his previous self. Anyway, I flipped past the Sci Fi Channel when I realized they were showing reruns of
Enterprise. Now I am a WICKED Trekker. From
way back. Like, I bought the entire original series on VHS, serious. And I liked
TNG, I loved
DS: 9, I HATED
Voyager, but surprisingly, I REALLY loved
Enterprise. Honestly, I think it's my favorite of the franchise aside from
TOS. But I haven't been watching the reruns much, they came on Saturday evenings on UPN (or whatever it is now) right around dinner time, the kids need attention, you know all that. But last night it was 9:00, the kids were in bed, nothing else was on, I didn't have any work to do so I sat back and watched.
It really is a great show. I have to say, though, I'm not thrilled with the way Berman and Braga portray Vulcans. I'm kind of torn, actually. I just watched Amok Time the other night and "reviewed" it for my Yahoo 360° and I was commenting on the "oddness" of the ceremony and some of the behaviors of the "other" Vulcans. So perhaps it's my view of Vulcans that is a bit skewed. Or perhaps I'm using Spock, Sarek, Surak, as a standard when they are more likely the exception. T'Pol is a bit more like the "other" Vulcans, but still, she has more of the "moral fiber" and committment to logic that I associate with Vulcans than the others do. T'Pou, the elder who officiated at the Kali Fi was pretty much a harda**, but at the same time she was sympathetic when she thought Kirk was dead. She said "I greive with thee" to McCoy, and she pulled strings with Starfleet to get them off the hook for diverting against orders. Then again, that was a couple centuries later. The Vulcans in the Enterprise time frame were really quite...smarmy and ill tempered for the most part. But then again, I haven't seen the whole series. I missed the last couple seasons for one reason or another. Which, I guess a lot of people did cause ratings tanked and it got cancelled. LOL So perhaps when I've seen it all, I will have a better perspective. I pretty much have the original series memorized, so the comparison is hardly equal.
Right now I'm watching a rerun of NCIS. I am so glad when Gibbs shaves that stupid moustache off. Blech. Not that I have an issue with facial hair, cause when Grissom comes back on CSI he will have grown the beard back and I'm doing cartwheels about that. Really, CSI: is the only show I obsess about. I go to message boards, I belong to a mailing list, it's kinda sad. The other ones, I follow, CSI: I close the door and forbid anyone to speak to me for an hour. LOLOL
Ahem...in order to redeem myself, I will say that I am anxiously looking forward to the second half of a production of
Jane Eyre I had't seen before which will be on Friday. It's a Masterpiece Theatre production and I watched most of the first half last Friday. I've seen two versions, but neither one was terribly true to the novel. This one seems to be doing a better job of it. I was rather stunned to realize that one of my main problems with the Orson Wells verson is that Joan Fontaine is too pretty to play Jane. Realistically, I feel whomever plays Jane needs to be physically plain. I'm not sure if that's shallow or not, but it seems to ring true to me. Wells was a perfect Rochester, just the right mix of brooding and wry humor. But I just can't get past Fontaine's aesthetics. Perhaps it distracts one from focusing on the
internal beauty and strength of Jane. I don't know, but there it is.
So there you have it. Yeah, I'm still a closet Vidiot. That's it. Peace, out.
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2 Comments:
I agree with most of your TV viewing, although having class Tuesday and Thursdays means I don't really see TV on those nights until 9PM.
You really should give Battlestar a chance. Even with Starbuck being a chick, it's more a human behavior/social commentary, we're all human and in this together than pure sci-fi...Besides, I think she's actually a more rebellious, tougher character than the original would have ever been. Course, the whole show is grittier.
Anyway, happy belated Imbolc.
I'm still toying with the idea. I may rent the first season and just have a marathon some weekend. You know I don't do change well. LOLOL
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