The girls and I have been enjoying this season of wipeout. Although the blind date episode was the best, the show is almost always hilarious. I have to give ABC props. John and John up in the booth are great. Jill Wagner always asks the best questions. They make this show. Without them being funny, it wouldn't really work. It also helps that the obsacles are so ridiculous.
The only downfall is that someone will eventually get hurt on this show. But until then, good night and big balls.
I really do. I mean they are so deprived. Do you remember slides in the 80's? Yeah, they were like twenty feet tall with a ladder leading up to them. Then there was the jungle gym. It was a latticework of metal bars welded together and painted and chipped so many times it was almost psychodelic. The monkey bars? There was a price for falling off of those things and you learned to make it all the way across. We had safety back then too. Some genius decided that dirt wasn't safe so the playgrounds would be full of tiny rocks or pea gravel. Sure it broke a fall but it was even more helpful in playground wars.
It isn't just playgrounds though. Our children will never discover (on there own) the strength of Adam as he defended Eternia. They will not know that life is like a hurricane in Duckburg. Gummy bears will always only be something you eat. Nothing will ever be smurfy to them. They will never shout thunder, thunder, thundercats, Hoe! Imaginations will be hampered as they will only ever see the lamborgini's with the doors that open upwards as cars and not as possibly planes too. They will never be eager to wake up early on Saturday mornings or before school and flip on the TV, because, lets face it, the news isn't fun for them. What hope is there if they don't know that Captain Planet will take pollution down to zero? Sure they have the transformers, but is it really transformers if the Lion song "The Touch" doesn't send shivers down their spine.
Cereal sucks too. How many toys have you pulled out of your box lately? Very few if you are like me. Most boxes want you to collect 10 tops and send them in with 3.95 for shipping and handling for something crappy you don't really want. How are kids supposed to know which cereal to buy without the toy showing the way? Where is the Trix Rabbit, Snap, Crackle, and Pop? Why does Hannah from Montana have her own cereal. Why aren't my kids cucoo for Cocopuffs.
Their whole lives are seatbelted, safe, and educational. Kids are not allowed to have fun, be daring, or experience violence in fictional yet very real fashion (oh, you know you cried when optimus died). They will never learn that prize doesn't always justify the expense without having to eat a box of crappy cereal because they just had to have the toy that was inside. Without fun toys, how will children ever get exercise. Sure they would rather play video games than turn the stearing wheel on the plastic, sanitary playground equipment embedded on soft foam with monkey bars that you have to lift your knees so you don't drag the ground. I would too. How will kids learn to appreciate good storytelling when current cartoons are all fart jokes. Kids today will never know that knowing is half the battle; so, they have just lost half the battle. Without good fighting evil in cartoons how will kids grow up to know that good is supposed fight evil or that evil even exists in the first place?
We have oversanitized our world and our children will have no immunities.
Okay, I know I haven't seen everything I have wanted to yet, and that tonight is the office, but I think I can assess some new shows for everyone.
Bionic Woman - I almost turned it off, the acting and dialog's were that bad. Special effects were only a little better. Why on earth would someone be pissed off that their life and way of life had been saved? "You almost died. We had to amputate your arm and your legs. Did you want to be in a motorized wheel chair? Because, we can take back all the bionic stuff." Why didn't Starbuck get the lead? She is a way better actress.
Journeyman - I liked this more than I thought I would. It channels The Time Traveler's Wife a bit, but that isn't really a bad thing. The jury is still out. I don't really like formulaic shows though. If it becomes a save a person a week type show, I think I will just watch Quantum Leap reruns.
Prison Break - They are just going to put Scofield in multiple prisons and have him escape from them every season. The show has always been ridiculous and this year doesn't look to change the formula.
Heroes - New plots abound. My question is still what happened to Sylar.
Chuck -I thought this show was going to suck, but it doesn't. It rocks. It is witty and charming. You can't help but like Chuck and hate Captain Awesome.
Kid Nation - The premise of this show was supposed to be about how kids would run the world if they were in charge. Unfortunately this is restrained by the amount of rules imposed on them. They have to be on teams, they have to compete in a challenge, and said challenge dictates a class structure. The class structure has the upper class get paid the most for doing nothing. They don't even allow a free market on the show. Last night they did kill some chickens; that was pretty cool.
The Ultimate Fighter - Same show, different weight class. I already hate several people on the show. This show perpetuates the stereotype that all fighters are idiots.
I have not seen Reaper yet.
The IFL on UPN (or whatever it is they call that network), isn't bad. It isn't the UFC, but it will do. There seems to be a lack of a serious ground game for most fighters. If someone goes down, they usually bend over fetally and proceed to get pummeled.
Thank God Your Here- was funny for its first episode but the second one fell flat. The show itself cast normal actors into improv situations. The hilarity of the episodes will depend on the ability of the person on stage to improv. Malcolm's Dad (Hal) from Malcolm in the middle was the funniest I have seen so far. Newman from Seinfeld was a close second.
The Office-Darn you NBC, darn you to heck! I would like to thank NBC for the numerous commercials letting me know that the office would be starting early and ending late. I missed the first five minutes and the last ten. I will have to view it on their website which, I imagine, was there intention. I didn't even realize that I had missed any of the end until someone at work was talking about it and I was like, "when did that happen."
Scrubs-Goodbye Laverne, you will be missed. Hello J.D. junior. One episode was shown out of order or shot out of order because we finally find out what happened to Perry's hair.
The Ultimate Fighter-A guy cries because he can't lose weight. You will have to scroll down to my sissification post to see my feelings on this. This season looks to be promising with a bunch of guys with shortman's syndrome.
Heroes-Two more weeks. Two more long and miserable weeks. New York is so getting blown up.
Battlestar Gallactica- As if the second half of this season (minus a few great episodes) wasn't going to drive fans off, the show isn't coming back for its final season until 2008. The people over at scifi are about retarded.
Jerricho- tonight we get some answers. This show has been quite the suprise.
What is wrong with the producers. If you have a mystery building up over the whole season about the final 5 cylon models, why would you give it away during the preview for the final episode. Sure they didn't show his face but anyone that follows the show will know that Anders was the person who said, "We are cylons." Sure, we still have to figure out who the other members of we are.
The episode just felt forced. Everybit of it. Which is ironic, since it took about a zillion filler episodes to get there.
Here is my question: shouldn't Athena know anything that Caprica 6 knows? When she downloaded, didn't she get the Borg Collective update version 6.0 talking about all the cunning new ways to catch the fleet?
I am guessing that because of the music the final four will be Gaeta, Tigh, Torry, and, of course, Anders.
Heroes - Heroes so rocked last night. The writers stepped up big time and answered the question about Mr Bennett's alliances and who the Hatian is. I was very satisfied with the episode and look forward to seeing what happens to Claire and Matt. In the previews it showed simmone as alive. What the heck is that about?
BSG - Another filler episode. It is kind of hard to make a fuel shortage due to a strike seem urgent because of the cylons when it seems that all cylons have been written off the show. Now it is lost in space with a fleet. I will be suprised if they tie any part of this episode into any other episode; which is a shame. With some forethought they could have been foreshadowing it in earlier episodes and could continue it on, but they didn't and they won't. Look at the refugee storyline, gone. I was thinking they should send them to work the mining ship. Two stones, one bird.
Amazing Race - All Stars? are you kidding me?
Veronica Mars - Didn't see that one coming. Keith being sheriff again could become a little too deus ex machina.
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