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.
John Connor, leader of the future resistance that would have saved all mankind, died today in his home from electrocution. He died while trying to make out with his super hot/pet/robot; yes, one of the same ones he was trying to save us from. He is survived by his mother, his uncle, and the same robot pet sister that killed him (after her 2 minute reload time when she popped the fuse). Shirley Manson is said to be estatic. Vicki from Small Wonder was unavailable for comment. John Connor had ended a relationship with her earlier this year for the reason of upgrading.
As you can tell, I watched the Sarah Connor Chronicles this week. I don't really understand why River went crazy and wanted to kill John. Did she see some strange commercial for Japanese candy or something? Is the kill John Connor command intigrated into her operating system or what? It seems like after it was overridden she could go in and remove it permanently so that nothing like that would ever happen.
Also River is hot. If there were robots that looked like that, humanity would die out. They might be replace with cyborgs, but humanity would be gone.
I watched both episodes last night and couldn't stop laughing. This show is great. Everyone should watch this show.
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.
So I have been watching On the Lot on Fox. There are a couple of really talented filmmakers on the show. The show to this point has been rather lackluster though. Last night was the change. Of the six films only one of them missed the mark. There were three really good ones that had me laughing but the best of the night was Die Hardly Working.
Oh well, time to catch up to the stuff on the DVR.
Wow, summer is upon us. That means time to catch up on stuff I DVR'd like House, Painkiller Jane, Smallville, and the Tudors.
To wrap up the tv season: Lost rocked, Heroes did too. Supernatural started slow but knocked it out of the park. Prison Break (huge in Korea now for some reason) was circling the shark tank on the motorcycle, but they have been doing that from the beginning. Everything else that was good got cancelled. Jericho was brought back thanks to some fan sending the studio nuts. I hear they are trying this trick with Veronica Mars using Mars bars.
Summer seasons are now showing new programming.
Here is what I will likely watch:
Last Comic Standing
Hell's Kitchen
Who Wants to Be a Superhero
Dr. Who
Drive (final two episodes)
I would watch 4400 but they need to have a marathon that I could see the entire 2nd and 3rd seasons in order to catch up.
I will also probably finish up The Prisoner Series that I have borrowed for quite too long.
Veronica Mars- Cancelled
Jericho- Cancelled
Drive- Cancelled
On the fringe-
Scrubs, The Office, Supernatural, BSG.
why the heck is it coming back-
Friday Night Lights
There are some interestingsounding new shows coming out-
Reaper (CW), Bionic Woman (NBC), Journey Man (this one is ripping off my heroes spin off and quantum leap(NBC) ), cavemen (ABC) I don't think it will be funny or last but who knows, Carpool (ABC)
Fox has yet to announce
I hate network execs, and I hate dumb Americans that watch the dumb shows and get the good ones cancelled. "wah, I have to think about this show but I don't know how to think, what channel is American Idol on."
Since they are spining off a show from Heroes, I though I would add some more spin-off ideas.
It's Parkman: A 30min sitcom about Matt Parkman's life with the ability to read minds. It could have a really cheesy 50's sitcom theme song, with the ending going, "It's Parkman! yeah!", and a laugh track that laughs at things like, "you don't know it, but I am sleeping with your wife." It would have to take place at a later time so he could have two teenage kids, leading to all kinds of kooky fun.
Time Jumper Hiro: This would be a show about a man that travels through the past uncontrollably putting things right that once went wrong, hoping that his next time jump will be the time jump home.
Not so much a spin-off but: Friday night lights gets Clairebear. Bennett forced to move after the death of his bosses moves to the town of friday night lights and claire has to compete to get on the cheerleading squad, date the quarterback, and adjust to a new school.
If you have any ideas feel free to share. I will send them to NBC for you.
Drive- *CANCELED* That is right, the show was canceled by Fox. This show has been shown exactly two times at its time slot. The show isn't bad. It isn't ground breaking TV but it was entertaining. Regardless of how good House is, new episodes of Drive are way better than reruns of House. I don't think Fox was ever behind the show in the first place. They only have two episodes to show that are un-aired. What kind of commitment is 6 episodes. Instead of showing the final two episodes on TV you will have to watch them through the Drive myspace page this summer. Let me tell you, someone will rip them and I will DL them because the Fox page sucks. The previews for this show were less than inspiring. I saw them and thought that the show would be ridiculous, but I by chance caught part of the two hour premiere and the third episode. I liked it. DID YOU HERE ME FOX, YOUR PREVIEWS MADE ME NOT WANT TO WATCH A SHOW THAT I ENDED UP LIKING.
Lost-Back to old form. I now remember why I liked it in the first place.
The Ultimate Fighter- A team rallies around in support as another fighter cries. This guy was blubbering. Sure he lost, but no need to cry because he was a dummy.
The Office-Creed is hilarious. Michael is an idiot. Kelly stole the show.
Scrubs- Hilarious as ever. They moved it so I have to watch 30 rock. That show grows on you. now they just need to cancel ER.
Smallville- I have kind of given up on this show.
Supernatural-I haven't watched this weeks episode yet, but last weeks was really good and scary enough that my wife left the room.
Veronica Mars- Where are you?!?
Heroes- I am actually looking forward to the future episode. This show continues to get better and better.
I caught Drive on fox Monday. I think I may have missed the first episode because stuff was already happening. The strange thing is that the episode pulled me right in. It is good to see Nathan Fillion back on TV. Can't say that it is going to be a great show, but it does have promise.
Painkiller Jane- I never read the comic, so this show is completely new to me and I don't know how well it is going to stand up to the original. The show itself seems almost like a rehash of other older shows. It isn't bad, but I can't really say that it is good either. The production quality isn't as high as network shows, but that is okay, maybe. There was a lot of faux drama, by that I mean drama that isn't. The title character seemingly dies half an hour into the first episode. How can you really expect her to stay dead?
I finally caught the first episode of The Tudors. It was pretty good. I was suprised. The espionage and drama are intriguing. I will continue watching.
Thank God Your Here- Does this show come on every night? It is so hit and miss depending on who is on there and how well they improve. Any given 15 minutes of the show has enormous potential to suck.
This American Life is just as good as the radio show and Penn and Teller continue to entertain.
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.
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