I am the lone holdout among my friends who liked the original show better than the remake.
Still, I am watching it.
So Saturday we are all talking about Friday's episode, and I'm not talking that much because a.) that show isn't my favorite in general, and b.) I didn't think that this was a particularly good episode. But they all thought it was great. And then they were debating about whether or not it was filmed recently. Did they film the episode after a bunch of fans wrote and complained that they didn't get to see what happened when the New Caprica colony was first started? Or did they plan this episode so far in advance that they filmed parts of this episode last season?
Well, I didn't say so at the time, since no one asked me, and I really don't care enough about the show to interrupt them, but I have to say that it was none of the above.
I think they filmed the flashback scenes last session, as part of the season finale. And then after they shot those scenes they cut them, because they were boring. And then after all those fans complained that they didn't get to see what happened when they first went down to the new settlement, they filmed all the boxing stuff around the flashback scenes in hope of making them seem exciting.
So they gave the fans what they asked for, and they got to save money making a cheap clip show.
Whatever.
At least next week's episode looks interesting.
Monday, December 4, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
The Fountain
Truthfully, I don't even think I'm going bother reviewing this movie. I'm just going to say that it had an interesting look, and I liked everyone in the movie, but it was weird. Mostly, unless you are a big fan of someone in this movie, it can wait for the DVD. I'm even guessing that it might be better on DVD, because they might add something so that it makes more sense.
The really annoying thing about going to watch this film today was that it wasn't playing at any of the theaters we normally go to. So we had to drive a bit farther, and then we had to pay six dollars a ticket instead of the three dollars that we normally pay at the theater we go to most of the time.
Okay, so that's all I am going to say for now, until a few more people see the thing and can discuss it with me.
The really annoying thing about going to watch this film today was that it wasn't playing at any of the theaters we normally go to. So we had to drive a bit farther, and then we had to pay six dollars a ticket instead of the three dollars that we normally pay at the theater we go to most of the time.
Okay, so that's all I am going to say for now, until a few more people see the thing and can discuss it with me.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Day Break
I thought Wednesday night's Daybreak was an excellent two hours of television.
Unfortunately, the other people I would normally discuss such things with somehow managed to miss the show.
I can't understand why they didn't watch it. It was great. Similar in some ways to Groundhog Day, the equally amusing Stargate episode Windows of Opportunity, and the more serious but lesser known 12:01 (which I am told is quite different from the 12:01 short story, in which the main character keeps repeating the same hour); it was a time loop story, in which the day keep repeating itself and only the main character knows it.
In the first two hours of the series, the main character goes through the original day and three repeats. In the original day he saves a dumb pedestrian, gets framed for murder, finds out his brother-in-law is beating his sister, gets set up by his partner, gets arrested, watches his girlfriend and alibi get killed, is told that he will have to confess to the murder he's accused of if he doesn't want his family similarly killed, is beaten by thugs, and is then sedated. The first repeat of the day is very similar, except that he doesn't save the pedestrian, he tries to warn a few people about what is going to happen but they don't believe him, and he pushes his wife-beating brother-in-law into a glass display case. The third time around he doesn't bother with much of anything except trying to get out of town with his girlfriend, which doesn't go as planned, and the bad guys follow and shoot at them. He gets wounded in the shoulder, and there's blood everywhere, but luckily his girlfriend is an ER nurse and she patches him up. The cops catch up to them at a motel, and his partner seems like she is setting him up again, but this time she is obviously just there to try and help him, which then gets her killed. He and his girlfriend get away, and he drives all night.
And somehow is back in his bed about six in the morning on the same day as before.
But somehow, the events of the repeating days stay with him, and this time he starts the day off with a trip to the ER, because he's bleeding from what appears to be a bullet wound. The episode ends with him getting away from the cops at the hospital in the middle of the third repeat of the day.
I like most of the actors, which include Skinner from the X-files and Jane from Firefly. I should know who the partner is too, but I just can't think from where at the moment.
So did anybody else watch this show?
Unfortunately, the other people I would normally discuss such things with somehow managed to miss the show.
I can't understand why they didn't watch it. It was great. Similar in some ways to Groundhog Day, the equally amusing Stargate episode Windows of Opportunity, and the more serious but lesser known 12:01 (which I am told is quite different from the 12:01 short story, in which the main character keeps repeating the same hour); it was a time loop story, in which the day keep repeating itself and only the main character knows it.
In the first two hours of the series, the main character goes through the original day and three repeats. In the original day he saves a dumb pedestrian, gets framed for murder, finds out his brother-in-law is beating his sister, gets set up by his partner, gets arrested, watches his girlfriend and alibi get killed, is told that he will have to confess to the murder he's accused of if he doesn't want his family similarly killed, is beaten by thugs, and is then sedated. The first repeat of the day is very similar, except that he doesn't save the pedestrian, he tries to warn a few people about what is going to happen but they don't believe him, and he pushes his wife-beating brother-in-law into a glass display case. The third time around he doesn't bother with much of anything except trying to get out of town with his girlfriend, which doesn't go as planned, and the bad guys follow and shoot at them. He gets wounded in the shoulder, and there's blood everywhere, but luckily his girlfriend is an ER nurse and she patches him up. The cops catch up to them at a motel, and his partner seems like she is setting him up again, but this time she is obviously just there to try and help him, which then gets her killed. He and his girlfriend get away, and he drives all night.
And somehow is back in his bed about six in the morning on the same day as before.
But somehow, the events of the repeating days stay with him, and this time he starts the day off with a trip to the ER, because he's bleeding from what appears to be a bullet wound. The episode ends with him getting away from the cops at the hospital in the middle of the third repeat of the day.
I like most of the actors, which include Skinner from the X-files and Jane from Firefly. I should know who the partner is too, but I just can't think from where at the moment.
So did anybody else watch this show?
Friday, November 17, 2006
Carl Lumbly on Battlestar Galactica
Did anybody notice that doctor declared Bulldog was not a Cylon based on the fact that his DNA profile was the same as the one on record from three years ago?
Doesn't really prove that he's not a Cylon, does it?
Not that he is a Cylon. It's very unlikely that he's a Cylon. It's very unlikely that a Cylon spy just happens to be the pilot that got that particular black ops mission. If the Cylons deliberately sent him to get a mission like that, the odds of him actually being chosen for the mission have to be extremely small.
But the DNA profile just proves that he's either the same man that left three years ago, who may or may not have been a Cylon, or that he's one of the copies of the same model Cylon, if he was a Cylon, right?
I didn't see anything to suggest that the story is going to go that way, but when the doc first said that, I'm like--hey, that doesn't prove anything, so why'd he'd say that? Something is up with that. He wouldn't have said that just to being saying that.
But, everyone has not read the same books on writing that I have, so maybe he did say that just to be saying that.
Anybody think that we're descended from the Cylons or Sharron's baby instead of the thirteenth colony or people from the fleet?
Doesn't really prove that he's not a Cylon, does it?
Not that he is a Cylon. It's very unlikely that he's a Cylon. It's very unlikely that a Cylon spy just happens to be the pilot that got that particular black ops mission. If the Cylons deliberately sent him to get a mission like that, the odds of him actually being chosen for the mission have to be extremely small.
But the DNA profile just proves that he's either the same man that left three years ago, who may or may not have been a Cylon, or that he's one of the copies of the same model Cylon, if he was a Cylon, right?
I didn't see anything to suggest that the story is going to go that way, but when the doc first said that, I'm like--hey, that doesn't prove anything, so why'd he'd say that? Something is up with that. He wouldn't have said that just to being saying that.
But, everyone has not read the same books on writing that I have, so maybe he did say that just to be saying that.
Anybody think that we're descended from the Cylons or Sharron's baby instead of the thirteenth colony or people from the fleet?
Test
This is a test, and only a test.
If this were not a test, instructions would follow telling you what to go do with yourself.
Actually, instructions may follow anyway, telling you what to go do with yourself.
But seriously, this is just a test.
This is a place holder, as other people doing something similar have called it.
I'm probably going to move stuff to this blog, so that the other blog can just go back to it's original purpose.
If you are calling from another website that I frequently post on, or are an otherwise interested party, please leave a message, and I may get back to you or at least tell you where the other blog is now.
Thank you.
If this were not a test, instructions would follow telling you what to go do with yourself.
Actually, instructions may follow anyway, telling you what to go do with yourself.
But seriously, this is just a test.
This is a place holder, as other people doing something similar have called it.
I'm probably going to move stuff to this blog, so that the other blog can just go back to it's original purpose.
If you are calling from another website that I frequently post on, or are an otherwise interested party, please leave a message, and I may get back to you or at least tell you where the other blog is now.
Thank you.
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