Screengazing

[newnumber6]

It's Canadian thanksgiving this weekend, but we'll be postponing ours till next week because of evil gnomes. Or scheduling problems. But evil gnomes sound better.

So instead I'll talk about TV.

Atlantis was good this week. I have to admit I didn't see the big revelation coming, and I was rather pleased with it because (spoilers start now) I always really liked the Asgard and thought it was a shame they ended them all. So another group of them operating is kinda nifty to me, even if they're all dark and emo. (Though I wanted to throttle Daniel for not suggesting, "Hey, you know, if you're having trouble here, we can give you guys a lift back to the Asgard home galaxy and you can take over empty planets there!")

Also, that teenage engineer? Totally a Kaylee homage. I can't help but think it deliberate, since Jewel Staite's on the show and the other character even looked a bit like Kaylee.


Also, I've been dipping into Nostalgia this week as through... magic, I found an old TV show I enjoyed when I was a kid. It's called The Girl from Tomorrow, and it was Australian-made, about a girl from the Utopian year 3000 who during a time travel experiemnt is taken hostage by a criminal from 2500 and brought to the year 1990, and has to fit in with the world and try to find the missing time capsule. Okay, so it's a kid's show, and although it's reasonably well done for all that, it's probably not worth watching much unless you were a kid or enjoy kid's shows, or are on a nostalgia kick. But I'm 2 of the above 3, so I'm rewatching it - mostly because when it aired here I only caught something like 10 of the 24 episodes and never saw either how it began or how it ended. I really liked it at the time (helped in no small fact as a young teenage boy, I thought the girls in it were cute), and it's enjoyable enough to watch now, despite the cheesy 90s CGI effects. I wonder if anybody else on my flist remembers it.

Wolverine and The X-Men was pretty good this week, although I've never been a fan of Mojo, it was good to see a Wolverine-light episode at last. And Pixie! Except she didn't much act like Pixie or do much of anything. That was a little disappointing. Ah well, maybe she'll come back in a future episode having discovered too much sugar. Anyway, for me the highlight of the ep was Kitty sneakily suckerpunching Wolverine in the Danger Room just for kicks. Go Kitty!

Not much else been on that I recall. Terminator was enjoyable this week, for a stand-alone. Heroes was laughable but I already posted on that. Supernatural was okay. I think that's about all there was.

Still haven't finished Avatar, maybe I'll make that my next weekend project (at the almost midpoint for S3 now).

Comments

[foxfyre.livejournal.com]

Wait, where did you find episodes of The Girl from Tomorrow? I loved that show, and I also never got to see all of it. I'd love to rewatch it, especially if the whole thing is available somewhere.

I also wish I could find The Tomorrow People somewhere, because that show was really good, too. At least it was when I was a kid. :D

Oh, and you weren't the only one who looked at the fifteen year old engineer on Atlantis the other night and had that thought. :)

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

http://www.surfthechannel.com seems to be like the site for finding tv shows streaming now (it just links to ones hosted elsewhere). Not the quality of torrents and sometimes you get ones with asian subtitles, but good for just plain watching. It looks like they've got all The Girl From Tomorrow (and in decent quality, no subtitles), and they've even got a listing for 30 eps of the Tomorrow People (looks like the first 2 seasons and a bit of a later one).

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Good to know you saw the Kaylee homage as well. The Stargate writers are big Firefly fans, so I like to think it is an homage, not a rip-off. ;-)

Is Wolverine and The X-Men any good? YTV shows it but I haven't bothered to check it out.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read your comments and was amused that you had almost exactly what I was going to say on it.

Wolverine and the X-men is, well, enjoyable so far for me, anyway. Maybe not as good as X-Men Evolution at its peak yet, but better than the older Fox X-Men cartoon, and has a number of newer characters in it as cameos (because the exec producers are also comic writers). It is a little too Wolverine focused for my tastes, but, what can you do, he sells.

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

I remember Girl from Tomorrow - there were a bunch of quite good teenage sci-fi shows coming out at the time, they must have had someone good in the creative dept in the ABC.

I am enjoying Wolverine and the X-Men, except for Emma Frost's accent - is that for real? Do people on your continent speak that way? We can't figure out if she's meant to be British or what.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, in the comics, at least on occasion, Emma's been described as speaking in a faux semi-British accent which (I heard once and so it may be complete balderdash) is not uncommon among some of the upper class in the New England region of the US, where the character is from, or in general among people who travel abroad and want to sound sophisticated back home.

Never having been there (well, aside from passing through when I was very young), I'm unable to verify the accent issue, but I have no problems with the idea that the character's accent is put-upon, though.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

(ctd) at any rate, the accent doesn't bother me... certainly not like Valley Girl Kitty Pryde or German-Surfer-Dude Kurt in Evo, and I even got used to those eventually.