Screengazing
Oct. 12th, 2008 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6It'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).
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).
