27 posts tagged “tv”
Taken from mojojessjo@LJ:
Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your favorite TV shows. Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks. Have your friends guess the show names.
1. Small Town, Kansas, Nuclear Attack
2. Wizard, Magic, Private Investigator
3. Stop Motion, Adult Humor, Sketch Comedy
4. Stupidity, Saskatchewan, Actor Shares First Name With Character
5. Awkward, Pennsylvania, Based On British TV Series
6. Man With No Name, Gadget, Eccentricity
7. Memory Loss, Sibling Incest Subtext, Cheerleader
8. Cliffhanger, Surreal, Scientific Experiment
9. Mansion, Rabbit, Teenage Girl
10. Shakespeare, Manhattan, Illuminati
Some of these are really obvious, others are obvious if you know me.
Taken from mylittleredgirl:
The story: A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.
Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!
You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! The rest of the series(es) will not be altered. What do you choose?
Angel, "A Hole in the World" - even if the rest of the series can't be altered, this was a giant plot contrivance and blatant manipulation of the Wes/Fred shippers.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Seeing Red" - the scene with the attempted rape was just atrociously handled, and spawned endless wankery.
Lost, "Stranger In a Strange Land" - it may just be recency effect, but this was an awful episode that served no purpose.
You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history!* *CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.
Firefly. A cliche choice, but I'd pick it over John Doe and Century City.
To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can weild your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.
I'd cancel Sliders after season four, before they replace Jerry O'Connell. What is it about sci-fi shows in the 90s and godawful final seasons?
LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.
Resurrect: John Winchester, Supernatural
Kill off: Lana Lang, Smallville
Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!
Removed plot arc: The "Circle of the Black Thorn" plot arc at the end of Angel.
Plug in: A decent resolution to either John Doe or Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Send the fairy to some other DVRs:
Anyone that does fandom stuff - not sure who does and who doesn't.
Did I fall into a parallel universe last night? One where Lost sucks and Jericho is actually good?
The really weird thing about it is, the reason Lost was so bad last night is the complaint I've had so much about Jericho I've thought about calling it "the Jericho Effect." Namely, that they spend so much time telling us about an uninteresting story (how Jack got his tattoo), and only hinting at one that's a lot more compelling (the Dharma Initiative's purpose). Jericho, on the other hand, gave us a "before the bombs" prequel that, with a little reworking, would have made a much better pilot than the actual one.
Because you're never too old to rejoice in the receiving of gifts. Here's what I picked up (in the realm of media; I also got clothes, shoes, food, etc.) over the last couple of days. Items with an asterisk are actually Keri's, but we tend to pool our resources when it comes to media.
Books
Board/card games
- Lost: the Board Game
- Super Munchkin 2: The Narrow S-Cape
- Bully
- *Dance Dance Revolution: Supernova
- *Justice League Heroes
- Okami
I haven't been doing the stream of consciousness TV blogging because I've fallen behind in many of the shows I watch, and so wouldn't be able to get the posts up in a timely fashion.
Heroes has been consistently good; they've done a good job at keeping everyone in the mix, and even adding new characters (D.L. and the radioactive guy). The main annoyance so far is how they treat female characters. Claire is indestructible, but she's the one who needs saving because she's a little girl; Niki got turned into Jessica the femme fatale. The waitress in Midland got killed off almost instantly to provide more story for Hiro (I suspect he won't be able to save her without creating a rift in time). Why can't there be any women characters who are straightforward heroes the way Hiro, Peter Petrelli, Matt Parkman, etc. are?
The last couple of episodes of Jericho were surprisingly good; Turteltaub and company seem to be getting their act together and focusing more on interesting plotlines like Mr. Hawkins and Ravenwood and less on the "human interest". There are still anvilicious moments, like the pregnancy and wedding subplots, but they're not dominating the story any more. Though it'd be nice if the writers would let the women do something interesting for once, instead of caring for sick men (compare April with the doctor from Rogue River) or angsting about their boyfriends/husbands.
Lost is on hiatus; I have the last episode recorded but haven't watched it yet. The Others stuff has been interesting, but I can't really tell where it's going yet. A lot of it feels like mystery for mystery's sake. The original island hasn't fared so well; they haven't got much screen time, and their plots (the black smoke, Desmond seeing the future) haven't been developed well. The episode coming up is supposed to be big, though.
Doctor Who is consistently good. The throwaway episodes are the best of any series out there (though "The Idiot's Lantern" was much weaker than "The Girl in the Fireplace"), and the Cybermen two-parter finally figured out Micky. I'm not sure how they'll bring them back later in the season, though.
I've been catching Smallville occasionally, mostly the Green Arrow episodes. It's interesting for what they do with DC canon, and I'll probably go back and start catching earlier seasons. I'm still finishing up prior seasons of Veronica Mars and Supernatural, so not much to report there.
Looking forward to The Dresden Files and The Lost Room on SciFi (but where's Wild Cards?), as well as new Masters of Horror.
Previously: powerz.
He's not the brother who can fly, I thought. He's the mimic.
What'd the headline say? I missed it. Something about the eclipse?
Is that residual precog from Isaac?
Oops. You'd think she'd be more careful with that tape.
Niki's alive, it seems. What'd D.L. do?
What happened to Parkman in the convenience store?
Maybe Isaac didn't want to get nuked.
The dream was a psychic link?
More connections.
And there's Nathan's wife.
What if Mama Petrelli had powers? Someone not in their teens or 20s should.
This scene drags.
Creepy.
Stolen from X-Men 2.
Have we seen him before?
She has a name? It's totally MPD.
Trap?
Aww. Go team.
Backstory.
Aww, the angst.
Are the cops really cops?
YouTube's free, you idiot. Heh.
Bad idea.
Someone turned radioactive?
Peter with the save.
He's Chamber crossed with a Geico caveman.
Does he blow up Manhattan?
That's timing for you.
Why would she call him?
More angst.
Tattoo. Guess there's a power there after all.
Linderman - why'd he buy the painting?
He's holding the painting for later?
When are the Petrellis going to realize they've both met Hiro?
Neck marks - from Siler?
Mohoutro?
Nice. Micah's a very technical boy.
Next week - Hiro gets a love interest!
Previously: there was an explosion, and the writers would like you to think there's a mystery too. There's a post-apocalyptic cowboy gang.
Blowtorch. It's a way to show they're badass without having much actual violence.
It's Halloween apparently.
Given the status of the food supply, isn't it wasteful to use pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns?
Bail? How do they think the justice system works now?
And their word is good until the armed coup come sweeps, if the show makes it that long.
God, they try very hard to make her annoying. And it just winds up unrealistic.
More bickering. I don't *care* about these people.
Antibiotics? I thought he had the flu. Or the radiation poisoning "flu". Either way, they won't help.
Ooh, that's supposed to be a big reveal, isn't it?
Where's spy guy?
Maybe the armed coup is this episode, actually.
Yeah, FEMA's good. Because they did so much last time.
Exposition time.
Why would they hit Lawrence, Kansas? To take out those bad-ass Winchesters, of course.
So they weren't launched missiles, they were smuggled and detonated bombs. So the question is who? We're supposed to think Islamic terrorists, but I'm guessing it's Spy Guy's organization.
If I wanted politics I don't care about, I'd go back to playing Final Fantasy XII.
The jewelry box - probably traded to Dale so he can give it back and be such a Nice Guy.
That was handled badly.
Oh, instead he's going to steal the box.
Halloween's nice, but can we say waste of resources?
And easy target, apparently.
Lame chase scene.
And that's going to be another ethics debate.
How are they going to do it "his way" now that their bargaining power is nil?
How'd he know, if he wasn't involved with the bombers?
So much for parlay.
I don't *CARE* about this dead Chris guy.
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. Unfortunately, he's probably right in Spy Guy's case.
Go Dale!
Dad's dead, isn't he. He hasn't had much of a role so far, and they're totally setting that up. It's got power vacuum, it's got family drama, they won't be able to resist.
Just make out already.
Oh, and they get back just in time for slo-mo reaction shots.
Are they gonna enlist the help of the outlaws?
Apparently so.
Now *that's* emotional blackmail.
Dale, she's so not worth it.
Heavy makeout music.
Oh right, they're in a hurry.
Hope the diagnosis was all right. It'd suck to get back too late.
Another musical montage.
"Wheat Squares"? Nabisco wouldn't pony up for the product placement?
Next week: Rogue River, presumably.
Previously on Heroes: cool stuff.
Mohintro channels Rand.
"I had a sword!"
I <3 Hiro.
Claire's mom needs to be more than comic relief.
Ew.
Niki, whom the episode title's presumably about.
Is she gonna get a real power?
D.L.'s not a bad guy. He was framed.
I called it earlier.
Aww.
Coming out? Heh. But she's a cheerleader!
Hiro!
Dark Niki's gonna call the cops.
"It is how we roll."
Was that Niki at the poker game?
Guess so.
Aww.
9th Wonder - what was on the cover?
Does D.L. have a phasing power or is that a false lead?
Claire's parents. I suspect they're fakes.
Whoa.
What if Niki has super strength and MPD?
Mirror conversation a la Green Goblin.
Do-over. Rift?
So fake.
D.L.'s power coming up?
So is Niki dead?
Previously: Sawyer and Kate make out. Sun opens fire.
Desmond!
Battle of the accents.
Is there any hidden meaning to the cartoons?
Why *are* they here? Just to keep them out of the way.
It didn't work that way for the Losties, and yet there were leaders.
The sub is back? The one from the season 2 finale? (Alternately, who's the dom?)
Oh, it's the woman Sun shot. How'd they get her back, and what happened to Sun?
Sawyer sets a trap. Would the water actually make any difference?
Nonsubtle use of the episode title.
Oh, they're so good cop/bad cop.
What do you weigh? What are they planning now?
Heh. Don't fuck with the Benry.
This makes no sense. Why are the injecting into the heart?
Back on the beach.
New Lostie?
8-Bun.
Oh, bullshit. Easier to just slap on a band-aid and tell him there's a pacemaker. Sawyer's a con artist, he should want more confirmation.
Oh god, it's the "no peeking" scene.
That's still no proof. A shallow cut can do that.
Gratuitous back shot.
Does cold water lower your pulse? I don't remember that from swimming.
Back in the jail. Yeah, that's totally a con.
Sawyer's got a kid. Or it's another setup.
How old would she be now?
Time for Dr. Jack. Is that why they got Michael to bring him here?
Whose X-rays are they, then? And what's that spot, an implant?
Ew.
It's broken and Jack can't MacGyver something up?
Sucks to be you, Jack.
Almost as much as it sucks to be Sawyer.
God, talk about forcing the UST.
That's a setup.
Oh, just make out already.
C'mon, this is such a con. He always does the walk away to establish cred thing.
This is a very manufactured drama.
Oh, please.
Now she knows she can get out any time.
Three times in one episode?
And a gratuitous earlier title.
The Others make no sense.
What's in the center of Juliet's Dharma logo? The Hydra?
About 40? Sawyer at 35? Ben?
Desmond did travel through time, didn't he?
Wrapping up the flashback plot.
I totally called it.
Clementine Phillips? It's another scam, I bet.
"You're a free man." How cliche.
I totally called it again.
Oh, so now he's skeptical.
It's a second island? How come they never spotted it before?
Heh. Caged mice.
Looking up info on Heroes, I discover that I actually went to school with Masi Oka (Hiro). He was a couple years ahead of me and in the CS department, which I dropped out of freshman year, so unless he worked as a TA for the intro classes I probably never met him, but I'll take a couple degrees of separation.
