don't touch that dial
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sabfig. 1, fleshverse:
> Draft #2 of my Bones spec script is due Tuesday to my WBC instructors, and then another script conference and then, whatever, fixing/shopping.
> I'm doing a pitch for a rewrite of this mafia feature film for a production company, also due next week. If the producer likes my rewrite concepts, it's contract and money FTW!
> They shut my power off.
> The sky is white-orange, the air is hot and dry, coughs and nosebleeds, chapped lips and hot nights with no breeze. I had to use the air conditioner a couple days this week. MAN it's a shame they shut my power off. The fires continue to burn, and while I'm not actually in any direct threat (it would take some doing for a fire to make it to the center of Hollywood, considering the only fuel we've got besides asphalt and concrete are emaciated palm trees and people in cars) we are all definitely aware that our city's on fire. Still, I can cure what ails me with a bottle of water and some moisturizer; salute to the folks who lost their homes.
fig. 2, tvverse:
> With the cancellation of Viva Laughlin and my inability to find any more episodes of Dirty Sexy Money, it turns out that Sarah Jane Adventures might be the only new show that sticks for me this year. I had big hopes for Pushing Daisies, because the cast is phenom (srsly! Kristen Chenoweth breaking into song! Swoosie Kurtz and that chick who was in Little Shop of Horrors, with eye patches and cheese!), but the conceits (to use a WBC term) are exhausting me. I mean, how stylized can a person be before collapsing into a pile of cliche? In related news, a conversation:
ME: I think Pushing Daisies is going to regret having such a stylized narrator. I don't see how they can sustain it.
SR: They should bring him into the story and then kill him!
ME: Like in Into The Woods!
SR: See? There's precedent!
Dear LJ friends, I defy you to tell me that's not the greatest idea EVER.
> As far as continuing shows, SGA is pleasing me (hooray, Jewel Staite!), NCIS is pleasing me (though, new girl? New girl with OCD? Really, this is the shark we're jumping? She better be an evil mole like wossname, the lab assistant with the mustache) and seems to be setting up Torri Higginson for a relationship with Ducky, which would be the best use of Torri since, um, something that wasn't SGA. On the other hand, this Ziva-pining-for-Tony thing better payoff, preferably with a wrestling match, sooner rather than later. Bones is pleasing me greatly and my love for Cam deepens with every episode, and House is doing a REALITY SHOW. Seriously, this voting-off-the-island storyline House is using to find new team members is possibly the best device I've seen on television for a long while. God, I hope it whittles down to three (two? now that Foreman's back?) in true reality style, without any surprise disqualifications or non-Survivorish exiles. I mean, Anne Dudek vs. Thirteen in a fire-making tie in front of tribal council? I'd pay money. And if they bring back the rejects for tribal council? Even BETTER.
> Stacie from Hustle was on Dexter! And what's more they seem to be setting her up for an arc! Now, which one of you was supposed to be responsible for telling me these things? *looks around suspiciously* I mean, seriously? When she turned around in the AA meeting and looked at him over her shoulder, who among us didn't think, "is she roping him for a con???" And I tell ya, if she IS, I'll pay even MORE money than I would for the House thing. Man, I'm gonna need some money.
> HIMYM? Need I say more? I got the DVDs and watched all the bonus footage from seasons 1 and 2. Commentaries! Blooper reels! Totally worth it! And here's a little Neil Patrick Harris bedtime story:
So, in the commentary for the ep where Wayne Brady plays NPH's (gay, black) brother, NPH remarks that during the shooting of this ep he also happened to be going through his own "personal badness," when the tabloids were outing him and so on. NPH is careful to use nonspecific terms for his media confrontation, and never actually suggests any gayness in the commentary track except to note that the "irony wasn't lost" when it came down to shooting this big gay ep. And seasons come and go, people marry and die, and at the end of the commentary, whoever the chick was in the commentary (the writer of the ep) comments that she, like many women, always finds herself falling in love with great guys who turn out to be gay. "Sorry," says NPH, the one hint of self-outing in the DVD. Who do you think noticed? Do you think he's stressing about it at home?
> The Office, so far so good! Angela, Dwight, Andy = masters of the awesomeverse. Jim/Pam = so far used very effectively! In conclusion = let's see how it plays out.
> Reaper, Life, Chuck, Private Practice, etc etc = I am not watching any of these shows. I am not watching any new shows other than the ones mentioned above. But if you are, you should feel free to try and pimp me; I trust you. But I'll tell you right now that there's probably not a chance in hell I'll watch that Addison show.
> Draft #2 of my Bones spec script is due Tuesday to my WBC instructors, and then another script conference and then, whatever, fixing/shopping.
> I'm doing a pitch for a rewrite of this mafia feature film for a production company, also due next week. If the producer likes my rewrite concepts, it's contract and money FTW!
> They shut my power off.
> The sky is white-orange, the air is hot and dry, coughs and nosebleeds, chapped lips and hot nights with no breeze. I had to use the air conditioner a couple days this week. MAN it's a shame they shut my power off. The fires continue to burn, and while I'm not actually in any direct threat (it would take some doing for a fire to make it to the center of Hollywood, considering the only fuel we've got besides asphalt and concrete are emaciated palm trees and people in cars) we are all definitely aware that our city's on fire. Still, I can cure what ails me with a bottle of water and some moisturizer; salute to the folks who lost their homes.
fig. 2, tvverse:
> With the cancellation of Viva Laughlin and my inability to find any more episodes of Dirty Sexy Money, it turns out that Sarah Jane Adventures might be the only new show that sticks for me this year. I had big hopes for Pushing Daisies, because the cast is phenom (srsly! Kristen Chenoweth breaking into song! Swoosie Kurtz and that chick who was in Little Shop of Horrors, with eye patches and cheese!), but the conceits (to use a WBC term) are exhausting me. I mean, how stylized can a person be before collapsing into a pile of cliche? In related news, a conversation:
ME: I think Pushing Daisies is going to regret having such a stylized narrator. I don't see how they can sustain it.
SR: They should bring him into the story and then kill him!
ME: Like in Into The Woods!
SR: See? There's precedent!
Dear LJ friends, I defy you to tell me that's not the greatest idea EVER.
> As far as continuing shows, SGA is pleasing me (hooray, Jewel Staite!), NCIS is pleasing me (though, new girl? New girl with OCD? Really, this is the shark we're jumping? She better be an evil mole like wossname, the lab assistant with the mustache) and seems to be setting up Torri Higginson for a relationship with Ducky, which would be the best use of Torri since, um, something that wasn't SGA. On the other hand, this Ziva-pining-for-Tony thing better payoff, preferably with a wrestling match, sooner rather than later. Bones is pleasing me greatly and my love for Cam deepens with every episode, and House is doing a REALITY SHOW. Seriously, this voting-off-the-island storyline House is using to find new team members is possibly the best device I've seen on television for a long while. God, I hope it whittles down to three (two? now that Foreman's back?) in true reality style, without any surprise disqualifications or non-Survivorish exiles. I mean, Anne Dudek vs. Thirteen in a fire-making tie in front of tribal council? I'd pay money. And if they bring back the rejects for tribal council? Even BETTER.
> Stacie from Hustle was on Dexter! And what's more they seem to be setting her up for an arc! Now, which one of you was supposed to be responsible for telling me these things? *looks around suspiciously* I mean, seriously? When she turned around in the AA meeting and looked at him over her shoulder, who among us didn't think, "is she roping him for a con???" And I tell ya, if she IS, I'll pay even MORE money than I would for the House thing. Man, I'm gonna need some money.
> HIMYM? Need I say more? I got the DVDs and watched all the bonus footage from seasons 1 and 2. Commentaries! Blooper reels! Totally worth it! And here's a little Neil Patrick Harris bedtime story:
So, in the commentary for the ep where Wayne Brady plays NPH's (gay, black) brother, NPH remarks that during the shooting of this ep he also happened to be going through his own "personal badness," when the tabloids were outing him and so on. NPH is careful to use nonspecific terms for his media confrontation, and never actually suggests any gayness in the commentary track except to note that the "irony wasn't lost" when it came down to shooting this big gay ep. And seasons come and go, people marry and die, and at the end of the commentary, whoever the chick was in the commentary (the writer of the ep) comments that she, like many women, always finds herself falling in love with great guys who turn out to be gay. "Sorry," says NPH, the one hint of self-outing in the DVD. Who do you think noticed? Do you think he's stressing about it at home?
> The Office, so far so good! Angela, Dwight, Andy = masters of the awesomeverse. Jim/Pam = so far used very effectively! In conclusion = let's see how it plays out.
> Reaper, Life, Chuck, Private Practice, etc etc = I am not watching any of these shows. I am not watching any new shows other than the ones mentioned above. But if you are, you should feel free to try and pimp me; I trust you. But I'll tell you right now that there's probably not a chance in hell I'll watch that Addison show.
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Date: 2007-10-25 11:34 pm (UTC)Pushing Daisies irritated me in theory from the first time I heard about it, so I elected not to watch it (we were very careful about which new shows we added). If Reaper gets canceled, that will leave us with HIMYM, Bones, Office and 30 Rock, a tidy, manageable 2.5 hours (until Lost and BSG come back, anyhow). Obviously, me + light-hearted comedies/dramadies ftw (we were watching Ugly Betty with love last season, but haven't gotten around to watching this season's Tivo'd eps yet).
I remain amazed that Office is still good. It was very, very close to Not Good last season, and scared me in the premiere, but they're pulling the tailspin around. Unlike, say, Heroes.
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Date: 2007-10-25 11:41 pm (UTC)ME: I think Pushing Daisies is going to regret having such a stylized narrator. I don't see how they can sustain it.
SR: They should bring him into the story and then kill him!
ME: Like in Into The Woods!
SR: See? There's precedent!
Y'all are totally not going to support my love for this show, and my odd ability to filter out the narration are you:)?
I think I keep expecting it to only run for 7 or 8 episodes, so I think it's part of the charm (I love it. I still, pick up in mind, do not think it can sustain itself with the stylization for 22 episodes). That being said, I also keep hoping the narration will cut back from week to week. Still, it makes me happy, and it pairs beautifully with Dirty, Sexy, Money and Dexter as my need to see shows of the week (Earl is his own category, of course).
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Date: 2007-10-26 02:13 am (UTC)And another of my flist summed up part of its attraction for me - I really LIKE all the characters. Which is good! The weekly villans can be bad, but the core cast? I enjoy them!
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Date: 2007-10-26 04:04 am (UTC)That said, it's not GREAT, but it is very good. Dare I saw, awesome?
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Date: 2007-10-26 11:15 am (UTC)I'm wondering why you keep watching Sarah Jane? I also do, but more and more disappointedly. The pilot was better and more enjoyable than TW for me, but now it seems dumbed down and stereotyped (but I keep hoping for a turn around :)), no?
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Date: 2007-10-26 01:36 pm (UTC)Heee! I have a not-so-secret love for narrators, so they better keep him around. And PD has been picked up for 22 episodes. \o/
PP is very very crappy. And I really wanted to like it. :(
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Date: 2007-10-26 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 03:43 pm (UTC)The narrator for Pushing Daisies should be the Dead Person of the Week in the season finale. That would be so much fun.