It's "Chloe Classic" vs "New Chloe" in a battle of the nerds!
Well, the Jack and Tony relationship got intimate in the second episode, so soon in the season. Is Tony not the main villain this season or is Tony not a villain at all? We'd like to think that like Jack, Tony will always do the right thing. Is he deep under cover trying to expose the governments involvement? .. I guess we'll see...
Ahhh yes, a staple sub-plot to any season of 24... the 'ol inter-office relationship. The overly concerned "are you ok" question was popped...
...and now on to the nerds at the FBI office. Ms. Garofalo has been plaing the nervous character while nerd #2 (forget his name) is playing the sterotypical arrogant nerd. Now if these two turn out to be more critical to the plot, then who would be pulling strings from the inside; the obvious jerk or the scared of her own shadow teckie? Seems like the 'ol character personality bait and switch may be a little too cliche for a show like 24 that tries to be on the cutting edge of shock but they do have a heavy track record for using recurring plot devices ... so as an early prediction I'm putting Ms. Garofalo on the "naughty list."
We got our villain for this season... Tony is back and this time he's got a score to settle. He's another one of those whisper actors... like Jack, everything he says is in a low raspy whisper voice... I think I'm going to start talking like that and then threaten to stab people in the ear with Bic pens if they don't listen to me.
Janeane Garofalo... who 'da thunk it? I guess she's our Chloe for the season... nervouse, on edge but with that witty sarcastic personality of hers. I thought she was going to turn to the camera and give us all a wink when she said she's a cheerful person who hates sarcasm...
"Jack, you're a dumbass just like my son Eric!"
Gearing up for the new season of 24 and so I just finally got around to watching 24: Redemption which brings me to the subject of product placement. Subtle placement is expected, hell, we've got products and logos all around us in real life and if they want to make TV shows realistic you expect them to be there but some of the product placement in this show was just downright in-your-face obnoxious! Especially the scenes on the Sprint/Nextel phones and the way they'd hold the phone in unnatural positions right up to the camera lens!
My discovery of AMC back in the mid-90's led to my discovery of a whole library of movies I had never seen and movie stars I barely knew. I could turn on AMC any hour of the day, any day of the week and knew there would be a movie worth watching and best of all they were shown in their original format, unedited and commercial free!
My list of favorite movies was rapidly changing to include His Girl Friday, All Quiet on the Western Front and All About Eve... I discovered who was ready for her close-up, who coulda been a contender, and why he didn't give a damn... That George Bailey had a 6' rabbit for a friend and was also a politician, a cowboy, and a clown... and it didn't matter if her name was Sabrina, Natasha or Golightly, her smile always had the same affect on me... that was AMC - before it changed.
How did AMC change? Commercials. Those annoying little advertisements changed everything that made AMC great, to what it is now...Another Mediocre Channel... how and why? Well let go through the progression:
"P-51! Cadillac of the sky!"
OH GOD MAKE IT STOP!!! Hot branding irons, ancient water torture, toothpicks under my fingernail, anything... just don't make me watch another episode of this horrid show! In a 15 second commercial it was funny but a TV show? That was the worst 24 minutes of television I've seen in a long time, and I thought K-Ville was bad! I'd rather have the Journeyman take me back to the time cavemen and leave me there then to watch another episode of this show! They just strung one lame stereotype after another and another and just kept it going - there was nothing funny AT ALL in this show...weak, Oh so weak...
The only thing that kept me from gouging my eyes out with a hot poker than to continue watching was Kaitlin Doubleday... very easy on the eyes...
So far I really like this show, it's Quantum Leap without the body snatching.
Moon Bloodgood's character of Dan's ex who had supposedly died 9 years earlier only to find out that she's still alive and somehow traveling through time herself adds some great curiosity dynamics to the show... where has she been? What does she do? What's her connection? etc... Hopefully the writers give you enough information to keep it interesting but also leave enough mystery to keep it interesting...
This weeks episode sucked Dan back to the cabin of an airplane in the 1970's and they didn't hold back on any 70's stereotype! Sexy stewardesses in mini skirts serving cans of Tab in a smoke filled cabin with "Get Down Tonight" by KC & The Sunshine Band blaring while people drank, talked, and walked around like it was a disco. Little kids playing with toy guns while doctors drank scotch and everybody oblivious to the needs of a pregnant woman in labor...
...and speaking of labor - they just had to so the woman's water breaking all over their feet and the floor (and now I'll share that image with you!) ... ahhhhh!
Eh, what can I say? Prison Break is Prison Break, it's about as realistic as an old Twilight Zone episode... What I'd like to know is what's up with Sarah? Budget cuts on the show or are they planning some kind of twist? They have yet to show her face. You see her in the photos but every time they've "shown" her and LJ (who have both been kidnapped) you see LJ's face but they never show Sarah. Only the back of her head or her legs - never her face. So are they just using a stand-in for her when shooting the show or are they not showing her face as part of the show's plot... Hmmmmm...
...back of her head when talking to Michael on the phone...
...just her feet and legs when getting into the van... Hmmmmm....
...and this? Well, this is just disturbing...Much better this week!
Sad little Hiro, unable to take credit and kiss the "princess"
...and this little piggie went "wee, wee, wee" all the way home!
Claire's toe growing back... nice!
...oh hey, another BG sighting in this show - Aaron Douglas
Complaint Newsflash ... I'm still in the middle of watching the show and they just did that whole, youngster is pissed off because the adult abandoned them and although everything can be fixed with a simple explanation but for some rease they just can't say it... such BS....
"What do you want from me?"
"Honestly I'm not sure."
Well neither do the viewers! Why is Starbuck beating up Bionic woman #2? We don't know, they don't know, the writers don't even know, I guess they just thought it would make for a cool chick fight scene....
Hiro's "hero" turns out to be a fast talking English con man - of course I'm sure Hiro will show him the error of his ways and compel him into becoming a better person and becoming the "hero" he's meant to be - why do I say this? Because it's the cliche thing to do and this show has no real imagination...
Hmmm... they don't usually stick a sexy-chickie-baby like this into a show unless they plan on expanding the character... love interest for Hiro of the reason for the English samurai to change his selfish ways - the way this show plays I see it only going one of these two ways....
Just a few examples:
OK - The new tv season has started and after a year and a half of of absence from posting to this blog I have come back. Not out of boredom but out of necessity... the few series premiers that I've seen so far have been so bad that I have to find some way to vent!!! But this time to make it a bit easier and quicker to keep up with my blogging I won't be doing my own screen captures for every show...
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