And the losers are ... the Emmy Awards
OK, since when are the Emmys on in August, and how come I didn't see the new date advertised? *sigh* It's just as well I just missed them (by about five minutes, in fact) because I see by the results on the front page of the IMDb they totally ignored Lost, along with Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn. (On the other hand, I'm not even a big fan of his, but I think Josh Holloway should have been nominated over Matthew Fox. Sawyer's character developed the most over the past six seasons, and Josh had me totally convinced; I thought he was a one-trick pony till this past season. And what about Jorge Garcia, dude?)
Sure I'm glad The Daily Show won, but with this being its eighth consecutive win, it's small consolation. And congrats to Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory, although I see it as an ensemble cast, and all the actors on that show deserve equal acclaim. The only good thing I can see about this year's awards is that True Blood didn't win anything either, nor did it deserve to. (To say it "sucks" is to stoop to its level. Yet ... I must confess to watching it as a guilty pleasure. Very guilty. Once I stopped taking it seriously and saw it for the bad comic book series that it is, though it's never once to my knowledge given a nod to the show to which it owes all its derivative cheesiness to: the original Dark Shadows. Besides, Sam is cute.)
So what's all the hype about Mad Men, and how could it possibly compare to Lost? I actually missed the Emmys and True Blood tonight cuz I went to see the over-hyped Inception (a slow-moving, car-chase/explosion/FX-ridden/WTF Lost wanna-be), which nearly put me into a Level 4 coma. (My own dreams deserve an Oscar compared to that yawnfest, and I couldn't stop looking at my "watch"--that is, my muted cell phone--starting about an hour into it. Unlike someone who recommended it to me, I didn't want a remote control to rewind it; I just wanted to fast forward for about the last half hour. It was like watching that never-ending battle scene in Lord of the Rings with the giant elephants stepping on people and throwing rocks at clifftop castles, which was far less exciting than watching paint dry. Not to mention ... am I the only person who can never understand a word Ken Wantanabe says--in English at least?) It figures it was directed by Christopher Nolan, who turned Batman into a car-chase/explosion/FX/gloom-ridden snorefest. Apart from the Heath Ledger scenes, he owes me a lot of hours of my life I'll never get back. Oh well, it's my own fault. I should know by now I'm never going to enjoy a Leonardo Di Caprio movie unless he's being handcuffed to a pole in the bottom of a sinking ocean liner and punched in the stomach by David Warner.)
PS: Why am I the first person on my f-list to post anything about this? Where is the outrage??? (*checks my User Info page to see if you've all de-friended me*)
Sure I'm glad The Daily Show won, but with this being its eighth consecutive win, it's small consolation. And congrats to Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory, although I see it as an ensemble cast, and all the actors on that show deserve equal acclaim. The only good thing I can see about this year's awards is that True Blood didn't win anything either, nor did it deserve to. (To say it "sucks" is to stoop to its level. Yet ... I must confess to watching it as a guilty pleasure. Very guilty. Once I stopped taking it seriously and saw it for the bad comic book series that it is, though it's never once to my knowledge given a nod to the show to which it owes all its derivative cheesiness to: the original Dark Shadows. Besides, Sam is cute.)
So what's all the hype about Mad Men, and how could it possibly compare to Lost? I actually missed the Emmys and True Blood tonight cuz I went to see the over-hyped Inception (a slow-moving, car-chase/explosion/FX-ridden/WTF Lost wanna-be), which nearly put me into a Level 4 coma. (My own dreams deserve an Oscar compared to that yawnfest, and I couldn't stop looking at my "watch"--that is, my muted cell phone--starting about an hour into it. Unlike someone who recommended it to me, I didn't want a remote control to rewind it; I just wanted to fast forward for about the last half hour. It was like watching that never-ending battle scene in Lord of the Rings with the giant elephants stepping on people and throwing rocks at clifftop castles, which was far less exciting than watching paint dry. Not to mention ... am I the only person who can never understand a word Ken Wantanabe says--in English at least?) It figures it was directed by Christopher Nolan, who turned Batman into a car-chase/explosion/FX/gloom-ridden snorefest. Apart from the Heath Ledger scenes, he owes me a lot of hours of my life I'll never get back. Oh well, it's my own fault. I should know by now I'm never going to enjoy a Leonardo Di Caprio movie unless he's being handcuffed to a pole in the bottom of a sinking ocean liner and punched in the stomach by David Warner.)
PS: Why am I the first person on my f-list to post anything about this? Where is the outrage??? (*checks my User Info page to see if you've all de-friended me*)