more fall TV
As I've spent the last two days looking at houses, I'll now write about the TV I watched last week:
Chuck: Figured I'd hate it. Lame concept. Unrealistic computer crap. But (1) it's actually funny and (2) it's got Adam Baldwin in it. So I'll watch it for a while at least.
Pushing Daisies: From Bryan Fuller. Very stylistic. They got some casting wrong, I think. I predict cancellation within four episodes. We could use more fairy tale stories on TV though. And that's what this is: told as a fairy tale.
Bionic Woman: Figured I'd love it. And I did love parts of it. The appearances and cameos from BSG players, for instance. Other parts. . . less so. This wasn't a finalized version. . . some VFX shots were missing, and I doubt they music they used in one fight scene is final (it fits, but TV shows tend not to use THAT music).
A common theme in Chuck and Bionic Woman has to do with some cultural changes we've gone through in the last little while, I think. I think I can talk about it here without giving too much away. What we've got are the little guys realizing that they've got power and they can tell the big organizations what to do on their terms. I'm wondering if it's not a reflection of the way employees no longer stay with a company for thirty years and then retire. Instead, they shift from one company to the next, looking for the best deal and the best environment. The talent rules all, and it's being reflected in these shows. This is very different from what we had in. . . geez. . . The Invisible Man comes in off the top of my head, that sad little Sci-Fi Original programming show. We are no longer the little replaceable cogs in the corporate machine. We have self-determination and choose where we wish to fit in.
Chuck: Figured I'd hate it. Lame concept. Unrealistic computer crap. But (1) it's actually funny and (2) it's got Adam Baldwin in it. So I'll watch it for a while at least.
Pushing Daisies: From Bryan Fuller. Very stylistic. They got some casting wrong, I think. I predict cancellation within four episodes. We could use more fairy tale stories on TV though. And that's what this is: told as a fairy tale.
Bionic Woman: Figured I'd love it. And I did love parts of it. The appearances and cameos from BSG players, for instance. Other parts. . . less so. This wasn't a finalized version. . . some VFX shots were missing, and I doubt they music they used in one fight scene is final (it fits, but TV shows tend not to use THAT music).
A common theme in Chuck and Bionic Woman has to do with some cultural changes we've gone through in the last little while, I think. I think I can talk about it here without giving too much away. What we've got are the little guys realizing that they've got power and they can tell the big organizations what to do on their terms. I'm wondering if it's not a reflection of the way employees no longer stay with a company for thirty years and then retire. Instead, they shift from one company to the next, looking for the best deal and the best environment. The talent rules all, and it's being reflected in these shows. This is very different from what we had in. . . geez. . . The Invisible Man comes in off the top of my head, that sad little Sci-Fi Original programming show. We are no longer the little replaceable cogs in the corporate machine. We have self-determination and choose where we wish to fit in.