Slumber Bummer, Special Delivery, & Supernatural Thoughts
► Just woke up from a 4 hour nap. I'm surprised I managed to fall asleep, because this week I've been having a hard time getting any. Lately I can't seem to drift off, my nerves too jangled, and when I do finally lose consciousness, it's a restless sleep that I keep flowing in and out of. And usually not for long. I'd love to get a nice 8 hours rest.
I suppose I could blame this on the changing weather. And the liberal media.
► Got my books yesterday morning! They showed up, via UPS, at 10:10am. I was less than 1 minute from finishing the movie Cronos. Horror movie books while watching a horror movie. Awesome. The books are beautiful. I was flipping through them, looking at each page, and before I knew it, 3 hours had passed.
I likey my new books.► Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror
► Hammer Glamour
I'm a bit surprised though that the packaged arrived through UPS. Granted I haven't ordered from the Canadian Amazon in 4 years, but I'm surprised that an American company delivered it when it originated in Canada, and when I order from the American Amazon my packages arrive through a Canadian delivery company (Purolator Courier). That's just weird.
► Last week jkarabella and I were discussing how TV shows, when they become successful and last several seasons, tend to mutate over time. I'm not necessarily referring to jumping the shark, but often shows will start deviating from what made them so great when they started, and lose that original appeal. A show's success and evolving continuity eventually just overtakes the original intent of a series.
The conversation was prompted by medical drama House, and how the show has slowly become more of a melodrama with constant refocusing of stories and plots around the ever growing cast. What made House so fun when it started was just watching an incredibly obnoxious and childish doctor insulting his patients and treating diagnosis as a murder mystery. That's slowly eroding away.
My big concern, however, is with the horror show Supernatural. When it started, Supernatural was a fun episodic show about 2 brothers traveling across America in a muscle car, dispatching random ghosts and monsters to a heavy metal soundtrack. It was fun, and exactly what I wanted. Each season had an over arcing plot, but it didn't get in the way of the episodic nature of the show and the original appeal. But last season the arcs became more and more the focus. Now the show is about 2 brothers fighting a war with demons and angels, trying to stop Lucifer from bringing about the Apocalypse.
It's still good, but now each episode seems to just be demons and angels, demons and angels. It's just getting exhausting, and I'm worried that the show will collapse under the weight of it's own plot. Looking at a list of the first 7 episodes of this season, only 1 doesn't revolve around demons and angels. Really, what made the show so great was and is the interplay between Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. My big hope is that if the show does return for a 6th season next year, I hope it'll be "back to basics" and return to being about the camaraderie of the 2 brothers fighting weekly monster threats, maybe with a smaller arcing threat.
One can hope.
► Scariest Villains Ever: Bears! - Bears are awesome.
► New Line Developing Vacation sequel - Apparently the idea for the sequel would have Rusty grown up and again played by Anthony Michael Hall (from the original movie) taking his own family on a vacation trip. That's fine and all (and Hall is a terrific dramatic actor), but I just can't fathom a Vacation movie not focusing on Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. The movies (well the 2 good ones: Vacation and Christmas Vacation) succeeded because of Chase's slow unraveling mania as Clark W. Griswold.
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Quote of the Moment
Sean: If we pull this off, I'm gonna shit!
- The Monster Squad (1987)
Drinking: water
Last Watched: Rumble In The Bronx (1995); Willard (2003); Cronos (1993); Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005); The Baxter (2005);
I suppose I could blame this on the changing weather. And the liberal media.
► Got my books yesterday morning! They showed up, via UPS, at 10:10am. I was less than 1 minute from finishing the movie Cronos. Horror movie books while watching a horror movie. Awesome. The books are beautiful. I was flipping through them, looking at each page, and before I knew it, 3 hours had passed.
I likey my new books.► Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror
► Hammer Glamour
I'm a bit surprised though that the packaged arrived through UPS. Granted I haven't ordered from the Canadian Amazon in 4 years, but I'm surprised that an American company delivered it when it originated in Canada, and when I order from the American Amazon my packages arrive through a Canadian delivery company (Purolator Courier). That's just weird.
► Last week jkarabella and I were discussing how TV shows, when they become successful and last several seasons, tend to mutate over time. I'm not necessarily referring to jumping the shark, but often shows will start deviating from what made them so great when they started, and lose that original appeal. A show's success and evolving continuity eventually just overtakes the original intent of a series.
The conversation was prompted by medical drama House, and how the show has slowly become more of a melodrama with constant refocusing of stories and plots around the ever growing cast. What made House so fun when it started was just watching an incredibly obnoxious and childish doctor insulting his patients and treating diagnosis as a murder mystery. That's slowly eroding away.
My big concern, however, is with the horror show Supernatural. When it started, Supernatural was a fun episodic show about 2 brothers traveling across America in a muscle car, dispatching random ghosts and monsters to a heavy metal soundtrack. It was fun, and exactly what I wanted. Each season had an over arcing plot, but it didn't get in the way of the episodic nature of the show and the original appeal. But last season the arcs became more and more the focus. Now the show is about 2 brothers fighting a war with demons and angels, trying to stop Lucifer from bringing about the Apocalypse.
It's still good, but now each episode seems to just be demons and angels, demons and angels. It's just getting exhausting, and I'm worried that the show will collapse under the weight of it's own plot. Looking at a list of the first 7 episodes of this season, only 1 doesn't revolve around demons and angels. Really, what made the show so great was and is the interplay between Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. My big hope is that if the show does return for a 6th season next year, I hope it'll be "back to basics" and return to being about the camaraderie of the 2 brothers fighting weekly monster threats, maybe with a smaller arcing threat.
One can hope.
► Scariest Villains Ever: Bears! - Bears are awesome.
► New Line Developing Vacation sequel - Apparently the idea for the sequel would have Rusty grown up and again played by Anthony Michael Hall (from the original movie) taking his own family on a vacation trip. That's fine and all (and Hall is a terrific dramatic actor), but I just can't fathom a Vacation movie not focusing on Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. The movies (well the 2 good ones: Vacation and Christmas Vacation) succeeded because of Chase's slow unraveling mania as Clark W. Griswold.
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Quote of the Moment
Sean: If we pull this off, I'm gonna shit!
- The Monster Squad (1987)
Drinking: water
Last Watched: Rumble In The Bronx (1995); Willard (2003); Cronos (1993); Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005); The Baxter (2005);