I might be a sap, but I know good TV when I see it
Warm-body duty again, this time in another office, down on Wall Street. As cubes go, this is pretty nice, because I've got a window that looks out onto a slice of the river. No one expects me to do much except for answer the occasional phone. Which is fine. I'm really glad I've got freelance work I can do simultaneously.
This weekend was the second weekend in a row where someone canceled on plans to go sing karaoke. I am suffering from karaoke withdrawal, especially since I found out that the place we were going got a whole bunch of Erasure songs.
To be fair, it wasn't my friend's fault--she had a terrible headache. We ended up hanging out anyway, fulfilling the second part of our plans, which was to watch Tomorrow People DVDs. We loved the opening credits, especially the part where this hand (meant to represent the human mind) kept doing these wacky motions with its fingers. But it all went downhill from there.
You know, I think Nickelodeon mostly showed the later seasons of the show, although I do remember getting to watch the very first episode at one point. I remember the later episodes as being more broadly humorous (Peter Davidson as a space hillbilly, giant Rover-like bubbles that turned themselves into jumpsuits, and so on), but what I don't remember is the pacing being so SLOW. We watched the first three story arcs (SLAVES OF JEDEKIAH, THE MEDUSA STRAIN, THE VANISHING EARTH) and everything just took forever to happen. Plus, the Tomorrow People's reaction times just sucked. There were a whole bunch of times where they could have jaunted out of trouble; instead, they did this deer-in-the-headlights thing and got shot. The actress who played Carol was humorously awful, and it was difficult to understand Kenny--it was his accent, a speech impediment, or both. Steven wasn't a bad actor, and neither was John. I totally don't remember John being so cute. Either the show had really low casting standards or it was the career kiss-of-death for these actors, because imdb showed that none of the Tomorrow People ever got any roles afterward.
Interestingly, the actors who were in the 1990's remake of the show (did anyone other than me watch that?) all went on to have fabulous careers, with roles in the new BSG and the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here.
This weekend was the second weekend in a row where someone canceled on plans to go sing karaoke. I am suffering from karaoke withdrawal, especially since I found out that the place we were going got a whole bunch of Erasure songs.
To be fair, it wasn't my friend's fault--she had a terrible headache. We ended up hanging out anyway, fulfilling the second part of our plans, which was to watch Tomorrow People DVDs. We loved the opening credits, especially the part where this hand (meant to represent the human mind) kept doing these wacky motions with its fingers. But it all went downhill from there.
You know, I think Nickelodeon mostly showed the later seasons of the show, although I do remember getting to watch the very first episode at one point. I remember the later episodes as being more broadly humorous (Peter Davidson as a space hillbilly, giant Rover-like bubbles that turned themselves into jumpsuits, and so on), but what I don't remember is the pacing being so SLOW. We watched the first three story arcs (SLAVES OF JEDEKIAH, THE MEDUSA STRAIN, THE VANISHING EARTH) and everything just took forever to happen. Plus, the Tomorrow People's reaction times just sucked. There were a whole bunch of times where they could have jaunted out of trouble; instead, they did this deer-in-the-headlights thing and got shot. The actress who played Carol was humorously awful, and it was difficult to understand Kenny--it was his accent, a speech impediment, or both. Steven wasn't a bad actor, and neither was John. I totally don't remember John being so cute. Either the show had really low casting standards or it was the career kiss-of-death for these actors, because imdb showed that none of the Tomorrow People ever got any roles afterward.
Interestingly, the actors who were in the 1990's remake of the show (did anyone other than me watch that?) all went on to have fabulous careers, with roles in the new BSG and the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here.