OMFG Heroes.
I know it's just the novelty combined with anticipation more than fulfilled, but that just seemed to be the best episode of television I'd ever seen. I mean, I know it's not; upon only mild further reflection, it's still got a bunch of problems. But gee whilikers... my heart was still pounding an hour after the show was finished.
That was the shit right there. Wow. Battlestar Galactica, the gloves are off; we're starting to range into third-season Babylon 5 territory here. I wish all genre adventure TV could be like this. BSG is a very adult show with very adult themes; Heroes is total teenage fantasy - but still. I'm not about to walk away from BSG, but like I said - the stakes are now very, very high. I know that a large part of it is the difference between watching something on a 21-inch television screen, as opposed to a 350x500 Quicktime window on a 15-inch monitor... but there's not much I can do about that right now.
Oh dear, now I actually do want to see ROCKY BALBOA. Bastards. I think this was a very shrewd marketing move - get half the country in love with Milo Ventimiglia through this show, and then open ROCKY BALBOA just after a gigantic, gut-wrenching cliffhanger that leads to a seven-week hiatus. Very, very well played, Stallone and NBC-Universal.
I'll write a proper review once I've had a chance to watch it a second time.
48 days till the next episode. Crap.
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On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know if anyone's done a mash-up of Placebo's "Taste In Men" and Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion"? They are similar enough for me to think that Molko&Crew were just jamming playing "Sweet Emotion" and then began writing from there. I know a lot of my pals are way more hardcore Placebo fans than I am, and they might know things I don't...
That was the shit right there. Wow. Battlestar Galactica, the gloves are off; we're starting to range into third-season Babylon 5 territory here. I wish all genre adventure TV could be like this. BSG is a very adult show with very adult themes; Heroes is total teenage fantasy - but still. I'm not about to walk away from BSG, but like I said - the stakes are now very, very high. I know that a large part of it is the difference between watching something on a 21-inch television screen, as opposed to a 350x500 Quicktime window on a 15-inch monitor... but there's not much I can do about that right now.
Oh dear, now I actually do want to see ROCKY BALBOA. Bastards. I think this was a very shrewd marketing move - get half the country in love with Milo Ventimiglia through this show, and then open ROCKY BALBOA just after a gigantic, gut-wrenching cliffhanger that leads to a seven-week hiatus. Very, very well played, Stallone and NBC-Universal.
I'll write a proper review once I've had a chance to watch it a second time.
48 days till the next episode. Crap.
--
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know if anyone's done a mash-up of Placebo's "Taste In Men" and Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion"? They are similar enough for me to think that Molko&Crew were just jamming playing "Sweet Emotion" and then began writing from there. I know a lot of my pals are way more hardcore Placebo fans than I am, and they might know things I don't...