I wanted to like Painkiller Jane because I'm hardly watching any genre shows anymore and I miss it. While I didn't hate it as much as you did, I thought it was amateurish and the look of it was horrible.
I'm not sure, but I think that the first two episodes of Drive are airing tonight and the third episode is tomorrow. At least that's what I'm hoping since I watched the first two yesterday and was hoping to watch the third one on Tuesday.
Painkiller Jane just felt like a mishmash of things other shows--Dark Angel, the Buffy initiative plotline, Alias, etc. etc.--had done better. But I think its biggest failure was that Jane didn't come across as someone I could care about at all.
You may be right about Drive; TiVO sometimes treats episodes that run together as blocks (like the premiere for BSG this past season), so it may be registering two episodes as a two-hour episode.
Jack was even bitchy with the replicators! I like his world-weariness, his been-there-done-that attitude toward robots sticking their hands in his head; it was a nice contrast to Woolsey, the civilian who was so obviously out of his league, and a good support for the fakeout where they used Woolsey to misinform the replicators.Jack and Woolsey made such a great comedy team. I enjoyed pretty much everything with the two of them immensely
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I've been grooving for awhile on the idea that he's just meant to be "the guy who really makes you miss General Hammond,"
Sadly, I think we are genuinely supposed to like and respect Landry and feel like he's a good guy making tough calls. Without getting spoilery, I will just say that this becomes even more problematic as the season goes on.
Baal's probably the most interesting Goa'uld adversary; Apophis was so cheesy (which, don't get me wrong, I love his gold lame'd bad self for) and Anubis was too comic-book evil, but Baal has some layers.
I meant to watch Painkiller Jane, then went out that night and forgot about it. It seems I made a narrow escape, huh?
The book list is very safe, and very predictable. Did you see UsaToday's list of the 20 (or maybe 25) most influential books of the past 20 years? I understood why they made the choices they did, but it was depressing. Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus, for example. Books that impacted the culture, but not *good* books.
A frighteningly large percentage of books on that list have been read by my book club over the past 19 years. It seems to be missing "The Corrections," though, which surprises me. Maybe they got scared off by the Oprah dust-up?
Anyway, it could have been worse--at least they included Adrian Mole and Bridget Jones.
Given that the list is a pretty fair survey of books that made a certain-sized splash in the reading world, I'm sure a lot of book clubs read them. The thing that interests me is that the splash seems to be much more of a common denominator than any other measure of quality; there are some genuinely good, interesting, and innovative books on the list, but only ones with significant sales (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Cloud Atlas). And then there's The DaVinci Code.
(Since it was a survey of British booksellers, it's possible The Corrections just didn't make much of an impression outside America?)
The biggest problem I had with PKJ was the beginning. The explanation of her nickname from her father made zero sense. And when you set up an Important Childhood Foreshadowing, it really helps to have it make sense.
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I'm not sure, but I think that the first two episodes of Drive are airing tonight and the third episode is tomorrow. At least that's what I'm hoping since I watched the first two yesterday and was hoping to watch the third one on Tuesday.
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You may be right about Drive; TiVO sometimes treats episodes that run together as blocks (like the premiere for BSG this past season), so it may be registering two episodes as a two-hour episode.
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Sadly, I think we are genuinely supposed to like and respect Landry and feel like he's a good guy making tough calls. Without getting spoilery, I will just say that this becomes even more problematic as the season goes on.
Baal's probably the most interesting Goa'uld adversary; Apophis was so cheesy (which, don't get me wrong, I love his gold lame'd bad self for) and Anubis was too comic-book evil, but Baal has some layers.
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The book list is very safe, and very predictable. Did you see UsaToday's list of the 20 (or maybe 25) most influential books of the past 20 years? I understood why they made the choices they did, but it was depressing. Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus, for example. Books that impacted the culture, but not *good* books.
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I don't think "dodged a bullet" is too strong a term.
Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus, for example. Books that impacted the culture, but not *good* books.
I didn't see that list, but it sounds rather depressing. (The fact that so much schlock impacts our culture is not something I like contemplating.)
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Anyway, it could have been worse--at least they included Adrian Mole and Bridget Jones.
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(Since it was a survey of British booksellers, it's possible The Corrections just didn't make much of an impression outside America?)
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