Updates, Flashforwarding, and other errata

[mariness]

The general blogging silence over the past few days has been to spare you, my mostly innocent readers, from a stream of constant entries running more or less like this

Comments

[ron_drummond]

Thanks for the wonderfully witty dissection of Flash Forward. I've only seen the 18-minute sneak on the ABC website, since I don't have an honest to badness TV set, but the highlight of those first 18 minutes (unlike Nixon's gap) was definitely the kangaroo. Makes you wonder how or if they'll figure the kangaroo in later. Of course my guess is, when the kangaroo saw its own future, it was jumping over a shark. You heard it here first.

Hope your knee and flow of water get better soonest.

[mariness]

The show would reach dramatic greatness if it features a kangaroo every single episode. If the kangaroo jumps over a shark on the April 29th episode, it will pass into legend. I feel certain this will not happen.

Water flow has been completely fixed; knee is getting there. Hopefully soon.

[ron_drummond]

Absolutely, as long as the kangaroo remains both mysterious and uncommented-upon by the human characters -- just bouncing briefly through a scene, without fuss. And then yes, have the kangaroo jump the shark on the 29th -- a great leap!

Thanks for the hulu tip. Glad life's primal prerequisite has been restored.

[mariness]

Oh, and both shows are up on Hulu.com, which is where I watched them - we have a TV but it only gets three channels, and those only with coaxing. We haven't actually used it as regular TV since last November, although we watch a lot of DVDs.

[wyldemusick]

I continue to successfully avoid watching HEROES. I did, however, give in and watch SMALLVILLE, which was notable chiefly for WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO ERICA DURANCE'S HAIR?! and Callum Blue doing his best to be Major (not General) Zod and failing rather sadly (the problem is that he lacks the gravitas that someone like Terence Stamp brought; the second problem is that he looks like an aging London punk, no matter how many sharp fighting moves they give him.) Oh, and there was the Clark/Lois shagging bit at the end, intercut with scenes of disaster, all of it apparently occurring a year in the future (or in Lois' head, or both.)

so SMALLVILLE remains crack & cheese on toast. And given the ratings for the premiere, toast it will be, finally.

[mariness]

Eh. Since I missed Smallville last season, and have noted a distinct lack of enthusiasm for it this time around, I think I'll just continue to miss it.

[jongibbs]

I better your knee feels better :)

[mariness]

It does. And it's an utterly gorgeous day here so both my knee and I like people again :)

[jongibbs]

Lol, I'm glad you figured out what I meant to say, rather than what I said :)