Articles Archive for September 2009
ABC’s newest series, FlashForward premiere tonight. We’d like everyone’s thoughts and comments on it. Has anyone read the book it’s based on (by Robert J. Sawyer)? I did and loved it. I also really enjoyed the premiere, even though it was absolutely nothing like the book. Thoughts on the premiere and where the show will go?
And of course, the elephant-in-the-room-question-of-the-day: Will FlashForward be a good enough replacement for our precious Lost once May 2010 has come and gone?
So late last week former President Jimmy Carter came out and stated that race is a major factor in the current anti-Obama climate. This of course was denounced by republicans and down played by most Democrats including President Obama. Carter seemed to mostly be talking about the attitude in the south, where he was born and lives. His position is that most of the intense opposition is fueled by racism but I think he may be wrong in his assessment. I think racism is just the tool being used by the leaders of the opposition movement , which is mostly republican, to get the rural white voters fired up. The people promoting the various movements against Obama are very good a…
Open discussion for episode for Glee’s episode Preggers. Go!
All we have to say to start is that Kanye West would LOVE the beginning of this week’s episode.
Ok, so this guy @mike_elgan Twittered about how there’s a new GPS watch out for kids. Then he links to an article he wrote about how it can save America because kids get to play outside and not be stuck inside watching TV or playing video games, etc.
Now I agree that being able to track your kids via GPS is amazing and I mos def will be doing that once my kids start going to school & such. But at what point is this safety and at what point is this “too much.”
Is this going to let paranoia take over those worry-wart moms & dads? “OMG my child is 5 feet from school! Call 911!”
Or is this going to give…
The new Fall season kicked off last night with premiers for Heroes, Big Bang Theory and House all vying for viewers on their respective networks. This post contains spoilers for all 3 shows, so if you don’t want to know, stop reading right now.
Lets kick off with CBS’s Big Bang Theory. The team are back from their unsuccessful arctic expedition, having lied to Sheldon, letting him think he had actually made a mind blowing discovery, while in fact it had been them all goofing around.
As is so often the case with this show, a lot of the real humour comes from Jim Parsons, and while there are moments of comedy with out him, he really drives this episode.
His spat about creationism vs evolution…
The newest movie from director Steven Soderbergh, The Informant, was released this week, and due to no one showing up for a screening of Whiteout, I was able to check this movie out a day early. So just a little back story on my history of Steven Soderbergh and his films. I own all of the Oceans movies, but I have only seen the first two. I enjoyed the first one, second one was ok, still need to check out the third. But the last movie of his that I saw before this was The Girlfiend Experience, which I enjoyed a lot (it’s in my top ten movies of the year). So I went into this movie, somewhat excited to check this out.
This…
(Warning: This post contains spoilers)
Fringe, Fox’s series about a renegade FBI unit that investigates mysterious occurrences that are part of a “pattern” and that may be explainable only by “fringe” sciences started its second season on Thursday, September 17. The second season premiere was strong, raising hopes that Fringe has found its feet and will fulfill its promise this year.
If you are not familiar with Fringe you are likely to be thinking that it sounds very similar to the X-Files. It certainly owes a great deal to that ground-breaking series. More to the point though, if you have not seen the first season of Fringe your best chance for enjoying the show is to go back and start from the beginning rather than…
Tonight’s game is the Miami Dolphins vs the Indianapolis Colts.
Aaaannddddd
GO.
Before we get started with this week’s Lost discussion, we have to send out a congratulations to the one and only Michael Emerson for his Emmy win for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama at the 2009 Emmy Awards last night. Congratulations!!
So for this week’s Lost talk, we had an email suggestion for a little bit of fun. Lost haikus! A haiku is a form of poetry with three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the last line has 5 syllables. This is going to be challenging but I think we can have a lot of fun with it, so let the haiku-ing begin!
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In a night where predictability somewhat won the day, last nights Primetime Emmys were saved by just one man: Neil Patrick Harris. As the perfect host, he combined his wit, his clear love for his art, and a brilliant stage presence to really bring the show to life.
From opening number “Don’t touch the remote”, he has the audience hooked, and takes them on a rollercoaster ride, making sure to point out every role that the other presenters may have wanted to forget.
His banter with Jon Cryer after Cryer beats him to the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy award is priceless.
The real highlight of the night however comes as Harris introduces the “Emmy counters” to explain the process. Just as they take the…
