I’m really excited. I love his books and am eagerly awaiting the final installment. If the TV show stays true to the books, it should prove to be a great program.
For those of us that find the reality show craze dull, boring and totally pointless, this will be a welcome relief. Personally, I just don’t get reality TV. It is anything but reality for anyone but a hand full of folks that chose to make total fools out of themselves for all to see. But hey, the networks make huge profits off these silly shows and aren't saddled with a bunch of prima donna actors demanding huge salaries for themselves. It's a big win situation for them.
I only hope viewers tire of this sort of programming and start to demand quality shows once again.
And, besides, we just don’t have enough sci-fi, fantasy stuff to watch.
Speaking of which, I recently watch the movie, Serenity, and just loved it.
During the holidays as I was wandering about my husbands favorite book store in search of something to add to his growing stack of literary works by the bed, I passed by the movie section and one caught my eye. It was a set of disks from the TV series Firefly. I had never heard of it before but damn if those faces didn’t look familiar. Turns out Serenity was based on this program but, sad to say, it only lasted one season.
So I picked it up and gave it to my husband for Christmas. Actually, I got it for myself because I wanted to see it…he was just a good excuse.
It was a terrific program done in 2002. I still can’t believe I missed it. It’s a fascinating collision of Science Fiction meets the old west. Yea, I know, it’s a strange combination. But wow. It was gritty and well done. An intelligent show with some great acting. You just fall in love with the characters and their great sense of humor. The folks that came up with that one should be proud of a well done product. And the network that doomed it to fail should be ashamed. After doing a search of the IMBd, it seems Fox cursed this wonderful program from the get go with constant interruptions for baseball and other various preempting programs and the viewers could never keep up. What to go Fox!
It really gets annoying that major networks constantly interrupt our favorite programs to broadcast all the sports shows. Great for the sports fans, no so for us that have our favorite programs.
BTW, I’m a Yankees fan. But it’s not going to rule my life. I love spending a quiet evening in front of the tube watching em play…especially when it’s against the Sox. But at least these are done on the side channels dedicated to sports...or at least most of those I watch are since I don't exactly live in Yankee territory.
Thank goodness for services like TiVo and On Demand that allow us to catch up at a more convenient time. If it weren’t for Spike, my digital recorder, and On Demand I don’t think I’d ever get caught up with CSI or NCIS. But just because I didn’t get to see them on their regularly scheduled time doesn’t mean I don’t want to see em. It’s just easier on a Sunday afternoon that 9PM during the week.
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Soriano will be playing for the Cubbies this year. Always thought he was a pretty damn good ball player. Why did the Yankees turn him loose?
And on those 'Reality' shows and 'make you a star' types tv shows, we are proud to be 100% watch free. History channel and discovery plus some cnn and Fox news is about it for us. Nedra will watch some of the flip that house show...think Home Network or something.
Actually, he was playing for the Nats in 2006 with some contraversy over being stuck out in center field. He eventually discovered, he liked it and was pretty damn good at it. But as most sports players go, a big fat salary won out and he moved on to the cubbies.
Maybe the cubbies will break their dreaded curse this year.
Oh yea...the yanks traded soriano some time back for A-Rod.
Umm...you can't argue with that.
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