I highly recommend the BBC's new weirdonatural show The Fades, which has just started.

It has a real Neil Gaimaneque feel to it.

The best new show opening since the Being Human pilot in my opinion.

Cowboy Bebop is making me mad. That's right, on complaining about a show that isn't even on anymore.....

Ed. She's annoying. She's annoying. Oh dear god, she is annoying.

The first eight episodes of the show were great. They all involved real characters, filled with regret, cynicism, and a shady past of some sort. And then we have Ed.

(She?) takes all the dark out of the show. It already had a perfect balance of comedy before with the character of Ein, and it was very subtle. Now we are stuck with this Jar-Jar Binks wannabe. Hopefully things will get better, and I might warm up to her. But I liked the show better before she came along.

Jamming with Edward was my original introduction to the show and I was highly disappointed. It took me 6 years to give it another shot, mainly because my friend brought the series over (this man actually BOUGHT it, that's how much he liked what little he'd seen.) Everywhere but her debut episode she's pretty easy to adjust to - wait for her big day in Mushroom Hunting, then she gets funny.

Okay, I'll stick with it.

You knew you were going to have to anyway, right?

Its like 12 episodes long, even if you didn't like it, why wouldn't you finish it?

26 episodes. 26.

Wow, doesn't seem that long.

Watched a bunch of stuff across the weekend. -

Hawaii Five-0 [season premiere] - 4 balls. as always.

Fringe [season opener] - 2 balls. Fun but a lack of Peter in the show brings it down a bit.

Person of Interest [Pilot Episode] - 2 balls. has potential but pretty weak start. I kinda predicted things that were going to happen and the concept seems a little too far fetched for the setting.

Charlie's Angels - [pilot episode] - 1 ball - Could be good but again - very weak start. This things needs to be re-tooled immediately if they want it to last. shortcomings include the fact that Bosly is now a 'hacker' - which in hollywood terms means he can acess ANY bit of informatino they need just using an iPad. The original Bosley makes a very brief [non speaking] cameo.

The idea this time around is that Charlie hires ex-criminals, ie: cat burglars et al to be his 'angels' - could be good but it's too much like the films - all style no substance.

Two and a half men [sans charlie sheen] 0 balls - this was horrible - if the show continues in this vein it will probably see cacellation - and should.

The killed off the Character of Charlie Harper then proceeded to mock him in a way that is mean spirited and not at all funny - obvious jabs at Sheen himself. And they really didn't give Ashton much to work with so it still feels like there's a big hole in the show.

Fresh Meat [Pilot] 1 ball. britcom / dramedy...not as good as it could be but liking it so far.

Clone Wars [season 4 opener] 1 ball - not a lot happens until the end, just the setup for the rest of the story ark probably. Animation keeps looking batter and better.

 

Johnny Ringo said:

Two and a half men [sans charlie sheen] 0 balls - this was horrible - if the show continues in this vein it will probably see cacellation - and should.

The killed off the Character of Charlie Harper then proceeded to mock him in a way that is mean spirited and not at all funny - obvious jabs at Sheen himself. And they really didn't give Ashton much to work with so it still feels like there's a big hole in the show.

Holy crap! I never got into Two and a Half Men, but I wondered how they were going to handle Sheen being gone. They freaking KILLED HIM OFF?! On a crappy comedy show? Then made fun of it? How does Kutcher's character fit into all this? I was kind of hoping for a "Charlie is a time lord" thing and Kutcher WAS Sheen.

But where did Kutcher's character come from? Does he live with them?

Just watched the season finale of Warehouse 13. Killer!

Season 3 lacks a lot of the humor of the first two seasons, but it gained much more suspense. And "Running Up That Hill" (by Track & Field, but based on Placebo's cover) isn't played during happy times...

I watched the latest episode of Castle on Hulu. They delayed Castle's regular airtime for football... I don't mind watching football but, WHY YOU HAVE TO DELAY CASTLE???!!!!! Ugh!!!! So frustrating, I just want to... *Ahem* Nevermind, point being, I watched Castle . Reminded me of Demolition Man since the episode's murder was about cryogenics.

twister111 said:

I watched the latest episode of Castle on Hulu. They delayed Castle's regular airtime for football... I don't mind watching football but, WHY YOU HAVE TO DELAY CASTLE???!!!!!

Remind me to explain to you how television networks make money someday. :p

They killed Sheen's character so he couldn't take it to another sitcom or something like that.

On Castle or the football came? :p

 

Anyway, why would that prevent him from taking the character elsewhere?  And wouldn't trademark laws (or whatever the equivalent is) be much more relevant?

TV's Frink said:

Anyway, why would that prevent him from taking the character elsewhere?  And wouldn't trademark laws (or whatever the equivalent is) be much more relevant?

The character's name was "Charlie", I'm sure that he did that so he could do whatever he wanted with the character, or do a "spiritual sequel" of sorts.

But so what if they killed him off?  I don't see how another show couldn't just give him a new part as "Charlie."

Chaim Levine's Two and Half Men do not own the rights to any character named Charlie.  They do have the rights to a character specifically created by them that just happens to be named Charlie.

I'm hoping for The Carlos Estevez Show

doubleKO said:

Watching Star Trek on computer.

Keep thinking Starfleet insignia is cursor.

Ha!

 

I've been watching the live feed from Occupy Wall Street last few days.