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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.

Okay, I'll stick with it.

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.

Shmowzow! Adventure Time is mathematical! This fan brought to you by Nanner's costume.

Two and a Half Men was never that good and I expected the jabs at Sheen, but I'm glad they didn't try to replace his character with one that was exactly the same. It's like Kutcher is his opposite, despite being wealthy, attractive etc. I've become more interested in the series in the short term, but it will always be an also-ran for me. I hate Alan and always thought there should be more episodes focusing on Jake.

He buys the house. The living arrangements haven't come up yet, it is a two part episode.

Just finished watching Terra Nova.

The concept is good and time travel is one of my favorite themes, but something doesn't feel quite right.

The way they handled the "butterfly effect" seemed lazy at best. In general the family was meh except for the stupid teen boy who I want to be eaten by a dino ASAP. Make it slow and painful! The cute girl that will for sure be his love interest reminded me of a young version of Kate Austen, which isn't bad at all as long as they make this one more consistent and intelligent.

The seeded some mystery points there with the Avatar bad guy (Stephen Lang), which apparently now is a good guy but apparently may not be - yes, I know- and his son's disappearance, the symbols and the sixers (awful name btw) which may or may not be on his side undercover.

SFX not terribly bad but not top notch for TV either, I'd say a bit above average. The "Slashers" (a variation of raptor) are much better than the Carnotaurus, maybe because we only see the formers at night. I have to say though, that some of the gren screen stuff was really bad. i'll Have to wait and see more of them.

Still, I think I'll give the series at least another 3 or 4 episodes before deciding for sure if I'll stick with it or bail out, but since this comes from the people that made "V", I don't have much hope for Terra Nova at all.

Pilot = 2 balls

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...

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

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?

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."

Watching Star Trek on computer.

Keep thinking Starfleet insignia is cursor.

Three episodes in and The Fades is still fun but after one episode of Philip Glenister's new series Hidden and I'm reminded just how difficult it must be to write a good conspiracy thriller while resorting to cliches which were getting a bit tatty in the 70's.