Archive for the ‘TV Series’ Category
Memories from the past
Playing Dark Throne, I saw someone with an avatar that remind me about an old tv series, about a cop that loved his gun, and did everything wrong.
I really remember an episode of him, poisoned, crawling in the ground, asking the woman that gave him the poison the antidote. When she gave him the antidote, he goes up, put a little smile and then she goes “You moron! I gave up more poison!”. And he goes back to crawling.
Finally, I found out which series it was: Sledge Hammer.
What’s so good about Galactica?
On Slashdot, every time you get some news about “Star Trek”, someone comes and point that “Battlestar Galactica is the truly space series”. I did download the first four episodes, that looked more like “it was a movie for television, but we decided to split it in four for some obscure reason instead of play it all in once”. I remember that I thought “nothing special, but not bad either”.
Yesterday I saw the follow up of those four episodes (maybe the next after the follow up). And I must say that Galactica is nothing impressive. I mean, it actually looks like “X-Files In Space!”: lots of unanswered plots, annoying as hell, they even don’t have any character that you would feel sympathy with. And I won’t mention the completely STUPID Blair’s-Witch-Camera, even on computer generated scenes. That camera is simply making all the crap look more shity than normal.
So far, the old series looks way better.
Not my memories anymore
It seems that the companies behind the cartoons of my childhood want to change everything these days.
First, as pointed, there are new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the block. Now Warner Bros want to “revitalize” the old Looney Tunes franchise (link thanks to Boing Boing). As you could see for yourself, Porky is out the game (at least, it seems).
They could change whatever they want, but I’ll always prefer the old “Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote” show…
They are dead, Jim
Well, it looks like I lost. Enterprise is being canceled. Even BBC is reporting the fact. I’ll surely miss the show, as the Universal Channel is not airing the recent seasons of Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
The weird thing at all are the comments on Slashdot. It looks like the whole group that once said “IT’S CRAP, DIE!” now is saying “Oh, that’s too bad. They did some mistakes, but the series was getting better”.
I just hope AXN didn’t go the Universal way and go holding seasons for undetermined time…
Bored Like Me
Today Sony present the brazilian public with the two last episodes of “Dead Like Me”. I was not a great watcher, but I liked it anyway. It was fun, and black humour is always a gift.
But, watching the last two episodes was something like… boring. I almost decided to be dead than watch that (pun intented). I mean, it was like any other episode. Not a great history, not a great “cliff-hanger”… Damn, there wasn’t even one cliff-hanger. Boring, boring, boring. I tought they would put George, our dead heroin, on an unconfortable position, like taking one of her parents soul, or even her sister. But not. They walked throught the episode like a normal, boring day, doing boring stuff. Geez, the writers could even put her parents back together, made George decide to reincarne or something, make her mother pregnant again — with George soul! That would be a good ending.
But not, they had to put George walking away from the camera, down in a hill, saying: “It’s nice to be dead like me” (or something like that — it was so unimaginative that I forgot the line, on a record time of 20 minutes later).
