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I don't talk much about politics - I often watch it like a spectator sport. Since the neighbor woke me up at 5:30 a.m. due to their alarm going off and NOT SHUTTING IT OFF, I've been watching the news channels. First of all, hope everyone stays safe from the hurricane. But second of all, I am already sick to death of hearing about Sarah Palin and lipstick and did she have an alien baby and all the other nonsense the 24-hour news channels keep going over and over and over. This country has problems and issues and can we please goddamn talk about them?!
/end up-too-early rant
In fictional news, I watched Fringe last night. (I'm getting way too addicted to Hulu.com.)
You could TOTALLY tell this was a JJ Abrams thing since stylistically it was Lost. But story-wise it was a cross between the X-Files and CSI.
It was entertaining enough and it kept me watching, although it didn't have its hooks in me quite the way Lost did. There was some really odd pacing to it at times. One minute they'd be tracking down a suspect and the next moment they'd be having a moment or something. (I have to admit I'm glad the boyfriend turned out to be bad - whenever the two of them were together the blandness oozed from the screen. Even when they were having sex it was bland.) And there were far too many closeups of the female lead staring vacantly at something, which I think was supposed to be dramatic. Or acting. (In spite of this she makes for a decent enough main character - even though the plot has her doing some ridiculous things.) But Joshua Jackson was fun.
The science on this show was HYSTERICAL. Someone needs to explain to me how a water-based contaminant could spread through an entire plane that quickly. And what was up with the co-pilot coming out of the cockpit at a disturbance in the cabin? Okay, not a "science" thing, really, but don't cockpits stay locked nowadays? Why couldn't they have had the pilots stay locked up and land the plane instead of having a self-landing plane? *snickers* I hardly feel like I can poke at the stuff that went on in the lab though, since that's pretty much the premise of the show: fringe science. So they're going to have wacky stuff like mind-melds and stuff.
I might catch this show again, although I'm a bit iffy about it because it's already got a mytharc, and one that looks a lot like the X-Files. (Something that eventually turned me off to the show.) Big shadowy group of people using the world as guinea pigs. All they need are aliens, and who knows? They could pop up.
OH! How they used location text cracked me up. You know how normally you'll see a typed blurb at the bottom of the screen of something like "Harvard University, 9:30 a.m." They did something, um, different. The first time they did it I had to rewind it just to figure out what I was looking at. :D
Another OH! What was up with all the shots of lights? Flickering lights, people looking at lights... Heh. It will be aliens, won't it? Ones made out of electricity. Either that or it was a "we paid for lights, we're going to show you lights, dammit!"
/end up-too-early rant
In fictional news, I watched Fringe last night. (I'm getting way too addicted to Hulu.com.)
You could TOTALLY tell this was a JJ Abrams thing since stylistically it was Lost. But story-wise it was a cross between the X-Files and CSI.
It was entertaining enough and it kept me watching, although it didn't have its hooks in me quite the way Lost did. There was some really odd pacing to it at times. One minute they'd be tracking down a suspect and the next moment they'd be having a moment or something. (I have to admit I'm glad the boyfriend turned out to be bad - whenever the two of them were together the blandness oozed from the screen. Even when they were having sex it was bland.) And there were far too many closeups of the female lead staring vacantly at something, which I think was supposed to be dramatic. Or acting. (In spite of this she makes for a decent enough main character - even though the plot has her doing some ridiculous things.) But Joshua Jackson was fun.
The science on this show was HYSTERICAL. Someone needs to explain to me how a water-based contaminant could spread through an entire plane that quickly. And what was up with the co-pilot coming out of the cockpit at a disturbance in the cabin? Okay, not a "science" thing, really, but don't cockpits stay locked nowadays? Why couldn't they have had the pilots stay locked up and land the plane instead of having a self-landing plane? *snickers* I hardly feel like I can poke at the stuff that went on in the lab though, since that's pretty much the premise of the show: fringe science. So they're going to have wacky stuff like mind-melds and stuff.
I might catch this show again, although I'm a bit iffy about it because it's already got a mytharc, and one that looks a lot like the X-Files. (Something that eventually turned me off to the show.) Big shadowy group of people using the world as guinea pigs. All they need are aliens, and who knows? They could pop up.
OH! How they used location text cracked me up. You know how normally you'll see a typed blurb at the bottom of the screen of something like "Harvard University, 9:30 a.m." They did something, um, different. The first time they did it I had to rewind it just to figure out what I was looking at. :D
Another OH! What was up with all the shots of lights? Flickering lights, people looking at lights... Heh. It will be aliens, won't it? Ones made out of electricity. Either that or it was a "we paid for lights, we're going to show you lights, dammit!"
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Pretty much the description I would give for Pacey too. And his character who I can't remember his name because he's still Pacey too me. Is a very nice mesh with the rest of the cast.