Stuff n' Things
Mar. 14th, 2004 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuI haven't been posting much lately.
"Let me explain--no, there is too much. Let me sum up."
I've had little to say, and less energy to post it. I've got this nasty little cold that doesn't make you feel bad, really, just a mild headache and a tickle in my throat. No, the real sting is that this cold just sucks the life out of you. I feel like Lucy Westenra after the Count's first couple of midnight visits. And like Lucy, I rallied over the last couple of days and thought I was in the clear, only to get the stuffing kicked out of me again today. I'm tired and my reserves when I go ahead and tough it out are nearly nonexistent. It takes very little to leave me feeling exhausted.
Coach Potato TV Reviews
Wonderfalls - A wonderful show.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snippy and I watched the premiere and found it highly entertaining. Quirky, surprising and almost certainly doomed to early cancellation because it's on FOX on Friday night and it isn't some inane, lowbrow reality show. Fox has managed to send countless interesting shows to an early grave and I suspect that Wonderfalls will be the next.
Stargate: SG-1 - After losing interest and missing most of last season and the first part of this season, I've regained my interest in this show. The alliances with the Tokra, the Jaffa rebels and the Asgard seem to be imperiled by politics and mistrust. A new President has been briefed on the existence of the stargate and the SGC, and has appointed a civilian to replace General Hammond. There's also a lot of energy being poured into the notion that "we can't keep this a secret forever"; which is a) true, and b) seems to be leading up to the launch of the spin-off series Stargate: Atlantis with a new cast and some hints that the team is international in composition and possibly that the project really isn't secret any longer.
Speculation is that the Atlantis team will operating in another galaxy, battling new bad guys. They may be working there mainly because they can't get home again (aka Stargate: Voyager, god help us all). I can see how that situation might come to be based on the most recent episode, but I'll reserve judgment. Maybe they can make it work.
It also appears that General Hammond is permanently out; Don S. Davis is leaving the series. No doubt he'd like to look for more work, he's been playing a regular (but relatively minor) part for seven years now. Richard Dean Anderson isn't leaving, but his reduced presence onscreen will continue. He may be promoted to General O'Neill and become the new CO of the SGC. Ronny Cox (first as Senator, now Vice President, Kinsey has been an ongoing nemesis. Of late, though, he's been far less interesting--more two-dimensional in his villainy, and less convincing. I hear he (Kinsey, not Cox) may be resigning his position and becoming an even worse problem somehow. We'll see.
I've really enjoyed this series for years, though for a while they seemed to be falling prey to classic Trek-style tv sf cliches. That still happens, but not nearly as often as I'd feared. So I'll wait and see.
Those Who Stalk The Night - This novel by Barbara Hambly concerns Professor Asher, a lecturer (and former government spy) at New College in 1907 Britain. He discovers that vampires are all too real when they coerce him into helping them discover who is stalking and killing the city's vampires. It's a great novel from 1995, and it reminded me of why I once enjoyed her writing so much. Alas, her last few offerings have left me cold, and I've stopped buying them. I'm not sure if my tastes have changed, her writing has changed, or both--though probably it's a little of both. Now I need to dig up the sequel, Traveling with the Dead in a used book store somewhere.
Hmmm....that's all for now.
"Let me explain--no, there is too much. Let me sum up."
I've had little to say, and less energy to post it. I've got this nasty little cold that doesn't make you feel bad, really, just a mild headache and a tickle in my throat. No, the real sting is that this cold just sucks the life out of you. I feel like Lucy Westenra after the Count's first couple of midnight visits. And like Lucy, I rallied over the last couple of days and thought I was in the clear, only to get the stuffing kicked out of me again today. I'm tired and my reserves when I go ahead and tough it out are nearly nonexistent. It takes very little to leave me feeling exhausted.
Coach Potato TV Reviews
Wonderfalls - A wonderful show.
snippy and I watched the premiere and found it highly entertaining. Quirky, surprising and almost certainly doomed to early cancellation because it's on FOX on Friday night and it isn't some inane, lowbrow reality show. Fox has managed to send countless interesting shows to an early grave and I suspect that Wonderfalls will be the next.Stargate: SG-1 - After losing interest and missing most of last season and the first part of this season, I've regained my interest in this show. The alliances with the Tokra, the Jaffa rebels and the Asgard seem to be imperiled by politics and mistrust. A new President has been briefed on the existence of the stargate and the SGC, and has appointed a civilian to replace General Hammond. There's also a lot of energy being poured into the notion that "we can't keep this a secret forever"; which is a) true, and b) seems to be leading up to the launch of the spin-off series Stargate: Atlantis with a new cast and some hints that the team is international in composition and possibly that the project really isn't secret any longer.
Speculation is that the Atlantis team will operating in another galaxy, battling new bad guys. They may be working there mainly because they can't get home again (aka Stargate: Voyager, god help us all). I can see how that situation might come to be based on the most recent episode, but I'll reserve judgment. Maybe they can make it work.
It also appears that General Hammond is permanently out; Don S. Davis is leaving the series. No doubt he'd like to look for more work, he's been playing a regular (but relatively minor) part for seven years now. Richard Dean Anderson isn't leaving, but his reduced presence onscreen will continue. He may be promoted to General O'Neill and become the new CO of the SGC. Ronny Cox (first as Senator, now Vice President, Kinsey has been an ongoing nemesis. Of late, though, he's been far less interesting--more two-dimensional in his villainy, and less convincing. I hear he (Kinsey, not Cox) may be resigning his position and becoming an even worse problem somehow. We'll see.
I've really enjoyed this series for years, though for a while they seemed to be falling prey to classic Trek-style tv sf cliches. That still happens, but not nearly as often as I'd feared. So I'll wait and see.
Those Who Stalk The Night - This novel by Barbara Hambly concerns Professor Asher, a lecturer (and former government spy) at New College in 1907 Britain. He discovers that vampires are all too real when they coerce him into helping them discover who is stalking and killing the city's vampires. It's a great novel from 1995, and it reminded me of why I once enjoyed her writing so much. Alas, her last few offerings have left me cold, and I've stopped buying them. I'm not sure if my tastes have changed, her writing has changed, or both--though probably it's a little of both. Now I need to dig up the sequel, Traveling with the Dead in a used book store somewhere.
Hmmm....that's all for now.