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[trinityvixen]

I was about to post something about television shows, but dotsomething got there first.

Fortunately, I have a different slate of shows on my docket!

Returning favorites House, LOST, and Battlestar Galactica will be commanding my Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, respectively, for much of the next year, I hope. I'm going to give season six Smallville a shot, so that takes a chunk out of my Thursday, and there are a few shows that got "Hrmmm" reactions from me as I was reading this week's Entertainment Weekly. I fucking hate TV's lack of imagination--I heard The Nine described as LOST meets 24, which is just confusing, not to mention making it look extremely cheap as one of the leads is yet another former star of Party of Five (thus, the raping of LOST's success with Mattew Fox by casting Scott Wolf...wow, those names aren't even made up...). Then again, The Nine has Tim Daly in it, and I have to confess I've...sorta...had this...wee little crush on him forever. Yes, because of Wings, or in spite of it, whichever. But he's really cute, and he's aged even more attractive, damm the man. Plus, given the amount of his voice work for the Superman animated series spent on groaning and crying out, I kinda know what he sounds like when he...ahem. Okay, so even though it sounds like a stupid show, I might have to watch that.

I was originally interested in Heroes and I might still check out the premiere, but I'm less interested in the "mutants" using their powers for good because of destiny, et al. I'd like the show better if it was just about coordinating superpowers around your normal life and dealing with the temptation not to use it for laziness/evil. Because, much as I love my superheroes, I am a realist: if people randomly got superpowers, I bet you'd get precisely one hero out of a group of ten (maybe even from a larger group), and you'd get the rest of them either suppressing, ignoring, or cheating with theirs. I guess it can't focus on that exclusively, though--the show is called Heroes, after all.

Standoff will be shown after this week's House, and because my love for Ron Livingston is large, I will keep Fox on long enough to peruse the thing. But, like with The Nine, the premise interests me not at all compared to the pretty, pretty man person in it. The convenient timing of the show--being on the same night, same channel as House, which I am going to not miss if I can possibly help it--might put it on the roster faster than the other new shows I'm going to try out, but I predict that it won't be any more endeared to me than fucking Invasion was for being after LOST (though, to be fair, Invasion was supposed to be terrible, plus their ad campaign blitzing while I was trying to watch LOST was extremely irritating).

I'm sure I will stick with the shows I already watch, barring any of them sucking so hard I drop them (Smallville, I am looking in your direction), and not really take up with any other new ones, which is funny because TV shows are making up more than half my Netflix queue right now. I figured, so long as I have the two-discs-at-a-time plan I should make the most of it and rent the things that I would most benefit for having two discs of at once. I started it for Red Dwarf's last two seasons which aren't on just the one disc, but I chucked on a few series I had recommended to me (Deadwood's on there from my cousin raving and deepredbelle praising). It's such a strange turn for me because I've never liked TV as much as movies (animated series notwithstanding). I think it's the TWoP influence--they've been loving Prisonbreak in their newest recaps so very hard, I've been considering that, which is amazing. Hell, I could catch up with the phenom of 24, borrow my mother's set of the first two seasons (and, again, only because Kiefer Sutherland makes me ruin my chair with his hotness--ugh, that was TMI, my bad).

Oh, but speaking of Red Dwarf? The "lost" Cat-centric episode? I don't want it ever filmed. In fact, I wish they could ret-con the entire season out of being filmed just to have Chris Barrie narrate the storyboard stills. I noticed before that he does some wicked good impressions, especially in the Old West simulation where he had a perfect middle American accent going (meaning not accented at all, no Southern drawl or NE twangs, just blandly American, which is fucking hard to do--I can't even do that). Then I watched the episode where he narrates in his natural voice, which is different from his own voice as Rimmer, and then he did everyone else on the show perfectly. I wonder what the other actors thought of his impression. For a moment, I didn't believe it wasn't the guy who plays Kryten speaking. His Lister is almost as good, and his Cat, though not great, is still amazing. I would have loved him to do Holly.

And, my God, I get Kochanski for the rest of the season instead of Rimmer? I spoiled myself by reading trivia about the show on the IMDB, and apparently Chris Barrie only did four episodes of the eight for this season, which makes my brain hurt because it means I've only one more with him in it as he's been in all three of the ones on the first disc. Kochanski's reality--where Lister is the hologram and her the last human--sounds like HELL. If I had to put up with Lister and Kryten and Cat without Rimmer to difuse their boringness by mocking them all and being hilariously silly, I'd jump ship for the show's universe in a heartbeat.

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[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

You should try and get hold of the audio version of Red Dwarf the book - read by Chris Barrie, doing all the voices brilliantly.

It came out mid nineties or so, so it might be hard to find, but really worth it.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

I adore Chris' impressions. You can see why they get him to narrate all the audio books. :D

Although I missed Rimmer, I still kind of liked Kochanski, her neurotic-ness was almost as entertaining as Rimmer's. Plus, she's a slammin' hottie. XD

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Meh, I dunno. I don't really like her, the actress reminds me of someone but isn't someone I know, and I just can't figure out how come she gets pleather pants and heels and such in space. Her dimension must have been a lot more rich or something, possibly because Lister wasn't alive to stink it up.