Ah, Christian Slater, how we won't miss you.

[trinityvixen]

So long My Own Worst Enemy. I watched one episode and I knew this had "fail" stamped all over it. And after I sat through He Was a Quiet Man last night, the less I see of Christian Slater and his rapidly disappearing hair, the better. (The high point of that movie was me recognizing that Ms. Parker of Pretender fame in a photograph with William H Macy. Alas, she was not in the movie.) It's not that Christian Slater is a terrible actor per se, just that he gives me the heebie-jeebies, and that movie did not help.

I like how that article I linked to above blames Heroes for My Own Worst Enemy having a bad lean-in show. I doubt that American Idol would hold anyone's attention long enough to get them to watch either show at this point, but it's a fair cop that Heroes sucking so much sewage is not helping. But I dreamt of a way to fix Heroes! I had a dream this week where Hiro's adventures were narrated by Jim Dale. And me, watching the show in my dream, was like, "Wow, I could watch anything if Jim Dale narrated it." He made Hiro's ridiculous bopping around in the past and future almost cute. Hiro's antics and exuberance would be a pretty ideal match to Jim Dale's whimsical voice-over, too.

So, NBC, take note: if THE WORST THING EVER HAPPENS and Pushing Daisies is gone, get Brian Fuller back, sure, but make sure you bring Jim Dale with as well.

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I wonder if ABC could rescue Pushing Daisies if they paired it with LOST, which is also genre. I am desperate to believe that ABC, with few or no stand-out shows and with a shorter LOST run might hold onto Pushing Daisies. It was doing better last week...

My Own Worst Enemy felt rather preachy to me. darkling1 pointed out that shows that are based on a fictional trope--in MOWE's case, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--that don't acknowledge that such fiction exists even in their fictional world feel really, really fake. It's like how Heroes was fun at first because Hiro was aware of geek traditions--comic book super heroes, Star Trek, et al. It meant that this was our world, it just also had super powers. You kind of need that, otherwise you find yourself wondering why this seems so crazy and new to everyone else...

Re: SPN--I bet that that's why they picked Castiel :P What haven't they researched? Granted, my knowledge of angels is heavily biased by things like The Prophecy, where they're not so great actually.