The Mostly About TV Report

[annathepiper]

So it was very pleasant to have mamishka over last night! We yakked about Serenity a lot, and I showed her the novelization I bought and she showed me the "official visual companion" book that she bought, which is chock fulla pretty pictures and which actually has the entire script of the film in it. She also brought me a copy of her shiny new episode guide (and as with mizkit's Urban Shaman, I find it Extremely Cool to see a friend's name on the cover of a book!) and the third of the three Serenity comic books.

Also, our Tivo decided that the "promotional" menu item of the evening was a Serenity trailer. Whoot! And Meems and I downloaded a couple funny Firefly-related things. One was a Canadian-made 10-minute parody called Mosquito, that purported to be an introduction to the creator and cast and a promo for the *ahem* "series". Hee. Very fannish over all, but it did have a couple moments of genuine funny. The other thing was a complete set of the "River" clips that have been circulating the net, those creepy little black-and-white snippets of River being questioned by a doctor-type in a dark room, and what River actually winds up doing. Creepy creepy creepy!

Aside from that, we got in the viewing of the pilot episode of Bones. Meems and I both found it rather odd viewing. The pacing was very strange--like they were trying so hard to do the Snappy Banter and Fast-Moving Plot thing that they rather overlooked character development and making certain that the plot actually hung together. Not that it was hard to follow... it was just that with the way they did it, all of the characters came across more as "sound bites" and stereotypes rather than actual people. Meems found the entire experience strangely flatlined, and also, the music was godawful. We'll be giving it a bit more of a chance, remembering that even Babylon 5 took several episodes to get its feet under it, but I suspect that mostly we'll just be watching this to ogle David Boreanaz. ;)

Battlestar Galactica, on the other hand, was a pleasure as always. It was delightful to watch Meems watching 2.08, "Final Cut", if nothing else just for a second look at the most agile towel on the Galactica. >;) And 2.09, "Flight of the Phoenix", was also most excellent. The trailer for 2.10, the "summer finale" (as the official site describes it), looks very cool indeed and actually elicited a "whoo!" out of solarbird.

We had tasty spaghetti for dinner, and kettle corn to snack on, and in general just had a nice hangy-outy sort of evening. No Charlie Jade yet, but we'll see when we can get that in. Next up, though, will be getting caught up to prepare for the season premiere of Lost.

Today I'm at work, and feeling not half-bad, thanks to some not half-bad sleep overnight. I didn't quite sleep the night, but I woke up only once. This is, I think, progress. I am hopeful about making it through the day!

Also, in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, the obligatory YARR! It's also very appropos that I've got that snippet of the new GBS ditty "Captain Kidd" in my head, since it sounds Extremely Piratical. And it's very vexing to be songvirused by a song of which I have heard only the first verse and chorus. ;) Yarr, mates, but I be needin' this album badly!

Days until release of The Hard and the Easy: 22
Days without a rejection letter from Luna: 3 months, 24 days

Comments

[solarbird]

Viper! Mark! EIGHT! ^_^

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

"Final Cut" was the one with the reporter, correct? WAY cool! I loved the background music they played behind her report near the end, and it made me realize a few things about the military there I hadn't thought of. Like they're doing these jobs because they want to, it's not like they're getting paid for it or anything, or they can ever really go off duty (unless they outright quit or retire).

And then there's the last few seconds. ^-^!

[annathepiper]

That is the one, indeed!

And indeed, the last few seconds were killer. :>