43 Not the Ultimate Answer

43 hours dedicated to watching Kyle XY and the last episode resolves nothing.

By now I assume everyone who cares about the ABC Family tween sci-fi drama has seen the episode. Kyle has an evil half brother and his mom may also be evil. The clone wars have begun. Plus he's in love with two girls, granted if he is a super genius he can find a way to have both. Everyone else well their storylines were just left semi-resolved.


They did it to Surface and will do it to every sci-fi family show. If I had something better to do I would invest my time in something better like reading, oh wait the Dark Tower series ended worse than the Sopranos finale.

Okay then I'll listen to some radio, OH NO they changed my favorite, my default, and the best part of over-the-air music from KROCK to a top 40 crapfest. The same station that changed from Rock to Talk and then back to Rock is know full of the worst Top 40 songs a person will not remember in 5 years.

Science is Great

No time to explain how showing a Kung Fu Panda short cartoon instead of a sitcom on primetime is horribly wrong so instead here are some cool r-evolutionary discoveries.

Courtesy of Wired.com

Now back to the books.

Just Ewww!

Dollhouse: The Target
Again Echo is being used as a hooker and then becomes the victim of a human hunt.
Honestly I don't understand how a show about a glorified brothel is on air, oh yeah it's Fox. I think it comes as no surprise that men buy prostitutes at higher rates than women. Keeping that in mind half of these dolls in the Dollhouse are guys so I can only conclude that they are also being turned into sexual play things for rich men, even if they are originally straight.
Unless they blow up the Dollhouse in the next few episodes I will probably stop watching soon.

Don't get me wrong Mr. Joss Whedon I'm a fan of morally ambiguous story lines and hope this is all leading up to something just don't stretch out like they did with Battlestar Galactica.


Verminators: Night at the Races
This is a Discovery channel reality-documentary where we follow exterminators doing their job. They enter an apartment that is clean but they have roaches. Soon the expert concludes it is a neighbor causing the problem and they enter the next door slum and find roaches under everything. I insist on eating while this show is on and eventually make myself nauseous.

Dollhouse

Dollhouse: Ghost

When I first heard of this show I thought this was doomed and had no chance. A group of young troubled people get new personalities/lives for special missions. Then I saw some trailers from the original pilot and was intrigued but then came the reshoot.


This episode Ghost was the second pilot and was not as good as the 1 minute original trailer. It doesn't seem as much sci-fi and instead it's more corporate and conspiratorial. Elisha Dushku is great and so is Harry Lennix (last seen getting beat-up in 24).

The first problem I had is she is being used as a high priced designer hooker, although probably realistic if this type of personality exchange did exist, it left a hatred for the entire organization behind these transplants. Knowing this the next episode will deal with a rogue agent.

While I know the pilot is the worst episode, Lost being an exception, this one makes me want to root for the bad guys at every stage.

Missing in Action

So this season has been just fine nothing special but it's not complete. Beside missing shows the new thing in American television shows is to not show the full cast. This is a cost saving measure but is quite annoying since out of 30 minutes a week for 20 odd weeks a year we don't get to see all the characters.

Examples:

[scrubs] -missing either Judy Reyes (Carla) or Donald Faison (Turk) but last episode they had Zach Braff (JD) do a phone in ala Chrissy Snow circa 1981.

The New Adventures of Old Christine didn't even show new Christine.

Some shows are so subtle that it isn't until days later that the main character didn't even make an appearance.

Cost cutting for a show is fine but to what end. Will a show of 5 regulars be reduced to 2 alternating every week.

Adding one slightly related item students keep losing cell phones, thumb drives, and cables which I find and happily return. Before I do I have to take a peak inside to find the rightful owners. I just want to say thanks for nothing. With all the cool stories about government files or tons of private info lost via missing tech I'm very disappointed in what I see. I get drives with old copies of books I can't use or phones with picks of families and dogs.

Last semester one professor lost his thumb drive with all the exams and codes for the computers but I didn't find it, what did I find an Ipod cable that was returned within hours. Honestly I don't want to take anything but peaking into this generations most sacred keepsakes is very boring.

The Loop

Lost: Jughead

I hate to add to the theories but...

Charles Widmore
Penny Widmore
Charlie Hume
+Time-Travel Island
= Charlie Hume becomes Charles Widmore

Sun has a kid, Aaron is a kid, Desmond has a kid.

Anyone remember an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called Children of Time where while crashing on an island a planet the crew gets stuck 200 years in the past and their descendants populate the world but as they escape they don't crash and the people on the planet disappear.

This show is giving me sleepless nights.

Watchout For The Pointy Crown

Hallmark: Hall of Fame: 235th Presentation


Loving Leah
A story of a woman who does two brothers and loses her religion. Granted when spun through Hallmark it is fantastically lovely.

Ignoring the movie which was presented with limited commercials.
Nearly every commercial was a Hallmark Card ad. The first was that of an illiterate who learns to read and then finally gets to know what his cards, he saved for years, actually said. My word this was heart breaking and touching.

Others included a loser giving the perfect wedding toast to his sister via a Hallmark card. A former student giving her retired professor a card and the knowledge he inspired her to become a teacher. People stuck in an elevator reading a birthday card and reminiscing. Plus stories of how the card writers began writing cards.

When you care enough to make someone else feel bad.

L'Hospital Rule

Show:	General Hospital		Grey's Anatomy
Name:	Nikolas Cassadine		Izzy Stevens
Love:	Dead wife		Dead soulmate
Problem:	Sees her ghost		Sees his ghost
Twist:	they can touch		they can touch
Reality:	Brain Tumor		Unknown sickness
Choice:	Cut it out lose ghost		Cure it and lose ghost
	Keep it die		Keep it get worse
Final:	Surgery/Drugs bye bye love		(Fill in yourself)
2nd Twist:	Mysterious new look-a-like		???

Walls in the Mall are Totally, Totally Tall

Image by calculat0r via FlickrSo something was on all today and I couldn't see any of my shows.

I can't say it was inspiring. It was kind of historic and long.

Out of all of the coverage ABC and NY1 was my choice. Later at night during on of the balls I think Beyonce kind of out shined everyone but I don't think it was intentional.


I did catch up on all my TiVo stuff and must say this season's Kyle XY is still good.

Canceled Too Soon?

Probably not but still look at these.

Scientists find new creatures of Australian deep

One of Australia's deepest residents a carnivorous sea squirt, or ascidian, standing half a meter tall on the seafloor on the Tasman Fracture Zone at a depth of 4006 metres

(AFP/HO/Ho)

Now a scene from the great but canceled show Surface.

The flower of the future.

This is How the Merger Should Work

When the the computers and televisions finish mating their offspring should have certain abilities based on my experience last night.

Watching The Fuse 20 a music video clip show hosted by Danielle Fishel. Not remembering much about Fishel after she left Boy Meets World I wanted to Google her, teehee.

Sure I had my laptop but it was distracting trying to watch TV and search for stuff. Then the shows theme was celebrities in music videos and each video made me want to check that celebrity to see what they're doing now like Christopher Walken from the FatBoy Slim video.

My TiVo already pauses live TV so why not open a window on the screen and allow me to do a search over the internet of that show.
Imagine if you will you're watching a show and can't remember where you've seen the actor who is not the star. During a commercial or pausing the TV you hit a "Query button", the screen splits and you see a search box. Intuitive typing brings a list of everything associated with what your watching. You start to type either the character or actors name and find it within a second and soon your online with all the normal results. Seeing clips from YouTube or interviews from a recent magazine article of the entire filmography at IMDB.

Doing this for every show, every commercial, and every live event should be the goal not a TV that can also be used as computer monitor. I need TV that helps me because let's face it my brain is crammed with so much stuff I need all my stuff to come with a drop down menu.