Voting Is Good But TV Is More Fun

Remember Vote today, Bloomberg for Mayor, No on Prop.1 & Yes on Prop.2. For all other seats vote for a good mixture of Democrats and Republican just to balance everything out maybe a Green party member but not Independent.
Election Day 2005.
Back to TV.

Surface: Episode 7
Great episode it began with a plane in trouble about to crash because of massive power failure. As we see the plane plunging towards the ocean the clouds open up and a herd of giant see monster are swimming along causing green lightning to shoot around them. It was an incredible shot.
We also learn that the government has known of these creatures for 4 years. They are trying to assess the threat but a secret group has derailed the government plan and are responible for the Docs murder.
Miles sets his sea monster free after a police chase.
The plant found along with the monster was found to be feeding off electricity, could this be a weapon against the monster who generate electricity. Remember it was found with the dead monster, could that be what killed it.
Best written show this season, someone please raise the production budget.

Prison Break: Sleight of Hand
Scofield puts a plan in motion to take back control of a prison section and help an innocent man.
Now these parts are a bit stupid...first he has to have a woman's phone number tattoed on his arm because he can't remember one phone number.
Second he puts three mafia guys in prison and isn't dead the next day.
Third the Vice-President notice her sweepers aren't doing good so she hires another sweeper to fix everything and he is good at his job but doesn't kill everyone fast enough.

Grey's Anatomy: Something to Talk About
Brilliant and funny episode.
A pregnant man, a woman whose heart bursted into flames during surgery and lives, the doctors relationships are defined and Dr. Grey whines some more before getting half a backbone.

I have to watch Rome, Arrested Development, Charmed, Family Guy and American Dad but that's going to have to wait.

I've more or less given up on Desperate Housewives, That 70's Show, King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother and some others.

Why Supernatural Sucks

The first version of Supernatural was about reporters going around and investigating and getting the monsters, the WB said no sounds boring he "tapped danced" around for a second and blurted out road trip and the WB said great let's do that. Kripke thinks it's scary...it's not. They have 2 and 1/2 season worked out about what killed their mom. Show creators are reading the message board. This is all from the mouth of Eric Kripke creator/executive-producer during an Attack Of The Show Interview.

TV is Getting Complicated.

Trading Spouses:Meet Your New Mommy : Perrin/Fisher Pt.:1 of 2
While I’ve stopped watching all the reality shows this one caught my eye, rather my ear. A psycho I set my TiVo to record and saw it was a two-parter.
The show is about putting spouses in households completely different then their own and hopefully sparks will fly. In this case a neo-hippie trades lives with a psychotic religious tyrant.
The best parts with the hippie are that she has a new husband and they are not communicating well but her family is nice. The church zealot on the other hand has a devoted husband but one daughter who sinned and has a five-year old at the age of 20, while the other daughter is like dad a virtual slave.
While the hippie meets the church group they do the un-Christian thing and treat her like the devil, I mean come on if you see a sinner help them or convert them don’t shun them.
While the nut other mom talks to god and starts to have a mental breakdown because she saw a Christian-psychic.
Next week they reveal what the other mothers have allotted the $1000 prize and crazy mom is going to tear up the check and her sanity with it.

Smallville: Exposed
I’ve lost partial interest in this show when Clark refused to tell Lana the truth after giving some flimsy excuse. In this episode the gang goes to a strip club to get a pervert killer and no freak of week.
The cool part was Tom Wopat as an old friend turned Senator of Jonathan Kent, strangely no mention of Mrs. Kent…hmmmm.

Joey: Joey and the Poker
A bit funnier than usually thanks to plenty of guest stars including crowd favorite Alan Thicke.

ER: Dream House
They fired a nurse working their since day one yet spent more time on a damn monkey. Ridiculous.

Law & Order:SVU : Raw (Parental Advisory)
This was a great episode involving Nazis, a crowd of shot children, a pervert and evil adopted parents who are not racist. This was a complicated episode but great and everything comes together. Oh also there was a court room shooting, an Oscar winner and lots of twist.
Thrilling.

TV Guide: Oct. 31 - Nov. 6

Late again, on the cover Martha Stewart, Martha My Life Now, and the 4-page article talking about her schedule and current activities.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Treehouse of Horror XVI, even later then me.
• Ashton Kutcher’s company is making 30-Year-Old Grandpa a sitcom loosely based on his own life.
• Michael J. Fox will be on Boston Legal, Rick Springfield returns for a one time gig on General Hospital.
• Noah Wyle and Kevin Sorbo became daddies, not with each though.
• Mary Tyler Moore will be on That 70’s Show.
• Frankie Muniz is pictured with his fiancée, kinda creepy.
• An interview with Jason Lee, his son is named Pilot Inspektor.
• Matt Roush likes Bones.
• Finally the say where Charlie Sheen gets his cool threads. http://www.bowlinghirt.com/.
• Tom Wopat, Dukes of Hazzard, will be on Smallville.
• Sunday Category 7: The End of the World, a CBS sequel to Category 6 about a big ass hurricane.

Happy Halloween Little Ones

Halloween this year was warm and pleasant it’s a shame it’s not a national holiday.
I saw Hellraiser: Hellseeker it’s the 6th of 8 Hellraiser. It brings back the original female victim but there is little fear or action or Pinhead goodness.
Masters Of Horror: Incident On And Off Mountain Road
This is the first of the weekly series it was a bit gory not to scary. A young woman driving in the middle of nowhere gets in an accident. She seeks help only to get kidnapped by some nameless monster.
She flashes back to her life and training with her demented boyfriend. We see that she is stronger then most victims after experiencing a horrible incident with ex. She overcomes all her hurdles and continues with her life slightly madder.

Three Things to Know

First is the Halloween episodes.
Two and a Half Men had a nice and funny surreal episode with a witch and curses.
Batman the latest animated series on the Cartoon Network had Batman vs. Dracula, it was kinda cool.
Night Stalker was nothing special but they did have the Happy Tree Friends featured in the episode.
George Lopez tried to bring back the trick in trick or treat which nice but not funny.

As for channels AMC they are having a collection of scary & monster movies, here’s s short list…
Sunday, October 30, 2005
1:15 AM/EST Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
2:00 AM/EST Friday the 13th
4:00 AM/EST Arachnophobia
6:00 AM/EST The Beast Must Die
8:00 AM/EST Prophecy
10:15 AM/ES Village of the Damned
12:15 PM/EST Arachnophobia
2:15 PM/EST Pet Sematary II
4:15 PM/EST Stephen King's Graveyard Shift
6:00 PM/EST An American Werewolf in London
8:00 PM/EST Tremors
10:00 PM/EST Species II
11:45 PM/EST Tremors
The best of which is An American Werewolf in London I would recommend the uncut version because it deserve to be watched like the original theater version.

On Showtime they are having a mini-marathon of horror movies starting the 28th.
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road//Directed by Don Coscarelli ("Phantasm," "Bubba Ho-Tep")
Dreams in the Witch House //Directed by Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator," "Dagon")
Dance of the Dead //Directed by Tobe Hooper ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "Poltergeist")
Jenifer //Directed by Dario Argento ("Suspiria," "Terror at The Opera")
Choclate //Directed by Mick Garris ("Riding the Bullet," "The Stand")
Homecoming //Directed by Joe Dante ("The Howling," "Gremlins")
Deer Woman //Directed by John Landis ("An American Werewolf in London")
Cigarette Burns //Directed by John Carpenter ("Halloween," "The Thing")
Fair Haired Child //Directed by William Malone ("House on Haunted Hill," "FearDotCom")
Haeckel's Tale //Directed by John McNaughton ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer," "Wild Things")
Imprint //Directed by Takashi Miike ("Audition," "Ichi," "The Killer")
Pick Me Up //Directed by Larry Cohen ("It's Alive," "The Invaders")
Sick Girl//Directed by Lucky McKee ("May," "The Woods")

On non-Halloween related stuff,
Surface: Episode 6 was great the showed the monsters poop and they also show a second species. Plus they killed off two main characters Doc Cirko and his assistant. They DNA key is, agkagk not sure what that means.
Prison Break: The Old Hand, Scofield is 3 weeks in and 17 days ‘til the escape. The Vice-President is the one ordering the killing and she’s a woman, alos the rest of the Scofields are dead or faking it just to survive.

Thirdly is news from TV first George Takei came out the closet who’ll be next Ricky or Clay, sorry Claymates.
In General Hospital an 11 year old girl “LuLu” was recast into a 22 year old whore. I understand soaps often advance ages but enough this is ridiculous.

TV Guide: Oct. 24-30

Late again so what, on the cover a heavily airbrushed Geena Davis with the Commander in Chief title. There is a 4 page story about her life and love.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Charlie and Martin Sheen are appearing together in Two and a Half Men. Nicolas Cage, a confirmed Sci-Fi geek is producing a series of fantasy novels from Jim Butcher on the Sci-Fi channel.
• Dana Delany will be on Related, Joss Whedon will be on Veronica Mars.
• Beau Bridges will play the dad on My Name Is Earl, Jon Stewart, Woody Harrelson will have new babies and Mo’Nique just had twins.
• An interview with David Krumholtz of Numbers.
• Richard Burgi talks about his TV career.
• How Ethan Suplee lost 250 pounds.
• Matt Roush’s blindness is getting worse as he rates scary shows and calls Surface awful and Invasion great.
• A Grey’s Anatomy review, it’s a good show.
• Pinky Tuscadero of Happy Days fame later became a demolition derby driver then a criminal after shooting up a neighborhood after a car-alarm went off.

Wonderfalls: Series Finale

Wonderfalls: Caged Bird
This is the series final and a perfect end to a wonderful show.
A little kid is shoplifting at Jaye’s shop and is about to get busted but a blue caged bird tells her to “let him go”. She convinces the security guy to leave the slinky thief to get away. Eric comes in with his wife to buy some souvenirs but before can confess her true feelings the caged bird says again “let him go” then tells her “tell him you’re happy”.
The security guy arrests the little kid.
Barrel Bear tells Jaye to “give him heart” meanwhile the loser security guy is having trouble making friends with the cops, who have a robbery to deal with.
Jaye’s sister helps her after Jaye has mini-breakdown convincing her to call Eric and meet one more time and tell the truth.
The robber takes hostages in the gift shop and barrel bear tells her to “give him heart” so Jaye’s rendezvous is interrupted.
Mahandra has to keep bitch-Heidi occupied while Eric goes after Jaye.
Aaron and Mahandra are keeping their relationship a secret against Aaron’s wishes.
After some time the caged bird tells Jaye to “let him go” as the loser-security guy wants to take action. Meanwhile Heidi and Mahandra bond over their love lives.
While trying to escape the loser-security guy has a heart attack and dies, the police arrive because Eric sensed something wrong when he talked to Jaye. Sharon and Jaye do CPR on the dead guard, then the stuffed chameleon tells Jay ether is a “hidden door in the back and to let him go”, Sharon shocks the life back into the dead guard.
Jaye flees with the robber and crashes into Heidi, the robber is the squished by the arriving ambulance.
Jaye reunites with her family bit not Eric, Mahandra and Aaron go public.

Later security guy is showing off his scar of his new heart that he got from the robber and is not all that grateful.
Eric returns his souvenirs because he’s back and finally gets back with Jaye except now he’s divorced and without any baggage.

Wax lion starts to say “a word of advice” and Jaye tells it to shut-up and it does.

It was a perfect ending for the show, any type of resurrection of this show would ruin the happiness that happened. While they never quite explain why the inanimate-animals talked, they did say they talked to Jaye because she listened.

I would also add the music in this episode was beautiful.

Halloween And TV

Roseanne and Two Guys and a Girl always had the best Halloween episodes this year Two and a Half Men seems to be attempting a Halloween episode this Monday.

But what if you want to have a party with festive pumpkin carvings, well first you have too much time but here are three stencil places I've found on the web. Two are free the other is a paysite all are PDF downloads.

These carvings are a small sample of all the TV and movie characters that http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=db5e43972999116b094ade355bebc7c1 has it is a cool Halloween site that requires at least a $2.00 payment to download the stencils, but if your artistic or looking for inspiration you can figure out how to get these for free. Granted if you can afford to buy and carve a dozen pumpkins you can spend $2.00 for access, I've never used this site but the pictures are awesome. They have an open forum where you can get other free stencils and general help.

The next stencil site is from Hershey's http://www.hersheys.com/trickortreats/activities/stencils.asp thse PDFs are free and a bit more simple.

Finally another free site but it seems to working a bit slow the have dozens of PDFs several times I got error messages or broken images but I kept refreshing and they came through eventually. Under the Scary/Spooky Designs they have Mr. Worf(Star Trek) and many classic silver screen stencils. http://www.jack-o-lantern.com/patterns/ .

Halloween: Coming Soon

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love scary movies especially on TV at 3:00 AM and during a storm. Everytime there is an unexplained noise in my apartment I turn off the lights and go to investigate, but nothing no monsters, no adventures through a mysterious portal only a damn mouse trying to crawl under the door.

But first regular TV.

South Park: Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow
Cartman and Stan break a damn and the Katrina jokes come flooding in. Nothing over the top and offensive except the constant Jew gold references. This tenth season opener was better then recent years but lost some of its punch.

Drawn Together: The One Wherein There's A Big Twist Part 2
After last seasons very offensive and sexual season these animated roommates took off in a helicopter that was about to crash. When we rejoin them they do crash in the style of Lost and lose two roommates.
Their new roommate is a Strawberry Shortcake Nazi and she is the least offensive thing in the episode. While all the dead characters come back Strawberry gets eaten.
This show is funnier then south Park and more offensive I love it. Everyone is back on this cartoon reality show and getting ready to disgust the masses.

Gilmore Girls: Welcome To the Doll House
Rory is still wondering and getting dumber by the second. While this episode is just a bridge for next week big birthday celebration it was still funny and smart, especially compared to the two previous shows I just reviewed.
The main plot in this episode was the Birkin, a Hermes bag that sells from $10,000 to $64,000( at a recent New York City auction of a black crocodile version). Everyone around Rory gets the meaning of the bag except for the twit herself. It's like an engagement ring.

Smallville: Aqua
Aquaman, AC, or Alan Ritchson whatever he calls himself makes an appearance trying to stop the further evilness of Lex.
One cool part was having Lois coming out the water like Pheobe Cates in her now famous Fastimes scene.
The other cool part was the little in joke at the end...
AC:"Maybe we should start a Junior Lifeguard Association or something."
Clark:"I don't think I'm ready for the JLA yet."

More Quick Updates

Surface: Episode 5
Laura last week tagged a monster and now she is tracking it but if she track it so can the government. The beast is moving fast inland and up river into a populated area.
Miles and Phil lost their pet and must track it before animal control and everyone else find out what is going on. They track it to a supermarket and hijinks ensue. They never catch it but little Nimrod finds his way back to Miles bed.
Rich less crazy but still obsessed calls Laura and goes to meet her. His craziness makes her nervous. They go to take pictures of the monster with a crowd of people who think they are seeing a whale but all evidence is deleted by the monsters electric pulse.
Rich is arrested while Cirko takes Laura into the fold.

Great show, getting better.

Lost:...And Found
This was a nice episode, taking place 4 days after opening the hatch. Sun lost her wedding ring and we see the flashback of how she met her husband. We also see the back-of-the-plane-survivors working together to cross the island safely to meet our favorite survivors.
We also see 12 barefoot people, one dragging a teddy bear, all white...maybe The Others.

ER: Wake Up
John Leguizamo takes over Sherry Stringfields abandoned position as the new doctor that will shake up the ER. He's quick and efficient very into modern toys.
There was a public service announcement with Laura Innes, Linda Cardellini and Maura Tierney talking about breast cancer and some tacky scarf on today's episode.