Despite my better angels, I am entering the blogosphere, at the behest of some (two) far too enthusiastic friends (that would make them devils, right?). Already, this promises to be a rocky endeavor. So far, blogging reminds me of learning Spanish in preparation to move to Guatemala. While most people around me were struggling (smartly) with how to communicate basic needs and information, I was kept thinking (sillily), how is one funny in Spanish, for crying out loud?! In the current context, the similar question seems to be how does one make it pretty, dang it?! Content, I can handle, but aesthetics have never been my balliwick. So I may appeal to my devilish friends for help in this arena.
So the idea of my devilish friends was that I write occasionaly about tv and pop-culturey items, seeing as how I am a media-whore extraordinaire, and that sounds like as good a topic to begin with as any, so here is my first post along those lines:
HEROES: If you are not currently watching, you must, MUST get the DVD of this season as soon as it comes out. I am completely, gigglingly, at times gaspingly addicted to the show's clever mix of special effects, nonchalant treatment of "super" powers, almost spot-on casting (though the woman who plays the stripper with the hyper-violent alter-ego could be recast and I wouldn't cry), non-grating voiceovers (by an Indian genetics professor, no less), and comic book cool. And the Japanese character Hiro? So perfect and so punny without being at all annoying. That's pretty freaking hard to accomplish, particularly for network television, NBC no less, the network that continues to bring us boring, staid, gratuitously stereotypical ER and the like. Oh, and Deal or No Deal. So put it on your netflix lists now, I tell you!
The most recent episode, the first one I got my husband to watch with me (he being a reformed old-school comic book aficionado with an unnecessarily overdeveloped aversion to TV), was the most expository of the series so far, setting up what I anticipate will be a flurry of action-packed episodes running right into sweeps. And it revealed still more secrets, when it really seemed as if all the necessary secrets had already been revealed. In other words, network TV surprised me, again. That's what I'm saying, people. It's worth a watch, trust me.
2 comments:
I myself am somewhat skeptical of all these shows and their unfolding mysteries. We have scars long and deep from the X-Files, wherein we were always given little glimpses of some greater mystery that, when everything was wiped away, turned out to be nothing. Lost, for instance, seems quite compelling, but after having watched seasons one and two, I'm starting to have this sense of creeping doubt that their clever calculus of creepy coincidences will ever amount to anything. Besides, that is, some nifty alliteration.
Also, Mrs. Transient Gadfly would like it if you prefaced paragraphs that reveal details of tv shows with some sort of spoiler alert, on account of we tend to watch things on DVD some years after they actually air.
Spoiler alert, check, though I really didn't tell you anything in this particular post...but point well taken!
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