044 April is coming

NY
Well, crap, I’m going next week … for work.

I guess making the best out of this situation would be the mature way to handle it. So, I will try to be mature. What a drag.

CARGO
The Swiss just made their first big Scifi and it’s called Cargo. Apparently the trailer doesn’t do it justice, nor does the synopsis. That’s what people tell me. I think that the trailer makes the movie look and feel exactly like Pandorum. It’s weird. I am curious to see what the Swiss are capable of.

[more TV stuff again. It's the season]

SGU
Yeah, our baby is back! Despite the low ratings and the lack of gossip going around about the show, I know a lot of “normal” people who are not obsessive about Stargate or even Scifi in general … And they like SGU. And guess what? I like it too. I just can’t believe how much money they are getting to produce this series and it makes me think that Atlantis would have been a million times better if they only had been given access to the same budget. The amount of “corner cutting” that was going on with Atlantis was insane. I guess we were always proud of the guys for managing it and finding inventive solutions to compensate for the shortcomings caused by the lack of money. But I personally was starting to get tired of the whole thing.
I was so nervous about SGU that I kept taping the episodes without watching them. Keeping it for later, and later, and later. In the end, the second half of the season is starting soon and I still have to watch Earth, Time, Life and Justice. I am savoring each episode, even if I still have some issues with the endless character development [thank you BG.] But it looks so good, I am willing to let it unfold slowly.

FRINGE
Looking forward to the return of one of the most underrated series this season. It’s good but has a tinge of old school X-File-ish vibe and at the same time, it’s definitely related to Lost in the may that the story is told. Do I care? Just a little bit. As I said before, Lost worked for me during the first season. I taped the whole second season before watching it because I couldn’t stand the wait between episode, thinking the whole time that there were not many answers and too many questions on top of questions. Frustrating as hell. I then taped the third season and watched it all at once but this time I actually did a lot of fast forwarding which didn’t really help. After that, I stopped watching it all together while asking friends and relatives for a synopsis of each week’s episode. I did stop asking after a while. For the final season, I make sure to stay away, just in case I want to get into it again later. What a mess.
Anyway, Fringe is good fun and entertaining. We get to learn more about Bishop and son next week and that’s always a good thing.

FLASHFORWARD
I don’t know, I am not really watching it anymore. What happened?

HOUSEWIVES: NYC
Those chicks are insane. Sometimes I really wonder if we have just lost all perspective on life and humanity in general. Can people be so shallow, annoying, stupid, wasteful and fake? Yes, I guess they can. Over and over again.

AX MEN – DEADLIEST CATCH
None of those shows are chick show and yet, I really enjoy it so much. It’s funny and so very interesting. Anyway, after DC’s Captain Phil died, things were looking pretty bleak. But this week, the crews are coming back strong. Anticipation is high. Great.

24
Blah blah blah … blah. I am so disgusted with this show now, I don’t even know why. While I was watching it, at 4am lat night, I was thinking about it, trying to figure out why this show is no longer something I can stand. I think Keif’ is the problem. There are some obvious physical aspects of the guy that I am having difficulties with. One, it looks like he is getting smaller but his skin is the same. So now he is starting to look like a sharp ei. A man-sharpei is not so attractive. Two, the breathing! OMG the heavy, sniffly breathing is driving me nuts. I can’t take him seriously. Three, he has such a limited range that he is starting to repeat himself. I caught several expressions/sentences he’s already uttered a few million times since 24 started. For example:  Leaning over some guy who is dying, blood all over the place, Keif’ says “Stay with me! Stay with me!”. We, the audience already know the guys is going to die [BTW: this guy is obviously the equivalent of the STAR TREK red shirt dead man walking] So the drama really doesn’t work that much anymore when we already know who’s going to die. And that’s the thing about all those “End of the world” shows, how can you top yourself over and over again? How can you make the situation/peril worst than last season? Pretty tall order I imagine. Bu then again, it just got canceled so they won’t need to come up with the next world annihilation scenario.