Okay, first of all, I want to apologize for not having talked about last Friday's BSG yet, but that's because I haven't had time to see it yet. Soon.
Also, to look forward to, I'll be detailing some new theories I have on the happenings at our favorite Island. My Claire theories went over so well, we'll try some new ones before Thursday's episode.
But the reason for today's quick post is that ABC announced their upcoming schedule meaning two big news items.
First, ABC has, as was expected, picked up Scrubs for next season!!!!! Good news, as J.D. deserves a real send off (although I thought My Princess was a pretty good episode).
Secondly, Eli Stone will be back next season!!!!! I'm pumped as for the most part, this show got better and better each and every week, and I can't wait to see what the second season will hold in store.
Also, the CW announced that Reaper has gotten a 13 episode order for next season as well, so good news day overall for religiously themed television shows.
Until Next Time, I just want to mention that the Cubs have the best record in baseball!
Showing posts with label Eli Stone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eli Stone. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Eli Stone: Waiting For That Day, first thoughts
So, last night I watched the Sunday episode of Eli Stone (if you missed it, ABC ran the latest episode of Eli Stone on Sunday after Desperate Housewives, you can check it out at ABC.com) and despite being confused right off of the bat by Nathon Fillion being on my screen (having somehow missed that he was on Desperate Housewives, I love you Nathon, but I can't watch that show, even for you) I quickly got things figured out and was ready for a big episode of #4 on the list of Josh's Choice for Best New Show of the Season, Eli Stone.
When Eli gave Maggie the gift and Maggie told Eli that Scott (her fiance) was moving to San Fran, I immediately knew that he was the guy in the station wagon from Eli's vision. That made me think of last Thursday's episode when Eli saw himself with Maggie in the ten year from now future. He wondered what would happen to her and her fiance. Now we know, he was supposed to die in that earthquake on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Eli, of course, stopped that from happening, which begs the question, does that mean that he has changed his own future with Maggie? I think that it does.
If I were writing the show, I would have a vision of Maggie and Scott together in the future that invalidates his vision of himself and Maggie in the future. He would then realize that by saving Scott's life he changed his and Maggie's future. He would then come to realize that he wanted that future that he saw. That he wanted to be with Maggie and have a child with her. And that he would have to make it happen himself if he wanted it.
Tomorrow is the Season Finale and hopefully not the Series Finale. We don't know about the shows future as of yet. There is obviously so much more that this show has to offer and hopefully it will return.
Until Next Time, tomorrow is LOST less Thursday #4 and it brings good news. Not only is it the last Thursday without LOST until May 22nd, but also we have gotten word that we will be getting one more hour of LOST this season then we originally thought.
When Eli gave Maggie the gift and Maggie told Eli that Scott (her fiance) was moving to San Fran, I immediately knew that he was the guy in the station wagon from Eli's vision. That made me think of last Thursday's episode when Eli saw himself with Maggie in the ten year from now future. He wondered what would happen to her and her fiance. Now we know, he was supposed to die in that earthquake on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Eli, of course, stopped that from happening, which begs the question, does that mean that he has changed his own future with Maggie? I think that it does.
If I were writing the show, I would have a vision of Maggie and Scott together in the future that invalidates his vision of himself and Maggie in the future. He would then realize that by saving Scott's life he changed his and Maggie's future. He would then come to realize that he wanted that future that he saw. That he wanted to be with Maggie and have a child with her. And that he would have to make it happen himself if he wanted it.
Tomorrow is the Season Finale and hopefully not the Series Finale. We don't know about the shows future as of yet. There is obviously so much more that this show has to offer and hopefully it will return.
Until Next Time, tomorrow is LOST less Thursday #4 and it brings good news. Not only is it the last Thursday without LOST until May 22nd, but also we have gotten word that we will be getting one more hour of LOST this season then we originally thought.
Friday, March 28, 2008
LOST less Thursday One, first thoughts
Well, week one without LOST. I feel different, somehow incomplete. We will try to soldier on regardless. (Although as the Killers say, "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier").
The good news about no LOST last night is that I got to watch Reaper as it aired a new episode instead of a few days later due to the magic of DVR. Of course, just as this show is getting outstanding we hear about the possibility of it not coming back next season (although I think it's chances are pretty good at getting a second season, my fingers are crossed). Last night's episode was among the best. I clapped in excitement when Sam and Andi kissed (what can I say, I'm a romantic, at least as long as said romanticism occurs in a SciFi or Fantasy setting), but I got most excited by the fact that Andi finally has an inkling that something strange is going on in Sam's world (his parents sold his soul to the Devil and he has to work for him now, yeah, that classifies as strange alright). If you recall from my review of the premiere of Reaper, my main concern with it was it's portrayal of the female characters despite being a show created by females. If you don't recall, feel free to reread that post right here. Well, that has definitely become less of an issue as the show has continued, thanks mainly to the great character development of Andi, but I still think it is high time to get a female on this Scooby Squad (to steal a nickname of demon fighting friends from Buffy).
Also, I dug the next door neighbors of our heroes. Those two guys are awesome and the demophobic storyline was classic.
"You stopped hanging out with us because we're gay, didn't you, Sam?"
"No, not that. It's because you're demons. Have you eaten anyone recently?"
"That is offensive. We don't have to listen to this."
Hilarious.
Despite there being no new LOST last night, there was a new Eli Stone, another show that has gotten progressively better as it continued (especially last weeks episode which I'll get to in a minute). Last night's episode was the second this week allowing a pop star with a tendency toward tabloid troubles* to show off their acting chops, and it was the second this week where said pop star (Britney in How I Met Your Mother and George Michael last night on Eli Stone) greatly impressed me.
"Another thing that Bono and I have in common, we're both visible."
Awesome.
Last night also provided me with the opportunity to do something I had been wanting to give a try for some time, the Recap as viewed at such sites as Television Without Pity or my personal favorite Zap2It. Normally, I just give my views on the episode, but the fine bloggers at these sites (as well as some of the other people who cover LOST) instead give a recap of the episode, catching you up if you missed it, and possibly pointing out something you missed even if you watched it. I like the idea and secretly wanted to give it a try myself, but had never quite gotten around to it. Then, last night, I got a Facebook message from a friend who had missed the first 22 minutes of the episode. Ah hah, I thought to myself, I can do a 22 minute recap to sort of ease myself into the recap writing process, see if I'm any good at it or not (I'm not) in order to catch my friend (dear, little friend, who if she studies really hard can become a Eli Stone alum like me) (okay, maybe Xanga isn't the place for inside jokes such as the one inside of the parenthesis before these, but I couldn't resist) up. So, I used said trusty DVR and recapped the first 22 minutes and replied on a Facebook message (seriously, how did I communicate before Facebook? It is entirely possibly that I never had a conversation before the invention of Facebook. I'm a little addicted to Facebook) with the missing 22 minutes. While I feel that I did an adequate job, I discovered that it is not my passion. I would much rather talk about the episode with the understanding that those reading my post have already seen said episode so that together we can dig a little deeper into the meaning.
That being said, I want to do that a little bit with last week's episode of Eli Stone, the one where Eli had the vision of the Earthquake that never happened. I would have talked about it last week, but we had the whole Michael is back on LOST thing, so we'll talk about it now.
But we are all pretty sure that it isn't. So, the question becomes, what was the point of getting all of those poor people kicked out of their homes? What was the point of getting Eli to become unethical? (Even when he was fighting for the side of injustice before the whole aneurysm thing, he was at least doing it ethically.)
I think that it was just to get Patty back in that church.
While Eli and Patty were talking in the church, Patty mentioned she hadn't been in there for some time, but everything that had just happened had gotten her to go back.
I personally really dig the idea of that.
I also like that the episode didn't spell it out for you what the point of the visions were in this episode. It seems to me that if there were a modern day prophet in this sort of situation, things like this would be the norm, not a Dragon to represent Dr. Agon. (Although, that is pretty funny when you think about it.)
Until Next Time, only four more weeks.
*always about adding alliteration
The good news about no LOST last night is that I got to watch Reaper as it aired a new episode instead of a few days later due to the magic of DVR. Of course, just as this show is getting outstanding we hear about the possibility of it not coming back next season (although I think it's chances are pretty good at getting a second season, my fingers are crossed). Last night's episode was among the best. I clapped in excitement when Sam and Andi kissed (what can I say, I'm a romantic, at least as long as said romanticism occurs in a SciFi or Fantasy setting), but I got most excited by the fact that Andi finally has an inkling that something strange is going on in Sam's world (his parents sold his soul to the Devil and he has to work for him now, yeah, that classifies as strange alright). If you recall from my review of the premiere of Reaper, my main concern with it was it's portrayal of the female characters despite being a show created by females. If you don't recall, feel free to reread that post right here. Well, that has definitely become less of an issue as the show has continued, thanks mainly to the great character development of Andi, but I still think it is high time to get a female on this Scooby Squad (to steal a nickname of demon fighting friends from Buffy).
Also, I dug the next door neighbors of our heroes. Those two guys are awesome and the demophobic storyline was classic.
"You stopped hanging out with us because we're gay, didn't you, Sam?"
"No, not that. It's because you're demons. Have you eaten anyone recently?"
"That is offensive. We don't have to listen to this."
Hilarious.
Despite there being no new LOST last night, there was a new Eli Stone, another show that has gotten progressively better as it continued (especially last weeks episode which I'll get to in a minute). Last night's episode was the second this week allowing a pop star with a tendency toward tabloid troubles* to show off their acting chops, and it was the second this week where said pop star (Britney in How I Met Your Mother and George Michael last night on Eli Stone) greatly impressed me.
"Another thing that Bono and I have in common, we're both visible."
Awesome.
Last night also provided me with the opportunity to do something I had been wanting to give a try for some time, the Recap as viewed at such sites as Television Without Pity or my personal favorite Zap2It. Normally, I just give my views on the episode, but the fine bloggers at these sites (as well as some of the other people who cover LOST) instead give a recap of the episode, catching you up if you missed it, and possibly pointing out something you missed even if you watched it. I like the idea and secretly wanted to give it a try myself, but had never quite gotten around to it. Then, last night, I got a Facebook message from a friend who had missed the first 22 minutes of the episode. Ah hah, I thought to myself, I can do a 22 minute recap to sort of ease myself into the recap writing process, see if I'm any good at it or not (I'm not) in order to catch my friend (dear, little friend, who if she studies really hard can become a Eli Stone alum like me) (okay, maybe Xanga isn't the place for inside jokes such as the one inside of the parenthesis before these, but I couldn't resist) up. So, I used said trusty DVR and recapped the first 22 minutes and replied on a Facebook message (seriously, how did I communicate before Facebook? It is entirely possibly that I never had a conversation before the invention of Facebook. I'm a little addicted to Facebook) with the missing 22 minutes. While I feel that I did an adequate job, I discovered that it is not my passion. I would much rather talk about the episode with the understanding that those reading my post have already seen said episode so that together we can dig a little deeper into the meaning.
That being said, I want to do that a little bit with last week's episode of Eli Stone, the one where Eli had the vision of the Earthquake that never happened. I would have talked about it last week, but we had the whole Michael is back on LOST thing, so we'll talk about it now.
But we are all pretty sure that it isn't. So, the question becomes, what was the point of getting all of those poor people kicked out of their homes? What was the point of getting Eli to become unethical? (Even when he was fighting for the side of injustice before the whole aneurysm thing, he was at least doing it ethically.)
I think that it was just to get Patty back in that church.
While Eli and Patty were talking in the church, Patty mentioned she hadn't been in there for some time, but everything that had just happened had gotten her to go back.
I personally really dig the idea of that.
I also like that the episode didn't spell it out for you what the point of the visions were in this episode. It seems to me that if there were a modern day prophet in this sort of situation, things like this would be the norm, not a Dragon to represent Dr. Agon. (Although, that is pretty funny when you think about it.)
Until Next Time, only four more weeks.
*always about adding alliteration
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