I don't really watch much new T.V. At least I don't think I do comparatively, I have a decent list I do keep track of but it equals out to about 1 show a night, two at best, except Thursdays, because apparently everything has to happen on Thursday, not that it completely counts, I usually only watch one of the three on that night and then catch the rest on Hulu another day, usually the weekend since nothing is on then anyways.
I was never an Angel fan, I was never really a die hard Buffy fan either but I love the play between these two and I know most people want them to get together and the writers seem to be playing it in that direction but I think I would be okay without that happening.
Burn Notice Bruce Campbell. Anything with Bruce Campbell is exceedingly better than anything without Bruce Campbell. Enough said.
Castle
Castle I never saw Firefly, didn't have cable at the time but if Nathan Fillion was as good in that as he is in this(which I heard he was) then I am sorely sad I missed it and I suppose I will just have to get the DVDs.
Community
Community This cast manages to keep me in stitches every week, which is hard to do with me sometimes, most comedy is very cliche and over used.
Glee
Glee I have to admit this is more or less a guilty pleasure just for the singing, the story line is a bit eh and the characters feel pretty stereotypical but still, I like seeing them dance around and sing their brains out.
Good Eats
Good Eats Alton Brown makes cooking so much more an education then a chore. I love finding out that the things he teaches end up being used in multiple applications. He teaches not how to make a dish but how to harness the knowledge to make any dish. He is my go to chef when I need a recipe. I love this show and so do my kids, its like a food rendition of Bill Nye on crack.
NCIS
Mark Harmon is undeniably sexy, his voice is amazingly soothing, and his smile could melt hearts but even though many shows are pulled through by an actors looks, he is in a league all his own because he can also act, he is believable and I love that even his subtle emotions make me want to continue watching.
Psych
The interaction between these two is ridiculous and therefore hilarious. How they ever stayed friends is really beyond me and yet it's amazing all the same. I love the fist bumping, the random outbursts, the correcting strange information. Ah the love.
Top Gear
Some say he wears silk underwear because he thinks it gives him better aerodynamics, some say his lunches are made and hand delivered by pixies, all I know is, he's called The Stig. This show is comedy at it's best, love all their challenges.
Mostly though I would rather just watch something informational, such as a cooking show, anything on the history channel or some shows on the discovery channel. However my list of shows isn't really something that stretches, it's very rare when I start a new show and stick to it, I just don't care for much of the garbage on the boobtube. This means I miss out on some references but also that I watch a lot of good old shows. Which makes Hulu so wonderful, even if they have started putting in more commercial time, because then I skip the other crap and just get to go right to my show. Now every so often I catch something scrolling by on the home page that I then take an interest to and watch to see if I like it. This happened not so recently with the LXD.
For those of you who have never seen or heard of it, The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers is a miniseries that runs in about 10 minute increments created/directed/produced by Jon M. Chu. The plot centers around two rival groups of dancers who are in a power struggle as the forces of good and evil. Pretty elementary stuff here. The main idea is that dance focuses their powers and so is how they fight. Now I have to say, I really like watching people dance. I would happily watch Dancing with the Stars if there was less drama and more dancing involved. (If I could buy a DVD of just the dance routines I would) So when I saw the previews for this show, which they really did advertise to death, I was interested to say the least. The first episode made me laugh pretty hard core, it was rather silly to be honest, the dancing seemed interjected into the story instead of the building block of it but as with most shows, I decided to give it a few more episodes before I made up my mind whether I cared to finish watching it or not, plus, it was only in 10 minute blocks. The first two were a nice display of dance skills but it was the 3rd episode that hooked me, Robot Love. The story was powerful, the lack of terrible acting due in part to poor reading of lines made it surprisingly far more interesting. It reminded me of a comic book and of movies from days long past. It told a story that was beautiful and heart wrenching and vivid all that the same time, and I hoped it would be a glimpse of what was to come. I watched to the end of the season and then promptly forgot about it. That is, until two days ago when I saw it, once again, on the home page of Hulu, scrolling by with my missed episode of Castle and Glee. I have watched what is of the second season and the mix of dance to story seems to have highly improved and that is a plus, the dancing is spectacular but I have two big issues with this show.
First off, though they talk about a range of dancing, its really hard to see it. I mean I know that in this day and age that dances like swing and waltzing are considered outdated but I think they could be used in a strong way in this show. Crime fighters often come in pairs. Batman and Robin. Michael and Kitt. Cagney and Lacey. You could have a strong partnership with two people dancing some good swing (they sort of did this in the Duet episode) using each other as both shield and weapon but there seems to be a lack of some styles in this show. There are always ways to update old dances.
Second off, the lack of female lead roles and their treatment in the series. I know that dancing, in the particular styles shown, seem to be much more male dominated but there isn't a lack of female dancers out there and yet, even in the picture above, it is clear to see that there are no female leads. The only one heavily feature being Ninjato from Duet. The Dark Nurse from Robot Love was a nice break in both the dance styles and the sex of the dancer and yet she only got a 20 second clip.
In the latest episode the four Sirens make a mockery of what women can do, I can understand to some extent that they are supposed to be seducing these men, but with the obvious difference in the way women are treated on this show, it's hard not to see that they clearly remind one of a stripper giving a lap dance instead of a talented dancer. The heroes go off in search of women and the creator of this series gives a handful of objectified women for them to drool over. Granted I do expect heroes and saviors to want and need sex, but there they are, having just been told of their grand mission to save the world and they are worried about how they aren't getting laid. Pretty sad.
To make matters worse the woman are stereotyped ridiculously. The only strikingly noticeable females have turned out to be evil, either born that way or just on that side. Seems like someone has an Eve complex. If they had chosen a female to be leader of the evil side then I could possibly see this being a good case as to why more women are on that side. Granted then it would really be a power struggle between the sexes and in the end, as we all know, evil tends to lose and therefore the creator would then be likening women to evil creatures that are bound to fail but at least in that form they would be subject to the course of a natural heroic journey cycle instead of being subjugated in the lower ranks. The only real main female being the wife of the leader of the LXD, who is apparently a weak willed princess in need of rescuing.
It's despairing how little women are thought of as being capable of being heroes, how often they are seen as temptresses and seducers and seemly void of moral values. I am no feminist but it still bothers me. Let me just say, I may not have the same upper body strength as a man standing next to me but that doesn't mean I wont run into the burning building to try and pull you out anyways. I can't say for a fact he will.
Okay, that's enough of that.
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Nano is going no where, I haven't written in a week. I'm so uninspired this year.
I haven't worked out in two days, I just wasn't feeling up to it.
I still have yet to find a job.
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