The New Crop
I’m slowly sampling some of the new shows this season. I just finished watching the pilot of JOURNEYMAN, and will catch episode two tonight. (Tivo is wonderful). Anyway, I quite like the show because I fell in love with Kevin McKidd when he played Vorenus in ROME. I was shouting at the television — “Why don’t you find out some information about this guy your keep running across in the past?”, but overall I liked it. The scene where he wants to sleep with his lost love, but sees his wedding ring is wonderful.
I missed recording BIONIC WOMAN, but I caught the last forty minutes on Sci Fi. It’s nice and dark, and there seem to be some intersting mysteries, but it felt like important scenes got cut from the script or cut in editing so it felt very choppy. The girl is pretty, but she’s just not up to Starbuck’s weight.
Of course I watched the opener of my beloved HOUSE. I love Wilson. Watching these two overgrown boy’s play testosterone games is wonderful. The big disappointment has been HEROES. I hated the season ender, and I thought the season opener was snoringly dull. They need to lose that droning V.O. opening. There were also no surprises. Oh wait, Hiro is the hero of ancient Japan that he so loves and admires. Boy, I sure didn’t see that coming. And why, why do people who are supposed to be dead not stay dead? Don’t ask me for an emotional response, and then say, “Ha, fooled you.”
On my front — Ian and I finished the rewrite of OUTPOST on Sunday. Our manager is reading the script and will give us line notes in the next few days. Fingers crossed that it finds a home. I really like what we’ve done.
Melinda
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Huh. I’ve seen that comment in more than one place, and I agree with it.
I wish Katee Sackhoff was playing Jaime Sommers. Her character, Sarah Corvis, was by far the most interesting one of the show.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
*crosses fingers*
I hope RTL buys the second installment of ROME. I want more James Purefoy as Antonius.
And Vorenius is really cute, too.
Do you have actors in mind when you write screenplays? I catch myself casting some of my novel characters, esp. when I come across an actor who would match.
October 4th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Len’s pushing “Pushing Daisies.”
I know you don’t like sitcoms, but we are just rolling with laughter watching Big Bang Theory because we do know these guys all too well. I realized the view out the window of their apartment is the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals building in Pasadena. They are supposed to be at Cal Tech. Len’s watched all three versions of the pilot and we are looking forward to the reintroduction of the girl geek next week. Along the same vein, we are quite addicted to Beauty and the Geek, but they’ll really have to go some distance to top last year’s ending and the romance that sprang from the show.
I’m looking forward to New Amsterdam with a hero who’s done exactly what I would if I were given infinitely long life: gone to school to become an expert in about everything.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Yes, I do have actors in mind when I write a screenplay. Not so much for novels.
I wanted to tivo PUSHING DAISIES, but I got invited out to hear Al Gore last night, and I forgot to set up the machine before I left. I loved Dead Like Me so I’m sure I’ll like this new show. I also wanted to record LIFE which has been getting good reviews.
I’ll be blogging about hearing America’s only remaining statesman and about EASTERN PROMISES when I get a little time today.