Spontaneous Musings

After spending two hours this morning doing laundry in a sweaty crowded laundramat,complete with a mosquito who bit me on the leg, retreated homewards, made bed up clean and broke in the new air conditioner by reading, watching the telly, and knitting all day. Good day for it too, since the sky threw a tempertantrum complete with thunder, lightening and pouring rain.

Anywho... I feel I should apologize to the folks on my flist regarding Supernatural. I was wrong. You were right. Yes, I've changed my mind. It happens.

( Why I've changed my mind about Supernatural for the remotely curious. )

I'm also watching Smallville - which was really good last year, again with a few minor exceptions. Welling actually has figured out how to act and keep his own opposite Rosenblum. And Kristen Kuerk is doing more than just looking pretty. Eric Endurance's Lois is a great addition, as are Jimmy Olsen, and Oliver Green - who is clearly taking Bruce Wayne's place in this series - since they can't get the rights to use Batman. Sort of happy about that, since I know less about the Green Arrow. Smallville is doing some interesting things and entertaining the heck out of me.

Tried Mad Men with Wales, we were both bored. Of course it did not help that the actors mumble and are difficult to hear. We had to keep rewinding to figure out what they were saying. Also as Wales put it - it is a bit too blatant about its sexism and racism.
Yes, we know the 50's were a bit like that...but we don't need it repeated in every frame.
We gave up on it twenty minutes in.

Also gave up on Rescue Me finally. Again was just bored. The characters don't appear to be evolving and it is just depressing. I'm tired of watching people scream at each other. I can see that in my real life on a daily basis don't need to watch it on television. Also Denis Leary's character is terribly whiny and starting to get on my nerves.

Saving Grace ? Not sure about this one. A bit too preachy. A bit too obvious. But I like Holly Hunter and the rest of the cast. I'll watch two or three more then decide.

Doctor Who - the jury is still out. It's incredibly campy and silly. And Freema Agyman isn't impressing me. Tennant is almost too twitchy for my taste. And the monsters a tad over-the-top. I should state at this point that I'm not overly fond of camp. The campier episodes of Buffy turned me off as well - never liked Go Fish, Reptile Boy, or a good percentage of the episodes in the first season. I found them silly not funny. It's my sense of humor, which is admittedly on the dark side of the fence. At any rate - I did not like the second episode with Shakspeare and the Witches, nor did I like the episode with the Runaway Bride, but I did like the one with the hospital on the moon. Have not seen the last two - still on DVR. So will wait until I see a few more before deciding one way or the other.

The previews for Torchwood look like a lot of fun and much better than Doctor Who.
(No, James Marsters isn't going to be on it yet. We're getting the FIRST season. The episodes with Marsters won't premiere in the States until Fall 2008 - if that. So, when I say that Torchwood looks interesting, it is not because Marsters is going to be on it.)

Anyone watching The 4400? Is it just me or is this beginning to resemble the X-Files? Or rather the X-Files meets the X-men? It even has it's own version of the lone gunman and the cigarette smoking man. Not sure I like the similarities - X-Files government conspiracy stuff got on my nerves.

PS: Does anyone have any cool Jo or Ellen icons from Supernatural? Really like those two characters.