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healingmirthOn right now: VH1's Friday Night Alright: Adam Lambert Unplugged. (or Friday Night A'ight, as Jim Shearer pronounced it. That scamp.) I really did not enjoy most of his performances on Idol last season, I haven't heard his album, and am not in love with what I've heard on the radio and around, but I'm sort of digging the first song, Music Again. Adam's the mentor on Idol next week, and I'm looking forward to it.
The (very small) audience appears to be full of women who are more-or-less my age, sitting quietly and smiling somewhat awkwardly. Not that I'd expect anything else from them, but I seriously can't imagine sitting that close to someone performing, so I keep getting a sort of awkward chuckle out of it. I have eye contact issues. I really hated that moment when Usher stared at the camera on Idol last week.
In other news, I did not love the third episode of Justified. There was way too much boring fugitive-of-the-week, and way not enough featured/recurring characters. At the end of the episode, I didn't feel like I'd learned anything about anyone I cared about, and if I wanted to be watching an episode of Law and Order or CSI: Wherever, I would be.
However! The fourth ep totally made up for it. Cameron Frye! Happy partner times, great antagonist, great bad-guys-for-hire.
On a sort-of-related note, let's talk about when our protagonists kill people, yeah? So, Justified, he shoots people, right? (and kills them, like law enforcement officers do when they aim like they're supposed to) Hence the title. I'm a big fan of Generation Kill fic (and Fick! but that's beside the point), and clearly they are soldiers, so people get shot there too. There was an AU this week though, that totally lost me halfway through because I needed a reaction (or even a pointed non-reaction) to some death, and I just didn't see it.
In slightly-less-homicidal news, Stargate: Universe is back. In the however-many months since the last episode, I had forgotten what happened in 1x10 (Justice) and how it ended. Suffice it to say that there was a cliffhanger going into the hiatus, and I was less than engaged in its resolution.
I still don't know what Lt. Whatisname's name is. That should probably be a bad sign, but it's almost a source of pride now. I refuse to go look it up.
Of the characters whose names I know, I'm having a hard time trying to place Col. Young relative to O'Neill's sort-of-reluctant hero. I don't know, even. Is O'Neill a reluctant hero? Or is he just grumpy? I get the feeling that Young really does not want to be there, possibly doesn't want to be involved with the SGC at all. He makes me miss Cameron Mitchell. I'm not sure I can watch a Stargate show without anyone who's excited about the exploration, and I don't see anyplace for SGU to go so that they can find the joy. Ever.
At any rate, after hearing the episode description for 1x11, I was all excited for Stargate: now with aliens that don't speak English! Except, oh wait, they speak English. Sort of. At least this time its because they're a frighteningly advanced civilization and/or robots.
I continue to not understand Chloe and Lt. Whoever. I don't need to understand it; they don't need to have a relationship that's any deeper than good-looking lonely people in space. The episodes are so crowded, though, that I can't tell what's intended to be shorthand for something, and what's just not there.
Uh, and Merlin is on SyFy, which is to say that Merlin is on, again. I've still only seen the first few episodes. It's being billed as an Original Series, which, yes. But it's not your Original Series, SyFy.
The (very small) audience appears to be full of women who are more-or-less my age, sitting quietly and smiling somewhat awkwardly. Not that I'd expect anything else from them, but I seriously can't imagine sitting that close to someone performing, so I keep getting a sort of awkward chuckle out of it. I have eye contact issues. I really hated that moment when Usher stared at the camera on Idol last week.
In other news, I did not love the third episode of Justified. There was way too much boring fugitive-of-the-week, and way not enough featured/recurring characters. At the end of the episode, I didn't feel like I'd learned anything about anyone I cared about, and if I wanted to be watching an episode of Law and Order or CSI: Wherever, I would be.
However! The fourth ep totally made up for it. Cameron Frye! Happy partner times, great antagonist, great bad-guys-for-hire.
On a sort-of-related note, let's talk about when our protagonists kill people, yeah? So, Justified, he shoots people, right? (and kills them, like law enforcement officers do when they aim like they're supposed to) Hence the title. I'm a big fan of Generation Kill fic (and Fick! but that's beside the point), and clearly they are soldiers, so people get shot there too. There was an AU this week though, that totally lost me halfway through because I needed a reaction (or even a pointed non-reaction) to some death, and I just didn't see it.
In slightly-less-homicidal news, Stargate: Universe is back. In the however-many months since the last episode, I had forgotten what happened in 1x10 (Justice) and how it ended. Suffice it to say that there was a cliffhanger going into the hiatus, and I was less than engaged in its resolution.
I still don't know what Lt. Whatisname's name is. That should probably be a bad sign, but it's almost a source of pride now. I refuse to go look it up.
Of the characters whose names I know, I'm having a hard time trying to place Col. Young relative to O'Neill's sort-of-reluctant hero. I don't know, even. Is O'Neill a reluctant hero? Or is he just grumpy? I get the feeling that Young really does not want to be there, possibly doesn't want to be involved with the SGC at all. He makes me miss Cameron Mitchell. I'm not sure I can watch a Stargate show without anyone who's excited about the exploration, and I don't see anyplace for SGU to go so that they can find the joy. Ever.
At any rate, after hearing the episode description for 1x11, I was all excited for Stargate: now with aliens that don't speak English! Except, oh wait, they speak English. Sort of. At least this time its because they're a frighteningly advanced civilization and/or robots.
I continue to not understand Chloe and Lt. Whoever. I don't need to understand it; they don't need to have a relationship that's any deeper than good-looking lonely people in space. The episodes are so crowded, though, that I can't tell what's intended to be shorthand for something, and what's just not there.
Uh, and Merlin is on SyFy, which is to say that Merlin is on, again. I've still only seen the first few episodes. It's being billed as an Original Series, which, yes. But it's not your Original Series, SyFy.
