The Dream Quest of Unknown Me

Stumbled across The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library which consists of short spoofs of popular movies performed by cartoon bunnies. Lol.

I was reading about "Eight Below" and came across the name of Moon Bloodgood who plays the pilot. I've googled and found out she's Korean, Irish and Dutch but I can't find out if that's her real name but what a name--just perfect for some character in the Buffyverse.

J. August Richards is going to be in "Conviction" on NBC playing an ADA. That braindump by the Senior Partners must really have stuck--I wonder if he'll be humming Gilbert & Sullivan *g*?

Well that was a very interesting ep of "Lost". I love the way Sawyer maneuvered events and people there on the island. So in honor of him I'm posting the link to The Sawyer Song just in case anyone hasn't seen it.

Now that "Threshold" has been cancelled and "Surface" has ended with only a 15-week season and it's return is doubtful (and the possibility of a Nim stuffed toy) that leaves "Invasion" as the sole survivor. It's certainly improving but like "Lost" the creators are having to balance giving the answers right away in order to keep enough of an audience for a 5-year run and not giving all the answers right away in the hope of a 5-year run. That's not easy. With "Babylon 5" and "BtVS" it was easier to maintain mysteries as most eps had a beginning, middle and end with a few tantalizing clues to the overall arc. In fact I believe JMS had the 5 seasons of "B5" plotted from the beginning and only had to change things when the suits interfered.

I think we fans do appreciate the challenge of multi-seasonal storylines no matter what Hollywood thinks ie compare the complexity of the plots of "Threshold", "Surface" and "Invasion" with the stand alone eps and simple plots of "The Invaders". In "Andromeda" when Kevin Sorbo fired Robert Hewitt Wolfe and discarded his multi-season story arc and made the show into basically stand alone eps, the series went downhill rapidly. (Trivia question: anyone know the name of the first actor to play Dylan Hunt?).

In a decade or so while ratings will still be important, TV viewing habits will be harder to measure as we might be watching shows by downloading them to our computers or iPod or cellphones to watch right away or later. The entire way of creating shows might have to be overhauled. Perhaps creators might be guaranteed a number of eps in which they can arc their series so they can make stories with beginnings and an eventual endings after a large number of eps without fear of cancellation. I remember many years ago watching a series on the Japanese channel called "Women of the Shogunate" about the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi and I think it took about a year's worth of weekly eps to tell about his life meaning the producers were given the go-ahead to take their time in telling his story so in effect it was a maxi-miniseries. Maybe this will become more common in the future. I hope so.

I'm still not quite sure what'll be happening when the WB and UPN merge into CW. In NYC the WB is on channel 11 and UPN is on channel 9; which channel will CW be on and what will happen to the other channel? At the moment I'm hoping that channel 9 will continue to air the syndicated SG1 and SGA as I don't get the SciFi Channel. I haven't even seen this new BSG that everyone seems to be raving about. Back in the late '80s we used to call the original BSG "Garbagestar Exlaxia" and I considered the sequel "Galactica 1980" to be the worst science fiction show of all.

Tonight is like fight night--"Lost" vs "Bones" and "Invasion" vs "L&O"--luckily I have a working VCR recorder but I don't know what I'll do when "L&O" moves ahead an hour. I'll probably not watch it until one of the other two are repeats. Why do the programmers feel the need to change shows around? Most likely to justify their existence as in a few years they'll be out of a job as we download shows from the internet at our convenience.

Last night I watched a fabulous episode of "Lost" where a whole season was condensed into 45 or so minutes. While I was watching it occurred to me that the Isle of the Lost may be the most inhabited deserted island since Gilligan's (not that there are that many on TV--the only other one I can think of is the one "The New People" crashed on when I was a kid). We have the survivors of Flight 815, Gabrielle and possibly others from her expedition including her child, Desmond and possibly more people connected with Dharma, possible survivors from the drug-smuggling planecrash, possible descendents of the crew of the Black Rock, and possibly Drusilla (the dolls *g*). Can't wait for next week's showdown between Sayid and Ana Lucia--it'll sort of be like "Clash of the Titans" on a smaller scale.