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The writers strike is giving my netflix subscription a real work out. Since there is nothing new to really watch on TV, I spend my evenings watching movies and old shows on DVD. Hopefully, Pushing Daises and Life will soon come to DVD, so I can rewatch them soon. Yes, I know I can watch them online, but it just isn't the same as curling up in bed and watching some of your favorite shows. So this rerunning of things and being the new year and all makes feel like making a lists of 2007's bestest TV moments. These are in no particular order...
"Dig a Hole/Fill it up" Life: Quite possibly the best two hours of American television drama. Charlie abandons his Zen (tape) on a desert road, because there is no room in Zen for vengenace. With the Zen (tape) out of his car (life) for the time being he uses his police training and pure revenge to find the ones who did him wrong. He reclaims his Zen tape at the end of the episode, however the tape is destroyed. So it remains to be seen if Charlie will go back to his Zen ways, or if like the broken tape, it's in his hands, but of no use to him anymore. Part of the mystery of who killed his friends was solved, but the cover up and conspiracy, he'll need to dig a little deeper. It gives us something to look foward to if and when the writers go back to work.
"Blink" Doctor Who: Um, yeah, Moffett is so getting my therapy bill. Three years ago it was a creepy kid in a gasmask; two years ago, it was French clown robots; last year it was weeping angel statues that if you blinked they would kill you. Well not really kill you, just feed off your future abstract energy while you lived your life in a time that you didn't belong in. Did that even make sense? I'm not really sure, but the real point of the episode was to teach us to never take your eyes off any statue, ever. I never had a problem with statues before, yet I did find myself in a garden shop making two garden angels face each other, just in case. However, I would like a timey wimey detector, so it can go ding when there's stuff, just need to stay clear of the chicken coops.
"Company Man" Heroes: We learn about HRG/Bennet in this episode. How he came to have Claire, his partner before the Haitian, and his smarmy boss, the always eerily backlight Eric Roberts. In flashbacks we see Bennet shoot his former partner (Claude, the invisible man), because Claude was no longer the "Company Man." At the end we The Haitian shoots Bennet, because Bennet is no longer the "Company Man." The Bennet shooting was planned, however, it was in the same place (the bridge) Claude was shot. The idea that Bennet stands in the same place physically, mentally and emotionally as his former friend and partner, speaks volumes.
The writers strike is giving my netflix subscription a real work out. Since there is nothing new to really watch on TV, I spend my evenings watching movies and old shows on DVD. Hopefully, Pushing Daises and Life will soon come to DVD, so I can rewatch them soon. Yes, I know I can watch them online, but it just isn't the same as curling up in bed and watching some of your favorite shows. So this rerunning of things and being the new year and all makes feel like making a lists of 2007's bestest TV moments. These are in no particular order...
"Dig a Hole/Fill it up" Life: Quite possibly the best two hours of American television drama. Charlie abandons his Zen (tape) on a desert road, because there is no room in Zen for vengenace. With the Zen (tape) out of his car (life) for the time being he uses his police training and pure revenge to find the ones who did him wrong. He reclaims his Zen tape at the end of the episode, however the tape is destroyed. So it remains to be seen if Charlie will go back to his Zen ways, or if like the broken tape, it's in his hands, but of no use to him anymore. Part of the mystery of who killed his friends was solved, but the cover up and conspiracy, he'll need to dig a little deeper. It gives us something to look foward to if and when the writers go back to work.
"Blink" Doctor Who: Um, yeah, Moffett is so getting my therapy bill. Three years ago it was a creepy kid in a gasmask; two years ago, it was French clown robots; last year it was weeping angel statues that if you blinked they would kill you. Well not really kill you, just feed off your future abstract energy while you lived your life in a time that you didn't belong in. Did that even make sense? I'm not really sure, but the real point of the episode was to teach us to never take your eyes off any statue, ever. I never had a problem with statues before, yet I did find myself in a garden shop making two garden angels face each other, just in case. However, I would like a timey wimey detector, so it can go ding when there's stuff, just need to stay clear of the chicken coops.
"Company Man" Heroes: We learn about HRG/Bennet in this episode. How he came to have Claire, his partner before the Haitian, and his smarmy boss, the always eerily backlight Eric Roberts. In flashbacks we see Bennet shoot his former partner (Claude, the invisible man), because Claude was no longer the "Company Man." At the end we The Haitian shoots Bennet, because Bennet is no longer the "Company Man." The Bennet shooting was planned, however, it was in the same place (the bridge) Claude was shot. The idea that Bennet stands in the same place physically, mentally and emotionally as his former friend and partner, speaks volumes.
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