Mike Tee Vee, part 1

WHY BIONIC WOMAN OWNS IT’S EXISTANCE TO BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

David Eick is the Executive Producer of the new Bionic Woman remake on NBC. David Eick is also one of the Executive Producers of the Sci-Fi channel’s Battlestar Galactica. The new Battlestar Galactica and the new Bionic Woman are based on old shows from the 70s. The Sci-Fi channel is owned by NBC. After the success of Battlestar Galactica, it’s parent company NBC probably looked at the 70s and said, “what other show can we remake?” David Eick stepped up and took on the Bionic Woman remake, which is now on NBC like Battlestar Galactica should be (if BSG was on NBC it might have lasted more than 4 years.) Thanks, Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore, and David Eick. And good luck… I’ll be watching closely tonight, because that’s the kind of guy I am (creepy nerd?) (I judge myself.)

CHUCK

Holy crap, I actually enjoyed this. Usually I struggle to sit through first episodes, but this one kept it’s pace, and successfully managed to be the “comedy/action/sci-fi” show it said it was going to be. It’s about a guy who accidentally “downloads” all of the government’s secrets, turning his brain into a mini-computer. Certain things trigger these memories. And of course, the CIA realizes he’s an asset, and so they keep an eye on him, and it must be kept a secret! Kind of like The Bourne Identity meets Mighty Max, meets True Lies.

Pretty good. Pretayyy, pretayyy, pretay good. (Anyone watch Curb Your Enthusiasm?)

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

Pretty good. Pretayyy, pretayyy, pretay good. First time watching it; I’m three episodes in. People say so far this is the best season so I have little interest (or time) in watching the previous five seasons.

LOST

Recently, the guy who played Richard (Nestor Carbonell) took a role on another network’s show, so for the time being he won’t be back on Lost. However, he let it slip that his character is 400 years old (which is why, in Ben’s childhood flashback, he didn’t appear any different). Once this other show is cancelled, though, I hope he’ll be back, and we’ll get some flashbacks to his childhood, circa 1604. It would kind of be like the origin of Wolverine, in that you see this character in a completely different era (it was indeterminate, but Wolverine appeared to be a child in the mid 1800s, and due to his ‘mutant healing factor’ his body ages incredibly slowly. Right now in the series “Wolverine: Origins,” it’s telling the story of how he and Captain America worked together in World War I.)

HEROES

The title of this show could be “X-Men,” and I’d enjoy watching it a bit more. I’m still not watching out of enjoyment or a wonder of what’s going to happen next, I’m watching just because it’s a show I kind of feel like I should be watching. I mean, come on, “Adam doesn’t watch Heroes?!” Fuhgetaboutit. The only character I still enjoy is Noah Bennet (HRG), and it still feels forced to me. After the letdown that was last season’s “shocking finale,” I’m hoping season two finds it pacing and differentiates itself from all the other superhero stories out there. Two goods things: the opening music alone is still enough to keep me entertained (for an hour, even), and finding out the mysterious “symbol” is part of the creepy guy’s face that the Little Girl described last season as the “mean guy who looks back.”

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This was an email I got last week from Jeff:

Hey there buddy. I just watched the last quarter of the 3rd season of Battlestar Galactica. By the last quarter of the season, I mean I’ve been watching for 5 hours.

I mean it.

I watched the Emmy’s on Sunday.  I missed the first 45 minutes but watched the rest.  I got more and more T.O.ed as the night progressed because it became clear that if you are an old person or a recently cancelled show, you’re odds of winning skyrocket.

Although I was glad to see a little show that airs on the Sci-Fi channel on Friday nights (called Battlestar Galactica) go up against a show on HBO (Sopranos) and a show on ABC (called Lost).  Just more proof that, really, the Sci-Fi channels needs more credibility or Battlestar Galactica really should have been on NBC to begin with.

Other highlights included when some old woman (sorry, don’t know who) didn’t know she had to read from the prompter and just when you felt awkward about it for her she said, “Sorry, I’m not faking it, I really have no idea what the hell is going on.”  Another is when FOX decided to censor Sally Field when she said, “If mothers ruled the world, there’d be no god damned wars in the first place.”  Thanks, Fox.  I’d much rather hear Ryan Seacrest call something Gay and hear Doogie Howzer make a perverted remark about Hayden Panettiere turning 18.  Good call about what’s acceptable after 11:00 at night.

Anyway Battlestar Galactica is great and you should watch it if you’re not already.  That is all.

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Well, if you read my Twitter you’ll know that I was late in getting home from work because I was so caught up in a book. It’s not a new book, in fact, it was published in 1983 (the year I was born, dingos)! I came across it through a forum about Lost (the tv show), where some guy was claiming this book had all the answers.

Don’t get me wrong: I did not read this book thinking it had anything to do with Lost, in fact, while reading it, I totally forgot about any connection with Lost. It’s just that the summary he gave made it seem like a really great sci-fi book. And it is!

The Lost connection the poster was talking about was the mystery of how the survivors of Flight 815 were “found” in the wreckage, when, how could that be?, they’re on the island.

Well, in this book, time travelers from a future human society where we’re all infertile and dying thanks to no less than nineteen nuclear wars come up with a plan to “snatch” people from the past in order to create a utopian society so that humanity can somehow survive. Anybody who knows anything about time travel knows that if you go messing up people’s lives in the past, that means bad shit for the future, because if some shit doesn’t go down that was supposed to, how in the fuck is someone gonna go back in time in the first place and mess shit up all over again?

Paradox, is what they call that.

Example: I go back in time and stay the fuck outta the way. Some ho ass trips me, and I trip someone else by mistake. “Bitch ass,” the person says, carrying about their day. No harm done, right? Well, those three seconds that retard called me a bitch ass, is one second late he’ll be in stepping into the Apple store. In those three seconds, a customer has asked for the last iPhone when in fact, that whole reason the guy went to the mall was to get an iPhone and he was in a hurry, and originally he was supposed to get one but now he doesn’t. So he’s mad. The thing is: the guy is nuts and pulls out a gun and blows everyone up. As it turns out, I only went back two days in the past in order to stop myself from buying a cookie. The guy shoots my past-self. I no longer exist so, two days later, cannot go back in time to accidentally trip the guy. Are you confused? You should be; the universe is, too. That’s why it’ll explode if it happens.

Okay, that’s a bad example, but you get the point: don’t go messing up shit that’s happened.

So, to get around that, the people manufacture “used” bodies and put them in place of people right before their impending doom. Terrorist attacks, boating accidents, etcetera. The book focuses on a particular plane crash when they got a little sloppy and left something behind. After the crash, the investigator finds this artifact and digs a little deeper. One of the things he finds in the plane’s black box was a transcript of one of the flight attendant’s yelling: “They’re burned! All the passengers are dead and burned!” Then, the plane crashes.

So shit hits the fan, and the story unfolds from there. If you want to know more you should read it, it’s good. You can borrow it.

[spolierzz] About a third of the way though I started getting my own ideas for a similar story. I had it all mapped out and good surprises and everything. Then I read the last quarter of the book and exactly the same thing happened. Adam = bummed out. I always wanted to write a story where, at the end, the two survivors of some MASSIVE disaster that wipes out all of humanity realize that they are Adam and Eve. Well, that’s what happens.

“It’s all been dooonneee….. before…….”

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