For the Doctor Who fan...

In celebration of me finally catching up on Doctor Who (well, the new series of course) and the fact that I finally understand this, I thought I should share:

Time for a very long flight home...
~ Sarah

Tuesday Night Mid-Season Finales

SPOILERS: NCIS, Glee, SGU, and Riese

Whoops....I guess I fell a liiiittle behind. My bad.

Damn, this is a lot more stuff to go through than all the Monday ones. Once again, aiming for impact and general opinion rather than specifics, sorry, or else this post would be way too long and I'd never get to enjoy my vacation.

Which is going great, by the way. I love holidays. Video games, home cooked meals, being driven crazy by your family (but of course you still really love them)....thank goodness none of them read this blog.

Also, if you're interested in plays and/or gay rights, I highly recommend the play called "The Laramie Project"; very moving and emotional. On a similar note, hurrah for the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell! (You can tell when I started writing this post by this paragraph)

Anyways, Riese actually turned out rather less disappointing towards the end. My final say would be, watch it if you enjoy artsy sci-fi or fantasy. It's nothing really original and the actors fall flat at times of the potential I know they have (kind of like watching Natalie Portman in Star Wars - you can tell she's trying but the dialouge she has to work with is just too awful). However, I was struck by the beauty of the show - the costumes, the gadgets, the scenery, all really stunning. It's aesthetics make it past that dividing line that makes certain steampunks shine while others are merely clunky and flashy. If you have some time to spare this break, watch it, and maybe like me you'll look forward to a potential second season. But you'll also see that it's no surprise that they weren't given their own TV show - this is no Sanctuary.

Merry Christmas to All!

No matter you're religion, celebrate Christmas as a lovely themed day when, at the very least, everyone else is busy with family, leaving you a nice day off.

Except for people in service industries. Sucks to be you, sorry, but there's always Boxing Day. I always did like Boxing Day....

Anyways, here's something to bring a bit of Christmas Joy:

~ Sarah

Sad News (part 2)

Last time I posted under this heading it was because the Sanctuary premiere had been postponed a month. Unfortunately, this news also has its roots in SyFy. Courtesy of blastr.com:

"Syfy announced today it will end its original action-adventure series Stargate Universeonce the show returns to finish its second season in the spring of 2011. The upcoming 10 episodes will be the series' last."

Some people are sad, and some people are relieved. Interestingly, this means both of SyFy's Tuesday night shows have been cancelled (SGU and Caprica) while Sanctuary is thriving in it's Friday night slot.

My opinion is leaning towards the relieved. I'm always sad to see a show with potential cancelled, and SGU did have some gems with the characters of T.J., Rush [above], Eli, and even Young at times. Season 1 stumbled trying to find it's footing, and Season 2 seemed to be headed in the right direction until...

It turned out there was a higher intelligence involved in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. And then the religion metaphor, which was actually somewhat lovely to see at points, became heavy handed and substituted in in the place of science and actual ongoing action and drama.

So maybe it's time for the show to end. Like Dollhouse, the remaining episodes may spur them into actually reaching some resolution for the fans. Or like Kyle XY, Firefly, Jake 2.0, or the Middleman, maybe we'll be left throwing things at the TV going "WHAT THE @*&$#(@*#& you can't end it there! That didn't explain anything!!"

What do you think. Not given the chance to shine or a decision that should have been made ages ago?

Monday Night Mid-Season Finales

SPOILERS: Chuck, House, Castle

IT'S SNOWING!!!!

Ah, the tragedy that is mid-season break. Chuck, House, and Castle are all done for this year. Castle will be back as soon as January 3rd but the other two won't be back until January 17th. But they did have the decency to end on different weeks so I'm not just stuck with tons of shows on one week and none anytime else. So this is technically my review of Monday November 22th, 29th and December 6th.

Some of these are a bit scant, apologies, I went more for my general opinion rather than details as these are end of the season.

Episode of the Week(s?): Either "Chuck versus the Leftovers" or Castle's "Last Call"

Sanctuary Episode Review - "Trail of Blood"

Hey Magnus, guess who's back in town...or at least the Columbian Highlands...

This is extremely late, but I wanted to do a really really thorough review of this episode cause it deserves it. And I guess it's ok to do it now because thanks to SyFy's extreme internet delay policies (30 days before show's are on hulu!) the episode is just now on the web. [Pics also courtesy of SyFy]

Thank You Internet!

Ask and ye shall receive. It took two days after Vigilante airing and the aforementioned Tesla scene is already up on the web. It's either a late Hanukah present or an early Christmas one. Enjoy!

~ Sarah

Another thing to tide you over...

Still working, still catching up on TV. Bones made a comeback, by the way, with a hell of an episode "The Doctor in the Photo", and Sanctuary tied up their Father Jensen storyline nicely and is headed toward Hollow Earth next week.

Plus, I know I've said this before but, Jonathan Young is so great as Nikola Tesla on Sanctuary. Who else can make walking away saying "you're welcome" after unbuttoning a woman's shirt with magnetic powers while she awkwardly flirts with another character [below, on the right] so wonderfully snarky and hilarious? Once I find a clip of that scene, I'm posting it here, let me know if you find it!

Speaking of clips, here's two more to keep you going. Taylor the Latte Boy and Taylor's Response - these have been playing out of my headphones all finals week. These are my favorite performances; the original song doesn't have a set girl's name in it (it's not from a show) which is why the name changes from Kristen to Lindsey. Enjoy!

~ Sarah

Finals Finals Finals Finals

AHHHHHHHHHH. FINALS. TAKE HOME FINALS. PROJECTS.

Anyways, I'm busy, and behind, and all that. I'll have to pull another double post at the end of this week, but until then, I've got something for each category of readers: a little House (procedural), a little Doctor Who (sci fi), and a little Kristen Chenoweth (musical). Enjoy and Happy Chanukah to any fellow Jews out there!