TV fix
So… I don’t watch much TV as a rule. Friends, from the beginning, but that was about the only show I tuned in regularly for (I am bad… I always forget they are on and never mastered the whole program the vcr thing) so until we recently got TiVo, TV was a non-entity for me except in the month or so after RWA National conference when I always veg out and try and recoup while watching the Food Network.
Enter TiVo. One of my daughters is addicted to Gilmore Girls. I used to watch it with her until the Dean season, then got irritated. Like most things she’s involved in, though, I’ve kept up with it to know what’s happening and share opinions. Then… TiVo. *sigh* Now I have to sit and watch at least part of each episode with her, but at least she is willing to watch at my convenience.
Then one of my daughters got hooked on Heroes. I was able to ignore it for the most part, until I’d hear her gasping oohs and ahhs over plot twists and discoveries… and it slowly sucked me in (again, TiVo)
Now… damn it, I’m hooked on both. We watched GG and Heroes tonight and both had me on edge. I sniffled when Rorie got her letter, and when Peter… you know? Sigh - GREAT TV.
What did you think? Do you follow either show? Opinions on the season finale’s to come? And more important, on next season?? Especially in the case of GG– as in WILL THERE BE a next season?
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April 25th, 2007 @ 9:22 am
I tried Heroes, at least the first episode, and it didn’t make me want to watch the second. I mean, it was good. But from what I remember, it failed to establish compelling short-term and medium-term conflicts. It was just a bunch of people with exceptional abilities doing stuff. Boring. From what I understand, I have to stick with it over the long haul in order to get into it.
But Gilmore Girls (at least classic Gilmore Girls) had it all. Each episode engaged me. And before I knew it, I was hooked on the long-term story. IMO, a beginning storyteller can learn most of what he needs to know just by watching GG.
I don’t know what will happen with this season’s finale. And I also have little faith that the current storytellers will give me a satisfying ending. That kinda stinks. No. Wait. Scratch “kinda.”
The latest credible rumor on GG season 8 is that there will likely be an eighth season, but a short one. Probably 13 episodes.
And it looks like they might use this eighth season to drag out the ending to the storyline. And I really wish they wouldn’t. Because unrushed endings are boring endings. As I said, I have little faith in the current storytellers.
-TimK
April 25th, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
I love Heroes. It is so intense each week. And who is on which side? The ultimate good vs. evil. I love Heroes, oh wait, did I already say that? The characters are so fleshed out and the plots just twist and turn each week.
April 25th, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
GG I don’t watch, but HEROS I’m addicted too. I got my son and daughter-in-law involved in it too, do the point they go on blogs about it. I’m at their house Mondays. Its so funny, we get the kids their bath, and settled, read the books, and hustle them off to bed, so we can watch it..Their too small to watch. Louie and I don’t have any recording devise. I just don’t care that much about any show to bother. If I miss Heros, I catch it on SciFi on Fridays. They replay the episode. Anything, else there is always reruns. Somehow I get caught up.
April 26th, 2007 @ 2:10 am
Hey TimK - I’m with you on the GG being engaging. Actually at one point I used to read GG scripts since their dialogue is some of the best I’ve ever heard. I’d see that they might be picked up for another season, too and am in between hoping and ready to let it go. Mostly, I want Rorie and Logan to split up and somehow Jess to sneak off from Heroes for a weekend and reunite with her LOL. Oh - and L/L to reconnect!
Heroes… I love that show. But, I admit, I wasn’t into it until around December. At that point, hearing bits pieces, there was an intriguing enough puzzle that I had to watch and see how it played out. Now I’m definitely hooked.
Lee (whispering) I read blogs about Heroes too! I’m a bad bad girl… but I love me them spoilers!
April 26th, 2007 @ 10:50 am
Hee hee. I don’t care so much about Rory & Logan. I would like to follow Jess’s story inbetween season 3 and season 6. There’s a lot that happened to him, and there’s got to be a story there. Probably will never be told.
(Listen to me, talking about the characters again as though they’re real people!)
I hope The Return of Jezebel James gets picked up. I was really impressed with the sides that made it to the web. Like GG, we’ll know for sure on May 17 whether it will be on the fall schedule.
-TimK
April 26th, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
I LOVE GG, especially the Luke/Lorelei relationship. I’m only up to season 6, though.
I watch Heroes but am not as invested as my son.
April 28th, 2007 @ 12:49 am
TimK - I haven’t seen that program. But I’ll keep my fingers crossed for ya come the 17th! I can’t wait to see what happens with GG.
Oh, Mary -only season 6? GREAT show, I can’t wait to hear what you think once you’re up to… well, now LOL. I wasn’t invested in heroes either, really - and I admit, it was Milo Ventimiglio that pulled me in BECAUSE of his assocation with GG (once I got over the whole breakup between him and Alexis *sniff*). But once I was there… I was THERE.
April 28th, 2007 @ 7:50 am
Ah. The Return of Jezebel James is Amy Sherman-Palladino’s new pilot she did for Fox. (Because she left GG after season 6.) It reads like… Well, like something she wrote. And I’m clearly a big fan of her work ever since GG.
Mary, I’m interested to know what you think, too, after season 6.
-TimK