well, that’s all right, then.
still reeling from the sheer awfulness that is terminator: the sarah connor chronicles (why oh why didn’t anyone warn me?), i sat down this evening and watched episode 201 of torchwood.
kiss kiss bang bang! james marsters! so nice to see one of joss’ actors in something decent. (sorry, summer. t:scc really is dreadful) so giddily fantastic to watch him ooze/strut into torchwood’s writing. [ed note: so nice of torchwood to write him a part so close to spike and the nietzschean archduke1 he briefly played on andromeda.]
yeah, yeah. so marsters is something of a one-note player. but it’s still fun to see him flirt with john barrowman and eve myles in nearly the same breath. and imdb notwithstanding, it seems he may have a recurring part.
ahh, television is fun again.
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1 riffing on my favorite conan quote, marsters’ andromeda character (given the ridiculous and highly improbable name charlemagne bolivar) answered the question “what do you want?” with, “the usual — hundreds of grandchildren, utter domination of the known worlds, and the pleasure of hearing that all my enemies have died in terrible, highly improbable accidents that cannot be connected to me.”
February 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Nathan Fillion in The Waitress and Desperate Housewives doesn’t count for you?
Never having seen either Bones or How I Met Your Mother I can’t comment on those. I found the Terminator episode I saw just kind of blah, neither great nor awful.
Of course, I hear that Oz kid gets some work from time to time…
laloca sez: i was grumbling about the 2008 crop of shows, but your point is taken. i’ve never seen an episode of bones, and how i met your mother has always struck me as more of a neil patrick harris vehicle than an allison hannigan show. the waitress was good, slither was so awful i couldn’t tell if it was on purpose, but holy cow! fillion’s on desperate housewives? i haven’t watched that show in ages, so someone else will have to fill me in on the quality. it’s a risk you run when you stop watching network television, i suppose.
and what has seth green been up to lately?
February 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Family Guy and Robot Chicken, mostly.
DH has been better than the 2nd season, not as good as the first, but I like NF and Dana Delaney as the new mystery couple.