There is a God!

Fox has nixed a reported plan to do an American version of Torchwood. What were they thinking, anyway? A: Torchwood makes no sense without Doctor Who. B: An American Doctor Who was tried and it failed. C: The U.S. of A. is not ready for Captain Jack Harkness!

Really, how could they have done it? It would have been boring. There would have been no inter-species sex! And Jack would have to be strictly heterosexual. It would never work. :p

Other stuff- last two episodes of Lost and Bones were awesome. I can't believe there are only four more Lost episodes left! Everything is coming together nicely...and I can't wait to see how it all will end. House was so-so this week.

I'm still going through Growing Pains episodes that had Boner in them. There were 25 in total...since I only have time to watch one or two a week, it's going to be a while before I finish them! I think I may write up a review of them later with a few screencaps- a little tribute to Andrew Koenig, though it's too little, too late. :( This week I watched the first episode- "Springsteen". This was so early that none of the characters had the personalities they would end up with- Boner was actually kind of a smart-assed jerk. Funny how Mike wound up the smart-ass and Boner the sweetie!

I want to watch some old Designing Women episodes, too. I miss that show. Why do TV Land, ABC Family, and Nick at Nite air endless episodes of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full House (GAG!), and Home Improvement...but great stuff like DW and Murphy Brown can't be found anywhere? :(

Kill 'em all!

Great Cracked.com article- the seven most soul-crushing endings for T.V. series. Gotta agree with Dinosaurs- THEY KILLED EVERYONE ON THE PLANET! Well, they were dinosaurs and doomed anyway...but kids watched this show! They must have been traumatized.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18490_the-7-most-soul-crushing-series-finales-in-tv-history.html

Number one is the end of St. Elsewhere- the hospital is in a snowglobe, and the whole show was an autistic kid's dream? That was the biggest WTF ending in the history of series finales. And they killed Mimsie the MTM cat in the closing credits, too. BTW, Mimsie was female, not male as stated in the article.

I'm getting worried about how Lost is going to end...:p

Dear stars of my favorite 80's sitcoms...

PLEASE STOP DYING!

Dixie Carter of Designing Women has died at age 70. I didn't even know she was sick. :(

I always loved Julia Sugarbaker's rants. Here's one of her greats, from "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV86kehwkc0

Lost- Happily Ever After

Oooooooo that was a good episode. Any Desmond episode is going to be good! Widmore has brought him to the island to see if he can survive the EMP effects he had in the past. While being "zapped"- Desmond experiences the "sideways" universe. Here, Widmore is his boss and he's never met Penny. While trying to deliver Charlie to a party Widmore is throwing, he has flashes of life on the island. He and Charlie aren't the only ones who know something is off about their lives- Daniel Widmore (not Faraday- here he's not a bastard!) shows him physics equations that he'd written despite never having done physics in his life! And both Charlie and Daniel have visions/feelings of loving someone and being loved by that someone (Claire and Charlotte, respectively). Desmond meets Penny- and the shock sends him back to the island. He agrees to do what Widmore wants to save the world...but then is taken by Sayid. But he goes along willingly...as if he wants this world to end.

So it seems that Desmond is going to be the big player in the end of the series. I wonder what sacrifice he's going to be asked to make (assuming Widmore can get him away from Sayid and Locke/MIB)?

One thing- I can't stand Zoe. Lame character, and I've never liked Sheila Kelley. She ruined both L.A. Law and Sisters for me. Thank God she's only in this last bit of the series...

I did it again!

*curses* I knew Law and Order: Criminal Intent was back with a two-parter, and I still forgot to watch. I hope it shows up on hulu fast.

And stupid me, I already know who dies, who gets fired, who quits, and who's left...damn spoilers. I have GOT to learn to stop reading them. I thought I'd learned my lesson after being spoiled for Torchwood: Children of Earth last summer. I guess not.

Ever since CI moved to USA, I've missed episodes.

Other stuff-

Yes, I have completely given up on L&O: Special Victims Unit. Bones is back with new episodes, but I missed tonight because of my church's Maundy Thursday service. Lost is getting very close to the end, and lots of things are finally starting to make sense- though some questions will probably never be answered. There's only six episodes left! And for some reason, I keep missing new House episodes. It's not that I don't care about it, I just plain forget to watch. I've been trying so hard to keep up with my reading that television takes a back seat. Which is actually a good thing...

I've spent the last month going through other Boner-centered Growing Pains episodes. I still can't believe Andrew Koenig is dead. :( He deserved so much better in life. Depression is just horrible. I hope in the end he is remembered more for Never Not Funny (the comedy podcast that his brother-in-law, Jimmy Pardo, hosts) than anything else. He was funny, thoughtful man. I've only recently started listening to NNF (screw Jay Leno, give The Tonight Show to Pardo!), but I know I'll miss Andrew's behind-the-camera antics- that wonderful laugh, his sometimes over-enthusiastic story telling ("Gobs and gobs", anyone?), his head-butting with Jimmy. And whenever he was on camera- seeing that sweet face and gorgeous mane of hair. Dammit. Now I'm sad again.

One last note- the rumor I saw about a possible second series for All the Small Things seems to have been just that, a rumor. Bummer. But at least Bryan Dick has been busy! He's been on Being Human this year (playing a ghost), and he's a bad guy in an episode of Ashes to Ashes this month. I've never watched Ashes, so that's a Bryan appearance I'll miss. I hate it when he plays bad guys...or when his characters die (at least in BH, he was already dead!).

Bryan in Being Human as Sykes the ghost...he looks like a little Jack Harkness!



I think that's it for now. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up on Bones and CI- once Easter is over, I should have a little time to watch.

A brief wave of nostalgia...

I just watched the Semper Fidelis episode of Growing Pains- Boner's last episode. I hadn't seen it in probably 20 years- I forgot that it made me cry. And now it made me cry for a whole different reason. :(

I think a big reason Growing Pains went downhill after season 4 wasn't Kirk Cameron being born again and causing trouble on the set- it happened because they wrote out Andrew Koenig. Never, ever underestimate the importance of a supporting or recurring player on a long running television show! Mike and Boner was a good early example of a "bromance"- and with that team split up, some of the humor was gone.

I waited a while to watch this episode again- two weeks ago I couldn't have done it.

When I was in high school, the only two shows I would drop everything for were Family Ties (I always loved Michael J. Fox!) and Growing Pains. They're both still funny 20 years later.

My friends in school had pictures of Kirk Cameron as Mike plastered all over their lockers and bedroom walls...they thought I was insane for preferring Boner! I thought he was a sweetheart and not as smart-assed as Mike. Naturally, once he was gone, I lost interest in the show- I mainly watched the last seasons because of Carol, and even she disappeared (largely because of Tracey Gold's health problems).

I skipped Lost last night.

Oh, dear. It sounds like it was an important episode, too. Thank God for hulu!