tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post6879705449283954685..comments2023-10-06T06:07:58.796-07:00Comments on WeinWords: It's the Fall TV Scorecard - Part OneLen Weinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11619143398147167868noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post-52747586557491028942007-10-06T05:08:00.000-07:002007-10-06T05:08:00.000-07:00Len, I am totally with you on your comments on Big...Len, I am totally with you on your comments on Big Bang Theory and Back To You. The former has become must-see for us in our house; the later - well after viewing the third episode this week my wife, who wanted me to have it on DVR to record said, "you can take it off record unless you are enjoying it". Needless to say, Back To You got deleted from the season pass.Martin Maenzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08640466353011569116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post-87241164745214937252007-10-01T16:39:00.000-07:002007-10-01T16:39:00.000-07:00Kid Nation airs opposite America's Next Top Model ...Kid Nation airs opposite America's Next Top Model and we switched back and forth for the first two episodes. For the last two seasons I've joined my partner to watch Model starting at the show's halfway mark; the nuts-n-bolts of the profession interest me, the catty fuss in the house/dorm don't. I like watching the judges evaluate the pics. But contrasting Model with Nation had me tuning out Nation from the beginning. A giant water slide or drinking water? A TV or toilets? I don't know. It was creeping me out. The more I like the kids, the less I like the show.Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post-8278576878211523612007-10-01T09:29:00.000-07:002007-10-01T09:29:00.000-07:00We saw the Moonlight and Pushing Daisies pilots. ...We saw the Moonlight and Pushing Daisies pilots. I asked Len to turn off Moonlight after about 10 minutes because I couldn't stand the lead. Everyone except the lead has been recast for the aired version. I don't know if Len's seen it--I'm not going to bother. Moonlight can't hold a candle to New Amsterdam, which isn't about vampires but is about a 400 plus year old hero and was my favorite of the hour-long dramas we saw.<BR/><BR/>Pushing Daisies was Len's favorite of all the pilots we saw. He'll have plenty to say once it airs, I'm sure.<BR/><BR/>As cute as the kids are, Kid Nation leaves a very bad taste in my mouth because those producers went out of their ways to make sure they could exploit the kids and that they wouldn't be protected by California's child protection laws for performers--they would not let California residents be considered for the series just because of that. They knew they were doing something shady and they're still hoping to get away with it. I think the parents should all be hauled off for complicity or stupidity. I still have nightmares of seeing chickens running around with their heads cut off--an image from my childhood when the next door neighbors slaughtered their chickens. Making those kids do it was not very nice.M. C. Valadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06301675413866610210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post-61891126112585046872007-09-30T19:26:00.000-07:002007-09-30T19:26:00.000-07:00Ok, lemme try this again, without accidentally del...Ok, lemme try this again, without accidentally deleting half my comment. (sigh)<BR/><BR/>What? No <I>Journeyman?</I> No <I>Moonlight?</I> Did you have some kind of moratorium on pilots with iPhone product placement? ;-)<BR/><BR/>Looking forward to hear what you've got to say about the <I>Pushing Daisies</I> "Pie-lette"; and y'know, if you wanted to talk about returning shows, I'd like reading that, too.kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520314187037621115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post-88971850397891864642007-09-30T19:24:00.000-07:002007-09-30T19:24:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520314187037621115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post-46181301417825454152007-09-30T07:14:00.000-07:002007-09-30T07:14:00.000-07:00both Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton are known ...both Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton are known to be conservatives, and in Heaton's case uber-conservative, so i wonder if this wasnt someone's idea to pair them up so they'd have each other to talk to about how awful Liberals are?rob!https://www.blogger.com/profile/17556471244882205031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756715504291908040.post-86350517472447788942007-09-29T22:07:00.000-07:002007-09-29T22:07:00.000-07:00Well, as a known geek/nerd, I'm not quite at thril...Well, as a known geek/nerd, I'm not quite at thrilled with Big Bang Theory and Chuck. For the former, the two male leads do a reasonable job of portraying physics geeks, but the whole thing feels like it's not quite jelled in terms of the characters yet.<BR/><BR/>My bigger problem is the premise; as Sheldon says to Leonard re: Penny "you're of different species". So far, other than her being a hot babe, there's nothing she'd bring to a relationship with Leonard, who'd quickly grow bored of someone who won't understand anything he wants to talk about. <BR/><BR/>She needs to be given some aspects/strengths that compliment his, 'cause otherwise she's the definite third wheel in the main character mix. For that matter, it'd probably have worked better if she was actually living in the same apartment with them as a desperation roommate in order to more completely demonstrate contrast and give her strengths in that setting.<BR/><BR/>Chuck, I just can't buy the premise. Knowing a govt. database as of time X isn't going to make him a particularly good agent, and his usefulness will quickly decline as the info gets outdated. And if he's that important/good, why doesn't the government hire him away from the Nerd Herd at, say, a whopping $20/hour ($40K a year plus good benefits) and just stash him somewhere?<BR/><BR/>The opening scenes with him at his unwanted birthday party was very good and true to life though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com