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10.13.04
Then Where Is He Stupid?
07:41 AMI haven't gone near America's Next Top Model – why would I? – but I'll admit, replace those women with men, and a new interest element arrives. So, yes, I tuned into Manhunt on Bravo.
But only lasted 15 minutes.
I think the point at which train wreck became unwatchable came when one of the male models explained that he's not just good-looking; "I'm also smart in the head."
Yeah, buddy. You're a genius up there.
At that moment, I said aloud what TV Guide online wrote this morning: pretty boys shouldn't talk.
10.10.04
Science of the Times
11:26 PMOn Streets of San Francisco, a guest cop is calling in a license trace. They actually show him talking on the phone to the DMV making the request, for about a minute.
Me: "Why is this being filmed?"
Robbie: "Exactly."
"Actually, we should be thankful. They spent five minutes on this once on Hawaii Five-O. They even lovingly showed the dispatcher putting the call through."
"But this was all they had then. This was their CSI stuff."
"You're right. This was high-tech for them."
"It's the same thing. Then it was this; now, it's fluid in a beaker."
After that, imagine our shock when five minutes later we hear the words "homosexual relationship" coming out of the show. Guest cryptic guy Roscoe Lee Browne is suddenly confessing that he and the week's guest murder victim had one. January 1973. We wouldn't have been more shocked if someone had suddenly mentioned DNA. (Though the homosexual thing later turns out to be a lie. Oops, sorry, *spoiler*.)
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I've restrained myself from pimping Farscape this month (fortunately, fine folks like Divers Alarums are picking up my slack). I just figured that I've mentioned it enough over the past few years that friends have had as much opportunity as they want to try the show and get hooked. And in fact, some have.
But the miniseries is a week away, and once again, SciFi's not pushing it. And the miniseries needs ratings for us to get any more Farscape. So I beg you: watch the miniseries, next Sunday and Monday.
Another reason I should have caved to pimping earlier is that SciFi has, at least, been showing the whole series on weekdays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. ET/PT, which would have been a great chance for newbies to completely catch up. But tomorrow (Monday) is as good a day to dive into the marathon as any. The morning starts with a nifty stand-alone episode, "...Different Destinations," which darkly subverts every time-travel cliché ever Trekked. And following that is "Eat Me," which seems at first like just a strange little Silence of the Lambs homage – but by the end, something amazing happens that rocks the whole series and helps make Season 3 the kick-ass epic that it is.
If you can't squeeze in 40 hours on your TiVo disc, you can skip it all and consult Farscape World's well-done primer. As long as you watch next weekend. Please?
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