Sunday, September 11, 2005
And also...
1. Entertainment Weekly's EW.com | TV Preview: The scoop on ''Gilmore Girls'': "'A year like last year doesn't come around very often,'' says Sherman-Palladino. ''And to not have that acknowledged? It makes you wonder who you have to...'' We'll stop her here because, as she's fond of reminding people, this is a family show." [after EW speculates about an Emmy for this year]
Were they watching the same show I was? I haven't even been able to bring myself to watch the reruns. It's not quite as bad as the 3rd and 4th seasons of Felicity--I mean, it is still Gilmores, and it's been neat to watch Rory develop into a person of her own (albeit a whiny, selfish, not-very-interesting one)--but there were no moments that matched Lorelai and Luke's "Reflecting Light" dance of the previous season (the best Gilmore moments always feature Sam Phillips), or the incredibly well-written stuff of the first two seasons.
[UPDATE, 9/27: The season premiere wasn't great, but last week's episode shows a lot of promise. There were a couple of times that we had to back up and listen to something again because we missed it by laughing so hard. So I'm looking forward to tonight's episode to see if it's a trend.]
2. Insomnia strikes again. It's 2:44 a.m. and sleep is nowhere in sight, which means that I'll spend yet another day wandering around in a fog, trying to get stuff done but really being too tired to do much of anything. And it will be worse, because at least yesterday I had slept for about four hours before I woke up in the middle of the night.
3. I can't believe I missed the series premiere of Reunion. But honestly, who premieres a show on September 8? And why is it that the pics make it look like 1984, not 1986? I realize that most people have one big lump of fashion that they think of as "the 80s," and they don't distinguish between the '81-'84 preppy years and the post-'85 new wave years (and of course, there are regional differences; the fashions in Valley Girl and Fast Times didn't make it to my region for another two or three years, for example), and I'll have to actually watch the show to figure out whether it's just the publicity photos. You can get away with a lot of exaggeration in a show that is reminiscent of a time period; not so much in one that's representative of it (the costumes and sets in Oliver Beene as opposed to those in Wonder Years, for example). Or of course, you can follow the example of That 70s Show and never really specify a particular year, which leaves you free to do whatever you want to with the costumes.
(On a side note, Freaks and Geeks totally nailed '80s fashions, btw. I swear the costume designer must have gone to my high school. Hmmm... I always wondered what that one girl with the sketch pad was doodling all during algebra I... )
[UPDATE: Reunion appears to have continued its two-years-behind fashion, as it launched into 1987 with clothes more appropriate for 1985--and it turns out that these people are supposed to be in New York. But more than that, it's just a dreadful, dreadful show. Horrible dialogue, predictable storyline, and they keep reminding us what year it is: "Come on, man, it's 1987!" or "Can you believe it's 1987 already?" Needless to say, it did not make it into the permanent queue in my ReplayTV.]
Were they watching the same show I was? I haven't even been able to bring myself to watch the reruns. It's not quite as bad as the 3rd and 4th seasons of Felicity--I mean, it is still Gilmores, and it's been neat to watch Rory develop into a person of her own (albeit a whiny, selfish, not-very-interesting one)--but there were no moments that matched Lorelai and Luke's "Reflecting Light" dance of the previous season (the best Gilmore moments always feature Sam Phillips), or the incredibly well-written stuff of the first two seasons.
[UPDATE, 9/27: The season premiere wasn't great, but last week's episode shows a lot of promise. There were a couple of times that we had to back up and listen to something again because we missed it by laughing so hard. So I'm looking forward to tonight's episode to see if it's a trend.]
2. Insomnia strikes again. It's 2:44 a.m. and sleep is nowhere in sight, which means that I'll spend yet another day wandering around in a fog, trying to get stuff done but really being too tired to do much of anything. And it will be worse, because at least yesterday I had slept for about four hours before I woke up in the middle of the night.
3. I can't believe I missed the series premiere of Reunion. But honestly, who premieres a show on September 8? And why is it that the pics make it look like 1984, not 1986? I realize that most people have one big lump of fashion that they think of as "the 80s," and they don't distinguish between the '81-'84 preppy years and the post-'85 new wave years (and of course, there are regional differences; the fashions in Valley Girl and Fast Times didn't make it to my region for another two or three years, for example), and I'll have to actually watch the show to figure out whether it's just the publicity photos. You can get away with a lot of exaggeration in a show that is reminiscent of a time period; not so much in one that's representative of it (the costumes and sets in Oliver Beene as opposed to those in Wonder Years, for example). Or of course, you can follow the example of That 70s Show and never really specify a particular year, which leaves you free to do whatever you want to with the costumes.
(On a side note, Freaks and Geeks totally nailed '80s fashions, btw. I swear the costume designer must have gone to my high school. Hmmm... I always wondered what that one girl with the sketch pad was doodling all during algebra I... )
[UPDATE: Reunion appears to have continued its two-years-behind fashion, as it launched into 1987 with clothes more appropriate for 1985--and it turns out that these people are supposed to be in New York. But more than that, it's just a dreadful, dreadful show. Horrible dialogue, predictable storyline, and they keep reminding us what year it is: "Come on, man, it's 1987!" or "Can you believe it's 1987 already?" Needless to say, it did not make it into the permanent queue in my ReplayTV.]
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