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rollick, with whom this is basically my only means of communication) but I just kept putting it off all week. I'm coming to Chicago this weekend! I'll be arriving tomorrow night and leaving Monday evening. I'm (happily) staying with spreadnparanoia (many thanks are due to the good graces of sabrielrose and by extension calhin.) I'll be attending the annual DCP Tremere Prom on Saturday night, but aside from that and a commitment for pretty much the latter half of Monday I have no concrete plans other than catching up with my friends as much as possible.
Tonight I caught the premiere of Drew Carey's new endeavor, the Green Screen Show. For people who, like me, really enjoyed the American version of Who's Line Is It Anyway I'd say the show has definite potential. Although Ryan Stiles was notably absent a number of the Whose Line favorites were floating around, including Greg Proops who I've always found hysterical. For those of you (and I'm assuming this is most people) who haven't heard the premise and don't feel like clicking on the link, the idea is that they do an improv-style show for a live audience, but rather than doing it on a nicely dressed up red soundstage they instead do it in a boxy green-screen stage complete with markers, thus allowing animators to go back in later and dress up the sketches with cartoon-y backgrounds. They do a surprising and frankly cool amount of actors-interacting-with-cartoon-prop a la Who Framed Roger Rabbit shtick that I thought for the most part worked very well.
I finished up Season 3 Alias tonight. I have to admit the tail end of the season didn't really grip me for some reason, maybe because I felt like I knew where it was going and I was right. Pretty much all of the major plot stuff from the arrival of Nadia on through I felt was OK but overall sub par. There were, however, some excellent illuminating moments that I really appreciated - references to stuff from the show's first season and intelligent threading of plot and planting of seeds for the future which I continue to appreciate out of the show. I know the shows are wildly different but I think sometimes I would have liked the X-files a lot better had it ever pulled off even a tiny bit of this. Shows like Buffy, Babylon 5 and Alias just overflow with details and hints that span the length of the show. With the X-files there's some of that stuff, but I feel like it can be summarized in three sentences, y'know?
rollick, with whom this is basically my only means of communication) but I just kept putting it off all week. I'm coming to Chicago this weekend! I'll be arriving tomorrow night and leaving Monday evening. I'm (happily) staying with spreadnparanoia (many thanks are due to the good graces of sabrielrose and by extension calhin.) I'll be attending the annual DCP Tremere Prom on Saturday night, but aside from that and a commitment for pretty much the latter half of Monday I have no concrete plans other than catching up with my friends as much as possible.Tonight I caught the premiere of Drew Carey's new endeavor, the Green Screen Show. For people who, like me, really enjoyed the American version of Who's Line Is It Anyway I'd say the show has definite potential. Although Ryan Stiles was notably absent a number of the Whose Line favorites were floating around, including Greg Proops who I've always found hysterical. For those of you (and I'm assuming this is most people) who haven't heard the premise and don't feel like clicking on the link, the idea is that they do an improv-style show for a live audience, but rather than doing it on a nicely dressed up red soundstage they instead do it in a boxy green-screen stage complete with markers, thus allowing animators to go back in later and dress up the sketches with cartoon-y backgrounds. They do a surprising and frankly cool amount of actors-interacting-with-cartoon-prop a la Who Framed Roger Rabbit shtick that I thought for the most part worked very well.
I finished up Season 3 Alias tonight. I have to admit the tail end of the season didn't really grip me for some reason, maybe because I felt like I knew where it was going and I was right. Pretty much all of the major plot stuff from the arrival of Nadia on through I felt was OK but overall sub par. There were, however, some excellent illuminating moments that I really appreciated - references to stuff from the show's first season and intelligent threading of plot and planting of seeds for the future which I continue to appreciate out of the show. I know the shows are wildly different but I think sometimes I would have liked the X-files a lot better had it ever pulled off even a tiny bit of this. Shows like Buffy, Babylon 5 and Alias just overflow with details and hints that span the length of the show. With the X-files there's some of that stuff, but I feel like it can be summarized in three sentences, y'know?
