Fox’s Fall 08 Premieres Are Early: Yay!

Fox has annoyed me numerous times when it comes to television, but this year they are on my sweetest-ever list. Their premieres begin a full three weeks earlier than other networks and after a summer of tepid television, I cannot wait to get immersed in a warm Fall season.

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On Monday, September 1st we get the 2 hour season premiere of Prison Break. I’m not sure where the show can actually go at this point, but I’m totally ready to blindly leap over the plot-holes and suspend my disbelief for yet another year. If I was a guessing sort of gal, I’d postulate that the brothers and company will be trying to spring Sucre from Sona since he got pinched helping save Scofield’s lean buttocks (though the previews haven’t backed this up and I haven’t searched online). Poor Sucre will no doubt need saving since he’s stuck in there with T-Bag and Bellick — a horrible fate that I wouldn’t wish on anyone even though I love the icky T-Bag character. Main reason to watch season 4: Dr. Sara Tancredi (Scofield’s love interest) is slotted to return from the dead and who can possibly justify missing such a supernatural event?

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On Monday, September 8th, season two of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles premieres (what an effed up title, though. I always end up calling it the sarah connorcles). Although the first season was short, it was a better than good start. I thought Summer Glau (Firefly, Serenity, The Unit, and The 4400) was really fantastic as Cameron, the good terminator sent from the future by John Connor to help John Connor; but for me it was Brian Austin Greene of Beverly Hills 90210 fame who was the surprise star of the show as Kyle Reese’s brother, and John Connor’s uncle, Derek. The rest of the cast is also quite good and with the cliffhanger ending of season one, well, it cannot be missed.

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The day after the sarah connorcles, Fox’s new baby, Fringe premieres. Created and produced by big screen bigwig, J.J. Abrams, the show is described thusly by tvrage.com:

a research scientist named Peter Bishop and FBI agent Olivia Warren team up to investigate paranormal activity. They seek help from Bishop’s father, Walter, a brilliant (but possibly insane) scientist who is being held in a mental institution. Fringe explores mysteries of the paranormal as well as the relationships between the characters, and is steeped in mythology.

I’m a big fan of J.J. Abrams so I’m looking forward to this 2 hour premiere, even though it did knock Whedon’s new show, Dollhouse, back to mid-season.

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Other noteworthy Fox fall premieres include: ‘Til Death – September 9th, Kitchen Nightmares – September 11th, and House — September 16th.

The only network clashes in my personal viewing schedule will eventually occur on Mondays when The Sarah Connorcles faces off against Chuck, and Prison Break airs opposite Heroes but I predict that Fox will win me over. I can always watch Chuck online the next day, and if Heroes is anything like last season, it’s not worth watching anyway.

Whenever there is fresh and suspenseful TV in my world, life is good.

full dr. horrible (i’m a late poster as usual)

For anyone who did not take the opportunity to watch Joss Whedon’s “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” when it first web-miered I implore you to do so at once. Even people who aren’t Whedonists, or Whedonites, or whatever the preferred nomenclature is currently, will enjoy the show. It’s silly, goofy, witty, surprisingly profound in spots, and has nice shots of Nathan Fillion in a tight t-shirt riding atop a moving vehicle with the wind blowing his hair back. Fun will be had by all, and I stress again how amazingly wonderful Neil Patrick Harris was in this production. Never a more cuddly villain has there ever been, I say!

So, watch it here at once: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

i think i’m disappearing

Oh man, there are certain thoughts I can’t go near.  Seems like I used to be able to.  Seems like I used to be able to do anything.  But some things I absolutely dare not think about.

I continue to sabotage myself out of paying jobs…not that they pay enough to fret about mind you.  But, pay is pay when you have nothing of your own to contribute to, well to anything.  I can’t buy myself a pair of underwear for shit’s sake.  I could ask for them and get them bought for me in a matter of minutes, but, I don’t want to ask for them.  I want to buy them for myself.

On the other hand I was able to ask for (and immediately received) the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Why can I ask for that and not for underwear?  Who knows?  Not I.

Of course, that particular season is virtually impossible to find up here so I had to get it … had to ask for it.  I couldn’t wait or it would have been gone, you see.  I got it on Sunday and finished watching all 22 episodes this morning.  Like I had nothing more important to do than watch BtVS for three straight days.  Even though I’d already seen most of the season, I cried my eyes out during almost every single episode.  I especially cried when Buffy’s mom died,  and when Buffy herself died in the last eppy I bawled like a baby even though I know she came back in season six.

When my parents died I could barely work up a single tear.

So I wonder, what’s up with me that I cry over fictional people facing tragedy, but I have only a cold, hard heart in the face of real life despair.  When BT gets upset or emotional about something, I sort of get pissed at him, and for all his size and tough-guy attitude he’s a sensitive softie at heart.  That’s my secret shame, that I get mad when he expresses his own pain.

I think if I could live inside a TV show I really would choose to do so.

But, none of those are the thoughts I dare not think about.  To type them out is to think about them so I won’t.

This is not a great day but I still truly believe that life is good.  Mostly:)