And second (you thought I wasn’t going to get back there, didn’t you), did I really need these snippets to appear so regularly? Couldn’t they all have been thrown together to make one decent sized segment instead of all these mini-segments? I think so. But, here’s what I’d really like to see: a full episode of Battlestar Galactica that isn’t cut short in order to air deleted scenes or repeatedly promo-ing a movie.
Of course, I was also surprised on Lost. How can you not be surprised watching that show? Frankly though, I’m loving it. I’m just loving it. They’re getting really, really weird with all the backstories now: Claire and Jack last week and Locke and his dad this week, and I think it’s great. No, seriously, it’s fantastic. I can only be so happy with it though because I have faith that the producers actually know where they’re going. I believe that they have a great reason for having all these weird things on the island happen. If they don’t, if they start wandering aimlessly, The X-Files-style, it’ll all fall apart, but I don’t think it’ll happen. If it does go that way, I’m throwing them all in a hatch and not even airlifting in Dharma Project food.
Call me naïve, call me crazy, call me kooky, just don’t call me Ben. What a sick and twisted fellow he is, but Locke wanted to blow the submarine anyway, so I can’t really put that on Ben manipulating him, it was Locke’s idea before he went to see Ben.
To sum up: The Riches could be better, Battlestar Galactica could have a full show’s worth of content, and Lost better have a plan.
Article comments
1 - karen merritt
I don't see how a comparison of The Riches and Battlestar Galactica is fair. I have watched the first two The Riches. The only thing I can find wrong with it so far is some of the editing is a bit choppy. Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver are brilliant. This show is listed as a dramady. And so far it has lived up to everything that was said about it before it aired.
Please give it a fair chance.
2 - TV and Film Guy
I don't think I did compare them, and if I did, I didn't mean to. I think I said that I don't mind being surprised and wrong about what will happen, and that the way SciFi is running BSG surprises me, while nothing content-wise in The Riches does. I was looking to segue between talking about The Riches and BSG.
I didn't in anyway discuss actual content of BSG being better than that in The Riches. I actually thought I was pretty down on BSG this week (as noted in the title).
And, as for FX's dramedy, it's going to stay on my TiVo's "To Do" list for at least one, and possibly many more, weeks.
3 - Jewels
I love "The Riches", brilliant acting and writing.
4 - Rachel
I LOVED the dark pilot for The Riches, but wonder how far they can take the story; I love Eddie Izzard so much I'm willing to watch for a season to find out. I agree with your BSG comments - I hate that they promote a deleted scene as something special - often it's easy to see why it was deleted in the first place. That said, I will mourn the end of the season after Sunday night, and anxiously await the movie and next season!