Monday, December 15, 2008

Episode Twelve: Chaos From a Distance

Our first time recording away from school. We bring you an interesting episode recorded over several days from hundreds of miles apart. Who knew we could still pull it off without being actually able to throw things at each other?

TV this week was still hopping. Once again we caught T:SCC and Heroes on tv and loved them as well as Chuck and Gossip Girl (Faith was right! Or was she?). And in our attempt to move beyond Joss, we end up in a set of films that still have the Whedon name among their significant contributors.

Hope you enjoy the mayhem!

TV Week: (5:52-28:51) Gossip Girl, Chuck, Heroes, T:SCC

Music used in this episode:
"Breathe Today" by Flyleaf
"You Wouldn't Like Me" by Tegan and Sara
"Dog New Tricks" by Garbage
"Never Here" by Elastica

5 comments:

Rockin' Rufus December 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM  

Thanks for the love! (But i'm afraid it's a repeat this week.)

rock on, my friend, rock on.
-Rufus humphrey
yes, it's really me

NoelCT December 20, 2008 at 12:48 AM  

The sound levels were really off this episode, with some parts all right, others blaringly loud, and sections that I could only partially make out even with my volume cranked all the way up.

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CHUCK - Oh what a fantastic episode. Not only did we get to learn more about Sarah's past (and how can you top Gary Cole?), but I love how Chuck was able to hold his own in a tricky heist saga, but entirely in a way that was still perfectly Chuck.

HEROES - I just can't stand what they're doing with Sylar this season. The flashback episodes ago was nice, showing how he was an innocent who held back his abilities, and then later learns to control his powers through a bond with the very woman who first twisted him, Elle. It was an arc with amazing potential and I thought they'd end this season with him being the hero who ultimately rose against Arthur while Peter sank to new depths, but no, they had to have him take a sudden 180 back to his old, killer self and tear open the head of his first love. While they did make great use of the arisen old fiend (I agree about the "Cake?" line) I just can't help but feel they really missed an opportunity for a major twist.

And as great as the idea was, I thought the scene between Claire and her father of the past just didn't work. He such a tightly-wound, methodical man that I just didn't by him accepting Claire at her word without some further proof. On the other side of the coin, Hiro meeting his mom was fantastic and fully justified the whole 10-year-old concept.

Once again, there's great stuff in this series, it's just getting buried under heap after heap of bad ideas and weak execution.

T:SCC - No, the episodes weren't switched. According to Josh Friedman on the official blog, there was a mistake in the scheduling, but it was corrected before airing, so everything is in the proper order.

The disease was in fact a biological weapon and, no, the mother wasn't suffering from it. She caught a bullet when the T-888 from their cabin caught up with them 6 months later and killed her husband.

I thought this was a really clever episode and made nice use of a nonlinear format to explore the broader effects the Connor clan have on the people they meet. I do very much agree that one stand-alone episode after another has left the series wandering from it's broader arcs and hope they don't make this same mistake when the series returns.

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I'm also a fan of the original DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL who was really, really looking forward to the remake, but I've yet to hear a single review that wasn't disappointed. Damn.

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I loves me some Pixar movies. Except CARS. For some reason, I just haven't been able to get myself to watch CARS. I don't know why.

TOY STORY - It's such a simple concept, but brilliant in it's execution.

It's not really accurate to say Joss wrote the flick. He did work on a few drafts, but that was in the middle of development, so many elements of the final film aren't his. He actually wanted to make Barbie a lead character and have her save the day in the end, but Disney wasn't able to get the licence from Mattel.

BUG'S LIFE - Though it's not the best of the bunch, this is one of my favorites, if only for the beauty of the natural setting. The story is actually a loose adaptation of the film THE SEVEN SAMURAI, where farmers seek out a group of heroes to protect their town from a looming bandit raid.

TOY STORY 2 - I love this one, too. It's so beautifully made and a nice extension of the original concept with a great new cast of character. Definitely a perfect example of a sequel that both lives up to and surpasses the original.

MONSTERS, INC. - This is one of those wild concepts that, in other hands, would most likely fail, but they pulled it off perfectly. That final scene where they add the last splinter and open the door always brings a tear to my eye.

FINDING NEMO - One of the best movies ever made. Every scene is a classic.

THE INCREDIBLES - I loved this one, but I'm an old fan of Silver Age comics and 60s spy movies, of which this was a perfect satire.

RATATOUILLE - I wasn't entirely sold on the concept of the mouse having so much control over his man-puppet, but it's still a damn good film.

WALL-E - Haven't seen it yet, but I know for a fact that my sister's getting it for Christmas, so the entire family will probably gather around to watch it next week.

UP - The trailer is fantastic.

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Sorry this was so long.

NoelCT December 28, 2008 at 2:31 AM  

I just watched WALL-E. It's about as good as a film can possibly get.

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