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Sunday Recap
Apr. 18th, 2005 08:48 amMy day was okay, considering my annoyance at work. After work, I was feeling really sluggish, so I popped some coffee beans in the ol' brew-o-matic and began working on my PHP homework. I worked on the homework steadily for about 4 hours, when I hit a mental wall. My mind was not nimbly making the creative adjustments needed for coding, so I called it a night and decided to watch some television. Two shows were viewed.
1. Grey's Anatomy --a new variant of St. Elsewhere meets ER. St. ERwhere, if you will. Kinda fun. I always like Sandra Oh. She said, while watching a man undergo surgery for a bunch of nails in his head (brought on by a nail gun accident), "There goes the 3rd grade."
2. Revelations -- This series is off to a crappy start. Miracles by the dozen going on in this movie. The End of Days is near, brought on by this veritable apocalypse of entertainment. All the end of the world shows, be it movie or television appear to be just crappy. It's probably due to the fact that it's really hard for actors to capture how they would feel if the world really did seem like it was going to end. Or the crew making the movie gets so wound up in dramatic surges of stressed out elevator music that it adds a an annoying layer of faux wood veneer that cheapens the viewing experience.
I think my favorite scene was when Sparky, a 9-ish year old girl who gets struck by a boat load of lightning and then goes into a PVS+RB (persistant vegetative state plus religious babbling) and proceeds to carry a message from beyond, not from god, per se, but from another little girl whose heart was eaten out via a satanic ritual of sorts. The message? A scraggly game of tic tack toe, and a donkey. The meaning of all this? She was trying to get a message to her father. But I guess communicating with him directly would be considered cheating, apparently. I guess the rule must be: if you're dead, you can only channel your message through brain dead patients. And that's only if the End of Days is at hand.
Sadly, as much as I like Bill Pullman, I don't think he found this work very inspiring, either.
1. Grey's Anatomy --a new variant of St. Elsewhere meets ER. St. ERwhere, if you will. Kinda fun. I always like Sandra Oh. She said, while watching a man undergo surgery for a bunch of nails in his head (brought on by a nail gun accident), "There goes the 3rd grade."
2. Revelations -- This series is off to a crappy start. Miracles by the dozen going on in this movie. The End of Days is near, brought on by this veritable apocalypse of entertainment. All the end of the world shows, be it movie or television appear to be just crappy. It's probably due to the fact that it's really hard for actors to capture how they would feel if the world really did seem like it was going to end. Or the crew making the movie gets so wound up in dramatic surges of stressed out elevator music that it adds a an annoying layer of faux wood veneer that cheapens the viewing experience.
I think my favorite scene was when Sparky, a 9-ish year old girl who gets struck by a boat load of lightning and then goes into a PVS+RB (persistant vegetative state plus religious babbling) and proceeds to carry a message from beyond, not from god, per se, but from another little girl whose heart was eaten out via a satanic ritual of sorts. The message? A scraggly game of tic tack toe, and a donkey. The meaning of all this? She was trying to get a message to her father. But I guess communicating with him directly would be considered cheating, apparently. I guess the rule must be: if you're dead, you can only channel your message through brain dead patients. And that's only if the End of Days is at hand.
Sadly, as much as I like Bill Pullman, I don't think he found this work very inspiring, either.
