Life is a State of Mind

Right now the most riveting television we are watching is Heroes, it is not nearly as good as season one was; but it is still far better than most television. This season has been particularly rough on some fans as many heroes turned into villains rather easily. I guess they want to show that power corrupts.

Friends turned us onto Fringe, which is vaguely reminiscent of X-Files. The jury is still out, but it has promise as a series and the weird science is fun.

Of course we still regularly watch Firefly on DVD, as it is the best television ever. I listen to The Signal and Firefly Talk regularly on podcast because Firefly is just that good.

We are catching some Dr Who, sporadically, though sometimes I feel it has jumped the shark, always has very witty dialogue and I still recall the original Dr Who series from childhood with fondness. Likewise, we sometimes catch Torchwood for it’s amazing dialogue (same team as Dr Who and Coupling, which I still miss deeply and profoundly) and the eye candy of John Barrowman as Captain Jack!

Our background noise when we are doing other things are all the syndicated reruns of:
CSI Miami, Angel, Charmed, CSI New York, CSI (Vegas), and sometimes Law and Order. We do not go out of our way to watch them, but if they are on when we are working they entertain but do not distract from homework or work at home. It’s also how we compromise between Erci’s taste for icky pseudo-science and super-natural documentaries and my taste for silly romantic comedy movies.

We are looking forward to another season of So You Think You Can Dance; I hate reality shows, and the silly contest rules means you cannot take the competition seriously, but the dancing is fantastic. Absolutely stunningly fantastic.

I can’t wait for Dollhouse, another Joss Whedon creation starring Eliza Dushku of Tru Calling and Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.

We’ll probably give Battlestar Galactica a watch when it comes back on, though I have mixed feelings about it, my partner is enthusiastic about it. It will be fun to watch them reveal my friend Johnny Hunter as the 12th cylon (ok, so that’s just a joke folks).

We just finished first season of True Blood on HBO, which justified a subscription to HBO this Fall all by itself. It is a vampire/lycanthrope/genre series based on the books by Charlaine Harris. It is raw and gripping the way several of HBO’s television series have been (Carnivale, Rome, Sopranos, the film series John Adams) and it has Anna Paquin in all her gorgeous glory and amazing acting by Rutina Wesley (Tara), Sam Trammell (Sam), and Ryan Kwanten (Jason). True Blood on DVD will hit the streets on May 12th, 2009.