Ty’s Weblog

See, Sarah Connor Chronicles was supposed to suck.  I’d already written it off as a pointless show that would die a quick death.  Then the writers strike hit, and Kate and I decided we’d give it a shot.  It turns out, it’s great!  Who would have guessed.  I’ve only seen three episodes so far and there are apparently 9 total.  Overall, the writing is very good.  The characters have depth to them, and they do seem to have put some thought into things.  I don’t want to post spoilers, but I was very happy with the way they handled the problems the third movie introduces into the premise.  It has all the makings of a good long term show, so I’m sure Fox will be canceling it as soon as they can.

Good Eats! We ordered the first 12 volumes of Good Eats recently and they arrived last night! Good Eats is one of our favorite shows and we’ve watched it for years and years. Alton does such a good job of explaining food in a way a nerd like me can understand and enjoy. He doesn’t just talk about the what of food, he talk a lot about the why. A lot of food science goes into the episodes, which hooks me and make it a lot easier for me to spend time doing something I wouldn’t understand the point of otherwise. Not everyone will have the level of love that means you need to buy a set of 36 DVDs, but I think everyone should at least watch a couple of episodes to see if it is for them.

So we headed off to CosoCo this afternoon and came home with our new television! It’s a Vizio VU42LF LCD 1080p. The XBox 360 looks awesome on it! Standard Def television leaves a little something to be desired, but after 30 minutes or so of watching it, we didn’t mind it at all. Shrek looked very nice on it, and that’s on an old DVD player that doesn’t know about 16:9 televisions and over s-video instead of component or HDMI. We’ll likely end up with a PS3 as a DVD player in the near future to replace the aging player we have now and to upgrade to an HD DVD format.

Heroes returned last night! It hit the ground running. It really is my favorite show at the moment. My only hope is that it doesn’t suffer from the same problems that Lost has in its later seasons, not being able to sustain the parts of the show that made it so amazing. I still watch Lost, but we tend to get several weeks behind and then catch back up. Heroes we start watching 15 to 30 minutes after it starts, just long enough to be able to skip the commercials.

In any case, the episode last night was awesome. I’ll stay spoiler free though. If you aren’t watching Heroes and like good, smart Sci-Fi, I’d recommend heading over to the website where you can watch all the old episodes online to get caught up.

HeroesWiki is an awesome resource for the show as well.

Xander got to watch his first episode of Doctor Who today!

We watched Destiny of the Daleks together this afternoon. Xander loved it. Mira wasn’t as impressed and wandered in and out of the room several times. Xander was engrossed. At least after the boring parts were over with. That series starts out a bit slow, but once the Daleks showed up, Xander loved it.

The planets have finally come into alignment.

Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis are back tonight. I’ll be sorry to see the final episodes of SG-1 roll around, but at least there are 2 more movies scheduled for that. It’s been a great, fun series and we’ll miss it when it is gone.

Now, if April 23rd will just get here so Heroes will be back, then all will be right with the TV world.

Over the summer, ABC has been spooning out secrets about Lost. Apparently the spooning is over. Someone has posted the completed video on YouTube.

Today Sci Fi announced a spin-off of Battlestar Galatica. It’s called Caprica and would focus on that world 50 years before Battlestar Galatica. It looks like it will feature the creation of the Cylons.

My family loves Battlestar Galatica, even my Mom and Dad watch it, so I’m very excited about this show as well.

Starting in 2007, NASCAR television rights will be split between ABC/ESPN,TNT, and FOX/FX/Speed. This deal lasts through 2014.

Whew. ABC (or rather Disney) owns a lot of channels, so I expect the content to get spread around quite a bit.

Looks like FOX keeps the first part of the Season, and then ABC/ESPN and TNT get the second part. So not really much different than it is now, just replacing NBC with ABCs fleet of networks.

I’m very proud of Sesame Street for updating Cookie Monster to help kids understand healthy food.

I know a lot of people are upset that the are messing with their childhood memories, but what’s really more important here, child hood memories, or the health of our children. Cookie now treats a cookie as a “sometimes food”. I’m thrilled to see him showing kids that healthy snacks are fun to eat too!

Point Pleasant has been officially pulled by Fox.

I do wish they’d at least let a show finish a season before they pull it. It’s like they try to punish the people who do bother to watch the stuff they come up with.

Good news: Fox is going to show the last 6 episodes of Tru Calling that they made before they cancelled it.

Bad News: They are pulling Point Pleasant to do it.

We can’t seem to win for losing with that network.

There isn’t going to be a B5 movie at this point after all. Pretty sad, and I’m sorry it’s not going to happen. It would have been nice to have something on at the movies I might think was worth watching.

At least we are still going to the get Firefly movie.

This is just wrong. WB is “updating” the Looney Tunes characters. And by that, I mean making them into a team of futuristic super heroes. I can’t even begin to describe how wrong this seems to me.

Johnny Carson died today. I grew up looking forward to the chances I got to stay up late and watch The Tonight Show. He was one of the funniest people I’d ever heard. Once he quit, late night TV never really recovered. I’m truly sorry to hear he is gone.