World's Largest TV

All I can say is... wow

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0740737820080107?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology

ok...

1) so who has the room for a 150 inch tv?
2) what's the cost?
3) if I have to ask, I can't afford it
4) what's the cost of the juice to run this (again, see number 3 above)

Dexter or Serial Killer by Proxy?

Ok... I know I'm behind the curve on some things... the rise and fall of boy bands, SPAM, and now Dexter.

For the last few people who didn't know, it's a series about a serial killer who hunts people who escape the the law (like serial killers or serial drunk drivers).

It's a dark show. You see in detail as the lead character captures and tortures his victims, but since we already know the victims are, themselves, horrible killers, we can take a perverse pleasure in watching these monsters meet their vicious ends at the hand of another monster.

But the most interesting question... since we continue to watch the show, and viewers are what guarantee new episodes, aren't we just as responsible for the crimes Dexter gets to commit?

Cupid Returns

In the last few years it's been more common for failed TV shows to come back after being canceled. Usually a successful write-in campaign from the show's most loyal fans can help sway a decision to cancel a show (such as Jericho, Touched by an Angel, and Cagney & Lacey -- to name a few). Others jumped networks to avoid cancellation (such as Taxi, Family Matters, and JAG). But rarely has a show been off the air for more than a decade before being revived... Star Trek (with the TNG series), and the new Doctor Who are the only two examples... that was until early Oct.

Now there's another one to add to the list, and in many ways stands above both ST and Who... Cupid.

What's Cupid? Well here's some info from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_%28TV_series%29

In short (if you didn't read the link)... it was about a "man" who claimed to be the Greek god Cupid bound to earth for not properly doing his job and forced to match 100 couples without the benefit of his magic bow and arrow.

He's locked up as a nut and convinces a psychiatrist that he is sane long enough to get out of the hospital, where he goes about trying to complete his mission. The doctor, tries to find out who he really is and uses him as the subject of her next book on relationships. Week in and week out, Trevor Hale (NOT his real name) tries putting together couples and is confronted with romance in the modern age. More often than not, he fails in getting his matches.

The show lasted 15 eps (only 14 shown in the US) and disappeared forever. It stared Jeremy Piven, who went on to STEAL the show on Entourage, as well as Paula Marshal, Jeffery Sams, and Paul Adelstein (Private Practice). Ever since cancellation, the show has been on several "Canceled Too Soon" lists and lamented about by numerous TV critics, but has never been shown in reruns or has had a DVD set released (unlike ST and Who, which have had both)

Now, word comes out that the show will be remade for the 2008 season, with all new actors in the key rolls... will it be the same? I don't know if lightening can strike twice... there was a special charm in the show (ask any fan of the show) and it came to help lift me up at a low point in my life personally. I'm rooting for Trevor and Clair, even if they look a little different from what I originally remember them... Here's to believing in a little magic...

"October Road" Not Taken

Just watched 45 minutes of the first (1 hr) episode of a new show called October Road. It's been on for two weeks and I was planning on watching the first two eps in one sitting. Now, thanks to a really bad show, I just got 1:15 of my life back (and I'd still like the other 45 min).

I wanted to like the show, and I have no problem with the idea of man returns home to confront those left behind, but I didn't feel for any of the characters and as it progressed, I just got more and more upset with how disjointed everything seemed.

1) The music was ALL wrong. The opening takes place in 1997 but everyone is lip syncing to an old Boston song ("Don't Look Back"), which was a hit in the 70s (I think). And one of the guys is playing air guitar with a WOODEN tennis racket... quick, get that out of his hands and put it in a museum, 'cause it's gotta be the last wooden racket out there!
The music issues continue through out what I saw of the first ep. There's Gin Blossoms and early Collective Soul in what is supposed to be modern day. Please was the music budget so small they had to get rights to old one-hit wonder songs. I know the songs were lyrically relevant but it just disoriented the setting of the show.
I also didn't like the Kurt Cobain poster in 1997... seemed a little out of time as he died in 94 and a fifteen year old girl (in 94) may have moved on to someone else by the time she was 18 (in 97).

2) The dialog. Mostly sucked, but the stuff from the little kid was downright laughable... even Dawson and Joey would have done a double-take on this kid.

3) Plot... predictable. If the characters were more interesting, I might not have minded seeing them in these situations.

There were other issues, but I don't care anymore... one less show to watch, just leaves more time for writing this blog :)