tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post115807603003137059..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Late morning linksAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158678726863656822006-09-19T11:12:00.000-04:002006-09-19T11:12:00.000-04:00Well, as last night's episode revealed, T-bag just...Well, as last night's episode revealed, T-bag just beat that girl's father up instead of killing him. <BR/><BR/>Which I sort of buy, oddly enough. If he wasn't going to take that girl with him, he wasn't going to leave her fatherless either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158319775658130202006-09-15T07:29:00.000-04:002006-09-15T07:29:00.000-04:00I am really starting to like this show less and le...I am really starting to like this show less and less. I think the actual 'ingenious prison break' mechanic was what engaged me in season one, and now that's gone all the elements I could ignore (weak acting, viewer-insulting headfucks/cliffhangers, absurd plot developments etc.) are all too apparent.<BR/><BR/>three big shark-jumping moments this year off the top of my head: the spraypainted gun/silly struggle in the lift, faking their deaths with pig's blood, Holly Valance's freak-out this week<BR/><BR/>and who could forget 'I'VE BEEN TO HELL, NOW I'VE JUST GOTTA GET TO VEGAS'A.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13929545741191121014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158252245608570172006-09-14T12:44:00.000-04:002006-09-14T12:44:00.000-04:00I only want to see Patricia Wettig at the end and ...I only want to see Patricia Wettig at the end and that's only to see her arrested so the new prez can pardon Michael and Linc. You know, if that's how they decide to end it. Otherwise, I'm fine with the only conspiracy stuff being Kellerman stalking Sara so he can find Michael & Linc.<BR/><BR/>And don't forget: they didn't just shoot Veronica--they dismembered her!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158202706166997162006-09-13T22:58:00.000-04:002006-09-13T22:58:00.000-04:00They didn't shoot Veronica in the head for nothin'...They didn't shoot Veronica in the head for nothin'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158195852349352492006-09-13T21:04:00.000-04:002006-09-13T21:04:00.000-04:00Do you honestly want to get back to the conspiracy...Do you honestly <I>want</I> to get back to the conspiracy? To me, if we never see Wettig again on this show, it'll be too soon.Alan Sepinwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158195647867576892006-09-13T21:00:00.000-04:002006-09-13T21:00:00.000-04:00Aside from the first moments of the first ep of th...Aside from the first moments of the first ep of this season, it seems that they've jumped the shark. There's just a lot of running around and nothing's really happening. I mean, really, how long are we going to wait for Patricia Wettig's new series to be cancelled so we can get back to the conspiracy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158184608954110612006-09-13T17:56:00.000-04:002006-09-13T17:56:00.000-04:00Just saw it, I'm pretty much covered, I just wanna...Just saw it, I'm pretty much covered, I just wanna comment on something re: T-Bag. When he killed the girl's father, what was it that stopped him from raping the girl anyways? Perhaps he got his thrill pill by killing the veteran, so he was fine for the moment. But I still think that he would have gone for it. <BR/><BR/>The reason he wasn't able to contain himself initially? Well, he was in prison for, um, what exactly? The show's timeline is confusing to me, but anyways, the fact is he was in for a long time. It felt very true to his sociopath character that he would grab the opportunity the moment it presented itself. Only he didn't, eventually, which kinda confused me.<BR/><BR/>So-so episode, in general.dark tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13461345493748899275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158183819657915732006-09-13T17:43:00.000-04:002006-09-13T17:43:00.000-04:00Interesting, but I've definitely seen it as "k.d. ...Interesting, but I've definitely seen it as "k.d. lang" and "thirtysomething" in almost every article I've ever read about them. Must be a regional preference, I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158098954332647562006-09-12T18:09:00.000-04:002006-09-12T18:09:00.000-04:00I didn't read this because I haven't seen this wee...I didn't read this because I haven't seen this week's or last week's Prison Break yet. But I may have found a big spoiler for tonight's rockstar Supernova. I've got it up on the blog if you want to comment on it.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10136772786084220163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158096542499153972006-09-12T17:29:00.000-04:002006-09-12T17:29:00.000-04:00Part of the problem with T-Bag's behavior last nig...Part of the problem with T-Bag's behavior last night is that the character has always been presented as a something of a sociopathic genius. He'd gotten away with years of criminal behavior before he was finally jailed and what helped him escape prison was probably a certain awareness of decorum -- i.e. he was able to "normalize" for his relationship with the woman who eventually turned him in. He knew that sometimes restraint could serve as a survival mechanism. But here he is one of the 8 most wanted men in America and he can't contain his lust for a teenage girl for more than five hours with his freedom and millions of dollars at stake? That's ridiculous. Plus, making him into an unbridled animal makes the character a good deal less interesting. The idea that he can turn it on and off is scarier than the idea he's just nuts. If that's the case, he's just Haywire.<BR/><BR/>And where the heck *is* Haywire?<BR/><BR/>-DanDanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08110645467194876282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158094335045367202006-09-12T16:52:00.000-04:002006-09-12T16:52:00.000-04:00Abruzzi will be fine. He just needs some unguent.W...Abruzzi will be fine. He just needs some unguent.<BR/><BR/>Who sees Tweener and Girl Gone Dumb going out Bonnie and Clyde-style?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158093765000142122006-09-12T16:42:00.000-04:002006-09-12T16:42:00.000-04:00Mahone has his people trawl the Chicago River in s...Mahone has his people trawl the Chicago River in search of the hard drive Michael dunked back in the pilot, and we're told in this episode that, so far, the computer people have recovered about 13% of the data.Alan Sepinwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158093288294453862006-09-12T16:34:00.000-04:002006-09-12T16:34:00.000-04:00"On the plus side, Dell got perhaps the greatest p..."On the plus side, Dell got perhaps the greatest product placement of all time with the suggestion that Michael's hard drive would be recoverable after sitting at the bottom of a river for more than a month."<BR/><BR/>I missed the ep, so I don't know if Michael just fished out the laptop and turned it on, but I will say that a drive sitting underwater for a month is probably recoverable.<BR/><BR/>It's the drive recovery guys who deserve the props in the world -- <BR/>Ontrack, DriveSavers, etc. -- they really can work miracles, and a waterlogged drive is probably the least of them.<BR/><BR/>Entertaining war stories about drives you'd swear were goners:<BR/><BR/>http://www.drivesavers.com/museum/index.html<BR/><BR/><BR/>These guys really can work miracles, andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158091865438947902006-09-12T16:11:00.000-04:002006-09-12T16:11:00.000-04:00I'm with Alan. Washington Post copyeditor Bill Wal...I'm with Alan. Washington Post copyeditor Bill Walsh, in his book Lapsing into a Comma, makes the point that logos, trademarks, etc. often feature distinctive colors, fonts and, yes, capitalization, to stand out visually, but that it's not a writer or editor's job to replicate those visual tics in plain English writing. So it's "Nike" not "NIKE," K.D. Lang" not "k.d. lang," and "Thirtysomething" not "thirtysomething." And, yes, "Men in Trees" not "MEN IN TREES."Tosy And Coshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158087121658556392006-09-12T14:52:00.000-04:002006-09-12T14:52:00.000-04:00If the show is called MEN IN TREES, what's the big...If the show is called MEN IN TREES, what's the big deal about typing it in all caps? Sure, the grammar is questionable, but it's what the show is called, so aren't you supposed to write it that way? It's like when journos take the periods out of R.E.M. and write it as "REM." That's *not* the name of the band, dammit! Okay, so AP Style gives me a headache %^)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158086848240841382006-09-12T14:47:00.000-04:002006-09-12T14:47:00.000-04:00Caitie, I think you just hit the nail on the head ...Caitie, I think you just hit the nail on the head about T-Bag: he's not any more sick or violent now than he was in Fox River, but now he's torturing and killing complete innocents, and the scenes are presented in the same tone as when he was going after fellow cons. (The one time he killed a guard, it was presented as a huge deal that horrified Michael and everyone else.)Alan Sepinwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158086602211021402006-09-12T14:43:00.000-04:002006-09-12T14:43:00.000-04:00As a grammar nerd, I thank you from the bottom of ...As a grammar nerd, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for not writing "Men in Trees" in all caps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158086370809577662006-09-12T14:39:00.000-04:002006-09-12T14:39:00.000-04:00I think I loved T-Bag when he was in jail because ...I think I loved T-Bag when he was in jail because he was just messing with other cons and that's okay. I find him with the one hand the bleached hair a little too creepy for my liking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1158085476358970672006-09-12T14:24:00.000-04:002006-09-12T14:24:00.000-04:00I'm also glad they aren't softening up T-Bag, but ...I'm also glad they aren't softening up T-Bag, but I'm starting to hope he either meets his maker or gets caught soon. Hopefully, he'll get killed by his ex-girlfriend and her kid (the ones who put him in prison, I think).<BR/><BR/>I would have "felt" this ep more if I hadn't accidentally been spoiled about Abruzzi's demise. Still, I'm gonna miss the psycho mob boss with the wandering accent. He never even got to put Fibonacci in the woodchipper!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com