It's always refreshing when critics agree with you:
It's tempting to watch a show like this the way I watched The West Wing. While I was always held by the drama, there was still an undercurrent of wish fulfillment. Josiah Bartlet was the kind of man you wanted to be leading the country, even if you know it would never happen. When Adama sees that he's facing a total of four basestars and not the two he planned on, and that his FTL drive is busted, and that he's staring death in the face, he sets his jaw. That's the kind of leader we all wish we had in our lives, somewhere. Either at work, or at home, or in ourselves.
Daniel has said it a million times, and I'll say it here: "Battlestar Galactica" is one of the best shows on TV. If you refuse to watch it based on its name and what other incorrect assumptions you have, you're lame. Case closed.
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Only the "Lost" producers would introduce new characters on a show set on a freaking desert island. What, we just didn't notice them before? They were always in the back? Or if the action was at the beach, they were in the cave? Or vice versa? And what's with Locke working on a pot farm and talking with Boone (may he rest in peace) in the sweat tent? What's happening???
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When I was in Wal-Mart yesterday, I noticed familiar, yet somehow changed, song blaring from the giant row of TVs next to me. I couldn't believe it: Meatloaf remade "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)," a movie that will forever play out in my head as it did on Pop Up Video so many years ago. While seeing Meatloaf -- in all his sweaty, man-boob glory -- in "Fight Club" forever changed my view of him, this somehow brings him back to where he belongs in my head. What isn't awesome about that song? It's horrible. Horribly awesome.
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On the Loaf's new album, he sings the Celine Dion tune "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," which apparently was originally written for the Loaf. Or anyway, his collaborator Jim Steinman wrote it. I heard the song coming out of my boss' office the other day, and it was like the nexus of all bad pop had converged on one single point.
His name is Robert Paulson.
The new characters on Lost are actually just people who are taking a break between the swim and bike portions of the Ironman triathlon in Hawaii.
They really need better security on the set of that show.
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