{"id":11679,"date":"2008-12-03T00:59:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/12\/03\/11679.html"},"modified":"2008-12-03T00:59:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:59:47","slug":"tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/12\/03\/tv-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few notes on various TV shows I've been watching. No specific spoilers here, but there are some general sort of quasi-spoilers. But there are various things, about these shows and about <cite>Alias<\/cite>, that I'm carefully avoiding saying here because they would be big spoilers. I imagine that if anyone comments on this entry, they may include spoilers, so beware of reading comments here if you don't want spoilers.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Heroes<\/dt>\n<dd>I continue to love nearly every scene featuring Hiro. And I still rather like Noah Bennet (a.k.a. HRG), though I've been finding him less interesting lately. But there's pretty much nothing else I like about the show any more. I regularly roll my eyes at the directions the plot takes. I find most of the characters annoying, and even more so given what I see as major character inconsistencies throughout this season--several of the characters can't seem to decide who they are or what they want.  I've never liked Sylar, and I like him less the more we see of him.  And, on a minor side note, ever time I see Kristen Bell it makes me miss <cite>Veronica Mars<\/cite> all over again. So far, Hiro has kept me coming back, but I may be just about ready to give up on the show.<\/dd>\n<dt>My Own Worst Enemy<\/dt>\n<dd>The thing that strikes me most about this show, as of episode 5 or so, is just how many elements they're copying from <cite>Alias<\/cite>. In fact, I suspect that one of the central holes in the premise is due to copying from <cite>Alias<\/cite>: in <cite>Enemy<\/cite>, it seems to me that the people keeping the secret have no good reason to do so. I do still like seeing Christian Slater in the dual role, and I still like the idea of the premise (though various of the details are kinda goofy), and I like the actor who plays Tom. But I'm not especially disappointed at this point that the show has been cancelled. Kam has given up on it; I haven't yet decided whether to watch the final three episodes. I wish I knew whether it was going to come to some sort of resolution.<\/dd>\n<dt>Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/dt>\n<dd>I'm still really liking this show. The latest episode (the 1920s one) was sort of fillerish, but I really enjoyed it and thought it was very well done. I'm not thrilled with the character of Riley and the central place she seems to be taking, but I like just about everything else about the show. Sadly, Kam is on the verge of giving up on this, because she doesn't believe that the writers have a plan.  But I still have faith! (But then, I still have faith in the <cite>BSG<\/cite> writers, too.)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes on various TV shows I&#8217;ve been watching. No specific spoilers here, but there are some general sort&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}