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Have now gone to the gym two days running! Go me. Fully expect not to be able to move tomorrow.
Saw Transformers yesterday which was completely awesome- I can't believe I was sat in the cinema getting distressed at the fate of giant robots!
I really wanted to love Barrowman on The Friday Night Project but sadly I didn't. I just find the show awful and can't stand the two hosts. Barrowman was as puppy like as ever and I loved the teeny spoilery clip of Torchwood filming but otherwise it wasn't anywhere near as funny as I hoped it would be. Guess all the good stuff ended up on the cutting room floor.
Watched Orlando Bloom in In Celebration on Thursday night. Things didn't start well when my friend texted me at 7:00 to say that she was just going to get something to eat and she'd be there soon. What part of "the show starts at 7:30" was she struggling with? After having waited for an eternity for her, having ignored the fact that they were sounding the bells for everyone to take their seats and the usher giving me death glares I eventually had to leave her ticket at the box office and go to my seat - which although I could see fine was practically at the back of the theatre. Useless friend finally shows up at 7:29. As for the play - dear lord that was hard going.
It's a fairly grim (and incredibly misogynistic tale) of three brothers in the 1960's returning to the mining town in which they were raised. Its one of those godawful plays where the mother is made out to be the arch villain who is responsible for everything that has gone wrong with her sons' lives - because heaven forbid they should take responsibility for themselves. The first act wasn't too bad but the second act was awful - very pretentious and incredibly dull. In fact it was so dull I fell asleep and so did my friend. Orland bloom doesn't exactly set the stage alight. He's on stage for the vast majority of the time but his character is the strong silent type so he doesn't say a great deal (and when he does his northern accent wavered quite comically) and his emotional breakdown in the second act was a little embarrassing. I wasn't impressed with the play but I was impressed with the way Bloom handled himself at the Q&A afterwards. He was very un-diva like, happily just sitting on the stage when the backstage team failed to bring out enough chairs for everyone to sit on. From a physical point of view he's also tiny - inevitably he was a lot shorter than he looks on screen and he's incredibly skinny. Amusingly they did everything they could to limit questions from the audience (as I guess they knew that people would just ask Bloom questions) but Orlando was still the one who spoke the most but he was very articulate giving indepth answers to anything he was asked and he was very generous about the rest of the cast taking every opportunity to compliment them. I wasn't really all that fussed about getting his autograph but the stage door was total mayhem - when we got out there were about 100 people across the road with cameras and easily that amount either side of the stage door. They had 5 professional bouncers looking after him! Naturally he didn't sign anything - just got straight into his car with a million flashbulbs going off in his face.
Still - off to see Lee in Joseph next week! I'm entertained that they are going to hire Lewis for one show a week to meet the demand for tickets. Not too sure of the logic of that decision. Yes the demand for tickets is huge but the demand is for tickets to see Lee Mead - are people going to book for the Lewis only shows? I bet that's the performance where you'll always be able to get cheap tickets from TKTS.
Loved the report that someone (Hellschilde I think) put up about Torchwood filming. I was very amused that JB would only allow Gareth to use his trailer to change if he didn't smoke in it!
Am working my way through all the pre-air shows that have leaked onto the net (I'm half convinced that the networks purposefully leak them to build advance buzz).
Loved Reaper. All the characters were just so goofy. I just loved the whole silly vibe to it - the calm way that his father tells him that they sold his soul to the devil, the daftness of the weapon being a dust devil and the woman with horns in the DMV. Silly but really likeable- I thought it had the kind of light irreverent tone that Supernatural often aims for and usually fails to achieve. Will definitely be watching this religiously so here's hoping The CW don't can it in 5 episodes.
I enjoyed Sarah Connor but I wasn't all that overwhelmed by it. I loved T2 and I guess I'm not thrilled that basically the entire series is just going to be the T2 plotline. Doomsday wasn't averted, Skynet still gets built and Sarah and John have to find out who builds it. Nice to see Summer in such a high profile role (even if she is basically just playing River in full on kick ass mode) but she looks great in the part - she looks a lot healthier and curvier than she did in Firefly and it makes her fight scenes look more realistic (as River she always looked like she would snap like a twig if she hit anyone). Lena Headey looks like she's going to be great as Sarah Connors but her character in the Pilot was way too passive for me. It will be interesting to see how it develops but I won't be surprised if this is shortlived.
Everyone on my flist is raving about Pushing Daisies so I'll be watching that next.
Saw Transformers yesterday which was completely awesome- I can't believe I was sat in the cinema getting distressed at the fate of giant robots!
I really wanted to love Barrowman on The Friday Night Project but sadly I didn't. I just find the show awful and can't stand the two hosts. Barrowman was as puppy like as ever and I loved the teeny spoilery clip of Torchwood filming but otherwise it wasn't anywhere near as funny as I hoped it would be. Guess all the good stuff ended up on the cutting room floor.
Watched Orlando Bloom in In Celebration on Thursday night. Things didn't start well when my friend texted me at 7:00 to say that she was just going to get something to eat and she'd be there soon. What part of "the show starts at 7:30" was she struggling with? After having waited for an eternity for her, having ignored the fact that they were sounding the bells for everyone to take their seats and the usher giving me death glares I eventually had to leave her ticket at the box office and go to my seat - which although I could see fine was practically at the back of the theatre. Useless friend finally shows up at 7:29. As for the play - dear lord that was hard going.
It's a fairly grim (and incredibly misogynistic tale) of three brothers in the 1960's returning to the mining town in which they were raised. Its one of those godawful plays where the mother is made out to be the arch villain who is responsible for everything that has gone wrong with her sons' lives - because heaven forbid they should take responsibility for themselves. The first act wasn't too bad but the second act was awful - very pretentious and incredibly dull. In fact it was so dull I fell asleep and so did my friend. Orland bloom doesn't exactly set the stage alight. He's on stage for the vast majority of the time but his character is the strong silent type so he doesn't say a great deal (and when he does his northern accent wavered quite comically) and his emotional breakdown in the second act was a little embarrassing. I wasn't impressed with the play but I was impressed with the way Bloom handled himself at the Q&A afterwards. He was very un-diva like, happily just sitting on the stage when the backstage team failed to bring out enough chairs for everyone to sit on. From a physical point of view he's also tiny - inevitably he was a lot shorter than he looks on screen and he's incredibly skinny. Amusingly they did everything they could to limit questions from the audience (as I guess they knew that people would just ask Bloom questions) but Orlando was still the one who spoke the most but he was very articulate giving indepth answers to anything he was asked and he was very generous about the rest of the cast taking every opportunity to compliment them. I wasn't really all that fussed about getting his autograph but the stage door was total mayhem - when we got out there were about 100 people across the road with cameras and easily that amount either side of the stage door. They had 5 professional bouncers looking after him! Naturally he didn't sign anything - just got straight into his car with a million flashbulbs going off in his face.
Still - off to see Lee in Joseph next week! I'm entertained that they are going to hire Lewis for one show a week to meet the demand for tickets. Not too sure of the logic of that decision. Yes the demand for tickets is huge but the demand is for tickets to see Lee Mead - are people going to book for the Lewis only shows? I bet that's the performance where you'll always be able to get cheap tickets from TKTS.
Loved the report that someone (Hellschilde I think) put up about Torchwood filming. I was very amused that JB would only allow Gareth to use his trailer to change if he didn't smoke in it!
Am working my way through all the pre-air shows that have leaked onto the net (I'm half convinced that the networks purposefully leak them to build advance buzz).
Loved Reaper. All the characters were just so goofy. I just loved the whole silly vibe to it - the calm way that his father tells him that they sold his soul to the devil, the daftness of the weapon being a dust devil and the woman with horns in the DMV. Silly but really likeable- I thought it had the kind of light irreverent tone that Supernatural often aims for and usually fails to achieve. Will definitely be watching this religiously so here's hoping The CW don't can it in 5 episodes.
I enjoyed Sarah Connor but I wasn't all that overwhelmed by it. I loved T2 and I guess I'm not thrilled that basically the entire series is just going to be the T2 plotline. Doomsday wasn't averted, Skynet still gets built and Sarah and John have to find out who builds it. Nice to see Summer in such a high profile role (even if she is basically just playing River in full on kick ass mode) but she looks great in the part - she looks a lot healthier and curvier than she did in Firefly and it makes her fight scenes look more realistic (as River she always looked like she would snap like a twig if she hit anyone). Lena Headey looks like she's going to be great as Sarah Connors but her character in the Pilot was way too passive for me. It will be interesting to see how it develops but I won't be surprised if this is shortlived.
Everyone on my flist is raving about Pushing Daisies so I'll be watching that next.
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I was planning on getting the two you've reviewed, though. Given what you've said, I think I'll start with Reaper.
I'm with JB on that ;-) I hate smoke, and once that smell gets in it's hard to get rid of!
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There's no way with all the leakage and the timing of the leaks - just as the shows begin production, there's still time to fix stuff based on the blogs and forums without cutting too much into the filming schedules. No way in all the nine hells is that an accident.
Pushing Daisies...I hope I never see that programme again, it was awful and the star was creepy. he looked like he was made of plastic or had really bad plastic surgery.
I can't decide whether to watch Moonlight or not. I can't stand Shannon Sossamyn or Sophia Myles, but I love Alex O'Loughlin and him from VMars.
Smoking is disgusting. Doesn't a trailer count as a public building? I can't wait until Pete Firmin gets himself chucked out of Edinburgh next month.
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I loved Reaper because it was so funny and silly. Didn't love Sarah Connor anywhere near as much but will probably follow it when it airs. I also liked The Bionic Woman but that was probably because Katee Sackhoff absolutely kicked ass in it.
I had the complete opposite reaction to Pushing Daisies. I instantly adored it. Dark, surreal, quirky - hell I even liked Anna Friel in it. Its very much my kind of thing and is definitely my favourite of the new shows that I've seen so far by a mile.
Moonlight pretty much has cancelled written all over it - especially now that Greenwalt isn't even going to be showrunner any more. I hadn't even realised Sophia Myles was in it but I did love her in that Doctor Who episode - I'll see it just reads like such a rip off of Angel that it would have to be pretty special for me to bother watching it.
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I'd heard of Moonlight, but dismissed it because it sounds like an Angel ripoff. And Shannon wotshername is annoying. Sophia Myles, though, I like. Maybe I'll check it out. But yes, I'd agree that it's probably doomed.
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