Weekend Wrapup

[kjpepper]

Yesterday was good - we wandered downtown again and hit a few more places... sydneycat and I introduced booboo_berr to Ben and Bills Chocolate Emporium and were subsequently very amused by her reaction to biting into one of their fist sized truffles after we left... (she basically stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk from yum.) We also hit Faces, Broadside (where we ran into the very handsome transversely and the adorable rumorofrain) and hid from the rain in Dunkin donuts for girl chat. After which sydneycat went out with morlock, and we continued down the hill to Oh My, where books were bought and lots of fun chat was had.

Last night we knew we were in for four hours straight of TV so we grabbed anzovin and went to Halt and Buy for party food, plus supplies for morlock's fried chicken extravaganza. morlock doesn't cook for the family often, but when he does it is almost painfully delicious. Like I said to him later, it's like having your arteries clogged with pure love. :D Plus the finale of American Gladiators was wicked fun. Knight Rider was pretty damn great too. I'm bummed that they had to switch out Will Arnett at the last minute, but felt that Val Kilmer did a fabulous job with KITT's voice and general attitude. I need to find the updated Knight Rider theme, it ruled. And I loved the FBI agent's random and adorably gratuitous lesbiannery. If the series gets picked up, I'd like to see if they actually develop that or if it's just a bit of pretty fanservice. Overall it got a B+, which considering the general silliness of the source material, is a damn good grade. And I kinda hope it gets picked up.

This morning after hitting Beader's Paradise (yes! it's open again! except it's Web's Beads now! And they're moving down by Webs at the end of march! You know, if anyone was wondering) for replacement captive beads (we'd both lost one each, and we both now have a bunch of semiprecious replacements) I walked her down to the bus so she could go home. But it's certainly not going to be her last visit. We were already planning what to do on her next trip out.

Went home, treated myself to an amazing carrot muffin with cream cheese frosting on the way, and then got into bed with a sleepy morlock for snuggles and a little bit of sleeping. Spent the rest of the day on the couch sleeping on and off cause I crashed sorta hard. :)

So... good weekend.

Next weekend, keeping up with the Joneses.

Comments

[anangelssilence.livejournal.com]

So excited!!!

I'm glad you guys had a good weekend.

[prisoner007.livejournal.com]

Wow, a B+? You're a lot more forgiving than I am.

[morlock.livejournal.com]

i don't know about her, but i certainly wasn't expecting all that much at all, but got a ton of great stuff.

the best part of it was it was made like oneof those great made for tv movies...with all the obvious tropes stuck in just before the commercial, the almost good acting...it was a nostalgia bomb.

its no BSG, but i'd watch it every week if it kept this pace.

[prisoner007.livejournal.com]

What obvious tropes? Cliffhangers that weren't actually cliffhangers because you already knew the info provided?

What did you consider great stuff?

ZOMG SPOILERZ

[morlock.livejournal.com]

well one was OH NOES WHICH DOOR ARE THEY GUNNA OPEN??? that one was just painful, but seriously, its knight rider. what did you expect?

great stuff: Kitt, hasselhoff at the end, his NAME (Matt Tracer...brilliant), his doofy friend...

to me, you can do a well made remake of an old series in two ways...

1) the battlestar galactica formula: throw out everything, hint at the original series, but use it as scaffolding only. build a new universe out of the old while only barely touching on the past

2) the way they did it here. this is a true remake, with all the over the top action (nanotech apparently defies physics), the marginally good acting, the crazy "holy crap whats gunna happen now???" plot twists... it was funny and exciting at the same time. popcorn television.

both forms of remakes are good if they are done well, and i think both of those examples are done well. if they ever remake the A-team or something like that, i hope they can do the same thing. same thing with macguyver.

thats right. i want more macguyver. you heard it here first.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

It's less a matter of forgiving and more that I could see where they were trying to go, even if they didn't ever quite get there. The plus was added after I'd read about the two major problems with the production - one being the last minute switch, and the other being that they couldn't edit or tweak the script after the first couple of drafts because of the writers strike. I'm thinking/hoping they'll fix a lot of the cheese and gratuitous improbability if it goes to series.

Re: ZOMG SPOILERZ

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

I seriously doubt you can ever do the A-team over again without Mr T. But I must admit I probably would watch a macguyver reboot.

Re: ZOMG SPOILERZ

[morlock.livejournal.com]

you could do it... just get any wrestler who can act all crazy.

besides, mr. t is still kinda spry, and he needs to eat.


...i do want macguyver tho.