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So, last night, Cynra was very hyped to watch the special Medium.. in 3D! Why the rocket suits at NBC thought that hoary old chestnut would draw the viewers in like flies to a compost heap, I dunno. But, hey, I watched, so that's got to count for something.
Medium, for those of you who weren't members of the khmer rouge in a past life and hence paying off significant kharmic debt, is an NBC hour long drama about a woman who has psychic powers. Apparently, not only is she a medium (seeing the dead) she's also clairvoyant (seeing things that happen in a different place) with postcognitive capabilities, and she has a strange ability to sense the emotional resonance in paintings. Only paintings, apparently. I'd hate to think of what you'd pick up from, say, a $20 bill.
And her dead father in law, played by Bruce Gray (whose plans for the invasion of Klendathu in Verhoeven's Starship Troopers look more realistic with each passing day), keeps showing up to pester her while sucking on phantom cigars.
Anyway, yes. So, as a sweeps month Extravaganza! the brain trusts at NBC decided to make an episode in 3D. 3D technology, as those of you who live in the early 21st century know, isn't included on most tvs, so you needed special glasses. These glasses, in the Holy Republic, were included in TV Guide. Up here in Canuckistan, they were included in newsrag The Globe and Mail. So, of course, YHB was assigned on a cold Milton night to charge into the darkness and seek out a copy of the Globe containing the magic lenses.
Four stores later (two Mac's, a Petro Canada, and a Q Express) I had it in my hot little hands. The actual Globe was boring as usual, but the glasses were pretty. After a quick punching out later, we had them ready.
The show itself was less than engaging, dealing with a very strange murder investigation (with many exciting 3D effects, like wagging cleaver handles and... spraying water). Oh, yeah. And they had a digital manipulation of Rod Serling introducing it, which I presume was more cost effective than just digging up his corpse and making it dance for the viewing audience.
The 3D effects were fairly boring and not very good. They looked much the same through the glasses as they did without them, and aside from a cleaver swirling into the lens were boring. They could have at least have had someone offer someone a cup of coffee.
If anyone else did watch it, I'd like a quick help (and, no, there ain't no freakin' spoiler cut for a mediocre episode of a mediocre tv show). Were the words "Jacks Gal" actually on the bloody wall? Or were they only visible via genero-psychic powers? And does anyone know how likely it is a guy will be able to impregnate his HIV+ wife and remain uninfected himself?
Overall, in any case, I should have played some Dungeon Keeper. That one level is just annoying me.
The guest cast was interesting; the previously mentioned Bruce Gray, Harry Groener, and the guy who played Luthor on Lois & Clark. So it had at least that going for it, even if there was nothing else. Ah, well. Arrested Development died for our sins, and Kitchen Confidential got the Fox Pillow in the middle of the night, but at least Medium maintains the standard of quality its name indicates (i.e. neither rare nor well done).
So, last night, Cynra was very hyped to watch the special Medium.. in 3D! Why the rocket suits at NBC thought that hoary old chestnut would draw the viewers in like flies to a compost heap, I dunno. But, hey, I watched, so that's got to count for something.
Medium, for those of you who weren't members of the khmer rouge in a past life and hence paying off significant kharmic debt, is an NBC hour long drama about a woman who has psychic powers. Apparently, not only is she a medium (seeing the dead) she's also clairvoyant (seeing things that happen in a different place) with postcognitive capabilities, and she has a strange ability to sense the emotional resonance in paintings. Only paintings, apparently. I'd hate to think of what you'd pick up from, say, a $20 bill.
And her dead father in law, played by Bruce Gray (whose plans for the invasion of Klendathu in Verhoeven's Starship Troopers look more realistic with each passing day), keeps showing up to pester her while sucking on phantom cigars.
Anyway, yes. So, as a sweeps month Extravaganza! the brain trusts at NBC decided to make an episode in 3D. 3D technology, as those of you who live in the early 21st century know, isn't included on most tvs, so you needed special glasses. These glasses, in the Holy Republic, were included in TV Guide. Up here in Canuckistan, they were included in newsrag The Globe and Mail. So, of course, YHB was assigned on a cold Milton night to charge into the darkness and seek out a copy of the Globe containing the magic lenses.
Four stores later (two Mac's, a Petro Canada, and a Q Express) I had it in my hot little hands. The actual Globe was boring as usual, but the glasses were pretty. After a quick punching out later, we had them ready.
The show itself was less than engaging, dealing with a very strange murder investigation (with many exciting 3D effects, like wagging cleaver handles and... spraying water). Oh, yeah. And they had a digital manipulation of Rod Serling introducing it, which I presume was more cost effective than just digging up his corpse and making it dance for the viewing audience.
The 3D effects were fairly boring and not very good. They looked much the same through the glasses as they did without them, and aside from a cleaver swirling into the lens were boring. They could have at least have had someone offer someone a cup of coffee.
If anyone else did watch it, I'd like a quick help (and, no, there ain't no freakin' spoiler cut for a mediocre episode of a mediocre tv show). Were the words "Jacks Gal" actually on the bloody wall? Or were they only visible via genero-psychic powers? And does anyone know how likely it is a guy will be able to impregnate his HIV+ wife and remain uninfected himself?
Overall, in any case, I should have played some Dungeon Keeper. That one level is just annoying me.
The guest cast was interesting; the previously mentioned Bruce Gray, Harry Groener, and the guy who played Luthor on Lois & Clark. So it had at least that going for it, even if there was nothing else. Ah, well. Arrested Development died for our sins, and Kitchen Confidential got the Fox Pillow in the middle of the night, but at least Medium maintains the standard of quality its name indicates (i.e. neither rare nor well done).
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Date: 2005-11-22 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-22 05:48 pm (UTC)And no Jacks Gal was just a psychic power manifested bloody vision.
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Date: 2005-11-22 06:12 pm (UTC)Jacks: What a crappy gallery, that they can't get their sign fixed. And what made the words show up in the bathroom, then?
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Date: 2005-11-23 05:02 am (UTC)HIV is not highly contagious. The likelihood of a male becoming infected in as sexual encounter with a positive female is well under 1% /per encounter/. So assuming she weren't contagious over a long period of time it would be easy for her to become pregnant before it became statistically likely her partner would contract the disease.
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Date: 2005-11-23 03:45 pm (UTC)Well, that answers the question. Thanks.
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Date: 2005-11-23 12:10 am (UTC)The Rod Serling stuff was just embarrassing. Like they photoshopped someone else' lips onto his head. Oh wait, they did!
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Date: 2005-11-23 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-23 10:02 pm (UTC)