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58. House season 4.
Loved the slashiness of the House / Wilson / Amber storyline, and while I'd run screaming from House's hiring practices, then they were entertaining to watch.
59. A family at war season 2.
Very soap opera, this series. Also, some of the characters irritate me - or rather, the values dissonance irritates me. And I can't figure out if the actual characters are supposed to be sons-of-bitches, or if it's supposed to be because it's set in the 40's, or if it's from the 70's.
60. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Doesn't make that much sense, really, but the police parts are cool and the evil Mabuse puppet hypnosis ghost is just plain creepy.
61. Kickin it old skool
Only really watched this, because I have a kink for fish out of temporal water past-to-present stories of all stripes. And the way the coma guy acts is - well, slightly too childish for a mental, what, 12-year-old? - but I can't help but wonder why every other characters acts just the same. Lots of offstage comas? Also, I am the only one who was creeped out by the fact, that the "romance"? Seriously, the guy is mentally not even in puberty, has had only a few days to adjust to being awake and more naive that I am willing to believe little boys were pre-internet, and, well, you have to ask yourself what kind of young woman is willing to ditch her apparently serious boyfriend in favour of a guy like that. Also, while the appearance of KITT was awesome, they should have done themselves the favour of making him mute.
62. Le violon rouge
Not quite as good as it would like to think and the ending frankly annoyed me - why should some random specialist get to walk away with the violin? - but the gradual unveiling of the violin's history and the historical movie parts were fun.
63. Reign of the gargoyles
Why exactly are a bunch of animated, flying stone statues supposed to be a serious threat around the time of WWII? Yes, they can bring down a plane, especially with the surprise element on their side, but once the news spread - and they would probably spread very fast - then I can't believe they would be that great a threat to a civilisation that has discovered airplanes and machineguns. The middle ages, on the other hand...
64. Antonio das mortes
Honestly? Didn't make that much sense.
65. No. 1. ladies' detective agency (pilot)
It's okay, but I suspect it's the sort of thing that's more funny to read. Also, could someone explain the habit of Danish dvd publishers to sell the pilot episodes and made-for-tv movie sequels, but rarely bothering with the actual series?
66. NCIS season 6
Abby is one of my favourite characters. We need more of her. And the rest.
67. Transformers 2 - revenge of the fallen
Right, so they tell me summer blockbusters are not about the plot. Which is suppose is good. Then I can ignore that every character apparently had a personality transplant between the first and second movie - how else do you explain Optimus Prime going from noble leader whose grand plan to defeat the Decepticons is by suicide to Optimus Prime the hunter and cold-blooded executioner? Of course, there is so much wrong with that scene (for instance, giant alien robots or not, China would never just let the American army run around Shanghai like that). Also, we can ignore the horrible cliché that is "the aliens built the Pyramids" (why is always the Pyramids - why is it never "the aliens built Angkor Wat" or "the aliens built Ayer's Rock"???), the sheer supervillain idiocy of destroying a sun while standing on one of it's planets (either a supernova will kill you or possibly the ensuing gravity issues), the lack of an explanation why the the super-solar-cell wasn't just built on Mars or the stupid "humor". I won't even wonder why the US army has to be portrayed as incompetent enough that is has to let a teenager make all it's decisions - or the plot that seems contrived to avoid anyone even suggesting that dropping a nuclear bomb on Egypt might be a good idea, if it can avoid the whole sun-killer thing. No, this being a summer blockbuster I am supposed to just focus on the awesomeness of the robots, never mind all the time spent on stupid teenage boy and his jiggling girlfriend. Right, the awesomeness of the robots. Let's see. Well, Soundwave the killer satellite is awesome and Ravage is cool, but we don't see enough of either, nor of the first movie cast. Arcee might have been awesome, if we had seen more of her, the doctor Decepticons was interesting, but again, not enough, Jetfire was fun, but seriously, they wasted a chance to have a steampunk transformer, and then there was Devastator - well, the idea of a gestalt is awesome, but the execution was terrible, the humor idiotic and then it was wasted on a stupid B-plot and opposed by the Jar Jar Binks-twins. And we'll just back away slowly from the rest of the cast, only vaguely wondering where Barricade was...
In short, I suspect Michael Bay of having developed a serious case of George Lucasitis.
68. The mutant chronicles
Occasionally a nice steampunky look, but the plot is stupid - and the characters. Also, why does some science fiction insist on imagining that corporation will turn into actual empires? Seriously, why would they bother? Why not just leave the nations to take of all the boring, necessary stuff, while turning a profit - like always? Also, how the hell did Bauhaus manage to become one of the four megacorporations?
Loved the slashiness of the House / Wilson / Amber storyline, and while I'd run screaming from House's hiring practices, then they were entertaining to watch.
59. A family at war season 2.
Very soap opera, this series. Also, some of the characters irritate me - or rather, the values dissonance irritates me. And I can't figure out if the actual characters are supposed to be sons-of-bitches, or if it's supposed to be because it's set in the 40's, or if it's from the 70's.
60. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Doesn't make that much sense, really, but the police parts are cool and the evil Mabuse puppet hypnosis ghost is just plain creepy.
61. Kickin it old skool
Only really watched this, because I have a kink for fish out of temporal water past-to-present stories of all stripes. And the way the coma guy acts is - well, slightly too childish for a mental, what, 12-year-old? - but I can't help but wonder why every other characters acts just the same. Lots of offstage comas? Also, I am the only one who was creeped out by the fact, that the "romance"? Seriously, the guy is mentally not even in puberty, has had only a few days to adjust to being awake and more naive that I am willing to believe little boys were pre-internet, and, well, you have to ask yourself what kind of young woman is willing to ditch her apparently serious boyfriend in favour of a guy like that. Also, while the appearance of KITT was awesome, they should have done themselves the favour of making him mute.
62. Le violon rouge
Not quite as good as it would like to think and the ending frankly annoyed me - why should some random specialist get to walk away with the violin? - but the gradual unveiling of the violin's history and the historical movie parts were fun.
63. Reign of the gargoyles
Why exactly are a bunch of animated, flying stone statues supposed to be a serious threat around the time of WWII? Yes, they can bring down a plane, especially with the surprise element on their side, but once the news spread - and they would probably spread very fast - then I can't believe they would be that great a threat to a civilisation that has discovered airplanes and machineguns. The middle ages, on the other hand...
64. Antonio das mortes
Honestly? Didn't make that much sense.
65. No. 1. ladies' detective agency (pilot)
It's okay, but I suspect it's the sort of thing that's more funny to read. Also, could someone explain the habit of Danish dvd publishers to sell the pilot episodes and made-for-tv movie sequels, but rarely bothering with the actual series?
66. NCIS season 6
Abby is one of my favourite characters. We need more of her. And the rest.
67. Transformers 2 - revenge of the fallen
Right, so they tell me summer blockbusters are not about the plot. Which is suppose is good. Then I can ignore that every character apparently had a personality transplant between the first and second movie - how else do you explain Optimus Prime going from noble leader whose grand plan to defeat the Decepticons is by suicide to Optimus Prime the hunter and cold-blooded executioner? Of course, there is so much wrong with that scene (for instance, giant alien robots or not, China would never just let the American army run around Shanghai like that). Also, we can ignore the horrible cliché that is "the aliens built the Pyramids" (why is always the Pyramids - why is it never "the aliens built Angkor Wat" or "the aliens built Ayer's Rock"???), the sheer supervillain idiocy of destroying a sun while standing on one of it's planets (either a supernova will kill you or possibly the ensuing gravity issues), the lack of an explanation why the the super-solar-cell wasn't just built on Mars or the stupid "humor". I won't even wonder why the US army has to be portrayed as incompetent enough that is has to let a teenager make all it's decisions - or the plot that seems contrived to avoid anyone even suggesting that dropping a nuclear bomb on Egypt might be a good idea, if it can avoid the whole sun-killer thing. No, this being a summer blockbuster I am supposed to just focus on the awesomeness of the robots, never mind all the time spent on stupid teenage boy and his jiggling girlfriend. Right, the awesomeness of the robots. Let's see. Well, Soundwave the killer satellite is awesome and Ravage is cool, but we don't see enough of either, nor of the first movie cast. Arcee might have been awesome, if we had seen more of her, the doctor Decepticons was interesting, but again, not enough, Jetfire was fun, but seriously, they wasted a chance to have a steampunk transformer, and then there was Devastator - well, the idea of a gestalt is awesome, but the execution was terrible, the humor idiotic and then it was wasted on a stupid B-plot and opposed by the Jar Jar Binks-twins. And we'll just back away slowly from the rest of the cast, only vaguely wondering where Barricade was...
In short, I suspect Michael Bay of having developed a serious case of George Lucasitis.
68. The mutant chronicles
Occasionally a nice steampunky look, but the plot is stupid - and the characters. Also, why does some science fiction insist on imagining that corporation will turn into actual empires? Seriously, why would they bother? Why not just leave the nations to take of all the boring, necessary stuff, while turning a profit - like always? Also, how the hell did Bauhaus manage to become one of the four megacorporations?