E2P The Boob Toob- 12 (Two Months Later)

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E2P The Boob Toob- 12 Two Months Later

(0:00:00) Introductions

(0:02:58) Bravest Warriors

(0:16:16) Raising Hope

(0:27:47) Interlude: Dune

(0:28:39) Paperman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM6cLnscmO8

(0:37:09)              J. Edgar

(0:54:21)              Dredd

(1:08:30)              Harry Brown

(1:12:54) Interlude: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

(1:14:04) Wrap Up: Sherlock, Logan’s Run, (Marvel’s) The Avengers and more.

(1:25:26) Credits/Outtakes

1:27:33

WHYBW: Updates

What up boobers and toobers? It's Dan once again, blooging from the Northern Hemisphere for once. Not many readers might care about this but I thought I'd do a quick update on some of the WHYBW shows that I've mentioned in past Boob Toob episodes, just to see what I'm still watching and what I'm still digging.

Last Resort: I'm still enjoying it although the characters are getting a little comfortable where they are. I'd prefer if they weren't but not a big deal. It'll only be 13 eps though so I hope they wrap things up nicely.

666 Park Avenue: I'm a few eps behind. Still fun to watch but the fact that I'm behind means that it's not exactly must see tv for me at the moment. That said, I did a Melbourne vacation for a few days in Nov and now I'm in the Philippines for the whole of Dec so that'll mess up my viewing patterns.

Elementary: I think I'm only up to ep 3 or 4. It's fun but I'm happy to pile up eps. They really don't seem like Sherlock and Watson. I would've been fine if they had different names.

Homeland: Still loving it. Even the daughter storyline is becoming tolerable. I'm gonna try to get my in laws here in the Philippines into it. They've heard that it's good but they haven't seen it yet.

Sword Art Online: They're onto the second major story arc and I gotta say it's not as compelling as the first arc. Things slowed down quite a bit and there's a few story elements that I'm not all that interested in. It's almost over though so I'm happy to wait it out.

WHYBW: Fringe. Homeland MINOR Spoilers

Fringe Season 5 is well underway and I just had a few relatively spoiler free thoughts that I'd like to share here.

I was unsure of even continuing the series after last season's finale which I think we can all agree tied up the series in a satisfactory way. I made a public declaration that adding a new element to the overall story arc this late in the game can be ruinous for the series and have negative feedback from fans, much like Lost's final season did. I still feel the same way and while I am not loving the current season the writers are incorporating enough of the old elements to keep me going. Maybe the reason that I have cooled on the series as the show progressed is that the show switched it's focus quite a bit. Specifically, when we started the series the show was undeniably about Olivia Dunham and that over time switched to Peter Bishop. Still enjoyable, but I suppose my red blooded male-ness prefers the focus to be on Olivia whether she resides in the blue, red or amalgamated universe; past, present or future. Last season introduced a new character Henrietta (Etta) Bishop in a new...setting, and we get a slight focal shift onto her and her story. How much focus will be given to Etta remains to be seen.

  

The problem with a show like Fringe is that you can't go home again. It has to change because it cannot capture our imaginations as it did in the first season. The great thing about the show Fringe is that it is brave enough not to even try to go back. It moves forward showing us the "Endless Impossibilities" even when we want to dwell in a certain spot or universe as it were.

 

Homeland Season 2 (spoiler free) has continued the excellence and unpredictability of the first season and it too is going in new untested waters.

It is the show that I'm most enjoying, but I don't really want to speak about the plot but actually about one of the supporting cast. Morgan Saylor plays Dana Brodie, Nicholas Brodie's teenage daughter. Without doing any research I was thinking to myself that this is probably the most true to life depiction of a teenager in media that I have witnessed. She isn't a miniature adult.  Dana may have strong opinions and emotional outbursts but they are restricted somewhat, mainly in the actress's voice. It isn't the bold thirty-something actor playing a teenager in a roll, it is delicate and uncertain. Family aside I do not have any regular interaction with teenagers, but when I do they have a lot in common with the character Dana and her mannerisms and body language. Doing some light research I found that actress Morgan Saylor is if fact 17 years old. How much of her character is acting and how much is real doesn't matter to me, I'm just pleased with an accurate portrayal of a young person.

 

If this bit of minutia surprises you, I am not surprised. I'm rather shocked because I had thought that the children were the weak spots in the casting of the first season. Was I wrong, or just oblivious to the talent on screen?

WHYBW: The Good Wife

Hey hey! It's Dan once again. Just quickly before I get started...

WHYBW = What Have You Been Watching. We usually do these WHYBW segments on the show but I've been watching a lot and I won't be able to fit all of them on the show so I'm just going to start posting some here. Okay let's do this!

I don’t follow this show but I see random episodes every now and again. I usually watch this on Saturday nights (reruns) while waiting for Bobgar to wake up and go online so we can record. They've been showing it just before midnight on Channel 10 here in Australia.

Quick recap: The Good Wife is a legal drama and it just started its 4^th season in the US (on CBS). The series began some time after the Eliot Spitzer scandal. For those who don’t know, Eliot Spitzer was the Governor of New York until he got involved in a sexy time prostitution scandal.

In this show, the same thing happens to the husband of Alicia Florrick (played by Julianna Margulies) and it’s about her dealing with the scandal and moving forward. We initially see how the scandal affects her life as a lawyer and now single mother who is taking care of two kids (with the help of her mother in law).

I think the title does it a bit of a disservice. It is about Alicia and she’s a wife and there’s a theme of her doing the right thing and being a good wife. But I get the sense that some people don’t tune in because they think it’s just about being a good wife (possibly a housewife). The wife/mother aspect does seem present in all the episodes but it’s not done in an annoying way for someone like me who is neither a wife or a mother.

I’m also not a big lawyer show fan but I like this and I think it’s done really well. It’s a lawyer show but it’s a bit like House in that the focus is more on the characters as opposed to the lawyer stuff. But I think the lawyer stuff in here is far more interesting than the medical stuff in House. I like watching the characters and seeing what they’re going to do on any given episode.

The main cast of The Good Wife

Other cast members include Nightcrawler himself, Alan Cumming. He’s sooo great in this. Like he could be an awesome Riddler or something. Hawkeye’s buddy from the S.W.A.T. movie Josh Charles is in here as one of the big shots from the law firm that Alicia works at. Archie Panjabi also does a good job as the law firm’s private investigator. Oh hey! It's got the man in black from Lost, Mr Titus Welliver! There’s your Lost connection. He’s not a regular though, just recurring. Plus some other good looking people.

Tangent: Titus Welliver is in some of the Marvel short movies as one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. staff. The latest thing I saw him in was on the Item 47 short film (part of the Avengers bluray special features). I hope he’s in that new S.H.I.E.L.D. tv series. Joss Whedon is blowing up!

Oh hey, I saw Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) in this show! She guest starred once or twice. I think it was after her stint on House.

Another thing I like about this show is that it doesn't seem too formulaic. There is some sort of formula (mix some lawyer stuff with wife/mother things) but it’s not crazy obvious like on House.

Like I said, I don’t tune in all the time but it’s a good show. I might pick up some box sets and watch them all in one go. I might actually just jump on from the start of season 4 onwards. For Aussie readers, season 4 premieres on Channel 10 on Wednesday, October 10 at 8:30pm. Hmm, that's a lot of tens.

Poster for The Good Wife.