TV Musings
4/06/2005
Right now, because Carnivale is off the air and its future is still undetermined (gimme more HBO!), I am still left with a few decent programs. Lost and Alias have been renewed for next year (yipee!). But I would give them all up to see a 3rd Season of Carnivale.
Except Doctor Who, of course.
I kind of hope they kill of Alias after 5 seasons. Or come up with some 'big' concept to revive the central theme of girl struggling with secret life and trying to maintain a 'normal' life too. That is when it worked best, in my opinion; the Rimbaldi stuff is kind of fun in a tinfoil hat sort of way, but it never seems to resolve into anything truly cool and monumental.
When Buffy got away from its central theme, from Season 5 onwards, it started to skin its knees on the way down the gravel path. Same thing here. The few eps of this current season I've managed to catch have been spotty, and they have started adding this 'one gross-out scene' per episode trend. Which Carnivale also did, but they were so tasteless about it that it was almost entertaining. It's a little irritating, because there is suddenly more focus on violence and gore across the board rather than storyline. I want to see my Alias end with dignity, not dragged across the boards and milked for all it's worth. Big concept, or grand finale.
Lost is touted as a non-sf genre series. I hope it resolves at some point, and that it doesn't disappoint, and they really ought to start revealing some big things before these flashback stories get old and worn out. But it's still a great show, with an amazing cast. Crossing my fingers that they KNOW how it's going to resolve. If not, what a wasted opportunity. Maybe JMS could get involved? Now that would be interesting, esp. with David Fury no longer writing for the show. Maybe the island is some place in the world of Jeremiah, and that the girl in Jeremiah Season 1 arrives in her little gas-powered boat (the girl I met in Eureka Springs, briefly). Wouldn't that be a trip.
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posted by Edward Svengali @ Wednesday, April 06, 2005,
