Alas Babylon is one of my favorite books, and I thought of it also in connection with Jericho.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Ginger - Mar 07, 2007 2:06:01 pm PST #4512 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
-t - Mar 07, 2007 2:09:27 pm PST #4513 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't read it until the 80s, and that gave it a surreal quality it didn't, I imagine, originally have. I'm quite unreasonably fond of it.
Strega - Mar 07, 2007 2:56:26 pm PST #4514 of 10001
I like watching Jericho the way I like watching Dawson's Creek. But saying it's better than it was last fall is kind of a low bar. I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was. Unless they brought in Roger Corman.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 07, 2007 3:36:43 pm PST #4515 of 10001
What is even happening?
Let's face it. I'm still watching 24. Clearly massive errors of fact are not going to deter me from watching. I've watched as many as six impossible things before breakfast.Right. I just open up another socket, and go with it.
I like watching Jericho the way I like watching Dawson's Creek. But saying it's better than it was last fall is kind of a low bar. I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was. Unless they brought in Roger Corman.
Too too true, but at least it got better.
I also sort of root for it, because Sprague Grayden is a local. I used to drink eat at her parents' restaurant in college, and I hated her character on
Joan of Arcadia
so much that I jumped off the couch in glee when she died a horrible death (one I think was supposed to be touching, but just made me deliriously happy). So it's nice to like her character in something (and really, there's not enough of her character for me, let's lose Emily).
Strega - Mar 07, 2007 4:58:33 pm PST #4516 of 10001
Last week and this week, the teaser as all about how they need to conserve gasoline. And both times they decided it was worth using the gas to go on little jaunts, so whatever.
THEY. HAVE. HORSES. Or they did. Maybe they ate them. I wouldn't put it past the townsfolk.
Also when they keep talking about how cold it is but nobody puts up the hood on their jacket.
And Mimi doesn't know which direction SW is, so she just takes a wild guess and walks off INTO THE SUNSET.
I mean... it's gotta be intentional. Right?
Liese S. - Mar 07, 2007 5:05:37 pm PST #4517 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I've watched as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Love.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 07, 2007 5:30:52 pm PST #4518 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was.
Did Demian successfully warn you away from ever watching Charmed?
Strega - Mar 07, 2007 6:02:46 pm PST #4519 of 10001
Ha!
Okay, point. Because I have seen some episodes, and they are pretty crazy. But I don't know if even Charmed has as many "This doesn't even make sense in the whacked-out universe this show takes place in!" moments.
To be vaguely on-topic, I've thought about putting a disclaimer on the first Drive recap that says, "Okay, I've met Tim and Kristen, but if I seem nicer about this show it's not because of that. It's because since Angel I've recapped Carnivale and Jericho, and now I know what Deep Hurting really means."
Ginger - Mar 07, 2007 6:09:36 pm PST #4520 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
We haven't even touched on the insanity of the windmill plot.
libkitty - Mar 07, 2007 7:46:17 pm PST #4521 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I'm ambivalent on Jericho. Watched a bit, then didn't, then sort of started again. It seems to be against things that I don't love but kind of like and aren't nearly as depressing. Although, after the first bit, the anvils kept the depressing away pretty well. That said, I'm not even a little bit ambivalent about Ginger or Cindy or anyone else who wants to share their juicy brains. Brraaaiiinnnnnnns.
And I'm not even into zombies.