It's silly to be excited about the beginning of a TV show in a country I don't live in, when I'm too prude to ahem it, and have no idea when I'm actually going to see it, right?

Well, so what. It's fun to be excited.

Especially since, thanks to the great people here, I got to see several of the promos and stuff (thanks, you guys!) and got to be excited with some content, not just excited on principle, so to speak, because it's Tim and it's Kristen, but because it really looks intriguing and characters to play with and is it the finish line that matters or the road to it and things going vroom vroom very quickly and, well, um. Anyway.

So I'm all "Yeah, you need to know the date on Tuesday? Well, I don't need to check, I know it has to be the 17th" out loud, but in my head I add "because I know that Sunday is the 15th, because there's this TV show that starts then". And e-mails to Israeli friends who know "Angel" and "Firefly" and "Wonderfalls" enough to know Tim's name with "He has a new show!" and I even write to some of them "and an internet friend of mine is working on it, too!", just because I like writing this sentence so much.

Oh, and "My town is going to get posts again!" - but that I say only here, because it's the only place in the world that will understand what it means.

So, anyway, good luck tonight!

Bwah, did anybody else see Nathan's appearance on FOX News today?

I'll have to look for it on YouTube. I don't watch Fox News.

I love Nathan, but not enough to watch Fox News in the morning. Blessing YouTube in advance for saving me the trouble.

There's a bit of sponsorship on IMDB today, then: [link]

Nathan on FOX News was bwah worthy for the fact he managed to spell most of a four letter naughty word.

My local reviewer loved Drive. I was pleased, as she has awesome taste in TV, except for those times when she doesn't like what I like, because I'm clearly correct, of course.

Dude, you think that's bad, check out the New York Times review, which spends the entire time talking about the fact that people drive cars and cars are evil and Tim Minear is a jingoistic bastard who wants people to only buy American.

Didn't see that until later yesterday, and, yeah, I kinda boggled at how TV's Hit DRIVE is apparently a series-length commercial or something.

Can we get NF to say "take the F-150" like they did on ALIAS? That still sets the bar for blatant car-centric product placement in my experience.

Oh, I liked the conversation Jack and Nadia had on Alias about how quiet the hybrid car was. Still surreally amusing, but in a different way.

As long as Wendy isn't drinking coke every 4 minutes I'm cool.

Can we get NF to say "take the F-150" like they did on ALIAS? That still sets the bar for blatant car-centric product placement in my experience.

I have a hard time choosing between that one and Jack's "OMG the electric motor on this new FORD HYBRID SUV is so quiet! Which is, um, good for spying and stuff. Yeah." [heh - xpost]

24 is pretty blatant about their product placement too, but it's normally restricted to gratuitous shots of their SPRINT TREO SMARTPHONES every time someone has to send a text message back to CTU.

The NYTimes TV reviewers are both pretty crack-addled as a rule, but this review was craxy even by their usual standards. I'm still trying to figure out how she gleaned a "buy American!" message from an hour of television with no shopping in it. Honestly, even if I'd hated the show I'd have no idea what she was talking about.