Hey, I thought that Bourdain didn't actually do the Beirut thing.
Huh.
If Sophia moves to Alaska we must F2F there -- wouldn't that be fun? Okay, pricey.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Aug 22, 2006 10:26:35 am PDT #3984 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Tom Scola - Aug 22, 2006 10:28:19 am PDT #3985 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
but the characters are not particularly compelling so far
Most of the characters are suspects, which means that they will have to remain cyphers for most of the season.
Kristen - Aug 22, 2006 10:30:23 am PDT #3986 of 10001
I love Gale Harold but I have grown weary of the angry, tormented, "I'm right and the rest of the world is wrong" law enforcement officer character. Maybe it will get better. Or maybe Kidnapped will be better.
Dana - Aug 22, 2006 10:32:51 am PDT #3987 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I did enjoy envisioning Brian Kinney as the FBI agent, though. He'd have cornered the senator in a bathroom, fucked him, and rolled his eyes at everyone else's histrionics.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 22, 2006 10:32:54 am PDT #3988 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
Does the role allow him to sneer at everyone as if they were something scraped off his shoe? That is his strong suit.
Ginger - Aug 22, 2006 10:32:56 am PDT #3989 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Most of the characters are suspects, which means that they will have to remain cyphers for most of the season.
That's a good point, but right now everyone seems to be slotted into cliches: the Senator's beautiful and rebellious daughter; the cartoonishly ambitious reporter; the FBI agent who was traumatized by a previous assignment.
Kristen - Aug 22, 2006 10:34:21 am PDT #3990 of 10001
Matt, he does do a lot of sneering. Which is awesome.
I'll probably keep watching for that alone.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2006 10:34:45 am PDT #3991 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I forgot to watch Vanished.
Hey, the stalking convo was here, right? Some help for the afflicted.
Oh, and a bonus Family Feud screwup.
Both are video with sound.
Jessica - Aug 22, 2006 10:35:41 am PDT #3992 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I watched about half of the Vanished pilot a few weeks ago, and was so bored I turned it off.
Kathy A - Aug 22, 2006 10:37:36 am PDT #3993 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Bourdain show ended up being a separate special, not an episode of "No Reservations." It was really quite good, and more of a video diary of the events of their stay, starting with "before the bombs hit," when they visited a restaurant with what looked to be very yummy food, then while they were walking down the street after lunch, the celebratory gunfire and impromptu parade of cars filled with Hezbollah-flag-waving youths cheering the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers jerks the show right out of the standard "No Reservations" episode. Their guide, a young man with a gorgeous Brit accent who was the new lead writer for Time Out Beirut, was making some comments about how Beirutis partied throughout the civil war, but you could tell that he was worried about the new developments. That night, they went to a nightclub and did some drinking and interviewing the other patrons, but there was a definite tension in the air.
Then everything fell apart, and the show became about the seige mentality at the hotel.