Tuesday, May 22, 2007

5 Television Questions To Ponder

1. How the hell is The Sopranos going to end? Tony in jail? Dead? Neither? Regardless, could this show be any more depressingly good? Yes, some things sort of come out of nowhere like Tony's gambling problems but whatever, the show is still pretty amazing.

2. How lame was last night's episode of Heroes? I'm still excited for next season but I was pretty disappointed by last night's finale. Granted, the last 15 minutes was pretty good but it all seemed too much to put into one episode and it felt a little rushed. I did like the questions that it leads to next season and I loved the Evil Dead 2-like ending with Hiro in 17th century Japan but overall I thought the last episode would leave me super excited. Instead, it just made wanting next season to start right now.

3. How amazing will tomorrow's Lost be? This show might not be perfect but it has been building up to a nice finale. I love that the show can really go anywhere at this point. My prediction - next season will take place in 2008, not in 2004 that it now takes place.

4. How much will I miss Gilmore Girls? Eh, not much. Has this show really been all that good since like Season 2?

5. On Meet the Press, Newt Gingrich kept referring to Al Qaeda as Al Kai EE DA. Is that the way you actually say it or is Gingrich just even more of an asshole than I thought he was? I need answers. My favorite part of his rambling bullshit was when he kept saying that today's Congress would have wanted to stop fighting Japan during World War II because the fight was too hard. And he also kept referring to the American Revolution in a "Would George Washington have cut and run?" kind of way. In Gingrich's view we are what the French were to us in our fight for independence.

To which Christopher Dodd responded, "The distinction, you know—the survey done, I think, by NBC and The Wall Street Journal, over 50 percent of Iraqis thinks it’s all right to kill Americans serving there. I don’t—if we go back to the American Revolution I doubt you would have had 51 percent of the Americans saying it’s all right to kill the French coming here." Zing!

3 comments:

msdee said...

I like the finale of Heroes. Will the Petrellis come back? Peter can regenerate, so who knows.

Lost- I didnt know you were a Lost fan I have nort missed one episode. I predict Locke will be back. And I think that Jacob is the Jack and Claires dad. he showed up on the island a couple of times and the glance we saw looked a lot like him.

weasel said...

Ack- Gingrich got the pronunciation more right than most. He then went on to spoil the effect by expressing opinions about the group.

I'd say more but I saw the word "Lost" in your post and in MsDee's comments so I'm squinting at the screen trying to avoid reading anything that will spoil my long-planned DVD fest this summer.

bri said...

Thanks to this post, I suspected that we were in a flashforward while watching the finale last night. I never suspect or anticipate anything while watching a show, so thanks for that.