Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All

There are no spoilers here because I am not watching the series. I followed Lost through a season and a half and just couldn’t continue my loyalty.

With Netflix, there really is no need for a multiple-year commitment on a mythology-based show. I’ve been burned by The X-Files and more recently by Battlestar Galactica. After all those years, the ending sucked and kind of sucked—respectively.

I know I said before that I was ok with the ending of Battlestar Galactica, but it turns out that I’m not that satisfied. And the lack of a spectacular ending has tainted the rest of the episodes for me. I used to watch my boxed sets all the time. Now, I’m considering getting rid of them.

So I’m holding out on Lost. If the mystery gets some kind of above-average resolution, all the seasons will go into my Netflix queue right away. If the ending betrays the spirit of the series, I’ll pass on the entire thing. After all, everyone made such a big deal about the show’s preordained voluntary end date. If being able to plan that well doesn’t result in a really good mystery-show run, how is any other show going to get me to believe?

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I didn’t watch the premiere of Caprica last Friday because I had already seen it on DVD. Here’s my post on that Caprica pilot from way back in August of 2009.

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I was in Borders over the holiday shopping season. On their wall, they had a screen playing video clips of author soundbites.

Stephenie Meyer shows up to say how surprised she was at Twilight being picked up and getting published. Ok, so far so good, right? I’m still browsing and not looking at the screen.

She says that every author has to blurb their book in their pitches… okay…

And she said that she challenges anyone to write an eleven-word description of Twilight and not make it sound like a bad episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Schreeech! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on a minute!

I snapped my head up just in time to see the camera pan out and reveal a gaggle of tweens sitting at Stephenie’s feet twttering away in agreement.

I started Twilight who knows how long ago and am now stuck on page 229 because the writing is god-awful. I could live with the characters. I can live with the plot. But the writing. The actual words on the actual pages. They just hurt me.

At least I’m now stuck on page 229. I was stuck after paragraph one for several months before that.

Now let’s count things off.

1. The worst episode of Buffy is still better than this stuff.
2. To imagine that she is even close to Joss Whedon is amazing to me.
3. Just how much does she owe to Buffy?
4. Couldn’t she pick Dark Shadows or something more meriting of her comparison?
5. If any of those girls started watching Buffy, they’ll see how much better it is. The series holds up, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, it does.
6. Yes, I know I’m overreacting.
7. I’m not really overreacting by that much.
8. I repeat my incredulity that the Harry Potter generation is embracing Twilight.
9. I optimistically got New Moon at the same time as Twilight. Seriously, does it start getting better soon? Perhaps at page 230?
10. Grr…Arg!

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