Being Human – rather good

release your inner werewolf

Mentioned here a few times (my blog), and season 1 (bbc) shined on bbc three, the good news is it is back for another season in the future.  It’s so good to know that the bbc can do innovative stuff.

The setup for season two was subtle and well done.

5/5 Bananas

Being Human (bbc::three)

bbc:three being human

Back from a mention last yearish ‘Being Human’ is back (bbc three).  It had a trailer and seemed to go places and so it seems gelled with others (a surprise).

I read that there’s been a cast change, but overall the piece retains it basic premise and at times has a wicked humour to it (actual ook sounds produced*)

I notice that the ‘horror’ theme recently has got a renewal on english televison, it seems that itv are doing (not seen as its chav and asbo tv and its on early if i read the schedule correctly**) a clone of buffy, and this original work set in Bristol.

Its worth a find. * rare ** eg tame

Sanctuary – oh dear.

its an invisible chicken , so shoot

Sanctuary is the name of a tv show, its main claim to fame is that it filmed in hi-def and the first to do so so its a tv techs wet dream.

As for the rest of us well its a different story. It has the usual elements including you know who from Stargate and the actors seem to spend half there dialogue taking the piss out of the english pronunciation she decided to use.

Several weeks in (it is best to record and watch later) means its going downhill fast – they rehashed Gremilns, and spent the week before chasing an invisible yeti around a dead aircraft.

Both of these episodes where spent in fast forward mode, before i aborted on the Gremlins version not long after it became well you know predicatable.

More Tea Vicar ? no thank you.

Evil media barons be gone….

Have you seen Neo ? - your not Mr Anderson

star trek:DS9 and most s/f is a monkey house ‘treat’, however not being a ‘fan‘ of the great thought controller (Rupert Murdoch) or the evil billionaire Richard Branson it means that we get our s/f in video via other means.

Branson is a bit of the same, and his free to air tv channel stopped showing ds9 5 series in leaving two remaining early this year. Patience means that bananas has not seen any of his channels (or adverts [think no money for him] since that date).

Being independent of thought and no drone Bananas had the opportunity to get the last two seasons and took the opportunity because Branson decided not to show it so far and his ethics as an internet service provider leaves much to be desired.

Science fiction should make a point which some of the longer series fail to achieve i give stargate as an example, who cares about it, well not in the monkey house fifteen series on it got mired in story rehash.

So my conclusion is that star trek fails from the seven series problem, I would argue that original startrek failed after series one after Shatner went ego manic (family guy is good on that issue). Tng got better but was at times a bit fluffy and introduced the holodeck flaw. Ds9 has been considered a rip off of Babylon five (b5 from now on) which introduced another bug into the startrek universe of ’section 31′. The firing of actors was also a new trait which meant that ‘continuity’ was at times a bit of an issue.

Then Voyager came along and died by means of massive techno-bable nonsense, which with the crap actors in ‘Enterprise’ and other mentioned flaws meant that it got plain embarrassing to watch.

The problems got been compounded, but i thought i would finish season six and seven and ds9 so i am not at the mercy of Branson. Ds9 is such an dark show that you wonder why they bothered to film it in colour.

The ‘long story arc’ was a thing that like b5 did but not well for we had to play a game of baseball on the holodeck, wander around the occasional players in great detail and finally get to the end where things more or less ‘happily ever you know’ fizzle out.

Mysticism is something star trek fails to do well, indeed 1950 nostalgia is fine but it feels wrong. Conspiracy is something else not well handled in the world of everything is nearly right where white people can kiss black people.

What it does show is that the optimistic view is not good for story telling, Ron Moore whom re-imaged Battlestar also wrote some of the episodes for ds9 and later Battlestar Galactica cuts the mustard better since the realism is less fake and you don’t have to be forced to use that same woman voice who was in all of the trek series in some from or other because she was the wife of originals creator.

Let us hope that New Caprica will not have these problems

So Branson does not have to worry about me anymore. Finish.

Blue Harvest

Family Guy rocks, the line:

stay here and rot you stuck up bitch

Killed me.   Family Guy (my blog) season six [fresh] is on tv and is worth a watch. 5/5 Bananas.

Blade ends on a garlic onion ring

Well there was blood and guts, the dialog (that speaking) sort of sucked, but things sort of came to a logical conclusion. You have got to feel sorry for the mafia, with ‘heroes‘ (my blog) implying there freaks gone bad, and in blade being accused as the un-dead somebody has an image problem.

It is sort of indicative of the ‘i cannot trust a foreigner’ the american’s do so well recently and observed here (also my blog). The final irony is the ending was set in Canada. Make of that what you will.

Overall quite entertaining.

The poor dears got cancelled again !

Before this Star Trek was a winner, then a channel on Freeview picked up the ball and ran the most lamest series of trek on tv on a monday evening, and after one season or so, the tv channel aborted the Trek series for lack of ratings for a robot slayer reshow.

Theres better trek still on it. But it says something even when the relatively unknown channel has to drop enterprise on account of it being too crap for something else.

That says it all.

Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Well there back and after the car crash that was terminator three, and having had to resort to time travel in the first episode it feels a bit like buffy the the robot slayer.

Jury is out, nice special effects, but lets sod the plot shall we ?. I personally think the actress doing mommy is better than the film actress who hasnt had any other real success as an unobservant chicken sexer (me) notices.

So looks interesting so far.

While cursing some computer thing last week i should also say that i liked ‘Being Human’ on bbc three it deals with the undead and as an one off seems to have some spark too.

Blade impresses

Following on from this (my blog) my conclusion is i like it. Quite why it failed is surprising. Americans.

Sure it a bit dialogue free at times – but overall it has a pulse.

revisiting ds9 and Scifi – harder than it looks.

Ds9 (deep space nine) is a place where st:tng introduced us to and left and continued it’s travels, and later on ds9 help botch the franchise up.

Series like st:voyager also started here before really screwing the shit our of the star trek franchise with Enterprise ‘oh boy’.

Its on a re-branded virgin channel we can all get every weekday on your freeview box which one can record and later view

Bananas once met some of the cast ‘petite’ best describes them and those cameras and the costumes really don’t do them much favour.

DS9 throws out all the established star trekiness we are all used to (the only thing being a throw back to is the bar keeper reference in the cage with Jeffrey Hunter (who was in 2001 and swiched Hal off) as Captain Pike , and Giunan from tng.

Towards the end the story and characters become less crap and a point is made. There’s aspects of the roman Caligua story in the Farengi story

Essentailly you have in ds9 a boss who is mystic prophet [who doesnt want to be one] on a stationery box near a hole in space near to a planet that recently has won independence

So the drama is a little slow and things move along a little better than in voyager but the pace of tv today is something quite merciless for in a week, the channel shows what the bbc took five weeks to show

This is Space Above and Beyond, its available and got cancelled. Consider recently for there was a reported offering of something new called ‘Masters of Science Fiction’ which only had 6 episodes. Its got some short previews on youtube and looked dire.

I mention as compared with ds9 it makes it look good despite the many episodes of ds9 that just didnt work.

People think scfi is easy, but it is hard while some stories transfer others just don’t even with famous faces.