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Sunday Night Lament - Too much to watch!
Meryl:
Once in awhile, it seems the networks have a meeting and decide to schedule everything I want to see on the same night. Anyone else have this feeling? Here's the lineup tonight:
7:00 Dateline: "Going for the Gold" (2-hour special interviewing Golden Globe nominees) on NBC
8:00 The Amazing Race on CBS
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Pilot episode) on Fox
9:00 Masterpiece Theater: Jane Austen's "Persuasion" (First episode) on PBS
The Golden Globes on NBC
"Comanche Moon" (First of 3-part Western written by McMurtry/Ossana) on CBS
Since I don't have the technical setup to watch and record, I'll have to do a lot of channel flipping! On the plus side, maybe I'll finally be motivated to figure out how to download and watch stuff on my computer. :P
Meryl:
Well, I watched the first hour of GG interviews (okay), then flipped back and forth between "Amazing Race" (yay, the obnoxious Jen and her long-suffering boyfriend got eliminated) and "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (really good! Tomorrow there's another episode at 9:00, which I recommend to any "Terminator" fans).
Ended up sticking with "Persuasion," which was very good, though not quite as good as the version with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root that came out a few years ago. This version was shorter, I think. I did very much like the look of it, though. Everybody looked like they really made their clothes and styled their own hair--there wasn't that Hollywood sheen to everything.
What I saw of "Comanche Moon" looked pretty standard, but a cut above some of the Western sagas I've seen. Not as good as the original "Lonesome Dove" by a longshot, but it was nice to see Karl Urban in a good role. Guess who played Steve Zahn's girlfriend? Our own Cassie, Linda Cardellini. I kept expecting her to say "I don't get you, Ennis del Mar" any second. Oddest thing was Val Kilmer being kept prisoner by some Indians in a cage hanging over a cliff, and he sang Papageno's aria from "Magic Flute" in German and Guglielmo's aria from "Cosi fan tutte" in Italian to keep himself entertained. That's certainly the last thing I expected to see in a Western! Part II ( of 3, I think) is on Tuesday night.
David:
I try to watch shows like the Amazing Race over the others because they will rerun the others at a later date. The Amazing Race never gets replayed.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 14, 2008, 03:14:18 am ---What I saw of "Comanche Moon" looked pretty standard, but a cut above some of the Western sagas I've seen. Not as good as the original "Lonesome Dove" by a longshot, but it was nice to see Karl Urban in a good role. Guess who played Steve Zahn's girlfriend? Our own Cassie, Linda Cardellini. I kept expecting her to say "I don't get you, Ennis del Mar" any second. Oddest thing was Val Kilmer being kept prisoner by some Indians in a cage hanging over a cliff, and he sang Papageno's aria from "Magic Flute" in German and Guglielmo's aria from "Cosi fan tutte" in Italian to keep himself entertained. That's certainly the last thing I expected to see in a Western! Part II ( of 3, I think) is on Tuesday night.
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It was kind of amusing to see Cassie Cartwright in a hoopskirt. ;D
Part II will be broadcast Tuesday.
Edit to add a couple more things after doing some research at IMDb:
Not being a LOTR fan, I wasn't really familiar with Karl Urban, whom I'm liking as Woodrow Call. I was laugh-out-loud surprised to learn from IMDb that he had appeared as Julius Ceasar in both Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. I remember him as Ceasar--I remember the haircut! :laugh:
Elizabeth Banks (Maggie) is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. :D
Spoiler Comment:
This is the kind of historical fiction that makes me want to research more of the history. The notion of Comanches attacking the state capital of Texas as late as 1858 sounds a bit far-fetched to me. I'd like to know if that really happened. I couldn't find anything in my own library at home to prove or disprove it.
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Nutmeg Guy on January 14, 2008, 08:27:36 am ---I try to watch shows like the Amazing Race over the others because they will rerun the others at a later date. The Amazing Race never gets replayed.
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Exactly, David. We might see some of the players turn up in later racing groups, but these episodes just don't play well as repeats. Maybe they will appear on cable at some point, though.
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