TV Talk: Dec. 1, 2008 – HEROES, My Own Worst Enemy

I began my TV watching at 8:00 p.m. but realized that CBS was airing replays of “The Big Bang Theory” and “How I Met Your Mother”, so checked out ESPN to see the scores of the Monday Night Football game.

Then it was time for “HEROES” at 9:00 p.m. with season 3, episode 11 titled “Eclipse Part 2″.  Wow, what a turn of events in this episode.  It was one thing for Peter wanting to change the future by changing his brother and working with Sylar but without going into too many details, I’m quite surprised to see how the series main characters have headed on to different directions than what we saw in the future.  Again, I bring up the name Sylar.   And I’ll leave it at that.

For “My Own Worst Enemy” season 1, episode 7 titled “Down Rio Way”, the storyline of Edward trying to find out who killed his parents continues.  Meanwhile, Henry tries to fix things between Tom and Mary.

It was a good episode but at the same time bittersweet knowing that there are only two episodes left.  It’s a shame that this show is not being picked up.  I was hoping it would at least continue online for it’s full 13 episodes or even get it on DVD but I guess we’ll find out how this one ends with two episodes left.

TV Talk: Sunday musings (Nov. 9, 2008) – Life After People, Ghost Hunters,

With the Dallas Cowboys on their bye-week, it gave me some time to catch up on a lot of TV episodes that I have DVR’d.

Finally caught up with “My Own Worst Enemy” ep. 3 titled “Hello Henry” starring Christian Slater.  Wow!…  The show is an interesting concept as two different people occupy the same body.  One who is a businessman (Henry Spivey) by day and the other a hard-edged trained agent/killer (Edward Albright) by night.  But in this case, somehow the control to switch the two personas have gone awry as now they switch personas whenever and it’s causing problems for each persona.

In this episode, Henry goes to his friend, a doctor to conduct an x-ray to see if his brain has been implanted.  And sure enough, his friend finds the chip.  But sure enough, when Edward finds out that Henry went to seek a doctor, Edward kills him.    Thus setting up an awkward confrontation by the two personas.  Again, these personas occupy the same body.  That’s what makes this show so unique!

Image linked from the History Channel Website

Another interesting show I caught was a documentary on the History Channel titled “Life After People“. An interesting scientific study of what would happen if humans were eliminated from the planet.  What would happen to the buildings and the animals and so forth.

This was very interesting to watch as they show a progression from 50, 150, 500, 1000 years into the future after humans are gone from the planet.  They show how major cities that are not renovated or kept maintained will simply be destroyed by the elements and how literally cities such as New York, Seattle, Paris would return to its original state of vegetation and streams.

Also, an interesting point made is how history is backed up.  Egyptians and ancient cultures typically used rock or a hard surface to depict their history and has held up for thousands of years.  While in America, we currently look toward’s DVDs or some technology that will not be able to last for thousands of years.  Also, how libraries, since their is no humans to maintain the temperature, mold will literally destroy all books.

I also found the theories of animals to be quite interesting.  Cats would be the major animals (since they spawn like crazy) and would feed on the rats and birds that are all over the planet.  While dogs actually revert back to their old ways as they mate with wolves and thus become wild animals in packs that feast on large animals.

Also, an interesting theory is how animals adjust to certain conditions and habitat.  Would cats be a flying animal by then?  Hmm…

Also, the animals of the sea would grow in population since there are no humans to pollute or capture them for food.

I then caught up with DVR’d episodes of “Ghost Hunters”.  Wow! In these episodes, the group team up with several celebrities.  But one of the interesting situations was during the live episode in which one of the major team member’s collar is pulled. Man, this place is creepy!

Probably catch DVR “Desperate Housewives” and watch George Cloonie’s “LEATHERHEADS” for the night.

TV Talk: Sunday Musings – My Own Worst Enemy, Iron Chef America, Dinner: Impossible, Desperate Housewives (October 26, 2008)

This past Sunday, spent the day watching football on the NFL but decided to catch up on television episodes I missed on hulu.com.  Catching up with NBC’s “My Own Worst Enemy” starring Christian Slater.  It appears I may need to catch this on hulu.com as it competes with my wife’s other favorite show on Monday night “Dr. 90210″ (at 10:00 p.m.).

“My own Worst Enemy” features Christian Slater as Henry Spivey/Edward Albright. Henry, a husband and family man during the day and at night, he becomes Edward Albright, a special operative that is trained to kill. Both men share the same body but are totally different people managed by what appears to be some agency.

Unfortunately, something has gone haywire as the switch to change from one person to the other has gone haywire and now at unfortunate times during a hit in another country Edward accidentally reverts to office worker Henry Spivey. Thus both have to work together to stay alive but for Henry, he can’t fathom that all his memories are fake and that his life in the past may not be real at all. And he’s having a difficult time processing that.

I watched the first two episodes in full on hulu.com and they were both awesome. Look forward to catching the third on Tuesday, hopefully it should be on hulu.com.

I then watched some Food Network with “Iron Chef America” and “Dinner: Impossible”. For “Iron Chef America”, Chef Cora took on the challenger Chef Smith (personal chef for Oprah Winfrey and many others) with the ingredient of the day being cheddar. Chef Smith has been a judge on the show but first time as a competitor.

For “Dinner: Impossible”, it was an older episode featuring Robert Irvine. Robert Irvine would take on these crazy jobs making dinner in a short amount of time for nearly impossible situations. Of course, Robert Irvine was fired by the Food Network in February after it was discovered he had lied about past experiences (working for presidents and the royal family). As for Irvine now, you can read his posts on his blog.

Then it was time for “Desperate Housewives” (Season 5, Episode 5 titled “Mirror Mirror”) which finally explains to what happened to each of the four women and their family members before moving up five years later.   Why did Susan divorce?  How did Gabby get pregnant?  Just so many interesting storylines but an interesting ruse to get one of the neighbors out of the neighborhood.  All in all, I really enjoy this season and it’s the first time I find myself wanting to watch the show since season 1.

Speaking of “Desperate Housewives”, Marcia Cross recently appeared on Letterman and she looks absolutely dashing! Even when she appeared in “Melrose Place”, despite the psycho character she played (and it looked like she was going that direction for “Desperate Houswives”), I have always found her quite beautiful.