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: Tuesdays Musings – November 4, 2008 – 90210, Privileged

My Tuesday TV viewing was quite limited because of the Presidential Elections but I did manage to watch “90210″ and “Privileged” on CW.

In Season 1, Episode 9 titled “Secrets and Lies” for “90210″.  Harry reveals to his children Dixon and Annie that they have a brother who was given up for adoption by Harry’s ex-high school girlfriend.   That his girlfriend happens to be Naomi’s mother who has hired an investigator to find him.

Also, Silver has a party at her home before Kelly arrives back to town.  Annie is having a difficult time with the fact that she and Ethan have to keep their relationship secret and that she must lie to Naomi (Naomi broke up with Ethan just a few weeks prior).

Also featured in this episode was teacher Ryan Matthews hooking up with the high school undercover cop and being caught together by the student. Matthews is forced to take a leave of absence. I have to admit that how this was handled was a bit abrupt and this could have easily been a storyline in itself.

Also, Navid find a girlfriend and Naomi discovers something at the end of the episode that is sure to change the friendship between her and Annie.

Next up was “Privileged” Season 1, Episode 8 titled “All About Defining Yourself”. In this episode, Megan is writing an unauthorized biography on her employer Laurel. Laurel’s granddaughter Sage (who doesn’t like Megan) sends Laurel the autobiography and thus Laurel wants to change how the book will go.

As for Charlie, he finally realizes his feelings for Megan is probably not going to get anywhere further than just “best friends” and thus decides to move on with his own life. Meanwhile, Sage and Rose have different ideas of what they want to do after high school.

The significant moment in this episode is when Megan snoops too much into Laurel’s past and discovers something quite shocking. Definitely going to change the relationship between Laurel and Megan, since Megan literally opens Pandora’s Box.

That was pretty much my Tuesday TV viewing.

TV Talk: Monday Night Musings – November 3, 2008 – The Hills, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother

I started my evening catching a few matches on WWE Raw on USA but then it was time for “The Hills” on MTV.

In the episode (Season 4, Episode 15) titled “It’s Her Move”, Audrina finally moves out of the home she shared with LC and Lo and gets her own home. But as much as that was big party of the storyline, the biggest part of this episode is watching Heidi Montag getting fired from her job.

At the end of the party, Heidi invites her boyfriend and drinks a little and when one of her bosses catches her in the act, it’s game over. Expect some major things to happen in the next episode as the trailer shows Heidi’s boyfriend Spencer approaching her boss and the two trade some words towards each other.

As for the after-show, Audrina had some details on the move and her feelings about Heidi getting fired from her job.

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Then it was time to change to ESPN to get the quick score on the Steelers vs. Redskins game (a game which Steelers ended up winning) and then next to CBS for “The Big Bang Theory”, season 2, episode 6 titled “The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem”.

In this episode, Sheldon has a deep admirer and she does all she can to be close to Sheldon. Too close that it begins to scare him.  Another hilarious episode as everyone wonders how Sheldon would be around a girl and would he catch on that he’s literally in a relationship.

Afterwards, was a new episode of “How I Met Your Mother” season 4, episode 6 titled “Happily Everafter”.  Ted is still tryint to come to grips with being left in the alter by Lily and trying to avoid her.  When the group goes to a restaurant, Lily comes in and everyone hides under the table and discuss the people they try to avoid.  But it’s about getting some closure and thus Ted tries to come up with the words he wants to tell Lily and move on with his life.  Will Ted have the courage to tell Lily how he really feels?

Then it was time to go on NBC and with no “HEROES” or “My Own Worst Enemy” this week, it was a special “Saturday Night Live” politics episode.

That was the extent of my TV watching for Monday, November 3rd.

TV Talk: Thursday Musings – October 30, 2008 – Smallville, Ugly Betty, Real Housewives of Atlanta

Hi everyone, another TV talk for Thursday, October 30, 2008.

I have to say that there is something crappy going on with the CW in terms of programming in my area. It happened on Tuesday while watching and the video would cut off (no sound or video, just black screen) and all my other channels were working.

So, tried to catch this “Lois and Clark” episode of “Smallville” on the CW and what do you know…for the whole hour….no show. Maybe once I saw the feed comeback for 10 seconds and then it disappeared. So, not sure if this is a national thing but if it’s a local problem, I’m very disappointed.

Fortunately, “Ugly Betty” on ABC was on. In episode 6 for season 3 titled “Ugly Berry”, tthings start to ramp up between the hostility of Betty and her frienemy Kimmie (Lindsey Lohan). In this episode, we get to see Daniel’s (Eric Mabius) plan revealed to take back his family’s company from Willhelmina (Vanessa Williams). But of course, the main storyline of how Betty, Marc and Amanda concoct a plan to get Kimmie fired. Video was from last week’s episode but wanted to show how Betty and Kimmie are just like oil and water.

Caught a replay of the latest episode of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”. DeShawn Snow (wife of Cleveland Cavalier’s basketball player Eric Snow) has a charity auction event which doesn’t go quite well. A very good episode but I can tell that the next episode is when the fireworks flare up! Whoah!

Then it was “Gray’s Anatomy” which I had to DVR, wife watched her favorite Food Network show “Ace of Cakes” and later in the night, I ended up watching “Late Night with David Letterman” episodes I missed for the week. You just gotta love the appearances of Regis Philbin on Letterman. The two are friends but their banter with each other is quite fun to watch.

Btw, anyone have that moment where you noticed that you have only so much space left on your DVR and you take too much time to figure out what to delete and what to keep?

TV Talk: Wednesday Musings, October 29th – Ghost Hunters, Real Housewives of Atlanta

On Wednesday, I started off my TV early evening with “Ghost Hunters” on the SCI FI Channel. There is something about this show that I can’t stop it. Pretty much the show is about a group called TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) led by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson that visits haunted establishments and with their high tech equipment, try to see if they can find out if the place is haunted or if there is supernatural activity.

In this new episode (Season 4, episode 22), the team and actor Colin Ferguson from the SCI FI channel show “Eureka” (who joins the team in the search for the supernatural) investigate the USS Hornet which many crewmen feel they have experienced supernatural activity.

Definitely have to give Colin Ferguson some props for actually being a part of this investigation and really into it. Was great to see that!

I also caught more of “The Real Housewives from Atlanta” on Bravo. Yikes! I’ve missed quite a few episodes but I’m guessing unlike Orange County in which the women are friends (or at least friendly to each other), some of the women on these show don’t care for each other. But I’ll probably need to catch up on these shows…but what’s up NBC, put more of the complete Bravo episodes up on hulu.com.

That was pretty much the extent of my TV watching as Wednesday’s TV is dedicated for the wife solely for “Top Model” and “America’s Top Model”.

TV TALK – Tuesday Musings (Oct. 28, 2008) – 90210, Privileged,

I started my Tuesday TV watching with “Real Housewives of Atlanta” on Bravo.  I have never watched the Atlanta version of “Real Housewives” but I figured, why not give it a try. It definitely caught my attention and probably will continue to watch every Tuesday.

Off to the CW and after weeks of repeats, finally a new episode of “90210″ with episode 8 titled “There’s No Place Like Homecoming” and continues from the last episode in which Adrianna survives her drug overdose and now put into rehab (courtesy of an anonymous person). As for Annie and Naomi, they become good friends and Annie joins the cool group but what happens when Naomi finds out that there is more to the friendship between her ex-boyfriend Ethan and Annie.

Personally, I thought we would see a death (with Adrianna), sort of like the emotional impact the old “Beverly Hills 90210″ (for those who remember that accidental shotgun shot that killed David Silver’s friend). Otherwise, for Navid fans, you get to see more of Navid in this episode.

Then it was time for episode 7 of “Privileged” with “All About Haves and Have-Nots” featuring Rose and Sage having dinner with Megan and her father (whom Megan is not really close with) and her sister Lilly (who Megan does not get along with). Otherwise, an interesting dinner and as much as I really enjoy that show, I had a few problems with it. For Megan’s sister Lily, the last episode, we were left knowing that her sister is a thief and stole Rose’s bracelet. But yet, at the dinner party, Lily wears the bracelet (which she gets caught by Rose’s sister Sage and outed).

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Obviously, Lily has some lying and stealing issues but for her to come back and wear it in front of her family and the people she stole it from, definitely hope to see a Lilly-driven storyline and find out what is wrong with her.

After “Privileged”, went to my DVR and watch shows I’ve recorded weeks ago. I watched a History Channel episode titled “Crime Wave: 18th Month of Mayhem” on the 1930′s and the crime spree during the Great Depression when John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde were stealing from the banks, killing cops and feds and because the nation’s displeasure of banks and the government (Because they lost their money they had in the banks – Note: During that time, a person’s money was not insured), people during the 1930′s supported and applauded the “Public Enemy” criminals and almost held them up to superstar status.

I was blown away to find out and see so many people who really thought of these criminals as rockstars and so many would go in line to see the open caskets of these criminals after they were caught and killed.

Also, surprised that each time they were apprehended and jailed, they escaped. Literally by the criminals going to the police stations which only several cops were working late and thus overpowering them and freeing the criminals.

All in all, a pretty good documentary worth catching!

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.

TV Talk: Monday Musings – The Hills, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and Heroes (October 20, 2008)

My Monday television watching began with MTV’s “The Hills”.  With Season 4, episode 13 titled “You’ll Never Have This…”, the group goes to Cabo San Lucas for Brody’s birthday.  Audrina wants to enjoy her vacation but because the guy she likes (Justin Bobby) doesn’t want to have a full on relationship, so she’s now with another guy.  But how will Audrina deal with the trip when Justin and the guys want to party up with all these women?  Also, Stephanie introduces her new boyfriend to her brother Spencer and Heidi.

Afterwards, another live aftershow featuring interviews with Lauren Conrad and Brody Jenner.  Also, a sneak peak of Whitney Port’s upcoming show “The City”.

Next up was a new episode of “The Big Bang Theory”. Another fun episode for season 2, episode 5 titled “The Euclid Alternative” in which everyone is getting tired of having to drive Sheldon to work and back home. So, the friends have an intervention in order for Sheldon to get his own personal driver’s license.

Next show up was “How I Met Your Mother” season 4, episode 5 titled “Shelter Island” and it was the big episode featuring the wedding of Ted and Stella. Well, let’s say…not exactly. What happens though when Ted invites his ex Robin and Stella’s ex-husband? I swear…Ted tends to get the raw end of the deal. Quite a bit of adult humor in this episode! Hehe…

Next was “HEROES” with Season 3, episode 6 titled “Dying of the Light” which features another character death in the series thanks to Petrellli father who was revealed in the last episode to be the mastermind of the villains. Tracy and Nathan go to Mohinder for help but start to learn what kind of monster he has become. Hiro and Ando go to Africa under orders to bring back the Dreamwatcher to America. While, Claire and step mom go to rescue Claire’s real mother from the puppet man. Another action-packed episode with another “can’t wait for the next episode” ending.

TV TALK: Sunday Musings – Smallville & Desperate Housewives – October 19, 2008

My Sunday featured more headaches after watching Dallas Cowboys dismal performance against the St. Louis Rams.  I spent some time on the Dallas Cowboys official forum to rant.

But returned to watch some television in the afternoon to catch up on shows that are DVR’d and watched the episodes of the CW’s “Smallville” that I missed.

I love “Smallville” and it’s still great to know that this WB show still continues and the storylines continue to get better and better.

The first episode I watched was Season 8, Episode 3 titled “Toxic” which is an Oliver Queen (aka Green Arrow) episode in which Oliver faints at a party.  We learn that he has been poisoned and only has 12 hours to live.  Clark, Chloe and Lois do what they can to find a cure.  But we learn more about Oliver when he was stuck on an island for two years, how he heightened his bow & arrow skills and also how he knows of Tess Mercer. And we realize that the two were once romantic and now bitter rivals.

Another fun-filled episode, not much Clark but that’s not a bad thing.  Also, Chloe’s power of intellect (due to the battle against Brainiac) continues to grow and starts to alarm Clark.

In Season 8, episode 4 titled “Instinct”, Tess and Luthor Corp. use the Kryptonian crystal to send a beacon.  It attracts an alien princess named Maxima who is searching for her mate (a strong Kryptonian).  While search for him, she kisses a human and because the endorphine levels are so high, she ends up killing them.  But what happens when Maxima meets Clark Kent?  Also, when Maxima comes across Lois Lane.  Another fun episode of “Smallville”.

It was then time for Desperate Housewives on ABC.  To tell you the truth, I stopped watching every episode after season 1 but have watch episodes every so often and with the series now taking place 5 years into the future, I really enjoy the storyline and the changes that have taken place with each character.

With Season 5, Episode 4 titled “Back in Business”, we learn more about Bree and her success with her cookbook.  Bree has become a Martha Stewart type of woman and her friends are either worried about her success or jealous of it.  Lynette, who was a succesful marketing exec before she was married is quite envious of Bree’s success that she tries to come up with marketing campaigns that Bree is not interested in.  But what hurts her more is that one of her young workers from the past now owns his own succesful firm and represents Bree.  But despite all the success, Bree is unhappy because she knows that her success has changed her friends feelings towards her and most of all, her husband who is now unemployed wants to work with her but she has to decide whether to keep her neighbor and friend Katherine as a partner or hire her husband who is now upset with his wife for not giving him a chance.

All in all a pretty good episode with another hilarious scene featuring Gabrielle and her daughter.  In this scene, Gabrielle wants to literally make “blind” love with her blind husband Carlos to know more about his heightened senses.  So, she blindfolds herself as they make love.  All is great but unbeknownst to her was that her young daughter was watching them all this time.  The explanation to the daughter of what they were doing was just hilarious.

That was my Sunday musing for October 19th.

TV Talk: Saturday Musings (October 18, 208)

Typically my Saturdays are filled with college sports football viewings but I started my TV viewing at 5:00 p.m. with the History Channel’s “Black Blizzard” as the subject of the worst ecological disaster in the United States definitely caught my attention.

I find myself getting hooked on history-based programming and my thirst for learning of other cultures or significant moments in history tend to capture my attention and thus I watch a lot of History Channel on the weekends it seems.

As for Black Blizzard, here is the History Channel info:

Take a front row seat on a period of U.S. history from 1930-1940 when America’s heartland was ravaged by a weather phenomenon that became known as a “black blizzard.” Watch as scientists and special effects experts recreate the black blizzards in amazing detail and reveal that this was a man-made disaster. Discover how these phenomena form, what they’re made of, and how they affect people’s health and the environment. Learn how a black blizzard emerged so ferociously that it seemed like a moving mountain range creating enough static electricity to power New York City. Hear the story of the people who refused to leave their land and learn the history of the Great Plains and how it came to be settled.

This special focused on how many Americans moved to the Great Plains and as the Indians and the Ox were driven out, everyone in search for America’s Gold Mine started to plant crops.  In this case, the primary crop was wheat.

Well, wheat became so huge during the 1920′s and 1930′s that the government wanted more and ordered more.  So, as the farmers were becoming profitable and cultivating the fields for more and more wheat, the unthinkable happened in America.  The Great Depression in 1929.

The value of wheat went down over 80% and to make matters worse, the Great Plains experienced the worst drought.  With no rain fall, the crops started to die.  But what farmers kept doing was retilling the soil, planting, retilling, planting but with no water, the crops died and the soil… the soil that has built itself for over hundreds of thousands of years was now being depleted.

Then for almost a decade of drought, high winds would blow that soil that was retilled (and since there was no plants to hold the soil down, all the soil would float in the wind) and thus creating a major dust storm that lasted hours and days.  The problem was manmade and the government that was under a depression and led by President Hoover were hoping the market would correct itself but it never did.

But back to these dust storms which was known in the four states as the “Dust Bowl”. It was so bad that it was almost like snow storms that vehicles and homes were buried with sand and soil.  It would get into their homes, their schools and their vehicles that people would inhale and eat the the dirt.  You heard stories from survivors who talked about walking to school for 3 miles and getting caught in the dust storms and having to wear goggles and towels in their mouths.  The winds were so bad that they were up to 80mph and literally, the people who lived in that area lived in hell.

The most touching part of the special was hearing survivors talk about how they lossed siblings and how some were brought to Red Cross designated hospitals because inside their bodies were sand.  It was sad to know that so many children died of sand inhilation and some were blinded by the constant pounding of the quartz in the sand to their eyes.

I wondered why people never moved out of the area if it was that bad and you learn that may did…  Many headed out to California but they were living in migrant camps and hardly made money working in the fields.  Life to many farmers who escaped had it worse because of the unsanitary conditions whereas those who lived in their homes still had a home and shelter.  Those who escaped, only had tents and lived outdoors.

NOTE: This video is a YouTube video not from the show.

Another interesting segment was focusing on a writer of the dustbowl who wanted to learn how it was for the people living during that time to be bombarded by the sand.  So, mock creations were created.

In one experiment, with jets from a speedboat pumping sand and 80mph wind to a cabin, the guy couldn’t last more than 15 minutes.

The next experiment was trying to see how farmers who had to bring their livestock into the barns during the storm had to use a wire to help guide them back home under 80mph winds and this guy was getting blasted.  He even wore a modern technology mask and even that didn’t work.  How the people living at the time lived under these conditions were incredible.

Even worse was the sand hitting metal, that the vehicles and barb wired fence had so much static electricity that those who lived there could see the static electricity being generated.

And with the drought and high winds, it also brought infestations of centipedes, large locusts and jack rabbits.  In fact, there was actual video of the residents in a mass effort to kill thousands of jack rabbits which were spawning too many offspring because the coyotes all died in the drought (and you see many cows that died in the drought due to the lack of water or that they also inhaled too much sand).

But the titled “Black Blizzard” refers to is the worst day ever in American history when a large winds came and blew so much soil that not only did it cover the plain states but it went so far blanking Chicago, New York and Washington D.C.

And thanks to a lawman who was a former soil conservationist, filmmakers and journalists who documented the suffering of the people in the plain states, won the support of Roosevelt to not only educate the farmers but also plant trees and rebuild the plain states with new soil in order to have vegetation grow and not have the same problems from that era happen again in the future.

Well, flash forward to 2008 and the plain states are now in a drought.  Farmers are now using water at a large rate to plant the crops and many survivors from the past dust bowl are seeing similar situations with hardly any rainfall but now the worry of what happens when there is no water to plant the crops.  Will the situation happen again?

I found this special riveting and I definitely recommend this 2-hours special to anyone interested in watching it.  Well-edited, well-produced and a lot of footage from the past and the present.

Also, shown on Saturday night was game 5 between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox.  With the Red Sox down 3-1 and everyone waiting to see Tampa Bay win the series, Boston came back to win on Thursday night in a major comeback behind 7-0 to win the game.  And on Saturday, the comeback team won 4-2.  So, now game 7 to decide who will go to the World Series.  It will definitely be an exciting game 7.

I switched over to the Cartoon Network to watch an episode of “Bleach”, which seems to be picking up with the “Bout” storyline.

And at 11:30, it was time for “Saturday Night Live” which featured Josh Brolin of “W” (and “Goonies”) as the host.  But the big reason for people to turn in was the appearance of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin for the opening and also the weekend update.  I’m sure the episode generated ratings, not only was it highly anticipated but people can’t get enough of Sarah Palin.   Especially as CNN.com definitely kept it as their top story before the West Coast had a chance to see it.  So, it was interesting to see her on there and interact with Alex Baldwin, even Mark Wahlberg who doesn’t like Sarah Palin and voice his criticism of his depiction on a parody of him weeks ago.

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