Here are some thoughts for the day.
- I'm bloody sick of people telling me I'm "missing out" when I tell them I don't watch Glee. I can tell from the previews that if I watched Glee, I would hate it.
First of all, I'm jealous that these people get to make their living singing and I don't.
Second of all, I've heard some of the songs from the show and I really don't like what I've heard.
Thirdly, Jane Lynch is cool but not cool enough to balance out the extreme irritant that is Leah Michelle.
- Patrick McGoohan was on an episode of The Adventures Of Sir Lancelot back in the day. His character was named Sir Glavin. That makes me giggle.
- Yesterday at the grocery story I found boxes of Strawberry Cream Twinkies and Chocolate Cream Twinkies. Yes, I bought them. Haven't tried the chocolate ones yet (I'm a bigger fan of chocolate so I'm saving the good ones for last) but the strawberry ones are acceptable.
- On December 22, 2012, the Ancient Mayans will all need to buy new calendars. (I never said all my thoughts were original ones.)
- It bugs me that all three books about The Prisoner that I own really like the episode Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling (AKA the only bad episode of The Prisoner). It's a straightforward brain swap story, Patrick McGoohan isn't in it and the plot is stupid.
"Hey, we have this brain swap machine, but it only works one way. Let's put Number Six's brain in another guy and send him to fetch the scientist who can switch the brains back." (Interestingly, Futurama recently did a one-way brain-swap machine episode and it was really entertaining. What's that all about?)
That's right, The Village sent Number Six out to run a fucking errand for them. "Oh, we can't find the scientist guy." I'm not buying it. The Village is a giant, creepy, all-knowing organization. There's no way they couldn't find that scientist. Having Number Six go find him for them was essentially the same as The Village admitting defeat. "Okay, you're right, you are better than us." Kind of defeats the purpose of the show, doesn't it? Kind of?
And also, all that business with Number Six's fiance doesn't sit right with me, either. It's obvious in the opening sequence he's packing to go on holiday alone; this lady seems way too needy to let him go on vacation without her.
And I would imagine Number Six, if he were engaged to anyone at all, wouldn't be into Worriedface McBlandywhine.
And she only shows up in the episode because she sees his car parked out front. If she really existed (I've mentally Retconned the whole episode; it isn't canon as far as I'm concerned) she would have shown up in Many Happy Returns with her worried face, whining about her "darling" because she saw his car out front. It's implied Mrs. Butterworth had been driving the car for a while...
Long story short, I hate that episode. It's the only weak one in the series, but it's weak to almost epic proportions. (Everything The Prisoner did, it did to epic proportions.)
I understand the whole "How do we make an episode without the star?" dilemma (Patrick McGoohan was in Hollywood filming Ice Station Zebra at the time) but it's depressing that Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling was the best they could come up with.
- I know I complain a lot about The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its awfulness. However, I can't write it off completely. Even if I get sick of all the other songs, there is one song that I will never, ever get sick of and that I actually count as one of the best songs ever written ever: Science Fiction Double Feature. It's just simple and beautiful and perfect for what it is, and it's really a shame that it's from Rocky Horror. It deserves better than that.
- It also deserves better than the opening sequence it goes with. I have this problem where I can't stand extreme close ups of mouths. I have no idea why but that sort of thing always makes me nauseous. I can eat while watching gore-tastic movies without any problem but, for example, there used to be a commercial for a local radio station that consisted of a close up of a woman's mouth lip synching a bunch of classic rock songs. That commercial made me unbelievably sick to my stomach. I'm so glad that station went out of business.
- It's noon. I should probably get dressed.
- My dad bought me the complete series of Danger Man (he's nice like that) and I really want to watch it, but every time I go to put the disc in the DVD player, I chicken out and watch Food Network instead. I have no idea why; I really really want to watch Danger Man. I think I'm afraid I won't like it. There's nothing about the show to imply I wouldn't (it combines two of my favorite things: secret agents and Patrick McGoohan) and yet I'm watching Sandra Lee make some sort of fried fish cake. What the heck is wrong with me?
- I should eat lunch after I get dressed.
- Last night I went karaoke-ing with my cousin, her boyfriend and his sister. We were there for four hours, it was epic and amazing and fun, and my voice is barely functional today. However, a lot of songs from Wicked were sung. I haven't seen Wicked and was unfamiliar with pretty much all the music from it. Turns out, I'm not a fan. I've had Defying Gravity stuck in my head all morning and I'm getting ready to smash something.
And I was super confused when I found out that song is the end of act one, 'cause it really sounds to me like the lead character dies at the end of that song.
Be seeing you.
-Sally
3 comments:
Re. The Prisoner ep... The question you might be asking is why #6 *co-operated* and hunted the scientist down at all. He wanted his own body back is the obvious answer, but, why should that matter so much to this *man of principle*?
Good point about the car parked outside, except Mrs Butterworth was just a *plant* and so was never living in the flat and driving that car, as she told the escapee over their cucumber sandwiches. She was lying.
Yes! The fact that he goes along with the plan is another thing that bugs me about the episode.
I think Number Six would've learned to live with his brain being in a different body. I feel like he could have adapted "Well, guess I look like this now. Hey, I'm out of The Village! I win!"
Then they probably would've just gassed him and brought him back again, though, like they end up doing anyway.
Maybe he knew that was going to happen and that's why he went along with it. "At least when I get re-imprisoned I'll look like me again." (??? I don't know.)
It's true that Mrs. Butterworth was a plant and wasn't really driving the car that long, but she did drive it. We see her driving it. So even if it wasn't out front very long, it was still there.
In Do Not Forsake Me... Number Six In The Colonel's Body had only been back in London for maybe a few hours so the car couldn't have been parked out front that long then, either. I don't know, something about it just doesn't sit right with me.
The whole episode irks me, though, so of course I want to complain about it. ;-)
Aww, they cut my emoticon in half. Boo.
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