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What Have I Been Watching?
Besides American Idol and the Super Bowl, I have not been watching a lot of TV lately.
I did manage to watch two episodes of Chuck last week. Chuck is possibly my favorite show on TV (it’s a close call between Chuck and Heroes).
I also watched LOST, which was a really good episode. I don’t think I like the glimpses into the future, but other than that it’s been fun to watch.
I have been watching Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice and while I enjoy it, the people on the show seem to have less desire to win at all costs than the normal apprentices.
Anyway, I have been rather busy lately, so I might start doing weekly round-ups of shows that I watch, instead of discussing each show separately.
Lastly, I am glad that it looks like the writer’s strike will be over soon. I would hate to see reality TV be the ONLY thing on TV the rest of the year.
Do You Want To Get Really LOST?
I just found this post (via sfsignal) that explains the last episode of LOST. I don’t think I have ever seen a more in-depth analysis of a TV show, EVER!
It quite frankly made me feel even more LOST.
Anyway, check it out if you want to try and figure out what is happening on the island…
Jericho Rocks… Well For One More Night…
I have been sick with the flu and I am just now catching up with some of my TV watching. I just watched the last two episodes of Jericho and I am REALLY BUMMED that there is only one episode of Jericho left. Jericho was one of the best shows on tv. I realize it’s ratings weren’t that great, but that’s not the show’s fault. The show was awesome!
I will miss Jericho, but I am VERY thankful that CBS brought it back this season to wrap it up. CBS said it’s really over this time. It makes good business sense, because it’s not getting the ratings they would like it to get. I wish that the networks would occasionally ignore ratings and keep shows like Jericho because they are just plain good. Unfortunately that’s not the way it works…
NUTS!
Jericho Is Over
I just watched the last episode of Jericho and it was really good. I am going to miss Jericho A LOT! I really enjoyed it. In my opinion Jericho was one of the 5 best shows on tv.
They ended it in such a way they could have brought it back for a third season, but even with the cliffhanger ending it was still a good ending for a great show.
Well, Jericho is over… and all I have left to say is… “NUTS!”
Jericho - Best Scene This Year On TV
In the season finale of Jericho, my favorite scene was the air fight. In fact, I think that in the context of the whole story this was the best scene I have seen all year on tv. What do you think?
Here it is:
PS. Apparently the person who uploaded it to YouTube shared my feelings about the scene. It was really cool!
Jericho’s Alternate Ending
Apparently, when they filmed the ending for this Season’s finale of Jericho, they filmed two endings. Via TV Guide:
TVGuide.com: Will viewers have any burning questions coming out of the alternate ending/series finale?
Carol Barbee: Let me see…. I can tell you that in the original ending, Hawkins has to sacrifice himself to let Jake get away with the bomb and get it to Texas so it can be tested and prove that they were telling the truth. Texas would then swing their support to Columbus and defeat Cheyenne.
Carol also said:
TVGuide.com: Does Hawkins mortally sacrifice himself, or just let himself get captured?
Barbee: Well, he gets captured but he’s also shot…. He’s pretty messed up, and Jake feels like he’s leaving him for dead. So we show you where he’s taken and you see that the mission for the next season is, “We have to go rescue Hawkins and we have to stop these [bad] guys.” When they see the alternate ending, it certainly completes the story from this season and tells you everything you need to know to have understood Season 2. It just doesn’t point to that next mission. You meet John Smith, the guy who’s been pulling the strings. It’s [played by] Xander Berkeley (24). You’ve heard him on phone calls, and Hawkins is surprised by who he is and where he is. So you know who John Smith is, you know who planned the attacks, you know why, you know how….
Both endings are good, but the new ending definitely wraps things up a little better. The original ending would have left us wondering what in the world was going to happen to Hawkins. I was very happy with the ending they came up with. I hope that somehow Jericho lives on, which brings me to…
From what I understand Jericho did get decent ratings, which means that it could get picked up by someone else (especially a cable station). I will go ahead and my cross fingers on that news…
