Too funny– I actually said to myself- this is going to give Yglesias and Henley fits. I also thought the scene with the aged mother was absurd, though not for the same reasons.
In other television news, I watched Medium after 24. To date, I have never missed an episode, and I am beginning to develop a real beef with the writers. Why do they continue to write scenes in which the husband mocks or refuses to take seriously his wife predictions?
Like I said, I have seen every episode. She hasn’t been wrong yet. You would think her husband, a supposedly intelligent mathematician, would figure that out.
On a completely unrelated note, in one of the most graceless feline events of the century, my cat just fell off my desk. He sleeps right next to me on the desk when I am on the computer, and he was sprawled out on his side sound asleep. Then for no reason whatsoever (and I must add, much to my delight), he just fell off the desk.
And, yes. He landed on his feet.
capt joe
He is an aerospace engineer but your point is well taken
None
This is all paraphrase, mind you.
But somehow the wife and I ended up watching the first episode of Medium. Most of which, it seemed, was establishing shots of the Tommy Lee Jones style gruff realist, bad ass “sherriff’s” (or whoever he’s suppused to be, TBI, maybe) 24 SUV motorcade escorting said medium back and forth over the Texas landscape to find the “real” crime scene.
Upon finding said crime scene, the medium tells the Sherriff (or whatever) where the body is buried. At which point the sherriff balks at spending “Texas taxpayer money to dig up the area based on a medium’s intuition.”
After driving all over Texas with a 24 SUV motorcade to see if she was for real (gas, man-hours, and all).
That’s when I decided never to watch Medium again.
derek
Can’t say I’m a fan of Medium either. 24 on the other hand is the best show in a loooong time.
CadillaqJaq
I watched the last part of an earlier segment of ‘Medium” and wasn’t impressed for several of the afore stated reasons. I just began watching ’24’ this season and though not impressed with Jack, the whispering hero, I like the way the plot progresses.
My fat cat is sound asleep on my lap making typing a tad ridiculous; arms outstretched in attempt to reach the keyboard.
Robert McClelland
Why do they continue to write scenes in which the husband mocks or refuses to take seriously his wife predictions?
Like I said, I have seen every episode. She hasn’t been wrong yet.
Because it perfectly mirrors reality. After all, in real life the right continues to mock the left even though we haven’t been wrong yet either.
Bob
There was a TV series a long time ago, it was from Canada. “Seeing Things,” I think the name was. A guy who was a newspaper reporter would get these visions which would lead to solving some crime.
I am sure there is a lesson in there somewhere, or at least a quip. Back to Madden 2005.
Gary Farber
Although I’m entirely willing to believe that Medium is a dramatically fine, well-done, show — in particuar because Patricia Arquette is a fine actor — I am utterly unable to get past my prejudical reaction of offense and disgust that the show must surely lead to a great many people believing there is some truth to the vast and evil lie that it’s possible to contact dead people. I can’t overstate how much this con on suffering people offends me.
If the show were presented as clearly fantasy, that would be fine with me. But it clearly has a premise that this is real (please do let me know if I’m in any way wrong about that), and I think encouraging people in such a harmful believe — people in a terribly vulnerable, grieving, state — is just one of the most awful things people can do to other people to hurt them that doesn’t involve physical contact or control over someone. It just seems to me that anyone involved in perpetuating such a fraud — albeit excepting those sincerely idiotically deluded, of course — is scum. I think more highly of someone who merely cons someone out of all of their money.
SDN
This song might have been written about your cat
“I meant to do that, I’ll have it be known
I did it on purpose, for plans of my own,
Since you’re just a human and I am a cat,
I thought I ought to mention that I meant to do that.”
jeff
I had never watched 24 before, but a friend of mine who loves it has all three seasons on DVD and told me to watch it from the beginning.
Needless to say, I got hooked. Three weeks ago when we got a bunch of snow here in Philly on a Saturday, I think me and my fiance watched about eight episodes from the first season.
Well, i just started watching season 3 and all i have to say is that David Palmer must not have a very bright staff.
Why in the hell would you agree to a debate in Los Angeles after A) someone tried to assassinate you there during the primary and B) a nuke almost went off there C) someone tried to poison you there.
Hey President Palmer, stay the hell out of LA. You’re a Democrat, you’re gonna win the state anyway.
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