May Commentaries Part Dos (long)

So all the new stuff for the next TV season have been announced. I won't see any of these shows for a few years, but here are some of my thoughts...

FOX

Fringe
Fringe is a new show by J.J. Abrams (creator of LOST). Its sort of looks like a cross between Lost and The X-Files (which admittedly, I have never seen).

Overall, it looks very promising, but you never know how a show like this will turn out over the course of an entire season.

Still, if you are into science fiction or Lost, it would be worth checking out. Premieres on FOX in the fall.


Dollhouse
Dollhouse is the new show by Joss Whedon, creator of some of my all-time favorite shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly).

Dollhouse is a show about a group of people (the dolls) who are essentially programmed to carry out different tasks. After completing their task, the dolls memories are wiped. The show is about the doll Echo, who begins to retain memories.

Looks super promising. Everything about it looks great. Look for this show on FOX next January as a lead in show for...


24 is finally coming back! After not coming out this past season due to the Writer's Strike, season seven of 24 will be back next January.

I think that ultimately the strike worked in 24's favor. The problem with season six was that the plotting just sorta started sucking it up partway into the show. Hopefully the extra time gave the writers and producers of the show to get the plotting straight this time.

In addition to the airing of season seven, November will also be host to a 2 hour 24 TV movie, which I guess will serve as a prequel to January's season. Has Jack running around in Africa, so it should be pretty sweet.

I'm also very glad that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Bones got renewed. Terminator's first season was very good and I'm interested to see where the show goes from here. Bones is an excellent CSI-like show only it's a little less gross and very funny. Highly recommend both. Especially Bones. Seriously.

THE CW

The only shows I watch on CW are Smallville and Reaper. Smallville's lackluster finale has me scared for where it goes with it's eighth season (also rumored to be it's last season). I can't stress enough how excited I am that Reaper is back though. Reaper is a fantastic show thats both cool and hillarious! You all should have been watching it, but now thats it renewed you'll still have a chance!

NBC

Untitled Office Spinoff
Unfortunately we know pretty much nothing about The Office spin-off. But lets talk about what we do know. We know it airs on NBC early 2009 after they finish their Super Bowl Coverage. And...oh....thats it.

We know for sure it will not star Dwight. There have been plenty of rumors pointing to the show revolving around Andy, but nothing about the show's plot has been officially announced yet.

Returning shows I'm looking forward to are of course the original Office and 30 Rock. As I noted in my last blog entry, I'm really worried about what is going to happen on The Office when it comes back. Very scared. On the other hand, 30 Rock's finale left me with the impression that this excellent show can only get better.

ABC

Scrubs
The rumors were true, Scrubs will be moving to ABC for its eighth and final season.

What?! Man it's totally crazy! I have heard a lot of mixed things from different Scrubs fans. Some excited that it gets to keep going, others just want the show to die already.

If I was going to be here, I would be tuning in to Scrubs on ABC this fall.

Lost will have it's 17 episode fifth season starting next January. The show started dragging a little bit in it's second and third seasons (though the last part of the third season was very good), but I have really enjoyed Lost this season. It's become an excellent television show again, and I'm excited for more Lost!

I also occasionally watch the ABC show Boston Legal. It's a law drama that occasionally can be super serious and occasionally a little too silly, but I enjoy it. If you like law shows, you ought to check it out too.

CBS

The only CBS show that I watch is How I Met Your Mother. It is a fantastic comedy that you all should be watching. And everybody needs to watch it. So do it!


Thanks for reading this very long entry! I will have at least one or two more commentary entries coming, so stay tuned!

EDIT: (Blogger appears to be hating me today because weird formating errors keep showing up in the post. If you are getting any of those I apologize)

Commentaries (contains spoilers!)

The Office Finale

It seems like people liked this episode a lot more than I did. I mean...it was really funny, but the second half of the episode just got a little to frustrating for me. I don't want Jan to come back, I don't want Andy to propose, I want Michael to get together with Holly, and I want Jim and Pam to get engaged. None of that happened. Its like they were going out of their way to ruin the lives of the characters of this show. Nothing good happened for anybody in this episode. It was funny, but it just left the show in such a weird place.

Smallville Finale

Like most Smallville fans, I was really disappointed with the finale. Smallville always has some of the most intense and crazy finales, and this one was pointless and anti-climactic. I really want Lana to not come back this time. I swear that in every finale they leave it up in the air whether she is going to come back, and I really just want her to go away. Anyways...it had a couple good moments, but ultimately it was very dissapointing.

30 Rock Finale

Hilarious! I wish that everybody watched this show. Its so good! This finale was so funny! (except that I skipped every scene that Tracey was on because of his current plot line in the show). And thats about all I have to say about that.

Law and Order SVU Finale

This season has had it's ups and downs, but this was a pretty good finale. A very character-based episode, which is always good. They left a couple characters on the bubble (Fin and Novak. Lake obviously isn't coming back) so it will be interesting to see what happens.

I also recently finished the video game Crisis Core : Final Fantasy VII for the PSP. Nothing like playing through seventeen hours of a game to see the main character (who you have become attached to because he is a great guy) get shot to death. Major bummer.

This concludes Part 1 of my May commentaries. Stay tuned!

"How do you feel?"

I think I'm okay. I mean...it's weird, sad and stuff...but I'm not super depressed and drowning myself in caffeine.

I feel fine.

Is that okay?