Cheers and Jeers

In the weekly periodical of TV Guide, there is a section that highlights the "Cheers" and "Jeers"
of television entertainment. Jumping on the bandwagon, I have created a new segment with the same name, but with a more diverse picking.

Jeers....
To the executive leadership of Lost to have viewers wait until February 2007 to see all-new episodes. It was bad enough watching reruns of episodes" that document the entire season. We want new episodes of Lost now and not in the stupid "sweeps" month of February.

Cheers....
NBC is finally producing a show that I can actually watch and enjoy....Heroes. This show is great. The protagonists are weaved together in a masterful way by the writers. In fact, each character is written by a different writer and the episode writer has to connect the dots of the characters. The show's theme, which I thought was absurd at first, is: "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World". My favorite hero(or protagonists) is Hiro, the Japanese Office worker; he can control the time/space continuum and he can teleport with a blink of the eyes. Plus, he serves as the show's comic relief. The last time that has happen is Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Jeers....
If you did not kill a person, which you were accused , do not in any circumstance write a book about what you would have done if you did kill that person. OJ Simpson is guilty of this fictional transgression.

Cheers....
Fiction author, Nicholas Sparks, doesn't let up. His new novel entitled Dear John is about the friendship and complicated romance between an Army Enlistee and college student whose relationship is complicated by distance, duty and the intricacies of love itself. Nicholas Sparks never disappoints for his enduring love stories that make you laugh, think, and cry.( I don't cry of course) One might say that he is one of the few people in the world that really believe in true love.

On a sidebar, this morning on my way to work, I caught myself singing the Dear John theme song from that old 80's show. I'm sure no one under the age of 25 would know what I'm talking about.


Jeers...
This TV season has seen plethora of shows that seem to be so narrow that they could only survive one season. On Fox is(was) Kidnapped, a show about a kidnapped Senator's wife. On ABC is The Nine, a show about a group of bank hostage survivors. Also on ABC is Daybreak, a show about a guy who relives one day over and over after his girlfriend is murdered and he is framed. Think 24 meets GroundHogs Day with Bill Murray for one season. That's not a good combination. Honestly, it's time that tv serials develop a plot that can be perpetualized by writers without becoming cliched after one episode.

Cheers...
The movie Borat was great. It was extremely hilarious, yet it had some scenes that were bit raunchy. It had the perfect recipe for a movie in that it involved an extremely native foreigner who comes across the many diverse cultures in the United States. The result is a witty satire of American culture with a well-planned and well-timed pseudo-documentary that aims to make people laugh by looking from the perspective of a seemingly uninitiated visitor from the Ksyskstan.



Captain Oblivious