A Summary of Shows I am Currently Watching

I love television, so here is a short (ish) review of some shows which I have been watching lately!

V

Basically the premise of this show is that a bunch of alien lizards in human skin show up on earth and start handing out gifts and technology. Morena Baccarin is their leader, because  of course she is! Also, apparently no humans have ever accidentally watched the Space channel on a holiday and seen a Sci-Fi marathon because clearly, if they paid attention they would know that ALIENS DON’T JUST SHOW UP AND GIVE YOU THINGS UNLESS THEY HAVE A SINISTER PLAN TO TERRAFORM THE EARTH AND BREED WITH YOU. DUH!  All the humans are more or less brainwashed except for a few who are lead by Erica Evans (or, Juliet from LOST), Priesty McJack (no idea) some really buff guy with an accent who likes to shoot things but of course has a soft side, some guy who looks exactly like Michael J. Fox with a lot of makeup and worried expressions, and a V, as they are called, who belongs to some rebellious cell called “The Fifth Column” who basically like to have feelings and stuff. I don’t know why aliens all are so opposed to feelings, but anyway, such is life. I’m sure you know where this is going. The Fifth column and their human pals know the aliens are up to no-good and like to hatch, might I say TERRIBLE plans to foil them. The aliens do alien things like make the sky red and seduce young men to breed with. Oh and there’s totally a disco alien who lives in the creepy tribal basement of the super modern spaceship, who wears a lot of makeup and I’m fairly certain was on the original V. Basically I love this show! It’s super cheesy and sticks to the clichés of science fiction.

The Event

Unlike on V, the humans on this show have seen TV and know that aliens are bad. However, they are also really into proselytizing and blowing things up which makes this show a no-go in my books. It has promise, I mean, aliens who live in Alaska and have a secret portal? This could be cool but basically it just goes horribly wrong.   This show is all accurate and stuff with an African American/Cuban president and his wife who is clearly Latin American because she says ‘mi amor’ and pronounces their son, David’s, name with good Spanish pronunciation for AT LEAST ONE WHOLE EPISODE, after which I guess the writers were just like ‘’screw it, we can’t be bothered with this politically correct stuff let’s just write these two out”. For some reason, Presidents on American television are always really, really annoying and into blowing things up. This one starts out all promising, planning to let the Aliens free, after all they haven’t really done anything wrong but then quickly descends into explosions and war and rah rah America! More or less my annoyance with this show is, if you’re going to make a show dealing with terrorism do it in a subversive way.  I never liked Battlestar Gallactica but at least this show played with ideas about terrorism and war and technology. The Event seems like it wants to but instead it descends into sermons, explosions and getting their knickers in a knot if one American dies but being all ‘oh well, whateves,” if anyone else, that is, someone NOT American dies. Also, I feel like they cheaped out on the Alien department. The aliens are so boring, all they do is  stay young, and while this would be useful, it’s also really blah and means they don’t have to spend money on special affects, (maybe for the better since so far, some of the affects have been less than great. In summary, The Event is ok, the main character Sean, is likable but he's about the only one, I'm not NOT-recommending this show, I'm just saying, take it with a HUGE grain of salt.

Doctor Who

I am not a great fan of Doctor Who in the sense that I have seen every episode since the 60’s however I do give credit to the BBC . I mean, they basically invented a show that could go on forever. Actor quits? No problem, kill the doctor and he is reborn as someone else. The props are also hilarious and cheap to make, or so it seems. Anyway, I have been watching the new series since it started in 2005 and I totally get why everyone watches this show. It’s cheesy, it’s weak in the plot points department,  a good percentage of the episodes seem like someone woke up and wrote down a particularly weird dream they had, at the end everyone is like ‘yaay the triumph of humanity over evil,” and they have absolutely no reverence whatsoever for history, historical figures, being in anyway logical or factual. These are things which I liked about this show but somehow season 6 just isn’t impressing me. Doctor Who was already weird but I feel like they decided to make it EVEN WEIRDER but instead of maintaining the humour and wit of the show they sucked all the life out of the show. Apparently the producers wanted it to be darker-to which I say WHY? There's plenty of dark things in real life and on TV. This just annoys me, and, not to mention the fact that their attempts to make the show darker also made it less sense-making. I mean, once in while throwing in some non-sense is ok, but most of the episodes this season have been  complete gibberish and why do they all talk SO FAST, it’s not a Telenovela.

Here is a sample

The Doctor: Iamthedoctor let’s gooutside of the universe? How is this possible? Who cares? We don’t likescience onthisshow. Ohwhat’sthat you say? Mypolicebox has accidentally taken us to the fifties in America? Wow! Howstrange? Didyou know I was actually the president of the purple Americans in the fifties. AKJA”FJOIHERFDF?

Amy: I’m cute and usually figure everything out. I own a lot of miniskirts too!

Rory: I am a nurse but nobody knows that because all I do is mope around wondering if my wife actually loves me and basically being inept and never solving anything.

The Doctor: (Exclamations of wonder and amusement)  (Gibberish) (Shameless self promotion)

Some Aliens (indecipherable noise)

The Doctor: What’s that you say? You want to know why no real science is used on this show! Not me, I love being craaazy. Are we flying on a whale that’s actually England! Probably!

Amy:DOCTOOOOOOOOOOOOOR

Rory:AMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYY

The Doctor: What happened in this episode?
Rory:  No idea!

Amy: Shall we make it ‘to be continued…”

Alien: OUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOH AASD
The Doctor: Right then, how about a peak freen (or as they are called in England, a Jammy Dodger)

To be continued….

DOooDODODODODODODOOOOOODOOOOOOOOOD

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Next time on Doctor Who:

NONESENSE! GIBBERISH! DEMONS! WHO KNOWS BECAUSE THIS TRAILER DIDN’T GIVE YOU ANY REAL INFORMATION!