After the Credits - Dec 04, 2007 - 09:32am
It would have to be "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Intrigued with the music playing (Yello's "Oh Yeah") my wife and I sat through the credits along with one other couple in the theatre. All four of us were happily surprised when we were told to "go home" by Ferris.

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BIONIC WOMAN: Paradise Lost - Oct 12, 2007 - 09:12pm
The sub-plot with the young girl was a direct steal from the original series episode "Jamie and the Prince" where Jamie is told to protect the "difficult" son of a foreign King. Although in the original they devote the entire episode to this story and the Prince's turn-around at the end is a heck of a lot more believable than that of the Canadian Girl. This series is suffering from what I call "Batman Overload". Just like the original four Batman movies, the writers are trying to disguise their poor writing by cramming too much plot into an episode. This doesn't make the series seem "hip" and "cool", instead it makes it seem tired and lame. It doesn't help when the original episode from which the plot was stolen was twice as good. Don't get me wrong... I want this series to succeed, but unless there is a serious paradigm shift in the writing staff I don't hold out much hope for it.

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JOHN FROM CINCINNATI: His Visit: Day Seven - Jul 31, 2007 - 10:14am
I really love this series and its two standout stars Brian Van Holt (Butchie) and Rebecca DeMornay (Cissy). I even find the spacey-ness and the cryptic utterances from the title character intriguing. My only fear is that the inherent mindlessness of most viewers on our side of the Great Glass Teat (aka the TV-Watching Audience), haven’t the patience nor the smarts to appreciate a Drama that doesn’t lay it all out for you. Most TV watchers don’t like open-ended questions. They don’t seem to mind the question “Who?” Especially when it’s used in a Who-Done-It. The huge popularity of a show like “Columbo” demonstrates that viewers don’t even mind the question “How?” “Lost” has shown that even the questions, “Where?” and “When?” are okay. But so far, any TV show based on the question, “Why?” hasn’t lasted. Probably because the question is mostly an internal one and the audience isn’t going to support a show that asks it to work for a change (aka Thinking!). Here’s hoping that “John From Cincinnati” bucks this trend and continues for a long time to come.

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