Saturday, May 18, 2013
BtBS: Kevin Gregg Re-emerges in Chicago
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Read More...[A]s of May 16, Kevin Gregg has thrown ten innings without allowing an earned run. Over those 10 frames, he has faced 39 batters surrendering just five hits and four walks and striking out 12 batters. Because it’s just 10 innings, I’m probably making too big a deal out of his success, but remember this is the same pitcher that:
*Was released by the Dodgers during Spring Training. The Dodgers’ pen ranks 25th in the Majors in ERA.
*Registered a 4.62 ERA, 4.95 FIP, 4.83 xFIP over the last ...
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1. JRVJ posted on September 18, 2012 at 07:10 PM # hit 0 | hit 0I didn't get to watch a game, but I am quite happy to have seen the old girl.
For the record, I'm in the minority in thinking that Revolution was pretty good.
I traded up to get field seats to one of the Springsteen shows a couple weeks back. Most of the field was covered, of course, but it wasn't complete. I entered about an hour early just to see how much I could wander around - and I'm happy to say, quite a bit. I could walk to and touch the ivy. I could pick up a handful of IF dirt right before the lip between in the IF and OF. I got to take a faux stretch on one of the bullpen mounds. The Boss show was phenomenal, too -- but spending an hour just walking around on the field was pretty cool.
With that premise I don't see why they bother with veracity at any level.
Steve Trachsel?
Agreed. I liked it a lot. Certainly much better tan Terra Nova last year.
Ummm...couldn't they just play day games?
Where's your instant replay now Bud!
And, while I'm at it, I want my hoverboard!
I thought Trachsel only brought rain?
What really got to me though was how badly thought out this whole blackout event was and how it clearly can't be anything but a "act of god" type of thing: An EMP would have still left antique (pre-circuitry) electronics working [including old cars] as well as presumably military hardware. A solar flare would have mainly affected the infrastructure, not the batteries, phones and cars. If the Hurley-esque genius is right in that the laws of physics just stopped working, then shouldn't LIGHTNING no longer exist? Or the electrical impulses that the brain uses to control our bodies? This change of physics (with the exception of those around the MacGuffin) could only possibly be an act of god style cop-out. Either that, or it's Klaatu's revenge.
Oh, and why did the airplanes just drop like bricks out of the sky- did Isaac Newton run on electricity? ("Electric Newton" would make a great band name)
That said, all of this is still more realistic than the idea that the Cubs could have been 2012 World Series Champions.
It was watchable, though it sort of felt like a bunch of other shows I've seen in the past (I even got a back-to-Caprica-during-early-BSG-feel).
I did like the fact that at some times it had a decidedly Alex Raymond/Al Williamson/Tom Yeates/Mark Schultz swashbuckly/dystopian feel to it (and yes, I'm a big comic book nerd). To the extent that's emphasized in the future, I may keep watching.
Exactly the way I feel. Forget adding a new mystery every week. You know what made Star Trek awesome? There was sci-fi every week and you didn't need a journal to keep up. SG-1 lasted 10 years (Atlantis another 2) because there was one overarching story that was focused on every now and then in a season (much like the early seasons of X-Files). I don't know when it was decided that sci-fi fans wanted endless plot twists, but I'm tired of it. A nice, dystopian future story with no "twists" sounds just like what the doctor ordered. I hope we get it.
BTW, this is the reason that the first season of Falling Skies was awesome and why I probably won't tune in for the third.
BTW, this is the reason that the first season of Falling Skies was awesome and why I probably won't tune in for the third.
I can't stand stand alone episodes type shows anymore. Every time I see one now I just picture Angela Lansbury as the main character in the show nowadays. I think the self contained episode each week thing is the main flaw in a ton of BBC shows nowadays and it makes it hard to watch them. For instance MI-5 or Spooks or whatever it was called got to the point where in every single episode they were basically saving either an entire city, country, or world in 1 hour and that kind of power creep in a show just gets silly after a while.
Early season X-Files didn't really take a main-story arc theme seriously. It was all just filler and it wasn't mapped out which is why it only popped up now and then. The show was meant to be a self contained mystery episode each week.
I generally agree with this but I get frustrated by shows that forget to make each episode worth watching. I was fortunate that I watched Lost after 5 seasons were complete (and I was blissfully unaware of just about every major plot twist) but I don't know if I could have survived Season Three when Jack, Kate and Sawyer were held captive for a few episodes. There needs to be some self-contained plot within each episode and that is tough to do while keeping the focus on the longer term plot line.
You mentioned MI-5 which I have to admit I absolutely love but you're right. I found that after about 6 seasons I kind of ran out of steam with it. Having said that I loved that unlike most shows even main characters were at risk of being killed off. That really added to the experience but they were at their best from about the end of season 2 through the start of season 4 when there was a bit more of an overriding theme around the series rather than an episode to episode "let's save the world."
True! However: Enterprise has improved a little bit.
The show was OK, I'll give it a few weeks.
Not a Doctor Who fan? It's got something of an arc, but it's still largely standalone.
Strictly from a narrative perspective, I personally think the Stargate franchise (at least, SG-1 and Atlantis -- SGU was a somewhat different animal) hit it just right... There was an overarching villain that hovered over the entire series and there were occasionally multi-episode - even 1/4-1/3/-1/2 season arcs - but it was still largely a lot of self-contained episodes that didn't necessarily require seeing the previous week's episode.
Actually, I was ready to give up on Falling Skies after season one, but personally think it found new life in season two. That's less an opinion based on self-contained versus continued mystery illumination and more a matter of thinking that season two was just darker and a bit more hard-edged than I thought season one was, though.
On one hand, as a sci-fi geek - it makes me happy that lately, networks seem to be interested in creating things like Revolution, Falling Skies, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones (if you want to mix sci-fi/fantasy), etc. It's hard for me to see how this isn't one of the best times to be a sci-fi fan, at least based on the fact that so many networks seem eager to cater to "us" (even while the channel that is supposedly all about sci-fi appears almost completely uninterested in science fiction).
On the other, and I say this most certainly NOT as a sci-fi elitist who believes all sci-fi needs to be hard-boiled Asimov/Heinlein/Dick true believer stuff -- I do worry that so many of these network sci-fi efforts seem intent on 'expanding the audience'... creating family/teen/whatever dramas that just happen to have a sci-fi backdrop.
...Oh, and Tripon -- #### you!
EDIT: and #### the BourbonSamurai in America you rode in on, too!
Before I answer that...is the actress over 18?
Of course she is, I might be a lot of things, but I'm not a perv. She was born in 1988.
Then no, you were not the only one.
I also thought Ms. Everdeen was quite atractive.
Finally, I liked Alcatraz a lot, but it didn't seem to have long term legs, FWIW.
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