Last night my wife and I watched "Thelma and Louise" - a movie Heather bought off e-bay.
Oh. My. God.
I never thought in my youth "What a dumb fuckwit Thelma is".
We decided in the end it should have been called: "Louise And Her Stupid Friend".
--Nat
Re:T&L
ziggy on 2003-02-03T21:54:07
Kim's sole function in 24 (this season and last) is to provide a distracting yet somewhat violent plot line to fill out ~24 hours of writing. That, and insure that there are some characters who aren't middle aged in the script.Kim in "24" is currently redlining my silly cow-ometer in that respect.I wish Kevin Smith would do one of these Alias/24 type action dramas. At least when the characters go all silly, you know it's for comic relief.
:-) Re:T&L
gnat on 2003-02-04T00:38:26
So true! She's only there for jiggle relief, I'm sure, and her constant whining overwhelms the few jiggles she does provide. I sure hope she gets shot in this season. It won't happen, but I can hope.Kim's sole function in 24 (this season and last) is to provide a distracting yet somewhat violent plot line to fill out ~24 hours of writing. That, and insure that there are some characters who aren't middle aged in the script.I watched the ep after the Super Bowl. I don't get what people see in it, other than a jiggling woman. Does she get her duds off in every episode, or was it just that one? Either way, it was incredibly uncompelling--one of those evil organization plots, kinda like "The Pretender", that just don't hold up. It's barely as frightening as KAOS, let alone SPECTRE.Alias--Nat
Re:T&L
ziggy on 2003-02-04T01:00:08
If your introduction to the series was the post superbowl titilating version of Sydney "What was wrong with the black one?" Bristow, then it probably would seem lame. We've been watching it since the first commercial free episode of the first season. When it's good, the writing is fast paced, coherent, self-consistent, and entertaining. There's some suspension of disbelief, but nothing like Austin Powers/007. When it's bad, it feels like a good week on ST:TNG.I watched the ep after the Super Bowl. I don't get what people see in it, other than a jiggling woman.Just that one, really. Most of the time, there are a lot of costume and makeup changes, and the outfits usually have enough fabric to remind you that this is a Disney-owned channel. Mostly, it's the same kind of allure as Xena, Buffy or any of the modern "let's watch some girls kick everyone else's ass" type show.Does she get her duds off in every episode, or was it just that one?The real evil dude is Arvin Sloane, her ex-boss at SD-6. The way they pulled a deus ex machina out of their hat to kill the central theme of the series (destroying Sloane, SD-6 and the Alliance) did suck a little much.Either way, it was incredibly uncompelling--one of those evil organization plots, kinda like "The Pretender", that just don't hold up. It's barely as frightening as KAOS, let alone SPECTRE.But if they didn't almost kill the series mid-season, it wouldn't be the second annual shark-jumping episode.
:-S
