How Original!

Last year there were several new programs that came to CBS et al, and many of them did not survive. What I find really sad, though, is what kind of programs DID survive.

After seeing the commercials that made it seem like it may have been getting more interesting, I decided to find torrents for the last few episodes of "Touched By The Sixth Sense Of A Dead Ghost Whisperer Like Me". You can call it "Ghost Whisperer" for short like CBS does, but... meh. Is there ANYTHING original in this show?

It is strange that a show as innovative and compelling as "Threshold" was cancelled before finding its legs, but something as stupid as "Touched By The Sixth Sense Of A Dead Ghost Whisperer Like Me" carries on. Sure, Threshold had a few body-snatcherish elements but each week they had a weird new way to tell the story. TBTSSOADGWLM just keeps doing almost the same thing over and over and over again (hey, lets make it a KID ghost this week, what an idea), but covers no ground that has not been done far better by other shows and movies. And what is up with that Aisha Tyler chick - does she refuse to sign any more than a one year contract or something? Maybe she is trying for a record for short repeat character stints in television series by an African American or something... I'm sure there is some kind of award for it someplace.

If shows like Cheers had been cancelled just based on ratings, they'd have never become classics. There seems to be absolutely no desire any more in TV to do something innovative, or when they do something they THINK is innovative it is something lame like dividing people by race in Survivor. It's like the USA, the biggest influence over most of our TV programming, doesn't like anything different or smart. It's too confusing for them.

With the current state of network programming, I am sure that soon there will be an appearance by Lucille Ball or some other dead TV star on TBTSSOADGWLM, in CGI form. That or an appearance by Lee Harvey Oswald protesting his innocence. Please - just PLEASE - not Della Reese, ok CBS?

I've been getting into a few network shows that are new or newish. Bones is great. Studio 60 so far is hilarious and well done. Heroes seems compelling. Most of them don't hold a candle to shows like Battlestar Galactica which are produced outside the realm of the most idiotic TV execs... but sadly that means that at least one of them is going to end up cancelled this year.

Sleazeball

Charles Carl Roberts.

Hardly a name that should inspire fear, is it?

I don't believe in Heaven and Hell and all that stuff, but today I am having a difficult time believing in forgiveness or compassion.

I don't give a rats ass what happened when you were 12, Chuck. I don't give a fuck that you lost an infant daughter. I don't care if you were mentally ill, because your actions demonstrate that no matter how out of it you were you knew right from wrong.

You chose to attack people who abhor violence, one of the few cultures in the world who truly live what they believe about peace and non-violence. And you knew it... you lived right there, and you knew it.

Today, I am weeping for the families and community... I weep for mankind, and this awful capacity we have inside.

I don't believe in prayer or a single supreme being... but today, I am praying for the victims and families.

Today, we are all Amish.

Oh STOP It

Geez... now we have a school shooting in an Amish school. (And this guy, he was a real gutsy one - he walked in and sent out all the males, and a pregnant woman, and then started shooting girls. I mean, come on, shooting AMISH GIRLS? This is an asshole who thinks shooting fish in a barrel is not only cool, but an honourable pastime. Of course, the fucknut sent out the pregnant woman so he could show what a decent guy he was before killing children. I am sure he will find lots of good karma in that while he is repeatedly reincarnated as a late-term-aborted fetus.)

I am sure all the news outlets will now be decrying this horrible "epidemic".

Amazing how it appears that Kimveer Gill managed to inspire these psychotic morons to start shooting up schools.

The sad thing about this is that nothing could be done about these psychos except to keep them off the god damn news. As long as these suicidal attention whores think they are going to get their name on the news while committing "suicide by police", these sorts of things will just keep on happening.

It's the same phenonmenon as buying Celine Dion albums - if you keep buying them, she's going to keep making them. As long as the Queen of the Media Whores gets attention she's going to keep holding news conferences to claim she doesn't want it.

Once again - if a psycho wants you dead, you're dead. It's just too bad that the new cool-chic for the unstable is to shoot kids in schools.

STOP PUTTING THEM ON TV!

P.S. Saddest part is that some kid somewhere is going to get suspended from school for bringing a butter knife to put jam on his bread under some "Zero Tolerance" bullshit that would in no way have prevented ANY of these things from happening. Ironically one of the shootings happened when they tried to take a gun away from a student in a school with just such a rule, and he killed his principal. Nice policy.