Global Reset

I was really impressed with tonight’s episode of Arrested Development. The latest chatter I heard was that Fox was not going to pick it up for another season. However, it may not yet be officially cancelled. There is a grassroots campaign to pester Fox into keeping it on the air… But tonight’s episode shaped the show into a metaphor for its own fate.

Although I don’t watch the show Trading Spouses, the promo for this week’s show caught my eye. It’s one of those rare commercials that make me back up with my TiVo to see what the hell is going on. Marguerite, the spouse du jour, is completely apeshit. She is screaming at the top of her lungs, like a raving lunatic, about gargoyles and God. It is frightening to see… At one point, you can hear a man (whom I assume is her husband) tell her in a calm voice that it is good to have her home. She continues to scream over him at the camera.

This is an excellent example of how religious folk scare me, even more so than the most immoral criminal mind. At least the thief/murderer/looter, who must necessarily ignore the consequences of his actions, maintains a narrow grasp of reality and what it takes to achieve their ill-gotten gains. This woman appears to be completely lost from reality; she uses the name of Christ to compel the camera man from her home!? She seems worse off (in terms of mental health) than a religious woman you may remember who recently drowned her babies. Hopefully they get some help for Marguerite before she has an opportunity to outdo Mommy Yates.

There is a resource available for people who have serious questions about God. I don’t know if it’ll help the PsychoChristians, but the Official God FAQ does a pretty good job of clearing up confusion. It’s a sparse FAQ, but it covers the most important point very succintly.

Best Buy and DirecTV are running a promotion now where you can pick up an 80hr TiVo for $100 and get a $100 mail-in rebate… Making the TiVo essentially free. Of course, “free” doesn’t include the cost of replacing my Dual-LNB dish with a Triple-LNB and running two more cables (total 4) through a hole that barely fits one! Nicole and I had a lot of fun trying to pull those extra cables through. In hindsight, although it would’ve been a lot more expensive, the multi-switch would’ve been a simpler route.

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Firefly, a science fiction series that was canceled midway through its first season on Fox, has found a new home on the Sci Fi Channel. Fans of the cult-hit series Firefly will be pleased to learn that the show has been picked up by the Sci Fi Channel–just two months before the release of Serenity, a Universal Pictures film based on the series.

This story (from to a tv.com article) is great news! It looks like they will only be airing the episodes which have already aired, plus the 3 unaired epiodes which were included in the Firefly dvd set. So, hardcore fans don’t have much to look forward to, other than the hope that our unwashed, ignorant friends will finally get a chance to see why we are fanatical about the show… And hope that this leads to more new episodes!

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Nicole and I are addicted to watching our favorite TV shows on DVD this summer. We just finished watching Scrubs Season One and that was hilarious. Scrubs and Arrested Development are neck-and-neck for the funniest-shows-ever-aired-says-me award.

Before that, we watched Season 1, 2 and the Chrismas Special of the BBC version of The Office. That one grew on us a bit, but you have to be British (or watch British tellie a lot) to get a good many of the jokes. Now we are about a disc and half through Seinfeld Seasons 1 & 2. Soon, the next season of Monk will start, so we’ll finally have one of our season passes that’s getting new episodes of something.

I was thinking about picking up The Lost whenever that one finally makes it out on DVD. I watched the first four episodes when they did some reruns in the middle of the season and I was instantly hooked. Any other shows on DVD that we should check out during the TV-starved summer months?

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The new trailer for Serenity has got me pretty excited. Makes me wish I had enough free time to whip out that Firefly box set and watch all that goodness over again.

I have to agree with Tycho though… If you watch a sneak preview and spoil it for me, I will kill you.