Finally, Charlie's Angels

Yes, i finally managed to catch the Charlie's Angels premiere. Hulu came through for me!

I only wish it had Terra Nova, which i missed most of earlier tonight. What can I say? Someone wished I lived in interesting times, and dammit, I do. Sigh.

So Charlie's Angels wasn't bad, I guess. The only Angel I like so far is Abby, she's like a cat burglar turned angel, with the prettiest green eyes I've seen in a long time. Yea yea, call me a sucker for a pretty face, but she's cute enough to charm the toxoplasmids right out of my brain, lemme tell ya! Cat burglar? Toxoplasmids? Eh, eh? If you get the joke, you need to get out more.

Anyway, the pilot didn't really explain where the Angels' came from too much, and promptly killed one off to get a replacement in, and the Bosley character is apparently a master martial artist in addition to being a computer hacker, which is just insane and makes one wonder why Charlie needs the girls at all, but I guess the show isn't bad. There's not really much suspense, and it doesn't seem to have that detective story feel to it like the old show did, where you were as confused about how things were going to end up as the characters were while they were trying to figure things out. This show is more flash and less substance, at least as far as I can tell. Sure they spend time explaining things so even I can understand them, but there's so little suspense, things just seem to happen boom boom boom with little thought or planning on how to get from one point to another.

I can't say this show is going to go anywhere. They show off the richness of the miami area, where the show is set, they show off the girls very little, and in fact I saw more of bosley than I did of any of the angels, which, just isn't going to work for me since I am straight. lol In any case, Drew Barrymore is producing the thing, so it's going to be well done and have lots of lavish production on it, so hopefully, if the girls show off a little more, it might catch on.

I mean, let's be honest here, the old show did so well because the girls were not only ex police officers and ex-whatevers, with various talents, but they looked goddamn hot in bathing suits too. This show seems to be only showcasing their skills at solving crimes. Which, hey that's fine and all, and really SHOULD be the reason that real detectives are chosen, on their ability to solve crimes, BUT... we aren't that far advanced from the 70's. Men are still men, and we still want to see hot chicks in bikinis. Just sayin!

Now as for Terra Nova. The concept is interesting, I mean, we've done a million jurassic-park esque things, time travel and all, and even moving off-planet to get away from an overpolluted earth, but moving back in time to get away from an overpolluted earth is just genius. No pesky space voyages, no sleep chambers, no generations spent getting used to the planet you are heading for, just step through the time machine and you are back a hundred million years in the past, where there are no plastic bottles, no coal factories and no fat chicks who wear thongs to the beach! I mean, wtf are they thinking? Do they think they are all sexy because they put a thong on? Jesus christ ladies! There's not enough eye bleach in the world to...

Ahem. I got a little off track there.

So Terra Nova, which got a two-hour premiere instead of the usual one hour pilot (a sure sign of money being spent on a show), follows one family into the past, into a city where everyone helps out, everyone works for the betterment of everyone else, and there are no criminals because everyone follows the rules. Except those bastards from group 6.

Apparently, the family we are following, where the dad is an ex cop, is from the last group to arrive, the tenth such group sent through. But the people from group 6, well, they weren't so good. Apparently they were planning to take over or something, and once the city's military/security forces caught on to the Sixers, as they are referred to, the Sixers up and vanished into the wilderness, taking supplies and weapons with them. Now it's up to the security forces to defend the city of Terra Nova against the evil sixers, dinosaurs, aliens and what all else happened to be around a hundred million years before the age of man.

So yea, mankind brought war back into the age of dinosaurs. Good thinking! What confuses me is the standard time paradox thing. How do we go a hundred million years into the past without leaving evidence of ourselves that we would notice in the future? What happens if the city does extremely well, repopulates the earth and totally wipes out the timeline where they would ever have traveled back in time to repair the pollution to start with? What happens then? Everything disappears? We start over? GAH SO CONFUSING!!!!

I'm still waiting to see a show about intelligent dinosaurs. Oh sure, there's the jurassic park velociraptors, that hunt in packs and are sneaky bastards, but I'm talking about the evolutionary equivalent of a human brain in a dinosaur body. Think about it, if certain dinosaurs are really smart, and they know we can shoot the crap out of them with guns and stuff, why wouldn't they just befriend us and use us to further their own reproductive chances? It wouldn't be "dogs are man's best friend" at that point, it would be "dinosaurs are man's best friend." I mean, intelligence would dictate a certain amount of curiosity, if nothing else... why is it that dinosaurs are always trying to kill and eat us? Half the animals on our planet now don't like our taste, why should dinosaurs be so thrilled with it?

Eh, just throwing out random thoughts there. It might be a good show, there's tons of extras on it. That's a common thread with all the new shows i've seen so far this season. Everyone's spent money on the pilots. Apparently, everyone's either betting big on making it into the fall lineup permanently, or far more likely, there are no small production companies left and everything's being made by the big entertainment companies now. Well, let's hope they know what they are doing!

And next week monday, House comes back! And Dexter is on on sunday! w00t!