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gwynSo, my true confession: I am apparently the only person in fandom who does not like the Stargate shows. I loved the movie, but the TV series left me utterly cold. I have long been bewildered by its appeal, but it has at least mitigated itself in my eyes by allowing many of my favorite vidders to come up with some seriously kickass, wonderful vids. The Atlantis spinoff has baffled me even more. I am completely lost to its appeal.
But now, I must set aside my prejudices and watch it. Because Mitch Pileggi, my uber-clam snugglebunny from the X-Files, is going to be on starting tonight, I believe. And I have watched some truly mind-bendingly awful crap for that man, so this is pretty mild and not like a huge sacrifice -- a show I'm kind of "eh" about, rather than something that makes me cover my eyes and scream "Make it stop!" Honestly, the only really good thing he's done lately worthy of his mostly ignored talent has been a couple of guest appearances on Law & Order SVU or SUV or whatever the hell it is. Otherwise, he's in every filmed in Canada piece of crap on the WB or UPN or something, or he pops up here and there in single-appearance roles that don't really do him justice. Well, I should say that Tarzan wasn't nearly as bad as I'd expected it to be and in fact I quite enjoyed it, and he played a pretty cool, morally ambiguous character who seemed both evil and also kind of cynically hopeful, something I overidentify with.
But I also endured The Mountain, which is truly one of the most god-awful shows ever on television, redeemed only by his Mitchly self and Barbara Hershey, two vets who knew how to act unlike the rest of the comely but brain-dead cast, and who sparked with each other quite well. Alas, they kept putting him in ill-fitting suits not unlike his first appearance on XF, or turtlenecks that hid his bodacious charms -- except the one time he got to wear a tux. Curse him for marrying Scully's Canadian stand-in and spending all his time working up there on bad shows!
So you see, I will watch pretty much anything for the Mitchmeister, including weird quasi-documentary freak science shows and shows about magic, a subject that is only slightly lower on my List of Things I Hate than people who torture animals and people who kick my chair at the movies. So, while I am giddy at the beginnings of a new season of Battlestar Galactica, first I have to get up to speed on Atlantis so that I can truly appreciate his jump-suited charms. I hope they will let him do more than bark commands and bounce light off his gleaming bald skull.
What do I need to know about the show before I start watching? I've only once ever watched a show long after it began, because I'm an early adopter who can rarely get interested if I don't watch from the start line, for reasons I don't fully understand (Due South is the only show I got into well into its run). So get me up to speed, people. Who are these people he will interact with? I've watched precisely one half of one ep, and had no idea who was who or what in blue blazes was going on.
Why couldn't he be, like, a new character on BSG, or maybe stay in Hollywood and be, like, some kind of big FBI boss again, on Numb3rs? Stupid Mitch. He is testing my love for him, I just know it.
But now, I must set aside my prejudices and watch it. Because Mitch Pileggi, my uber-clam snugglebunny from the X-Files, is going to be on starting tonight, I believe. And I have watched some truly mind-bendingly awful crap for that man, so this is pretty mild and not like a huge sacrifice -- a show I'm kind of "eh" about, rather than something that makes me cover my eyes and scream "Make it stop!" Honestly, the only really good thing he's done lately worthy of his mostly ignored talent has been a couple of guest appearances on Law & Order SVU or SUV or whatever the hell it is. Otherwise, he's in every filmed in Canada piece of crap on the WB or UPN or something, or he pops up here and there in single-appearance roles that don't really do him justice. Well, I should say that Tarzan wasn't nearly as bad as I'd expected it to be and in fact I quite enjoyed it, and he played a pretty cool, morally ambiguous character who seemed both evil and also kind of cynically hopeful, something I overidentify with.
But I also endured The Mountain, which is truly one of the most god-awful shows ever on television, redeemed only by his Mitchly self and Barbara Hershey, two vets who knew how to act unlike the rest of the comely but brain-dead cast, and who sparked with each other quite well. Alas, they kept putting him in ill-fitting suits not unlike his first appearance on XF, or turtlenecks that hid his bodacious charms -- except the one time he got to wear a tux. Curse him for marrying Scully's Canadian stand-in and spending all his time working up there on bad shows!
So you see, I will watch pretty much anything for the Mitchmeister, including weird quasi-documentary freak science shows and shows about magic, a subject that is only slightly lower on my List of Things I Hate than people who torture animals and people who kick my chair at the movies. So, while I am giddy at the beginnings of a new season of Battlestar Galactica, first I have to get up to speed on Atlantis so that I can truly appreciate his jump-suited charms. I hope they will let him do more than bark commands and bounce light off his gleaming bald skull.
What do I need to know about the show before I start watching? I've only once ever watched a show long after it began, because I'm an early adopter who can rarely get interested if I don't watch from the start line, for reasons I don't fully understand (Due South is the only show I got into well into its run). So get me up to speed, people. Who are these people he will interact with? I've watched precisely one half of one ep, and had no idea who was who or what in blue blazes was going on.
Why couldn't he be, like, a new character on BSG, or maybe stay in Hollywood and be, like, some kind of big FBI boss again, on Numb3rs? Stupid Mitch. He is testing my love for him, I just know it.
