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truepennyTIME: 42 min.
DISTANCE: 5.3 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 242.3 mi.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone, "The House"
SHIRE RECKONING: Attacked by Nazgul! Aieeee! Frodo has been pierced by a Morgul blade, and is being packed off Weathertop on a pony.
This episode actually had surprising quantities of win, most but not all of which were named David Ogden Stiers.
Things that annoyed me:
1. The opening voice-over sequence (which, seriously, guys, could you not combine it with the credits and cut down the wasted space?):
A. It's lame.
B. Anthony Michael Hall is NOT one of the few American actors who should be allowed to do voice-overs.*
2. They need to decide what Johnny's psychic power is and what the rules are. Or that it's all psychic powers equally and there are no rules. Because this kind of wishy-washy "there are rules, except when we'd rather there weren't" is really getting on my nerves.
3. AMH has no charisma with kids. Which is bad when you're playing a guy who loved his job teaching high school. And when there keep being kids in the episodes.
Things that didn't:
1. The kid. The girl in this episode rocked.
2. Moral ambiguity!
3. And NOT taking the most obvious and predictable path! WIKTORY!
4. David Ogden Stiers.
5. David Ogden Stiers being Machiavellian while eating a popsicle.
6. John L. Adams, still putting 110% into a 50% role.
7. This is the first time in the entire series that Sarah Bannerman hasn't annoyed me. Her scene with Johnny really worked.
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* Gillian Anderson may do any voice-over she likes. So may James Earl Jones.
DISTANCE: 5.3 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 242.3 mi.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone, "The House"
SHIRE RECKONING: Attacked by Nazgul! Aieeee! Frodo has been pierced by a Morgul blade, and is being packed off Weathertop on a pony.
This episode actually had surprising quantities of win, most but not all of which were named David Ogden Stiers.
Things that annoyed me:
1. The opening voice-over sequence (which, seriously, guys, could you not combine it with the credits and cut down the wasted space?):
A. It's lame.
B. Anthony Michael Hall is NOT one of the few American actors who should be allowed to do voice-overs.*
2. They need to decide what Johnny's psychic power is and what the rules are. Or that it's all psychic powers equally and there are no rules. Because this kind of wishy-washy "there are rules, except when we'd rather there weren't" is really getting on my nerves.
3. AMH has no charisma with kids. Which is bad when you're playing a guy who loved his job teaching high school. And when there keep being kids in the episodes.
Things that didn't:
1. The kid. The girl in this episode rocked.
2. Moral ambiguity!
3. And NOT taking the most obvious and predictable path! WIKTORY!
4. David Ogden Stiers.
5. David Ogden Stiers being Machiavellian while eating a popsicle.
6. John L. Adams, still putting 110% into a 50% role.
7. This is the first time in the entire series that Sarah Bannerman hasn't annoyed me. Her scene with Johnny really worked.
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* Gillian Anderson may do any voice-over she likes. So may James Earl Jones.
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Date: 2009-07-22 11:02 pm (UTC)For the first time ever I want to see this series.
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Date: 2009-07-23 04:40 am (UTC). . . I'd watch that.
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Date: 2009-07-23 07:36 am (UTC)I agree about John L. Adams - the poor guy is stuck in 'token black buddy' role and makes the most of it. And much of the time David Ogden Stiers was by far the best thing in it (and not in it enough overall).
I actually liked Bannerman (not having read the book until some time after seeing the tv series) rather more than I liked Johnny, though I didn't hate him.
Much of the ire in the household was held for Sarah, who almost never moves beyond being a drip. We just couldn't understand why he continued to be interested in her.