Heroes season premiere last night
Did I forget to mention that the main catalyst for cleaning a large portion of our house this weekend (hey, it's a big house so we didn't get to all of it) was because we planned to have company over for the premiere of Heroes? Well, my coworker Laura came over a little after seven and we ate pizza and drank root beer like typical Utahns (or maybe Ben had a real beer, I don't know) and watched Antiques Roadshow as a prelude.
It was a "goldmine" edition of AR where most people are flabbergasted that their stuff, like a Civil War era silk flag emblazoned with an eagle, is worth $75,000-85,000. And there was a woman with outrageous pins and other decorations all over her hat and shirt. And a guy with a NASCAR t-shirt. Dude, is that really how you want the whole world of AR followers to see you? In your McDonald's-sponsored racing fanboy gear? Whatever. I'm not saying you should wear pearls. Well, actually, I think that you can wear whatever you want. Because then it's a topic of conversation and ridicule with my friends at home!
We (okay, me mostly) were giddy with excitement and anticipation for Chapter One of the Second Season of Heroes, and it did not dissapoint. I think it was good that they had a break to work on some aspects of the writing... there were some twists and turns that kept me quiet and not calling out sarcastic or snotty remarks. The worst part of the whole hour was the very end, when the big "To Be Continued" came up on the screen. As Cathy so commonly says: Ack!
Laura left at the first commercial break of Journeyman, which the commercials made out to be Quantum Leap with less quirky humor and less needs-suspension-of-disbelief-sci-fi and a less cute main character. Ben and I watched it all the way through, and I liked it. It was different with flashbacks to the nineties, not the fifties, though. And of course the fact that we have very little idea of why this guy (uh.... so memorable that I forgot his name) is being sent back into the past to alter other people's lives and possibly cheat on his 2007 wife with with his fiancee who died in 1999 or so. Weird. I bet there's a lot of fanfic already brewing on that show.
Next Monday, I will be staying in Brooklyn with my aunt and her family. I'm attending a one-day seminar on Tuesday for work in Manhattan, so wheeee! I'll get some more Delta miles and maybe learn me sumthin' good about email marketing and writing for the web. I've visited her in NYC when I was a kid and did some of the tourist things, so I don't care too much about that.
But I haven't asked what kind of TV my aunt has... though I can only assume that it's not a big-screen with an HD Receiver of Entertainment Glory. I know that Heroes will be just as good on the small screen, though maybe with a little less mind-boggling Entertainment Glory. I'll have to learn to live with that.
