Episode 97: All Sports & Weather All the Time
Posted by billsimmon on 19 Jan 2010 at 09:27 pm | Tagged as: episodes
Mike’s show notes follow after the jump…
Original air date: 1/17/10
Total run time: 1:57:35
File size: 56.4 MB
00:00 Good afternoon folks…
00:02 How about this weather that we are having?
00:03 Weekly discussion on what equipment is and is not working
00:04 The weather as it relates to the equipment is not working
00:04 The earthquake in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere
00:18 The “special” election in Massachusetts and its far reaching implications
00:27 Thing randomly digress into sports news. Um… how did that happen?
00:28 [Station and show identification]
00:29 Returning briefly to the discussion of how the special election might affect health care passing
00:35 The penultimate Dollhouse episode, and how things are unfortunately a little dissatisfying
00:46 A little about “BSG: The Plan”. More discussion next week.
00:51 Avatar in the boxoffice and the possibility of a sequel
00:53 Archer a cool new show that is on FX but not available online so it sucks
00:56 [Station and show identification]
00:57 Sarah Palin has joined FOX News. Why did it take so long?
01:10 “John McCain, if you are listening, you will never be forgiven for this. Ever.” - Steve
01:10 Healthcare bills are moving through the sausage factory that is our congress
01:14 Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee and Obama’s efforts to get our money back from the banks
01:21 Steve invokes the teapartiers and their political convention
01:26 [Station and show identification]
1:27 A very X-Files Fringe episode
01:29 Production of Spiderman 4 has been canceled
01:33 The end of Lost is neigh. Or is it….?
01:35 Sorry I got distracted and forgot to write what was being discussed here
01:38ish Discussion of post-apocalyptic movies
01:41 Daybreakers which was a very compelling future that you should definitely go see
01:43 Chuck: Steve loves it, others are annoyed be the repetitive love story
01:47 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things
- Pat Robertson on Haiti’s deal with the devil
- Paul Brown on how healthcare reform will tell you what car to drive
- Rush Limbaugh on how the earthquake plays right into Obama’s plans
- Glenn Beck criticizes Obama responding rapidly to Haiti
- Steve King on how we should send illegal immigrants to Haiti as relief workers
01:57 Good evening everyone…
Ah, a bit about The Plan at long last! Just kidding. I think I liked it a little bit less than Bill did, but I will admit there were some decent dramatic moments in it. My thing was, since the finale wasn’t particularly satisfying, they should have tried to fix up some of the stuff left over from that. Or just retcon it out of existence, a la how The Sarah Connor Chronicles erased T3. Totally agreed on Ron Moore as a screenwriter vs. a showrunner–I’ve been watching Deep Space Nine again and his episodes on that show are often the best ones.
Excellent analysis of Dollhouse as well. I was on board with it last season but I’ve totally lost interest. And I’m pretty sure I know the moment when that happened–it was when the dollhouse sent that electric wave that was supposed to reboot Echo or whatever and wound up pretty much being a disaster. That’s when I stopped believing in the premise of the show–i.e. that these people are so good at what they do that nobody knows about them. Subsequent developments haven’t really made me rethink that.