Hullaween

Happy Thursday! It's getting cold! Except during the day, when it's still summer. But my house stays cold, which is not so wonderful. Good thing I have these super fuzzy yellow gloves to wear!!

I'm going to be Speed Racer for Halloween. !!! I threw it together this last week mostly from the mall--the thrift stores seemed very picked over, my only guess is that everyone was looking for costume material. Not a phenomenon we run into during the summer. I have everything I need except for the shoes and a helmet, but I can get shoes easily enough and I'd only really need the helmet by next AX. If only costume-preparing could always be this easy.

Well, the gloves aren't perfect, either, being as they're made of fleece and were from Old Navy, and one would assume Speed's racing gloves are most likely leather. But I have perfect pants and red socks and a shirt I just have to pin up and I'll be ready to gun the car around the track (and jam down the pedal like I'm never coming back.).

This week's television was much more quality-filled than it has been this season. DOLLHOUSE is finally the show it was meant to be all along, which is a great relief. It's actually been performing quite nicely since it started back up, and I like to think that now that they got the network-dictated first season out of the way, they're free to go about their business as creative geniuses. I hope that Fox doesn't flip out and feel like they have to cancel it because they don't understand it. They have a history of that, though, so, best of luck to DOLLHOUSE.

FLASHFORWARD is finally a show that feels like a show. Two episodes in a row now that were solid and professional. Granted, the twists at the end of last and this week's episodes were less than shocking, but those twists are no longer the last-ditch effort to get you to come back next week. The show carries itself. I'll admit to having a minor epileptic fit at the previews for the coming episode, when Callum Keith Rennie promised to make an appearance. You may know him as the sole reason I started watching "the Canadian show" I'm always trying to get you to watch. So that's exciting.

HEROES went from bad to weird to just plain bad again. I really wonder how long they can keep it up.

THE OFFICE was solid but 30 ROCK had me roffling quite a bit.

Man, today all I did was watch INTO THE WILD, STRANGER THAN FICTION, OCEAN'S 11, FLASHFORWARD, THE OFFICE, and 30 ROCK. Whilst doing that, I cut and sewed. Before that, I went on errands to procure sewing supplies. So it was a pretty chill day. (and chilly)

Speaking of BSG (Rennie is also the Cylon known as Leoben), THE PLAN was sort of interesting. On the one end of the spectrum, it's simply a glorified clip show, but on the other, it's a brave take on many of the unattended co-occurrences. It does explain how certain things came to pass, although none of the answers belonged to questions that were still haunting people. It made a lot of narrative sense, though, more than you might expect from an after-the-fact cobbled together grab bag, and the way they blended new footage with old is a testament to their archivists. Or possibly Jane Espenson's fannish obsession with fact checking.

Hahah, this is what it looks like when I type in the Speed Racer gloves. Oh, I'm doing it rather well, akshully. Well, I think I'm going to go do something cool like see if HIMYM is online yet. Or watch DEXTER or SPEED RACER. I'm cool.

-Steph