Suboptimist

Well, this ought to be different.

I sat down to work on this post and had to decide whether to write about linguistics or LotRO. I written enough about LotRO the last little bit. I write about linguistics most the year. I am about to write about something usually reserved for blogs of this caliber. I am writing a post about television.

I don’t watch a lot of TV. The only shows I watch in-season are Battlestar Galactica and The Office. I watch a lot of shows on DVD well after the fact. Currently I’m watching the first season of Supernatural on DVD. More on that in a minute. From here on out, there are potential spoilers.

Battlestar Galactica continues to impress me. While there is plenty of discussion on the Internet bemoaning the downfall of BSG due to the lack of gunfighting, I’m really enjoying its evolution into a mystical, political character drama. The most recent episode went full throttle with the mysticism, revaling its influences from Zen, Mormonism, and Sufism. I don’t know. I like it that way. I also like the cylons are becoming potential allies to the humans. The BSG reimagining doesn’t operate in a universe of absolutes. The bad guys aren’t really “bad” and the good guys can be pretty despicable. The cylons have evolved and become more enlightened in the series than the humans have in their history. The cylons recognized they were wrong, and half of them went so far as to recognize that they may need the humans to survive. Let’s see what the humans do.

The Office continues to try my patience with the recent love-triangle drama of Jim, Pam, and Toby. If anything happens with Toby, I will kill my television (or my computer, which is where I usually watch it). I’ve been watching this show this long so I could see Jim and Pam get married, not Pam and Toby. Watch yourself, NBC. Watch yourself.

Supernatural is something else. Like most things found on the WB, I’d like to classify it as geek chic (where BSG is something like nu-gïïk). It’s supposed to be scary, yet it revels in it’s soapiness. It’s a show I should hate, yet I find it engrossing. I’m watching the show notwithstanding the bloody mary episode that blatantly rips off The Ring and the original Grudge. I don’t know. Maybe I have bad taste.

Alright, I have nothing more to say to your people, though since I’ve already ripped off Mike’s style in this post:

“Is that enough human justice for you?”