It's Plunger Time

Well, I finished watching Andromeda Strain. Wow… Ridley Scott, Michael Crichton, etc. What potential. The possibilities. With a great first night two hour start, I was on board, anticipating a spectacular conclusion, I was ready to be wowed, ready to gush; I was ready to ‘Drink the Kool-Aid.’

By the beginning of the fourth hour, I was feeling weary. Fatigued. By the end, I had that look on my face. You know the look, like I’m endlessly waiting in line at the DMV.

I will just sum up some of my final hour observations: Insignificant characters and story lines that go nowhere; various plot holes; great tech stuff never fully explored or followed up on; way too long; creeping boringness; under-whelming ramp-up to the conclusion; dumb twist; dumber twist; totally dumb cliché anti-climatic ending; conspiracies implied but never pursued. Way too long.

A disgruntled former A & E writer must have launched some sort of Cheese Virus into the servers from his new home at the Sci-Fi Channel offices.

I strained. Now I plunge.

Strain

I just finished watching the new version of The Andromeda Strain on A & E. I expected it to be really really bad, much like all the original movies shot for SciFi channel, all of which seemed to promise something good in the way of ideas, but with only enough money to either make a really good 20 minute offering, or, as usual, a 2 hour turd.

A & E must have better backing. I still have to watch the 4 hour second part tomorrow night. I DVR'd it, so I will watch it after work around 2AM.

A Duck is just a duck.

For my profile name, I didn't want to use my real name,
so I used a name that my Uncle tried to talk my parents
into when I was born, Jarvis Pablo.

Needless to say, they didn't go with that one.
He named the pet duck living in the bath tub
Jarvis Pablo instead.

In a weird way, I kind of wish they would have went for it.