re TV

first, the new stuff:

• flash forward was cancelled. two episodes remain this year, and that's the end of that. i'm disappointed, because i really got into the premise, that the entire population of the world blacks out momentarily, except for a couple of people, during which they see a few seconds of their just-weeks-away future. how will they force that future "to come true", or prevent their perceived future from happening? i had a hard time watching joseph fiennes "act", but the inclusion of a few favorites from LOST (chah-lie, penny) as well as john ("the cho") cho, and some clever plot twists, made the show very watchable.
  
  
• community will continue on next year. hooray. it might be my tied-for-favorite show this year.
  
  
• modern family will also continue next year. hooray II...the other tied-for-favorite show this year.
  
  
• glee remains an enthusiastic viewing experience, even if the episode plots are so, so overdone now (yeah, someone's going to do away with the glee club; yeah, kurt's dad is kinda okay with the gay; yeah, this girl is dating that guy still). what i would like to see: a true musical episode -- they've come close -- where the characters play out their lives in song, as opposed to selecting a song for their weekly assignment that coincides with the moral to be learned in that episode.
  
  (note about musicals in general: why do they always have to be about performers, or people who dream of becoming performers? remember in the old days, when songs were part of the dialogue among characters, and not just "numbers" strategically placed to hold our attention?)

old stuff:

• LOST ends sunday night. this show, i'll miss it...it was engrossing, even during the season(s) where i couldn't figure out what the eff was going on, or keep track of the several new characters, and their place in the overall story. funny how a viewer comes to "care" so much about fictional characters. these characters, i'll miss them.
  
  
• so long, scrubs, you lost me at "med school". bye to better off ted, as well, which i didn't trust with the first episode or two, but thereafter became enamored.
  
  
• the office is still entirely watchable, as is parks and recreation, which finally doesn't look like the little sister of the office. 30 rock is forever hilarious.

crazies

today is going to be a crazies day at the office.

case 1:

BOSS doesn't think we should have requested access to a customer interface because it puts too much responsibility on us. i told her i requested it only so that i knew what the customer's experience was if we got involved with problem-solving down the road.

i know that had i not requested it, one day down the road when we were looped into problem-solving and i didn't know what the customer interface was, she'd be asking why i didn't know this.


case 2:

coworker has asked repeatedly why there are two versions of one report. i informed him that "A" is the regular monthly distribution, and "B" is the quarterly distribution, based on "A", targeted toward upper management.

coworker asked, "so which came first, 'A' or 'B'"?
i said, again, "'B' is based on 'A', so 'A' came first."
coworker, "ha ha, it's like the chicken or the egg...which came first? ha ha."

no, it isn't. A came first.

(and for the record, some in the scientific community have determined that between the chicken and the egg, the egg came first...because that egg was laid by a not-quite-chicken bird, whose mutated offspring became the first chicken.)

same coworker answers Instant Message questions by shouting over cubicle walls, rather than typing a response.

twin peaks vs lost: who has the best mysterious asian guy?

cancelled soon

dear project leader:

this alien is often assigned the task of following tv series that are doomed for cancellation. if this curse continues, the following shows should be making their final appearances fairly soon...much to the detriment of human society:

1. community (NBC): like cheers, interesting characters interact a lot, but without the drinking theme. (go human beings!)
   
2. modern family (ABC): similar to "arrested development" in tone (but nothing will ever match that one)
   
3. flash forward (ABC): favorite of the year; this alien will make no comparisons to LOST
   
4. glee (FOX): yeah, everyone talks about this one, and deservedly so.

this alien has seen one episode each of cougar town (ABC) and V (ABC), and couldn't care if they both disappear...so they'll probably stay on forever. this alien needn't mention that V gives us a bad name.