Life has been a bit of a whirlwind for me as of late. Not that this is necessarily bad; we’ve just come back from a very nice 4-day vacation in Disney World, for example, and I would hardly call that a bad thing. Before that, we spent a week in Lawrence, Kansas, during which I visited my company’s headquarters for the first time. Although there were some unpleasant things about Kansas — the bland food, the seeming lack of things to do, the horrible weather on our last day there — there were lots of good things too, namely the fact that I got to meet all of my colleagues face-to-face for the first time. And driving on the roads of Lawrence was way fun!
Now we’re back at home, but life isn’t quite ready to return to 100% nominal conditions. Since I took a few days off from work this week, I need to make up some of that by working on Saturday and Sunday. It’s not something I relish, but after just coming off a vacation, I feel energized and ready to face it. (It’s next Friday when I’ll be feeling the exhaustion set in!) Tomorrow, I also need to take down the hurricane shutters from my parents’ home. I did ours as soon as we got home on Thursday, in a little under an hour. The weather was breezy and beautiful, which was a bonus.
So tomorrow starts what I sincerely hope is the final de-shuttering of this season. I’ll be removing the shutters as soon as I get up, before I start my work for the day. It should take about 90 minutes, maybe 2 hours if I remember right. My iPhone is updating to the just-released software version 2.1 now, in preparation for its use tomorrow as an iPod while I work on the house. And this time, I’m leaving the doorwall rails in…just one less thing to do in case, God forbid, the shutters have to go on again.
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How to Reboot a Television Franchise
By Chief Oddball on February 19th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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Before I started this entry, I considered simply adding to the comments thread of Pooch’s post on the Knight Rider movie. In the end, I had so many thoughts banging around in my head that I decided it was worth adding an entirely new post on the subject.
To recap: This past Sunday night, NBC aired their “reboot” of the Knight Rider franchise, starring Justin Breuning, a Shelby GT500KR and a few forgettable folks. While I certainly didn’t think it was horrible, it also didn’t completely satisfy me, a die-hard KR fan from way back. In the end, I think this was due to a number of factors:
Now, all of the above are issues that can be addressed, if the new Knight Rider gets picked up as a series (and its excellent ratings performance suggests that it has a pretty good chance of that). And if a series does premiere on NBC, I’ll be right there to watch it. If nothing else, I feel like that’s my karmic duty as an original Knight Rider fan.
But one day after the Knight Rider movie premiere, I was reminded — by a network called Fox, of all things — that rebooting a television franchise in a genuinely exciting, interesting and engaging way actually is possible. This is exemplified by a show called Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and it might just be the most exciting sci-fi drama on TV right now. (At least, until Battlestar Galactica returns to the airwaves next month.)
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