Short Attention Span Review: "Battlestar Galactica" 3/6

I've heard this episode described by some as depressing and boring. It came across as neither to me. It was actually pretty cathartic and dramatic. Galactica was due for decommissioning even before she became the (almost) last of the battlestars. It's amazing she survived this long under the stress of holding the tattered remnants of humanity together - especially after those mad in-atmosphere hijinks that Adama pulled off at New Caprica.

Intriguing stuff. I hate to see this series ending, but I love the way it's wrapping up thus far.

Short Attention Span Review: "Watchmen"

Overall, this was a good movie. Like the graphic novel, it's got some points where it gets dragged down by too much of the talky-talky, but the visuals were great. The movie's not without other faults, though. Some of the actors weren't up to their tasks (Silk Specter and Ozymandius, I'm looking at you) and the gore and violence were so over the top that the fight scenes lost a lot of their visceral potential. (In Dark Knight, you don't actually SEE the pencil go into the guy's eye - the suggestion that it just happened is plenty to make an audience squirm.) Anyway, worth watching on the big screen, but be sure to take plenty of snacks.

Short Attention Span Review: U2 - "No Line on the Horizon"

So, I picked up No Line on the Horizon, U2's newest album. Inevitably, it's nowhere near as good as Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby, but it's *interesting*. It's not a very good Bono album. It's not a very good Edge album. But it's pretty good for U2.

The one song I really can't abide is "Get Your Boots On," but, hey, I'll live.

Short Attention Span Review: "LOST" 3/4

Yay! An episode that catches us up on Sawyer's gang back on Time Travel Island, in which they meet Michelle Dessler from "24" and she totally dupes the con artist and his pals, and then she's pregnant (BUT WILL SHE DIE?!). Sawyer tells Horace (ALIVE AGAIN!) he's over Kate and then, of course, Kate shows up. What will she think of him shacking up with the blonde doctor?

Hell, I don't care. At this point, I'm happier to see Sawyer reunited with Hurley. I'd kinda like the smoke monster to drag Jack and Kate away.

Short Attention Span Review: "24" 3/2

Well, at least stuff happened in this 2-hour episode. Too bad a lot of it didn't make any sense.

Seriously. Here's a question from the "24" universe FBI field exam:

When you're being chased through the dark by a madman with a machine gun and you happen upon a park ranger with a radio and a car and that ranger gets shot dead by the madman, do you...

A) OMGFREAKOUT and run off through the darkness, ignoring the car as a getaway method?
B) Rely on agents on the perimeter to solve the problem?
C) Jump in the car and, if possible, run over the guy with the gun?

If you answered C, I'm sorry, but you're totally unqualified to work as an FBI agent in the "24" universe.

Short Attention Span Review: "Heroes" 3/2

Well, I've seen worse episodes this season.

But that was still pretty bad.

Short Attention Span Review: "Battlestar Galactica" 2/27

And the Chief lets himself get fished in all over again!

I really liked the musical underpinning of this episode - and what the hell with Hera's juvenile genius bit!

The Final Five seem like a pretty pathetic bunch.

Poor Galactica.