Uncharted Island

Don’t mind me, folks. It’s just that Amazon.com is having an amazing sale on their science fiction DVDs, and I have a $100 gift card to blow on The X-Files!

Which ones to choose? I had to resort to Wikipedia to determine which seasons contain the most of my favorite episodes.

Season 1: None of my favorites.

Season 2: Colony and End Game are good episodes, but still not my favorites.

Season 3: Pusher

Season 4: The Field Where I Died, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, Memento Mori, Gethsemane

Season 5: Redux, Redux II, Unusual Suspects, The Post-Modern Prometheus, Christmas Carol, Emily, Kitsunegari, All Souls, The End

Season 6: Triangle, Terms of Endearment, S. R. 819, Tithonus, Two Fathers, One Son, Monday, Milagro, Three of a Kind, Field Trip, Biogenesis

Season 7: The Sixth Extinction, Amor Fati, Sein und Ziet, Closure, First Person Shooter, En Ami, Je Souhaite, Requiem

Season 8: Within, Redrum, The Gift, This is Not Happening, Three Words, Empedocles, Essence, Existence

Season 9: Nothing Important Happened Today, Provenance, Providence, Audrey Pauley, Improbable, Jump the Shark, William, Release, Sunshine Days

Hmm. I think I’m going to have to go with seasons 4-7, for continuity’s sake. Only $25 per season! I’ll have to get seasons 8 and 9 another time, and depend upon more gifts if I ever complete the series. And here’s what I need to click on:

The X-Files - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
The X-Files - The Complete Fifth Season (Slim Set)
The X-Files - The Complete Sixth Season (Slim Set)
The X-Files - The Complete Seventh Season (Slim Set)

Pardon me while I do a happy dance.

I will miss Jericho. I do hope it finds another life on cable TV; I don’t care if it’s TNT or the Sci-Fi Channel. We got a decent closer, but there is so much potential for future seasons!

What did I like best about the CBS series finale we saw? It’s hard to tell.

I loved how Beck unsealed the evidence container and checked out Hawkins’ laptop. He finally realized that Heather was really right all along. I got chills when the officers who had come to arrest Beck tore off their flag insignias and looked to him for orders.

But the whole sequence with the Independent Republic of Texas was just awesome. The Embassy was great. DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS! And the fighter pilot. “I think I just started a war with Cheyenne.” Well, Cheyenne was about to declare war on Texas by shooting down one of their diplomatic flights. So war would’ve come wither way.

I knew that Hawkins couldn’t die, cause they would have no hope of shopping the series around to cable networks if they killed off one of their most popular and intriguing characters. Meta-thinking doesn’t ruin the fun for me. I still didn’t know how it would turn out, except that he would live. I knew that Jake would have to come and save him before Smith killed him. I’m just glad I was wrong about Smith giving Hawkins some sort of James Bond villain-esque speech first.

There are so many possibilities for a third season. The new insurgency - centered in Jericho - with Beck and his soldiers at the forefront. Texas uniting with the East Coast against Cheyenne. So much potential!

Time to look for another petition to sign!

My husband and I don’t watch many sitcoms anymore, but we do love How I Met Your Mother.

It certainly doesn’t hurt that I love the actress who played Ted’s love interest tonight - even though I wanted to call her Dr. Reid instead of Stella. But the two-minute date that Ted orchestrated was perhaps the sweetest, most clever date idea I’ve ever seen. And it even had their favorite cab driver!

I can’t get my hopes up though, because the mother that Ted is telling his kids about isn’t supposed to meet him until a yellow umbrella is involved.

The preview for the next episode of Jericho still bills it as the “season finale.” It’s up in the air as to whether or not it’s coming back… again. Apparently, two endings were filmed: one cliffhanger, and one that’s more of a wrap-up. Have they even decided yet which version to air?

The good news is that Executive Proucer Carol Barbee may shop around for another network to pick up the show if CBS decides to cancel it.

I am wondering, though. Is the finale only going to be an hour long? Or will we get a double-length two hour episode? One hour doesn’t seem like it would be enough to do the show justice either way.

It was so sad and so sweet when Stanley was sitting with Bonnie - her body - at the morgue. He was signing to her to say goodbye. It didn’t make any less sense than those of us who talk to our loved ones who have passed away. Either they can’t hear us because they’re dead, or they can because their spirit is paying attention; I suppose the same would be true for the deaf.

Bonnie’s death seemed so senseless. But man, at least she got most of them before Goetz got her!

Is anyone else even a little encouraged that the next two weeks are being promoted as the last two episodes of the season instead of the series? Is CBS giving Jericho another possible reprieve?

Uh oh, Ravenwood just got put in charge of running Jericho. This cannot possibly be good. The preview for next week talks about some kind of virus and destroying vaccines. I would’ve thought the conflict would be a little less subtle.

I’d forgotten about how great Jericho was. It returned to CBS tonight, thanks to all of the fans who wrote letters, signed petitions, and sent nuts to the studio after its cancellation was announced.

It will be good to get some closure. I’ve forgotten quite a bit about the show, and it was nice to have the voiceover reminder at the beginning. Sadly, there are still a number of character names I can’t remember.

Jake is the new sherriff in town. Blood feuds are the least of his problems, with the new President coming to town next week. There’s an engagement; it’s good to see some happiness again. Will we see a wedding?

There are very few of the new fall shows that my husband and I have decided to watch, but one of the few that made the cut is Journeyman on NBC. I’m not a devoted fan yet, but it hasn’t let me down yet. I do wonder if we’ll ever find out what this man keeps traveling back in time to help people and change the past.

Moon Bloodgood is in this one, a fellow time traveler who’s supposed to be dead in the present time. I’m surprised at this career move for her. The role she took last season was as Taye Diggs’ girlfriend in Day Break. That didn’t work out so well for her. Even as a limited run series, ABC pulled the plug and had to complete the last half of the season solely online. If I were her, I would’ve read the script and said no way, been there, done that. But she didn’t.

I hope this one works out better for her!

If ABC doesn’t pull the plug on it before LOST starts back up in 2008, Pushing Daisies looks like it should be an excellent lead-in to LOST. Well, if LOST gets its 9:00 pm timeslot back.

I was drawn in by the brilliantly colorful promos for the new show over the summer. The premise seemed pretty neat, as well - a man who can bring dead things back to life by touching them.

Last night was the premiere, and I was happy not to be disappointed. I thought the caveat was interesting - that one touch would bring someone or something back to life, but the second would return them to being dead, not to be brought back again.

Stylistically, the show is amazing. I was trying to liken the visuals to a movie or something, but the comparisons were weak - like someone put Moulin Rouge, Big Fish, and a few Tim Burton movies in a blender with some new secret ingredient. And it works, at least for me.

I look forward to seeing what will be brought to the story each week, and I hope enough other viewers also tune in so that the show stays on the schedule.

Kristin from E!Online has reported on the outpouring of fan support for Jericho after CBS gave it the axe. She includes links to several Jericho fan sites and the Save Jericho petition. Be sure to stop by and check it out!