I could do with a mask about now
Feb. 21st, 2008 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysI had to go to Auckland for work today. Pretty routine except for one observation - I didn't take a book with me to read at the airport/on the plane. The problem is that the book which I am part way through has the words "the next Da Vinci Code" written on the cover. I just couldn't show myself in public with a book displaying those words - almost as bad as appearing in public with the real thing. In my defence, it was a gift and it isn't as bad as that line might indicate. I'll tell you more when (if) I finish it.
Unlike me, some people are quite happy to embarrass themselves in public. Heck I know people who will state in public that the are fans of the old Knight Rider. Amazingly some do so without invoking either "retro kitsch" or "formative childhood years" as justification. I make no such claims - it was on, there was nothing else and it was sort of SF so I watched it. But even then it was pretty damn cheesy. A lot of shows were like that back then - look at Battlestar Galactica. Cheesiness does not have the appeal that it used to in drama - the reality TV market has soaked up all those susceptible eyeballs. So when BSG was resurrected, there is only the faintest odour of a certain milk product and the show is great. Why oh why then when they remade Knight Rider have they made it just as cheesy, just as unlikely, just as stupid as the original - hell, the Hoff even has a cameo. So who out there is going to stand proud and proclaim their love for this new version - I just know one or two of you will.
In related news, no new post-strike episodes of The Bionic Woman will be made. It's dead Jim.
Unlike me, some people are quite happy to embarrass themselves in public. Heck I know people who will state in public that the are fans of the old Knight Rider. Amazingly some do so without invoking either "retro kitsch" or "formative childhood years" as justification. I make no such claims - it was on, there was nothing else and it was sort of SF so I watched it. But even then it was pretty damn cheesy. A lot of shows were like that back then - look at Battlestar Galactica. Cheesiness does not have the appeal that it used to in drama - the reality TV market has soaked up all those susceptible eyeballs. So when BSG was resurrected, there is only the faintest odour of a certain milk product and the show is great. Why oh why then when they remade Knight Rider have they made it just as cheesy, just as unlikely, just as stupid as the original - hell, the Hoff even has a cameo. So who out there is going to stand proud and proclaim their love for this new version - I just know one or two of you will.
In related news, no new post-strike episodes of The Bionic Woman will be made. It's dead Jim.