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I agree with you on Teen Titans too kli6. I haven't seen Clone Wars but my brother saw it once and told me that the episodes are only five minutes long. Is that true?

Yeah I don't watch those shows but my little brother does, and each episode is 5 minutes long. (What a rip-off.) It was so funny! Here read this:
SCENE: After school with little brother fighting over TV...
Me: Okay you can pick 1 show to watch and then I'll pick one show.
Him: Okay I pick Cartoon Netword CloneWars.
Me:Whatever
NEXT SCENE: 5 minutes later...
Me: My turn!!!!!!!!!!
Him: Groan.

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...That's the thing! Each episode five minutes! Come on, I haven't even watchd it once only because of that...

By the way...http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-17722

Ugh. Teen Titans. I've seen one episode cuz my brother was like "I wanna watch Teen Titans!!!!" when I was watching something else and I had already watched too much t.v. anyways... heh heh. So I let him and I was bored so I watched like half of it with him and then left cuz it was kind stupid... And I couldn't tell if it was anime or not cuz it didn't look like anime but it had the sweat drops and stuff....
And Clone Wars just looks weird...

Yeah. The only good channels are: Vh1, MTV (sometimes, I kind of don't like that channel because it portrays teens as kids who are very sullen and swear too much and do *bad* things.) Nickelodeon (come on you know you like it) Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, (have a laugh I hate most of these shows but they are entertaining.) ABC Family, (Brilliant, at least the teens on this network aren't portrayed as druggies.) FOX and ABC (or is that last one CBS), (American Idol, Bernie Mac, and Survivor.)

kli6--ABC I can get. I need cable to get NBC without the snow and hissing. I want my cable back, but right now I just don't have $45 per month to toss on it. I'll keep my eyes open for the Lynley series, though, should opportunity arise.

The last decent book adaptation I saw (barring the recent two blockbuster series) was the first part of The Neverending Story. I can think of a couple of films where the movie was better than the book, though. --Wait, the WonderWorks prod. of A Little Princess was pretty decent.

db: I don't catch Clone Wars in the five-minute segments, I wait for the "marathon "half-hour showings. They're going to marathon the second "series" (episodes 11-20) on the 9th in two half hours, and then they're marathoning all 20 on the 10th. They remind me of Aeon Flux in a weird way. Supercool, incomprehensible and very pretty.

Agent M: I can understand how and why Teen Titans came to be, but the problem for me is that when Wolfman & Perez did the Teen Titans comic book, it was a cheap DC attempt to imitate the X-Men that never quite pulled it off, and it still shows. It would've been more fun if it was the "classic" kid-sidekick team, I think (Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Speedy, etc.)

ZGirl: I used to love the Disney Channel, back when they still did the Vault Disney thing, and were airing Avonlea but now aside from Toon Disney, they've got very little for me. My faves are PBS, BBC America, Bravo, HBO, Showtime, Trio (which is where all the good Bravo stuff went, btw), TMC (silent movie sundays!), Anime On-Demand, Hallmark Channel (when they're not being a Christian Network), USA (Monk, Dead Zone), and Cartoon Network. I'm in a love-hate relationship with Fox, right now, given how many of my fave shows they've been killing off, lately. WB for Angel. CBS for Bruckheimer things (CSIs, Amazing Race). NBC for West Wing.

Quill: Wrinkle is going to be on ABC, so you can get it in clear. Just your luck. You can watch Alias but not L&O. (sigh). And yeah, I have to go back to '80s BBC for good faithful adaptations: Alexander Baron's adaptations of Jane Eyre (the one with Timothy Dalton) and Vanity Fair (Eve Matheson) spring instantly to mind. These days, the best we can hope for is a brilliant re-interpretation, like Sturridge's take on Longitude.

Oh heck, I forgot all about Pride and Prejudice, the A&E version. That was excellent, and the Sense and Sensibility that followed wasn't bad either.

Well, I don't watch Alias; I'm told I should, but I hate coming into a series in the middle, and I'm still having trouble with that on CSI. Fortunately I'm only hooked on Criminal Intent. When's Wrinkle on? I should watch it out of curiosity alone.

Yes, I enjoyed the A&E Pride and Prejudice, although it doesn't hold a candle to the Fay Weldon adaptation from the '70s. I couldn't help thinking that Andrew Davies got his authors mixed and thought that Dickens had written it--he was so thunderingly heavy on the comedy. And his butchering of Othello and soft-coreish adaptation of Tipping the Velvet has made me lose all respect for him. Didn't even bother with his version of Doctor Zhivago.

Skipping Alias is a very wise choice, as it's soap opera to the max. And not particularly well-written spy soap opera at that. I'm not sure, however, that CSI has enough continuity to cause a problem with coming in in the middle. The stories are reasonably self-contained, and the character development over three years has been minimal, and usually self-erases (e.g., Grissom's going deaf. Voila! Magically fixed with an operation. Sigh.)

Wrinkle airs ABC, May 15. 8pm P/E.

Okay. I saw Clones War yesterday and thought that that shouldn't even be considered as anime (as some people do). I mean, look at this.

Compare this...

...with this.

Notice any difference?
Teen Titans is more anime-like that the others though.

Wait... Star Wars Clone thingie is supposed to be anime????? It doesn't look anime at all!! It looks more like a cross between Superman and something else.... lol.

I know! But some people think it's actually anime. hmph!

Well then they don't know what anime is.
Ugh. POOT!!!

kli6--Yeeah, I agree w/you for the most part on CSI, except that I'm driven to write fic about it, which bothers me when I haven't seen some of the pivotal eps. At this point I still haven't seen half the third season, I guess. *sigh* Why aren't there any cop shows like "In the Heat of the Night" any more?

Err. I don't think anybody who knows animation would even consider Star Wars: Clone Wars to be anime. Anime-inspired, maybe, like its predecessor Samurai Jack, but not anime. Of course, for me, just because something's anime doesn't necessarily make it good, either.

OTOH, a ton of stuff that folks think of as US cartoons aren't animated in the US. Like, say, The Simpsons and just about every other cartoon out there, is mostly animated in Korea. You'll see all the usual suspects in the credits: Akom, Sunrise, Koko, Studio Juno, etc). Of the shows I've watched only Batman had TMS (Tokyo Movie Shinsha), and Gargoyles (first season only, had the Disney Tokyo group animating) could lay claim to any Japanese animation at all.

Oh, and for those who didn't know, the whole pointy-face big-eye look isn't necessarily infallable in identifying Japanese animatin. All those Rankin-Bass stop-motion and drawn animation (e.g., The Last Unicorn, The Hobbit and Rudolph) were also done in Japan.

Quill...ah. Yes, if you're gonna be fan enough to fanfic, than you gotta mop up what continuity there is. At least DVD sets are available for CSI up to Season Two. And two words should suffice for why there aren't any more good cop/sf/written shows: reality tv.

Happiness! Bravo started up Cirque du Soleil's Solstrom and Angel is back this week.

Has anyone watched the show MADE on MTV? I think all of you should it's really good, I also like Vh1's Best Week Ever, it's funny.

Anybody else catch Prime Suspect 6. I had a much better time with it than I thought I would. Probably the result of not having seen a Jane Tennison mystery in about 7 years. Much much better than either 4 or 5. My only problem was knowing that Helen Mirren's fluent in Russian, and expecting Tennison to be, too.

May sweeps coming (sigh). I'm looking forward to the CBS **** Van **** Revisited special, but overall, sad that all my shows are going bye-bye soon... but then, the summer shows start. I'm so looking forward to Dead Like Me, especially now that Wonderfalls is gone.

Whoops. Watched the Harry Potter movie on ABC last night, and apparently A Wrinkle in Time has been moved up in the schedule. It's airing tonight!! (Monday, 10 May). 8pm-11pm. ABC.

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Yeppers... That would be 7pm PST (my time too). Looks really good except I will be at work and will miss it and one can only record one thing at once.

So, tell me how it went.

Actually, with enough vcrs and a splitter, (or the right model tivo) you CAN record more than one thing at a time, but I know what you mean, it's a real pain. The good thing is that a lot of the made-for-tv Disney stuff on ABC ends up DVD (e.g., Eloise at the Plaza).