Ruth's Spoiler-Free Kings Liveblog As Recorded Via Facebook Updates

[rsadelle]

Can I tell you that I really wanted some interaction while watching this? You can tell because I made a whole bunch of Facebook status updates about it. They're posted below, in reverse chronological order because it's bedtime and I didn't think to do this until just minutes ago.

9:59 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson is not horribly impressed with Kings, but willing to give it another episode.

9:55 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson also thinks they should have upped their green screen budget.

9:48 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson thinks this show should have started half an hour into the second episode (where it actually picks up) and told us the previous hour and a half via flashbacks.

9:15 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson is not impressed now that the plot point she remembered has made an appearance. She is also not impressed with bad green screen work.

8:49 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson maybe needs to rely on other sources for her TV show news; the biggest plot point she remembers about the Kings blahblahblah has barely been touched on so far.

8:43 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson thinks David had darn well better have a flaw, otherwise this show is really going to suck.

8:31 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson is not excited by Kings thus far.

8:03 - Ruth Sadelle Alderson fiddled with the antenna and is watching Kings live instead of waiting to watch it online tomorrow.

Comments

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Oh, did that start this week? I had a vague desire to watch it, though Sunday night television is never going to work with my schedule.

(I was at a kickass Ferron concert in SF tonight, and have just spent *way* too much money on CDs. And should go to bed, since I have to get up early for the trip home tomorrow.)

[rsadelle]

It did. I thought the first hour and a half was not very good, but the last half hour picked up the story. I'll let you know if it gets worth watching. (The additional comment I didn't post as a status update because I'd already posted a lot of them in a short amount of time: "Ruth Sadelle Alderson thinks it's probably a bad sign when the Macy's commercial is more appealing than the actual show.")

(I'd never heard of Ferron. I am now listening via MySpace. Glad you had a good time!)

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Oh, myspace! I was trying to think where to direct people so they could listen to her, since I have no idea how to upload music. (I have to say, though I've loved her for years--I first heard her at the Michigan Women's Music Festival in '91--she's much much more fun live. She's just hilariously funny, and we had amazing seats because we paid a very little extra for dinner reservations, so we were right at the front.

Ugh. I need to pack and get home. I decided not to take the train at the crack of dawn, since my friend and I both overslept, but that means I need to get to Amtrak via Muni and Bart, so I suppose I'd better get moving.

Let me know if you want to do something this week. Other than my taxes and catching up on a few work projects, I'm pretty free.

[rsadelle]

The nice thing about artist's MySpace sites is that they're pretty much guaranteed to have some kind of music you can listen to, which is not always true of their main websites.

I am totally up for something this week! But not today. (St. Patrick's Day in Chico? I'll stay home, thanks. Also, I'm feeling vaguely ill. I hope this is just a momentary thing and not me actually getting sick!)