A Lar by any other name

This week, I didn't get my TV Guide until today. Last week's TV Guide, that is. I tend to pick up my magazines on Mondays (and my comics on Wednesdays!) so I have a tendency to miss out on getting TV Guide on time. Of course, I read it for the articles and not as a means of telling me when my shows are on.

And you'll have to excuse me if I tell you something here, thinking it's brand new and fresh, and you're like "Uh, Lar... that's very old news." I only know things if they're on Fox News or the Golf Channel. I live vicariously through NetFlix and my old(ish) copies of TV Guide.

Here's a tidbit that caught my eye and made me laugh out loud. It's from the Inbox:

On Heroes there are people who fly, travel through time and turn themselves into nuclear meltdowns, but the part that Tim Eimer finds hard to believe is that too many people could see an eclipse? If you're looking for a science lesson, Heroes probably isn't the show for you. -Bobby Blankenship, Arlington, TX

EXACTLY! Why do people try to make shows like that "normal"? It's like expecting real medicine out of Grey's Anatomy or real teenagers out of Gossip Girl. It's TV! It's supposed to be unrealistic!

I kept seeing ads for Dr. Horrible on Facebook and kept thinking that the main character looked like Neil Patrick Harris. Come to find out - it IS NPH! Hooray! Joss Whedon... does that man ever sleep? It's newly out on DVD and I think I shall have to purchase it. There's an "entirely new musical commentary sung by the cast and creators, mocking the very idea of tell-all, fan-pandering DVD commentary tracks." Hey! I'm one of those fans who love those commentary tracks! *grins*

New shows coming out...

Castle with Nathan Fillion. I'm sure glad he's coming back to TV. This looks like a show that I'll have to push to see. It looks interesting and who wouldn't to watch something dubbed "2009's answer to Jessica Fletcher"? I'm hoping that's tongue in cheek.

True Beauty looks mildly interesting. Anything Ashton Kutcher decides to think up always has a twist... at least the first time around.

Reaper is coming back. I thought that show had died a nice quiet death but I guess they're bringing it back for the winter doldrums, seeing if anyone is bored enough to get excited about it. I wish I could like it. I really do. I mean, come one! Bret Harrison! So cute!

The Biggest Loser has some girls from Idaho. Will have to watch just for that! We normally only watch that show when Noodle is home. She likes it but I still can't watch it without cringing at all the exercise!

Kings looks interesting! "It's a mythological time but set in the present." Hmmmm... I like stuff like that.

Watched Flashpoint last week. Actually, very interesting. Bet I see it again!

Ahhh... here's what I was looking for... Dollhouse! Once again, a show I will need to find on the web or wait for it to come out on NetFlix so I just hope it sticks around! Personally, the premise as I've read about it sounds really interesting and exactly what Joss is so perfect at. I just wish the TV Execs got him! He's a cult-leader. Eventually someone will get that.

Anyone seen this? A remake of The Electric Company on PBS. Hey, you guuyys! The reboot of the classic kid's series focuses on a group of teens trying to keep their neighborhoods safe with a set of reading superpowers. Okay, if anyone were to get superpowers from reading, it should be me! Why hasn't it happened yet! Do I need to move somewhere different? Is there not enough crime on these Idaho streets to warrent giving out reading superpowers? Darn!

Wow. A new Real World. I would have thought that premise had been done and redone to death and beyond. Oh well. Good luck, kids! Don't think this is going to get you too far.

Best and Worst Dressed...
Top nods, of course, goes to Gossip Girl's Serena van der Woodsen. Worst dressed... drum roll please. Betty Suarez in Ugly Betty. Only goes to show that the costumers on the shows are doing their jobs! Do love that Whoopi Goldberg and the Real Housewives of Orange County got nods in the Worst Dressed Category. Hmmm...

There you have it. Thanks for reading the TV Guide with me this morning!