TV Talk: Monday Night’s Musings for October 6, 2008

Monday’s TV viewing started with USA’s “WWE Monday Night Raw”.  I must of have missed a major pay-per-view battle between Chris Jericho and Sean Michaels because that ladder match seemed brutal.  Jericho with a big red bruise on the left of his lip and part of his tooth broken off.  Of course, for me, watching Santino Morella is the high point of the hour.  The dude is just great on the mic and to insult the Seattle fans of not having an NBA team and sporting the Oklahoma Thunder (formerly Seattle Super Sonics) was amusing.

At 7:00 p.m., I switched to MTV to catch “The Hills”.  The women are hot!  And this episode featured Audrina dating other guys but Heidi’s sister meeting with Lauren to find out if she and Heidi can ever be friends.  Again, Spencer (Heidi’s boyfriend) was just a total dick and the clip for next week’s episode features Heidi possibly choosing Spencer over her sister and giving her sister the boot out of their home.  If anything, interesting debate on the aftershow on MTV.com and also next week, Audrina will make an appearance and I’m sure she will be grilled in regards to the news from Perezhilton.com that LC messed with Audrina’s guy, Justin.  And personally, I just don’t see that happening as LC is totally disgusted with Justin’s appearance and mannerisms.  But Audrina, possibly acting on emotion, lashed out at her best friend to the media and LC wrote on her blog about the whole situation.  Duh-ra-ma!

After “The Hills” was MTV’s “EXILED” in which rich, spoiled teens (featured on “My Super Sweet 16″) are given the heave-ho by their parents to learn that money doesn’t grow on trees and put out of their comfort zone and live for one week in another country (typically with a tribe or very impoverished area) and learn things the hard way.  This time it was Sierra, daughter of musican Cee-Lo where she was exiled to Vanuatu (Island nation in the South Pacific, north of Australia).

Despite not wanting to eat the tribe’s pork and definitely not into the fishing and digging and seeing how women have to live in Vanuatu.  But like all the girls, they eventually have to do work and the first thing I did was check the aftershow to see if she’s changed and learned her lesson.  According to her parents, I guess she did.

I then watched “HEROES” for the fourth episode titled “I Am Become Death” in which Peter from present day is taken to the future by future Peter. You see that those who have the money, have been given powers. Some who use it for good but those who have used it for evil. The world has changed for the worst.

The other interesting development is how Gabriel (aka Syler) has changed. He’s a father and trying to be a good father and has controlled his appetite towards eating the brains of other gifted people with super powers. But what happens when present-day Peter meets up with future-Gabriel?

This show continues to get better with each episode. Definitely leaving behind the second series in the dust and taking the show back to what was important and that is good storytelling. And hopefully unlike the second season, not to be hampered or rushed due to a writer’s strike or any strike.