caffienekitty | Incidentally...

Which episode is that? Here in Australia HI has been replaced by Biggest Loser (USA version) and is now screening in the early hours of Monday morning. Now I admit that from the two episodes I saw it wasn't the world's most fabulous show, but it was definitely better than The Biggest Loser!

I've never managed to notice titles, but looking it up retroactively, it seems to have been called "Gurgle".

Okay, will have to see if I can remember to tape "gurgle" when it arrives here.

You appear to be getting episode 6 next monday (8th) on network 10 at 1:35AM. Gurgle was episode 8? I think? so if there's no breaks you'll be getting it on the 22nd, but actually, Jim Beaver's character starts getting more prominent after episode 6.

I love the fact that we live in a world in which you on the other side of the planet can check on my tv schedule. I like this inter-connection!

All that in only the last, what, ten, twenty years? It's amazing. A coworker and I were discussing it just today, that we're so used to wondering about something and being able to turn to an internet-connected computer and look up stuff. The weather forecast for anywhere on the planet, the height above sea level of the local airport, tax laws and treaties between Canada and Germany... we e-mail clients about their business dealings in Canada while they are on another continent.... Doing any of that even 20 years ago would have been astounding. Now it's second nature.

I know! Part of my sermon for tomorrow talks about what people around the world did for World Environment Day and I was able to find out about tree-planting in the Philippines and mangrove-cleaning-up in Indonesia and a 10 km trail race in Bosnia-Herzegovina. That's just insane. (And if I was really lazy I wouldn't have needed to write my own sermon because I could have found sermons on this weeks reading by eminent scholars and preachers from around the world. But that would have been wrong.)

The thing I think I love most about the internet is the personal connectivity it gives, and the clarity of perspective it gives that other places in the world are real, with real people.

You can talk to people all over the world, see what they are doing and hear about what's going on for them. Something that's reported in a 2 minute footnote on the national news is and always has been earth-shattering for the people experiencing it. With the connectivity of the internet, the people involved can let the world know what is going on in a direct and detailed way. People can see what very real and very human effect a footnote in the news has on real people.

I think it's making us better as a species to have that access to each other. It's never been easier to walk a mile in another person's shoes, and to realize that we are all the same in fundamental ways, and that we do all live on just this one little planet. It engenders global thinking and empathy that transcends national boundaries.

The only problem is, this access is currently dependent on wealth and infrastructure. I know there are programs trying to help make 'net access as universal as possible, but basic needs must come first. It leaves marginalised peoples out of the loop when they most need understanding and empathy.

Anyway, rambling. Sorry. :-)

I found that with the Australian bushfires. I was able to tell people around the world about them - and then I was able to tell my congregation that, for example, a congregation in London was praying for us. It is an amazing way of connecting people.

And for me, suddenly living in a small country town after having spent fifteen years at university in the inner city, it's providing a virtual community that I desperately need.

But you're right about the problems with access. Not only because people need to be able to get their stories out, but because they need to let the world in. Censorship in China about the Tienanmen Square massacre, for example, shows the importance of that.

SCOORE! I've really warmed up to HI lately, it's got me freaking out, and worried, and gleeful. And they totally took your advice about incorporating more Beaver. Woo! XD

The upcoming episode being ep 9? I live in Canada too and I am ever-so glad it still plays on Thursdays. And I know that ep 8 had a big plot point for the Sheriff, so if ep 9 has even more... well, it's just going to be awesome! ;D

Not sure about the number, but it seems to have been called "Gurgle". The Sheriff has definitely come more into the foreground lately. I hope he makes it through to the end!

he was good :D

He was! Though at a few points I may have made alarmed noises. O.O

YAY! thanks for the reminder that it's on tonight. He's about the only reason I'm still watching, cause the children aren't interesting me as much as I hoped they would once half of them were killed.

The show itself is pure cheese, but every once in a while there is some awesome, and almost all of it is Jim Beaver.

eta: spell his name right. 3 AM and my brain goes to hell

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I don't think I can adequately explain how much it thrills me that Canadian shows are getting airplay in the US. Being Erica, Flashpoint, The Listener... *glee*

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It's getting more towards actual mystery and clues now and not just 'random murder no one knows about yet' and of course the more criminal investigation, the more Jim Beaver, and the more Jim Beaver the better! :-D

Finally able to watch this one. Have you ever noticed the names of ALL the episodes? They are like crazy closed captioning of gruesome murder scenes. I find it hilarious. :)

We were SO shocked by the ending there too.

And what do you mean The Listener is Canadian? Did you guys have season 1 already or something? Or do you just mean filmed in Canada? Please to be splainin'.

Have you ever noticed the names of ALL the episodes? They are like crazy closed captioning of gruesome murder scenes. I find it hilarious. :)

I avoid TV listings since the TV listing sites tend to ambush me with spoilers, but I'd heard the titles were onomatopoeic. It's cute. :-)

We were SO shocked by the ending there too.

Yeah, it was kind of 'Well, duh!' but probably a bit shocking from the character's perspective to have it stated outright.

And what do you mean The Listener is Canadian? Did you guys have season 1 already or something? Or do you just mean filmed in Canada? Please to be splainin'.

The Listener is a Canadian production, produced by Shaftesbury Films (Canadian company), CTV (Canadian Network), and A Channel (CTV's funky little brother), filmed in Toronto with an almost entirely Canadian crew and actors. It has some notable Canadian actors too. Colm Feore, playing Ray Mercer, played a Canadian Prime Minister once, which was a source of extra meta-giggles when he showed up as the President's husband on 24. ;-)

Also, like Flashpoint, it's set in Toronto, and after years of watching Toronto pretend to be every major city in the US, it's nice to see her come out from behind the mask. (Like that last episode of X-Files just before they moved the production to California. They set the chess tournament in Vancouver. I watched that at a sci-fi con in Vancouver along with a few people who'd worked on the set in various minor capacities and you have never heard a bigger cheer for a location card. :-D)

Anyway, The Listener. It's being simultaneously broadcast in Canada and the US though, via a funding partnership of some kind with Fox or NBC or some such (like Flashpoint is), so no we haven't already gotten season 1, we get it the same time as you do down south.

And I suppose one of these days I should watch it. :-)

Yeah, it was kind of 'Well, duh!' but probably a bit shocking from the character's perspective to have it stated outright.

I actually meant her turning around and seeing "Groom" (why can't I remember their names still?!) with the blood all over him. We just...didn't know what to make of that. I mean, I really haven't been trying to figure out who the killer is, so I don't have any kind of speculation like, "Well, he wasn't around when so and so died but he was right there when so and so died so it can't be him/her." so I am really clueless. Every episode I pick someone new and every time they show that person I say, "It's him." It drives my daughter wacky. LOL Which, might be why I do it. Heh.

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Ah, I see. Thanks for the learnin'. ;) I watched the 1st two episodes and have liked it enough so far. :)

I actually meant her turning around and seeing "Groom" ... with the blood all over him.

Oh, that! I didn't even think of that as an attempt at a 'Dun' He was in the car with the sheriff whose got that leg wound, wasn't he? Or maybe he wasn't... Gaaaah. I don't know, maybe he fell in a vat of fish guts somewhere on the dock. I didn't find it odd or alarming that he was covered in blood, anyway.

(why can't I remember their names still?!)

Too many of them still alive. There's Sheriff Mills (Jim Beaver), then Abby Mills (Katie Cassidy's sister), Bride (Katie Cassidy), Groom, assorted female friends of bride, bride's sister, bride's sister's creepy kid, tall self-interested blond friend of Groom, not-tall-self-interested-or-blonde friend of Groom, nutbag hunting guy, deputy number 2, matronly hotel staff/owner, guy who was Abby's boyfriend who she kissed, and... yeah. Too many to track without a scorecard, especially when you know most of them will die, so why get invested in the character?

We just...didn't know what to make of that. I mean, I really haven't been trying to figure out who the killer is, so I don't have any kind of speculation like, "Well, he wasn't around when so and so died but he was right there when so and so died so it can't be him/her." so I am really clueless.

I'm thinking there are a few red-herring murders (like arg. Groom's geeky friend shooting himself in the leg, a couple people getting caught in face-melted deputy's traps, and some kind of criminal murder triangle with Uncle Marty, Hunter and propellor-chow-guy.) Aside from that... I figure it's more than one of them, possibly three, with one as the leader, who right now I'm thinking is Abby's former/renewed boyfriend. All in some way linked back to Whitfield. Maybe someone is Whitfield's kid, but that'd be a bit trite.

with one as the leader, who right now I'm thinking is Abby's former/renewed boyfriend

Ha! He was my "It's him!" for this particular episode. I may stick with him for a while or until he dies. *g*

And I was just browsing the article for Flashpoint (which I never watched) you linked to and I noticed Due South mentioned. I LOVED that show. *goes to look for it on netflix*

Yep, Due South was cute. It has more of a fandom than I realised, it keeps being referenced here and there. :-)

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