The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:25:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 'V' Is That New TV Crack http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/v-is-that-new-tv-crack http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/v-is-that-new-tv-crack#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:25:03 +0000 Mary HK Choi http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/v-is-that-new-tv-crack not for vendetta for something elseThere are two types of people in this world, those who cower in the door frames of their homes when the aliens come and those who reach under the floorboard for their trusty Heckler & Koch, grab their Go bags (kept by the front door expressly for this purpose), put on action pants and sprint towards the massive looming spaceship to watch shit get retarded.

Last night ABC aired the premiere episode of the highly-anticipated reboot of the 1983 sci-fi series V and let me tell you, it was AWESOME.

People will likely draw parallels to shows like BSG since the aliens take on human form and can seemingly reincarnate but have that whole "continually habitable zone" agenda where they laugh their asses off at the inelegance of the Drake Equation and cancer but maybe still can't get around needing water for carbon-based life. Anyway, they look more ID4 inside because when you crack open their bastard foreigner skulls they look like giant squid covered in mucous.

People will stir the drama pot about how they feel about the terrorism angle and the show using 9/11 as an interest nugget but let's ignore all of the noise and talk about the casting! First of all that one shrewy blonde lady doctor from Lost is in it and Scott Wolf who we've missed SO MUCH since Party of Five and who we like to picture hugging Matthew Fox for putting in a good word for him in Working Actor Land.

But we really should talk about the Big Show, the new head alien lady Anna, who is the BEST CASTING EVER because she is SUCH a Monet-with-a-twist in that she's so pretty from far away but up close she's not as cute and in fact totally scary. She rapes your face with her face and she does it while SMILING WITH HER EYES and it's so confusing because she has the perfect pixie haircut of a passionate inner-city grade school teacher and is maybe wearing Armani Collezioni. She looks like a Latina who would speak in a Castillian thexthy accthent and it's all delicious-creepy and modern in that way that the super obvious appeal of cylon Number Six got tired after a while which then got us looking at Edward James Olmos's skin in a critical light and how short and whingey Dr. Gaius Baltar was.

Anyway, it's worth watching because it's so much fun and, really, what else are you going to do until Friday Night Lights comes back for real?

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]]> not for vendetta for something elseThere are two types of people in this world, those who cower in the door frames of their homes when the aliens come and those who reach under the floorboard for their trusty Heckler & Koch, grab their Go bags (kept by the front door expressly for this purpose), put on action pants and sprint towards the massive looming spaceship to watch shit get retarded.

Last night ABC aired the premiere episode of the highly-anticipated reboot of the 1983 sci-fi series V and let me tell you, it was AWESOME.

People will likely draw parallels to shows like BSG since the aliens take on human form and can seemingly reincarnate but have that whole "continually habitable zone" agenda where they laugh their asses off at the inelegance of the Drake Equation and cancer but maybe still can't get around needing water for carbon-based life. Anyway, they look more ID4 inside because when you crack open their bastard foreigner skulls they look like giant squid covered in mucous.

People will stir the drama pot about how they feel about the terrorism angle and the show using 9/11 as an interest nugget but let's ignore all of the noise and talk about the casting! First of all that one shrewy blonde lady doctor from Lost is in it and Scott Wolf who we've missed SO MUCH since Party of Five and who we like to picture hugging Matthew Fox for putting in a good word for him in Working Actor Land.

But we really should talk about the Big Show, the new head alien lady Anna, who is the BEST CASTING EVER because she is SUCH a Monet-with-a-twist in that she's so pretty from far away but up close she's not as cute and in fact totally scary. She rapes your face with her face and she does it while SMILING WITH HER EYES and it's so confusing because she has the perfect pixie haircut of a passionate inner-city grade school teacher and is maybe wearing Armani Collezioni. She looks like a Latina who would speak in a Castillian thexthy accthent and it's all delicious-creepy and modern in that way that the super obvious appeal of cylon Number Six got tired after a while which then got us looking at Edward James Olmos's skin in a critical light and how short and whingey Dr. Gaius Baltar was.

Anyway, it's worth watching because it's so much fun and, really, what else are you going to do until Friday Night Lights comes back for real?

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/v-is-that-new-tv-crack/feed 51 The 'V' Mag Mario Testino Swimsuit Issue http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-v-mag-mario-testino-swimsuit-issue http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-v-mag-mario-testino-swimsuit-issue#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 13:12:11 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-v-mag-mario-testino-swimsuit-issue CRAWL, MODEL!OMG, V #59, with the Mario Testino-shot summer swimsuit section, is out. Go look! Love it. Also it features more ways to look at breasts than you might have previously imagined! Also big for this summer? Lots of pubic hair on men. Not so safe for work, after the jump!

Hey listen pal....

Also? WEIRD PHOTOSHOP ERRORS. What's going on with his upper arm in the picture below? Does he have bad replication errors from time-traveling from the 80s too many times?
From the PAST/FUTURE

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]]> CRAWL, MODEL!OMG, V #59, with the Mario Testino-shot summer swimsuit section, is out. Go look! Love it. Also it features more ways to look at breasts than you might have previously imagined! Also big for this summer? Lots of pubic hair on men. Not so safe for work, after the jump!

Hey listen pal....

Also? WEIRD PHOTOSHOP ERRORS. What's going on with his upper arm in the picture below? Does he have bad replication errors from time-traveling from the 80s too many times?
From the PAST/FUTURE

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