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October 28, 2005
beard? check. short? check. surly for having been stared at? check.
ok, so, for the last few weeks, I've been trying my darndest to enjoy "Threshold" - you know, the whole "bunch of scientists quarantined by the FBI to secretly prevent the world from being taken over by aliens" show?
You'd think I'd love this show, what with me loving the X-Files and Numb3rs (although the 3=E thing bugs the shit out of me - like when the Jackson Five called themselves the Jackson 5ive and I'm all "five-ive? that doesn't make any sense") and CSI and all those other crime and sci fi shows.
but no. it's just too plodding and the bad guys are just not . . . interesting and I've been railing to anyone who'd listen that the only reason I watch it anymore is to see how they'll frame the shots with Peter Dinklage in, because, well, when you have a room full of five-foot-and-over people and one not-five-foot guy, you have to be creative with everything, because no one is going to buy a two-shot in which the dwarf is suddenly the same height as the non-dwarf...etc. There's only so many 'Peter sits at really-high desk on stool, everyone stands around him" things you can frame up, so it's been entertaining, at least, from that angle.
unfortunately, no other aspect of the show is interesting enough to keep my interest, not even the whole "hey! is that Data? he's old! cool!" thing.
So, anyway, Dinkles has been on my mind, vaguely.
This said, I was standing on Michigan yesterday, waiting for my fiancée (pronounced, as we all know, FEEE-ahns) to join me, and I heard some guy half-singing "bump bup booooow" or something weird like that. so I look up from my book (y'all know I don't walk, wait, or ride without a book by now, right?) and there's Peter Dinklage, with some hott girl, looking in a shop window.
Of COURSE I stare, right, because, well, FAMOUS PERSON in the MIDWEST, people. but, remember, the reason I looked over was to identify the weirdo who is doing that bizarre half-singing thing.
so, I just know that I have this half-"hey! famous person!"-half-"what's with the weird singing?" face on when he LOOKS RIGHT AT ME. he looks away, and I look back to my book, and when he and his companion walk past me, he stares at me, hard, like I'm the biggest asshole in the world for staring at a dwarf, who deserves to walk on Michigan just like me, without being stared at.
and, although I give a half-smile and go back to my book, I'm all conflicted.
because, well, I feel like an asshole for staring at the dwarf. but, seriously. he's FAMOUS and he's in CHICAGO and he was doing that singing-thing and how weird is it that he turns up in person after I'd been talking about him all month?
and wouldn't it be embarrassing if I was mistaken and it wasn't Peter and I was totally just staring at some anonymous midwestern dwarf or something?
Posted by Heather at October 28, 2005 10:05 AM
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FAMOUS BEARDED DWARF!
Posted by: Blondie at October 28, 2005 10:10 AM
Are you sure it was him singing? That did sound like a dwarf-ish tune, but you can never tell.
I agree with you about "Threshold". I want to like it and still have about four episodes that I haven't watched yet, but it's just not taking off like the X-Files. I think that they're holding back on the big reveals, but you can only do that for so long.
Posted by: Andy at October 28, 2005 11:37 AM
I wouldn't worry about it-Chalk it up to a good story. Remind me to tell you my "blind man on the El" story some day.
Oh-And I couldn't make it past ten minutes on "Threshold". Don't know why it doesn't work: Great cast and David Goyer is working behind the scenes but it just isn't interesting. CBS always has great people come to them with SciFi shows with great casts that just don't work. Like that show... what's it name (It has the President from 24 and John Goodman on it)...I can't remember because it was on CBS and wasn't interesting.
Posted by: Dominic at October 31, 2005 05:27 PM