I watched the first episode of Cha$e on the Sci-Fi network, and it seems like something I’ll watch again. Strangely, my TV Guide described it as a “reality show” — and it’s on Sci-Fi…but so is some fake ass wrasslin’ show. Anyway, Cha$e seems pretty good, I’d like to be on that show. The premise is basically that it’s a real-life video game thing, where they put a group of contestants in an area that is patrolled by “hunters” whose duty it is to hunt the contestants and kill them. Well, they don’t actually kill them, they just touch them, but I remember that movie called Surviving The Game with Ice-T, it was pretty cool.

Here is the description of Cha$e from Scifi.com:

CHA$E, an action-packed, edge-of-your-seat reality show, pits Runners against each other on life sized “game boards” in the quest for cash. But in order to win, they must avoid being caught by the relentless Hunters who stalk them during the games.

All is fair in competition and money. Some will be savvy and others will be sacrificed.

The action takes place throughout various locations in Los Angeles like San Pedro Harbor, Universal Theme Park and the Descanso Gardens.

In CHA$E Runners must also be conscious of their time. As the clock counts down, the tasks get harder and the Hunters grow more insistent.Every second they go uncaught leads them closer to winning a cash prize of up to $50,000. Tune in to find out who will escape the chase.

I meant to watch Estate of Panic on Sci-Fi tonight too, but I forgot.

Happy Halloween!

Also, I can’t believe I recorded 7 hours of the Ghost Hunters Live show on Sci-Fi. I know they’re not going to find anything, at least not what I consider “finding” something. I’m sure they’ll get tons of hits on their infrared and thermal cameras, etc… but it always seems like the camera filming the show is always fixated on the hunters, and not the surroundings, so instead of getting to see anything, we always just see the hunter startled and say something like “did you hear that?” or “did you see that?” — hell no we didn’t see it because the damn camera was filming YOU.

The show is having horrible audio and video problems so far. Probably because of the ghosts, right?

I’m obviously a bit of a skeptic, although I do believe in paranormal/supernatural occurrences, I just don’t really believe in these ghost hunting shows. I think I could grab a thermal camera and go walk around my property and make an interesting ghost hunt as well. Maybe not, I don’t know. I will watch tonights show and enjoy it, simply for the history if nothing else. I enjoy history, and I enjoy seeing the various places (in this case, Fort Delaware) that these shows go.

Man, they just encountered some “voice” that told them they were “not supposed to be here.” It honestly sounded like a fake movie electronic voice, and the whole scene seemed scripted for television.

This is so much horseshit. One of the ghost hunters just told a ghost that the little EMF detector would “not harm you or burn you in any way”…how the hell does he know what will hurt a ghost? LOL.

There is also some dude that came into the room while the Ghost Hunters were “investigating”, so they asked him to leave. A few minutes later they start talking to the ghost again, and ask the ghost to knock on something to answer them. Sure enough, they hear a knock. Of course, to me, it sounded like it came from where the random dude came into the room a few minutes ago. We know there are people in the VERY NEXT ROOM, why the hell should I believe that knocking sound came from a friggin’ ghost and not the people in the next room?

I can’t believe I’m wasting my time watching this crap.

There are “guest investigators” on the show, who I assume are some kind of celebrities on the Sci-Fi cchannel. One of the hosts keeps asking the girl celebrity chick if she is OK and he’s acting like she is terrified, he says he’s not sure if she’ll make it through the night without a heart-attack. However, the chick does NOT seem scared about anything at all, she seems bored to be there.

I can’t watch 7 hours of this.

I got The Happening DVD in the mail, and was immediately looking forward to watching it. I’ve been a fan of most of M. Night Shyamalan’s films, and figured this one would be no different. Right now, I’m not real sure what I think of it. I know I enjoyed watching the movie while I was watching it, so that’s probably all that matters. Plus Zooey Deschanel was in it, so that is awesome. I’m definitely still a fan of Shyamalan’s movies, and will continue to see whatever movies he makes. This movie was promoted as being the “first R-Rated film” from M. Night Shyamalan.

From Netflix:

In this thriller from M. Night Shyamalan, a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States. Fleeing from contaminated cities into the remote countryside, science teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife, Alma (Zooey Deschanel), fight to survive and discover the truth: is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon, or something even more terrifying? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star.

I purposely didn’t put a “?” question mark on the title. I don’t know why.

There’s several good shows coming on TV tonight. I won’t be home until near 10pm, so I will have to record a few to watch later.

The season finale of America’s Got Talent comes on at 9pm…I haven’t really been watching this show very much, but will probably tune in to see who wins anyway. The Tapout show comes on at 9 & 10pm, and as a fan of mixed martial arts, I usually watch it.

However, it appears there is a 2-hour block of ALF coming on WGN, starting at 8pm Eastern Time. I might have to record these, Alf always was awesome.

The Discovery Channel has some show called The Ten Commandments Of The Mafia. I will see that.

I’ll watch Ghost Hunters, because my TV guide says they will be in Florida. I’ll probably end up watching Destination Truth again as well, but maybe not.

I just looked at MTV’s schedule for 10pm, they have some show called Man and Wife. The description says “members of the hip-hop community discuss marriage.” ROFL. I love how MTV always goes to members of the “hip-hop community” for advice and discussion. America’s kids are getting great advice.

I watched like 5 hours of this show yesterday. They had a marathon or something going on a couple of days ago and I recorded it. Anyway, I like watching the show simply because I enjoy travelling vicariously to some of the places the show has featured, but I can break down the outline of how pretty much every single Destination Truth show, so you won’t have to watch them for yourself (unless of course you want to).

Here is every single episode of Destination Truth:

1. Josh Gates and his crew travel to some far away land to research reports of unidentified local creatures (ie: sea monsters, bigfoots, pterodactyls).
2. They go out in the woods in search of the monsters.
3. They ALWAYS see something on the thermal camera, and they ALWAYS hear something moving around in the woods near their location.
4. They look for whatever it is they heard, but EVERY time, Josh Gates says “whatever it was is gone now.”
5. They travel back to Los Angeles to examine the film, and find out that they discovered nothing new.
6. The end.
7. Repeat same script for next episode, using a different monster.

Sci-Fi does indeed stand for “science fiction“, with the emphasis being on fiction. Still, a fun show to watch, just don’t ever expect them to find anything new.