Signs is quite enjoyable, sez I, for its first hour or so.  But by the time he reveals how the Lord’s Mysterious Ways give the family clues to fight off the hydrophobic aliens who had the uncommon good sense to invade a planet with so much liquid water carelessly lying around…

Note to my eyeballs: please stop rolling, you’re making it difficult to type.

This is an issue both parties can agree on. Get it done, folks!

huh? are you saying that a plot device is only valid if the characters involved cannot conceivably react in any other way than what happens?

Oh, and then the part where they mysteriously function just fine despite the fact that they’ve had dozens to hundreds of hours in contact with nontrivial water vapor levels in the atmosphere.

Or no, maybe the part where aliens with nothing but vaguely-scary-claws and mysterious alien gas are somehow a serious threat to the armed forces of the world…

The aliens could have just been crushed under the audience’s disbelief as it stopped being suspended and plummeted to the sticky theatre floor.

Cause I can’t imagine this lasting past one season.

I’m still bitter there was never a season 5 of Farscape.  Damn you Sci-Fi.

Am not a big fan of Buffy Season 6. My quibbles are not with plot choices (with the exception of the Popeye-forearm-sized hamfistedness of the Willow magic=drugs ‘metaphor’), but with the execution. Without Joss’ polish and guidance, each episode lacked a lot of the tight dialog, tight intermingling of plot and theme, and several other small and important flourishes that had been present in the seasons before. Both Buffy and Angel lost a brilliant Script Doctor that season Joss focused his energy on Firefly and it’s painfully obvious any time I watch those episodes that those he appointed were not at his level.

But that was then. Ms Noxon’s got a lot more scripts and shows under her belt and I thought the Fright Night remake was a delight. If she continues to fire on whatever number of cylinders it took her to produce Fright Night, I expect I’ll be quite happy with Proof.

Assuming, of course, that she can overcome the deficiencies in whatever M. Night hands her.  Maybe she can even inspire – or teach – him to stop sucking. He used to know how not to do that.

He received no third chance, and by all accounts I’ve heard, deserved none either.

So, take the most overrated, self-important writer of exceedingly predictable plots, with the showrunner who destroyed instead of rescuing my favorite tv show ever, and yeah, I have confidence that this show will be nothing but fail. 

I would have left it at Unbreakable.  At any rate I left M. Night Shyamalan movies altogether after sitting through Signs.