Boston Legal:

Californication:

Battlestar Galactica Razor

Then there were the films…

Superbad (awesome)

Shooter (meh)

The Bourne Ultimatum (awesome)

1408 (good)

Disturbia (much better than expected) — Shia is someone to watch.

Shoot Em Up (a good laugh but nothing fabulous)

“I always wanted to violate a scientologist”

I gave this sci-fi series 3 chances, I started watching it back in November, after three episodes I decided it wasn’t worth my time. Then it started airing on BBC 2 this summer, I watched a few more episodes, missed some and promptly stopped. Last week I decided to give it one more try and promptly watched the entire series in three days, with episodes 17 (Company Man) and 20 (Five Years Gone, video above) being my favourites. Watching it all at once made everything flow much better and I remembered all the plot arcs. The story, although starting very slowly, does get much much better with a high quality of story telling, riddled with twists and turns (albeit many being predictable, on most occasions I would guess the twist 5 or 10 minutes beforehand).

(Spoilers below)

When a major disaster is meant to happen whether in a film or TV show, you can usually be sure that it wont, with someone saving the day. Heroes puts up a very nice illusion that suggests the disaster will happen, breaking down the security that it wont; it manages to keep you guessing until the end. Sadly though, the final episode is quite a bit of a let down, the Sylar battle being slow, Peter forgetting he himself can fly, little to no teamwork, and lots of other quirks and gimmicks that in the end don’t live up to the predicted end of season showdown at Kirby place. It leaves me wishing the bomb did go off, it would have proved the show had some balls; to daringly question the real role of a Hero.

Instead it didn’t, condemning itself to the realms of predictive storytelling. My only hope now is that by diffusing the bomb, the New York situation becomes inadvertently worse than it would have been — perhaps through Sylar’s unimaginative survival.

To conclude, Heroes eventually invigorated me enough to watch the entire season, gradually building up my hopes as it developed, however catastrophically destroying the majority of my positive perceptions through the final episode’s blow by blow. Let’s hope season 2 doesn’t go wrong where this one did.

Oh the joys of JD and Turk. Alas my Scrubs marathon hath commenced.

The greatest wildlife documentary I have ever seen has returned for its concluding run! Prepare to be amazed.

This is one of my favourite moments in Season 3 of the X-files, glad I could find it on YouTube. Just an interesting and funny conversation between Mulder and Scully as they are stuck on a rock in the middle of a lake in the episode “Quagmire”.

Taken during a regular passport photo booth.

Continuing on the theme of posting videos for my favourite television shows (see: X-files, Veronica Mars) I am now providing you with a fan made trailer for the BSG mini series, the dramatic opening to a 3 series (and continuing) epic that gets better and better with each episode. I cannot emphasize enough how much you have to see this show; I had originally passed it off as just another one of those sci-fi programmes but the extent to which it develops every major and minor character, the plot arcs, the twists, the developments, the gutsy ballsy nature of the writers to approach important and thought provoking issues head-on at light speed and the overall quality of anything and everything. Do not under any circumstance pass off this groundbreaking series because it is of sci-fi genre — it would be a dire mistake.