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 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.

Jesus was a Cross maker

The Kiss

Let’s look at some of the good moments from the season:

What a Goal!

And another against City.

The Rovers support at the JPT final in Cardiff.

Road to the Playoffs.

… has reached dizzying new heights. A long time ago I mixed up the meaning for the word nadir, thinking it meant precisely the opposite. I say this now; Sonic has reached its nadir; and I truly wish this sentence held the meaning I once would have thought it did.

Joanna Newsom’s latest album “Ys” is currently doing the rounds on my foobar whilst being widely praised throughout the indie and alternative music scene. At the moment “Emily” is my favourite but that will likely change with time. To celebrate here’s a live performance of my favourite track from her debut, “Milk Eyed Mender” and it’s called “Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie”. This was performed in Japan in October of last year.

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”.