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Thursday, Jan 31, 2008

The answer is very simple. Fantasy. Let me explain. Do you remember the original show? what attracted you to the show. The idea of having that kind of power and doing all sorts of cool and good things with it. Running and Jumping at incredible speeds and heights. Its a daydreamers best love.

Now after 20 years you bring it back. With today's new special effects and more sophisticated audience its bound to be a hit. Its a no brainer. Girls especially will lap it up and Guys will get an action show with a very pretty girl. However you let the writer's (who after this screw up have some nerve to ask for more money) go crazy. They make the bionics less cool by adding flaws. That a highly trained soildier can outwit your bionics and beat you. They are prone to malfuctions and finally, you have about five years to live unless we can fix a flaw with the new bionics. Now why in the world would I want this? Why would I fantasize about less power and a chance to die in five years?

Gone is the OSI a ultra cool spy outfit fighting the good fight. Now we have the burka instititute, an organization that doesn't know exactly whom they are working for from time to time. The original had a very small cast. This was so not to steal from the star of the show. Now you have way too many people with too many agendas. Its a confusing mess.

Jamie is played by a british actress. Now if that's not a slap in the face. Tons of American girls would love this role and they went to english woman. And yes the accent is good but you can tell she's not america Adding a sister to the cast was a stupid idea. we don't have time to babysit or hear about her whiny problems.

I was expecting to see a show about Jamie Summers with a deep theme like the morale implications of Cloning, Sleeper agents and experimentations on human. State of the art special effects. Its a sci fi show. We should have seen fights with Killer robots, Genetically enhanced spys, Mutants and Psychics. Not just regular spys. any average person can beat those. I thought that after the success of Heroes. NBC would pit Jamie against secret organizations give her "24/alias" like adventures with huge killer conspiracies. Not show her having a heart to heart with her teenage sister. Or wondering why that cute CIA agent hasn't called. WTF! I will not be surprised if the rumors of this shows cancellation are true.

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Posted by Serious, 4:21pm
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Of course it does. Its a huge selling point. One that Sony has launched a whole new ad campaign on. We are seeing more and more retailers and studios going exclusive on the Blu ray. The price point is no longer an issue and Sony is coming out with major exclusive titles. The Xbox 360 wunderkind Halo 3 has come out and is now in the history pages. But where are those other exclusives to look forward to from Xbox? And I'm not talking about multi platform games. We got Resistance 2,MSG4,Killzone2,FFXIII, little big planet and Playstation Home. Surprise hits like Eye of judgement and folklore helped sell the console. Now I can watch HD movies with a ever growning library. Microsoft is ready to make another consoles according to its 5 year plan. (trust me it exist) However Sony is still moving along. So yes the format war was very important to this console war. Consider it to be one of the many battles that came about from the release of the new consoles.
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Tuesday, Sep 18, 2007

No one cared about the originalXbox's demise at microsoft. Many people bought that system to only have it discontinue after a tiny 5 years. Microsoft saw that as a gamble to get a new system out beforeSony and Nintendo. However we still have yet to see the original 30 million Xbox owners upgrade to the Xbox 360. Many were upset with the short life span of the system others were frighten off but stories of thering of death ( R.O.D.) Microsoft hopes that they can use their ties with the American press to smear the name of Playstation 3 and the Wii. They keep saying the Playstation is a failure. and that the Wii only has casual gamers. Where did this term come from? Where the Gamecube's owners casual gamers? No. This is just a term to make you feel that any success that the Wii has isn't to be considered real. That these aren't real gamers. They are posers. Why? And how do they know? When I owned a Supernintendo it was a success. no one called me a casual gamer. So believe me when I tell you that its all hype bought on by the American press. The same press that didn't go after Microsoft when the R.O.D started becoming more and more often. It was the Austrailian press that started doing in depth pieces on the failure of the Xbox 360. And still microsoft ignored the cries of its consumers. When the story started appearing on blogs, chat rooms, forums, internet news before finally the media press couldn't ignore it any longer did microsoft decide to offer this deal. Deal they call it. everyone knows that the Xbox 360 should have been recalled but that the type of thing that would have destroyed the Xbox 360. In an interview with G4's Attack of the Show. Then President Peter Moore refused to say exactly what the problem was. (Trust me its a problem that exist in every Xbox 360. Some will show it sooner than other but the flaw is there.) You would think that they would hit him with the hard questions. but they let it go!! They actually moved on!?! What type of hard hitting journalism is that? If this R.R.D. had hit Sony's Playstation 3. They would have gone for blood. I was so disappointed by their lack of response it seem to me that they were colaborating with him. Later I saw a piece on the Today show about the 3 gaming systems. They were quick to point out that Microsoft was the leader. However, when asked about the Ring of Death story they explained the new return policy. Al Roker asked about a recall. And the supposedly impartial reporter said "No! no recall!" When Al Roker asked what's wrong with it? He said "Well we aren't getting into that. But I can say that its being fixed" What was the reporter afraid of? Or was it his real adgenda to make sure that parents knew which system is the hot seller and not about the fault it had. I know many think this conspricy talk but I've seen recalls over much less and usually the press leads the charge. Deep pockets my friends real deep to keep the press off of this story. But not enough to reach Japan,England, Austraila, or New Zealand. Not enough to stop the blogs or the forum chats.

If the problem been fixed why can't we know what it was? Why hide it? Just seems strange to me is all. But hey that's big business.

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