I'm pretty much sick of watching anything on TV.

The season (possibly series) finale of The 4400 was disappointing, but so was much of this past season. The acting was great, but the characters were written like they were rather brainless. I've been hoping for more from this show and I keep getting less than I expected. I liked the premier, but right now I don't much care what happens. Although if there is another season I'll be happy if Isabelle is brought back to life through some process or another. Richard, Lily, and Alana are greatly missed as well. I'd just like to know what happened to cause the disaster in the future, that's all I want to know.

I do still like Psych, and I enjoyed that show's season finale.

Monk I was already tired of and I barely watched an episode of it this season (mostly because I was working all the time).

CSI has lost most of my interest and I hold little hope for the premier. CSI: Miami already lost my interest at the beginning of last season. CSI: NY I still like.

NCIS better improve, because the whole La Grenouille story line is annoying. I love the characters and the acting and most of the writing but they need to move on with their stories.

Shark I don't watch enough to care what happens to it. Ditto for The Unit. Boston Legal I'm not going to watch any more because they got rid of most of the characters I thought were interesting.

Law and Order has been moved to January, unfortunately, I'd like this one back because it's one of the few well written ones on TV. SVU I'm skeptical about because of the whole Elliot/Kathy baby, and the TV Guide interview with someone who says that Olivia is jealous. Come on people, it's not supposed to be a freaking soap opera! (that senitment extends to CSI as well). Maybe I'll watch CI just to have another somewhat interesting show to see.

Without a Trace may be good, but if they do something stupid with Sam's pregnancy I'm not gonna be happy.

So basically I have a lot of shows that I don't care about any more, and if I don't like their premiers I may just stop watching them (this doesn't help me to write fics about them though...). It's not a bad thing, because I'll have more time for school and work, but I would like to have at least one well written show to watch that's not only in reruns!

Seriously, I love DS9 and MASH. I watch Voyager. I watch Matlock upon occasion. The old Law and Order episodes are good (so are the new ones). So why can't the new shows be as good as the old ones? Even the movies and video games have been disappointing. I'm just hoping the next DS9 book isn't disappointing after all the wait for it.

Last week I got to go to southern Califorina and I loved it! It's such a beautiful area! (Palm Springs, LA, San Diego, Pasadena, Vegas *places we went/stayed*) I loved the dry weather, although it did become a little hard on the skin (it's humid where I live) and it was HOT (100+ most of the time) but it was lots of fun!

Now, The 4400 is on again! so I'm very happy that I have a show to watch! I liked the premier and I hope that it just keeps getting better! I don't care about waiting for the other shows, this one will keep me happy. (CSI, SVU, NCIS, etc, may have all had semi-cliffies, but I don't care, because this is a show that makes me happy.) Oooh, and Psych returns next month!

Oh, but I forgot something about Cali! The walk of fame and hand print things! The walk is looong! so I didn't see all of it, but I saw some good stars on it The hand prints... well a lot were cool, some aren't out anymore, which is sad I really liked some of the ones I saw, and I put my hands in a few. the one that still makes me grin is Johnny Depp's... his hands are my size, which means they're pretty darn small , but they're his hands, and I touched where his hands were (so much a fangirl moment, and I'm not really a fangirl... lol)

I hate the movie.  There are things in the movie that are very, very good, but the things about the movie that I hate outweigh the good.  It isn't funny.  Several main characters die.  It doesn't explain things very well, the story is all over the place.  The end is upsetting.  There is gratuitious violence.  It's like I wasn't even watching the same series.

It begins with mass executions, including that of a child, for no real reason other than to have a song be sung and to prove how evil the bad guy is.  Jack's first scene is annoying and way too long.  I thought that the voyage to the end of the world was good, and so was some of the stuff in Singapore.  (Again, more people, new characters that could have been interesting are killed.)  When they finally meet up with Jack we get to my favorite scene of the whole film (30min. in and this is the only scene I particularly like.... that's bad)  The commercial didn't do the scene with him and Elizabeth justice.  After going past everyone and believing them all to be mirages, Liz speaks up and he gets this expression on his face that is priceless--he hates her.  He then asks why he help any of them, especially since four tried to kill him (hmm... Will in 1&2, Barbossa in the pre-story and 1, apparently Tia Dalma in the pre-story, and lovely Elizabeth in the best kissing scene ever in 2).  He agrees to take the pirates from Singapore, and Tia Dalma (well, it's always good to not strand the visiting goddess....) but won't take Will, Barbossa, the pirate duo of comic relief, or Liz (I wouldn't take her if I were him either).  But because Barbossa has the chart they come.

 I pause now to go back to the land of the living where Gov. Swan is in danger and shortly thereafter dies, and Liz meets him in the land of the dead, much to her shock and horror, causing Will to embrace her tightly in order to prevent her from going into the deadly waters.  Norrington is also shown in the land of the living as an Admiral now, but he does look really guilty about everything (I'm glad that they redeemed him, but I'm not there yet.) (as of now, main character kill count: 1)

 Our fearless friends are trying to go back to the living world and thanks to Jack's intensive study of the cool chart thing, they decide to flip the ship.... Interesting bit to watch, and quite a bit of work for the characters, but it's done and they return to the land of the living.  Then a whole bunch of them hold guns to one another (including the monkey at the parrot...)  Shortly after this we see the Kracken dead on the beach of an island... no explaination given (maybe Jack tastes bad).  Then we find out that Will had some trick up his sleeve, Jack has tricks, the Singapore pirates have tricks, and Liz this time doesn't.... but after awhile it gets hard to figure out who is doing what to whom so it's best to accept that as it comes.  We also learn about Calypso, an ancient sea goddess of Greece (actually she was a nymph, the one who captured Odysseus, but I can't fault them for trying).  She is of course Tia Dalma, and Davy Jones's one time lover, but I could figure out that she was the woman he loved in the 2nd movie courtesy of the lockets.

 Liz went onto Sao Feng's ship, they get taken over by the Flying Dutchman (oh, and for a moment we're supposed to believe that Liz is actually Callypso... right...)  Liz has become their captain and has been given Feng's piece of Eight.  Norrington, leader of the Dutchman spares them because of Elizabeth (who, even though she was mad at him hugged him really tightly, not that I blame her because she went through a lot! recently and has more to come)  She tells James that he chose one side and she another.  He says that he had no idea that Gov. Swan was murdered (given that he thought Swan went back to England and Norrington isn't really that bad of a person I believe him.  Plus he's shocked that she said her father is dead.) I feel so bad for them at this moment
Anyway, in the prison, Bootstrap Bill and Liz meet, but he is now one with the ship and therefore not really sentient anymore (probably punishment for his actions against Jones).  James frees the crew, and Liz asks him to escape with her.  In a beautiful moment, he kisses her and sends her.  He fights against Bootstrap, and is killed, but not before saving Liz and the Singapore crew.  he also stabs his sword at Jones before death, which he doesn't fear.  At least he was redeemable in the end.  (Main character death count: 2)

 Through a complicated bunch of stuff, Will goes to the bad guys (East India Trading Company).  He tells them of the meeting of pirates, and tells Jones that Jack is alive (payback time).  Although Jack had already told them about the meeting and was the one to send Will on his way.

 The pirate meeting held amusement, especially the fact that Jack's father is the keeper of the code while Jack breaks the code as frequently as possible.  (Plus Keith Richards is Jack's father, and then he strums a guitar...)  Then a King of Pirates is elected, thanks to Jack of all people.  Elizabeth becomes the King of Pirates, and tells them that they should fight.  The ships go to see, and when they realize how large the fleet they face is, the parrot abandons ship... but there's more, because they have a meeting 3 and 3.  Jack, Liz, and Barbossa for the pirates, and Jones, Will, and bad guy (don't know his name, don't care).  Will and Jack are traded (Jack owes Jones 100 years, not that he'll serve it, but that's not the point).  Then the fight begins shortly after Calypso is freed.

Calypso being freed was bizarre, and kinda pointless the way they did it (crabs....).  Then instead of a big battle we have 2 ships in the whirlpool that Calypso/Tia Dalma created.  I suppose Dalma just wanted vengence on Jones for solidifying her form, but I'm getting ahead of myself again.  Lots of fighting and fun stuff like that happen.  near death is believed to be certain for several well liked people (remember, the only one who is safe is the monkey, and that's because he's undead).  Jack gets free from the Dutchman's prison (using leverage... got to love the first movie), but not before talking to his selves again (he really did lose his mind in the land of the dead).  Then he manages to get the chest from the two stupid Brittish soldiers from movie 1.  Thanks to that Jones can kill creepy bad guy (again, don't know the name and don't care) in the most violent way we've ever seen in a pirates movie (the tentacles go in, the tentacles go out...)  (But I really wanted him to die, so I was happy, especially since Gov. Swan was killed by him and James is dead.)

On the Pearl, Will and Liz are married in one of the funniest scenes in the movie, and one that actually reminds the viewer of what the first two films were like, because this one wasn't that funny at all.  Barbossa is the one who marries them *awe*.  Then Will and Liz both go over to the Dutchman to fight along with Jack (the monkey goes to, by cannon).  More fighhting ensues, (this now involves Jack, Liz, Will, Jones, and Bootstrap).  Using the sword that Will fashioned for Norrington in movie 1, Jones stabs Will in the upper chest.  This causes Liz and Jack to both be shocked, especially since Jack was about ready to stab Jones's heart (btw, he wanted to be immortal, even though he's been dead like 3 times...)  Finally Bootstrap realizes that his son is near death and he attacks Jones.  Then we suddenly see a hand on a dagger in Jones's heart... Jack finally did something selfless and was the hero, he and Liz helped the dying (well, he was actually dead) Will stab the heart.  Jones falls into the sea dead.  (Main character death count: 4) (from Will being stabbed onwards I cried, even through the credits... I've never cried like that for a movie!)

In her shock, Liz keeps looking at Will, but the crew of the Dutchman has started to surround him, as Bootstrap raises a knife over Will's chest, Jack pulls her away, and the two of them escape (with the monkey hanging on to the rope of the sail).  The Dutchman goes into the ocean, but the everything clears up (it was storming, apparently Calypso/Tia Dalma was appeased with Jones's death).  The pirate ships make ready to fight, when the Dutchman, captained by a newly scarred Will (they cut out his heart... umm... no words)  So the Dutchman and Pearl destroy the Dauntless (I believe, so much for the ship from movie 1)  and the final bad guy is killed (I suppose that's major character death 5, but I don't count sleazy bad guys, even though I counted Jones.)  Then the E.I.T.C. ships go away and the pirates win (the parrot returns too.)  The thing is though, the pirates didn't really fight.  The crew of the Dutchman was also freed from their curses, including the one that made them into sea creatures.

Liz leaves the Pearl to go to an island to meet Will.  Everyone says goodbye to her in their own ways, including Jack who stepped back from her after she tried to hug him (one kiss was enough for him...)  Will and Liz spend a little bit of time on the island, and then he has to leave to do his duty as the Captain of the Flying Dutchman, ferrying the dead to the afterlife.  He leaves his heart with Liz because she is the one he loves.  Then Liz is left alone on the island wearing very little... strange...  This would also be the time to remember that Tia Dalma did say that Will had a touch of destiny to him...

But wait, there's more!  Jack and Gibbs are in Tortuga, but Barbossa took the Pearl.  Some of the crew feels bad about leaving Jack, but Barbossa trys to persuade them that it's all right.... until he realizes that Jack took the important part of the chart.  They're planning on finding the fountain of youth (yay Florida!)  And Jack sails into the sunset on his canoe...

I remember now the scene where Jack asked if no one came to save him becaus they liked him, only the crew did (Liz did it because she felt guilty, Will to save his father, Barbossa to save Pirateness).  Will's obsession with saving his father cost him his life, and now forces him to only have one day in 10 years on land, but his father is with him.  Liz's obsession in this movie was about vengence for her father, but that was after her obsession was about saving Jack because she felt horrible for killing him.

The final scene after the credits was obvious.  10 years later a little boy is walking through the grass of a cliff on an island singing "A Pirate's Life for Me"  It's sunset, and then Elizabeth walks up behind him, and stands beside him (he's played by the same boy that was hung at the begining of the movie).  Then we see the Dutchman appear, and Will on it looking towards the island.  Then we see the ship at sunset pulling towards the island, and Elizabeth and her son watching it as it comes in.

While there is probably a lot I didn't write down (the movie is nearly 3 hours long!)  I think this pretty well summarized it.  Some would call the ending bittersweet, I dont' know what to consider it, because there's a lot we don't know.  Is Liz now immortal?  Because her husband is, and that would suck if they weren't both immortal.  I don't really like it, because of how it ended.  If this movie had ended more positively, then I would be pleased with it, but it didn't end positively, it wasn't lighthearted like the other films were.  It was dark and unamusing, and it didn't have the spirit that the first film had, or even the second film (except the second film is totally linked to this one which negates the good of that one.