Wow, two updates in the space of a week! Crazy stuff.

So I'm back on here to speak about the new TV season and the shows that I've been watching. I would've added pretty pictures or Gifs as I have in the past but I'm afraid I don't have enough time right now to do all that (doing a quick Google image search sometimes just isn't enough!).

Well let's start with the good stuff, and by good I mean great! Supernatural was the first show of interest to me that was back on the screens this fall and it was also the best premiere this year. The opening followed on from the great ending to season 4 with the same quality storytelling and humour as well as a bit more action than had been in the finale making for an awesome episode (review here). The season the got even stronger and despite the last few episodes only being good instead of awesome, I still think this year could be even better than the last one.

My 2nd Favourite show this season is none other than Smallville. You could argue at season 9 it should've had its day by now, but considering seasons 5-7 were pretty much rubbish the show's only just egtting into it. Despite a bit of a weak start this season is proving very good indeed. A smaller cast seems to mean more money for the FX department because they've had some awesome stuff, from a train flying off its rails to Clark melting a round from an uzi. On top of that all the characters have been great to watch (except maybe Chloe), Clark's embraced his destiny, complete with proto-Superman outfit and they've managed to make Lois and Clark getting together work! As long as they can keep Mark Snow's offensive soundtrack in check this could be one of the best seasons of the show in a long while.

Then there's the rest. I'll start with House which had a great two hour opener that acted more like a TV-movie. A complete break from the normal formula in pretty much every way made for one of the best things on TV in recent memory. Since then the show seems to be trying to keep House's recoery story going, resisting going back to the old statis quo. The ususal strong and funny writing is here but it remains to be seen if the show can get that extra bit of quality it's shown in previous seasons to make the jump from great show to excellent show.

Other returning shows I'm watching are Heroes and The Big Bang Theory. Despite saying I'd give up on Heroes after the awful season 3 additions like Robert Knepper's carnivale leader intregued me enough tostick with it. And while not great it's once again watchable. I might not be too bothered about missing the odd episode but it's entertaining while it's on. TBBT continues being funny enough and having enough charm to overcome the fact it is really only n above average comedy. Sheldon's as brilliant as ever and Penny's still one of the hotest girls on TV and the subject matter (an assortment of geek references from obscure TV shows to video games) is handledvery well. Still many of the jokes are obvious or overplayed but this is never going to be on par with the likes of Friends or Scrubs.

Finally a brief word on the one new show I'm watching at the moment; FlashForward. The Lost analogies are obvious but rather than comparing it to that (far superior) show I'll try to be unbiased. The characters don't have enough to them to really care, the writing isn't great and no one seems to care that a global disaster took out a good portion of the population. Still it does have some redeeming features, mainly the mystery surrounding the visions, or FlashForwards as they call them. There's enough there to hold my interest for now, but the show better start actually getting good before too long.

And there it is. I might give V a look when (if) it starts over here but other than that this is pretty muchwhat I'll be watching. One last thing if you're interested in what I thought of this weeks Supernatural and Smallville episodes have a look here and here. Thanks for reading. Later!

Been ages since I last updated this so here's a quick blog to say hello.

Well it's Halloween today which is always a lot of fun. Saw a couple of costumes about yesterday; mainly zombies and the Joker as you'd expect. But hopefully there'll be a good bit of variety out tonight. Anyone here going as anything cool (or gone as by the time I check this again it'll be tomorrow while I'm hungover!).

Other than that the main thing is obviously that the new TV season has started and is well underway! I've got a few reviews up for some of this season's Supernatural and Smallville if you wanna have a look here.Will have reviews up for the most recent episodes later in the week.

And there you have it. Whatever you're doing tonight hope you all have a great one!

Sorry it's taken so long to get this final part out, I've recently moved flat and only just got internet access. So a bit overdue here is the final part of my Angel countdown. I hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think of my top 10!

1. City Of

Series Premiere

So my very favourite episode of Angel is the very first one. That's not to say the show went downhill from here, far from it, but as far as fully satisfying individual episodes go this is about as good as it gets! The opening was perfect by being very funny and having a great fight scene (with future Sawyer Josh Holloway) before turning very dark when Angel focused on the woman's blood. It superbly set up the tone for the entire series in a mere few minutes. Considering the episode had to introduce everything it worked very well. Doyle was great from the start and handily recapped Angel's back-story for anyone who didn't watch Buffy while Cordelia was nicely woven into the story as the second damsel in distress. The villain of the episode may have been a vampire, but was a very different vampire than had been seen on Buffy with owning his own company. Adding more to the overall mythology was great and he worked as a very cool opening nemesis for Angel. That Angel didn't save Tina was also great, showing that this wasn't always going to be a happy show. There was a good bit of humour here, most of which was at Angel's expense. But it didn't make a mockery of him, instead humanised him more making him a better lead character. And of course there was absolutely superb action from start to finish. From fight scenes to cool stunts to Russell falling from a skyscraper while incinerating. This episode had it all and you cant ask for any more than that!

2. In The Dark

Season 1 Episode 3

While The Harsh Light of Day was good, this episode completely dwarfs it! We got a couple of good crossovers here with both Spike and Oz going to LA which helped to make an amazing episode. Spike's impersonation of Angel and Rachel was priceless and makes me laugh every time. The whole episode was great, even with Angel out of the picture being tortured for much of it. When Angel and Spike are on screen together it's amazing and its no different here. The action here was great with some good fight scenes, but it was the rescue of Angel that topped it all. Using Oz's can to burst in and get Angel was a great moment, and Angel then telling them to go after Marcus was a superb hero moment. Despite being badly injured he couldn't let the vampire get away. This led to the epic moment where Angel ran into direct sunlight and burst into flames to stop Marcus. It looked absolutely superb and was a real cheer moment. The logic Angel had for destroying the ring just worked, but the real reason was simply the show would've been too easy if he was invincible. Still it was a nicely written conversation with Doyle while watching the sunset so it worked to end a brilliant episode.

3. Forgiving

Season 3 Episode 17

With Connor now trapped in a Hell dimension Angel tried any way he could to get in and find him. That it was near impossible to open a gateway there worked well and obviously added to the hopelessness of the situation. Angel's despair turned pretty violent here and it was great to see. He wasn't the hero here, he was a guy who had tragically lost his son. They brought Sahjhan into the story more by making him corporeal, allowing him to get a fight scene. The explanation of his species from the creepy girl in the white room was done well, as was the white room in general. Angel's fight with Sahjhan was very cool, although I dint get why he reverted to his human face just before he was about to get staked. Of course the best moment was the mind blowing ending. Angel was seemingly forgiving Wesley, and he clearly genuinely did understand why Wesley had taken Connor. However that wasn't enough. That Angel tried to kill one of his closest friends was an epic moment that made for truly brilliant TV.

4. I Will Remember You

Season 1 Episode 8

Throughout the first two seasons of Angel there were a few two part crossover episodes with Buffy and this episode is proof that they were a lot more than just a ratings ploy. The Buffy and Angel relationship is probably one of the best that has been on TV. Both actors work brilliantly together and you can really believe how they feel for each other. While they start out fighting Angel very quickly turns human and the mood of the show changes dramatically. Angel turning human was done well and didn't feel like a cop out. The demon was powerful enough that it worked. Considering all the misery these two had gone through seeing them happy for once was great. Of course it wasn't going to last. Angel going to kill the Mohra demon himself might not have been very bright but it made sense. The fight scene was done very well and appropriately more brutal with Angel now being human. But Buffy managed to save the day and it seemed that the two could still be together. However Angel knew this couldn't happen. That Angel chose to give up his humanity for Buffy made it all the more legitimate. Had it been an outside event that had caused him to revert it would've felt cheap. His final scene with Buffy before the day was reset was absolutely heart-breaking, making for fantastic television.

5. Conviction

Season 5 Premiere

As you may have guessed from this list season 4 was a bit of a disappointment for me and so I was happy with the idea of revamping the show for its fifth season. And my optimism paid off with an absolutely superb episode! No previously sequence meant we were right into the action with an opening that was as awesome (complete with a CGI Angel) as it was hilarious. The balance between drama and comedy here was perfect and while I was laughing all the way through the main story still worked as being deadly serious. Everyone was reintroduced brilliantly along with why they were at Wolfram & Hart. That the sub plots in the episode all came together at the end with the main story was brilliantly done. The whole episode was brilliantly written and paced perfectly, which was even more impressive considering how much exposition they needed. Not a second of screen time was wasted here with great jokes, character moments and a very cool different action sequence for Angel against W&H's mercenaries. Despite being a brilliant stand-alone episode we were still given a great cliffhanger ending to keep us excited for the next episode and the rest of the season.

6. Hero

Season 1 Episode 9

Firstly having this right after I Will Remember You felt like they were trying to kill us with the sad episodes! Although only in nine episodes Doyle managed to be a great character. He was very different from anyone that'd been on Buffy and really helped to initially separate Angel from its parent show. We'd been given snippets about his past but here we found out what it was he needed to atone for. That gave The Scourge a strong emotional connection to one of the main characters making them more than the usual enemies. The demon clan they were protecting were also well characterised allowing us to specifically get involved with a couple of them. Although it was only a small number of people in danger rather than the apocalypse, it still had the same emotional impact. Of course raising the stakes that high meant there needed to be a strong pay-off, which there was. Doyle's sacrifice was as heart-breaking as it was brutal. Seeing him disintegrate wasn't a pretty sight and the gore of it helped the scene. The episode ending on Doyle's Angel Investigations advert was a brilliant way to encapsulate what he meant to the team, and the show, without needing any dialogue.

7. Loyalty

Season 3 Episode 15

The reveal of "The father will kill the son" started the main arc in season 3 in which Wesley was terrified that Angel would feed off Connor. A simple dream sequence nicely set up everything and from there we got to see the beginning of Wesley's departure from the team. His scene with Holtz was nicely done with a cool badass moment from Wes. The Angel and Connor stuff nicely portrayed his love for his son, which reflected Wes' fear brilliantly. His journey to the Oracle that took the form of a hamburger was equal parts funny and terrifying (and visually impressive too). Meanwhile Fred and Gunn fell into Holtz's trap for them, but thanks to Fred showing she's a lot more than just a damsel in distress they managed to get out of it very nicely. The end scene with the earthquake was a great way to end the episode, as not only had all of the portends come true but Angel's throw-away comment was enough to convince Wesley that the prophecy was true. A great and tragic ending seeing as he'd seemed to completely dismiss the possibility of Angel killing his son.

8. Lullaby

Season 3 Episode 9

For all intensive purposes Darla's story ended here, and it was awesome. Everything was looking bad at the start with Angel caught by Holtz and Darla going into labour. Despite the fact a grenade going off in your face should've done some damage even to a vampire, Angel's escape was pretty cool, allowing him to rejoin the gang just after Darla had driven off. The reveal that the baby's soul had been leaking into Darla was a great one and fully explained how a previously evil creature could care for her son. From there you knew there couldn't be a happy ending and Darla begging Angel to prevent her from hurting her son was heartbreaking. Then we found it that, being a vampire, Darla couldn't give birth which made things look even grimmer. And it only got worse with Holtz blowing up Caritas forcing the gang to escape through the back. Rain coming down, Angel staying with a weakened Darla, it doesn't come more epic than that. But then despite the fact I should've seen it coming Darla sacrificing herself caught me completely by surprise and managed to give a bitter sweet ending to a fantastic episode.

9. Time Bomb

Season 5 Episode 19

Illyria had been around for a few episodes now since she tried to take over the world, so it was about time her story was brought to the front of the episode. Her time shifts were well handled throughout the episode both artistically and visually. There wasn't too many to get jarring but enough to fully get the idea of what she was going through. The action here was also top notch with a great opening that lead to an awesome moment when she'd put Gunn's amulet on the torture demon. But the real highlight of the episode, if not the season, was when she took out Spike, Wesley, Lorne and Angel. The way she dispatched them like Angel would to a bunch of minor demons was great and brilliantly showed the difference in their power. The scene was that little bit more brutal than usual, with shots like seeing right through Wesley, which added to the awesomeness. While we knew it would all get reset somehow there was a moment when I thought that maybe the crew had taken the news of the show being cancelled very badly! The end resolution worked brilliantly despite the convenient weapon to take her out as it worked with the story. The only slight complaint I have is the ending with Angel taking the demon case. Obviously it was needed to begin the push towards the end of the series but it came out of nowhere a bit. Still it wasn't enough to mar this fantastic episode.

10. Origin

Season 5 Episode 18

When I first saw this it was before I'd begun seeking out episode spoilers and internet info so Connor's return was a huge surprise and a fantastic moment. The best thing about the episode was that Connor was actually really great, and not annoying at all! If he'd been like that all through season 4 he could well have been one of the show's best characters. Seeing Angel try to be a mentor/father figure to him whilst having to hold back his true feelings was ace to watch and really well portrayed. Introducing the character of Cyvus Vail and legitamising the epic spell was a very nice touch (although did raise the question of how only three monks managed a similar trick in Buffy). It was an episode for returns as Sahjhan came back too. I didn't feel like his story really needed any more closure but he was a cool character to bring back. His an Connor's fight scene happening alongside Angel and Wesley's brilliant conversation was excellently done. The way Connor won the battle after the box smashed was played very well and worked that he acted as though he didn't get his memories back. The final scene between Angel and Connor was brilliantly handled and the ending giving more than just a hint that his memories had returned was excellent.