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Saturday, Nov 14, 2009

Yeah this blog was meant to go up yesterday but my computer wasn't behaving itself so I've had to wait until today. I could've changed the title but I couldn't think of anything else. So I guess that was my bad luck for yesterday, anyone else have any?

Anyway, onto the rest of the update.

Well another week down, we're getting closer and closer to Christmas. It's exciting stuff! It's been a pretty busy one so I've not had time to write reviews for last week's Supernatural or Smallville. So I'll mention them quickly here. Put simply both were awesome! Loved the way they incorporated the Trickster into the overarching story on Supernatural and it was great to get an explanation for the Kandorians on Smallville. An interesting take on the bottled city of Kandor but it worked for the show.

And in other news we finally have a release date for Final Fantasy XIII in both America and Europe! And even better for once we're getting it over here at the same time as you guys! March 9th can't come soon enough. Trailer's here with all the info if you wanna see it for yourself (and haven't already). http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14266574/final-fantasy-xiii/videos/finalfantasy13_trl_video_111209.html;jsessionid=2ng4ts3fcrkaj

Well that's it from me for now. Have a great weekend and I'll be back online before too long. Later

Posted by petef20, 12:50am
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Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009

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!

Posted by petef20, 12:22pm
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Saturday, Oct 31, 2009

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!

Posted by petef20, 10:13am
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