Lost Season 6 "Fan-made Promo"
Ya colgué algunas promos de Campetin, aquí y aquí. Creo que es el que mejor hace las fan-made promos de Lost. Sino hecharle un vistazo a ésta de la Season 6.
Toy Story 3 "Teaser"
Aún no se ha estrenado Up y Woody & Buzz ya están dando guerra. Toy Story 3 será la nueva película de PIXAR para el año que viene.
A Perfect Getaway "Trailer"
Pongo este trailer porque aparece una Isla que me resulta familiar. Estoy seguro a qué no la adivináis!?, jeje. Película protagonizada por Milla Jovovich.
PD: Los ojos de Milla Jovovich son de otro planeta. Estoy equivocado?
Avatar
Nueva película para James Cameron, que no sabíamos nada de él desde la magnífica Titanic (1997). Mucho tiempo se lleva hablando de esta película. Dicen que será el nuevo cine, nuevas técnicas de realizacion, de grabación, gracias a un revolucionario sistema virtual de cámaras creado por el mismo Cameron, formado a partir de la mezcla de filmación de acción con actores reales, mezclada a continuación con tecnología virtual.
Avatar: es la historia de un ex-marine herido, que se verá obligado a establecerse en un planeta extraterrestre rico en biodiversidad, donde acabará liderando a la raza indígena de su lucha por la supervivencia.
Entre los protagonistas destacamos Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang y Michelle Rodriguez.
Han surgido unos concept-art, para poder ver por donde se dirigirá la película.
Recordar que James Cameron tiene en su haber joyas de películas como: Titanic, Terminator, Terminator 2, True Lies, The Abyss, Aliens..
Estreno previsto para finales del 2009. Película que esperan que muestre una nueva ciencia-ficción, y que sea el taquillazo del año (ya lo consiguió con Titanic).
My Black List
FINALIZADA: serie que ha acabado su emisión en TV.
Ahí va mi Lista Negra (Actualizada 21/10/10):
The Shield (1-7 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
The Wire (1-5 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
The Sopranos (1-6 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
Six Feet Under (1-5 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
The West Wing (1-7 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
Carnivale (1-2 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
Rome (1-2 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
Band of Brothers (10 capítulos) FINALIZADA
Dr. Who (1-4 Temporadas)
Supernatural (1-6 Temporadas)
Veronica Mars (1-3 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
Fringe (1-2 Temporadas)
Twin Peaks (1-2 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
Arrested Development (1-3 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
Chuck (1-3 Temporadas)
Breaking Bad (1-2-3 Temporadas)
Pushing Daisies (1-2 Temporadas) FINALIZADA
The Lost Room (Miniserie 1-3) FINALIZADA
Mad Men (1-4 Temporadas)
Defying Gravity (1 Temporada) FINALIZADA
Generation Kill (Miniserie 1-7) FINALIZADA
Being Human (1-2 Temporadas)
Kings (1 Temporada) FINALIZADA
Skins (1-4 Temporadas)
In Treatment (1-2 Temporadas)
'24' Season 7 Retrospective
Bank Holiday Monday saw one of the highlights of the year hit TV screens across the country and now I’ve had a few days to digest it all and get my emotions in check, I’m finally ready to talk about it……I am of course talking about the season finale of ‘24’… What did you think I was talking about!?
Yes, the clock has finally reached 08:00:00 and Jack Bauer can now take a long soothing leak and eat a big ass sandwich, well he could, except for one small problem: he’s in a coma.
Speaking of comas, I spent most of the last episode of Day 7 trying to keep my eyes open for what had to be the dullest season finale in the show’s seven season run.
The finale was a very accurate sample of just what has been the biggest problem with 24’s seventh season, which has inexplicably not only been a commercial success but also a critical triumph; it never lived up to the hype.
All we heard in the long gap between the show’s critically panned sixth season and January’s return was how they were trying to avoid a repeat of season 6 and how they had gone all out to ensure season 7 was its antithesis – if season 6 was Larry Moss, season 7 was going to be Jack Bauer… on crack.
Fans couldn’t wait, I literally had a boner for three straight days when I found out they were bringing Tony Almeida back from the dead (suck on that Viagra – sorry, bad choice of words) even if he was seemingly the show’s villain.
The show began at typically break neck speed but as we got deeper into the season something just felt off, I remember writing in my mid-season review that the show hadn’t yet fired on all cylinders but I had hope that the second half of the season would live up to the endless hype, yet this never happened.
I sat there Monday night waiting for the big revelation, for the poignant moment, for the redemption we were promised but it never came. Instead we got Jack calling on a Muslim Imam who he had only met an hour or two before for solace in his final moments, we had a bunch of crap with Renee seemingly doing the exact thing that they’d all chastised Tony for doing and we had Tony disappear fifteen minutes into the episode never to be seen again.
All I’ll say is that Almeida better be back for season 8, if this is how he goes out then as I stated a few weeks back, everyone associated with this show can kiss my ass.
I was pleased to see that Tony wasn’t in it for the money or to cause suffering and it tore me up inside when he was yelling at Wilson about how he had killed his wife and unborn son but most of all I was relieved that he wasn’t another entry on Jack Bauer’s loooooong death list.
Yet somehow I was left feeling let down, it had been almost promised that by the end of episode 24 we would feel sympathy for Tony, and I, along with all his other fans, did feel for this fallen hero, but for casual viewers or people who haven’t watched from the start, there was no real moment of redemption for Tony and he is now seemingly stuck in a perpetual grey area.This season has undoubtedly been the year of Tony which I cannot complain about, Carlos Bernard is a great actor and Tony Almeida is a brilliant and insanely popular character, we may not have got to see many sarcastic Tony moments this year, which are always delicious, but Carlos Bernard has got to show off some really strong acting chops and I lift my Cubs mug in salute to him for that.
Fundamentally this season was fine and continued doing what the show does well and if there’d been no hype then I would have been fine with it. It’s my expectations that have soured the taste of season 7 as they were built to such feverish levels and never realised and I’ve been left wanting more… and not in a good way, as I dare say I’ll never get it.
‘24’s nature involves massive gaps in the show’s timeline between seasons, so unless the Hydra-like conspiracy that has been behind the events of season 5,6 and 7 shows up again next season we may never get to delve any deeper into Tony’s fractured mind.
The conspiracy has now become a joke though, I’ve seen on a couple of websites people creating diagrams to explain who is involved and how. When you need a diagram to explain something that is central to your show – something’s wrong.
Will Patton was surprisingly good as ‘head’ of the conspiracy Alan Wilson (I’ve put head in inverted commas because no doubt next season it will be revealed that there was actually someone behind Wilson, thereby completely making a mockery of everything Tony did this season) but I honestly can’t believe that when they had so long to get this season right, that the best they could come up with was stretching out the Charles Logan conspiracy from season 5 & the season that shall not be mentioned.
Everyone involved with the show had the time and the desire to do something spectacular with Day 7 – they even stopped production to make sure they got the final episodes just right, which given how they turned out is an absolute joke.
I’ve performed a virtual biopsy on the first three quarters of the season already this year (in case you hadn’t guessed – I’m kind of obsessed) so I’m going to try and focus entirely on the tail end of the season in terms of why I feel unfulfilled.
The build for the finale began when Tony smothered Larry Moss to death at the end of episode 18 and made off with the remaining canister of the bio-weapon. At this point, things were looking good. I didn’t particularly like the fact that Tony had been turned to the dark side (so much so that I wrote an entire blog on it) but I held out hope and ultimate judgement until the last second on the clock ticked away.
We got to see Tony being really evil and giving us all the awesome notion that he was trying to expose the conspiracy and the ends would justify the means (something the show has always been a heavy study of).
Then came the unnecessary bio-weapon attack build-up with the Muslim patsy, after the revelations and noteworthy moments of the previous few episodes these three episodes felt like nothing more than padding to get to the final hours which is why I’m so resentful of the fact that they actually bragged about stopping production to rewrite these episodes because quite frankly, they sucked.
With that attack averted in typically last second style, the stage was set for the finale. So what went wrong? Too much Olivia and The White House for a start, she is a character that we had no real emotional investment in so why should we care about her fate, sure it would affect the President, but she was barely seen for the finale’s first hour.
Instead we had Olivia rammed down our throats yet again and although it gave Ethan and Pierce, two of my favourite supporting characters, a chance for some screen time the whole thing ultimately fell flat. On the plus side, with Cherry Jones returning, this outcome should hopefully ensure no Olivia and no first husband next season which can only be a good thing.
Kim at the airport was kept to a minimum which was extremely beneficial to the first hour, which was definitely the stronger of the two episodes, as were Janis and Chloe at the FBI. So we were left with Jack and Tony and Tony’s ultimate end-game.
Although Tony’s plan was revealed to have been about avenging Michelle’s death it wasn’t done in a way that made him seem sympathetic to the less avid viewers. His strapping a bomb to Jack wasn’t really explained at all – by blowing up Jack he was destroying all traces of the bioweapon and achieving his goal of killing Wilson – instead it was just made to seem like he was some heartless bastard.
In terms of redeeming Tony it would have been nice to see hear him explain to Jack how he purposely set up the subway attack to fail, but no, he happily admitted that he was prepared to kill thousands, and people are actually saying that the showrunners et al redeemed him!
Tony made some very valid points in his confrontation with Jack about saving more people than Jack, yet all Bauer could focus on was the innocent people Tony did kill, which at my count was 3. Sure it was bad but come on Jack, pot, kettle, black much?
The performance by Carlos Bernard can not be praised enough though and as someone who has loved this character from the start, it was heartbreaking to see him screaming at Wilson about what the conspiracy bigwig had taken from him. When, after already being shot once, he still tried to get his gun to kill Wilson it was agonising to watch…
…But then they made a complete mockery of the whole thing by leaving an ambiguous ending on whether or not Renee did the thing that they basically stopped Tony from doing.
Once Tony and Wilson were in custody and the threat was over, we had forty-five minutes of loose ends being tied up, and not in an exciting way, in the most tedious way ever. It was all capped off by the lamest ending yet, there’s no suspense in this, we all know Jack will live (unless Kiefer Sutherland goes on another head-butting spree before season 8 filming begins) the only way this ending can even have an ounce of excitement and intrigue, is if they pulled the ultimate twist and had Kim die during the procedure… Like that’s going to happen though.
They have to bring Almeida back for a shot at redemption in season 8, if they don’t I’m going to find it increasingly difficult to watch another year of Renee without the sweet solace of Tony.
Other Televisual (and Media Bashing) Musings this Week:
- ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ went live this week as the semi-finals began. Sunday night’s opener was simply great television and although there were good acts throughout the show. The outcome was decided long before anyone even performed.
In fact, this show was won in the first audition week, if anyone is trying to tell themselves that Susan Boyle won’t win this then you’re deluding yourself.
And let me say this, if she does win then it has nothing to do with her supposed talent, it’s more to do with the vapid, vain, image-obsessed society we live in and the fact that there seems to be this sideshow element that someone who isn’t exactly much to look at can actually be talented.
If Susan Boyle looked like Katherine Jenkins then no one would think she was any good, because at best she’s an average singer, her performance on Sunday was shaky and never really got going, but because she looks like she does everyone wants to pat her on the head and patronise her like she’s some sort of child who just learned to tie her shoelaces.
Speaking of Boyle’s looks, I actually think I figured out why the judges love her so much - she looks just like Piers Morgan with a shit wig on. Is she his Mum? No wonder she loves him so much…
Funny how she ended up going on last as well isn’t it Cowell? Like she needed that spot, she could have walked out on stage and raped a virgin with a leather studded dildo and she’d have still gone through, but she still had to be positioned in the ‘pimp spot’.
Faces of Disco, who gave a great performance of masked campery, were robbed on this semi-final, against anyone other than Boyle and the ridiculously awesome Diversity they’d have gone through, but this is a Cowell show so you know it’s going to go whichever way the big man decides.
And as for poor Darth Jackson, he’s an absolute whackjob; but you know what they say about that line between genius and insanity. My favourite bit of the night was when he unmasked under pressure from the audience shouting “off!” and someone yelled “on!” when he took it off! Harsh but very funny…
More on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Next Week
- The media’s coverage of my hometown of Burnley’s promotion to the Premier League has made me sick to my stomach, almost as much as all the fake fans that have crawled out of the woodwork to celebrate the sides deserved success.
When I say the media, specifically I mean the BBC, their coverage of the homecoming parade was fucking disgraceful, so condescending and holier-than-thou, it was like they’d seen, to quote Chris Rock, “a retarded person that could talk” it’s almost the whole Susan Boyle factor again – they didn’t expect Burnley to be good because of how it looks.
Throughout the night, not once did they interview a thoughtful articulate fan who could put across just how much this achievement means to the real fans of this historic football club, no they interviewed the morons who were only there to get drunk and speak in a mixture of incoherent chanting and slurred Lancastrian gibberish.
I can just imagine some yuppie producer sat in the London studio telling the reporter “go and interview that guy in the flat cap sodomising that Whippet… aren’t northerners funny?”
- This week’s ‘Flight of the Conchords’ was the best of the season so far, but there’s just something been missing since the boys returned for their sophomore year. Hopefully this was the turning point though and it’ll soon be back to its brilliant best.
It was nice to see Alan Dale crossing another show off his list in his attempt to appear in every TV show on US television, by my count that’s 1,097 so far – you can do it Alan!
TV Moment of the Week:
- This week’s TV Moment of the week comes courtesy of ‘Sons of Anarchy’, as Clay did what Elliot Oswald didn’t have the, ahem, stones to do, and cut off the meat and two veg of the man that raped Oswald’s daughter.
If that scene wasn’t gruesome enough, Clay then had the former carnival clown’s dismembered member mailed to Oswald to remind him that he ‘owes’ the Sons. That’s one package I definitely wouldn’t want to sign for…
Battlestar Galactica & Caprica Soundtracks
¿Alguien las está esperando? porque yo SÍ!!
Tenemos fecha de salida de las Soundtracks de Bear McCreary:
Caprica soundtrack: 16 Junio 2009
Battlestar Galactica - Season 4 soundtrack: 21 Julio 2009En cuanto al DVD Season 4.5, en EEUU, sale a la venta el 28 Julio 2009. Esperaremos la salida en España, para los que como yo, se compraron en su dia la 1ª parte, y así volvamos a disfrutar de ese gran final, esta vez extendido.
10 razones para ver 24
10 razones para ver 24:
1- Jack Bauer.
2- A los guionistas no les tiembla el pulso para cargarse a personajes principales.
3- 24 capítulos se hacen cortos.
4- Abundantes giros de trama en las historias.
5- La imprescindible música de Sean Callery.
6- La calidad de las escenas de acción, dignas de cualquier buena película de Hollywood.
7- No al relleno.
8- Tiene una de las mejores temporadas seriefilas, 5ª Temporada, que le llevó a ganar 5 premios Emmy, como a Mejor serie dramática, Mejor actor principal en una serie dramática, Mejor dirección en una serie dramática, Mejor composición musical para televisión y Mejor edición de trabajo de cámara .
9- Pantalla partida, con escenas diferentes que pasan al mismo tiempo.
10- La sensación que se tiene, cuando al acabar un capítulo escuchas el sonido del reloj, y necesitas ver el siguiente capítulo, no tiene precio.
True Blood Season 2 "New Promo"
Se anuncian como una película grande de Hollywood, y creo que se lo merecen. Porque el tema seriefilo está en auge total y sino díganselo a True Blood.
Break's Over... Sort of...
The last rites were finally read to ‘Prison Break’ this week and the life support machine was mercifully turned off.The remnants of ‘The Fox River Eight’ and the various waifs and strays they’ve picked up along the way had been treading water for two and a half seasons and FOX for once shitcanned a show too late.
I made my feelings perfectly clear on where ‘Prison Break’ had gone wrong in the first ever instalment of TV or not TV so I have no intention of repeating myself here (although I inevitably probably will).
I merely want to review the finale, speculate on what they could possibly have left to explore in the ridiculously unnecessary two-hour ‘special’ we’re due next week and try and remember the good times. Because much like my TV hero Tony Almeida, although ‘Prison Break’ may have become bad to the bone it used to be brilliant (in Tony’s case that would be – used to not be a murderous psycho).
The two-hour finale proved one thing above all others, that this fourth season of ‘Prison Break’ could have been condensed into a two hour episode and not lost anything in the translation.
That’s not to say that is a good thing though, the opening two hours of this season which were heavily Writer’s Strike influenced, were just awful to watch as so much happened, the events of this season’s opening and closing episodes would take an entire season to unfold on ‘The Wire’ or ‘Law and Order’… It’d even take Jack Bauer at least a couple of hours.
My point though is that literally nothing happened for most of the season, if we’d only had the events of this last episode, but stretched across the season then it may have worked. Logic has never been central to the show’s overriding themes but as the show wound down they seemingly completely tossed it out of the window, when they should have been trying to tie everything up and give us a thrilling finale not another instalment of ‘pass the Syclla’.
I said though that I hadn’t come here to assassinate a show that had me hooked for at least two seasons, so let’s try and stay positive; the finale was a fitting end to the point the show had got to and there were plenty of moments to like about it if you take them on their own rather than as part of the whole picture.
William Mapother who plays Ethan on ‘Lost’ turned up as a Fed and proved once and for all that he is just about the creepiest looking guy on TV ever.
His character was involved in one of the finale’s only real moments of comedy when Self, after being reduced to a vegetative state, was ordered to write down Michael and Linc’s location and instead wrote down “Kiss my Ass” (the other being when Sucre & C-Note had T-Bag hanging upside down in that chair).
In truth it was quite sad to see how Self ended up, he might not have been in the show as long as most of the others but he became a big part of the show during his short time there and after the nice little moment last week that revealed why he’d double-crossed Michael and co. he seemed more sympathetic. His fate left him a vegetable, and coupled with the completely unnecessary murder of his wife last week it seemed cold. Self deserved better.
The myriad plot holes in the season and the finale
became completely irrelevant to me though the second a slightly chunkier C-Note returned, and when Kellerman also reappeared, all was forgiven, especially seen as we got to see Michael do his best Seinfeld to Newman impression: “Kellerman!”
Seeing all the characters reunite was fun but the scene at the end where they all signed their immunity papers made me chuckle. I stopped and thought about it and couldn’t believe that they were all amicably sitting in a room together, after all, in the past:
- Mahone had forced C-Note to try and kill himself.
- Mahone had also tried to kill C-Note, Sucre, Michael and Linc on more than one occasion and succeeded in killing Michael and Linc’s Dad.
- Kellerman had shot Mahone and left him for dead.
- Kellerman had also framed Linc’s son for murdering his own Mother and let’s not forget that he tortured Sara…
Yet here they all were shooting the breeze at the U.N. The writers did at least try and make us think they weren’t completely ignoring the past by throwing in the odd lingering look between some of them but that scene was just indicative of the lazy writing that has plagued the show since Michael and the gang busted out of Fox River. That said, they at least harked back to the days of season 1 by having Danny Hale’s widow spit in Kellerman’s face during the flash forward that revealed his new life as a congressman.
I was never her biggest fan, but since they brought back several characters to resolve their fates, where the hell was Gretchen? Have I missed something? I thought they left her for dead or for the cops to pick her up, but as we never actually saw what happened I assumed she’d be back. Did she actually die or is her fate being left up in the air for the two hour special we’re getting this week?
I don’t quite understand the need for this ‘Final Break’, these past two episodes were billed as the last ever episodes but they clearly weren’t, I honestly don’t see what else there is to explore with this special and why it couldn’t have been included in the series rather than as a stand alone special which is now out of chronology anyway given that we leapt four years ahead at the end of the final episode.
Which leads me to my biggest gripe with the season finale: Michael’s death. I like that they killed off a main character and arguably the most popular character on the show - that takes balls. But they’ve done it in such a lame way that all the shock and awe has been completely sucked out of the twist.
My hope is that the special will reveal how and why Michael died, but in the context of the finale the scene at his grave had no emotional clout, if they were going to kill him why not do it on screen in a heroic way, that way the final scene could have been heart-breakingly emotional, instead it felt tacked on to give us some sort of shocking ending.
I did like the final shot though, as they all walked off towards the sea as Michael’s headstone was in the foreground, Mahone and Sucre had their arms round each other – when were they ever that close!?
Again, there is a lot that could be explained in the special, but this is ‘Prison Break’ we’re talking about here, so we’ll probably get no answers and be left to speculate, when the writers have had enough time and notice to tie things up properly within the framework of the series without giving us specials and flash forwards.
became completely irrelevant to me though the second a slightly chunkier C-Note returned, and when Kellerman also reappeared, all was forgiven, especially seen as we got to see Michael do his best Seinfeld to Newman impression: “Kellerman!”Seeing all the characters reunite was fun but the scene at the end where they all signed their immunity papers made me chuckle. I stopped and thought about it and couldn’t believe that they were all amicably sitting in a room together, after all, in the past:
- Mahone had forced C-Note to try and kill himself.
- Mahone had also tried to kill C-Note, Sucre, Michael and Linc on more than one occasion and succeeded in killing Michael and Linc’s Dad.
- Kellerman had shot Mahone and left him for dead.
- Kellerman had also framed Linc’s son for murdering his own Mother and let’s not forget that he tortured Sara…
Yet here they all were shooting the breeze at the U.N. The writers did at least try and make us think they weren’t completely ignoring the past by throwing in the odd lingering look between some of them but that scene was just indicative of the lazy writing that has plagued the show since Michael and the gang busted out of Fox River. That said, they at least harked back to the days of season 1 by having Danny Hale’s widow spit in Kellerman’s face during the flash forward that revealed his new life as a congressman.
I was never her biggest fan, but since they brought back several characters to resolve their fates, where the hell was Gretchen? Have I missed something? I thought they left her for dead or for the cops to pick her up, but as we never actually saw what happened I assumed she’d be back. Did she actually die or is her fate being left up in the air for the two hour special we’re getting this week?
I don’t quite understand the need for this ‘Final Break’, these past two episodes were billed as the last ever episodes but they clearly weren’t, I honestly don’t see what else there is to explore with this special and why it couldn’t have been included in the series rather than as a stand alone special which is now out of chronology anyway given that we leapt four years ahead at the end of the final episode.
Which leads me to my biggest gripe with the season finale: Michael’s death. I like that they killed off a main character and arguably the most popular character on the show - that takes balls. But they’ve done it in such a lame way that all the shock and awe has been completely sucked out of the twist.
My hope is that the special will reveal how and why Michael died, but in the context of the finale the scene at his grave had no emotional clout, if they were going to kill him why not do it on screen in a heroic way, that way the final scene could have been heart-breakingly emotional, instead it felt tacked on to give us some sort of shocking ending.
I did like the final shot though, as they all walked off towards the sea as Michael’s headstone was in the foreground, Mahone and Sucre had their arms round each other – when were they ever that close!?
Again, there is a lot that could be explained in the special, but this is ‘Prison Break’ we’re talking about here, so we’ll probably get no answers and be left to speculate, when the writers have had enough time and notice to tie things up properly within the framework of the series without giving us specials and flash forwards.
You might not think it from my critique, but I did actually enjoy the finale, if nothing else it was dumb fun, without the returning characters I think it would have been a let down, but if you checked your brain at the door it had quite a nostalgic theme to it and was probably the best we could have hoped for given the circumstances.‘Prison Break: The Final Break’ is a feature length special that will air Wednesday 27th May on Sky1 @ 10pm.
In honour of the end of ‘Prison Break’ here are a few things that I will remember fondly about the show:
- The first ever episode (it was just nuts how gripping it was).
- In truth, most of the first season (it wasn’t without it’s missteps but that DVD box set is unputdownable [my bold attempt at creating an Iain Dowie word])
- The introduction of Mahone and his subsequent turning from ‘bad’ guy to ‘good’ guy and becoming the best character on the show in the process (thank the TV Gods for the cancellation of ‘Invasion’ because without Mahone the past few seasons would have been a painful viewing experience).
- C-Note and T-Bag’s nicknames for other characters and, in particularly, each other (seeing this two interacting again in the finale reminded me of how much I miss season 1 and the first half of season 2 when they were all on the run together trying to get hold of Westmoreland’s money).
- Sara’s ‘death’ – never before have I cheered a death as much as when it seemed she been beheaded, I have problems I know… (it’s just a shame they undid it all that good work by bringing her back).
- The ingenuity of Michael’s original breakout plan and that tattoo (I remember trying to explain the plot of the show to someone when it debuted: “he has the blueprints of the prison tattooed on his body… but it’s good, honestly”).
And how could I forget…
- Robert Wisdom’s Lechero and his accent (about the only bright spot of season 3 and the source of many a bad impression from yours truly).
Goodbye ‘Prison Break’. You shall be missed… sort of.
Other Televisual Musings this Week:
- I singled out ‘Lie to Me’ as a show to watch the week before last and I hadn’t had a chance to watch the first episode when I posted last week’s blog but I’ve now checked it out and I have to say I’m impressed.
I mean, sure, it’s pretty by the numbers stuff (I called the killer and his motive before they figured it out) and Lightman could be House’s Brother but Roth has enough charisma to carry the entire cast (even that wooden Michelle Rodriguez-alike) and he makes this show. ‘Lie to Me’ is not going to win any awards and if it’s dwindling viewing numbers are anything to go by, and given that it’s on FOX, it may not be around much longer.
For now though enjoy a well put together show featuring one of our finest acting exports chewing the scenery in grand style.
- ‘Lost’s season finale aired this week and all I have to say is “are you shitting me?” Jack wanted to blow up a nuke just so he could have another shot with Kate – yeh, that’s worth killing everyone for.
When are the writers going to learn that we don’t give a fuck about Jack and even less so Kate? We’ve had the two of them rammed down our throats from the get go and they have become two of the show’s most dull characters.
And another thing, Juliet better not be dead, it’s like Evangeline Lilly has some sort of hold over the writer’s to get rid of every other remotely attractive woman in the show until she is the only eye-candy we have left and since day one I just haven’t got it with her.
The highlight of a pretty lacklustre finale though was Sawyer putting a hurting on Jack (something I’ve been wanting to do for five years).
His low blow was particularly nice, but as if Jack could take Sawyer, Sawyer would have absolutely owned him but oh no this is the Jack show so the only way Sawyer could get one over on him was the low blow. I sometimes think ‘Lost’ would have benefited greatly had they stuck to the original script that had Jack being ripped in half by the smoke monster in the first episode.
- ‘The Wire’ meanwhile just goes from strength to strength in its second season. I was convinced I’d hate the dock workers after becoming so emotionally invested in the Barksdale crew in season 1.
I’m already hooked into the lives of Sobotka and his workers though and can’t wait to see what happens with them. I can’t say it enough but never has a show lived up to the hype like this one has, it is just brilliant.
- The long wait was over and I finally got my hands on Eminem’s ‘Relapse’ this week and man what a return.
Slim Shady is definitely back with one of his darkest albums yet, I’d say it’s definitely up there with the first two in terms of darkness and while it’s not as beat heavy as ‘The Eminem Show’ and ‘Encore’, with Dre on production there is never a dull moment.
He might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but in my mind he’s the artist of our generation and this album proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s still the best lyricist out there.
TV Moment of the Week:
Robert Kilroy-Silk turning up on ‘The Apprentice’ selling hand-made rocking horses.
Seriously, how much did that guy look like him? And I believe his conversation with the massive bollocked Debra went a little something like this:
“Are you and your brother well known…?”
“Bitch, I’m Kilroy!”
- The first ever episode (it was just nuts how gripping it was).
- In truth, most of the first season (it wasn’t without it’s missteps but that DVD box set is unputdownable [my bold attempt at creating an Iain Dowie word])
- The introduction of Mahone and his subsequent turning from ‘bad’ guy to ‘good’ guy and becoming the best character on the show in the process (thank the TV Gods for the cancellation of ‘Invasion’ because without Mahone the past few seasons would have been a painful viewing experience).
- C-Note and T-Bag’s nicknames for other characters and, in particularly, each other (seeing this two interacting again in the finale reminded me of how much I miss season 1 and the first half of season 2 when they were all on the run together trying to get hold of Westmoreland’s money).
- Sara’s ‘death’ – never before have I cheered a death as much as when it seemed she been beheaded, I have problems I know… (it’s just a shame they undid it all that good work by bringing her back).
- The ingenuity of Michael’s original breakout plan and that tattoo (I remember trying to explain the plot of the show to someone when it debuted: “he has the blueprints of the prison tattooed on his body… but it’s good, honestly”).
And how could I forget…
- Robert Wisdom’s Lechero and his accent (about the only bright spot of season 3 and the source of many a bad impression from yours truly).
Goodbye ‘Prison Break’. You shall be missed… sort of.
Other Televisual Musings this Week:
- I singled out ‘Lie to Me’ as a show to watch the week before last and I hadn’t had a chance to watch the first episode when I posted last week’s blog but I’ve now checked it out and I have to say I’m impressed.
I mean, sure, it’s pretty by the numbers stuff (I called the killer and his motive before they figured it out) and Lightman could be House’s Brother but Roth has enough charisma to carry the entire cast (even that wooden Michelle Rodriguez-alike) and he makes this show. ‘Lie to Me’ is not going to win any awards and if it’s dwindling viewing numbers are anything to go by, and given that it’s on FOX, it may not be around much longer.
For now though enjoy a well put together show featuring one of our finest acting exports chewing the scenery in grand style.
- ‘Lost’s season finale aired this week and all I have to say is “are you shitting me?” Jack wanted to blow up a nuke just so he could have another shot with Kate – yeh, that’s worth killing everyone for.
When are the writers going to learn that we don’t give a fuck about Jack and even less so Kate? We’ve had the two of them rammed down our throats from the get go and they have become two of the show’s most dull characters.
And another thing, Juliet better not be dead, it’s like Evangeline Lilly has some sort of hold over the writer’s to get rid of every other remotely attractive woman in the show until she is the only eye-candy we have left and since day one I just haven’t got it with her.
The highlight of a pretty lacklustre finale though was Sawyer putting a hurting on Jack (something I’ve been wanting to do for five years).
His low blow was particularly nice, but as if Jack could take Sawyer, Sawyer would have absolutely owned him but oh no this is the Jack show so the only way Sawyer could get one over on him was the low blow. I sometimes think ‘Lost’ would have benefited greatly had they stuck to the original script that had Jack being ripped in half by the smoke monster in the first episode.
- ‘The Wire’ meanwhile just goes from strength to strength in its second season. I was convinced I’d hate the dock workers after becoming so emotionally invested in the Barksdale crew in season 1.
I’m already hooked into the lives of Sobotka and his workers though and can’t wait to see what happens with them. I can’t say it enough but never has a show lived up to the hype like this one has, it is just brilliant.
- The long wait was over and I finally got my hands on Eminem’s ‘Relapse’ this week and man what a return.
Slim Shady is definitely back with one of his darkest albums yet, I’d say it’s definitely up there with the first two in terms of darkness and while it’s not as beat heavy as ‘The Eminem Show’ and ‘Encore’, with Dre on production there is never a dull moment.
He might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but in my mind he’s the artist of our generation and this album proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s still the best lyricist out there.
TV Moment of the Week:
Robert Kilroy-Silk turning up on ‘The Apprentice’ selling hand-made rocking horses.
Seriously, how much did that guy look like him? And I believe his conversation with the massive bollocked Debra went a little something like this:
“Are you and your brother well known…?”
“Bitch, I’m Kilroy!”
Back to the Future & Lost
El otro día reviendo Regreso al Futuro, me sorprendí al ver una cosa. ¿Quién asesino al Dr. Emmett Brown, alias Doc? en la imagen la respuesta:
Surrogates "Trailer"
"Surrogates transcurre en un futuro en el que la gente se crea su propio modelo de robot, más joven, más guapo y más guai y se lanza a la calle controlando al bicho por control remoto desde la seguridad de su hogar. Pero cuando un asesino en serie comienza no sólo a destruir robots de tal forma que su usuario también la palma, le toca a un viejo policía (Willis) liarse a hostias hasta encontrar al criminal."
24 - Celebración Season 7 Finale
Celebración de la Season 7 Finale y del DVD del elenco de 24. Cuánto crack junto en estas fotos y en medio el CRACK, el jefe de 24. Un pequeña curiosidad, no mejor dicho, que bajita que es Elisha Cuthbert comparada con las otras chicas.
Esperaremos la 8ª temporada y esta vez sin Jon Cassar, el artífice de 24 en estos 7 años.
Happy Town "Trailer"
Otro estreno para la midseason de la ABC. Porqué todo se va a la midseason?
La nueva Twin Peaks?
Happy Town, nos sumergirá en una pequeña ciudad donde ocurre un homicidio, el primer crimen cometido en siete años.
Vampire Diaries "Teaser"
Otra de vampiros:
"La CW acaba de anunciar que uno de sus próximos pilotos de cara al cambio de temporada se basará en la serie de libros “Vampire Diaries” (conocidos en España como Crónicas Vampíricas), publicados por primera vez en 1993, bajo la autoría de Lisa Jane Smith. Son una serie de libros, de tonalidad romántico-juvenil, con una muchacha de protagonista, quien se debate en lo profundo de su corazón entre dos hermanos vampiros de una pequeña ciudad."
Virtuality "Pilot"
Con tanta serie nueva, tantos estrenos de las cadenas, nos estamos olvidando del estreno del Sábado dia 04 Julio 09 en la cadena FOX. Ni más ni menos que la nueva serie de Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) y Michael Taylor (Battlestar Galactica). Ese día la FOX nos presentará el piloto de Virtuality.
"La historia de esta nueva serie, escrita por Ron Moore y Michael Taylor y dirigida por Peter Berg, tratará de una misión espacial en la que Coster-Waldau será el comandante Frank Pike. Todo girará entorno a la nave, que estará equipada con avanzados módulos de realidad virtual en una propuesta que recuerda a la famosa 'Tron' pero adaptándose a los tiempos que corren."
La esperaremos con impaciencia.
Human Target "Promo"
Nueva serie para la midseason de la FOX:
Human Target (drama) -prevista para media temporada-: "Human Target" de WBTV, DC Comics y Wonderland, está basado en el cómic del mismo nombre en el cual un misterioso experto en seguridad desempeña misiones en las cuales se hace pasar por los clientes a los que debe proteger. Este hombre es Christopher Chance (Mark Valley, Fringe), un hombre que toma diversas identidades para ocupar el lugar de unos clientes que generalmente han sido amenazados de muerte. Él se convierte así en el "blanco humano".
Fuente: Pizquita
V - The Series
Todo a punta que tendremos una 1ª temporada de 13 capítulos para V, donde quieren componer la serie de 4 partes, entre 13 a 22 episodios y que empezará en la media temporada de la ABC junto con Lost. En el reparto tendremos a nuestra Juliet, Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost), Alan Tudyk (Dollhouse), Joel Gretsch (The 4400), Scott Wolf (The Nine), Laura Vandervoort (Smallville), Lourdes Benedicto (The Nine, 24), Morena Baccarin (Stargate SG-1, Firefly), entre otros.
Tiene una pinta acojonante, sino veánse estos 2 sneak peeks:
Más imágenes.
News..
Ya tenemos confirmación de la cadena FOX. Las Crónicas de Srah Connor no volverá. Yo creo que los directivos de la FOX, no la entieron y por eso la cancelan, a parte también por su audiencia. Es mejor Lie To Me que Terminator? Ésta ha sido renovada para una 2ª Temporada de 13 episodios( Ayyy las procedimentales).
Comentar que Chuck también ha sido renovada para una 3ª Temporada con 13 episodios. (Ahora con vacaciones seriéfilas me tendré que poner con ella.)
Otro notición, es que nuestros amigos americanos tendrán el DVD de 24 Season 7, mañana!! un dia después de acabar por televisión. Estos si que saben.
Mañana día 19 sale a la venta la 1ª OST de True Blood. Pero ya anda por la red. Download
Battlestar Galactica - Remember
Cada vez que pienso, que se ha acabado esta pedazo de serie, me da mucha pena. Que grandes momentos nos dio. Aunque aún nos queda The Plan, que lo disfrutaremos como si fuera el primero de la serie.
Eastern Bloc Party - Eurovision 2009 Special
The dust has now settled on another year’s Eurovision song contest and somehow a goofy violin player from Norway managed to sweep the competition aside and set a new record for votes received.My memory of the night is somewhat hazy as there was quite a lot of alcohol consumed, but ever the professional, I was making notes as the show went out to give anyone who might have missed it an idea on just what went down on one of the greatest TV nights of the year.
Below you will find my uncensored live thoughts from throughout the show and I will be chipping in with some post-Eurovision thoughts as well to try and give context to some of the incoherent ramblings that I scribbled down.
(Live thoughts will appear in italics, thoughts from the morning after will appear in bold).
So here we are with my live review and critical analysis of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009:
Here we are ready for another instalment of the campest show on TV. For some reason Eurovision has become a pretty big event in the Bunkham household over the past few years, this may have something to do with the vast amounts of alcohol normally consumed whilst watching the show but that doesn’t take away from the fact that Eurovision is entertaining and unintentionally funny as hell. As you are probably already aware, I enjoy the occasional bet and Eurovision is no exception, for some unexplainable reason I’ve backed the Ukraine for the past two years and have been robbed both years as they should have won both times, this year though my money is on Estonia, so let’s see what happens…
…My logic for backing Estonia was based on geography and the blatant bloc voting that goes on each year, although the song was dull it was exactly the sort of shit that I thought could win Eurovision… This theory didn’t exactly pan out…
Show opens with Cirque du Soleil. Graham Norton is no Terry Wogan. Ho-de-ho…
…I soon changed my tune on this; Norton actually did a pretty good job…
Last year’s winner is back looking like he’s on his way to work. £30 million for this? Styrofoam walls?
Actually maybe this song did deserve to win last year it is a pretty good song – Thanks Timbaland.
Hosts are an improvement on previous years. It’s Alsou! Remember her? She had a single out over here at the turn of the millennium… No? Just me then…
Why is Norton talking over the hosts when they’re speaking English?
Sasha Schlong, oh no wait it’s Sasha Son from Lithuania is up first. I was expecting a woman but it’s a dude.
I’m not digging it. First is a thankless task though. Nice finish, the guy had a flame in his hand and a nice message of hope…
…Obama would’ve been proud, all in all a pretty dull start though…
…Israel up next… boring! They look like the Witches of Eastwick. Get your bongos out…!
…I believe that this was a reference to the fact that they started to play the bongos mid-way through the performance not some sort of sexual euphemism… I could be wrong though…
…En Francais… She looks like Michelle Collins and the song is dire… I think we can safely say the first 3 won’t be challenging…
…MILF! MILF! MILF! I think that’s what they’re chanting…
…I honestly have no recollection of what the MILF comment refers to… All I can assume is that France’s entry was an older lady who had a bit of a Cougar vibe going on… Then again, maybe it was the large quantities of alcohol coursing through my body…
…Norton’s pissed. Maybe he’s playing the Wogan drinking game…
…Yes I know that makes no sense…
…Sweden – nice and electro… All Swedish women look the same… It’s kind of like Katherine Jenkins meets Sash!
…I can only apologise for any awful racial stereotypes like the above comment that I made throughout the night, chances are there are more to come…
…My Brother just dumbed down the night by suggesting a trip to Copenhagen, Sweden for his 21st – numb nuts…
…To be fair Geography was never his strong suit…
…Best of the night so far, a bit screamy though…
…Croatia – looks like a sexy funeral. When did Jonathan Wilkes move to Sweden…?
Dogshit. There is a hot blonde on though.
No stand outs so far.
Portugal up 6th. It’s Adele in a brown wig – it’s so bad I’ve turned the sound down and gone to get some chocolate…
…I can categorically say that this will not even make a ripple…
…Iceland up next - apparently a real contender. We shall see.
Good tune, but could be drawn too early…
…Shows what I know – they came second…
…Greece – My family seem to think this guy is going to win… He has the whitest clothes ever (he’s obviously passed the Daz doorstep challenge).
This guy makes John Barrowman look straight. Good song but it won’t win. He’s on some sort of digital treadmill.
That was pretty fucking good. A safe each way bet. It will not win…
…Luckily my confidence in Greece not winning was justified; I would’ve never heard the end of it otherwise…
…Armenia on now. I nearly backed these dykes; they look like a bunch of gypsies…
…Again, I can only apologise…
I think I made the right call… That was gash as…
…The hosts Russia are up… Putin will be dancing…
…Really? Will he? What was I talking about!? Answers on a postcard…
…She has an awful tattoo on her arm and according to Norton the screens behind are supposed to show her digitally aging throughout the song – she looks better old…
…She actually did…
…Russia was toilet time…
…Azerbaijan are on upon my return… This is a class Euro pop number. I can’t see it winning though…
…Even if half my family have backed them…
…It came third…
…He so isn’t playing that guitar…
…They’re proper cranking that wind machine tonight (we have our own wind machine in my Brother who is making some truly inhuman smells)
…Bosnia now. Another act that I considered backing… Decent effort…
…This should do well as Norton said, especially with the Balkans…
I’m calling it now – Bosnia will win (maybe)
…I’m an idiot…
…We’re now getting a skit with the Russian police and various Ruski citizens singing (badly) What the hell? I’d rather have ads…
…When I read this back this morning, I thought it said “I’d rather have AIDS” which I thought would have been a pretty harsh criticism of this skit… That said, it was pretty fucking bad though…
…Moldova – Nelly something – I started laughing when it started but this is actually okay… Dark Horse?
…Err, in a word: no…
…Norton may actually be better than Wogan…
…See, it didn’t take me long to change my tune did it? Terry who?
…Chiara up now for Malta, according to Norton she’s entered and done well twice for Malta before… Third time lucky? I don’t think so…
…But what do I know? The Malteser could do it…
…My mind’s in Estonia…
…I was singing this all night to the tune of Rhianna’s ‘Disturbia’ – don’t ask me why…
…My bet is up! Come on Urban Symphony!
Personally I don’t like it but this is the sort of shit they love at Eurovision…
…Err, they barely got a cheer… Not to worry…
…Ronan Keating wrote this song for Denmark – what the hell?
Haha, Norton was right, this is basically Ronan ‘Stars in their Eyes’. I could sing this, anyone can sound good doing Ronan Keating.
It is a totally Ronan song though. Good job Denmark.
Germany! Here they are… Here comes Dita…
…Good tune, like a dirty Frank Sinatra… Look at Dita… What a woman…
I’m calling it now – Bosnia will win (maybe)
…I’m an idiot…
…We’re now getting a skit with the Russian police and various Ruski citizens singing (badly) What the hell? I’d rather have ads…
…When I read this back this morning, I thought it said “I’d rather have AIDS” which I thought would have been a pretty harsh criticism of this skit… That said, it was pretty fucking bad though…
…Moldova – Nelly something – I started laughing when it started but this is actually okay… Dark Horse?
…Err, in a word: no…
…Norton may actually be better than Wogan…
…See, it didn’t take me long to change my tune did it? Terry who?
…Chiara up now for Malta, according to Norton she’s entered and done well twice for Malta before… Third time lucky? I don’t think so…
…But what do I know? The Malteser could do it…
…My mind’s in Estonia…
…I was singing this all night to the tune of Rhianna’s ‘Disturbia’ – don’t ask me why…
…My bet is up! Come on Urban Symphony!
Personally I don’t like it but this is the sort of shit they love at Eurovision…
…Err, they barely got a cheer… Not to worry…
…Ronan Keating wrote this song for Denmark – what the hell?
Haha, Norton was right, this is basically Ronan ‘Stars in their Eyes’. I could sing this, anyone can sound good doing Ronan Keating.
It is a totally Ronan song though. Good job Denmark.
Germany! Here they are… Here comes Dita…
…Good tune, like a dirty Frank Sinatra… Look at Dita… What a woman…
…You’ve gotta hand it to Germany, they knew they didn’t have a prayer so they roped in Dita Von Teese to prance around on stage during the performance all scantily clad… Sex didn’t sell… They nearly came last… Nice rack though…
…Here come the Turks… Hadise – ‘Dum Tek Tek’… This could be the best so far.
Turkey always do well with that whole Tarkan vibe but they don’t have enough neighbours to vote for them. Safe each way bet I’d say…
…I realise by this point I’d marked about half the acts as “safe each way bets” but in this case it actually panned out as Turkey came fourth…
…Albania now. Oh dear, it’s like a bad trip…
…It’s not actually as bad as Norton made out… She’s only 17, she did a good job if you ask me – a good reaction.
The favourite Norway’s up now… Norwegian Idol winner Alexander Rybak…
…I’m going out on a limb and saying that there is no way Norway will win. I just don’t get it…
…Could I have been more wrong? Sorry about that awful no way/Norway pun as well by the way. And another thing, I’m lucky I’m not a quadriplegic this morning the number of times I went “out on a limb” last night…
My nemesis the Ukraine are on now – for the last two years I’ve backed them to win and been screwed out of deserved victory both times… I decided to avoid that heartache this year, but this is actually quite good…
…Did I actually describe not backing the winner of Eurovision as heartache? I did? Just checking…
…Why does she have gladiators dancing behind her?
This is actually some pretty class shit. Winner?
…Err, no…
…Here are the Romanians. Holy crap. I didn’t know Romania had hot women…
…Could I be any more culturally retarded?
…Here comes old melted face – the UK are up – Jade Ewen is here, she should have had something up tempo.
This is piss poor – hang your head in shame Lloyd Webber… She’s that bad the violinist is poking her with his bow…
…It is the best we’ve had in years, but in reality can it ever win? It went down amazingly well in the studio though…
…It may not have been able to win, but it did ridiculously well all things considered. And yes, I’m aware of the hypocrisy of in one breath calling it “piss poor” and in the next proclaiming it “the best we’ve had in years”…
…Waldo’s People are up now for Finland…
…Did this guy used to be in East 17? This is amazing. What’s Norton talking about? This is genius!
…Last but not least it’s Espagne. Not bad – nice and Euro-poppy. Could do well, but in reality Spain have about as much chance of winning as I do…
…Nice bit of magic there though…
Voting time now. This is the best part.
Astronauts are opening the lines from space – are you fucking shitting me?
My Mum on the countdown clock that has just appeared to let you know how much voting time remains: “is that what time it is in Russia?”
…Yes Mum, their time goes backwards…
…Vintage Eurovision year… They could all win in all honesty…
…There really wasn’t much of the usual camp horseshit this year, somewhat disappointingly, they were all quite good…
…Lines are now closed…
…Why is there a woman sloshing around in a life size womb?
…This did actually happen, it wasn’t just the alcohol, it needed to be seen to be believed…
…What in the name of Buck’s Fizz is this? A swimming pool in the roof? Trust Eurovision for weirdness…
Get to the results already. We already know what they’ll be: Sweden: Denmark 12 points… Russia: Bosnia 12 points…
…Lloyd Webber’s back… Shut up rubber face, what do you know…
…Actually scratch that, he’s bigged up Estonia – Lloyd Webber’s a genius! Estonia to win!
…I’m so fickle…
Results are in – Spain – Norway 12, UK 10…
…I don’t have the energy to blog these results, three countries in and it already looks like Norway have won – show’s how much I know!
This is bullshit!
Why is Duncan James reading out our vote? It makes me long for the days of Fearne Cotton…
…Wow I must’ve really been gone last night…
Norway win and break a record in the process. Unbelievable.
All in all, a good time was had by all. Estonia may not have won me any money but coming sixth when they were rated at 50-1 or bigger with the bookies was a good showing.
The bloc voting was alive and well still, the best moment was Andorra giving Spain 12 when up until that point Spain had about 2 points.
The bookies were right and Norway absolutely swept it, I still don’t see what was so special about the song, but oh well, at least it gets next year’s show out of Eastern Europe.
The UK finally had a respectable showing but I seriously doubt if we can ever win this thing again now.
So until next time, thanks for reading and I’m sorry for any offence caused by the ignorant racial stereotyping that occurred last night…
…And for my comments as well…
Other Televisual Musings this Week:
…Here come the Turks… Hadise – ‘Dum Tek Tek’… This could be the best so far.Turkey always do well with that whole Tarkan vibe but they don’t have enough neighbours to vote for them. Safe each way bet I’d say…
…I realise by this point I’d marked about half the acts as “safe each way bets” but in this case it actually panned out as Turkey came fourth…
…Albania now. Oh dear, it’s like a bad trip…
…It’s not actually as bad as Norton made out… She’s only 17, she did a good job if you ask me – a good reaction.
The favourite Norway’s up now… Norwegian Idol winner Alexander Rybak…
…I’m going out on a limb and saying that there is no way Norway will win. I just don’t get it…
…Could I have been more wrong? Sorry about that awful no way/Norway pun as well by the way. And another thing, I’m lucky I’m not a quadriplegic this morning the number of times I went “out on a limb” last night…
My nemesis the Ukraine are on now – for the last two years I’ve backed them to win and been screwed out of deserved victory both times… I decided to avoid that heartache this year, but this is actually quite good…
…Did I actually describe not backing the winner of Eurovision as heartache? I did? Just checking…
…Why does she have gladiators dancing behind her?
This is actually some pretty class shit. Winner?
…Err, no…
…Here are the Romanians. Holy crap. I didn’t know Romania had hot women…
…Could I be any more culturally retarded?
…Here comes old melted face – the UK are up – Jade Ewen is here, she should have had something up tempo.
This is piss poor – hang your head in shame Lloyd Webber… She’s that bad the violinist is poking her with his bow…
…It is the best we’ve had in years, but in reality can it ever win? It went down amazingly well in the studio though…
…It may not have been able to win, but it did ridiculously well all things considered. And yes, I’m aware of the hypocrisy of in one breath calling it “piss poor” and in the next proclaiming it “the best we’ve had in years”…
…Waldo’s People are up now for Finland…
…Did this guy used to be in East 17? This is amazing. What’s Norton talking about? This is genius!
…Last but not least it’s Espagne. Not bad – nice and Euro-poppy. Could do well, but in reality Spain have about as much chance of winning as I do…
…Nice bit of magic there though…
Voting time now. This is the best part.
Astronauts are opening the lines from space – are you fucking shitting me?
My Mum on the countdown clock that has just appeared to let you know how much voting time remains: “is that what time it is in Russia?”
…Yes Mum, their time goes backwards…
…Vintage Eurovision year… They could all win in all honesty…
…There really wasn’t much of the usual camp horseshit this year, somewhat disappointingly, they were all quite good…
…Lines are now closed…
…Why is there a woman sloshing around in a life size womb?
…This did actually happen, it wasn’t just the alcohol, it needed to be seen to be believed…
…What in the name of Buck’s Fizz is this? A swimming pool in the roof? Trust Eurovision for weirdness…
Get to the results already. We already know what they’ll be: Sweden: Denmark 12 points… Russia: Bosnia 12 points…
…Lloyd Webber’s back… Shut up rubber face, what do you know…
…Actually scratch that, he’s bigged up Estonia – Lloyd Webber’s a genius! Estonia to win!
…I’m so fickle…
Results are in – Spain – Norway 12, UK 10…
…I don’t have the energy to blog these results, three countries in and it already looks like Norway have won – show’s how much I know!
This is bullshit!
Why is Duncan James reading out our vote? It makes me long for the days of Fearne Cotton…
…Wow I must’ve really been gone last night…
Norway win and break a record in the process. Unbelievable.
All in all, a good time was had by all. Estonia may not have won me any money but coming sixth when they were rated at 50-1 or bigger with the bookies was a good showing.
The bloc voting was alive and well still, the best moment was Andorra giving Spain 12 when up until that point Spain had about 2 points.
The bookies were right and Norway absolutely swept it, I still don’t see what was so special about the song, but oh well, at least it gets next year’s show out of Eastern Europe.
The UK finally had a respectable showing but I seriously doubt if we can ever win this thing again now.
So until next time, thanks for reading and I’m sorry for any offence caused by the ignorant racial stereotyping that occurred last night…
…And for my comments as well…
Other Televisual Musings this Week:
Last week’s penultimate ‘Lost’ of the season was a case of all filler and no killer. I don’t mind set-up episodes on the whole, ‘24’ did the exact same thing this week and even a dull episode of ‘Lost’ like this one still feels noteworthy because, well, it’s ‘Lost’, but I couldn’t help but feel more than a little disappointed with this week’s effort, if they hit it out of the park with tonight’s two-part finale then all will be forgiven, but I can’t decide at the moment whether that’s going to occur or not.
- Last week I bigged up a couple of shows debuting on these shores this past week. One of the aforementioned shows was ‘Sons of Anarchy’, which more than lived up to its name – sex, drugs, guns, bikes and Peggy Bundy Lady Macbething it up – what more do you want?
‘Sons of Anarchy’ has me hooked after one episode, the cast is great, nearly every face is familiar (in a good way) and the opening episode had it all: action, laughs, extreme violence, Skinner off the ‘X-Files’ as a neo-Nazi and enough grit to keep even Britain’s roads moving during a snow storm…
…Even if the main character did used to be in ‘Byker Grove’.
- We’re hitting finale time now in the schedules, especially in the current two week block (which I’ve geekily dunned ‘finale fortnight’) as we’ve already seen the ‘Heroes’ season finale, we’ve got ‘Lost’ and ‘Prison Break’ to come this week and then ‘24’ gets it’s send-off next week.
Surprisingly, given how horrendously gash the show has become, I’m actually quite excited for this week’s two-hour series finale of ‘Prison Break’. Mainly because we’re getting to see the return of some familiar faces, thankfully not Gretchen, but C-Note who has been sorely missed and if rumours are to be believed Kellerman (don’t ask, I thought he was dead to).
Given how incoherent ‘Prison Break’ has become I actually think that the finale could actually work and having all these characters inexplicably crop up should be fun and won’t seem to out of place because the show has already become a total caricature of what it used to be (more on this next week).
Be sure to tune in, because it really could be a brilliantly ridiculous end to a show that has if nothing else kept us entertained for four years.
‘Prison Break’ the series finale airs on Sky1 Tuesday @ 10pm and 11pm.
- After a good end to last year picking Alexandra Burke as the ‘X Factor’ winner when everyone was practically giving Diana Vickers a pearl necklace, my reality TV predictions have gone seriously off the boil.
First I was victim of the worst hatchet job the ‘Big Brother’ producers have done since the got rid of Spencer in Season 3, when they basically handed Ulrika Jonsson victory over the clearly more popular Verne Troyer.
Then Philip managed to fuck himself out of becoming Sir Alan Sugar’s apprentice on ‘The Apprentice’ and now my nap for ‘American Idol’ Danny Gokey has fallen at the final hurdle setting up an Adam Scream-bert and Kris Allen showdown.
I’d love to see Kris win, I slated him at the start as not being good enough but he has proved me wrong and then some. His performances have grown stronger and stronger each week and he is an unbelievably likeable guy.
His acoustic version of Kanye West’s ‘Heartless’ this week for me was one of the performances of the season and while the show has clearly been edited and devised to ensure an Adam victory I really think that America may piss on Simon Cowell’s proverbial chips and vote for Kris en mass.
You only need to look at the production Adam receives each week and the fact he’s been positioned near the end of the show (in the much-discussed ‘pimp’ spot) more times than any other contestant to see who Si-dogg and the producers want to win, but I’m hoping America may have picked up on this and rebel against Lord Cowell’s wishes. Only time will tell.
- This week, Eminem made a rare appearance on Jonathan Ross and actually came across really well. I know from hearing him talk to Zane Lowe that he’s a funny, intelligent guy but I was worried that going up against Wossy may have showed him in a bad light, but he was more entertaining than Ben Stiller! Well done Em, it’s good to have you back.
And finally… Our new feature:
TV Moment of the Week:
‘Sons of Anarchy’ has me hooked after one episode, the cast is great, nearly every face is familiar (in a good way) and the opening episode had it all: action, laughs, extreme violence, Skinner off the ‘X-Files’ as a neo-Nazi and enough grit to keep even Britain’s roads moving during a snow storm…
…Even if the main character did used to be in ‘Byker Grove’.
- We’re hitting finale time now in the schedules, especially in the current two week block (which I’ve geekily dunned ‘finale fortnight’) as we’ve already seen the ‘Heroes’ season finale, we’ve got ‘Lost’ and ‘Prison Break’ to come this week and then ‘24’ gets it’s send-off next week.
Surprisingly, given how horrendously gash the show has become, I’m actually quite excited for this week’s two-hour series finale of ‘Prison Break’. Mainly because we’re getting to see the return of some familiar faces, thankfully not Gretchen, but C-Note who has been sorely missed and if rumours are to be believed Kellerman (don’t ask, I thought he was dead to).
Given how incoherent ‘Prison Break’ has become I actually think that the finale could actually work and having all these characters inexplicably crop up should be fun and won’t seem to out of place because the show has already become a total caricature of what it used to be (more on this next week).
Be sure to tune in, because it really could be a brilliantly ridiculous end to a show that has if nothing else kept us entertained for four years.
‘Prison Break’ the series finale airs on Sky1 Tuesday @ 10pm and 11pm.
- After a good end to last year picking Alexandra Burke as the ‘X Factor’ winner when everyone was practically giving Diana Vickers a pearl necklace, my reality TV predictions have gone seriously off the boil.
First I was victim of the worst hatchet job the ‘Big Brother’ producers have done since the got rid of Spencer in Season 3, when they basically handed Ulrika Jonsson victory over the clearly more popular Verne Troyer.
Then Philip managed to fuck himself out of becoming Sir Alan Sugar’s apprentice on ‘The Apprentice’ and now my nap for ‘American Idol’ Danny Gokey has fallen at the final hurdle setting up an Adam Scream-bert and Kris Allen showdown.
I’d love to see Kris win, I slated him at the start as not being good enough but he has proved me wrong and then some. His performances have grown stronger and stronger each week and he is an unbelievably likeable guy.
His acoustic version of Kanye West’s ‘Heartless’ this week for me was one of the performances of the season and while the show has clearly been edited and devised to ensure an Adam victory I really think that America may piss on Simon Cowell’s proverbial chips and vote for Kris en mass.
You only need to look at the production Adam receives each week and the fact he’s been positioned near the end of the show (in the much-discussed ‘pimp’ spot) more times than any other contestant to see who Si-dogg and the producers want to win, but I’m hoping America may have picked up on this and rebel against Lord Cowell’s wishes. Only time will tell.
- This week, Eminem made a rare appearance on Jonathan Ross and actually came across really well. I know from hearing him talk to Zane Lowe that he’s a funny, intelligent guy but I was worried that going up against Wossy may have showed him in a bad light, but he was more entertaining than Ben Stiller! Well done Em, it’s good to have you back.
And finally… Our new feature:
TV Moment of the Week:
Each week I’ll be picking out one moment from my TV watching schedule that stood out to me as the highlight of the week (this is in no way a rip-off of ‘Harry Hill’s TV Burp’… honest).
This week’s award goes to the brilliant ‘The Wire’ and stick-up artist Omar taking to the stand to condemn ‘Bird’ for a murder he didn’t actually commit, we think.Despite scumbag lawyer Levy’s attempts to undermine Omar’s testimony due to the fact that he’s an unrepentant criminal, Omar managed to win the jury over with charisma and charm and even put Levy in his place by comparing him to himself – “I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase…”
My favourite part of the whole episode was a follow on from the previous episode where the prosecuting lawyer gave Omar $150 to get some “court clothes” and instructed him to get “something with a tie”. Omar promptly turned up to court in some fresh street gear with a tie wrapped round his neck.
As someone who is only now experiencing the sheer brilliance of ‘The Wire’ I can only marvel at how great this show is and it continues to grow from strength to strength, Omar in particularly is rapidly becoming one of my favourite characters not just on the show but on TV.
Prison Break S04E21-22
Me ha sorprendido el final de Prison Break, hasta me he emocionado. Comentaremos después del especial DVD del dia 21 Julio, Prison Break - The Final Break, porque la serie se lo merece, aparte de las críticas que le hemos lanzado, porque nos ha dado una de las mejores temporadas seriéfilas de los últimos años.
V - The Remake
Después de la buena notícia de la renovación de Dollhouse para una 2ª Temporada de 13 capítulos, ahora la ABC nos ofrece el Ok del remake de V. La ABC ofrece una miniserie de 6 capítulos, pero la Warner Bros no quiere aceptar este plan. Veremos como acaba la cosa, pero seguro que tendremos V la próxima temporada.
Iron Sky "Teaser"
Al parecer la historia no fue bien contada. En 1945 los nazis escaparon al lado oscuro de la luna desde sus bases secretas en la Antártida. Desarrollando tecnología durante décadas, escondidos de la supervisión de rusos, chinos y americanos. En el año 2018 se sienten con el poderío militar suficiente para comenzar la invasión de la tierra y así instaurar el IV Reich.
Esto tiene que tener mucha gracia, seguiremos la pista.
Lost S05E16/17 - The Incident "Comentario"
Tenéis que dejar de vivir episodio a episodio y empezar a pensar a largo plazo. ¿Por qué? Porque a largo plazo, ¡todo va a salir bien! Prometido.
No sé por dónde empezar con esta grandísima Finale. Podría empezar, diciendo que, cómo se puede pasar de una historia entre Charles Widmore vs Benjamin Linus por obtener una Isla, a otra aún más interesante entre Jacob y el Señor X.
Así comienza esta Finale, descubriéndonos al mismísimo JACOB, en persona. Un Jacob que vive en la Isla, que vive justamente debajo de la estatua de los 4 dedos. Según podemos ver, por fin, desde una perspectiva no muy cómoda, observamos que es la estatua de Tueris, Diosa de la fertilidad. 
Otro dato que llama la atención es la visualización a lo lejos de la Roca Negra, por tanto nos tenemos que situar aproximádamente sobre el 1881. Con esto hay que decir que tenemos 2 personajes más que no envejecen.
Con la presencia ya de Jacob en carne y hueso, nos entran con la historia sobre él. Lo podemos ver hablar con otro personaje, que lo llamaré, hasta el 2010, el Señor X. Parece ser que Jacob es el responsable de atraer el barco de la Roca Negra a la Isla, el porqué, pues no lo sabemos.
Nos dan a entender los guionistas, (viendo la 1ª Temporada, y viendo como se ha llegado hasta aquí, como nos podíamos imaginar esto?), que hay como una "historia", no sé como se podría describir, entre estos dos nuevos personajes y la Isla, como si uno quisiera atraer gente a la Isla y el otro no, serán hermanos?
Antes de entrar en el tema de la Isla y Locke con su tropa, nos han añadido 6 flashbacks de los Oceanic 815, donde podemos ver como, en todos ellosse encuentra presente el mismísimo Jacob (1er derrame cerebral). Vemos una pequeña Kate alias Katie, un pequeño James, un Sayid con su querida Nadia, el casamiento de Jin con Sun, con un Jacob hablando perfectamente koreano, en el hospital con Jack, y dos de los mejores, uno con Hurley, hablando sobre muertos, diciéndole que eso de verlos es un don, y que gracias a sus palabras, son por las que vuelve a la Isla. Qué llevará en la funda de la guitarra? Y el segundo, vaya escenaca!! vemos a Jacob leyendo un libro en un banco, seguro que todos, al igual que yo, habéis notado la escena al momento, como ese Locke cae desde el cielo y se estampa contra el suelo. Y en aquel capítulo nos preguntábamos, como es posible que siga vivo, y e aquí la respuesta, Jacob con solo tocarle, lo revive (2º derrame cerebral).
Notar que a todos los Ocenic les toca con la mano. ¿¡Qué es Jacob!??
Volvemos a la Isla, LaFleur, Kate y Juliet siguen en el subamarino para volver a cara, pero gracias al cambio de parecer de Juliet deciden volver to the Island para detener a Jack. Ya debajo de Dharmaville, encotramos a Sayid extrayendo el núcleo termonuclear de la bomba, que tendrán que llevar a la estación del Cisne. Pero no tenemos a un Richard muy convencido que vuelve por donde ha venido con Eloise y les deja el marrón a Jack y Sayid. Al otro lado del pueblo tenemos a un Radzinsky completamente ido, queriendo excavar más y más y un Pierre Chang, asustadísimo. En resumen, Jack consigue llevar la bomba a el cisne, no si eso antes, ver a Sayid malherido de un disparo (se salvará?).
Juliet vuelve a convencer a Sawyer para poder ayudar a Jack, igual que es Kate por Jack. Finalmente consiguen lanzar la bomba dentro del pozo de excavación de Dharma, pero la excavación ha ido más allá, y provoca que el electromagnetismo atraiga todo el metal. Pero algo sucede que Juliet sea tragada por el pozo, y estemos ante una de las escenas emotivas de la Season 5. Juliet se nos va. (3er derrame cerebral). Comentar antes de volver con Locke, la salida de la nada de Rose y Bernard que están más contentos que nosotros con la Finale. Y recordar también el momento, como Pierre Chang pierde el brazo y el adiós de Phil.
Año 2006/07, Locke se dirige a ver a Jacob con su tropa Other, confirmando que él no matará a Jacob sino que lo hará Ben. (4º derrame cerebral). Y donde encuentran a Jacob? pues en lo que queda de la estatua, osea el pie. Pero esto se pone más interesante con la llegada de Ilana y Bram a la cabaña de Jacob. Interesante la entrada a la cabaña, donde se observar que esta rodeada de ceniza menos por un hueco. Ilana nos confirma que Jacob no se encuentra pero afirma que alguién más ha estado vivendo en la cabaña (5º derrame cerebral) y deciden quemar la cabaña y poner rumbo a la estatua. Mencionar la conversación Richard-Locke:¿Cómo puedes estar vivo?
Bueno, llevas en esta isla mucho más tiempo que yo, Richard.
Si alguien pudiera tener una explicación, deberías ser tú.
Sí, llevo aquí mucho tiempo, John.
Y he visto cosas en esta Isla que apenas puedo describir.
Pero nunca he visto a nadie resucitar.
Y yo nunca he visto a alguien que nunca envejece.
No quiere decir que no pueda ocurrir.
Soy así a causa de Jacob.
Y si tuviera que adivinar, él es la causa de que no estés en ese ataúd.
Una vez allí, comprobamos al abrir el ataúd que llevaba el grupo de Ilana, es LOCKE !!! what the frak is going on? Locke está muertísimo (6º derrame cerebral), como lo digo ahora mismo, también lo están Sr Shepard y Claire!!
Pero Locke no estaba vivo? Ben y Locke ya estan dentro de la estatua en busca de Jacob. Un Ben que se pregunta o le pregunta a Jacob porque no fue el el elegido, tan malo es? y es ahí cuando Ben decide actuar y cumplir con todo lo que Locke le diga. Y apuñala a Jacob sin antes éste decir "Ya vienen", se refieren a que vuelven los Oceanic o al grupo de Ilana?
Y acabamos esta review de 15000 líneas, viendo a Juliet, (pedazo de escena, muy grande), haciendo explotar la bomba que procede a dejarnos ciegos hasta Enero 2010.
Preguntas:
Es Locke el Humo Negro? controla el Señor X al Humo negro? El Jacob de la 3ª Temporada es Jacob o es el Señor X? La Isla revive a los muertos? Saltan al 2006/07 los Oceanic o los veremos en la purga? Cómo sale de la Isla Jacob? Quien es el Señor X? Como sabe Jacob a las personas que tiene que encontrar y "tocar"? Pasan Ben y Widmore a un 2º plano? Vivrá Sayid y Juliet? Qué pasará con Desmond? Fue a ver Jacob a Charlie, Claire, Echo?
PD: Para mí, los 2 mejores capítulos de Lost en las 5 temporadas.
Jacob me ha encantado, tanto el personaje como el actor.
He empezado a leer comentarios sobre ya el tema religioso que se le está empezando a dar a Lost. Yo ya voy preparado. BSG me ha entrenado fuerte.
Dejo un ¿gazapo? sobre la estatua.
En las anteriores temporadas vimos que el pie que nos mostraban era el izquierdo, pues ahora se ha convertido en el derecho. De los 1000 que trabajan en Lost nadie se da cuenta?
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