Someone will die

The tag line for this week’s episode of Heroes is “Someone will fly and someone will die.” Well, ZZZZZZZZZ. There are only two people who can fly (one we’ve seen and one with the potential to do so) it’s not tough to guess who that could be…. And someone dies in every single episode! With two psychotic killers running around there is always a gruesome death. If the tag wants us to be concerned about the death of someone we care about then stop killing so many people we only meet for a few minutes. I care about those people too. And in the comics that are on the website… even more people get killed, perfectly innocent people as well.

All of the so-called heroes have completely gone over the edge. Hiro has abandoned Ando, the Invisible guy loves beating up Peter, the cop is pointing a gun at a sick woman and a teenage boy (the clueless Bennett family), and the bomb-guy just wants to blow everything up. To top it off, Peter (remember that sweet guy who was a nurse?) is now a psycho in his own right…Nothing says crazy like tilting your head forward and glaring out from under your straggly hair. At this rate, Mr. Bennett will be the most heroic person in the cast. (He has come a long way from supposedly killing Mohider’s father to just wanting to protect his little Claire-Bear.) After all, he’s the only one chasing after Sylar which makes him at least a potential hero in my book.

TV without Television

Despite the fact that I do not have access to television, I am able to download the occasional episode of a TV show that interests me and my friend tapes some stuff for me as well. Thanks to her I am able to keep up with “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” I have to see the last season that Vincent D’Onofrio is going to be in.

Recently I watched the last two episodes of a British sci-fi show called “Torchwood” in order to see if the Master is returning (he is returning on Doctor Who, but not in Torchwood). The characters on this show are extremely unlikable and I doubt I will be interested in continuing to watch this. The show is crazy rubber sci-fi with loads of personal baggage. In this episode a couple of people fell through a temporal rift and ended up in 1941. However, the most unbelievable aspect of this episode was that Captain Jack was able to find the only openly gay military man in Cardiff.

I saw the first episode of another British show called “The Eleventh Hour” with Patrick Stewart which was exciting and quite interesting. It’s a sort of Science-gone-crazy type show. It’s set in the present day and features science that is possible set in an adventure story. The first episode was about people trying to clone a millionaire’s son.

Another British show is also proving to be very very interesting. “Time Team” is one of those reality shows only with an intellectual bent. A team of archeologists are given only a few days to excavate sites around Britain. I just saw an episode where they were looking for a Roman villa in the Cotswolds and ended up finding a whole huge complex.

Bad movie

I’ve watched a bad movie since I last wrote. It was “Sharkboy and Lavagirl” in 3-D. The effects were interesting, but the story was thin. I also watched “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” 2006. It was spectacular, but the beavers weren’t big enough and they weren’t wearing clothes. In the books all the talking animals wore clothes and were larger than their dumb cousins. They are continuing the series with the next book due out later this year. In my Harold Lloyd marathon, I watched “Girl Shy” which is a fabulous movie. The acting in this one goes beyond the stereotypical silent movie acting and is a really very sweet film.