Dipping your childhood in sugar and the scent of babies

Does anyone remember Grease? I know it is a stupid question for almost anyone who doesn't live under a musical/movie rock, but for those butch men and women who wouldn't be caught dead fraternizing with suck stuff (If this is you, why the hell are you here anyway?). Grease is the original High School Musical, as is clearly pointed out in the trailer, except where HSM has ditsy teenagers, a cutesy plot line and the most controversial we got was a slightly angst song. Grease, while being a spiritual predecessor, was ready to flaunt social lines just that little bit more, there were teen pregnancies, high school drop outs and drag races. To be slightly knit picky I could point out that the 18 year old leads in Grease were actually 24 (Trovolta) and 30 (Newton-John), but there was no cotton candy gumdrops in sight, and that was what made it that little bit better for me, it was realistic and didn't cause me to feel as though there should have been a compulsory gender swap at the door.

This trailer is an absolute sell out, covering this movie with colorful text and rainbow imagery makes me want to douse my computer in gasoline. Why do we have to sell out on the past these days, if it isn't a reboot or a remake its a 're-imaging' they're finding some new way to ram something they found in the discount bin of a video store. If I want to have a sing-a-long I'll get a  Karaoke video, some alcohol and 3 other mentally deficient friends over to wail like dying seals, there would be no reason for me to want to congregate with more people than that to embarrass ourselves. Or maybe you would, I don't  know, I can't tell you how to think..

In short, I hate cotton candy things (HMS, The adventures of lord Sparklepants, a.k.a. Twilight and the Jonas brothers to name a few), and big companies will always sell out on things that once were great.

Force Unleashed 2 - Subject 11729564718 (or the mysterious loop hole that brings us back for the sequel)

So aside from being interested in most things in the geekdom world, I like video games. Now while I will agree that there were obvious problems with the first Force Unleashed, the stroy and development were quite good, and thats what I look for in games.

Now onto the trailer:
What the hell was that? Honestly the first trailer had a sort of suspence and intrigue to it. How is he alive? What are Yoda and Vader up to? And my personal favourite, Oh F@#K, what is the big Rankor killing thing. This trailer looked like something a fan with too much spare time on his hands had thrown together in order to amuse his friends. The end is just the gameplay pictures that were released sometime over a week ago, thats when I found them. The other main problem with this trailer is the whole centre flashback part, honestly it felt like going over to aunt Beryls to relive the memories of last Christmas where uncle roger got his name sake caught in his fly, while I enjoyed it at the time I don't need to be reminded cause those images will always be there., and even when we get past the clip show and two what is the only small section of new animation I could find it begins to look strangly familiar... oh wait:

Trailer

Website

So in short, I've found no discernable use for this trailer other than to use it to fill the void between people on facebook replying to wall posts, thanks for nothing Mr Lucus.

Continuity

This video is hilarious, and quite true. While I did enjoy Iron Man 2, the fact that about half the movie was about setting up/promoting the universe.

Still... Sing it angain Iron Man

DC Flash Mob

A DC Flash Mob has been organised  for Federation Square this Saturday, so anyone who is interested, grab your tights and come on down. The day will begin at 9AM.

Posse up: We're going after Micheal Bay

Dear all Ladies and Gentlemen,
On this day, my hopes have been betrayed. On this day the chances we had of a decent Transformers movie were dashed. On this day Micheal Bay showed his true colours.

I hated Transformers 2, I thought it was a god awful move that only managed to be half decent in its explosions (and there were so many of them that if Mr Bay hadn't gotten them right at some point it would just prove how retared he truely is). The thing which I was the most critical of in it was the utter and abhorent lack of plot, Oh sure there was some flimsy thrown together thing about some shard of the ginat Rubix cube, Emporer Palpatine and the *ahem* 'leads' spending what we must consider the second half of the film running through dunes of sand.

So pardon me whan I say I was really excited to hear they had gotten rid of Megan 'zoom in on her breasts' Fox. Had Micheal Bay finaly worked it out that plot is important? Would we get a real actor? Can I dare to dream that this movie may be good? We've already been promised it would be dark, so is this a step in the right direction?

Well my preties my hopes were momentarily dashed. I was told that a Victoria Secrets Model will replace Ms Fox.

...

YOU HAVE LEARNT NOTHING BAY!!!!
The point behind a movie is to suspend belief and bring to us a story of something which we may (or will) never experience, not to just throw some explosions, robots and hot women on a screen an pray that we don't notice everything else has been locked inside a box and shipped off to Bolivia

So here is my call to people of the internet, If Bay chooses a model I'm inviting you all to grab your shotguns and pichforks and join me as I ride out to Hollywood to take down Mr Bay. If its an actress.... well... we can all have cake.

Return from the Dead

That's right I'm back from what looked like a fast end, but no I'm still here.

Now you may be wondering what happened to me? Well feel free to select what you find the most believable answer from the list below:

1. Got busy with work and as such so had no time

2. My computer died so I couldn't post

3. My dog ate my blog and only now has it come out the other side

4. The government closed me down and had me in a secret facility to stop my spreading of dangerous truths. I escaped using a mix of Kung Foo and Origami.

5. I died, went to heaven, fought in a war between heaven and hell, killed Satan, got to chose whatever I liked as a reward, got reserected and now am back.

So feel free to chose any of those options above to help you understand. So now that I'm back there will be a little bit of... fine tuning going on, as much as I enjoy DW, I never really wanted or planed on this becoming a blog exclusively on that. This is for my own random thoughts, observations and general stuff that interests me and may interest you.


So the long and short of it is: I'm back for any number of reasons, I'll be moving more into a random thoughts sort of writing and everyone can have a hug from these two:

Caio Me amigos.

Review

When I wrote my first piece on Doctor Who, I said that this would be a big Welcome bacm angels episode, however now I don't think I did them justice, so here it is again

WELCOME BACK TO THE BIGGEST INTERGALACTIC BADASSES IN THE UNIVERSE! DON'T BLINK!

This is the Moffat we know and love, the intricate plot maker who can keep you on the edge of you seat and guessing until the very end, but lets jump straight in:

PLOT

This episode is Moffat to his absolute best. The pre-credit opening was amazing, The idea of sending a message through time to have The Doctor come back to where you sent it, how mind bending is that! I'm going to address the weeping angels later in the ep, but I will state now that they were absolutly scary, especially during the scene in that trailer with the image. The only thing that I did pick up on was that they opace seemed much slower than the last couple of episodes. Thats not a complaint by the way, This kind of timing could have aided last weeks episode. The cliffhanger, oh my god if any fan out there wasn't having a geek-gasm WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???? It was just so sublte the idea that statues were all angels, I mean who was even thinking about counting the heads? If the second episode is anything this one, then this'll become my favourite of all DW 2 parters.

THE DOCTOR AND AMY

For the past 3 episodes I have felt that we have either been focusing on one of The Doctor or Amy, The Doctor in the first, Amy in the second and The Doctor in the third. But this episode gave us the best look into both of them, The Doctor tthrough River and Amy through those terrifyingly tense scenes. I was listening to the DWO podcast, they mentioned something about Amy I liked, at the point in the episode when everyone is busy and River calls the Doctor over, Amy sarcastically asks "Anyone need me" and then walks off to amuse herself. If that had been any other companion she would have followed along with what the doctor was doing like a love sick puppy, Karen just brings a sense of equal to the companion role that we haven't seen in the new series before, yhea Donna coame close but she was annoying so she doesn't count. Another thing DWO pointed out was that this episdoe was one of the first ones they filmed, Could you tell? cause I couldn't Matt Smith was pitch perfect in his role, I got chills on the trap line, and his whole personality seemed more fleshed out than it did in the first set of episodes, maybe it was helped by the fact he had River to lead, but Matt still made his own imprint on the episode.

RIVER SONG

Normally I give this section to all of the Secondary Characters, but I feel that the other characters, while present and sutiably strong, were more fodda for The Doctors interactions with River. So here we are with Ms Song, Has there ever been such a complex and intriguing relationship between a Doctor and a companion? Is she his wife? Is she the Rani? Is she the Doctor? Is she a time thief who has stole the real River Song's diary and is now abusing what she knows of old Gallirayan society to manipulate The Doctor? Who knows, but Moffat is definently good enough to keep us guessing. My only real complaint is the Spoilers line, I don't know why, but it annoyed me, still it was good that they didn't dwel on the whole diary and spoilers thing. I've never really watched Alex Kingston, but she brings this really light bubbly sort of feeling to hers and the Doctor's interactions, it's almost as though she knows better than him, which it seems she does. So while I hope we don't learn everything at the end of this 2 parter I would like to find out at least a little bit more to whet my appitite for the Season Finale

ALIEN / ENEMY OF THE WEEK

So here we are, how about them Angels? How scary were they? Everyone knew coming in that this episode would be compared to Blink, so I know when it came to the angels I had conflicting hopes. But Moffat changed what the angels were, giving us a new experience that we hadn't predicted. As the Doctor said, the first set we met were scavengers, barely surviving , they had to wait for people. Howe asy would it been to have had the angel slink around the tunnel picking off the crew one by one and ending up with Jsut the Doctor, Father and River left as Amy is thrust back trough time (this was my prediction). But the image section, the slowly changing of Amy from looking into its eyes, and the Army of angels underground, these are not the angels we knew and loved, these are dangerous and deadly badasses... Oh joy! I'm going to address a question not that I've heard from a few people, why did the angel in the tunnel snap those soliders necks. When Angel Bob was talking to The Doctor he talked about how the Angel needed the Ceribral Cortex and the voice box to comunicate with the Doctor, however why the angel needs to speak with the Doctor remains to be seen. But what if an angel can lie, what if the angel we have seen in the bottem of the maze of the dead isn't the one in the spaceship. These angels must have been trapped in that maze, else they would have gone after the people nearby, so what if they needed the hull of the ship breached to get out? Scary

NEXT TIME

So the Doctor is under the pump to come up with a way to stop the angels, my suggestion would be to watch this episode again, the answer will be hidden in there somewhere. And Amy continues to struggle with the Angel's Curse (I like that name), the doctor tells her to keep her eyes closed, a backwards blink? And who knows what we find out about River.
I now feel justified, for this entire time I've been saying that the cracks can't be as simple as they seem, and now we find the Doctor is going to deal with one in this episode, so maybe they have no link to the finale, if this is true then what is the running Link, cause Moffat has said there is one (In Moffat we Trust).

Rating: 9.5/10

Favourite Quote:
The Doctor: "The writing. The graffiti. Old High Gallifreyan! The lost language of the Timelords. There were days - there were many days - these words could burn stars, and raise up empires, and topple gods."
Amy: "What does this say?"
The Doctor: "'Hello sweetie.'"