Just watched the third and final episode of Adam Curtis’s new documentary series The Trap on BBC 2.
Not all attempts to make the world a better place lead to tyranny.
I will come back to this later with a fuller review when I’ve watched all three episodes again, but I think Curtis has done yet again a fantastic job of solidify thoughts about modern society and politics that have been washing around in my head.
Adam Curtis director of the brilliant The Power of Nightmares has a new three part documentary series titled The Trap.
The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, “how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom.”
Blairwatch has a synopsis of the series Parts one and two.
Metafilter has an interesting discussion about the series and another about The Power of Nightmares.
This is usually the part when people start screaming.
Whiny little emo Peter Petrelli from the first few episodes would probably start screaming at this point but the new powerful Peter not so much I think.
FREAKIN’ DAMMIT!!!!! APRIL 23RD IS THE NEXT DAMN EPISODE!!!!
I can’t wait that long. 
I just knew Ando would be back. Perfect piece of sidekicking, get the hero’s back without even telling him he’s doing it.
The scene of Claire meeting Mama Petrelli was awesome. Is she part of the group that includes Linderman and Hiro’s dad? Or was her husband? She seems to be acting against their interests in any case and has brought the Haitian over to her side.
I’m betting that Simone’s dad was part of this group also and that we’ll get to see Richard Roundtree again in some flashbacks, I thought it odd that he would appear so briefly in the two episodes he was in.
Again April 23rd!!! I have to wait until then to see the fight between Sylar and Peter. I really do hope it lives up to my expectations.
Well that last episode surprised me in a number of ways.
It played out very differently to how I imagined it might. I assumed that Michael’s plan would go awry when Kellerman assassinated the President and I never thought we would actually get to hear the tape.
Secrets that could bring down the President in movies are like monsters in movies they are always much better before they get brought out into the light of day. But this time the secret was worth waiting for and one that I would never have guessed.
Fucking incest! Man, now that’s something I’m sure she wanted to keep quiet.
Very glad C-Note survived his suicide attempt as he’s my favourite character and I really want he and his family to get the happy ending. In comparison I don’t much give a shit about the fate of Michael and Lincoln.
Sucre and Bellick teaming up against T-Bag could be fun.
Holy Mothering Hell!
Company Man was a superb episode, this is probably the best episode of the series so far.
You might be glad to know that Ted and Matt aren’t even mind-numbingly boring in it, but the episode really belongs to Jack Coleman as Mr. Bennett he was superlative.
The writers of Lost could take some tips from Heroes here this is how you write flashbacks that are both answering questions the viewers have and posing yet more questions for them.
We get introduced to Mr. Bennett’s boss played by Eric Roberts and I’m pretty sure that he ain’t Linderman as he seemed like he was answerable to someone higher in the Company.
George Takei is back as Hiro’s dad and his presence in the flashback opens up whole new possibilities. I’m pretty sure he’s not Linderman either but is probably the Japanese equivalent. Is Hiro adopted? If not does his father suspect he might develop powers?
No fucking idea who Tim Hardaway is but George Takei’s response to Hardaway’s homophobic comments is bloody hilarious. As one YouTube commenter writes
See, this is it. This is exactly it. This is how the world should work. If someone does something to upset you or something along those lines, respond with good natured comedy and not anger. Takei is a good man for doing this. I wish most of the world could be this way.
A surpisingly intelligent comment for YouTube there.
The latest episode of Heroes was fantastic and things really seem to be heating up.
The development of Peter’s powers has been brilliant. He’s gone from having an interesting but relatively useless power, when it was thought that he could only mimic those powers of people he was in proximity to or had just been in contact with, to being probably the most powerful individual of all now that he can access all the powers of those people he’s come in contact with and possibly the only guy who can possibly stop Sylar.
Hana, Matt and Ted’s confrontation with Mr. Bennett at the end is yet to play out and one wonders what Claire will make of encountering yet more people with powers who like her are very pissed off with her father.
And finally it was a great shame to see Ando go but I predict he will return, his relationship with Hiro and the way they interact is too good a thing to be cast aside.
Brian Haw has been named as the winner of the Channel 4 News award for Most Inspiring Political Figure.
Mr Haw received 54 per cent of the votes cast by the public in the channel’s political awards for 2007.
Gen Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British Army, who embarrassed the Government by saying troops should be withdrawn from Iraq, came second with 18 per cent.
Tony Blair was backed by eight per cent and David Cameron by six per cent.
Clearly the British public have lost all respect for their political representatives in parliament.
The second of the BBC’s Doctor Who spin off series The Sarah Jane Adventures has gotten off to a great start with their special pilot episode. Let’s just hope that they can keep up this level of quality for the series proper and not go the way of Torchwood.
Coincidentally a half-year review of the Torchwood team has been leaked on to the interweb.
To: All Staff
From: HR Director
Importance: High
Subject: Half-Year Review – Some Essential RemindersAs we are all aware, we at Torchwood have undergone a drastic downsizing and restructuring exercise during Q1 and Q2 of the current period. Painful as the process has been, the Board is confident that we have now turned the corner and that the organisation is poised to build on its strengths over the coming months to emerge as a strong and vital entity with continued assured growth potential.
Brilliant stuff.
