Year: 2006

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Review: Lost season 1 finale

I was thrilled but also a little disappointed by the final episodes of Lost last night.

We got to see a little more of the nature of the monster in the jungle and yet it is still a mystery in fact more of a mystery now as what I had thought that it was was proved not to be accurate.

We finally got to see The Others and they appear to be just yet another group of survivors but separate from those of Flight 815 and Danielle’s crew. In fact the island seems to have attracted many different groups of people over the years what with the Nigerian drug smuggling priests and then The Black Rock which appears to be a very old ship that somehow ended up 2 miles inland.

So The Others appear to be just a group of survivors that have been on the island for longer than even the 16 years of Danielle. Yet they are are armed and have a boat with a motor plus they seem to posses knowledge about Walt’s abilities.

I was left feeling there wasn’t enough resolution to plot threads and yet more questions have arisen in my mind. But I’m gripped enough to make the wait til spring for the start of season 2 seem almost unbearable at the moment. But I’m worried that due to the nature of US television we’ll never get that final resolution, it will just be dragged out for years and years and then the series will get cancelled.

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Life on Mars.

Just watched the first episode of Life on Mars the new detective drama series on BBC One (in fact it was on the previous night but I recorded it and watched it tonight). For those who haven’t heard of it I shall try and explain (in fact I’ll let the BBC explain)

DCI Sam Tyler’s (John Simm) world is about to be turned upside down. Moments after his girlfriend and colleague, Maya (Archie Panjabi), is kidnapped by a serial killer, Sam is knocked unconscious by a car.

He wakes up – in 1973.

Sam discovers a strange new world full of cigarette smoking, gum chewing, and unreconstructed men. He’s a DI starting his first day in a new precinct and he’s got to prove himself to his new DCI, Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister). Gene likes to throw his weight around. He acts first and thinks later. The only person in this alien world who reaches out to Sam is a young WPC, Annie Cartwright (Liz White).

Dazed and confused, Sam finds it difficult to focus on the murder his new colleagues are investigating. Then he discovers a connection between this crime and the serial killer who kidnapped his girlfriend back in 2006. Could solving this case be the key to getting home? Could it be a way to save Maya?

Sounds daft and like it couldn’t possibly work but it is a fucking cracking drama and I’ve developed a massive crush on WPC Annie Cartwright, must be the uniform.

I think this’ll be taking the place of Lost, which is due to finish this week on Channel 4, as my must-see piece of television each week.

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Review: Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek

I think Wolf Creek is more disturbing for the fact that it was a small budget movie the acting seemed naturalistic and the whole production lacked the Hollywood gloss.

I wasn’t as impressed as I thought I might be having heard so much good stuff about it but thought there were some really good moments in it.

Got me to wondering though about how different is Mick from the normal member of society. Can he just be written off as a psychopath or would many blokes put into a similar isolated environment and given the opportunity to get away with horrific crimes do exactly the same?

Plus the other side of the equation having been abducted but then gotten free somehow what would the average person do? Would they flee, save their friends or would they seek out their abductor to get act out some retribution?

In Liz’s situation after she’s shot Mick in the neck I think I would have made sure he was definitely dead. If the gun was empty now I’d find some tool like a spade and gave the bastards head until it was just a smear of gore on the floor.

Reading the user comments for the movie at IMDB is quite interesting as there seems to be a large split between those that loved it and those that thought it was rubbish.

Also it seems many users are not understanding the concept of being based on true events not actually meaning that it is totally accurately portraying the events that really happened.

I also admit the TRUE STORY part had me intrigued as I’m sure they could not make this stuff up. At the end however, and this is the big spoiler, one guy does escape. However he was incapacitated/unconscious and unseeing of all the other torturing and chasing going on for the whole ENTIRE movie, and the authorities reveal how none of the bodies were ever found, nor was any evidence, or a bad guy. So how the hell is this a true story? This only victim that escaped certainly didn’t know what happened, other than his friends did not return. That pretty much leaves the director/writer or whoever to make the whole thing up. Right? Think about it if you’ve seen the movie.

Okay mate how about you look up the meaning of the phrase artistic licence and then read the following about Ivan Milat, the real Australian serial killer upon which the killer in the movie was loosely based.

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Monopolise this

Reinvigorate your Monopoly board game by using some of these new rules.

I particularly like the following rule as it gives the railroads some enhanced use.

Traveling Railroads
Rule: Whenever a player lands on a railroad, the player may choose to move his or her token to any other railroad owned by the same player.

It’s been years since I played Monopoly but it was a family favourite when my brother and I were kids and we’d play it very often. I might see if I can dig out the old board and play him again using some of these rules when he next visits.

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A stranger comes to town

I’ve been wasting several hours recently playing Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath on my Xbox. As with most of the previous games in the Oddworld series this one succeeds in combining a quirky sense of humour with great gameplay.

Set in a bizarre version of the Wild West where the citizens are chickens, outlaws are piglike creatures, you play a bounty hunter named Stranger who is a kinda Humanoid-Feline.

Stranger requires moolah to pay for an operation and the only way he’s gonna get it is to bring in some bounties by hunting down outlaws using his double-barrelled crossbow which can be loaded up with a variety of different live ammo.

The game is a mix of first-person shooting and third-person melee and platforming and it’s great fun especially blowing the crap out of badguys using explosive bats launched from the crossbow or beating them senseless using some brass knuckles.

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Christmas lights 2005


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Originally uploaded by electricinca.

The lights put up by the houses in Longford Road in Melksham are bigger and better than ever this year.

The photo is part of my Flickr set of Christmas Lights 2005.

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New Year’s Eve 2005: Adam the photographer


New Year’s Eve 2005: Adam the photographer
Originally uploaded by electricinca.

I think this is the one of my favourites of the photos I took on New Year’s Eve. It is my brother Adam taking a photo of me. His photo was awful but mine turned out great I think.

The photo is part of my Flickr set of New Year’s Eve 2005.

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