I never thought a show about a bunch of morons standing in the middle of nowhere, with a lot of heavy weaponry, could be this fun.
Good stuff.
Posts filed in Pleasant surprises
Even a pessimist can be pleasantly surprised at times. In fact, we’re probably pleasantly surprised more often than more optimistic people. After all, everything can’t go wrong all the time, while by the same token everything can’t go well all the time. Anyway, I’m usually pleasantly surprised mainly by some movie or other, or by myself, in fact. I mean, I think of myself as a lazy underachiever, so when I actually manage to do something right, I’m pleasantly surprised.
Red vs. Blue, season 1
Ugly Betty, season 1
What a nice little show!
Or, perhaps, what a nice, bug (edit: this is obviously supposed to be “big”, but I think the typo’s amusing enough to be spard correction) show, as it’s a 23 episodes long season, with 42-minutes long episodes.
Well, no matter its size, the fact remains that its a nice one.
The characters were [...]
Movies Galore: A Summary
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
Angel: After the Fall
Here I isolate myself from the world (i.e. the wondrous interblag) for a mere fortnight or so, and when I return, what do I find out? That The Eternal Master, Mr. Joss Whedon, is helping some guy (his name’s Brian Lynch, I think) write an in-canon “Angel season six” comic!
It’s too much. I have to [...]
Doctor Who 2006 2×03 School Reunion
Tony Head as a reptile-bat alien disguised as a headmaster.
Awesome.
Issue 5 — The Chain
My immediate reaction to this issue, is that it is the best one this far.
Because while it lacks those “OMIGAWD!1 IT’S HER/HIM/IT/THEM!!!1″ moments, it was a beautiful and sad story, with elegant pathos and an endearing main character whose name we never even learn.
Quite a treat; if all the “short ones” they intend to stick [...]
Romeo + Juliet
For long periods of my life, I’ve nurtured a completely irrational dislike for the actor Leonardo di Caprio, a dislike probably rooted in my background as a male kid in the late 90s, when “Leo” was the dream boy of every girl, and the envy of every boy. And, as is so very often the [...]
Serenity
It’s been over a year and a half since the (first and) last time, but I finally got around to watch “Serenity” again.
And it was a pleasant surprise; before I watched it again, after having watched the series a second time, I feared that the relationship between the characters would be messed up, and that [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I finished the book five minutes ago, some 18 or 19 hours after I found it in my mailbox. I’ll try to review it, and I’ll do my best to do so without any spoilers, but for those who doesn’t want to know a godsdamned thing, I’ll hide it. Naturally, there will be spoilers for [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, #2
Watched this one again last night, and it was surprisingly much better than the first time. Mostly, this was because I focused on what was actually there rather than on what wasn’t, and it turned out that even though they could have spent another half hour for emphasis to a couple of scenes, and done [...]
Firefly
I’m currently watching “FireflY” again, for the first time since December 2005, and thought I’d scratch down a couple of thoughts I’ve had this far.
First of all, “Firefly” was the first Whedon show I watched. Or to be more precise, it was the first Whedon show I like to think I came to know. [...]
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Red Seas under Red Skies
by Scott Lynch.
Gollancz Fantasy 2007, 587 pages (tpb).
I think this is my first review of a sequel, but RSURS is relatively independent of The Lies of Locke Lamora, so I’ll take my chances.
The plot of RSURS is quite elegantly summed up by Locke himself, on page 554:
Why did some stupid motherfucker [...]
Scrooge McD Nostalgia
I bought the first volume of the Norwegian “Walt Disney’s Hall of Fame” today, a book that collects some of Don Rosa’s first and best Scrooge McDuck comics. I haven’t started on the comics themselves yet, as it had some snacks in the beginning that I have to read. One of these tasty little morsels [...]
Mellom Slagene
Grufullt lite foredrag jeg holdt på museet i kveld. Et språklig togkrasj, siden jeg skrev førsteutkastet på riksmål, før jeg plutselig innså at syntaksen min når jeg snakker er mer nynorsk, hvorpå et kaotisk og halvhjertet forsøk på å tilpasse stilen muntlig framføring oppsto.
Som sagt, språket er katastrofe, innholdet noe bedre. Poster foreløpig tekst, så [...]
Sunshine
Perhaps the only advantage of having to depend on a small town cinema during summers: I get the opportunity to watch movies I missed when they were screened in Trondheim. As was the case of “Sunshine“.
In 2050, the Sun is about to stop burning, and a crew of astronauts and scientists are sent out to [...]
Dalek!
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of days now, but haven’t found the time for it until now. And while the immediacy of the post’ll be lost, compared to what it’d been if I’d written it when I should have, I feel it has to be said:
I’ve used to make fun [...]
Garden State
I watched my favourite romantic comedy last Thursday: Zach Braff’s “Garden State”. (Eh, this one was written about one month ago; I must have forgotten to submit it…)
It really is a magnificent little movie, which Braff not only wrote and directed, but also starred in. He played the main character, Andrew Largeman, a young man [...]
A “Tigana” related “whoa!”
Perhaps it is because I am mentally exhausted after two very long, very straining tours earlier today, but I just had a whole new experience:
I’ve never before — never ever — been touched to tears by exposition just 116 pages into a book. Never. Not until Baerd told Devin of the fate of Tigana and [...]
By popular demand: “Lyonesse” reviewed.
”Lyonesse”
by Jack Vance.
My copy was published by Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks, and the “Lyonesse” trilogy consists of:
– “Suldrun’s Garden”, 1983, 434 p.
– “The Green Pearl“, 1985, 378 p.
– “Madouc”, 1989, 400 p.
In the Cantabrian Gulf, in what is today known as the Bay of Biscay, between Galicia, Aquitaine, Armorica, Britain and Ireland, there was once a [...]
Second day of work…
… and I’ve already been exhausted for one day, even though I haven’t really started on the tasks that actually require an effort. Damn, but I wish my sister had still been here to take care of all this pre-season stress…
Oh well. I might try to convince myself that with all this work, [...]
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