evenfall

Well… it has been a wee while since my last post and the main reason is that I have been just a wee bit busy. I have been working like crazy on the house and at work. Ministry keeps me busy as well. Also toss in a few weekend courses and a wedding and what do you

get= no new blogs not that I think anybody actually reads this. I guess it’s for my own posterity. It has been a fun few months, with all the things going on, but I still squeezed time to watch some movies and the spring tv sweeps.

I thought I would play catch up with various items…including summer blockbuster season.

Let me start off by letting you know that I have to say that Disturbia is probably close to my favorite movie so far this summer…yes even beating Spider-man 3 (I am not that much of a fan that it overrules my sense of respect for story.) Pirates of the Carribean: At Worlds End is great and although it has been panned by critics I do believe that it deserves to be rewatched as a trilogy as they have paid a great honor to Walt Disney in taking a theme park attraction and making it into one of the most compelling stories of the decade. Reviews of Shrek 3 and POTC: At Worlds End will be posted soon.

Grey’s Anatomy

I think that Grey’s Anatomy ended exactly where it needed to… so that it can keep things fresh and new. (The Meredith drowning was a close call for jumping the Shark.)

Lost

Why is that on Lost they are so busy trying to redeem the bad guys (the others) that they can’t make one of their own (the losties) a traitor or that they knew all along…that would have been a much better change than adding flash forwards, although it can be intriguing to see where although it may end up getting them stuck in a corner. It did kind of echo the end of Alias season 2 with the whole Sydney disappearing act for 2 years.

24

It appeared as if the latest worst day for Jack Bauer became a cake walk. What started out as a bang ended with a whimper. After the first 4 hours when they set off the nuke in LA I thought for sure the writers amped it up and had great plans, but they ended up wasting characters…Curtis Manning and the guy Alexander Siddig played. They kept on having characters change motivations on a dime. I wondered if they were making it up as they went along and after an amazing day 5, day 4 just fell flat.

Jericho

I have to mention Jericho for a moment because, when the show started I gave it a shot and at first I was not very interested but I continued to give it time. The end result…when the second half odd the season started I was enthralled the story lines were compelling and excited when the last scene was a pending standoff between two competing towns struggling to survive in the new new west. The show is a glorified western and now I am ticked as the CBS has decided to pull it from the network for next fall. So we may never see the outcome of the battle and the solution to the puzzling event that led them there. I say maybe because if you don’t know the viewers have staged one of the biggest protests ever made to public broadcasting and CBS is now trying to come up with ways to bring this top notch show the conclusion it deserves.