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De-confusing Heroes

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I’ve now watched the first season the whole way through now and it made loads more sense then the first time I tried to watch it. Of course the first time I tried to watch Heroes it was moved all around the schedules so I kept missing episode and trying to catch up.

This time it makes sense, so far anyway, and I’ve started into the second series now to see what it’s like. I hope to stay with it through the whole thing, but that’s another 50 + episodes, so I guess I’ll just take it one step at a time.

Hello May

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I can’t believe it’s May already. I also can’t believe just how atrocious the weather is for May! Never mind, I just hope it gets better soon.

Lots of cool stuff to look forward to in May, and some new ideas I want to try out as well. I’m also hopeful that I might get back to making some music again as that seems to have dried up for the last few weeks.

Anyway, pinch punch and all that jazz …

Avengers Assemble

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So I went to see Avengers Assemble. It was awesome! What more is there to say? Well, for a start, it was a lot better than I was expecting. I didn’t think it would be nearly as good as it was. It was a lot funnier than I thought it would be too. But then it was directed by Joss Whedon, who is pretty good at that kind of thing. He’s only done one film before, Serenity, but that was an excellent film.

So I was impressed, and I really hope they do another one.

Impressions of Netflix so far

Posted by on in Tech, TV

I’ve been using netflix on a month’s trial for just over a week now. It is useful, it is cheap for unlimited streamed video for £5.99 a month, but the big drawback is the quality and the consistency of the service. Sometimes it is just unwatchable. The picture quality can be terrible at times and then it just cuts out altogether, sometimes for several minutes at a time.

So, whilst it is fine for just catching up on shows on a small screen, like an iPad, I just wouldn’t use it on the big screen as I don’t think it would be watchable. So whilst I think it’s a handy service for catching up on things that I’ve missed, I can’t see it as being more than that until the quality improves radically.

As for the amount of material available, well, it isn’t wonderful to be honest. There are plenty of things I was hoping to find on here that aren’t, which is a shame, but maybe as it gains users in the UK it’ll improve.

The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series)

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I recently watched The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series). I’m sure I’ve seen it before, but it’s great to see it again, an interesting way of using the original first pilot episode in the actual series. I know it’s old, but it’s a good story and it has some interesting ideas too.

I have to say I’m enjoying seeing these old episodes again.

V, the original mini-series

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I thought I’d give this a little look and see what it was like. I can remember watching the original series and it being amazing, so I thought I’d check if my memory was completely coloured by the 80’s. It was. V the mini-series is pretty bad by today’s standards. I’m sure that back in the 80’s we may have found it an amazing TV event, and it probably was, but by today’s standards it seems hard to comprehend.

I’m not entirely sure I can keep watching it really, but we’ll see.