Come with me if you want to live.... through this complete fucking atrocity!

So Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles started off on a bumpy road.

Even so, it still kind of made more sense that Terminator 3, so I resolved to stick with it, at least for the first series, to see where it would lead.

Fortunately it did pick up and the plot got better. You still had to blur a few facts from T1 and T2 but it was the decent logical progression that T3 wasn't so it had something going for it.

Then the writers strike hit. As with many other shows, the Chronicles ended in the middle of the series leaving a little doubt as to whether or not we'd see any more of it, but it was signed for a second season and so we'd get to see just how things were going to develop.

The second series started just recently....

Now I know they want to fuck it into the ground until there's nothing left, then fuck the ground it was destroyed on for good measure.

Shirley Manson as a T1000?



Come on. That look on her face is from the wooden stick up her ass.

I don't have a problem with her music but God damn she can't act for shit. Hell, she's so bad, I'm Scottish and I'm not even going to stand up for her.

So you've got Scottish T1000, running some company no less, Cameron turning bad then good again all in one episode and also telling John she loves him?

What in the fuck?

First episode of the second series and they've completely destroyed it already. These people don't fuck around.

Tags

Yes, I know I haven't filled in tags for the last few posts. I forgot.

I'll get to them whenever....

Complete Set

When I started this blog I said you should expect to find stuff about tech, games, movies, tv shows and music.

Let's go through that list a second....

Tech: check

Games: check

Movies: check

TV shows: check

Music: ....

Ok, no music so far so let's get something down shall we?

For the past while I've mostly been listening to older stuff. When I say older stuff I mean albums like Pearl Jam's Ten, The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and Siamese Dream, Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf and Green Day's Kerplunk, Dookie and Insomniac.

I find it odd that a lot of these older albums still sound fresh when a lot of newer bands these days sound stale and overdone. If not that you've got the emo brigade just annoying everyone.

While there are the odd exceptions where a newer band will do something different and exciting (Bloc Party's first two albums were outstanding as well as Fightstar's) I tend to find myself coming back to the same few bands/artists - Tool, the Deftones, the Cure and Nine Inch Nails to mention a few others - time and again.

That'll do for the moment I guess.

Prison Broken

So I meant to mention Prison Break is back.

So I've got a kind of love:hate thing going with Prison Break. It started out great then started dragging things out a little and then started pushing the believability when the characters got thrown back in prison to escape again, but it managed to turn it around and get things going again.

Now at the start of season 4, we have Sarah returning - if you'll remember, she was killed during season 3, oh no, wait, they've decided that was just some other head in a box -, Sucre, Bellick and "T-Bag" have managed to conveniently remove themselves from a lawless prison in Panama and the company is still after everyone.

Then there's the Motorola Sidekick that can magically wirelessly copy data from any kind of drive? Just don't...

So, looks like things are going to start swinging back towards hate at the start of the this season; let's see if they manage to pull it back.

Mass Effect: Ascension

I've started reading the new Mass Effect book.

I'm a big fan of Mass Effect and I enjoyed the first book, a prequel to the game called Mass Effect: Revelation, also written by Drew Karpyshyn who is also the lead writer of the game franchise which inspired the books, who wrote on other Bioware projects - such as the Baldur's Gate series and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic - and a couple of Star Wars titles focusing on Darth Bane which are also well worth reading, so I figured I'll probably enjoy this one too.

I'm only seven chapters in but so far it's good. It's set shortly after the first game in the series and also includes some characters from the first book and centres around the subversive, anti-alien black-ops group Cerberus.

As I'm not yet finished the story, I'm wondering if this will be a kind of prelude to the events of the yet to be released second game in the series as Revelation was to the first, but I guess I'll just have to keep reading to find out.

I'm no literary critic but Karpyshyn seems to me a worthy author if his previous works are anything to go by but I noticed something in this book that struck me as fairly odd. He seems to like adding a lot of inconsequential detail, to the point of whilst writing about the sound being made by a characters shoes as she walks down a corridor, detailing the exact type and shape of said shoes.

Now either he does this by accident because he's used to describing characters to artists for the games, or he's unleashing his fetsih for womens shoes in the only way he knows how...

Aaaaannnd, we're back....

So it's been a while since I last posted.

A lot of things have happened and have been happening since then so I hadn't really got around to sticking up something new.

I got my 360 back on the last day of my two weeks holiday (it spent more time travelling that it did actually getting fixed and tested).

Since then I haven't finished Alone in the Dark, nor have I finished Crisis Core or played much of FFXI. But a lot of other stuff's been happening.

Anyway let's get something new up.

The reason I haven't finished Alone in the Dark yet is because I was a little stuck on a section before my 360 broke, with little in the way of flammable materials or bullets and every time I thought of putting the disk back in the drive and slogging my way through it I just couldn't be bothered with the hassle. I know where I can get more ammo and sprays and what not near by the point I'm stuck at, the problem is just getting to it and actually equipping it before I get ten kinds of shit beaten out of me by the myriad of possessed assholes that appear with every step you take closer to the goods.

Since then Eden Games have announced that they're fixing the controls for the PS3 version, which still isn't out yet, as well as putting in things like the ability to run without holding down a button and pausing the game when you open your inventory and that they'll be patching this stuff into the 360 version as well. So it looks like I'll be waiting for that to happen before I get back to it. I really want to see it through to the end, it is a pretty decent story.

I haven't finished Crisis Core because I couldn't be bothered charging my PSP. I think that covers that.

Other than that I've pretty much just been reading a whole lot and catching up with movies that I'd been wanting to watch as well as playing some xbla games.

I got Braid and Geometry Wars 2, which are both awesome and well worth checking out, and more recently Castle Crashers which is also excellent. I checked out the Force Unleashed demo as well and it looks like it'll be a fun game.

I also checked out the Lost Boys sequel Lost Boys: The Tribe.

Lost Boys is one of those awesome 80's movies that everyone should love. It could've been made in no other decade. It's a childhood favourite (I know, I know, it's rated 15 or 18 here in the UK depending on which version you get so it may seem odd to call it a "childhood favourite") so I was kind of apprehensive to find out they were making a sequel and especially a more modern one. Then I checked out the trailer....

Go, check it out for yourself. On you go, I'll wait here till you get back....


...done? Bad right?

I lost all hope for it after seeing that, but it's one of those trainwreck moments; you're completely fucking horrified but you have to watch all the same out of some morbid fascination to see what goes down.

So watch I did.... and I have to say I actually enjoyed it.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a totally amazing movie or anything but it was actually quite well put together. It never seemed to take itself too seriously, tongue firmly in cheek and just having fun.

It's definitely worth a watch.

Anyway, I think that's enough for this post. Check back another time to see how long it takes me to put up my next post.

Motherf......

So my 360 had started locking up on me at random times. After watching a dvd the other night, this happened....


This is the second time that my 360 has red ringed. I do have to say though, I've not been as unlucky as other people. I got my 360 at launch and it lasted for almost two years before it red ringed and that was about a year ago.

I know a lot of people seemed to have problems with the return and repair as well, but last time I got mine back within a week and hopefully it'll be similar this time.

I'm kinda bummed about not having my 360 though, especially since I stop work today for holiday for the next two weeks. But I'll catch up with stuff I wanted to get playing on the Wii I suppose and there's still Crisis Core on the PSP and a ton of books I need to read.

I'll maybe even post my thoughts on Alone in the Dark while I'm waiting as well. I really do need to start updating this thing more often....

Alone in the Auto Crisis...

I got me a copy of the new Alone in the Dark....

Which I've not started on yet because I'm still trying to finish GTA IV (my gaming schedule is not really what it should be right now) and I've started playing Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII on the PSP. And I reinstalled Diablo as well.

I'll hopefully manage to get back on top of things and get onto AitD soon and leave my thoughts on it, as well as the awesomeness that is Crisis Core.

Diablo III

So, Diablo III has just been announced.

Awesome!

I love the Diablo games. I lost entire days to those games in both the single-player and on battle.net (and that was back in the days of 56K dial-up connections with 2 hour cut-offs - when atm0 becomes an invaluable command to silence the screeching beast, lest you wake everyone else up at 3.00 in the morning with a reconnect).

The best action-rpg is coming back and it looks every bit as awesome as it always has.

This is one to watch.

Metal Gear Stolid?

So Metal Gear Solid 4 is out.

I don't own a PS3 - and probably never will, the PC, 360 and Wii have pretty much everything I want to play, that is unless the Ico/SotC guys make a game for the PS3 - but with all the hype around MGS4 I feel myself on occasion getting caught up and thinking about grabbing the console and the game.

This will never happen, however, as I know fine well I won't enjoy the MGS experience. I've tried some of the previous games and could never acclimatise myself with them. They always just felt awkward, unforgiving and almost uncontrollable.

From what I've played I wasn't really getting into the story behind Metal Gear and Solid Snake either, but whenever I read about this stuff online it seems so compelling; I'm guessing these are romanticised accounts from veteran Solid fans.

I don't think I can ever really say I hate the game or possibly even dislike it, I don't think I've ever given it that much of a chance, so I think I'll have to stick with indifferent.

This is one game I'll be passing on.