Shark, Season 1 & 2 (complete)
I just finished watching both seasons of Shark. That’s the whole series, if you didn’t know. Unfortunately the show got moved around time slots a lot by it’s network, and that kind of screwed it over. It sucks, because in the end, I actually thought it was a solid show.
James Woods is of course the star. I haven’t actually seen James Woods in anything I remember well, but of course knew he was beforehand. The theme of this show is very similar to House. There’s a strong headed, stubborn, opinionated, always-right head hancho, and then a bunch of underlings that work with him. In House it’s.. well, House. In Shark, it’s James Woods as Sebastian Stark, and Woods pulls the role off. He’s outrageous and over dramatic, but it works. He’s funny as hell sometimes.
The rest of the cast is great. There’s a few hot chicks, like Jeri Ryan from Star Trek Voyager (yes, Seven of Nine), Sarah Carter, and Sophina Brown. Sarah Carter I’ve only seen in Smallville, where she was mostly just hot, and Sophina Brown I’d never seen before. It turns out both of them are pretty solid actors, aside from being hot, and I definitely have a little crush on Sophina. Of course, Jeri Ryan is great. Ladies aside, there’s a strong dude cast as well, and the guys I didn’t like got cut out of the show by season 2 anyway. Aside from James Woods, Henry Simmons is a giant giant man who’s mostly just intimidating and awesome, and Kevin Alejandro as Danny Reyes, who’s just a badass.
The show is a little formula, but overall it’s pretty well done. The court/cop stuff is generally pretty smart, and the episode to episode plot is pretty solid. On top of that they’ve got a few recurring plot threads that are great. Like all shows though, that’s just the interest in each individual show. The tying thread is Stark and his relationship with his daughter, which is a little original and good, and then the relationships between Starks many minions. Overall, it’s a fun show. I enjoyed it, even though I wouldn’t put in my top 10 or anything.
It’s a little shitty there are only 2 seasons. I was just starting to like the show a *lot more* by the middle to the end of season 2, and it cut off. Like I said before, it wasn’t really the show’s fault, as it got moved around by it’s network all the time. A few new characters and some deeper plots and writing in season 2 really got the show moving for me. Season 1 was great, but season 2 broke the formula a little. I think if there was a third season, it would have been golden and finished the series up a little better, as opposed to the somewhat unfinished feel season 2 had.
Either way, the show was great, and I enjoyed it. Nothing too heavy, nothing too light, but a good time and James Woods is hilarious. Check it out if you like law/cop stuff.
No commentsX-Men Origins: Gambit
I’m reading comics more often lately, and while I’ve been getting back to and catching up on the series I used to read (X-Men Legacy, New X-Men, Cable, Astonishing X-Men, and well… more X-Men), this week when I went to pick out my comics I saw this one-shot: X-Men Origins: Gambit. Gambit has always been one of my favourite X-Men characters, let alone comic characters period, so I was excited. Then I saw the the issue, and the cover art is totally classic Gambit. At this point I was *damn* excited. I didn’t realize this was a one-shot at first, and was really excited at the thought of a current Gambit series. Oh well, but anyway, on to the story.
***Beware, after this line there are spoilers***
This book takes all the little details of Gambit’s life that most people who know X-Men at all will know, and gives you glimpses of each story in a page or two. It’s a neat little book in that it takes all the stories that have always been very separated and puts them into a time line, but that said, you learned almost nothing new. I was excited to get into the grit of Gambit a bit more, but this book doesn’t really do that. The writer, Mike Carey, caught all the important stories though: his love with Bella Donna and the Assassin/Thieves feud, getting exiled, meeting Sinister, bringing the Marauders together, rescuing Morrow when the Morlocks get f*!@ed, and meeting Storm as a child. It’s a great little glimpse into the life of Gambit, but a glimpse is all you really get. I was a little surprised at the simplicity of this book though. Mike Carey has also been writing X-Men Legacy for the last 40something issues, and I really love that series (been reading since 208). I’m quite surprised this is the same writer, but that doesn’t mean to say it’s bad per se. At least I know Carey likes Gambit as much as me, given how much he’s been in Legacy as well. That bodes well for Gambit lovers.
The art in this book was a little weird for me. At first it reminded me a lot of Ariel Olivetti, who’s been doing the new Cable series. I’m not nuts about his art, but it doesn’t bug me as much as most seem to be bothered by it. Then the book slowly shifts into what I did like towards the end of the book. I’m don’t know if that was done intentionally or not, but it was… interesting. I’m not sure I liked it, but that could just be because I didn’t like the Ollivetti-like style at the beginning, and not because the concept of shifting art styles is a bad one. Hard to say. At the very least, I liked the art towards the end, and it fit Gambit, but I didn’t like the stuff at the beginning.
Overall, it was an okay book, but I wasn’t crazy about it. I will read anything with Gambit in it, so I don’t regret grabbing this, but it’s not great. Just a glimpse into Gambits life in a nice time line that brings back the memories.
You can also catch this review and others at iFanboy.
No commentsGetting my shit together
Hey guys,
<mandatory long time no post line>. I’m wanting to get organized, get my shit together, and to start doing things. My computer has always been my one source of organization. No matter how much I effed up the rest of what I did, my computer’s generally been well maintained, and everything is layed out in a way that makes sense to me. Even this was starting to get effed up. So, I’m starting there and moving outward until I get all my shit together.
I started today by getting my Msn in shape. I went through every contact, labelled them, deleted the ones that were irrelevant, and made sure there wasn’t anything in there that I didn’t use. I halved my contact list. A good start. I’m thinking of taking the people I don’t talk to more than say once every 4 months or something and just making sure I have them on facebook and getting rid of them too so my Msn is just my core list of people I actually want to talk to on a regular basis. Cutting right down.
Next I’ll probably move to FB and all the other apps/sites I use, then clean up all my directory setups, my settings, my files sync’d, my portable, and then maybe I’ll clean my room. It’s all a progression =D
Anyway, part of this getting my shit together thing is establishing an active prescence online again, and keeping in touch with people. Here’s goes.
Jeremy
1 commentSo I wrote some ridiculous L4D Scripts….
Check them out in full here.
It includes:
- Automatic Fire for the auto-shotty and pistols (click once and hold)
- Automatic Reload for the shotguns
- A toggle switch between auto-fire/reload for shotgun, and turning it off for other main weapons (Toggle on when you pick up the shotgun, toggle off when picking up the other main weapons. Only have to hit once until you pick up a new main weapon)
- Mousewheel forward > Primary Weapon
- Mousewheel backward > Pistols
- Or 1,2,3,4,5 as usual for all weapons/items
- Fixes so auto-fire doesn’t wreck items
- Custom q next weapon toggle so the built in next weapon toggle doesn’t break weapons
- Custom crosshair settings
- Crosshair colour changes for weapon types:
Shotty - Orange, Pistols - Blue, Uzi, Machine gun, Sniper - Green
- Close Caption Toggle (Text updates of any sounds you here. Useful because it tells you when hunters/tanks/etc. are approaching)
- Net Graph Toggle (Flip your net_graph 1 on and off to see ping/fps)
My seester
Is the bestest!
No commentsStarting a Podcast
Hey folks, If you didn’t know, I’m in Radio at college, and my friend Nick and I are talking about doing a podcast. We’ve got mics, boards, and all the software we could ever need to produce a fairly solid show at our disposal on campus. We’ve both got a few ideas of what we want to do with the show. I’ll likely be heavily music and talk related, probably with a bias on indie music and such, but it’s really all up in the air. We’re both tech kids, so there may be some overlap into that as well. I’ve seen half of you guys talk about podcasts and various ideas you think would be cool before, so I figured I’d just toss this out here and see what thoughts you might have. So far, all we’ve really decided is it’s going to be called Headphones Only. Thoughts? Ideas? Racial slurs? I’m curious to see what you guys have to say. Jeremy.
1 commentBleach
So I’ve been trying to get through Bleach…
For those of you who don’t know, Bleach is currently at episode 198. What the hell. This series has been going on forever. Now, I think I’ve made it to about episode 70 or 80 or so a couple times now. I’ve *enjoyed* the show, but I don’t love it. There are some really cool fights, the production is very cool, and the characters are a lot of fun. If it was say.. 25 or 50 episodes, then sure, I’d be happy with it. However, I just can’t get through this damn show. It’s not quite good enough that I can sit through this many episodes.
So yeah, I give up. If you’re watching it and liking it awesome, and I think if I watched it as it came out on a daily basis, sure I could do it, but there is just so much material going on and only so much enjoyment for me to get out of it, that I think I’m done with this for now.
Sorry Bleach lovers.
1 commentIf you post it, they will read
What’s using up Jeremy’s time lately:
- School! Radio is pretty sweet, but time consuming.
- Writing songs! Karlis and I are working on another record.
- Being poor! Jeremy had $3. Now he has $2.
- Reading! Reading a few nerdy fantasy books. I’ll post my reviews when I’m done them.
- TF2! Yeah, still playing this a lot.
- Girls and friends! They exist!
- Watching shows! Lately, going through Boston Legal/Boston Public (David E. Kelley is amazing).
Yay!
3 commentsOh lawdy. Msn smells.
Hey guys,
Haven’t posted in awhile, but howdy. Things are good. Here’s my latest frustration:
I’ll start posting again soon.
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