Fringe

Remains awesome and loving every moment. Everything seems to be heading to Peter finding out he is actually from an alternate universe and that Walter kidnapped him. I really like that they don’t mess about in this show. Other shows feel like they are dragging . . . → Read More: TV Updates]]> I haven’t posted about my television viewing lately, so here’s an update:

Fringe

Remains awesome and loving every moment. Everything seems to be heading to Peter finding out he is actually from an alternate universe and that Walter kidnapped him. I really like that they don’t mess about in this show. Other shows feel like they are dragging the story out because there isn’t much of it to go around, but Fringe feels like they are desparetely trying to fit as much in as possible.

Heroes

Someone wake me up when this becomes interesting. I’m only still watching in the vain hope that things will turn around and the show will be good once more. The story is proceeding at an absolute snails pace so far. At least we’re past the requisite lesbian kiss.

Flash Forward

The premise is interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling that it will end up being lame. This show is also an extremely slow mover. I’m sort of irritated that they’re dwelling so much on the individual character stories rather than exploring the shows mythos more.

Stargate Universe

I’m trying to like this, but the snails-pace story progress and the characters aren’t making it easy. The whole stargate premise is already a stretch, but some chubby ‘MIT drop-out’ being recruited to save them all is pushing it. It also doesn’t help that the show has many parallels to Stargate Atlantis which started promising but devolved into complete rubbish.

I should really stay away from spoiler sites but this weeks season 3 finale for Heroes is supposed to… well, I won’t say.

As I’ve already mentioned, Heroes has been lacking . . . → Read More: I am Noble, and Stuff]]> I really enjoyed the Noblegarden event this year. I refer to it in the past tense as I am now titled-up and done. Now for Children’s Week.

I should really stay away from spoiler sites but this weeks season 3 finale for Heroes is supposed to… well, I won’t say.

As I’ve already mentioned, Heroes has been lacking this season for me. It has felt like the show has been meandering from plot point to plot point to some kind of conclusion, though I’m not certain I will care by the time it arrives. Where previous seasons have dealt with character crises in multi-episode arcs, this season has dispensed with that and taken the easier (ie shittier) route of:

Last week he was loving shape shifting, this week he has an identity crisis

Now his ex-wife is back, lucky we killed off the fling

and such stuff.

Even worse is that they’ve got characters revisiting emotional plot points that have already been used (to death). Hello? Haven’t we been here already? I honestly can’t imagine how the show could possibly be rescued from the pit of mediocrity it has dug itself into.

Lost on the other hand, I simply cannot wait to see this weeks episode with Faraday back I presume a lot of things are about to happen. Actually, I kinda know what it is already (damn spoiler sites tempting me) but the knowing hasn’t reduced my excitement.

I’ve finally figured out what it is about Fringe that I might not like. It reminds me of X-files in that each week you never know if you’ll be seeing something that matters to the overall story or some pointless side-thing. I hope this weeks episode doesn’t go off on some unrelated tangent.

Heroes was… meh. Sylar is seriously fucked up though. . . . → Read More: WoW and Stuff]]> No new episode of Lost this week but Fringe is looking more and more promising with the story slowly being unveiled. I’m not sure yet if the story is being inveiled a little too slowly for my liking though I’m sure a few more episodes will tell me.

Heroes was… meh. Sylar is seriously fucked up though. At first I thought he was just imagining his mother was talking to him, not that he was actually shape shifting into her! Talk about twisted. He let smooth talking Rebel (I can’t remember his name) get away even though I thought it would have been way more fun if he’d just sliced his head open indiscriminately. The problem I find with Heroes is that each episode is an hour but the progress they make each episode feels like a 30-minute show.

I’ve put my main WoW toon’s details on here now which serves the dual purpose of allowing me to parade my recent achievements. As you can see from the one at the top of the list right now I am only just getting around to doing some fishing. This is all thanks to the fishing dailies now available in Dalaran, but I was doing one today where I have to fish up 10 fish from Wintergrasp (not exactly the safest of places anytime) and the fish were taking their sweet time jumping onto the hook. I spent a good hour on it this morning and only managed four.