Random Thoughts

Random thoughts

What if Sarah, had shot Miss Winter at the end of Robot. Imagine that..

I would have  preferred that the Governor had taken the prison, in the Walking dead. I think he is an interesting character-a cross between nihilism and energy. Actually Nazi like, the same two qualities

I mean to read I-Robot, and actually Foundation.

Will Neighbours recycle the plots of Anne Robinson writing erotica, for Cameron..Or Phobe giving a nude photo of herself to Toby..



I worry QPR will blow it at the playoffs..and we will be set back another year. Redknapp will go taking a large cheque

The Walking Dead Season 3

Spoilers

There are Spoilers here

Spoilers

Don't you listen to River Song?

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We saw some returns. Merl, back from the rooftop. A nice touch was Merl quoting the Gospels and mentioning how he liked woodbury's library. Then we see him later tearing apart mattresses for dope, and confessing he does not really know why he does it

We also saw the return of Lenny James. In ``Close'' This was the best episode of the series I think. With Rick having to confront his past. He had simply forgotten, Morgan(Lenny James carácter)
Rick, and by extensión the audience had moved on, and left Morgan
 behind . Meanwhile the past had caught up with Morgan. In fact Morgan would never be able to escape it
The scene when our heroes ignore a hitchiker in the episode Close, and we return to see his bloody rucksack, was chilling. A man reduced to his his teeth and nails. It would only be a matter of time..
and it was.


We lost some people T-Dog. I was sorry to see the character go, but TPTB never really did anything with the character. There seemed to be an element of tokenism, as T-Dog was replaced by an African American former prisoner, whom had the good taste to be killed on a raid on Woodbury and then by Tyreese

The problem with the season, was the Governor. David Morrisey, did a better job with the material then the writers of the comic book and perhaps the series intended. Consequently it felt that the Governor was constantly kicking the dog, or killing a priest...
PS I last saw David Morrisey in the next Doctor. So Kudos for two star turns in genre TV
The point I think is that the Governor despite his problems is still better then the outside world.
 The Dead have risen. The Governor has created order in Woodbury.  Through Milton the Governor

 is conducting research into the plague. Milton is probably right. The Walkers do have some spark of what they were before. I say what rather then who. Remember Morgan's son. Morgan's son is killed by his own mother. So we have a biter following her son scross country. Look at Woodbury. It has street lighting, it has law and order. From this the future can be rebuilt. So why doesn't the series present the Governor as the Hobbesian monarch. Rome built roads and aqueducts  but Rome watched people fight to the death.
I suppose its just the spirit of the times. All villains since 1945 are Hitler. That said I suspect the Governor using the term `terrorist'' to refer to Ricks group is a nod  to post 911 politics.
If the Governor is Hitler. Remember decent Germans voted for Hitler. The Germans supported Hitler with reservations until the end of the War. Why-well because Hitler was better then what came before, and they were scared of the alternative. In the Walking Dead Universe. The alternate option is a living hell.
Apologies for breaking Godwins law. Let us return to series
The final act of the Governor a massacre of the citizens of Woodbury. An act of nihilism, Hitler would have approved of in his final rages in the Bunker. Perhaps the Hitler/ Governor analogue despite the cliche is the correct one. The Governor, which is a close approximation of Fuehrer, felt Woodbury had failed him. He had saved it, and Woodbury would not rise to the challenge of the New Order

The woman hiding under a body, as the Governor drove off, is perhaps another nod to the New Order.

The way our favourite Governor got Milton to kill Andrea was wonderfully despicable. The fact that once we die, we turn into zombies was used very well. We have been spared the horror of this truth in the series. Shane turning at the end of season two, didn't really pack the same punch, that Daryl having to euthanize his dead brother had.

It was a brave decision to show Rick suffering from the trauma of losing his wife. Suffering mentally. Though this being TV land Rick regained his mental health all to quickly. I think TPTB did better last season with Shane's descent.

One final thought, why abandon Woodbury with its creature comforts and full larder for the Prison. Woodbury was secure after the Governor left.  Clean clothes and bed sheets would seem to be the next target for a run. Or even leave Woodbury as in tact as posible

Another PPS, I wonder if the series is going to have Tyrells group. As the people that Rick shot up in the bar.

That is gravy. I enjoyed the series, I look forward to series 4

100 things I liked

100 things I like/liked

In no especial order:

Watching Fraiser
Drinking Milkshake
Listening to Robbie Vincent on LBC
Watching Sport in Question with my brother
Smoking a soft pack of camel cigarettes
Watching QPR
Listening to Jefferson Airplane
Stefany
Watching Xena, Warrior Princess
Eating B.L.T Sandwiches
Dinosaurs
Playing Age of Empires
Eating Pancakes
Wearing Dr Martens
Valya!
Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Eating Marmite and toast
Robyn
Watching the Walking dead
Playing Tetris
Eating Pepperami. Dunking them in tea
Drinking Leffe Blonde
Meike :)
Watching Quantum leap
Reading the Great war American front novels
Drawing Zacheins,
Watching Lost
Eating Steak and Kidney pie
Being in Hawaii on Holiday
Playing Sonic the hedgehog
Watching Bob downe under
Going to a Carolina Hurricanes match
Veronica
Watching either of the Battle Galatica's
Going to Christmas markets in Germany
Drinking Doombar bitter
Georgeina the Russian barmaid
Watching Family Guy
Charlotte
Watching the Road. The film, based on the novel.
Hanging out in Desmonds, in NYC
Watching Star Trek the next generation, on wednesdayy
Jaqui
Watching the Carolina panthers
Eating at hooters
Paola-now Nicolle
Drinking Cream soda
Going to GAA games with dad
eating M& Ms
My Carolina Hoodies
Reading the Jeremy James books
Going to Ireland, for long summer holidays
Regina
Reading the Ber Rabbit stories
Playing with lego
Jane Hamilton
Watching Hell Boy 2
The Civil war pictures my brother and I took at Virginia beach
Sitting on the Balcony, smoking with my UNC set
Eating Walls Vienetta
Drinking Hot chocolate
Watching American Gladiators, in the middle of the night
Hot Tomato soup
August, the lady, not the month
Reading 500 ad
Playing Birth of the federation on my pC
Watching Airwolf
Listening to the Ben Folds five
Marina
Taking part in the liberal studies debates
Watching the X Files
Hanging out, in the Abbey Road, Virginia beach
Penelope from High School
Drinking Mint tea
Watching Alias
Kasia
The eating of Cornish pasties
Watching the A-team
Celtic civilization classes
Eating Fruit and Fibre cereal for breakfast
Watching the Mysterious cities of Gold
Kat!
Reading 90 Minutes Magazine
My black Carolina panthers sweatshirt
Susanne
Drinking 7up, during the Fido dido years
Looking at New talent Magazine
Watching Phoenix nights
Kat and Olya
Drinking Irn bru
Playing Astrowars!
Reading the Beta ray bill graphic novel,
Playing with Grimlock
Eating Poutine
Listening to Tony Robinson tell the story of Odysseus
Being in North Carolina
Snorkeling, at the public baths

The Walking Dead

This was recommended, on one of my history lists.
It was broadcast, however I missed it. I wanted to wait, until it came out on DVD. Or rather blue ray in this case. I had to search about, for a program to update it. Its from AMC, the same stable as Mad Men.

Anyway, a man wakes up, after spending several months in a coma, to find that zombies have overun the Earth. Oh look its him from Teachers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lincoln
and ``this life'' Let us never mention that show again. So curiously, the first episode, has two brits. Andrew Lincoln, and Lennie Jamies pretending to be Americans born south of the Mason Dixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_James

Anyway Lincoln's Grimes, was an ordinary man. A sherrif's deputy, who was having troubles with his wife. (After the teaser, in which Grimes despatches a child zombie) One of the first scenes we have of Grimes, is him complaining, about his wife, washing their dirty laundry in front of there child.

Its one of the best genre TV programs I have seen, in a long time. The dead are walking. They feast on the living. Man has been reduced, to life in a hobbesian sense. Nasty, brutish and short. However are protangonists. Still deal with the workaday concerns of abusive marriages, guilt, racism and deceit. Our Hero's famil is rescued, by his partner. His wife conducts a discreet relationship, with the man who rescued her. Only for the impossible to happen, and her husband, who she believed to be dead.
To walk into the camp, were a little band of surviors had made there home..

I remember reading somewhere, an assertion that people in the past. Dealt with death much better than we do. Look at the descirptions of death, in epic poetry. X was killed, he was buried and mourned. I wonder if the interest in zombies, is inspired by our distance from death. We no longer see death. We know despite our great art and science, we will succomb to it one day. We have forgotten how to mourn. The walking dead, being longer than most Zombie movies, gives us a view of the horror of the world. Where the dead must be feared and destroyed. They cannot be mourned.

One scene has Grimes, and his friend attempt to escape the walkers, by covering themselves in the entrails, of a corpse. Another scene has lennie James attempt to destroy the animated corpse of his wife. To give him, and his son some peace

Grimes, his son, his wife and his partner are joined by a rag tag bunch
The surviors, include two brothers from the backwoods. A family of Mexicans. An Asian delivery boy, and African American town cler, Soon, it becomes clear that the Dead are not the only people that the surviors have to worry about. There is a great story in which Grimes gang confront another band of survivors in the ruins of Atlanta. Who are not what we think they are.

I am enjoying the Atlanta skyline, and scenary too. I am wondering if our little band of survivors, will make it to the Sea islands. Not only that, but the effort in creating the world 20 minutes after the apoclaypse is supberb. The abandoned Tanks, and soldiers lying dead, in the street. A flashback has a scene, in which medical staff are massacred by soldiers. Presumably to create a firebreak, to check the shambling, but steady advance of the walkers. The quiet and the birdsong

Such horror, and such humanity. As I observed with Battlestar Galatica, when faced with the challenge of Sturgeons law, this is part of the Case for the Defence