Posts filed under "telebox"
Help Nathan Buy Firefly - The website address says it all. The best thing Joss Whedon ever created was Firefly.
Mortal Kombat Web Episodes - This is so dark, it’s brilliant. Some of the acting is a bit hammy, but the direction is excellent. Can’t wait to see the rest those 10 episodes.
Periscope Studio Does Mad Men Art - Love this series, love these collectives of comic book artists that decide on a theme for a week and do some art. It’s just pretty good fun.
The following is something I wrote a whole year ago, but I never completed and never published. I’ve taken tweaked a few words here and there, but by and large it remains untouched. I still feel the exact same way a year on. It’s insane how much of an impact that documentary made on me. If you’ve not had a chance to look at it, I highly recommend it.
I’m talking of course about new year’s resolutions. In this regard I’m not different than most people. A year is a long time. Life always throws new things in your general direction over the course of the year with amazing regularity. We’re human beings and so we get bored, we get excited by the new.
After watching Objectified, I definitely look at things I buy with a lot more care. I want to see the love put into everything that I buy. I want things with soul. I don’t want shit cluttering up my life. As such that was a life time resolution. It comes with some difficulty, due in part to the fact that I can’t compromise, which is harder, but this is a resolution I’ve decided to keep. If it’s not necessary and doesn’t get used, what’s the point in having it.
These are resolutions to keep for a lifetime. They are a way of life. However it’s always nice to have smaller more mangeable goals to try and achieve in the meantime.
The Walking Dead trailer - From AMC, the new HBO. With Mad Men and Breaking Bad under their belts, they’re going for the hat trick with ‘The Walking Dead’ based on the Robert Kirkman & Charlie Adlard series of graphic novels.
Lost: The Complete Collection - Must have. Must buy. September is looking good for a Lost marathon.
Sawyer’s Nicknames - While I’m on the Lost bandwagon, this is excellent.
Loved And Lost - Amazing interactive picture of all the characters with a brief recap of who they are and what happened to them. Looking through this, you just start remembering all the questions they just didn’t bother answering.
Google TV - I guess it was only a matter of time really. Now that I’ve moved to Lebanon, i’ll probably not be able to use something like this for many many years (proper internet connection was one of the things I gave up here).
Guillin Fishermen - One of the best adverts I’ve seen for HSBC (it’s old, but I’m going through all my draft posts trying to get them below 50).
http://www.brokenkode.com/youtube-hsbc-advert-guillin-fishermen
LOST Posters - Awesome minimalist posters. It’s definitely en vogue nowadays to do these, but I still like them.
As a teenager, I was never ashamed to pledge my allegiance to this show (the original version, not the shit that has turned up this year). Up until the second year of University, this show was golden - I’m still not.
Happy 9.02.10!
The Complete Chart of Characters’ Past Connections - Leading up to the season premiere next week, i expect a lot more of these things flying around (via @noscope)
http://www.brokenkode.com/the-complete-chart-of-characters-past-connections
The Gates Notes - Excellent looking site from Bill. Is it me, or does it feel as though he’s generally distancing himself from both MS and Fester (Steve Balmer).
Iconic TV Posters - by Albert Exergian. Also be sure to check out his site.
The Carousel - If you want to know why Mad Men is one of the best shows on TV, have a look at this 3 minute scene from the show. Everything is perfect, from the music to Don’s fantastic voice. What’s special to me is that it obviously makes you remember things from your past. Fantastic television.
Bill Moyers interviews David Simon - Fantastic interview which details loads about ‘The Wire’ of course.
http://www.brokenkode.com/bill-moyers-journal-watch-amp-listen-pbs
BSG Worst Ending in the Sci-Fi History - I’ve not had a chance to read this yet, but this is definitely one of those rants that seem like they are really worth reading, when I’ve got a couple of hours to kill and feeling a bit BSG nostalgic.
http://www.brokenkode.com/bsg-worst-ending-in-the-sci-fi-history
Top Gear Series 13 Trailer - The boys are back. Good casting on the young top gear stars as well.
Human Target - trailer for the new series from Fox. Although they haven’t picked up the original idea, which is that Christopher Chance takes on the victim’s identity, thus becoming the Human…wait for it… Target, but overall it looks pretty good. Hopefully they’ve get into the identity lost and disguises sooner rather than later.
MacFarlane confirms Family Guy Movie - Will he learn from the Simpsons movie? Will he learn from the South Park movie? Is there anything to learn from that piece of shit, or will it also be just a really really long episode?
Christian Bale Goes Bat S**t on Peter Griffin - It never ceases to amaze me how on the pulse Family Guy is with today’s pop culture. These guys never miss a beat.
Battlestar Galactica promo - Deadlock - And since we’re talking about BSG, here’s the promo from next week’s episode. Can you imagine the conversation that Sol will have with you-know-who. Awkward. (Obviously don’t go if you’ve not see the final episodes)
http://www.brokenkode.com/battlestar-galactica-promo-deadlock
This was a HUGE Battlestar Galactica Episode. This post is rife with SPOILERS, so if you’ve not seen the episode go somewhere else, nothing to read here.
No Exit answered many questions that have been lingering with most of us for years. As the EW review says, I definitely feel like i’ve deserved this particular episode dammit. I sat through years of BSG goodness, and dammit I wanted some resolution. However this episode didn’t give you everything. It answered (or tried to answer) a number of questions, however these are some of the questions outstanding.
Who Nuked Earth?
So on Kobol, humanity was born. 4000 years ago a tribe from Kobol left for somewhere else. These were the tribe that eventually came to Earth. As it turns out this tribe was completely made of Cylons created on Kobol; back then they could only reanimated themselves. These Cylons left Kobol 2000 years prior to the rest of the tribes leaving Kobol, since they wanted to have their own world (which explains why the left earlier and in the opposite direction to everyone else). Over time they learnt how to reproduce without copies. Emulating humans as best they could.
Eventually these guys (over the course of several 1000 years) forgot how to do this, because they didn’t need know. The lingering question remained however was who nuked Earth? Was it themselves? Unfortunately this little interview snippet doesn’t really shed much light on that question. For the sake of argument let’s just say that a war began between the Cylons and Humans from Kobol. The 5 Cylons were warned (through the ‘Head’ characters) and so they went off to stop the same from happening to the rest of the colonies and trying to actually live together in peace.
The Plan
Now John Cavil as the evil super villian is pretty interesting, except the producers of the show obviously know that for him to pull of something like this there must have been a pretty intricate plan. So they’re going to be releasing a movie called ‘The Plan’ to further elaborate on this series of events and how it actually came about.
Daniel
As for Daniel, he’s basically Kera’s father. Simple. Before he dies he goes off and has the first hybrid baby. Now obviously the question is how did this actually happen? I always thought that the problem has always been that they couldn’t really have babies. Athena was meant to have had the first one with Helo, so there’s a loophole here, but I can’t remember what the deal is. But anyway, Kera is a hybrid, with a link to her dad, so she might be getting some of his memories? One bit of evidence that’s small but points in this general direction is that like her dear dad, Kera is also an artist.
Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 15 Promo - No Exit - Don’t click on the link if you’ve not seen the latest episodes, because it’s got a pretty major spoiler attached. For all those who have seen the latest episodes, this one promises to be an even better episode that the last two that we’ve just had.