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Peacemaker season two opening ep review (spoiler warnings)

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I love the opening credits, the dance number, the flat back comedy with all those ironic hints. That is one of the cleverest parts of the show and it feels like it’s telling you, don’t take this show too seriously.

The calm before the storm? We are wondering what’s going to happen in season two and to be honest I’ve watched a lot of TV and this feels like total shock value.

John Cena does well playing the emotionally wrecked peacemaker, this episode has a certain sense of calm in the beginning, but it quick scales into the obscene. Nathan Fillon who plays Guy Gardner, wow his hair is… I don’t know what to say to that. Every little line of dialog seems to go out of its way to be as crass as possible.

If I could describe this episode, I’d first have to mention the film Falling Down with Kurt Douglas. There is very much that feeling, of losing one’s job falling into the despair that follows and that rabbit hole you simple can’t get back from.

This is very much the hole that Peacemaker falls into, but his hole, is so much more wild.

The friendship he had with Emilia Harcourt, there, but, breaking, sends them both in very wrong directions. Emilia is clearly in a lot of financial trouble, she is clearly on the edge about to lose her very sparce home. Emilia decides to go crazy in a bar, did she get off on being beaten up? 

Back at Peacemaker’s residence, his dads old house which he seems to have moved into after living in a caravan in the previous season. That’s a lot of drugs he was putting into his system! Then at first, I thought all those naked people in his house were all part of his imagination due to that substance abuse. But now, the guy in the van! He sees them as well. And wow! Some look like they are actually having on screen sex! And when I grew up under a fairly conservative household, I am somewhat shocked they allow this on TV.

One of the main aspects about Peacemaker’s dads house is the pocket dimension room. This adds an interesting dynamic where he travels through the pocket from his own dimension to another where his brother and father are still alive and then finding his copy.

Meeting a version of yourself is one thing, know what to do is another. But accidently killing a version of yourself. That’s whole new mind fuck territory right now and that’s where the episode left us.

I am certainly excited for the rest of the show, but err on the side of caution if you decide to watch.

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Installing a sound bar!

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I just brought an LG SK1 sound bar for my LG TV and when it arrived it didn’t come with an optical lead! Surely when the only two options are Bluetooth with newer TVs and optical for the slightly older ones like I have you would of thought they would of supplied you with an optical lead.

So out I went to John Lewis to buy one. I got back and connected it up! Or so I thought I had done it all properly. I couldn’t work out what I was doing wrong so I phoned up LG customer support and went through all the options on the phone with him.

Nothing was working, he asked his boss and the reply was… have you taken the caps off the lead!!

OMG! I did not know there were two tiny caps on the end of the lead, nothing was written on the box nor was there any leaflet in the box for the lead telling me there were any caps on the ends to be removed.. For all the technical problems I thought I was having it’s down to… simple not taking all the packaging off!

I had to turn off the built in speakers on the TV, but at least I got better sound quality for watching movies and such.

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Luke Cage Review

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You previously had a taste of Luke Cage when he showed up in Jessica Jones but now you get the full on show complete with one liners and puns that any comic-book fan would love.

This time in New York we head over to the Harlem district where the African Americans live, breath and die. You are introduced to this part of the city which feels cleaner and less gritty than Jessica Jones and less dark than Dare Devil. But like the rest of New York it clearly has its problems.

Throughout the course of the series you get elements of Luke Cage back story and it unfolds nicely. Each character seems unique, many are provided a back story also and are certainly not one dimensional. Mahershala Ali who plays cottonmouth was the standout character, the actor portrayed him so well that I felt sorry for him in the end.

Another element to the show is the music, that 70s sleek feel. The way the Jazz evolves around life in Harlem. There is a sense and feel that make a very unique take on life.

The show revolves around the Barber Shop, The Club and the streets. Cage doesn’t want to get involved with anyone until he is pushed beyond his capacity to restrain his desire for revenge after his mentor is kill. At this point Cage feels he has to help those in need, while at the same time creating a path of destruction. Mind you, the destruction didn’t seem that much and Cage wasn’t the main culprit.

Often I felt there wasn’t enough action, there were never enough fight scenes for me. The problem with origin stories is the need to develop a character often takes away the ability to headlong into what the current affairs are. This being said there was a healthy mix of each.

After the political mess, the gangland war and police corruption there is a feeling the show leaves you wondering was that all worth it? Although I enjoyed the show, I was left with questions. What did Cage do in the military? What am I missing? And do I really need to see more of this messed up world?

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DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow, now it’s too much.

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DC expands it’s universe to bring another show, we are given one new character in Captain Ric Hunter and a collection of cast members from Arrow and Flash.

I don’t really like shows playing around with the concept of time travel. I always feel that things go wrong and elements of the science are messed up.

This is where Legends of Tomorrow begins and probably will end for me. I watch for too much TV as it is. So I will stick to Arrow and the Flash which I have been enjoying.

As for Legends… At the beginning Hunter is told not to interfere with the timeline on Earth. But Hunter goes against the councils order. He takes his ship travels to Earth to the year of 2016, collects some heroes for a tale of revenge. Isn’t that the most classical of storylines? 

A fight here and there, an assassin on the prowl, another evil villain in Vandal Savage. (Sounds like a wrestler name I once knew!)

There seems a much lighter touch to Legends than DCs previous shows. I prefer the dark personalities of the characters like you have in Arrow. That show felt grounded and more real.

As for Legends of Tomorrow, I found it cheesy, irritating, far from reality and the ending of Savage getting a Russian made nuclear warhead was so cliché. 

Please don’t let me watch another episode.

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Has Scorpion stung it’self?

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I’ve been watching the TV show Scorpion in which a group of nerds save the world and so-forth! The show evolves around Walter O’Brian for which the show is based on and he is played by Elyes Gabel, who’s acting skills are dodgy at times. I don’t know how much O’Brian is involved with the show, the storylines and concepts but a lot of times the character seems big-headed and there is a big tone of self-promotion!

In one episode a character from NCIS: Los Angeles popped up putting it in the same universe as NCIS and Hawaii Five-O programs. But even those shows are better than this one and it didn’t help the cause.

There seems to be a multitude of sins created in every episode, the first being is the heavy use of Windows 8 by one of the best hackers on the planet? (I highly suspect this is to do with an advertising agreement with Microsoft Corp.) I haven’t seen any use of any Linux systems which are far more secure than Windows. Even their programming skills are brought into question. For those who even dabble in coding who have worked with C++ or Basic might be a bit lost in the hacker talk on the show. Did they even ask for help from any expects? And why would you send a hacker with no basic training into the field up against people holding AK47s? The answer is, you wouldn’t, the whole team of Scorpion should of received some form of training before going into the field.

The last episode I watched this morning was “Once Bitten, Twice Die” seemed to stupid to comprehend. How can someone with 197 IQ not make a simple phone call of “We need an antidote for this snake poison!” Gabel’s performance was suspect yet again and the only actor I can give any credit too has to be Katharine McPhee who plays Paige Dineen. I like her because she is very attractive, but also because she has very good on-screen chemistry.

Never-the-less, is this geek TV gone too far?

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XIII season 2 sucks

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I am wondering how i managed to watch the second season, i am currently upto episode 8 and it really is a waste of time! The first season was good, but the acting at times by the supporting casts is terrible. The president of the US and the president to be, so much dodgy to bad acting.

I can’t take it anymore…