Segun de Hollywood Reporter ”Star Trek XI” se coloco con exito en el top 10 de Renta y Venta, segun el reprote de la industria que se dedica al giro de renta y venta han solicitado 5.7 millones de discos(DVD’s) y en Blue-Ray 1.1 millones de la pelicula de JJ Abrams para Norteamerica, la distribuidora ‘Nielsen VideoScan ‘ dice al respecto ‘en las ventas Star Trek fue el vencedor, no fue sorpresa, teniendo en cuenta que casi 38% de las ventas totales de primer-semana de título fue de la versión de Blu-Ray’.

Fuente:Trekweb.com

Aunque todavía no hemos llegado a la mitad de la primera temporada, la cadena ABC sorprendió a todos los fanáticos al confirmar que la producción de FlashForward estará suspendida por algunos días.

Según lo informado, la producción de la serie ya ha sido detenida y seguramente será retomada la próxima semana, siguiendo una tendencia de los últimos meses de detener filmaciones como sucedió con 24, V y Cougar Town.

Intentando evitar preguntas, un representante de la cadena indicó que estas “vacaciones” ya habían sido consideradas en la producción, explicando que los productores quieren mantener la calidad de la serie en la segunda parte de la temporada.

El tema de la suspensión es su llegada, considerando que la suspensión llega pocos días después de que FlashForward sufriera su peor semana en los ratings, causando los primeros rumores de una posible cancelación antes de la segunda temporada.

Junto a esto, tenemos que recordar que hace algunas semanas el productor ejecutivo Marc Guggenheim dejó la producción, lo que significó que el co-creador, David Goyer, se convirtiera en el único encargado de la serie.

Ahora solo resta esperar que esta suspensión le permita a los escritores crear nuevas historias y algún respaldo en caso de que la serie llegue a su final después de una sola temporada.

Siempre me ha gustado hacer metáforas, sobre todo recuerriendo a cosas cotidianas que casi todo el mundo entiende. Entre ellas soy bastante aficionado a aplicar símiles futbolísticos a distintos aspectos de la vida cotidiana, y con la serie que nos ocupa, viene como anillo al dedo. Imagenimos que Flash Forward es un equipo debutante, cuyo primer partido ha sido bastante prometedor, con buenos resultados, alguna jugada espectacular, y tres puntos en la saca. Bien, si a la jornada siguiente el equipo juega regular, se le deja pasar, total, estamos a principio de temporada. Si en los siguientes partidos los resultados son catastróficos, excepto en alguna jornada suelta que vuelve a brillar un mínimo, se empezaría a pedir la cabeza del entrenador. Pues si todo eso se traslada  Flash Forward todo eso encaja. Es más, incluso coincide el típico caso de que un presidente apoya al entrenador de cara a toda la temporada, en este caso firmando una entera debido a la euforia de la aundiencia inicial. Claro, que cuando un equipo empieza a caer estrepitosamente los aficionados se ponen en su contra o le dan la espalda, y en esta serie el decalabro de audiencia respecto a la del piloto está llegando a cotas históricas.

Dejando a un lado los símiles, Flash Forward es un despropósito absoluto. Es un intento de serie coral mal entendida, no por meter muchos personajes vas a conseguir llegar a mucho público distinto, al contrario, algunos son tan testimoniales y ocupan tanto tiempo en pantalla que estorban. La estructura de los episodios es repetitiva, monótona, tramposa y abusa de los cliffhanger de medio pelo. No sabe combinar en absoluto lo que serían episodios con más trama central con otros de tramas secundarias, parece que todo está mezclado en modo “random”, eso sí, todo muy guiadito, previsible y trampeado convenitentemente. A estas alturas de la serie te da igual que experimento han hecho, porque lo han hecho y quienes son los malos, no saben crear intriga, no saben crear expectación, en definitiva, Goyer siempre ha tendido a hacer grandes obras (el guión de The Dark Knight) con subproductos cuya creación merece la pena capital (la TV Movie de Nick Fury con David Hasselhof), y parece que el restultado final de ésta serie se acerca más a la segunda que a la primera. Han querido abrir tantas subtramas que no cubre ninguna, se pisan entre ellas y todas carecen de profundidad, en un momento estás viendo la típica serie petarda de hospitales y a los diez minuto una de conspiraciones, o una moñez onírica, todo termina por formar una mezcla poco digerible. Por mucho que intente remontar el vuelo, el destrozo está hecho, ha perdido más de 10 millones de espectadores en Estados Unidos, y gran parte del público que no la ha abandonado la observa con recelo. Este fracaso es algo que sus propios creadores se han labrado ellos solitos, miento, el reparto también ayuda lo suyo.

Y es que Joseph Fiennes es estático, inexpresivo y transmite pereza como nadie. Sony Walger ha demostrado que sólo sirve como personaje soporte, como en Lost, pero además, como en dicha serie, que no tenga más de 5 minutos en pantalla porque no hay dios que la aguante, es una actriz mediocre, limitada y con un registro de expresiones faciales a la altura de Chuck Norris y Steven Seagal. Dominic Monhagan está sobreaactuado. Brian F. Obyrne, además de tener un personaje poco agradecido, parece que es Ricardo Castella con barba postiza. El resto no llega ni siquiera a ser mediocre. De hecho, el único actor que se salva John Cho, que recientemente apareción en Star Trek y a cuyo personaje en American Pie le debemos la grandiosa expresión MQMF, que interpreta su papel con bastante solvencia, aunque aún así sufre la mediocridad del guión. De hecho, incluso papeles secundarios en momentos puntuales interpretados por actores conocidos, como el que hace Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben en Galactica) consiguen aplastar la mediocre actuación del reparto.

En definitiva, Flash Forward es como las malas gaseosas, que hace mucho ruido al abrir y luego se queda sin gas. Nueve episodios es un periodo de prueba más que razonable para determinar que rumbo va a tener una serie que como mínimo va a contar con 23 o 24 episodios, y a estas alturas la serie dan ganas de abandonarla y que engrose el cajón de esas series que fueron naufragando en el mar de inmundincia compuestos por series que pudieron ser y no fueron, y convivir con Heroes, Prison Break y alguna más hasta el fin de los días en ese océano de fiascos. Lo más preocupante es que esta sensación de pérdida se tenga tan pronto, los productores de televisión deberían saber que no basta con hacer un buen piloto, tienen que tener en cuenta que si los episodios siguientes son malos con avaricia, el interés por la serie, los seguidores, y por tanto los millones, acabarán por abandonarlos, y lo que podría ser un negocio acaba siendo un fiasco. No pido ya que tengan respeto por la audiencia y no le intente tomar el pelo, sino que sean un poco inteligentes y no se tiren piedras sobre su tejado, cosa a la que parecen bastante aficionados.

Hmm.. Super tare serialul! Abia am inceput sa ma uit, pana acum am vazut primele doua episoade, dar mi se pare genial! Pai am aflat de el de pe www.tvblog.ro, dar am apasat pe “reclama” pentru ca l-am vazut pe John Cho, pe care tocmai il vazusem in “Harold & Kumar”.

Pai ce se intampla in film? Pe 6 octombrie, din cauza unui misterios eveniment, toata lumea isi pierde cunostinta pentru 2 minute si 17 secunde, timp in care oamenii au viziuni despre viitorul lor, sase luni mai incolo, adica 29 aprilie 2010.  O echipa de agenti FBI incep sa investigheze ce s-a intamplat si daca se va mai intampla inca o data. Mai mult, va las pe voi sa aflati.

Daca nu doriti sa-l downloadati de pe internet, este in difuzare la AXN lunea, la ora 23, sau in reluare sambata, la 21.

Två välutbildade men desillusionerade unga män, Harold (John Cho) och Kumar (Kal Penn), har väl inte riktigt ramlat rätt i livet ännu och när de får ett infall att det viktigaste är att svulla i sig en burgare från hamburgerrestaurangen White Castle blir det en strapatsfylld färd med många märkliga möten på vägen.

Tydligen gick den här filmen så pass bra att man gjorde en uppföljare. Jag tycker dock att den här första filmen om pundarna Harold och Kumar är den bästa. Det är larvigt och flabbigt, men man balanserar det på ett ganska skickligt sätt. Roligast i båda filmerna är nästan Neil Patrick Harris i rollen som en mindre ordningssam version av sig själv. Här ser vi också svenska Malin Åkerman i en tidig ”tuttroll” som hon nog idag knappast hade accepterat. Kvinnosynen och allt drogande drar ner betyget ett snäpp.

Betyg: 2

People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive issue is about to come out, and they announced their cover boy – Johnny Depp.

Not exactly a surprising or risky choice, but not to say the man isn’t sexy. Because he is. I approve.

They also gave a “sneak preview” of the other men who are the sexiest of the year – or who have the hardest working publicists.

Really, Nick Cannon? Jerry O’Connell? Adam Lambert? THESE are the men that we find the sexiest? Who honestly picks them? I have had the “who would you do – celebrity edition” conversation many times with many different people, and these names don’t come up.

But I guess if People tuned into what people actually find sexy – which is more often than not, niche actors and not the big names that sell magazines, they well, wouldn’t sell magazines. But wouldn’t you love to read a People magazine with Sexiest Man Alive – Daniel Day Lewis, featuring Daniel Hennesy, Nathan Fillion and Chiwetel Ejiofor instead of the same old RPatzz and Zefron?

But hey, let’s not be so negetive. The full list hasn’t been revealed, so maybe all those guys make the cut! (Doubtful). But at least I can enjoy the choices they got right – Robert Downey Jr and my bb John Cho. Yes please!

Eric Bana gives Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto some hair care tips.

(Paramount) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Eric Bana, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Bruce Greenwood, Leonard Nimoy, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross, Winona Ryder, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Morrison, Rachel Nichols, Faran Tahir. Directed by J.J. Abrams

Even icons from time to time must reinvent themselves, if for no other reason to remain relevant in changing times. That is even more true for those having to do with the future.

The Federation starship U.S.S. Kelvin is investigating strange readings at a black hole. To the surprise of the ship’s captain (Tahir), a gigantic spacecraft of unknown design emerges from the singularity and without any provocation at all, opens fire on the starship, crippling it. The captain is forced to come aboard the unknown ship and is escorted to its captain, a Romulan named Nero (Bana),  who proceeds to ask the Federation representative some rather odd questions, the strangest being what stardate is it. The answer drives Nero berserk and he murders the captain and once again opens fire on the Kelvin.

The second-in-command (Hemsworth) orders an evacuation of the doomed Kelvin, paying special attention to his wife (Morrison) who is in labor. He intends to join her, but the ship’s automated functions are out of commission, and they are needed to gain critical time for the crew of the Kelvin to make their escapes. He realizes with sickening horror that he must remain aboard to run the ship manually. The young lieutenant saves his crew by ramming the dying starship into the unknown spaceship, crippling its weapon systems and propulsion. The name of the young hero? George Kirk.

Years later, his son James (Pine), born the day of his death, is adrift in Iowa, drinking in dive bars, picking up every woman he can and generally just lashing out at the world. While attempting to pick up a pretty Starfleet cadet named Uhura (Saldana), he gets jumped by a number of cadets, holding his own for awhile before getting his tush handed to him until Captain Christopher Pike (Greenwood) stops the fracas and clears the bar. He talks to the young Kirk about his father, and the difference he made to the 800 lives that were saved by his sacrifice and invites Kirk to join the Academy.

At first Kirk is reluctant to join Starfleet but eventually relents. On the shuttle ride to San Francisco, he meets an irascible divorced physician who is joining Starfleet to rebuild a career that had been essentially stymied in his divorce. The medico’s name is Leonard McCoy (Urban).

Already at the academy is a young half-Vulcan named Spock (Quinto). Tormented by young Vulcans for his half-human ancestry, Spock elects to follow the Vulcan disciplines of logic and dispassion of his father Sarek (Cross) with the blessing of his compassionate mother Amanda (Ryder). Despite this, Spock elects to decline admission to the Vulcan Science Academy (the first Vulcan ever to do so) and join Starfleet. After graduating from the Academy, he devises the notorious Kobiyashi Maru test, the infamous “no-win” scenario.

In the meantime, a brash young Ensign Kirk is blowing through the academy in a mere three years, still picking up women wherever he goes including a beautiful young Orion ensign (Nichols) who has come up with a rather ingenious solution to Spock’s test, landing him in hot water with the Academy dons. Unfortunately, an emergency comes up that relates directly to Kirk’s past, one that will bring all the disparate elements and characters together and forge together a crew that is destined to become a legend, while a man from the future (Nimoy) holds the key to the lives of Spock and Kirk.

The Star Trek franchise has been in decline for several years now, with an over-saturation of product that eventually seemed somewhat formulaic in many ways. Star Trek reboots the franchise with the original characters as seen through fresh new eyes. Director J.J. Abrams balances a delicate line of maintaining the spirit of the original series while adding additional elements of action and epic scope. Thus his new re-imagining of Star Trek will please not only hardcore Trek fans but also more general audiences.

Electing to go with a cast of young actors while steering clear of big name actors (Bana as Nero is the most recognizable face in the show other than Nimoy, and Bana is nearly unrecognizable in any case), and they come through in spades. All of the major crew members (Cho as Sulu, Pegg as Scotty and Yelchin as Chekov, as well as Urban and Saldana) have extremely pivotal scenes and establish their characters nicely.

Much of the success of Star Trek rests on the shoulders of the two leads, and they pull through splendidly. Pine captures the essence of James Tiberius Kirk without the quirks and mannerisms of William Shatner. He nails the bravado, the charisma, the independence and the compassion of Kirk but at the same time manages to render him human and fallible. Like Shatner’s Kirk, he is rash and sometimes prone to egotism, but at the heart of him is his brilliant intuition and willingness to risk. Pine takes an epic character and makes him accessible.

Quinto, best known as Sylar on the hit TV show “Heroes” makes a marvelous Spock. He radiates icy calm that masks the boiling inferno below the surface. Spock is heavily conflicted but chooses not to come to terms with his conflicting natures; instead he subverts his more human aspects in favor of the Vulcan stoicism. Quinto also has an uncanny resemblance to Nimoy as a young Spock, and fills the boots more than adequately.

There are plenty of breathtaking special effects, not to mention some intense action sequences, the best of which is a parachute jump onto a drilling platform high in the atmosphere of Vulcan. Visually, this is a movie that will rock your world.

But is it Star Trek? That’s the question most Trek fans were hoping to have answered. I have to say, yes and no. The original television series in many ways was less action-oriented than this is. Yes, there were plenty of fistfights, phasers set on stun and epic space battles in the original, but the themes had to do with things that were important to series creator Gene Roddenberry; man’s inhumanity to man, racial tension, drug abuse, gender inequality and the supreme waste and ultimate uselessness that is war. Here, we are being re-introduced to the characters that the producers hope to rebuild the franchise with and the movie is more about that than taking on issues.

However, the foundation has been laid and hopefully in the future we’ll see stories more in tune with the high bar that Roddenberry set. Given the outstanding box office returns the movie had, it is inevitable that there will be at least one or two more installments in the movie series if not more. The action and special effects will get the bodies in the door; the characters will bring those bodies back for more. Abrams has hit a home run with the new Star Trek. Now, the question becomes can he do it again?

WHY RENT THIS: Breathtaking special effects and heart-pounding action sequences drive the movie. Young actors bring established characters back to life with fresh perspectives. Pine makes a fabulous Captain Kirk and could be a future star.

WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The overall tone that Trek-haters despised is still present here.

FAMILY VALUES: Some scenes of brief sexuality and some violence; also there is a nightmare-inducing creature during the Delta Vega sequence. Otherwise, fit for most young audiences (but not for the very teeny tiny).

TRIVIAL PURSUITS: The seven years gap between this movie and Star Trek: Nemesis is the longest in the franchise history.

NOTABLE DVD FEATURES: There are three different home viewing versions of this so far: a single-disc DVD which is essentially just the film, a 2-disc Special Edition DVD which contains some deleted scenes including Abrams’ take on the Klingons, and a 3-Disc Blu-Ray which contains a humongous number of featurettes, as well as a 360 degree view of various Enterprise and Romulan sets. There is also a feature on Gene Roddenberry’s legacy.

FINAL RATING: 8/10

TOMORROW: Disney’s A Christmas Carol

So, I decided to give myself a day off. Came home Thursday night and skipping my class on Friday. Why not? WHY NOT!! I am a rebel. I am fucking James Dean. Yeah, anyways, I have been getting so lazy lately that I hope I can keep up this whole “get-straights-A’s-so-I-can-get-into-medical-school-so-all-this-studying-will-have-been-for-something” thing. I wasted about 6 hours in the last two days watching FlashForward, which is officially my new obsession. Okay, I PROMISE it’s not just because John Cho is so intensely gorgeous.

This show is genuinely thrilling, provocative, and makes you think. How would you live your life after a global disaster where everyone has seen their future in 6 months? Accept the future as fact? Dread it? Obsess over it? Wonder if our lives are scripts that have already been written? Very intriguing stuff. The show was beginning to get frustrating with everyone  being little whiny bitches about their doomed futures until the end of the latest episode; one character who had a really bad flashforward kills himself. But his flashforward said he would be alive in 6 months! The future isn’t written in stone?! Great acting, and John Cho + Gabrielle Union = coolest interracial couple ever. Bonus, the British guy from The Wedding Date, Singles, and Swingtown! So that is what I have been doing instead of crapping my pants over Biochem. Time well spent. This magical day off and this weekend may require a lot of studying, but it’s still awesome. I am home right now, in front of a fireplace, and realizing I have been a little homesick. Despite my monosyllabic responses to my parents, I do love them. And it took my nearly two and a half years in college to realize that. Or maybe I just want to watch FlashForward on our flatscreen.

DVD Top 10.
Bestsellerliste der Woche
von Illuminati bis State of Play

Illuminati:
Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) entdeckt Beweise, dass die mächtigste Untergrundbewegung der Geschichte, ein uralter konspirativer Geheimbund, den man als ‘Die Illuminati’ kennt, wiederauferstanden ist. Kurz darauf wird er damit konfrontiert, dass die katholische Kirche, der zutiefst verhasste Erzfeind der Illuminaten, einer tödlichen, existenzvernichtenden Bedrohung ausgesetzt ist…

Nachts im Museum 2:
Seine Tage als Museumswärter sind passé: Larry Daley ist als Erfinder nutzloser Dinge erfolgreich, kehrt jedoch ins Museum zurück, als er erfährt, dass die seinerzeit zu Leben erwachten Ausstellungsstücke in den Keller des Smithsonian in New York verfrachtet werden sollen. Ruhe ist allerdings auch dort nicht angesagt, weil auch die mystische Tafel von Akhmenrah, die den Exponaten Leben einhaucht, versehentlich zum neuen Ausstellungsort transportiert wurde. Nun bricht dort das Chaos aus, und Larry muss für Ordnung sorgen…

Slumdog Millionär:
Glauben Sie an das Schicksal? Für Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) ist es der größte Tag seines bisherigen Lebens. Nur noch eine Frage trennt ihn vom 20 Millionen Rupien-Hauptgewinn in Indiens TV- Show ‘Wer wird Millionär?’

Der Womanizer:
Der Junggeselle Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) gehört zu den Typen, die drei Freundinnen den Laufpass geben. Gleichzeitig. Per Telefonkonferenz. Auf der Hochzeitsfeier seines Bruders hat er also nur ein Ziel: Er will die einzige Brautjungfer herumkriegen, die er bisher irgendwie übersehen hat. Doch der Geist seines verstorbenen Onkels Wayne (Michael Douglas) – der Connor beigebracht hat, die Frauen zu wechseln wie die Hemden – verfolgt ein ganz anderes Ziel…

Star Trek – Die Zukunft hat begonnen:
James T. Kirk ist ein rebellischer Hitzkopf im amerikanischen Niemandsland, der nie den Tod seines Vaters bei einem Angriff eines romulanischen Raumschiffs verkraftet hat. Nach einer seiner Prügeleien fordert ihn Captain Pike, einst ein Freund seines verstorbenen Vaters, auf, der Sternenflotte beizutreten. Dort macht sich Kirk zunächst keine Freunde, bis ihn eine Mission zwingt, endlich Verantwortung zu übernehmen: der Romulaner Nero bedroht Vulkan, den Heimatplaneten von Kirks späterem Weggefährten Spock…

Transformers 2:
Nachdem Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) die Welt mit Hilfe der gutmütigen Autobots vor den bösartigen Decepticons gerettet hat, freut er sich auf ein normales Leben. Als er aufs College geht, lässt er nicht nur Freundin Mikaela (Megan Fox) zurück…

X-Men Origins: Wolverine:
Hugh Jackman schlüpft wieder in die Rolle, die ihn zum Superstar machte: Wolverine – der Mann mit den unverkennbaren Stahlklingen, bemerkenswerten Selbstheilungskräften, ruppigem Charme und einer gehörigen Portion trockenem Humor. ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ erzählt die Vorgeschichte Logans mit Augenmerk auf seine mysteriöse Vergangenheit, seine komplexe Beziehung zu Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) und das ominöse Weapon X-Programm. Der Zuschauer erfährt, wer Wolverine wirklich ist…

Duplicity:
CIA-Offizier Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) und MI6-Agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen) standen früher im Geheimdienst ihrer Regierungen. Derzeit haben sie in die Privatwirtschaft gewechselt, um mit lukrativen Verträgen das meiste aus dem Kalten Krieg herauszuholen. Beide jagen jeweils für ihre Bosse Tully (Tom Wilkinson) und Garsik (Paul Giamatti) einem milliardenschweren Patent nach. Keiner ahnt, dass sie eine heimliche Affäre und eigene Pläne haben…

Männersache:
Tagsüber arbeitet Paul (Mario Barth) in einer Berliner Zoohandlung und abends an seiner Karriere als Komiker. Zugegeben, seine Auftritte laufen mies… bis Paul anfängt, Witze über seinen besten Freund Hotte (Dieter Tappert) und dessen Freundin Susi (Anja Kling) zu reißen. Auf einmal läuft es auf der Bühne: Pauls Gags über Hottes Beziehungsgeschichten, nicht enden wollende Shopping-Orgien von Susi und den Pärchen Kaffeeklatsch bei den Schwiegereltern sind ein Renner…

State of Play – Stand der Dinge:
Ein junger aufstrebender Politiker und ein Washingtoner Enthüllungsreporter finden sich mitten im Epizentrum einer Reihe von Morden wieder, die nur scheinbar nichts miteinander zu tun haben. Der Kongressabgeordnete Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) ist Hoffnung und Zukunft seiner Partei – ein aussichtsreicher und ehrenhafter Newcomer, unter anderem im Vorsitz des Komitees für Verteidigungsausgaben…

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Episode 7 – The Gift

Now after what I thought was quite disappointing last week, I found this episode had more going on and a few interesting moments. Especially the ending (yes I know they try to leave you hanging with the ending this week, but I actually said OMG out loud . . . I really was not expecting that).

I new website was formed for the “Ghosts” people who did not have a flashforward and therefore figured they could actually die any day now. “The Blue Hand Club” was set up for these people to go to. They pretty much done anything they wanted, which included some very crazy things that could indeed kill them.

We are properly introduced to MI6 agent Fiona Banks, who was in Gough’s flashforward, working on a case which is suddenly made. Gough’s flashforward is explored in more detail with and that he feels responsible for a woman’s death leaving her two children behind. When all of this gets on top of him he commits suicide by jumping off the top of the FBI building, in a very emotional scene with Mark, Demetri and others watching on. He done this so that woman would have a chance to live, also showing Demetri that the future can be changed and he should still have hope of a future and living a happy life. I think this also made Mark realise that he can change parts of his and his wifes flashforwards so they do not come true.

I thought that was quite powerful, and also good turning it around that you can change what you saw. It gives a new edge really. As it goes back to well you can change it or you can conform and do everything in your power to make it happen if that will make you feel better about it all.

The moment which made me say OMG was when Aaron’s daughter was sitting in his house at the end. After Mike had told him that he had seen her die, which she was supposed to of died. I really was not expecting to see her sitting their at the end. Very much the reason I cannot wait for the next episode.

I am actually very much looking forward to episode 8 now, I think possibly I am becoming hooked ever so slowly on this show?!?!?

Je sais qu’en ce moment je ne suis pas trés présent sur le blog because déménagement, mais cela ne ma pas empécher de tester le Blu-Ray du Space Opéra de ce début d’année.

Eh bien je peut vous dire que j’attendais un blu-ray avec une bonne image et un bon son et côté bonus droit à quelques commentaires et un petit making of. Et bien je me suis bien tromper pour les bonus car de ce coté la je fût trés agréablement surpris.

Perso je ne suis pas un fan de la série originel mais le film de J.J Abrams est tellement bien fait qu’il devrait même plaire aux novices.

Donc comme pour le film qui fût une bonne surprise, ce blu-ray est l’une de mes sortie préférer en cette fin d’année.

  Ghosts are described as the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person.   In the case of FF it would be more to describe them as people who knew or thought they knew that by April 10th, 2010 they would be dead.  These are people who felt they had nothing left to fear about life so they chose to embrace death.  In all types of horrifying fashions.  Seriously people stop watching Saw. 

Ghosts can also describe thoughts or actions which haunt our minds and hearts.  These ghost are a little harder to grasp and even harder to fight.  Because as Special Agent Al Gough learned you can’t run from your fear of the inevitable.  From the very start of last night’s episode  I knew something was off with who was fastly becoming one of my favorite characters.  But I quickly dismissed any possible notion that Cyclops, oops excuse me Al, was going to be dealt a blow to any future storylines he had coming his way.  Because you see even though Lee  Thompson Young  had been consistently billed as a guest star I just knew that he would soon be made a part of our FF family.  And ooh boy that assurance grew even more when I could have sworn he said “I killed him.”  Huh? What?  Excuse me did you just say that you killed him?  OMG you can’t be the one who kills Demetri!  No not Al anyone but Al. (on a side note I love that even though I later learn that wasn’t what he said I could have sworn that is exactly what he did say)  Oh I could just see the upcoming storylines playing out in my mind.  But let’s remember that I did say that it seemed something was off earlier in the post, but for the life of me I couldn’t put my finger on it.  Whose Celia?  What does she have to do with the Blue Hand group?  Is she important in any way?  Does she have meaning?  Why is it Al’s voice we hear reading the story?  What does she have to do with him if she didn’t have a flash?  Ugh so many questions!  I confess my head started to hurt a little bit.  Apparently she had everything to do with his flash because it wasn’t Demetri he will have killed, it was a single mother of twin boys who from what I could gather was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  So instead of embracing his ghost he decided to estinguish it before it could cause more harm and in the process supply this fan with her first gasp of the season.

Honarable Mentions:

Creepy old man playing Russian Roulette

A child’s bracelet and the name Annabelle

Um excuse me you speak Japanese, fluently?

Demetri faces his ghost and confesses to his fiancee

Our favorite suicidal intern actually gets some storytime

Mark watches as his world begins to crumble

Did they say Jerichos and what do they have to do with Tracy’s sudden appearance?

Leoban!

It was a Halloween to remember with kangaroos and blue-handed bodies

In “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps,” the show attempted to answer the question:  “What caused the flashforwards?”   Alas, the answer was perhaps more confounding than the question.  For as Simon (Dominic Monaghan) attempted to explain quantum mechanics in simple terms to the blonde on the train, we were all left scratching our heads over how Schrodinger’s Cat Theory actually worked.  In Simon’s example, you have to imagine that in your hand you are holding a tiny cat and a poisoned sardine, and if you fold your hand closed, the cat is given two choices: either the cat eats the poisoned sardine and dies, or it doesn’t and lives.  You will not know until you open your hand which option the cat chose. Thus, it is up to the cat to decide if it wants to live or die.  It is only after you (the observer) open your hand that you will discover the cat’s fate — and quantum physics says that until you open your hand both eventualities occur at the same time.  But, according to Schrodinger’s Cat Theory, the miracle of quantum mechanics is that the observer gets to decide.

 This is a mind-bender.  Are there two parallel realities?  Is it up to each of us to decide which reality will exist?  However, applying Schrodinger’s Cat Theory, as the woman noted, “The cat had already made up its mind.”

 Also following this vein, the series seems to be focusing on whether each character will choose to eat the poisoned sardine or not.  Does each move forward to make their visions a reality or move away and resist their visions to become a reality?  Mark (Joseph Fiennes) and Olivia (Sonya Walger) are pushing against allowing their visions from coming true.  Mark does not want to return to his dark days of alcoholism and a failed marriage, and Olivia does not want to abandon her marriage and find love with another man she does not know.  Additionally, Demetri (John Cho) does not want his vision to come true either, for he does not want to be murdered.

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Episode 6- Scary Monsters and Super Creeps.

The more I watch this the more I actually wonder when something major is going to happen. I felt that not much really happened in this episode other than the argument between Mark and Olivia about not being honest about their flashforwards. As it is eventually revealed that Olivia has met the man in her flashback and is the father of Dylan who was one of her patients. This was revealed when Dylan got himself to Mark and Olivia’s house and pretty much Olivia’s face said it all when she got there.

The main question you might be asking, and I have been asking myself is if not much is going on and happening then why do I keep watching every week? I was thinking about this while watching this episode, and I think the reason has to be to see if they can actually stop the future happening. If they can stop the flashforward they saw become reality which means there life changing quite a lot in some cases, for the better or indeed for the worse.

I guess I am being quite cliche as it is kind of like fate or destiny, can you stop what is already mapped out for you from happening. Maybe in life somethings and events are always going to happen to matter how hard you try to stop them. This is something I actually have dicussions about with my best friends. We wonder if everything is already mapped out and what will be will be. No use forcing something that is not true or stopping something that is beyond your control.

I can see a lot of that in this show, what if we did get a glimpse so far into the future? Would that be a bad or a good thing? I guess as in the show it really does depend what you happen to see. I guess it can some what be compared to fortune teller’s they might be wrong or right, but will you try to do things in order to meet what they told you? Will some of the character’s in the show do all they can to have the flashforward happen or everything in their power to prevent it?

I guess we will have to keep watching to find out . . . and for that reason I am pretty much hooked.

I’ve been doing some soul-searching lately, trying to decide whether or not I’m as into FlashForward as I thought I’d be. I have to tell you, I don’t think I am. It’s possible that more soul searching may be required. Anyway, Cinema Blend posted an article today that sums up a lot of my problems with the show perfectly. Par exemple…

The (yawn) characters (yaaaawwwwnn) are “yaaaaaaawwwwwnnnnn”:

Benford is an alcoholic. Demetri might die. After that, do we really care about anyone else in this show? I know I don’t. Benford’s wife is having an affair with some villain? Who cares. The other FBI agent is going to get pregnant? Snooze. Here is the biggest indictment of the whole cast: I have seen every episode and I needed to go on the website to find out any of the other characters’ names. That is bad, bad, bad. Maybe it is my fault for not paying enough attention, but honestly do you know what Mark’s wife’s name is? His sponsor? Anyone else? I know I don’t.

The entire article is compelling, and rich. Check it out here.

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Having an opinion on a tv show should be very low on my list of priorities, as should be writing a review.

I am not going to write a review, I just have to say again: Joseph Fiennes is doing a fine job of interfering with my suspension of disbelief.

I’ve watched some America’s Next Top Model, which is where I get my vast knowledge of acting techniques. If you need to portray a certain feeling, you are definitely not to go for the most obvious expression. It’s all about expression, and with all his studies and experience, Joseph F always manages to land on his feet (?) showing some expression he must have found on Stock Photos. It distracts me, okay, and annoys.

I’ve already mentioned Joseph botching the American accent, but I haven’t mentioned his whispering-habit. Why would anyone speak like that? Now that he’s started to move his head like Horatio Cane from CSI: Miami, I am just not sure if I can watch anymore.

Casting Dominic Monaghan as a brainy lothario slash sociopath is laughable. He doesn’t carry the role in any way, shape or form. I suppose any actor would want to step out of being type-cast, but this is going too far, folks!

Courtney B. Vance as the FBI boss does smug from episode 1-6 no matter what he’s trying to portray, and there is something super dodgy about Brian F. O’Byrne’s accent – he’s likely Irish and not hiding it all too well? Doesn’t bother me though, it’s not phony like Joseph F’s attempt. It’s kinda warm and nice.

I also noticed a couple of discrepancies: In one scene FBI boss says to Marc: ” … and now you tell me you were impaired when you had it”, referring to Marc’s flash forward. He wasn’t impaired when he had it, he was impaired in it. Right?  And there was another one … can’t remember! Doesn’t matter anyway

To be positive I must say this: I just now found out that Sonya Walger, who plays Dr. Olivia Benford, wife of Joseph Fiennes’ character Marc, is from the UK! She doesn’t sound like it at all; I never get preoccupied with how she’s saying things when she’s in the frame. Good work, Sonya

So yes, I will continue to watch despite the obvious huge flaws, flaws that distract which is why I even bother mentioning them. I shall watch bc I like sci fi, and bc of Sonya, John Cho (as Special Agent Demetri Noh), Christine Woods (as Special Agent Janis Hawk), and Lee Thompson Young (as Special Agent Al Gough) who all make it watchable. Doesn’t hurt that Lee has the most beautiful eyes! And these characters all are interesting and rather genuine, so it’s them, and the story line, of course, which will keep me watching.

Another way to waste time

So a strange thing has happened over the past six episodes.  I am actually beginning to like FlashForward.  I know I don’t really understand it either.  At first I watched it because BSG was no longer on, FNL wouldn’t be on for another month, and Lost might has well of been years away.  So needless to say I was desperate for a new addiction and FlashForward seemed to be the answer.  That’s right I said seemed to be.  Because frankly the first four episodes just irritated me.  Granted they provided clues in each episode that allowed the viewer a broader picturer, instead of keeping them hidden for long periods of time.  But still I didn’t like it. 

So why did I keep watching you wonder?  Simple, two words: Dominic Monaghan.  That’s right I kept watching because I wanted to see “My Hobbit” once again on my screen.  No, Wolverine does not count.  And boy let me just tell you that when he finally showed up for more than a few moments he did not disappoint.  What seemed like a casting gimmick soon proved to be an asset.  With his smooth demeanor and his voice gliding over his lines I just knew that something really good was going to happen.  I wasn’t wrong.

But if  you are thinking the only reason I began to like the show was because of the mysterious physics genius.   Oh yeah that’s right Dom is a freaking genius!  Who would have thought the FF could have been used as a pick up line.  Ok anyways, sorry I got off track there for a moment, Dom is not the reason I started to like the show.  That happened in the 3rd episode.  Or more to the point in the first few minutes of last weeks episode.  I don’t know whose idea it was to film the all inclusive flashback in slow motion, but damn it was beautifully filmed.  It was also the first episode that I didn’t feel as though they were shoving the point of the show down my throat.  I got it the first time and I didn’t need it spelled out for me every episode.  Thankfully they seemed to have realized that the viewers aren’t stupid. 

For the first time since the show began airing I felt these characters had a purpose.  What this purpose is I could not begin to fathom.  Demetri was no longer walking around as though he was waiting for an anvil to drop on his head.  He became the man of action I had always thought Mark was going to be, but who had not yet lived up to his potential.  Mark who always held such conviction in his flashforward that he did not bother to notice that his present world is slowly coming apart at the seems.  Olivia, who after weeks of living in fear of a sin she had yet to commit, learned her husband had been lying all along while still holding her responsible for an act she had no intention of carrying out ( I have a theory on that but that will come later).  Janice discovered as we often do that sometimes you don’t realize you want something until you can no longer have it.  Which by the way I truly enjoyed how the writers managed to in one fell swoop let the audience know that just because they saw something in their flash that it doesn’t mean it will come true (again I have a theory on that).  But the two things that are probably the most surprising of all is that 1) Agent Al Gough (I wonder if that is a not so subtle nod to Smallville?) has apparently been keeping a secret and 2) Lloyd Simcoe and Simon are a part of an as of yet unnamed group that is responsible for the blackout or more accurately the death of millions of people. 

For the first time since FF began I can honestly say I am looking forward, no pun intended, to next weeks episode.  I’m not addicted yet, but I am getting there. 

  Theories:

My first theory of the show is in regards to Olivia, Lloyd, Dylan, and Charlie’s respective flashforwards:  I don’t believe that Olivia and Lloyd have an affair.  I believe that Olivia was talking to Charlie, who we learn was in the house at the time along with Dylan.  My theory boils down to the reason Lloyd and Dylan are in the house is because they are in protective custody.  I mean why else would Charlie tell Dylan that it was his house now too.  I base this on the knowledge that kids do not react that well to their parents breaking up and a new family moving in in such a short period of time.

My second theory of the show is based on the flashforwards themselves and that is that the future is always changing.  It never stays the same or constant.  Whatever path we are on now is not nessarily the path we will end up on and that is because the choices we make in the present effect the outcome of the future.  For instance if you were told without a doubt that if you turn right you will get into a car accident would you turn right?  Of course not, you would turn right and in effect change the outcome of your future.  Therefore it would be foolish to believe that all the flashes are going to come true.  But then again they are only theories. 

Special mention:  In Simon’s flash the man he was fighting with was played by Rodney Rowland who also played Liam Fitzpatrick on Veronica Mars.

Best line of the night:  Aren’t you glad you asked?”

Ever since I was a wee lass, I’ve always liked the boys! Didn’t matter what color they were – even though as a child, I was a little biased towards the White boys. But when I really started dating, I dated almost exclusively Black and Latino men and in general, still prefer ETHNIC men. Truth be told, I had a childhood “mega crush” on a boy who was half Black and half Asian (sometimes referred to as “Blasian”) and ever since, I started liking my Asian brothas as well and have had many crushes on some of the finest Asian men you could ever wish to feast your eyes on. Which brings me to my NEW crush – JOHN CHO!

Yes, I’m usually partial to the guys of the Japanese and Korean gene pool and always thought John was cute but something has happened recently ’cause his “fine-ness” can’t be denied any longer. Maybe it’s the hot love scenes between John and Gabrielle Union on ABC’s “Flash Forward” or his manly “Sulu” in Star Trek this past summer but whatever it is, keep on keepin’ on, John, and if you’re interested, you need to holla at a sista

The truth never sets anyone free, it just shackles them to a nightmare

Following the premise, “What if it happened before?” Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) enlisted fellow FBI Agent Al Gough (Lee Thompson Young) to contact a hacker to get CIA satellite imagery on Somalia from December 1990 – and they got just what they needed:  photos showing several tall pylons in the middle of nowhere in Somalia.  However, before they can run down this lead, the team is called to Washington, D.C. to answer to a Senate Intelligence Committee who is vetting each intelligence branch to determine which one should run point on the black-out investigation.  It wants to consolidate money and data under one government branch. Thus, the FBI has to justify its Mosaic investigation or they could lose their funding.     

 With an admonishment from Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance), “Just keep your mouth shut.  If you tell anyone else about this, we are DOA,” Benford must hide what he saw in his flashforward vision about his drinking.  For once anyone hears that he was impaired at the time, it casts doubt on the credibility of the FBI’s entire investigation.  But, at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings, everyone subjected is to lie detector testing because the “CIA believes this was a targeted event designed to bring about the collapse of our government.”  Despite passing the lie detector test, Mark is asked to testify before the committee and, while subject to cross-examination before the committee, he revealed that he was investigating crow attrition (the mass death of crows) as a sign that the black-out was not an isolated incident and may have happened before.  He was also forced to reveal that he saw masked gunmen coming to kill him in his vision, which he felt validated the Mosaic investigation as it must have yielded fruit or why would anyone want to kill him.  But when asked, “Why is everything in your recollection so hazy and disjointed?” Mark could not give an adequate answer as to why he could not remember more than 30 seconds or so, when everyone else could remember in startling clarity every moment of their 2 minute and 17 second visions.  He only continued to state that the Mosaic investigation is a way to construct a picture of what the world will look like in 6 months and it has proven more reliable than theories that the black-out was due to the work of aliens, pharmaceutical companies, or China.

Unbeknownst to Mark, Senator Joyce Clemente (Barbara Williams) had a personal ax to grind.  As she reminded Wedeck, if only she could prove what he did 6 years ago, she would be the President of the United States.  But then she cryptically said, “If you sit by the river long enough, you’ll see the bodies of your enemies float by,” and shared that in her flashforward vision, she saw herself as President.  It was chilling as she said, “As impossible as that may be, it’s a nice thought, isn’t it?”   But it was also prophetic.

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