How I Met Your Mother Returns! For The Last Time.

The end is near my friends, the final season of How I Met Your Mother has begun! The season of the mother! I'm not going to lie, I thought having another season was a bad idea, it's had a long run and is still funny at times but it's tired and worn out and you could see that through the prolonging of storylines which should've died a long time ago and the characters becoming less and less endearing. I also didn't really like the idea of them featuring the mother heavily. I mean, how can the mother live up to the person that they've described to us, the perfect person for Ted? Well, judging by the first episode I was both right and wrong. Spoilers ahead for the latest series

I Never Really Watched Breaking Bad. Please Don't Throw A Slipper At Me!

With all the buzz about the ending of Breaking Bad you would've thought that we'd have posted about it right? Well, the truth it I never really watched it. Please don't hate me.

My reasoning is that I was young and stupid, I get that thats an excuse everyone uses for things like a terrible one night stand or and unwanted pregnancy but it really is true. Sure, I was reaaaallllyyyy into television around the time it started but for some reason I didn't pick it up back then and apparently many others didn't. Most people that I've spoken too got into it way after it started and Netflixed the series and caught up, and kept telling me how great it is and how I really needed to get into it. I did catch an episode in the middle of season 3 and I admit it was an amazing show but way too much time had passed for me to just begin watching it. What I tend to do is discover a show and then watch it day and night until I catch up so I can actually talk about it and about how amazing it is as it's airing.

A Lady In Supernatural?

Supernatural is an amazing show, of course it's had dark times (lets call it the reign of Sera Gamble) but it's now back on form! One of the reasons Supernatural has become such an  un-axable force to be reckoned with is its fans, some of the most dedicated fans I've seen and have kept it alive for so long. They love the show, and the boys in it which is brilliant! Apart from it's not. You see the fans really love Sam and Dean Winchester and don't want anything to get in the way of their relationship which is fine unless the fans become vicious about it, examples of this are when ladies that may end up being love interests are introduced. Remember how Jo Harvelle was basically forced out of the show before she was even introduced by fans? I do, I liked her and thought she had potential and her popping up in season 5 showed that she did and I wish I could've seen her along the way. So yeah, wanting to protect the boys relationship is fine I just think you should give some characters a chance, you never know what they might bring to the show. Now, onto the reason I'm posting today. Castiel.

There will be spoilers ahead if you haven't caught the latest season yet.

The angel of the lord was introduced in season 4, and as time has wore on he has become more humanised and a fan favourite character, I tend to see him as a surrogate brother to the boys. Oh, lets not forget the celestial dry cleaning, it's fab. Well at the end of last season he became a full on human and my God will that be brilliant! I loved watching him grapple with his humanity for the past few seasons, trying to figure out where his loyalties lie and watching him attempt to embrace humanity was kind of hilarious, remember the brothel scene (granted that's Dean's form of humanity). It's always enjoyable to watch him understand humans, and I think it'll be amazing to embrace humanity in its entirety. That includes love and sex.

Molly Deserves Better Than Sherlock

I think I should probably start a Sherlock section seeing how much I write about it, and here comes another one! After joining the fandom i've started to browse the internet for news on it, and frequenting message boards one thing has popped up a few times. Sherlock and Molly shipping. Called Sherlolly. Seriously.

I'm not exactly the biggest fan of shipping, I'm also not into romances on shows unless they add to the show. A romance between Sherlock and Molly wouldn't add anything to the show at present, and I don't think it would be a good idea if Moffat and Gatiss to force a romance between them it. I think that happens wayyyy to often when people shipping shout loud enough and the writers listen and incorporate it into the show. I don't mind the Johnlock shipping because theres no way in hell that that will possibly happen so I let the shippers ship, it reminds me of the Wincest around Supernatural, that ones quite funny really.

Entourage Should NOT Be A Movie!

I'll keep this short and sweet because I doubt many people care about Entourage or the possible spin off movie. Theres been some more rumours starting up regarding the actors signing on and I'm here to say please don't do it.

The show was enjoyable for the 20 minutes that is was on. That's it. I don't think it would work well as a film, hell in my opinion it didn't work well as a show. The show gets old quite quickly, and it doesn't help that the characters aren't really likeable, I mean Vince who is supposed to be a major star is ridiculously un-charasmatic and his downward spiral was laughable. I watched it out of habit and I thought I watch it because of Ari. Turns out it was all Jeremy Piven, and I can watch him on Mr Selfridge now. It was fine to watch in the mornings as I was getting ready but I was never engrossed by the show, I never found myself thinking about it randomly in the middle of the day because of the hard hitting and nail biting storylines. I genuinely don't understand how it can be a movie, I mean theres not really much to it. Who would hand over their money to watch a film of Entourage? I get why some of the cast would like to make an Entourage film, I mean most of them are currently doing zip. But come on, it's a bad idea, they are lucky that it ran for as long as it did and should leave it as it is.

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Goodbye Dexter!

So, that's that. It's over. It took me a while to get my thoughts in order so I could write about it, but I'll attempt to. Dexter is now dunzo. Finito. Over. Gone. I sort of forget it was ending and because I haven't actually been that pleased with the show I figured that It wouldn't really have an impact on me or my unpredictable emotions, but it did. I guess it's time for me to say goodbye, but not without voicing my opinions about the finale. SPOILERS AHEAD!

I discussed before about how I feel that Dexter probably shouldn't have gone passed season 4 and I still support that theory. The season was a let down anyway, I mean Oliver Saxon was the best antagonist they could come up with for the finale? And there were way too many different storylines going on in the FINAL season, it should've all been about Dexter, yet this is the season they choose to give Jamie a storyline? Does she even matter? Well, I've discussed the shows failings enough, maybe I should stick to talking about the finale. First off, I'll say that it didn't feel like a series finale until about the last ten minutes, it just felt like another episode of Dexter and I didn't really have any strong emotions toward it.  I was getting kind of bored again which was happening way too often while watching Dexter for my liking. But in the last 10-20 minutes I think I went through an emotional roller-coaster. Let me back up a bit.

One To Watch: Sleepy Hollow

So, I ignored Sleepy Hollow because I didn't really think it would interest me. Boy do I regret that. I caught the first episode last night, and I can honestly say that I think I might be hooked.

I tend to think that modern day retelling of old storylines gets kind of old pretty quickly (take a look at Once Upon a Time, got too cheesy and predictable too quickly). I mean, I'm always comparing to what came before, and at times I can turn into a major purist and end up hating the product. Of course there are exceptions (I've gushed about Sherlock a few times) and I'm glad that theres another show to add to that list. I won't give you a run down of the episode because I don't want to spoil it too much for the people that got into it late like me, but I will say impending apocalypses (no matter how they occur) makes for brilliant television. This show has the mother of all apocalypses, one that is destined to happen and not a man made one like so many before it and they are the best kind. How do you stop something that is destined to happen? It's probably why I like Supernatural so much. Anyway, the major story arc is a massive draw for me and hopefully it will be for you too. Another great thing about the arc is that its not a secret, we can see a whole range of people involved in the action, and honestly I'm sick of people being ignorant on television shows and ignoring everything they see! Even if the answer is improbably, if all the evidence points towards it it's the only answer!

Has Comedy Stopped Being Funny?

I genuinely love comedy, I used to watch shows, films and stand ups whenever I could. I'd have them on my iPod and watch them whenever I was out. And when I was at home. So to some up, I thought comedy was good. Over the past couple of years I have sort of been drawn out of the comedy scene, I mean not completely as I've written about Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Seth Rogen and a few others but not as into it as I once was, and after watching the James Franco Comedy Roast last night I realise why. Comedy isn't really funny anymore, particularly American (you can flame me for this statement if you wish).

Yes, the guy is a brilliant actor, but he seems (and most likely is I would think) pretentious and lets face it, he's done a few turkeys in his time. The comics at the comedy roast had plenty to work with, they could have genuinely ripped the crapped out of him and hilarity would ensue but for some reason there was only two jokes that night: Franco being gay and Franco being a terrible co-host at the Oscars. And none of those jokes were even funny. In fact, the only comic that was actually funny was Andy Samberg and he didn't mention either of those. While watching it I got a flashback to Charlie Sheen's comedy roast a couple of years ago, one that I was eager to see because, I am ashamed to say, I loved watching his coke fuelled melt down and winning comments. Again, I was thoroughly disappointed in that comedy roast, not only was it unfunny I'm pretty sure I fell asleep, I remember starting the episode but can't remember finishing it.

Yes, You Really Really Should Watch It: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

So, US television has started up again! Good for my mentality, bad for my social life. Looking at all the existing shows I watch and the new shows that I'm going to attempt to watch make me realise that for the next year I will have no life. Well at the beginning of every year I think that, but then a lot  of the shows I choose end up sucking and I drop them like hot cakes. Well, I've watched the pilot of Brooklyn Nine-Nine now and I can guarantee that show will be staying on my schedule.

I discussed my excitement about the show earlier and now I can tell you I was right for being so. It had me laughing out loud and I'm happy to say that not all the jokes were in the trailer! The comedy plays on cop show cliches very well and truly is a delight to watch! All the characters that feature in the show  are incredibly likeable, and somewhat relatable and really bring the show to life. I look forward to watching Jake Peralta (Samberg) and Ray Holt's (Andre Braugher) relationship grow as well as the camaraderie of the precinct on a weekly basis. Theres not much else I'd like to say other that WATCH IT NOW!

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Bon Voyage To The Cornetto Trilogy!

So, I've finally watched The World's End, the third film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. I was supposed to watch it a couple of months ago but the plans were cancelled and I've been eager to watch it ever since. Now I kind of wish I hadn't seen it.

I have thoroughly enjoyed all the entries to the trilogy, I mean who wouldn't like Shaun Of The Dead or Hot Fuzz? A damn fool that's who! And yes, I said that I hadn't seen it but that doesn't mean that the film was bad, quite the opposite actually. I could say it's superbly acted and it has a brilliant storyline (it's true) but anyone familiar with the trilogy would expect it to be so. The film is fantastic and I'm planning on having a cornetto trilogy marathon at some point now. Maybe get a few episodes of Spaced in the too. Maybe watch Paul. It'll be a long night.

Where Would We Be Without Technology?

Anyone watch Blackout on Channel 4 the other day? I'm all doom and gloom you see so I did and I loved it. I champion anything even remotely apocalyptic, seriously, I love to imagine how amazing I would be in our apocalyptic future (one way or another I do believe that the World will probably end up in ruins). I love zombie apocalypses, alien apocalypse and Planet Of The Apes will always have a significant place in my heart (perhaps I'm just against humans in general). Sure, some may not deem Blackout apocalyptic but I do. The docu-drama follows the lives of civilians during an electrical blackout in England, and like I said before I've experienced my fair share of apocalypses but it was down right scary. Because I think it is likely to happen.

My theory on the end of humanity was that apes and robots would get together and exterminate us all, I believed it was plausible and genuinely frightening. Zombies could happen too (animal testing gone wild, just admit it could happen!)but not as likely as the Ape/Robot coalition! But in light of recent events *cough* e.g. Obama and Syria *cough* It kind of hits home that humans are probably going to be the ones that end humanity. At least in Blackout there was a reason for it, you know, other than overthrowing a government without just cause just to gain yourself an ickle bit of power! Anyway, enough with the politics. The governments don't care about our opinions. Seriously though, I'm done talking about that. Back to Blackout.

Roberto Orci Slams Star Trek Fans

So, we've taken a bit o a break over the last few days but now we're back on the saddle (hopefully) and now we're back with a post dedicated to Robert Orci. You know the writer and producer of Star Trek Into Darkness? Well he kind of slammed the fandom. *sigh*

I'll give you a bit of back story in case you hadn't already heard. Star Trek Into Darkness was voted the worst Star Trek film by the fandom, it was even beaten out by Galaxy Quest and that's not even a Star Trek film. Usually I would've jumped on something like that but I didn't really want to mount a defence against the film as I see the fans point, the new series is changing a lot of the canon that had already been set before it. Some fans are ok with that and support it (like me), others do not. That's bound to happen and fans have every right not to dislike that films, that's their opinion and you can't argue with that. Unless you're Roberto Orci, he tried to. Upon news of the poll he called the fans "shitty" and basically told them to take a hike as they aren't allowed their own opinions I guess. Stupid call on his part. 

Benedict Cumberbatch Might Just Be In That Star Wars Film

*Just warning you, the picture used is kind of adorable*

I've never watched Star Wars. I've seen it, but never been so engrossed in it that I've watched it. This isn't the Star Trek fan in me that hates on Star Wars for no reason, I just couldn't really get into it, it's like marmite. Love or hate. I hate marmite. That being said I was probably going to watch the new one because J.J. Abrams is in charge, and for some reason I follow the man blindly (or try to, I hated Undercovers. I dropped out after two episodes). Well anyway, back to the actual point, the new Star Wars films. J.J. Abrams is one of those auteurs that likes to reuse his actors (I wish I was friends with that dude) so it comes as no surprise that one of the rumoured actors in contention for a villainous role in the flick is a familiar face, Mr Benedict Cumberbatch! It gives me another reason to watch the film but I still don't know how I feel about this.

50 Shades Of Grey: We Have Our Christian And Ana!

I bet you think I'm excited because of the headline right? Well I'm attempting to be all journalistic and misleading to get you to click on this post and you have! Hoorah! But I will be discussing the casting for real unfortunately. I never thought that I'd spend the time and energy to designate a post to the 50 Shades Of Grey adaptation, purely because I didn't think any decent actors would actually be cast. Imagine my disappointment when the new broke out. *sad face*

One To Watch: 12 Years A Slave

I know what you'll be thinking when you take a look at the trailer. Oscar bait. I mean it usually puts me off because it's so bloody distracting, the only thought that went through my mind when watching Flight was "oscar bait, oscar bait, oscar bait" and the film was good but I couldn't get into it. When reading the premise of 12 Years A Slave I figured I'd feel the same way. That was until I saw the cast list and watched the trailer.



Yes, it's still an oscar bait film. It's 'based on real events'. That means oscar bait or pitiful horror film, but this film seems different. I was engrossed in the trailer and eager to see more. And did you see the cast for the film? It's like an acting powerhouse! Chiwetel Ejiofor has never, I mean never, given a bad performance so that's enough to make anyone watch. I can already tell that his performance will bring me to tears. The supporting cast consists of Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch (you all know my thoughts on him) and Brad Pitt and a whole host of others so I don't think I, nor you, will be disappointed in the acting. It's also directed by Steven McQueen and that's nothing to turn your nose up at. I think they will truly sell the story and even though it's not usually the type of film that I care to watch, I genuinely I look forward to watching the film and will be dragging some friends along (hopefully some of them are smart enough to want to watch the film). I wish I was at TIFF so I could watch the film this month, but alas c'est impossible, so I'll eagerly be awaiting October!

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