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5-31-2006

X-Men: The Last Stand

I literally just got home from watching X-Men: The Last Stand and I have to tell you that I loved the movie overall.  There were three shocking events in this movie that will surprise a lot of people and one issue that didn't make sense to me.  I'll get to them a little later.

Now for your warning: If you have not seen X3 yet, STOP READING NOW!  This is your only warning that what you are about to read is going to give away major plot points of this film.

Okay, let's get to it.

Most of our favorite mutants are back including Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Professor Xavier, Jean Grey and Iceman.  There are also a couple expanded rolls for Colossus and Kitty Pryde while Rogue takes a back seat this time around.  New mutants include Hank McCoy, Beast, who is played brilliantly by Kelsey Grammer and Warren Worthington III (Angel). 

On the other side Magneto, Mystique and Pyro are back.  Joining Magneto's Brotherhood are the Multiple Man, Juggernaut and Callisto in a low-key roll.

The premise of this third installment is that Worthington Industries has used a mutant named Leech to create a "cure" for mutants.  A serum has been invented that will permanently suppress any mutation and transform mutants back to human.

Although it's unclear exactly how much time has passed since X2, some things are definitely different.  Mutant/Human relations have improved with Hank McCoy heading up the new Bureau of Mutant Affairs while also being an advisor to the president.  Cyclops is still depressed over the death of Jean Grey and Magneto is still on the loose.

The film kicks off with Cyclops returning to Alkali Lake where he discovers that Jean Grey is not dead but what he finds is that she is now Phoenix and has become, possibly, the most powerful mutant on the planet.  Shock number one comes as they kiss for the first time...right before Phoenix apparently kills him!  Storm and Wolverine follow Cyclops to the lake, find Jean and bring her back to Xavier's School.

It doesn't take long before Phoenix takes over and she escapes.  Recognizing the danger and power that Phoenix presents, both Magneto and Xavier track her down.  Xavier wants to bring her back to the School to help suppress Phoenix and bring Jean back.  Magneto wants her to join the Brotherhood to help his cause in destroying the mutant cure.  Shock number two comes when, during the battle for Jean's loyalty, Phoenix apparently kills Xavier before joining Magneto!

Told you not to read this if you haven't seen the film yet!

With Jean Grey/Phoenix on his side, Magneto completes his Brotherhood and heads for Alcatraz Island which contains the Worthington Industries lab where Leech is held and the serum is being created.

A showdown pits the Brotherhood against the US military and the only battle-ready X-Men; Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Colossus, Kitty Pryde and Iceman.

We get to see a couple of cool things (no pun intended) during this battle including Iceman icing up for the first time as he takes out his nemesis Pyro.  Seeing Beast, Colossus and Kitty in action is also worth the price of admission.

But, here's where we come to the third shock and that puzzle I mentioned.  During the battle, Magneto sends Juggernaut after Leech.  Leech zaps Juggernaut's powers allowing Leech to escape with Kitty Pryde.  I don't get this part because Juggernaut isn't a mutant so Leech's powers shouldn't have had any effect on him.

The final shock comes as Phoenix is about to destroy the entire island and maybe more.  To save humanity and mutants, Wolverine confronts Jean, tells her he loves her and then kills her to stop her.

There are a couple of other surprising moments during the film but I don't want to trot them all out here.  If you're a fan of the X-Men you need to go see this film for yourself!

Anyway, the direction, pace and script were all well done for this film.  I was a little worried that things might fall apart with Brian Singer not directing but that didn't happen.  Of course the acting was all great and the F/X were, with one or two exceptions, beautiful.  The film ran just under two hours but I'd have been fine with a 2.5 hour film...I didn't want it to end.  I also was hoping for a little more development of Colossus and Kitty Pryde.

Unfortunately this is rumored to be the last of the X-Men movies but it's expected that Wolverine will get a spin-off.  Personally, the X-Universe is so large and diverse they could do a half dozen more movies without getting boring.  I think there are a lot more stories that could be told and I'll be disappointed if they aren't.  I'm also half tempted to start reading the X-Men comics again after this film but, man, that's an expense I don't need (gratuitous Mallrats quote: "Do I give a shit what two comic labels are crossing over characters, selling two editions of the book in varied-ink chromium covers?")

Alright, let's cut to it.  I'm expanding the 4 Wheels of Cheddar rating scale to 5 starting with this film (5 allows for better middle ground) and X-Men: The Last Stand gets a solid 4 Wheels of Cheddar out of 5.  Good directing, a decent script, top-notch performances and the feeling that I didn't want it to end means that it's a good film in my book.

Go see this film on the big screen, it's worth the cash.

You Can't Make it Up

A Chinese kid has been born with two left arms.  Adding insult to injury his parents have named him "Jie-jie."   It probably means "Lefty" in Cantonese or something.

Reports that Goro has been seen recruiting Jie-jie for the next battle over the Earth Realm have not been confirmed.

There's Hope!

Apparently British radio listeners are so tired of hearing hits "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt they've caused stations to ban them from the playlists.

So, all we have to do is complain?  Huh....maybe now we can get all those Kelly Clarkson songs pulled.  Oh, and that Sean Paul single.

5-30-2006

Detention is over

Paul Gleason, best known to those of us that grew up in the '80's as Principal Richard Vernon, messed with the bull and got the horns.  He passed away this weekend from cancer.

5-27-2006

Hit What You Aim At

That's the kind of gun control we need, not more technology.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of more technology.  How else would I be able to post pages and pages of crap for you (both of you) to come here and read day after day?

Anyway, back on topic; grip technology that will allow a gun to only be fired by the owner of said firearm.  I'm not impressed.

Remember that article from yesterday about how, when guns aren't available, all of a sudden knives are the next best thing?  Maybe we can get some grip recognition software to put in our ninja swords?

This technology is ridiculous.  What happens if I wake up to an intruder in my house, grab my gun and go after him and the first thing he does is break my right arm with a baseball bat?  Can I grab the gun with my left hand and still get it to shoot or do I get to lie there while the Barry-Bonds-wannabe knocks home runs 715, 716 and 717 out of the park with my head?

How about this, keep the guns out of the hands of criminals...you know, by ENFORCING THE LAWS WE ALREADY HAVE!  A gun is a tool as a pen is a tool as a knife or a screwdriver or a hammer dildo is a tool.  Legislating or adding technology isn't going to make them more safe.  All tools, if used improperly, have the ability to become dangerous weapons.

Besides, what operating system is this going to use?  Microsoft Windows?  Cause then we'll have guns firing automatically after some Russian mafia hacker breaks in through a trigger buffer overrun script and starts blasting up my house.

We're Never Going to Win

How can we win a war in a country where wearing shorts will get you shot in the head?

You can't.  Our country, our ideals, our religion...nothing can help us understand how completely backward and fucked up the Middle East is.

It's not too late to nuke it into glass.

You'll Never Guess

A former NFL football star involved with cocaine.  You know the Cowboys are going to be involved in this story somehow...

5-26-2006

It sucked so hard I'm wondering if it's possible to un-watch a movie?

I watched the film BloodRayne last night with Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen and Ben Kingsley.  It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.  The F/X were terrible, the plot was full of holes, the acting was nonexistent and the direction looked like a 12 year-old shot it in his back yard.

The only halfway decent thing in the entire film was Loken getting her tits out during a sex scene. 

The actors all phoned it in except for Will Sanderson (Who?  Exactly!) who seemed to at least be trying.  Matthew Davis' sole highlight was licking Kristanna's well-formed left breast while Madsen appeared to be looking for a sword to fall on the entire time. 

Nowhere in the 99 minutes of film did the plot rise above a Saturday night Sci-Fi film level.  Uwe Boll continues his streak of terrible video game movies but Hollywood, unfortunately, hasn't stopped sending him scripts as he's already working on "In the Name of the King," "Postal" and "Far Cry."

I'll cry if I ever have to watch another of his films.

Oh, do you want to know what the film is even about?  IDM, it sucks so bad you don't need to see it.  Even starving rats wouldn't bother carting away the half wheel of cheddar I give this film...And I'm only giving it that much of a nod because of the tit licking.

Dear Senators

Fuck you.

New York Clinton (D) Yes; Schumer (D) Yes <--- Fuckers...

Mormons Gone Wild

Marie Osmond is going to "clean up the Internet" because her teenage daughters posted sexually explicit material on their MySpace.com profiles.

Yeah, because cleaning up the Internet is going to be much easier than scaling back your QVC appearances to supervise your children.

Oh, by the way, one of the daughters is legal and now available for sex "as many times as possible."  Paris Hilton surrenders.

Speaking of the Internet

The government actually made one step in the right direction yesterday by voting yes to a bill that would keep Net neutrality alive and well.  I'm sure Verizon executives, among others, are cursing and scraping up money to throw at people to get this torn down.

Normally I don't link to petition sites but I'm going to link SaveTheInternet.com.

I'm sure this whole tiered Internet thing doesn't sound like that big of a deal to most people but trust me when I tell you this is extremely important.  If Verizon, AT&T and other telecom companies get to decide who has fast access to the Internet we're all going to suffer.

Also check out this editorial from the Ithaca Journal yesterday.  The writer gives some good real world examples of how this thing would work if applied to your phone calls.  As I said, even if you don't understand how this would affect you, trust me, it's huge deal.

I encourage everyone to write or call their Congressman and tell them that you want Net neutrality.  And while you have them on the line, tell them NOT to pass the Senate's immigration bill.  You want laws where Verizon and 100 million foreigners aren't fucking up your day.

Blimey

You know how people talk about gun crimes in the US and every once in a while you'll have an amnesty program where you can turn in illegal guns without being prosecuted? 

Well, replace "gun" with "knife" and welcome to Britain.

This just furthers my belief that if you outlawed guns in this country people would find another weapon to use in crimes.

5-25-2006

He's so slimy he oozes.

Oh, the irony

Congress, the Senate, the president; all pissed off over the FBI raid on Congressman William Jefferson's office.  However, unlike the wiretapping and NSA phone number gathering that has been going on, the FBI actually got a warrant from a District Court Judge in order to go into that office.

I guess when American's are crying foul over invasion of privacy and the eroding of civil liberties it isn't important till it happens to a government official.

A couple news articles, and commentators, have made the comment that our elected officials are just nervous over whose office is next.  I agree.  I think we'd probably wipe out about half of the House if the FBI ever got into investigating them all.

One more day...

Till X-Men: The Last Stand hits theaters.  Before you go see the film see if you can beat my pitiful 77% score with your knowledge of the X-Men.

Reading Material

Here are some articles you should read about immigration to the US and the really crappy exceptions that could potentially be built into the new laws.

My favorite: 

"Illegal aliens would only have to pay back taxes on three of the past five years, they will not be prosecuted for felonies such as identity theft or purchasing or using fraudulent Social Security cards, and unlike millions of visa holders who have to leave the country to have them renewed, they may simply remain in the United States while this Congress and this president give away all the benefits and privileges of American citizenship."

Can I skip two years of taxes and get one free Social Security card to make some extra cash under the table?  No?  Somehow I didn't think so.

Get the rest of that article by reading Lou Dobbs' editorial.

Here are two good stipulations as reported by Robert Novak.

So, come here from another country and get job protections that natural-born American's can't get? There's no way that's gonna be good for our economy.  Hire a Mexican to pick your lettuce and when he takes a 4 hour siesta in the middle of the work day you can't do jack to him.  I somehow doubt I could get away with that at any job I've ever had.

If you think that making illegal immigrants citizens of the US is somehow going to make everything rainbows and roses you're a fucking lunatic.  No good can come of legalizing 12 million illegals.

Oh, and don't forget that 12 million is just an estimate because, you know, by definition "undocumented workers" are just that, undocumented.  We could conceivably pass a law to legalize these people and all of a sudden 35 million heads pop up. 

One other thing, if you believe phony documents won't be used to get 2-day-in-the-country immigrants citizenship I'd like to introduce you to reality.  These people already broke the law to get here, forging a couple pieces of paper to get cousin Jose a green card isn't going to be a big deal for them.

Remind me again...

Why those of you living in NY back in 2000 voted for Hillary Clinton?  I leave the state for a couple years and you all go flippin' whacko.  Have you heard the latest gem from this broad?

She wants to cut the speed limit back to 55mph to help cut down on our oil consumption.  Here's a thought, even if the limit is 65 it doesn't actually mean you have to drive that fast.  If some people want to drive 55 they will, if the rest of us want to drive 65 let us, we're the ones paying for the fuel to do it.

If you want to legislate something put it on the vehicle manufacturers and require them to make cars that get better gas mileage or use alternative sources of fuel.  Improving my cars efficiency from 20mpg to 30mpg is going to save us money and oil better than cutting the speed limit. 

The federal government has already stepped on state's rights to set speed limits by tying federal infrastructure money to them.  They've also stepped in on schools, seatbelts and other things that the states used to be in control over.  I don't want a federal law telling my state they have to cut the speed limit down by 10mph especially if I lived somewhere where 55 was just unrealistic such as, say, Indiana where it's straight, flat and smooth.  At 65 it's perfectly safe and when you're 3 hours from the next major city, more than required.

Now, PA on the other hand, they should have a speed limit of 35.  Except for me.  I should get my own lane and a speed limit of 70  so I wouldn't have to dick with the idiot drivers and I'd have to spend as little time as necessary there.

5-24-2006

You might wanna take a look at that.

So the power supply in this new computer I built shit the bed.  It works, sort of, but not reliably.  I have a call and fax in to support so hopefully I'll have an RMA number on soon.  For now, after a little maintenance, I'm back to my old rig.  Yay.

Slow Boat to China

If you're a fan of "24" I'll assume that you watched the season finale on Monday night because there are spoilers ahead.

Of course Jack Bauer saved the day and he did it in magnificent style.  Tricking the president into confessing, on tape, to his wife right before being arrested in front of the press and military officers.  It couldn't have been a more fitting end...well, except if Jack had shot him.

 Aaron Pierce made it out alive, barely, Audrey Raines came through as did Curtis and Chloe and most of the rest of CTU.  Well, except the red shirt agents. 

This season's cliffhanger, though, is a really tough one.  After saving the day again Jack gets kidnapped by the Chinese who are still out for revenge over the killing in their consulate last season.  The final shot of the season is Jack, beaten and bloody, lying in the hold of a cargo ship bound for China.

It's going to be a long fucking wait till January 2007 for the next season of "24."

More Immigration crap

The president of Mexico is complaining about the proposed wall along the border, National Guard troops on the border and that his citizens aren't getting a fair shake in the US.  Mr. President, to you I must use a phrase coined by Fark:  Die in a fire.

The fact is that nearly 10% of the Mexican population actually lives in the US now.  If they became citizens they could hold any job in this country except for two: President and Vice President.  They could be in the Senate or Congress,  any business they'd like, they could own property wherever they want, they could go to school, receive health benefits, serve in the military, become cops, nurses, lawyers or even MIS consultants.

Know what job an American could hold if he moved to Mexico and became a Mexican citizen?  He could be unemployed. 

Legal immigrants to Mexico can't hold government jobs, serve in the military, own property near the coast or border or become a priest.

Oh, and the Mexican government can toss any immigrant out any time they want for whatever reason they want...but they don't want us to toss the Mexicans out of the US.  They want us to grant rights to illegal immigrants that their own country won't grant to legal citizens that weren't born in Mexico.

Fuck you Mr. Fox.  Fuck you with a hot poker.

We need new laws on illegal immigrants in this country and nothing short of making them criminals and expelling them with all due haste will suffice.  If that doesn't happen, and they're allowed amnesty, we will be the United States of Mexico by 2020. 

Time to check on those immigration laws to Canada and New Zealand again.

5-18-2006

You're in good hands.

I totally forgot but yesterday was the 6th anniversary of Net Enigma.  Yay.  I probably should give away free shit or something...maybe next year.

W00T!

The CW network has a preliminary list of shows that it has picked up for next season and on that list are "Supernatural," "Smallville," "One Tree Hill" and "Veronica Mars."  I can not express how pleased I am to hear this news.

"Smallville" was almost a given but the other three had to have been on the bubble.  I think part of it is probably due to the fact that a brand new network really needed some familiar shows and these got saved because of it.  Going with all new shows for the fall would have been a terrible mistake. 

Hopefully with cash from CBS and Time Warner this network will get some good affiliates and I won't have to burn down my TW cable office.

Oh, and for all those people that were sad to see "7th Heaven" wrap up this season on the WB, don't worry, it's coming back in the fall.  I think that if the WB network continued as it has been the show would be gone so this merger of UPN and WB is good news for many fans.

Other than "Invasion" and "Surface" all my shows appear to be coming back next year including "The Unit" and "The O.C."  "Everwood" is finally getting the boot, though, and that seems to be the only unexpected casualty of the WB/UPN merger. 

I'm so addicted to TV.

Finished

Finally put the finishing touch on my new computer rig yesterday.  I picked up an NEC DVD burner with silver face plate (almost a perfect match to the silver case) from NewEgg for $40 and it came last night.

I have plenty of CD burning software but I'll probably be in Best Buy in the next day or so looking for a good DVD burning utility. 

I'll have to take a couple pictures of the new box this weekend and post them.  It came out nice and has some good specs which I'll also list.

5-16-2006

I know, it's sudden, right?

Poor Jeffrey Dean Morgan.  He may have the dubious honor of dying in two separate TV series on two different networks all in the same season.

First he may have died in the cliffhanger ending of "Supernatural" on the WB where he played John Winchester and last night he did die as Denny the heart transplant patient.  Poor bastard.  If it helps, I'm rooting for a major comeback in "Supernatural" this fall on the new CW network.

More Season finales

"Grey's Anatomy" is the show Morgan died on as the heart patient.  They had their two hour season finale last night and it wasn't that bad.  Not quite as bad a cliffhanger as it could have been but still a lot of crap to solve next year.  Good show.

Now, for "Prison Break."  Fuckin' show.  They finally broke out of prison but didn't make it to the airfield in time to catch their plane.  So, as the credits rolled, we see Michael, Link and the rest running across a field into the night...police hot on their trails. 

Ironically, for all the planning that Michael did Haywire and Tweener appear to be the ones actually in good shape for the escape.  T-Bag getting his hand cut off by Abruzzi was awesome but I still think he should have lopped his head off.  Man, I can not wait till next season!!

I also finally caught up with the season finale of "My Name is Earl" and it was one of the best yet.  That's the funniest show on TV today and I'm happy that Jason Lee is finally getting some recognition for his genius.

Run for the Border

President Bush came out last night with some plans for immigration changes and I must warn you that, yes, you are reading it correctly when I say that I think I may buy into this plan.

I'd still much prefer to hear that we were going to round up all 12 million (estimated) illegal aliens in the country and deport them but that's just wishful thinking.  Especially when there are some of them that have children that are American citizens (I still think that rule should be tossed if the parents are illegal aliens but I don't see it happening).

Not giving all 12 million automatic amnesty is a good thing, but it only actually works if some of the people end up having to go.  Giving them a path to citizenship without deportation first is still a reward but it sounds like they'll have to pay up on a fine and start paying taxes.  If they don't, they may still have to go.

The other thing it does is not piss directly on all the people that have played by the rules to come to this country.  They're still gonna have to wipe off their shoes though.

As for the National Guard on the border providing logistics and support?  I don't know.  It's not really their job but if having them driving some supplies around and using their engineers to build roads frees up actual border cops for rounding up illegals then maybe it's not that bad.  Besides, if I were in the Guard I'd rather be deployed somewhere that I can run to Wal-Mart on my day off rather than dodge bombs and sleep in my body armor.

Guess we'll have to see how bad Kennedy and the other Democrats piss on this new plan before I make my final decision on it.

I Hate Verizon

But I hate Time Warner Cable even more.  That's why I decided to pay Verizon more of my hard-earned cash to go with them for DSL Internet service.  The modem showed up Friday night and connected right up and now I'm surfing for porn in high speed goodness.

It'll be about two more days before I start to wonder how I ever made it with dial-up for so long.  Still, Verizon sucks.  Stay away from them if at all possible....don't pay them a penny more than you need to.

5-12-2006

That won't hold up in court.

All your porn are belong to us

Well, it seems that the .xxx domain name got voted down because of anti-porn groups, and others, complaining that it would legitimize the porn industry, give the industry another venue for their sites and make porn easier to find on the internet.

Maybe.

What it WOULD do is make it easier for filtering companies, and home users, to block out porn with one easy entry in a web browser.  Instead they leave the wild and wooly Internet alone so some innocent kid could accidentally type www.disnye.com (instead of www.disney.com) and get a face full of Arielle Lee, porn star, instead of Ariel the "Little Mermaid."

It seems that the porn industry didn't care for it to a certain extent, probably because of the potential for censorship laws, but it isn't a bad idea in my opinion.

Besides, now I'm going to miss out on being able to roll out "Net Enigma: Triple X!"

Although .xxx got voted down, guess what new domain extension did get approved?

How about .tel where people can share their phone numbers, email addresses and instant messenger ids with the rest of the world.

Great.

Because I don't get enough email spam or telemarketing calls I want to put ALL that information in one place so that it's easier to find.  Give me a fuckin' break.  I spend more time trying to HIDE that information than most people care to know about.  Even this site is pretty well protected against the random web crawler software when it comes to harvesting email id's.  My Usenet reader is even more protected and I still deal with 100+ spam email messages each day on my primary account.  Don't even get me started on how much I get on my other misc. id's here at Net Enigma.

I have probably 10 email addresses, 4 or 5 instant messenger id's, a web site and forum.  I don't need to post all that.  The shitty thing is that it's not even contained on the Internet.  I get two or three acres of rain forest in my mailbox each week...usually in the form of credit card applications that I don't need.  If people don't know how to get hold of me now I probably don't need to talk to them.

If you really need to find someone...

How about you call up the NSA and get that lost phone number from them.  Apparently they have a pretty good phone directory now.

And if you didn't like Verizon, AT&T or Bell South before you really aren't going to like them now that they've decided to cooperate with this program.  Qwest seems to be the only sane company out there.

Here's some telling information:

"Unable to get comfortable with what NSA was proposing, Qwest's lawyers asked NSA to take its proposal to the FISA court. According to the sources, the agency refused.

The NSA's explanation did little to satisfy Qwest's lawyers. "They told (Qwest) they didn't want to do that because FISA might not agree with them," one person recalled. For similar reasons, this person said, NSA rejected Qwest's suggestion of getting a letter of authorization from the U.S. attorney general's office. A second person confirmed this version of events."

The NSA told Qwest that they wouldn't go to FISA because FISA "might not agree with them."  Why not?  Oh, I don't know, maybe because what the NSA is doing is illegal?  Hmm....

Your Fourth Amendment rights surrender.

Hot For Teacher

And this time she didn't actually sleep with a student!  Erica Chevillar, going by Erica Lee, posed for the USA National Bikini Team and the skimpy outfits got her into some hot water with the school where she teaches in Boca Raton.

Since I first read the article it's changed to say that she will not be punished for the bikini and lingerie photos posted on the web but she's still planning on leaving for a job in real estate.

You can not deny the hotness that is Erica Chevillar, though, so go check out the photos from the USA NBT web site, posted here since their site was pretty well Farked.

5-10-2006

Allow me to support your delusion.

Today a double feature in hotness just because I can.

Nella:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Jade:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

However, no matter how hot those two chicks are, when I blow out the candles on the cake I'm wishing for this girl:

Keira Knightley

5-9-2006

Movin' on up!

Helped move Todd and Kathy into their new house on Saturday and that was a long day.  The hardest part was the huge freaking pool table but it was worth it because it's a sweet table.  And they scored a nice house so it's going to work well for them.

Fuckin' Television

Watched a couple more season finale shows this weekend including "Supernatural" and I'm pissed.  Spoilers apply so, blah, blah, blah.

The brothers tracked down their father who turned out to be possessed by the demon they've been tracking.  Not able to pull the trigger and kill the demon and his dad, Sam watched as it fled leaving him with his brother and father.  Everything's good, till the fuckin' semi runs over them on the way out of town.

Roll credits.  Dammit.  It wouldn't be so bad if I knew the show was coming back but, WB show...up in the air if it'll make it onto the CW network next year.  Fuck CBS and fuck Time Warner for pulling the plug on my favorite network and potentially on some of my favorite shows.

This might possibly be a worse season ending then "One Tree Hill" if that's possible.

Get out of jail free

You have a career criminal that's been convicted at least twice of burglary and he's up for his third strike now, do you let him out of the mandatory life term for that third strike or do you toss away the key?

How about it he's the one that turned in a guy that molested a 3 year old kid?

I'm thinking maybe we can give this guy 5 years for the new burglary charges and call it a day.

5-4-2006

I'm freakin' out, man!

This week a bunch of TV shows are wrapping up for the season and several more are ending in the next week or so and I have to say that this week has totally flipped me out.

Monday night's "Prison Break" and "24" episodes, while not season finales, were totally off the hook.  It's all coming down to a few huge events in the next couple of weeks.  Even "CSI Miami" is headed for a surprise ending.

Tuesday nothing over the top went on but "Thief" did wrap up it's season on F/X.  I wasn't overly impressed with the show.  It wasn't as hard core as "The Shield," as in-your-face honest as "Rescue Me," or as thought provoking as "Nip/Tuck."  I'd watch a second season just to see what happened to everyone but I'm not counting on it.

Last night, though, was insane and I haven't even watched two shows yet!  I taped "Invasion" which is headed for some interesting final episodes.

The two that got to me, though, were "One Tree Hill" and "Lost."  Now, spoilers apply so stop reading if you don't want to know.

"One Tree Hill" had it's season finale but in all honesty I have a feeling it's probably the end of that show.  With The WB becoming The CW network in the fall only a handful of shows from WB and UPN will carry over and I really don't know if OTH will make it.  But, the cliffhanger ending begs for more shows.  Three chicks are potentially pregnant, one hero could be dead and the villain is outed as the murderer of his own brother!  I mean, WTF?  Besides, I need some more Hilarie Burton.

As for "Lost," well, that show is all about surprises and twists.  Killing off Ana-Lucia and Libby was a "HOLY SHIT" moment although it makes you wonder if they got rid of them because of Michelle and Cynthia's drunk driving problems? 

Any way you cut it, that show is headed for some intense final episodes.

Tonight it's the season (Series? You have to wonder about these WB shows) finale for "Supernatural" while "Smallville" and "ER" are both winding down as well.  Don't even get me started on "My Name is Earl" and "CSI" where it looks as if a main character is going to be killed off.