This Better Be Good...

Heroes Season 4...Redemption...



So the formula for Redemption, from what I can see, is recycling some themes from the first season: Peter Petrelli working to save human lives in the allied medical services(he was a caregiver in season one) and Claire back in school and rehashing the "caught-between-two-worlds-but-I-wanna-be-normal" storyline and getting a new confidante (Season 1: gay; Season 2: lesbian?!)in college. But I'm guessing there will be some surprises for us along the way...The new villain, Samuel, looks a bit like Little Nicky's evil brother. Schnapps, anyone?

Heroes, for me, lost its way during the 3rd Season - buckling under the weight of some overwrought storylines, and finding some difficulty on which stories to focus on. Plus, there's the disappearing then suddenly reappearing characters.

Season One is the best of the series. Here's hoping Heroes can redeem itself this season...

The DVD Works...I'm Loving It

I'm currently watching the 2nd season of Millennium.

This season is weirder, more apocalyptic, more existential...wanna know the true nature of evil?



After watching four episodes, the answer(s) could be ANY of the following:

A. the rational choice of an obsessed man -- and a comet.
B. a force of nature -- who's a bitch that'll send a pack of dogs to maul you to death if you intrude on her turf
C. our very essence. ACTG. Sense. Antisense. A bit of biochemistry helps.
D. a murderous, sociopathic, soulless -- five year old girl

or it could also be ALL of the above...

I look forward to seeing again the episode entitled "Anamnesis" which featured a young girl suspected to carry Christ's (yes, THAT Christ) bloodline, and of a secretive group tasked to protect the descendants of Christ. This episode also asks which Mary are we really praying to when we recite the "Hail Mary"...

Take note that the series aired mid-90s so medyo naunahan na nila ang Da Vinci Code. Take that, Dan Brown!

For those dissing the second season for being inferior to the first, I believe that the first season, with all its emphasis on serial killers and the blood and gore, was a precursor to the second season. What could be the natural next step for a trail of murder and evil...the Apocalypse, of course!

They're Back!

It's been a looooong wait...



Finally, the long-awaited answers to our questions...

Who shot Nathan Petrelli?

What happened to Nikki?

What was Kaito Nakamura's power?

What is Angela Petrelli's power?

Who are the villains?

Will Sylar get more powers?

Some of the questions are answered by the spoiler vid below:



Season Three starts now...damn it, walang TV dito sa boarding house!

Carnivale

the Natalie Merchant music vid got me thinking about carnivals. Then I remembered:

U2 also had a music vid which featured the carnival...con subtitulos en español...



And then this HBO series entitled "Carnivale." A dark, gloomy series which tackled the supernatural and gnostic hehe medyo malalim ang mga themes that the series tackled

pero astig ang intro...



Opening credits pa lang there are already a lot of symbols featured to make a history geek happy hehehe

Here's the series in a nutshell...



There are still a LOT of things going on aside from the good vs. evil plot. Pity the series was cancelled by HBO after just two seasons.

Anime # 3: Ranma 1/2

one good thing if an anime series last long, you get to see the improvements in animation techniques as the years go by. and anyone who has bought the complete ranma 1/2 series is bound to see the change in animation style and quality throughout the series run. but the jokes are STILL funny, the situations ranma gets him/herself into still elicit a big round of Roll On The Floor Laughs, and even if the situations and challenges get more absurd and wacky, you still can't get tired of watching our gender-switching protagonist along with the other metamorphosing (and non-metamorphosing) characters go on theircrazy adventures. Now where did I put that takuri full of hot water...



some of the more memorable funny stuff:

1. Ranma gets a concussion and begins to believe that he's a woman
2. the martial-arts/gymnastics showdown bet. Akane and Kodachi (with the high pitched a-ha-ha-ha-ha!) plus the ring moves all by itself! (or does it?)
3. female Ranma being kissed by Kodachi's brother. Ranma's reaction is a KILLER! hahahaha
4. the "perverted old geezer" and his fondness for lingerie
5. various scenes of characters finding each other naked in the bath
6. the poor near-sighted Moose and his unrequited love for Shampoo...that, and the fact that Moose manages to hide all sorts of things under his sleeves -- kulang na lang bazooka ang itago niya!
7. Akane's father shedding copious tears -- cry me a river!
8. Ranma's father's past bulilyasos coming back to haunt both him and his son -- its usually Ranma that has to fix the mess though...
9. Ryoga's insanely poor sense of direction -- and his crush on Akane
10. The Chinese guide at the "cursed springs." Always ready with a story of some unfortunate being that fell into a cursed spring (usually a few thousand years ago) -- after a person had already fallen into it.
11. The insane martial arts styles (Anything Goes? Pancake Delivery something something...etc.) and the crazy moves (The Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire Move was pretty cool though)
12. a character named "Pantyhose" (this was in the manga though. when I read of this character, nearly fell off my chair laughing)
13. how the wrong people keep falling in love with Ranma -- the male and the female versions -- which make for some very funny situations.

Anime # 2: Ghost Fighter!

I nearly went postal during my first year when I wasn't able to watch the LAST episode of this anime series. We were required to attend the f*cking La Salle Pops Orchestra so all the negative energy went into the required reaction paper. P*tangina nyo hindi ko napanood ang last episode ng Ghost Fighteeeeer! hahahaha

Proof that this anime is still popular. I came across an advertisement flyer here in UP featuring Lord Yomi hailing an "Ikot" jeep and another showing Yomi and Dennis going one-on-one at the sunken garden hahaha I think it was for a Japanese Studies org...sure got my attention...

Oh siya here's the opening theme of YuYu Hakusho Season 2, when the guys (Eugene, Dennis, Vincent, Alfred or Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei and Kuwabara) battled the "soccer dude" hehe Sensui



Fave character: Dennis, especially in his fox form.
Fave villain: sino pa kundi si Tarug--este--Toguro hehehe
Fave episode: Yomi versus his kid! ties with Toguro versus Eugene! ties with Dennis versus Karasu! it's a three-way!

One Reason to stay up late when I was in high school...

a tv series about serial killers, a detective who can "see" through the killers' eyes, an organization shrouded in mystery, the impending apocalypse, and this...the opening theme never fails to give me goosebumps hehehe

series was created by the same person who created the "X-Files" another 90's TV classic. Love! Love!