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So why do the aliens attack?  That’s not actually revealed in the movie.  The aliens do remove brains from humans and for a purpose.  It’s not said if that is the sole reason for the alien attack or if that’s just the first part of a larger project.  The aliens in this movie were cybernetic organisms which I thought was really cool.

The movie does not resolve itself by the end.  Could there be a sequel?  Perhaps but I don’t think that is planned or necessary.  The movie just did not need to continue.

Reasons why alien movies usually fail my approval test:

1. They don’t show the aliens or they don’t show them enough.
2. The aliens start their attack strong but then the writers force them to act uncharacteristically.
3. The aliens are defeated by dumb luck and/or a Windows-compatible virus.
4. The aliens master interstellar/intergalactic travel and then invade the earth with subpar technology.

Skyline manages to avoid three out of four of these which is great.  #4 might have been a failure in that in this movie the aliens did not have infrared or x-ray vision to see around counters or through blinds covering windows.  I can live with that!

***WARNING CHUCK S5 SPOILERS BELOW***

I do admit that what happened to a Sarah over the last few episodes was not enjoyable to watch. That said, I found the last minute of the last episode wrapped up that story well. Let me reiterate that I thought Sarah losing her memories was really dumb. Not only that but she didn’t lose all of her memories. She could remember her name, she remembered Bryce, yet forgot only memories from the last 5 years? Too stupid. Chuck chose to use the last intersect to save people’s lives sacrificing Sarah’s memories possibly forever–ok I believe that. But then he should be a CIA asset again. Not just free to walk away with their secrets still in his mind. Did we forget that in early seasons they feared that Chuck could end up imprisoned in a bunker forever if he didn’t play ball?

Now back to the end of the last episode. I’m happy it ended as it did because with just a minute more and I think I would have been disappointed. Chuck kisses Sarah and it’s a long kiss. That means it could not have been too bad for Sarah. Had they agreed to “try again” and we ended up with a montage of new first dates and such, to me that would be disappointing. Without her memories Sarah is almost like a different person and so Chuck would be giving up one Sarah, his Sarah, for this newer one. I just would not have been happy with that.

Of course with Chuck having the intersect back in his mind he may have the ability to create another one that could be rigged to restore memories. Though Ellie’s plan of taking wedding photos and a dossier and uploading them into Sarah’s mind doesn’t sound like a valid way to restore memories anyway. When Chuck flashes on a killer’s face he doesn’t become the killer or gain his memories.

Anyway, the last few episodes were stinky with that story line. I do hope they make a TV movie to wrap fix it but if it ends like that which it probably will, I can live with that ending.

***WARNING CHUCK S5 SPOILERS ABOVE ***

I’m only two episodes in and when I saw “Michael Dorn” in the list of credits at the beginning of episode one I was very excited. I couldn’t imagine who he was going to play. I was crushed when I found out he was playing a police psychologist (or psychiatrist, whichever…”shrink” s’il vous plait).

Of course we get to episode two and it turns out there’s a vigilante killer with a very distinctive voice. Who could it be? I haven’t finished the episode yet but I’m pretty sure ol’ Worf is more than just a doctor. This is also the “superhero” that was hinted at during the Comic-con panel this year.

Anyway, if you’re not watching Castle then you need to go to Netflix or eBay/Amazon and get the DVDs ASAP. It’s a fun series and I’m looking forward to the rest of this season.

Ok well I’ve paused the episode just so I could blog about my excitement seeing 2 Trektors show up this season. Time to finish watching!

Jeremiah was written and created by J Michael Straczynski, better known for creating Babylon 5. Jeremiah wasn’t the greatest show but it also wasn’t horrible. When I first heard about Jeremiah I had thought it was just a rip off of Jericho but I didn’t realize at the time that Jeremiah was aired 4 years sooner. The story tells us of a world where 6 billion people died (virtually everyone except for children that had no hit puberty) caused from a plague they call “the Big Death.” The series sticks to just the continental U.S.A. and focuses on the people trying to rebuild a country and the obstacles they face.

One thing that irked me was the lack of cars everywhere. With over 100 million cars in the USA, if 90% of the population were wiped out, I would have expected to see many more abandoned cars everywhere. I won’t hold this against Jeremiah too much though, I could come up with explanations to the lack of cars much easier than I could explaining why every alien and human from another world is able to speak English on StarGate…or why those humans have flashlights and walkie talkies that look just like ours.

The series made it through 2 seasons (35 Episodes total). Unfortunately JMS and MGM did not work well together and JMS left the show. Luckily they decided to cancel the series as opposed to bringing on new writers. Without spoiling, I will say that the series does end without one of those horrible cliffhangers and whether the ending was a happy one is open to interpretation.

Jeremiah was originally based on a Belgian comic book series by Hermann Huppen first written in 1979 but is still written today. You can find the comics fairly inexpensively on eBay for $5-20 each.

What I do find surprising is that although you can find the complete first season on DVD on eBay for under $10, the second season is priced on eBay, Amazon.com and Walmart.com for over $50! I guess the first season’s sales were not as stellar and production on season two DVDs was much less. Best Buy has season one available but doesn’t even offer season two. So if you find an inexpensive copy of season two, be sure to buy it.

The cool thing about the games is that they will place on the older Macs of that era. So if you wanted to play Gundam Tactics or tinker with the Dragonball Z Anime Designer, you can do it on an old computer as opposed to trying to obtain of the the original Pippin systems.

You can sometimes find the console and games on eBay. Here’s a few currently available:

I do want to point out one thing that the internet seems to have overlooked. There seems to be one prop camera that is consistently used over and over again over the seasons of the show. It’s a Nikon camera and I’m not sure of the model.

When Prue decides to become a photographer she’s got the Nikon camera. Whenever someone like Sheridan is using a camera to catch the girls in action–the Nikon camera! When Phoebe is getting photographed for magazines? It’s with that Nikon camera. When Piper, Leo and the kids are getting their family portrait…guess what? It’s that SAME Nikon camera.

If you’re about to watch all 8 seasons of the show, take a look any time someone has a camera.

BOSTON (CBS) – A 74-year-old professor who has lectured at Boston schools for two decades has been charged with running a methamphetamine lab. Irina Kristy, who teaches math at Boston University and Suffolk University, will be arraigned next month for allegedly running a meth lab out of her Somerville home. Kristy’s son Grigory pleaded not guilty to the same charges last month. Kristy has been placed on administrative leave at Suffolk. BU officials, meanwhile, said they are aware of the charges.

Synopsis: A woman wakes up in a room with no memory of who she is or how she got there…This is a short set in the world of the Portal video games created by Valve Software.

With 720p video and a cool soundtrack, I’d recommend watching this video in full screen:

Could this video be the stepping stone to something more? Will part two include a pair of Long fall boots?

and part two:

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