Thoughts, ramblings and other stuff

One of the traditional TV events in Poland is showing Home Alone movies (at least the first two). My brother said they tried to stop last year but there was big outcry. Way to profit from some kid traumatic experience. Ever wondered what living with this kind of PTSD do to a person? You no longer need to - just take a look at the man Kevin became:

After all the teasers for the Sarah (not your property), Alison (not your toy), Helena (not your weapon) and Cosima (not your experiment) here is an actual scene from the next season. Two months left.


Here are some deleted scenes from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay with Peeta and president Snow and Katniss and make-up. Leslie Jones tweeted a photo of new Ghostbusters cast backstage during SNL 40. There is a webseries about adventures of Adult Wednesday Addams and she does what we all wish we could do.

A new webseries coming form Felicia Day and Brian Singer to Hulu and Youtube.

Ahe half-hour comedy, which will post four episodes in its freshman run, follows a group of five wanna-be ghost hunters, spoofing paranormal “reality” shows in a live-action, modern-day Scooby-Doo. The Paranormal Investigation Team (or P.I.T. for short) tackles a new case each week, and through bumbling luck and raw talent, they manage to touch the other side of reality.

It has a lot of familiar faces (casting your series with your friends works pretty well sometimes).

The first episode is already available

Jeff Victor has a gallery full of n the evolution of our favourite artists and heroes through their film career. Go see how Sigourney Weaver changed form lady with a cat to a cat lady.

Troy & Abed = Geordi & Data. How long before this will become a meme? I see it spreading with the new season (whenever that might be).

The web version of BSG: Blood and Chrome has just reached finale so you can see the whole thing now. It has space battles and loads of cameos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is going to meet Superman this week. He was the one to pick a star for Krypton and he is staring in this story. And thanks to him we will get scientifically accurate red star which system could house an ancient civilisation. Too bad nothing else makes sense (biology never gets the love).

Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome starts this Friday. As a web show on Machinima youtube channel. It will run as a series of 7-12 minute episodes and after it's done Syfy will show it as a TV movie. Doesn't makes sense to me either but I'm planning to watch.

Here's the new The Hobbit TV spot. It made me realise the first film is coming out next month

The Pond Life is available on BBC youtube channel and the first two episodes are up. Here's the first one:


Despite there being very little of the Ponds in it even after two episodes you kind of get wy they would want to stop being companions. It's like growing out of Narnia and finding your whole new life out here.

Leverage was cute tonight. The best part for me was the vacation snapshots – especially Parker/Hardison trip around the world. Unfortunately, it lacked suspense for me but that's because I have problem with taking Cary Elves being evil seriously (he's both Wesley and Robin Hood). But that's my problem. And Antonov An-225 is the largest plane in the world and it actually flies (Spruce Goose has however bigger wingspan - because of outdated, straight wings) I'm sad about the move but I like that there are consequences from last season ending. I also dislike keeping secrets from the rest of team (and us viewers) but it looks like it's this season arc so let's see were it leads.

Falling Skies reminded me tonight why stick with it. It tends to have boring first half of the season but then the stakes go up. I've been waiting for return of Karen as the harnessed kids and their reactions to how their life changed are my favourite part. They didn't keep us guessing for too long. Karen is still doing the aliens bidding. she was the mouth of the main alien species for so long - directly connected to them - and it seems she doesn't need harness to love them and do their bidding any more. Rick wanted to go back too. She does what they wanted her to and she is there to lead the aliens but not to the Second Mass. They don't care about humans that much. They want the Skitter rebellion. The best part was watching her manipulate Ben and play on his alienation (:P) from the rest of humans. He is so taken with finding someone like him (especially after just loosing Rick) that he goes against what he knows and decides to believe her. I admit I'm exited for next episode.

Political Animals was fun. The guys were mostly jerks (especially the ex) but the conversations between the two main women were awesome. So were having women with ambitions that have nothing to do with families and are all about power. And, LOL at Adrian Pasdar as president.

But the best thing I've seen today is Farscape recut into minisodes for nedist channel and Ben Bowder does commentary (in his Doctor Who mustache :)

I saw the PHD Movie today and it truly is funny. One can tell it's not a professional production and sometime it feels like the people are just reciting the lines and it's feels like bunch of gags not one story but it just flew by before I realised. And everyone in a full, large auditorium was laughing and cheering so loudly I sometimes couldn't hear the dialogue. It was OK. I remembered most of it from the comic. And it was so true in so many ways. Especially about the fact that no matter how we complain it's what we want.

I came back home and noticed that the first episode of The Dragon Age webseries is online. It's nice. Felicia Day, swords, fights, butchery. Here's embed but it's better to watch it in HD