I saw Gamer and it was awesome! I would probably have to recommend that, unless you are like me and MUST SEE IT NOW!!!!! That you’d probably be better off waiting and renting it. I didn’t mind the violence much, but I talked to someone else who watched it, and the first thing they said was that the gore was a bit over the top. I didn’t really notice because the only type of gore that gets to me is when organs are involved, like that one zombie movie. Dawn of the Dead, I think. Anyway, the thing that got me was the game Societies. *Shudder* I will never EVER play a life simulation game. EVER. Not even The Sims!! I’m pretty sure it was mocking Second Life because Second Life needs to be mocked, but it was pretty crude. Basically, the genius behind Slayers, the game where you can play a convicted criminal in a war zone, also created Societies, where you can play a real person in a Second Life-ish world. Yeah, everything disturbing you’ve ever heard about Second Life? That seems to be the focus in Societies…

Anyway, the ending of this movie VERY satisfying.  And it was amusing seeing everyone’s favorite serial killer Dexter playing the villain. And he’s the funny sort of insane, making people dance before a  big battle and stuff.  I wish the wife had been a bit more useful. She didn’t really seem to do anything helpful,  but what do you expect from a movie about big manly men? You expect violence and explosions!

Anyway, the next thing on my rant list is Fringe. I don’t want to give anything away, so I’ll just say that they killed one of the characters in the season 2 opener. And they burned the body so there is no chance of him coming back… Sad… Don’t worry, it’s not Peter, the amusing sarcastic one. If he died, I’d stop watching it all together. But anyway, there was a rumor circulating that the actor that played the character had been fired, but now I’m starting to wonder if it was just a bad pun. He was burned, fired. Either way, he is gone and I am upset. I guess there is always the chance that his character from the other world will come into play a bit more, but that’s just wishful thinking on my part. I’ll still keep watching it, of course, but then I’m still watching Supernatural even though they don’t fight anything interesting anymore, and Sam is stupid.

And now we move onto video games.

The most shocking news being that I am going to give World of Warcraft another shot.  I still don’t like the art much, but everyone I know is playing, and I’m tired of being a hermit, so I’d better get into the loop. Now, don’t anyone get your hopes up. Knowing me, I’ll play for a couple weeks, then get bored and vanish.  The highest level I have ever gotten is lvl 25. This is why I try to avoid paytoplay games.. They say it is addicting, though, so hopefully that means it can hold my attention. I'll post my character's name and surver when I create it, though, so everyone can bug me ^^

Also, Batman: Arkham Asylum is fantastic. Particularly the levels against the Scarecrow. The Scarecrow is an expert in making people face their fears, so that is always fun.

And finally, Scribblenauts. Wow, it is amazing how much work they put into that. I feel lame and uncreative, though, since I’ve solved most puzzles with a helicopter and rope… Some funny things, though: If you enter Dingo and Baby, the dingo will eat the baby. (The line, "dingo ate my baby") If you enter Cthulhu, it creates a giant squid dragon thing that can kill pretty much anything. Any advice on what I should enter next?
 

I thought I’d talk about 9 for now. (When I get a chance,I'll posts a link to the trailer for anyone who doesn't know what it is, and a link to the original, that I'll mention later)

It really is a great movie. The animations are fantastic, but then they were in the original as well. For those who don’t know, some guy made an animated video and stuck it on youtube (he probably has a website, but that’s where I watched it) Tim Burton liked it, and bought it. Or something along those lines. The guy who originally made it also directed the movie, so I guess Tim Burton might have just sponsored it.

Anyway, one thing I will say is that, despite how awesome it looked, it seemed to be missing a lot. I tried really hard to like it, but there was just something missing. It didn’t really help that the storyline didn’t make any sense. And the characters! They could have been so interesting, but we hardly got to know anyone. I was especially interested it 6, because he was the crazy one and also the only one who seemed to know what was going on.

And now for some spoilers.

The storyline made no sense! Maybe that’s why I felt so unsatisfied after watching it. It could have been epic, but it wasn’t. Anyway, from what I can tell, if the main character hadn’t been stupid to begin with, no one would have died and the round thing (the thing the scientist used to make the main characters. I don’t think they ever called it anything, so from now on, it will be known as the round thing) wouldn’t have done anything. Also, if the girl (7, I think) could kill the cat-looking monster so easily, why didn’t she do it a long time ago? I was under the impression that there was only one, so if she had killed it a long time ago, the main characters could have lived peacefully and there’d be really no point to the movie…

So, I guess what would be different is this:

The story should have been set up more as a tragedy. It seemed like someone had to die, because of what the round thing did in the end, and the scientist did leave it to 9. Well, I guess it doesn’t HAVE to be 9 that uses it and dies in the end.  And if anyone else gets killed by the machines, I suppose no one else really HAS to die, but if we’re gonna go that route, the other death scenes are going to have to change.

It’s just, all the deaths throughout the movie seem rather pointless and you don’t feel bad for anyone because you hardly know them, so either less people should die, or the deaths should be spread out a bit more so we have time to get to know everyone. It was pretty awesome what the machines did with 2’s body, so I definitely wouldn’t change that. But 8, I was actually kinda happy when he died cause he was a bit annoying… Otherwise his death was completely lame. Honestly, they really should have gone to the scientist’s house before going back there, because it was just annoying going back and forth. The snake thing can capture people there, instead. Also, if we’re going to go this way (the people that died get to fuel the round thing and bring life back to the planet, as opposed to someone having to volunteer) someone (Perhaps the scientist) should be a bit more specific to what it does. Honestly, I thought 9  was going to put the souls back into the bodies (um, how do we get 2 back?) because it seemed very doable, but if we go that way(the only reason we would is if we wanted to follow the original but liked the idea of someone having to sacrifice themselves) it’d be kind of lame if EVERYONE came back, so someone would have to die permanently. Maybe 1 or something. I liked the scene where 9 was about die, and 1 pushed him out of the way. If it is going to be a truly heroic death, maybe they all knew that this one would be permanent (if they had all gone to the house before this, maybe they all knew what was going on, and the machine has a max amount of souls it can keep? I don’t know, out of ideas.)

Oh, and the cat thing. It was really pointless to have the main character awaken the machine, so they should go back to having the cat thing as a recurring monster that they can’t seem to defeat. That way it is pretty much inevitable that it will steal the round thing and the plot no longer relies on 9’s stupidity.  And it’s just dumb to have 7 kill it so easily…

On a side note, did anyone else find the twins, 3 and 4, completely pointless? They had no dialog and only served as a plot device to give the main characters an idea of what was going on. 7, the girl, could have stumbled across the right book while she was living alone, or even 6 the crazy one could have found it because the crazy one always knows where to find things.  And it’d be more realistic if there had been casualties while they were hiding from the war.

Anyway, that’s enough story speculating. I think someone should rewrite it so that it is truly epic and satisfying so I can stop trying to figure out how it should have been. So yeah! You! Reading my journal! Your punishment for spending your time reading this pointlessness is to write the story how it should have been! Feel free to ignore any and all of my speculations!

And I’m gonna go wander off now. It really was a cool movie, which makes the disappointing stuff all the more disappointing.

So, a friend recommended The Guild to me. Since it has Felicia Day in it, and she was in Doctor Horrible‘s sing-along Blog, which was awesome, I figured I’d give it a shot. It’s a bit wrong at times, but otherwise I like it. It’s about a bunch of people in a guild on an online game. It’s pretty amusing, since the characters pretty much live in said online game. The final scene was especially amusing, with them having a “battle” against one of the character’s mother.

Yeah, watching it makes me want to go back to playing online games. Rohan Online is my current favorite. I think character design and how the graphics are presented is a big factor on how much I like a game. Not particularly fond of the brightly colored "cute" design. Next, of course, is selection in races, classes, and game play. Sure, the Dark Elves in Rohan look like Vampires, but at least they have more of a selection of races than most. You can be a dragon person! As for game play, I like ridiculously high numbers when it comes to damage. Lord of the Rings is kinda fun, but if I remember correctly, my lvl 30 character was doing around 50 damage. In Rohan, my elf healer (non fight class, mind you) is doing damage in the 1000’s, and she's lvl 20. That, and Rohan is more friendly to people like me who enjoy soloing once in a while.  Besides all that, Rohan is free! 

Anyway, so yeah. I’m on the Syrephis server (hint hint, come join me!) I've recently realized how fun it is to party with other people. Especially since I'm a healer and, well, kinda die a lot when I go all suicidal and charge into a mob.
 

Well, sorry, I vanished off the internet again. It happens some time. Especially now that I spend all day at work and all I want to do when I get home is sleep. Bad me, I know

First thing’s first. I got a new cube a while back at work. I used to be back in a deserted corner and the only time I saw anyone is when they accidently stumbled back there cause they were lost (exaggeration) Now, however, I got a nice window seat with a view of a parking garage and the sky. I’m good with that, though. The building blocks the sun most of the time which I am always pleased about. Of course, I got put next to the most talkative person in the building. Even when he’s working, he finds ways of still being the loudest my making nasty sounds while he eats, yawning and sighing every few minutes, and groaning, muttering, and cursing under his breath when he’s not doing the other things. Jeez, I had no idea that could be so annoying. Needless to say, I got the earplug-looking headphones. Unfortunately, if I use those, people can sneak up on me, or I might unintentionally ignore people. It’s awkward when someone is standing beside you saying your name for 5 minutes before you notice.

So yeah, enough complaining about that. I’ve been watching tv shows like crazy lately, so this’ll just be a brief overview of stuff I’ve seen. Along with quotes I find so amusing I must share.

Farscape
"If this goes bad, please die first so my last moment can be joyous."
I’m not much into scifi (except for Star Trek and Doctor Who, of course) but I really enjoyed this show. Quite good. It did however feel like it ended abruptly. It felt like there should be much more, especially it feels like they just introduced the three new girls (Sikozu, the three-eyed lady who’s name escapes me, and Jool. Of course, I guess that’s what happens when I show gets canceled. That, and I haven’t had a chance to see the movies they made after the fourth season finale. Aren’t cliffhangers awesome? (sarcasm)

Heh, and thanks to all the made up cuss words in all the shows I’ve been watching, you know that at some point, I’m gonna use “frelling” in a conversation with someone who’s never seen it and will just look at me funny as I desperately try to change the subject.

Star Trek
(Just a hint, the red shirts always die... except for Scottie of course)
Since we're on the scifi topic, the new Star Trek movie!! As a fan of the old show, I definitely say recommend everyone see it. Macoy is just as awesome as before, and Spock as well. I'd point out that Checkov wasn't supposed to join their crew until later, but they kind of explain that in the movie.

Oh, and the reason that they asked Lenard Nemoy (the original Spock) to be in the movie, and not William Shatner(the original Kirk) is because Kirk's character actually died onscreen in one of the movies. I can't remember which though... It was one with Pickard, that's all I remember. So yeah, and with the actors that played Macoy and Scottie no longer with us, at leaves Nemoy.

Fringe
“It’s like a grab-bag of disturbing events!” – Walter Bishop
Anyway, I think my new obsession is Fringe. I just love shows that deal with supernatural stuff. I’d like it better if they didn’t put everything up to scientific experiments, but then not everything can be like Supernatural. But yeah, while Supernatural is being stupid, I’ll obsess about Fringe for a while.

Basically it’s about an FBI agent who recruits a crazy scientist who’s been in a mental institute for 17 years (yes, you gotta love the crazy old dude) and his son, who is fantastically sarcastic. They are barely hinting about it, but I totally think he and the main character like each other. Especially since the crazy old scientist keeps trying to drop hints to the main character that his son likes her. “When you disappeared, my son as really worried about you! I was worried too, but not as worried as him, of course. It’s true!”

Anyway, so their job is to try and figure out what’s going on when something weird happens. Usually this involved computer viruses that can kill people, teleportation devices, and viruses that cause all of a person’s flesh to decay and fall off in seconds. Some of it is a bit graphic, unfortunately, but it’s rather brief so tolerable. Besides, the one guy’s sarcasm tends to distract you.

I also saw Castle, which is awesome because it’s about a writer. And Dollhouse which is interesting, but not exactly my favorite, despite being by Joss. Firefly is much better.

 Being Human
“I’m a ghost, actually.” – Annie
“Really? Can you move things about and walk from one room to another?” – Vampire
“You know, I’m pretty sure everyone can do that.” George
I quite liked this show. It is a British show about a Vampire, Werewolf, and Ghost all living together. As always, there’s the traditional Vampires-trying-to-take-over-the-world plot, which is always fun, but I suppose not very original. The best thing about the show, however, is the random quotes that are just too amusing. Otherwise, it’s just a nice little show (I say little because there are only 7 episodes) that’s fun to watch. That, and I’m happy that FINALLY the Werewolf isn’t a jerk. Lupin is the only other Werewolf that I can think of that isn’t a womanizing jerk with anger issues. Sure, he gets a little moody and stuff around the full moon, but that’s understandable. And the obvious comparison with women is always amusing. Unfortunately, I think we’re gonna have to wait forever for a season 2.

Other then tv shows, I got bored and decided to try some video games that I wouldn't normally play. The two games I rented were Saints Row and Grand Theft Auto 4.

I didn't enjoy Saints Row much. Just to spite these kinds of games, I go out of my way to drive around the city as carefully as possible. Of course, you're supposed to run people over and smash cars and even receive points for it, so I think I was missing the point of the game. Sure, I enjoy a bit of death and destruction (ok, more that a bit) but it just gets old after a while. Besides, driving carefully is actually much more difficult. Anyway, Saints Row didn’t have much of a plot either. Sure, it was amusing to make my gang a suit-wearing group of thugs that did a little jig for their salute, but that’s really all there was to it. The plot just seemed to be getting more people to join your gang and messing with rivals.

Thanks to my short attention span, I didn’t play that one long. Instead, I moved on to GTA 4. Now, I just started this one last night (while I should have been sleeping, but it was too damn hot to do such a thing) so I’m sure it’ll get boring just as fast, but at least there are more characters. If there is no plot, interesting characters can sometimes make up for it. Of course, this is definitely a game for guys, since the main character’s cousin is always going on about women in ways that would make me beat the crap out of him if I was there in person, and it came off as juvenile he goes on about it so often. Ignoring that, I like the character interaction more than Saints Row, but I know taking people out to go bowling is going to get agonizingly irritating soon.

Ah well, it was an interesting experiment, trying these games out. However, I won’t consider any of these “sandbox” games truly perfect until you can get an office job, work at Wal-Mart, or be a bum in addition to what the game was made for, which is running people over and fighting gangs. Oh, and also talk to and make friends with every single person you see wandering around (they have to have unique dialog, though. They can’t be clones of each other like in Fable.) And they actually ahve to have interesting dialog. No more of the boring bowling mini games. Only then will I consider it as one of the best games ever. Oh, and you should totally be able to be a Quixote type dude, running around with a sword. I haven’t seen any swords sold in GTA. Oh! And is it too much to ask to play as a girl? I don’t want to be a dude!

Almost forgot. I never actually talked about Watchmen. At least I don't think I did. Anyway since this post is already rediculously long, I'll make this short. It would have been a fantastic movie if Rorschach was the only main character. Having so many other characters (most of them you don't even care about) made things really long and drawn out(the weird choice of music didn't help). That, and there were several 20 minute sex scenes (ok, exageration, but when you're trying to distract yourself with candy and popcorn until the scene is over, time stubornly slows down.) Anyway, I will no doubt make everyone I know see it, but first I'll get it on my computer and cut out everything that doesn't ahve to do with Rorschach's awesomeness. Besides that, the blue guy needs pants... Awkward.

But yeah, did I mention how weird the humor was? Just weird! I kind of feel like I couldn't apprecaite the movie thuroughly because I expected it to be so serious and dark! 

One scene, a little sad but also funny. The evil dude, the octopus, captures the Spirit and is telling him a bunch of stuff when he takes out a kitten he announces is named Muffin, his favorite, and he's going to demonstrate something. I was a bit nervous because of similar scenes, but it wasn't nearly as sudden or traumatizing as the one in the Brothers Grimm. It doesn't show anything, thank goodness, but you get the impression that the poor kitten is disintegrating and the Octopus says to his sidekick (Silken Floss, I think. All the girls in this show have strange names) "This is fun! We should have guests over more often." Anyway, the Spirit loves cats. He's got them everywhere, and when he breaks free (he's the hero, he has to break free) he punches octopus several times saying, "This is for me, and this is for Muffin!" lol poor Muffin, but yeah, that scene was rather amusing.

I don't think I've ever seen Samual L. Jackson play a crazy badguy. He was a villain in Jumper, which sucked by the way, but he wasn't really crazy. This was defiantely a new role for him. However, I do wish he'd stop being in every single movie that comes out. Oh, and also, a friend pointed out that in every movie he's in, he says the line, "Did you think you were the only one?" Honestly, that just makesh im more annoying, but surprisingly, he doesn't say that! But then that just means it was replaced by the similar line where he insists that they're the same.

Anyway, so yeah, I don't mind weird so I think I kind of liked the movie (not enough to buy, though, sorry) but if you don't like weird, watch with caution. One thing I must say, I liked Silken Floss. She was kind of awesome. Someone asks her why she's working with the Octopus (she denied being his boyfriend) and she replies that she things all this is increadably fun. Heh, she just amuses me ^^ Oh, and another pretty cool thing, there's a girl that seems to kind of represent death and they gave her the name Lorelei. I wrote about that mythology in the group dark_mythology so I thought that was pretty cool. Well, I guess that's all. This movie was definately unusual and I like it for that, but you defiantely have to appreciate strange humor. maybe I'll start reading the comic after all... After Watchmen, of course.

Woo, I am such a nerd!

Well, perhaps some background first. I found a song a while ago and realized today that it randomly disappeared off my computer. Luckily, I got it at www.ocremix.org, a wonderful site that remixes songs, mostly ones from videogames, so I was able to get it back.

This song was called Magus, Decay of Hope. Yes, I was listening to it on my last post, which made me decide to say something about it ^^ mostly because it’s a remix of Magus’s theme song from Chrono Trigger. For those of you who haven’t played that game, well, first I’d tell you to go find an snes rom and play it, but I know no one is actually gonna do that, so I’ll just tell you. Of course, it’s much too easy for me to rant on for hours, so I’ll make it short and simple.

Basically, Magus is the awesomest character. He’s super powerful, and to give you an idea of just how powerful, all of the main characters have an element (the main character, Crono has lightning, Luca has fire, etc), and level three is the most powerful spell in an element. Magus has every level 3 spell, including some super black magic spells. And he uses a Scythe! How cool is that? Once again, I’m trying to avoid going on for hours, so I’ll leave out motives. Just believe me when I say he’s really not that evil of a guy. Ruthless and cold, sure, but not necessarily evil. In this particular time (it’s a time travel game! ><) a group of humanoid monsters called Mystics are battling the humans, and even though he’s a human, Magus is ruling the Mystics. It did not seem like he particularly wanted to rule them, but it meant that he could do what he pleased without anyone messing with him, so that worked for him. Of course, the Mystics continued to fight the humans, and Magus didn’t care enough to help or hinder them, so the war continued.

So, you start off the game thinking that Magus is the villain. When you finally find him, he is attempting to summon a huge monster. Not understanding what was happening, the main characters attack him. Half way through, no doubt just before Magus is about to fry them, the thing comes.

So technically, you don’t get a good look at it there, but basically later on you discover how obsessed Magus is to kill this thing. Unfortunately, he discovers the hard way that he still isn’t strong enough, and the thing nearly destroys the entire world. This leads him to be willing to offers to help the main characters. It’s a rather unsettling encounter, since it happens in the ruined world, and him sneaking up on you with his awesome teleporting abilities certainly doesn’t help lighten the mood. Finally I’m getting to my point. The song to me always fit this scene nicely. It is a very creepy song, with no singing, just strange unsettling stiticky music, and towards the end, it fades into his battle theme song. There are only three lines of speech throughout the entire song, spoken in a deep voice, echoey and slightly distorted in the same stiticky manner, and they are as follows:

“All you people are so scared of me…It aint me you gotta worry about now. You’re not afraid of the dark… Are you?”

Man, I love it! Heh, everyone was so afraid of Magus when you first heard of him, but now there’s something bigger and even more powerful out there. Why does creepy make me so happy? ^^

Well, I had to write a huge paper for my lit class, and when I usually write such long papers I usually think they're crap, and this one was no different, but I did learn something interesting. This is just one of those stupid little things that you feel like you should already know, but when you find out it sounds so right that you're all happy and proud that you know it now. Yeah, I'm nerdy like that ^^

Anyway, my teacher is rather violent, so I figured it would be ok to do it on an Edgar Allan Poe short story. No poems, I am completely incapable of doing anything with poems. I do love some poems, but if anyone ever asks me to write analize one... Lets just say it'll end in embarisment for everyone involved. Or just me at least ^^ Oops, wandered away from the point. So, I wanted to do it on the Pit and the Pendulum. I was thinking of doing it on how Poe uses fear, but I'm certianly not that smart. Or more acurate, I didn't give myself enough time. I only got to read one. Well, I started Legia but it wasn't getting to the point and I was running out of time, so I turned to a shorter one that got to the action much faster: Black Cat. Heh, mostly I wanted to read it because I was wondering if it had anything to do with the manga of the same name (which is awesome, btw) but unfortunately, it didn't. And after that, I really had to pick a topic and get started, so I decided to do a simple old charactarization on the narrator of that story, and. I hope I won't butcher his name, Montresor from Cask of Amontillato, which we had read in class a while ago. Cheap, I know, but I was out of ideas. Don't worry, I'm getting to the point soon.

I came across a critique that was talking about the difference between first person, and third person. Third person is a very reliable source, because there really isn't anyone actually talking to you. The text is just there to paint you a picture of what is going on. You can trust what it tells you because it has no reason to lie. And, since it's just an account of what's happening, really can't lie. Of course, there are different degrees of third person, depending on how much it want's to tell you. In The Hills like White Elephants, you have very little information. You don't even have voice inflection, you only have what the characters are saying, and what they are doing. Though I doubt I personally would be able to read much of this, since I like to know a bit more about what's going on inside their heads, it was still fascinating to see that people really are capable of writing like that and having it actually be good. Once again, even in this story, though we don't know what they are thinking, the accounts of what the characters are saying and doing is still accurate.

First person is very different, however. Whenever I read a first person book, I tend to believe that what the main character says happens, really did happen. The Dresden books, by Jim Butcher is a good example. You trust Dresden, you don't see any reason for him to lie. He is the hero, after all, and you're supposed to be able to trust the hero. In Black Cat, however, the narrator's story has so many loopholes in it. He starts out saying that he wants to relay a series of household events. Realy? Does he really think this is normal? Oh, and by the way, I'm about to give away the plot of Black Cat, so if you hate spoilers, you'd better go read it really quick. It took me about 30 minutes, so it should take everyone else 5 or 10. .... Okay, you done reading? Good. So, does the narrator really think that everything he dies, mutilating and killing a cat, then illin his wife, is really a "series of household events?" I assume that "household events" means normal every day occurances. He must  be very twisted to believe that. or maybe he believes that his reaction to his wife trying to save the cat, turning around and killing her instead, was completely normal, or completely the cat's fault. Either he's not telling us something, or he's completely insane. This is a character that has everything to gain by lying and leaving things out. I say leave it to the critics and geniouses to decide what's really going on there, I just guessed that he probably had problems with his wife from the start, and just got so fed up with her, he finally shapped and killed her. I mean, come on, why was he going into the celar in the first place? And why would his wife come with him? No reason I could see. Unless of course they wanted to pick out the perfect wine, but that seems unlikely since he was so willing to kill her and barely cared about her death.

I just thought that was a fascinating idea to think about. Heh, sure, in fantasy fiction, or escape fiction, you can probably trust the protagonists, but in literary fiction, you'd better be careful! They might be lying to you ^^

Alrighty, time to talk about another show I’ve been watching. Dexter. One thing to say, wow. Violent and bloody. It’s about this guy that, because of something horrible that happened in his past, has these urges to kill things. When he was a kid, he killed animals. His foster father found out and understood. Wow, there aren’t many people like that around. Anyway, he taught him to channel that by going hunting. Unfortunately, it kept escalading and he started wanting to kill people. Soon, hunting animals wasn’t enough. It sounds kind of horrible, but his father taught him exactly how to do everything and cover his tracks completely so that if he does kill someone, he won’t get caught. His one rule was to only kill evil people, so I guess that’s good.

The main thing I find interesting is Dexter (the main char of course) narrates and says that he basically can’t feel emotions. His father told him that if he wants to blend in, he needs to pretend. So basically he goes through life pretending he’s happy or sad or whatever when really he feels nothing. Two things that make me happy is that he cares for his sister. Now, his sister doesn’t know that Dexter is a killer, but as demonstrated in the first season finale, he is “fond of her.” And he seems to care for his girlfriend as well. He says at one point that he enjoys hanging out with her, which is the closest to admitting to an emotion that he’s gotten, so ya know.

Anyway, so he works as a blood splatter specialist with the police (where his sister works too. She’s a cop) and does his best to hide his fascination whenever he comes across a really amazing case. That’s rather amusing, watching him barely hiding a grin. Heh and there was one scene where a really good murderer was chopping up his victims and leaving them wrapped and set up nicely for the police to find. One day Dexter comes home to find a Barbie doll broken into pieces in his freezer and Dexter’s internal monolog says, “Most people would consider this a threat. I think of it as his way of inviting me to play, and I do want to play. I really really do!”

So yeah, lots of amusement there, though it is quite bloody and takes some getting used to. The first time I heard about it I was a bit hesitant, but it is pretty good. Shocking at first, but like Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, after watching it you get used to the wrongness and just focus on the rest of it. Not to say it reaches the excellence that Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang does, but it’s still pretty good. If you’re bored and want something knew, check his out. I don’t watch mystery shows very often, or serial killer shows for that matter, so this is something new and unusual that I certainly can’t guess where it’s going, so yeah, that’s always nice. But yeah, once again, it’s a bit unsettling at first and the thought, “what the heck am I watching?” did run through my mind at first, but I do kind of like the concept. Someone with that big of an issue (wanting to kill people) attempting to survive. Yeah, I look forward to seeing where this goes. I’ll probably post more later since I just got my hands on season 2. I’m borrowing the dvds from a friend, but you could probably find the episodes on hulu or youtube or something. Oh, and theWB.com is gonna start letting you watch stuff online too. Haven’t been there myself so hopefully it’s free, but yeah. That’s all for now I suppose.