So NBC drops a new summer show called Saving Hope. Starring Michael Shanks (Stargate SG.1) and Erica Durance (Smallville) this shows centers around the Chief of Surgery, Charlie Harris who fall into a coma after a bad accident that he and his fiancé Dr. Alex Reid were in on their way to their wedding.
While in a coma Dr. Harris' spirit moves around the hospital observing things as they goes and especially keeps an eye on his fiancé. Each day he encounters other spirits of folks who are near death either in the surgery table or when coding in their admitted room or ER.
This show is pretty fascinating, but like most shows it makes me wonder what will happen when he comes out of a coma? How will they keep the show going? It's like Prison Break, Lost and other shows that makes you wonder what will happen when the major goal is met. The recent episode a saw was when he meets a guy who like him, falls into a coma, but unlike him comes out of it quickly. Charlie's spirit is baffled and wonders if he is fighting strong enough.
I feel this show will do well, but how long will it last. Too bad I can see how they are doing in the ratings. I'll just keep watching. Check it out if ya like. Thursday nights on NBC.
Until next time...
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Stubborn Scots!
So my mother, my wife, my sister, my niece and me went out for lunch then checked out a movie of my choice. See my mom felt she owed me a birthday gift so she wanted to treat me to that.
My movie choice was Brave by Disney/Pixar. Pretty much a story where a young princess becomes very defiant in the way of her kingdom and wished not to be part of an arranged marriage. There was definitely a lot more to the movie than they showed in the trailer, which is how I like it.
Overall I felt this movie was great and hilarious as most Pixar films are and I look forward to the upcoming flicks from this company including Finding Nemo 3D and Monsters University.
Check it out if you like animation.
3.5 stars.
Later...
My movie choice was Brave by Disney/Pixar. Pretty much a story where a young princess becomes very defiant in the way of her kingdom and wished not to be part of an arranged marriage. There was definitely a lot more to the movie than they showed in the trailer, which is how I like it.
Overall I felt this movie was great and hilarious as most Pixar films are and I look forward to the upcoming flicks from this company including Finding Nemo 3D and Monsters University.
Check it out if you like animation.
3.5 stars.
Later...
Friday, June 15, 2012
There He Is!
Just checked out a new show via Hulu called "The Soul Man". This show will premiere on TV Land on June 20th, but Hulu had a special glance at the pilot episode on their site.
This show stars Cedric "The Entertainer" (Original Kings Of Comedy) and Niecy Nash (Reno 911). It's about a former soul singer who left his singing career and pursue his true calling, Man Of God. The church he preaches at used to be ran by his father, played by John Beasley, who decides to retire from the ministry.
After checking out the pilot, I felt that Cedric and Niecy may be on to a good thing. They are very funny and their supporting cast are great. This show falls in like with TV Land's other shows with more or very seasoned actors doing the old school quirky sit-coms.
Other original TV Land shows include: Happily Divorced w/ Fran Drescher (The Nanny), The Exes w/ Donald Faison (Scrubs) & Wayne Knight (Seinfeld), Retired at 35 w/ George Segal & Jessica Walter (Archer) and their big show, Hot In Cleveland w/ Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time), Jane Leeves (Fraiser), Wendy Malick (Just Shoot Me) & Betty White.
The Soul Man could turn out to be a good show depending on how well the writing continues. Good luck Cedric and Niecy!
Later.........
This show stars Cedric "The Entertainer" (Original Kings Of Comedy) and Niecy Nash (Reno 911). It's about a former soul singer who left his singing career and pursue his true calling, Man Of God. The church he preaches at used to be ran by his father, played by John Beasley, who decides to retire from the ministry.
After checking out the pilot, I felt that Cedric and Niecy may be on to a good thing. They are very funny and their supporting cast are great. This show falls in like with TV Land's other shows with more or very seasoned actors doing the old school quirky sit-coms.
Other original TV Land shows include: Happily Divorced w/ Fran Drescher (The Nanny), The Exes w/ Donald Faison (Scrubs) & Wayne Knight (Seinfeld), Retired at 35 w/ George Segal & Jessica Walter (Archer) and their big show, Hot In Cleveland w/ Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time), Jane Leeves (Fraiser), Wendy Malick (Just Shoot Me) & Betty White.
The Soul Man could turn out to be a good show depending on how well the writing continues. Good luck Cedric and Niecy!
Later.........
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Deadman Wonderland
So a new anime has entered my world. Of course this is the English Dub version and is on Toonami/Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. I know many anime fans hate this, especially the young ones, but I feel they are just too sucked into this world. "I only like the original Japanese version", they would say and I get that, but some of you don't need to be so snobbish about it.
Anyways.......
From what I gathered so far Deadman Wonderland is a place where convicted felons are used for entertainment for the world's twisted enjoyment. It features, Ganta, a 14 year old kid who is on death row for the murder of his classmates. He claims innocence and I'm sure we'll see. He is friends with a weird girl named, Shiro. It is unknown why she is there.
This show has the most profanity I have ever seen in an anime of course with being on cable TV you can imagine the amount of beeps that happens. Like most recent amines it is very twisted. Interested to see how it goes.
Later........
Anyways.......
From what I gathered so far Deadman Wonderland is a place where convicted felons are used for entertainment for the world's twisted enjoyment. It features, Ganta, a 14 year old kid who is on death row for the murder of his classmates. He claims innocence and I'm sure we'll see. He is friends with a weird girl named, Shiro. It is unknown why she is there.
This show has the most profanity I have ever seen in an anime of course with being on cable TV you can imagine the amount of beeps that happens. Like most recent amines it is very twisted. Interested to see how it goes.
Later........
Kali-Ma!
I know I may have spelled that wrong, but anyway. We have just finished seeing Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart (Twilight Saga/Into The Wild), Chris Hemsworth (Thor/Star Trek) and Charlize Theron (Monster/Hancock).
I will say that this movie was much darker than I expected. Charlize did a great job as the wicked queen and Hemsworth did as expected as the Huntsman. As for Stewart, she did pretty well. Kept the film flowing in my opinion. I'm sure that those who hated her before this movie will continue to hate her because I don't think she did well enough to convince her critics otherwise.
Overall I felt the movie was well done. Like I said a bit more darker than expected and the slow scenes almost put me to sleep. Check it out is you want. No pressure to see in theaters.
3 out of 5.
BTW, the queen's brother is very creepy and a pretty good fighter.
Later........
I will say that this movie was much darker than I expected. Charlize did a great job as the wicked queen and Hemsworth did as expected as the Huntsman. As for Stewart, she did pretty well. Kept the film flowing in my opinion. I'm sure that those who hated her before this movie will continue to hate her because I don't think she did well enough to convince her critics otherwise.
Overall I felt the movie was well done. Like I said a bit more darker than expected and the slow scenes almost put me to sleep. Check it out is you want. No pressure to see in theaters.
3 out of 5.
BTW, the queen's brother is very creepy and a pretty good fighter.
Later........
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Maymester
So for the first time I took my first mini-semester in my college career. The school year has 2 of these mini-semesters; Wintermester and Maymester. This maymester I took US History Since 1876. It was a 3 credit hour course that pretty much covers from Reconstruction after the Civil War through modern times. We only got as far as the end of War World II. That's fine because there was a lot to cover and little time to do it in.
I will not reveal the name of my instructor on this one because there is really no need to, but may she was an interesting character. She was great when I first spoke to her via email. I asked pretty much what will her class be like and for the most part it was lecture based. The class was about 4 hours long per day, 11 days long (Monday - Friday) and went for a little over 2 weeks.
There were going to be no papers, no presentations and no projects through out the semester. I was sold, but I was still not sure what this complete lecture based meant. We would start out the class with 2 hours of lecture, she talked and we took notes as well as we could. There was no PowerPoints and no points placed on the board only the topics she was covering. Very rarely would she repeat what she said and she spoke pretty fast. I get it though, she had to cover a lot and like I sad before, we only got up to WWII.
The last 2 hours of the day we watched a chapter from the series, Band of Brothers (a great show BTW and definitely an owner). After seeing a chapter we would get a 3 to 6 question quiz and the points would be used to help boost out exam grade. Oh and we had 6 exams during the semester, pretty much every 2 days. I know!
The first week was rough, well at least half of it. She showed up for about 4 of the first 6 days of class. One of the days she was 2.5 hours late due to a 4 car pile up that held her back (this was on a test day). Most of the class left that day leaving 3 of us waiting to see if she was even alive. She finally showed and was going to still issue the exam to us who remained, but she then discovered that the copy folks didn't prepare the test. So our day was done, SMH. The second week went much better, she would show pretty early this time and we and to take 4 exams that week.
I finished with an "A" in the class and I really don't know how I achieved that. The great thing was that the exam were done on scantron. I usually do pretty well on those, especially when spelling was a factor. I think I have now been exposed to pretty much every style of class room structure except Instructional Television (ITV). To this day, I still don't know what that is all about and am a bit afraid to try it. Oh well. So that was my first mini-semester and I think I can do it again, depending on the class.
On to Summer! I will be doing 10 credit hours with my second Math/Teach class, General College Biology w/ Lab and US History To 1876. I know, I took the 2nd part of History already, but I prepared my summer semester before deciding to do the Maymester.
Onward...........
I will not reveal the name of my instructor on this one because there is really no need to, but may she was an interesting character. She was great when I first spoke to her via email. I asked pretty much what will her class be like and for the most part it was lecture based. The class was about 4 hours long per day, 11 days long (Monday - Friday) and went for a little over 2 weeks.
There were going to be no papers, no presentations and no projects through out the semester. I was sold, but I was still not sure what this complete lecture based meant. We would start out the class with 2 hours of lecture, she talked and we took notes as well as we could. There was no PowerPoints and no points placed on the board only the topics she was covering. Very rarely would she repeat what she said and she spoke pretty fast. I get it though, she had to cover a lot and like I sad before, we only got up to WWII.
The last 2 hours of the day we watched a chapter from the series, Band of Brothers (a great show BTW and definitely an owner). After seeing a chapter we would get a 3 to 6 question quiz and the points would be used to help boost out exam grade. Oh and we had 6 exams during the semester, pretty much every 2 days. I know!
The first week was rough, well at least half of it. She showed up for about 4 of the first 6 days of class. One of the days she was 2.5 hours late due to a 4 car pile up that held her back (this was on a test day). Most of the class left that day leaving 3 of us waiting to see if she was even alive. She finally showed and was going to still issue the exam to us who remained, but she then discovered that the copy folks didn't prepare the test. So our day was done, SMH. The second week went much better, she would show pretty early this time and we and to take 4 exams that week.
I finished with an "A" in the class and I really don't know how I achieved that. The great thing was that the exam were done on scantron. I usually do pretty well on those, especially when spelling was a factor. I think I have now been exposed to pretty much every style of class room structure except Instructional Television (ITV). To this day, I still don't know what that is all about and am a bit afraid to try it. Oh well. So that was my first mini-semester and I think I can do it again, depending on the class.
On to Summer! I will be doing 10 credit hours with my second Math/Teach class, General College Biology w/ Lab and US History To 1876. I know, I took the 2nd part of History already, but I prepared my summer semester before deciding to do the Maymester.
Onward...........
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