Geek Talk

I haven’t posted in a long time (as pointed out by wonderful girlfriend Tana ;)). So here’s some random stuff that I thought about but wasn’t really big enough for a full post.

New Movie Hulk

It seems Edward Norton is going to play the next Bruce Banner in the movie due out in 2008. Kind of mixed about this. On the one hand Edward Norton is a great actor, but I was in that handful of people who liked the first Hulk movie with Erik Bana. I read a few posts of people saying that Bana was too much of a muscular guy to play puny Banner but that part didn’t really bother too many people the first time around. It might be a better movie but I think it’s a bit strange to pick up where the last movie leftoff and they re-casted the star.

24

24 seems a bit lacking this season. Kind of a been there done that. How many times have we seen Jack take out terrorists who happen to come into a nuke and are hours away from setting them off on American soil. It’s been the major plot device in about 3 of the 5 seasons. They have kind of switched gears to this whole Chinese kidnapped his woman story, but it seems extremely forced. Also how many times is Jack going to be chased by his own people only to have them turn around and say “We need you. You’re the best at this”. You know it’s going to happen. Or the last few episodes of this season are going to be mega boring if we just watch Jack inside a holding cell while the Chinese guys get away. At least he hasn’t stopped his heart only to have it restarted again once whoever he was trying to trick thinks he’s dead… maybe I spoke too soon.

The Shield

This is another show I love. Hasn’t let me down yet. Sometimes they go a bit overboard (Dutch killing a cat just to see what it feels like). But it always keeps me entertained. They always seem to back Mackie into this situation and you think “no way he can get of this” but he does. And they seem to make it believable. Last week they made it seem like the new Captain (forget her name now… Claudette?) wanted Vic to stay around and she would challenge his forced retirement. Turns out she has no plans to appeal his retirement, she just wants Vic on his best behavior when training his replacement. But Vic believes it. So when he finds out you know the shits going to hit the fan. I’m guessing in the next few episodes. This Tuesday looks to be good, seems like Shawn finally confesses to Lem’s killing.

Heroes

I have no idea what I’m going to do this summer. The 5 week break this season was killing me. So was the 4 week winter break they had earlier in the winter. Whats going to happen when we have full MONTHS of no heroes. I hope the 4400 comes on during then for my superhero fix (quick stop to the usa network site and it says it’ll be on starting June 17th, happy birthday to me). Anyway it seems Peter and Nathan’s Mom knew about their powers long before they found out which means either they’re not her kids and she’s working for the company, or she’s got powers of her own. Maybe part of Linderman’s little group of people making a difference but then breaking up over greed (that family is pretty rich it seems). It also seems that Ted has gotten some control over his powers, being able to set off an EMP and not just a hot blast. This next episode seems to be interesting, being 5 years into the future.