TV Viewing

So is it just me???  Or has there been a lot of cool TV shows in the last few years.

Now I grew up watching LOTS of TV... too much probably if you ask anyone.  Because of this, I consider myself a bit of an expert.  I know about 5-7 years ago, I pretty much NEVER watched TV because everything was total shit.  Shows like The Real World, Real Housewives of blah blah County, and Jersey Shore... basically everything reality based was all that was on TV and I HATED it !!.

I mean seriously?  There was a show called "Temptation Island"  Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia.

"Temptation Island is an American reality television program broadcast on Fox in which several couples agreed to live with a group of singles of the opposite sex, in order to test the strength of their relationships.

The show was controversial from the get-go, something that Fox hoped would drive ratings. With the four male contestants living in one section with a dozen female models, and the four female contestants living in another section with a dozen attractive men,"

So they touted this as a "reality" show.  Lets take couples who ALREADY have trust and other issues and put them on opposite sides of an island with a bunch of sexy members of the opposite sex and have those sexy singles hit on and try and get the half of the couple to fuck them... never mind the fact that if they ran into these people on the street, they  wouldn't even give them the time of day.... ya, THAT'S reality.

Anyway... that being said... in the last couple years there have been some AWESOME TV shows put on the air.  Some that have been from totally original thinking, and some that have been adaptations from already existing media like books or comics. 

Shows like Game of Thrones, True Blood and Dexter are based on books.  Then there are shows like Arrow, Gotham, The Flash that are based on comic books.  Then you have some shows from completley original minds.  Shows like CSI: Cyber and Forever which are pretty cool.

So going along with that, I was looking at YouTube and found the trailers for some AWESOME looking shows coming up this season.  Not sure if they will be as awesome once they are, but I will certainly give them a shot.  Check out the trailers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Episode VII

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock (quite literally) than you know by now the latest Star Wars Episode VII trailer got released a few weeks ago and the internet has been BLOWING UP !!!

I’m the first one to say that ALL geekdom is equal and no fandom is any BETTER than another.  You can be a “Trekkie”, a “Whovian”, a “Ringer” or a “Potterhead” but ALL nerds and geeks can appreciate the utter NERDGASM that happened when trailer # 2 hit the internet.  In case you haven’t seen it, or you’re like me and want to see it for the 837^th time… here is the trailer.

I personally am a fan of all types of geeky things.  I LOVE 80’s music, big fan of all kinds of sci-fi, I’m a big movie nerd (I try and fit random movie quotes into normal conversation), HUGE Kevin Smith fan…. But as far back as I can remember… the very 1^st thing I ever experienced in my geek life… was STAR WARS. 

I was born in 1977 so obviously I was too young for my parents to bring me to the original when it was released, and even too young for Empire… but I DO remember sitting and watching them on VHS with my family and was just in complete awe.  Then when Jedi came out, my parents took me to see it in the theater.  When the lights when dark and the 20^th Century Fox music came up and almost made me deaf… it opened up a whole new world to me.  Not only did it solidify my LOVE of all things Star Wars (Except Jar Jar), but it  was the 1^st movie I can remember seeing and it started my love affair with movies in general.

I owned a BUNCH of the action figures as a kid.  For Chanukah one year, my brother got a Y-Wing fighter and I got the Millennium Falcon... I even had the Darth Vader carrying case you could only get by mailing away proof's of purchase of money for shipping and handling. (Yes this was before internet shopping, or the internet AT ALL).

Needless to say I am a HUGE Star Wars fan.  Of all the sci-fi and geeky things to like, love, and be part of, I feel my 1st true geek love will always be Star Wars.  Because of this, I fully intend on taking the day off from wok and being there opening day to see Episode VII in the theater.  I'm sure it will be madness... but that's the fun of it.  A bunch of geeks together sharing their passion about how THEIR lightsaber would be designed if they built one... I will take that kind of company any day.