Tuesday, 10 October 2006

What I watch currently



I found this great webpage, Next Episode which lets you mark up the shows you watch that come out of American television. American shows have week-to-month long breaks in the middle for no apparent reason. Some show might have only 13 episodes per season, but there might be two seasons in a year... or show might have 26 episodes, and then come out two episodes at a time, every two weeks (save when its on vacation etc). All in all, a great service.

Stuff I watch (includes wikilinks);
Avatar: The Last Airbender. This is action cartoon. It has the best qualities of eastern action (fastly moving cameras, cool character moves), good acting, big budget, magic, changed world, hint of romance, bad guys that have good qualities, good guys that have bad qualities etc. It has a definite storyline that has been written in stone. The plot moves forward, and the characters have objectives they might reach only after few episodes from setting them.
Its about a world where Tribe-Nations - each master of one of the elements - fight against each other (actually, Fire fights with Earth and Water). The person who was supposed to stop the fighting got stuck in the ice for 100 years, and now has to master all the four elements, while Fire Nation tries to stop him. The person in question is 12 years old and has a very bad attention span and no idea how the world has changed during his chilling time.

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law is intentionally made to look like 60s Hanna Barbera-shows (you know, like Flinstones). Harvey Birdman, who used to be D-list superhero, has turned his life around and now works as a lawyer at Sebben & Sebben, taking cases of other animation characters, such as defending Fred Flinstone (accused of being a Mob Boss) or pushing the case of Apache Chef, who has spilled coffee on his lap and cant.. krhm.. grow big no more. Very crazy, very enjoyable.

House is a hospital series centered around Doctor House, who has high moral values and no ethical ones. In one episode he drugged the patient to make sure he wouldnt object to the tests he ran. He also regulary has people break (illegally) into patients houses to find out what they are hiding. Hugh Laurie (of Jeeves & Wooster and Black Adder fame) is House. Again, highly enjoyable but with lots of disgusting graphics.

Jericho is only few episodes out yet but looks very awesome indeed. After atom bombs start dropping, little Jericho in the middle of nowhere gets off without any hits nearby. The series follows the town as it tries to face the new reality. Kinda Falloutish.

Heroes. Another new series. Around the world, few people slowly find themselves having superpowers. Even though they dont know of each other - indeed, dont know the others even exist - they start to find their way to New York. And while they don't know of each other, they walk the same streets and talk to the same people. It's only matter of time before they meet.. and thats good, because in six weeks New York will be in ruins if nobody does nothing.

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