Doctor Who: Before the Flood: A Review

Its time to go 

• And I am doing what The Doctor told me, googling the Bootstrap Paradox
• I feel like there is a lot of Bootstrap Paradox issues in Doctor Who
• Is his guitar sonic like his glasses do you think?
• Do you think O'Donnell is the next companion?  I kind of like her
• Was that an Auton?  
• The ghost effect is pretty cool
• Who knew facetime was so important
• Again, I wonder if O'Donnell is the next companion, I like her!
• No I don't think it was an Auton, just dummies, but I don't trust dummies anymore.  Thank you Doctor Who!
• Really?  Well that sucks.  
• I think Bennett should have punched the Doctor
• That damn bell again?  That bell does nothing good
• Why haven't we figured out why the Doctor looks like the guy from the Fires of Pompeii
• I like these soldiers, they are honest and say what they want
• Oh no, its not just the ghosts you have to fear Lunn
• Awesome voice for the Fisher King!
• Is she part bat?
• The Fisher King is pretty bad ass looking

Hmmm, I'm not sure what to think of this episode.  I am very disappointed that O'Donnell died.  I really liked her character, more than the fan favorite Osgood.  I do like that the Doctor used the rules to his advantage.  I am also liking the Clara and Doctor dynamic more and more.  Overall I enjoyed the episode but not as much as the first half.  I am not sure about next weeks episode but I'll be checking it out!

Gotham: The Last Laugh Review

I am back with this weeks Gotham review.  This week "Gordon and Bullock hunt a nemesis from the past, which leads to a standoff between Jerome and Gordon; and a magic show at a Gotham Children's Hospital gala results in a hostage situation."  Jerome has been amazing and hopefully it will continue this week.  Lets see truly gets the.....last laugh!

• How great has Barbara been this season as well?  The bad guys are really shining this season
• Damn Jim, when you said it was a new day I don't think anyone was thinking this?  I was thinking this!

• I think Gotham news some clap therapy!
• Well that was unexpected...and wonderful
• I wonder who Thea actually is and what exactly his plan is
• How did Alvarez survive?  
• Oh only 9 of the officers died
• Did Jim change his hair?
• PDA boys and girls, PDA
• This show has quite the body count thus far this season!
• Gotham has a lot of black tie affairs for being a horrible horrible place
• Selena changed a bit
• How do you hate magicians?  
• Alfred you dog!  Great taste however
• Bruce is a weird looking kid isn't he
• Is that Barbara as the assistant?  I'm telling you she is going to end up Harley...or perhaps the Joker...according to some rumors a female Joker has been considered
• A pony?  How are they going to get a pony on a helicopter?
• Really?  This doesn't look staged at all
• Where is the clapping?  
• Yep, Harley!
• Nice to see Penguin back, such great characters on this show but where is Butch?
• Theo is overplaying his hand
• How do so many people dislike magicians?
• Did they all eat the Joker fish?

I hope Jerome isn't gone for good!  I hope not because he was fantastic...and can you really get rid of such a great actor/character.  The end was interesting as well.  I'm not sure where it goes from here. The Maniax! are gone at this point.  You've got Theo and his sister both possibly with Barbara. You've got Barbara out there as well but now sorta on her own although the big guy is still around I guess. 

I hope they don't ruin the show with long breaks because right now I am quite invested but I was last season till the multiple breaks.  Overall this is my favorite episode of the season thus far and I hope we haven't seen the last of Jerome!

Until next time, remember, he who laughs last....is only doing it to fit in and they should be stabbed repeatedly!

Review of Doctor Who: The Witch's Familiar

Two blogs today because it is Doctor Who Day!  We see the second part of a two part season debut. Last week we saw the return of Devros after a 5+ year absence.  Missy returned, yeah I know shocker, and turned on the Doctor, yeah I know also a shocker, only to be "killed" by the Dalek. Clara also found herself EXTERMINATED.  We saw that the Doctor might be the reason the Dalek exist as he failed to save Devros as a child.  How will the Doctor respond to Devros and the Dalek killing Clara and Missy?  Enough questions lets watch The Witch's Familiar!

• And that pretty much ruined everything from the last episode, way to go writers.
• Still don't like Missy
• How much fun is Peter having in that scene?  I would have fun driving that thing
• Well that is the things of nightmares!
• I wonder if they could make Missy anymore over the top
• Is kid Devros from the Game of Throne world?  
• #4 had the same choice
• It is like a cancer Devros, I'd remove it if I could from me
• Not the first time she has been a Dalek....is she going to ask for eggs?
• Why did he leave?
• Did Missy fight the Supreme Dalek or the Master?
• Are they making me care about Devros?  Compassion truly is a cancer
• Oh the question...the same question that the Doctor asked.  The question we all ask of ourselves at least once in our lives
• Oh that is good!
• This episode is flying by
• Did they have to pay Google for this idea?
• Oh Devros...what have you done!

So spoilers will follow so you've been warned

So I am confused by all this.  First off LOVED IT!  However I am confused by a few things.  Why did the Dalek have compassion/mercy suddenly?  Was it from merging with the Doctor or because of what the Doctor did?  I mean the creation of the Dalek should be "time locked' shouldn't it?  How can the Doctor effect any of it.  So much of the history of the Universe is tied to them.  So what the Doctor did always happened right?  This is the one thing about Doctor Who that makes it difficult sometimes.  What came first, the mercy or the act to give Devros mercy.  I am of the firm belief that the creation of the Dalek and Devros past has to be time locked (or anything of major consequence).  So this is what ALWAYS happened.  When you throw in that Clara is involved (she also is time locked with the Doctor I believe since she entered his time stream....or did we forget that already). That isn't it say the episode was perfect.  I really didn't like Missy.  I don't like the character at all.  She was okay last season but four episodes of her reminds me of River Song.  In small doses okay but once you start seeing her more and more often she loses her special factor.  We didn't see Master in episode after episode before and that is why he was special.  Its like the old saying, we can't miss you if you don't leave!  

I am interested in seeing where things go from here.  I miss grumpy Doctor but I think they realized the majority of people didn't like him as much as I did.  I connected with grumpy Doctor...perhaps they need a grumpy bearded American companion for next season....I am looking for something new in my life BBC, being on a worldwide TV sensation would be a change.  Just throwing it out there BBC, let me know, I can clear my schedule!

Okay enough of my ramblings.  I'll return tomorrow for Fear the Walking Dead for sure if not more! As always please click HERE for my Amazon store, the holidays are coming up.  Please us my store to make your Amazon purchases.  You don't pay more but I get a bit of a kick back.  If you want to see me review a movie let me know in in the comments.  If you have books you'd like to me to read let me know, I'm always in the mood for a good book.  I'm reading a good zombie book whose title escapes me right now each day at lunch.

Until next time...remember "I'm not sure any of it matters, friends, enemies, so long as theres mercy...always mercy".  As always....Abyssinia!

Fear the Walking Dead Episode 2

I'm back and after another week on the road for work it is time to get caught up with some zombie action and Fear the Walking Dead.  Will it pick up 1/3 of the way through the season?  We shall see...
I'll try to avoid spoilers but remember this is nearly a week old and if you're reading a review hopefully you've seen it already

• Interesting that even thought the outbreak hasn't hit yet, or the great panic if this was World War Z, there is already a feeling of everything being empty and abandoned.  
• An open door, never a good sign
• Smashed flowers...do zombies hate flowers or did one of the Mario Brothers show up looking for fire power
• Oh man a bus or an airplane would suck!  World War Z had a pretty good representation of how bad an outbreak on a plane would be I think, I wonder how The Walking Dead would handle an airplane outbreak/attack
• Shades of Jim from Season 1 in the camper....I think Jim's death hit me harder then just about anyone on the show.  Jim and Dale
• A little early to try and make us feel about these characters.  This would have been better in episode 4 or 5 if we knew Matt but thus far we've seen him maybe 10 minutes so there isn't much effect.  Or I'm just cold blooded
• Oh man even in TV shows cops are just going around killing people! 
• Are they implying that it was the flu shots?  But how did EVERYONE get infected?  The flu shots/vaccine are actually a common tool in zombie fiction but it doesn't fit the everyone is infected theory.  
• Weird cinematography there
• Wow detox hit fast!
• I think the writers of the Walking Dead have mom abandonment issues.  Lori and and now this mom always leaving their kids
• Lucky number 13 boys and girls, remember that!
• Into the empty school, alone, always a smart plan.  Do these people not watch horror movies?!?!  However no flashing lights so I think she is okay....
• Where did she get a pry rod?
• Ah yeah, riot before the outbreak!  People are not very smart
• Jack Boot?  Nice
• Quite a few weird camera shots and angles
• Vomit is gross!
• Tobias is actually pretty smart, too bad I have a bad feeling for the youngster.  Smart people don't last long on the Walking Dead!
• Too late, they're already in the building if you're hearing the alarm
• President Obama....NO!  (The actor looked like the President)
• They left all the food?  A school bomb shelter wouldn't be horrible as long as a bunch of people didn't know about it or you could lock it from the inside. I mean eventually you've got to leave but hopefully you can hold out a few years and by then the cities should be mostly emptied as the dead head out for those out in the wilds
• AH YEAH!  RIOT!  RIOT!  RIOT!
• Oh...they're hiding something...like a sick person
• I like that people don't understand zombies in the show.  Honestly we know about zombies and would you believe it if people said they were real and coming for you?  Not soon enough I'm sure
• Oh shit, I think Matt is having a snack with his parents
• TURN OFF THAT LIGHT!
• For once a mom on this show is doing the right thing!  Good for her (and I hate to say that because it is also the wrong thing...the reason I wouldn't survive, is that I'd have to go help that poor woman and her family)

Well...a much better episode.  There was a nice mix of character development and storyline movement this week.  I hope we see more of the Tobias storyline but I have a feeling we've lost him, at least for now.  Unfortunately the trailer ruined the principle (Obama) becoming a zombie...although its interesting we didn't see how he got hurt.  TV horror shows fall victim of almost too much time for their storylines and sometimes they end up boring the audience who want more action.  This week was a good blend.  The detox storyline is messed up as he went into detox and out of it pretty quickly...I think...I've never done it myself.  Overall a much better episode and I hope they can keep that momentum into Sundays episode!  I'll try to live blog this weeks even!  Until next time, keep your doors locked...and Fear the Walking Dead!  ABYSSINIA!

Fear the Walking Dead or just fear this show?

After work took up some time and then internet/cable issues I'm back with another fresh review.  This time I look at the new AMC show Fear the Walking Dead.  As much as I love the Walking Dead this better be good!  Oh and obviously there will be spoilers so avoid if you haven't watched yet!!

• That is a dude?  What is he wearing?
• Is it the remains of a puffy shirt?
• Did he steal Gloria's shirt?  Is she running around topless?
• Ah yes the flicking lights of a zombie attack!  Sure sign there be dead inside!
• PULL UP YOUR PANTS if you're going to fight zombies today
• How did that car not see him?  He was in the road for like 30 seconds before he was hit...wait...the driver was probably distracted by his shirt!
• Is that the daughter from Humans?  Nope just looks like her.
• Wow, Madison is quite the mom!
• Nice, metal detectors in the hall
• The principle looks a little like President Obama
• A steak knife?  That'll come back into play I bet
• Smart kid trying to protect himself
• So the plague is known but not wide spread?
• So the plague is known but they don't know it is people eating people?
• Like any good stepdad/live in boyfriend he goes to the known drug den where some people were eating people?  WOW!  Stepdad of the year for sure this one
• Nick's roommate worries me, is he infected?
• No flashing lights so I think stepdad is safe from zombies
• I...I could be wrong however
• Oh I forgot to give the show 10 points for the use of the word viscera.  One of my favorite words!
• Oh he isn't even their stepdad!  What he did makes him even better
• A little slow thus far.  I know it is a first episode but thus far the characters aren't connecting, not like Rick and Morgan did
• With that many kids out the school would be closed wouldn't it?
• Nice fake out
• Stay put?  Yeah right
• Wait....everyone is a carrier of the virus...so that guy is about to rise up!
• Where is Nick's girly shirt?  Did he steal the old mans clothes?
• Yep, those are old man clothes
• They're both going to the drug den?  INSANE!
• Hey pull over if emergency vehicles go by stepdad of the year!
• This has a World War Z feel to it already
• Flu shots?  They've said it several times.  Are they trying to say it is the flu shots that caused this?
• Oh that kid is going to end up a zombie killed with his own knife
• Oh man Cal is going to kill Nick!  Nicky don't trust him
• This Nick kid has worse luck then Rick & Carl combined and that boggles the mind
• Did she get bit?  Did Momma get bit?

Well that was interesting.  It was slow and a nice build up.  Almost too slow.  I find the Nick kid annoying a shit and the mom character as well.  Thus far I am not extremely impressed but I am also comparing it to a show that has 5 years on TV so I'm probably be too hard.  I wont' give it an official rating until the six episodes are over.  Thus far however I am a thumbs in the middle.  Nothing great but nothing horrible.  Hopefully it picks up!

Scream Episode 5 Review

I am back after a week off due to work (unfortunately I don't make any money do my reviews...I should because...well they are pretty awesome if I do say so myself...and I do!).  I'm back to check out Episode 5 of the Scream TV show.

• Lots of kids use cell phones in school nowadays I guess, sadly probably a major problem
• This school has major issues with kiddie porn!
• Removing the sheriff, always a good thing
• Really?  Leaving the open seat for the dead girl?
• This teacher actually looks younger then a few of these students
• Really?  The Scarlet Letter?
• 3 minute sex joke...ha ha ha
• The music in this show is not good
• Its odd that most of the "adults" in this show seem the same age as the "kids"
• Ah yes, the "all male" killer line up
• Ug, the killer mask sucks
• The Hulk does kinda wear bike shorts kiddo
• Hackers using the school home work server?  Brilliant!
• Cell phone videos will be the end of humanity!
• Wait...removing the masks where you just committed the crime?  
• Kiddie porn and adults giving teens booze!  USA! USA! USA!
• This episode seems really long and that is a bad thing
• Yeah Bro!
• Emma is moments from a psychotic breakdown one minute and the next is making out with the new guy to make her old boyfriend jealous whom she hates?
• That was the most threatening permission given ever!
• Am I the only person who doesn't answer unknown callers?  That would have saved Emma a lot of issues
• My child is being harassed by the guy who possibly stalked me at her age and nearly killed her dad.  I know lets go have a booty call and leave her alone at night.  Bad parent or the worst parent?
• Awesome...Jake is brilliant!
• Watching your dad's blackmail video?  Not real smart and kind of dirty
• Well, that wasn't what I expected at all!

Okay that felt like a major step back from the last episode.  Slow with some payoff but they are adding too many characters and plot lines to keep teens interested.  Of course I could be wrong and not giving the youth of the world enough credit.  But the addition of the murder, the sheriffs ex showing up, the gun, the teacher being involved, the weird bloggers history and probably other things things are really tangled up.  I know I'm only half way through the season and this is one of the advantages of a TV show over a movie but more isn't always good.  Just when I thought this show was picking up steam it stumbled.  I hope it doesn't fall completely.  Until next time this is the Fat Bearded man remind everyone to not answer those unknown calls.  It just might be a murder from your parents past...and someone selling you stuff!  Abyssinia!!