Today I took my morning constitutional around the park and
after last week it was almost like taking a tropical walk:
When I got home I watched a bit of TV, saw Matthew Wright
annoy Iain Lee so much that he left the show, during an ad break, so we didn’t get
to see the storming off.
Then I watched the new episode of iZombie (S04E02), whose
main story is the murder of a wealthy socialite, and the new season is already
much darker, e.g. the Angus mob attacking the black market brain sellers and
the consequences of Major’s unit breaking up an argument between pro and
anti-zombie factions, but the writers are keeping the laughs (e.g. Clive and
Ravi’s sex talk, the golf gun! and Liv on rich old lady brain. I also liked
that people in iZombie use their seat belts, it always takes me out of the
scene when people drive and don’t use the seat belts, as it highlights that
they’re probably not driving and are on a soundstage. Also, if you eat more
brains, do you get more visions?
Then I caught up on my comics reading (all great reads and summed
up in one-line reviews):
Goro #4 – a less physically action-packed issue, but plenty
of emotional action as we get a better understanding of some of the characters
personalities.
Batgirl #20 – Batgirl deduces who is behind the chaos in
Burnside and why they have caused this chaos, another fun issue of classic
super-heroics.
Rick & Morty #35 – a wubba lubba dub dub play on Jurassic
Park/World, with Summer becoming more like Rick and ‘The Rick Identity!’
concludes in an unexpected manner (although looking back it is a very Rick
& Morty conclusion!).
Giles #1 – an intriguing start to this miniseries focusing on
Giles going undercover in a US high school, with lots of echoes of Buffy’s
early days in Sunnydale.
Big Trouble In Little China: Old Man Jack #6 – Jack and Lo
Pan learn to appreciate each other’s virtues/abilities and move one step closer
to (maybe) saving the world (although with Jack’s track record he my save the
world for a worse fate!!!)
Throwaways #12 – we get a bit more character
background/motivation as this storyline builds to its conclusion, with shades
of The Parallax View and The Manchurian Candidate coming to the fore.
Witchblade #3 – Alex becomes more accepting of the
Witchblade and her new role in the world, although the bad guys still seem to
be several steps ahead.
Later I Listened to episode 3 of Sara Pascoe’s The Modern Monkey,
which is about territory (from countries to personal space). This is a great
series equally full of jokes and thought-provoking facts/information. I got a
better appreciation for personal space and how even small (or micro) invasions
can have large effects on those whose space is being invaded.
I also watched Smokin' Aces I and II. I’d watched Smoking
Aces I ages ago and liked it (lots of flash and style, as a hit is put out on
an informer), so given this was on special offer it seemed a no-brainer to pick
it up. Smoking' Aces I was a s much fun as I remembered, a kinda American Lock,
Stock… or Snatch (in as much as it is highly stylised and concerns lots of
characters converging at one point).
Smokin' Aces II (the FBI protect one of
their own, who has had a hit put out on him) is very similar, but the
stylisation is really ramped up and, for me, totally distracts from the story,
pulling you out and questioning the validity of what is happening on screen
(e.g. it feels like the circus gun is primarily there for laughs rather than
primarily for story reasons and the laughs are an added bonus or the love story
between two assassins that developed in a couple of minutes, even though they
were previously depicted as heartless/focused only on the hit).
And I did today’s G2 crossword:
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