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I remember when I watched the X-Files, waiting for the late hour of 10 o’clock. Trying to stay awake while watching the night news “Dunia dalam Berita”, which of course sometimes got prolonged with the extra special report “Laporan Khusus”. But the urge to watch Mulder and Scully, the black oil, the X sign on Mulder’s window, the Lone Gunmen gang, and to hear the very typical X-Files theme song, all of them kept me awake, most of the time anyway.

It was one of what I call “one-hour-TV-shows” that made me searching other TV shows. Several worth mentioning are:

Of course Lost! I’m now literally sitting at the edge of my seat waiting for next season (due on January).

The ever popular Heroes. But now I think the show is going down, the large cast needs more character and a stronger plot but not plot where a turtle is involved, people time travels and change the future every other episode, where an adoptive father of an illegitimate daughter gets partnered with the biological mother and the biological father has a thing with a character that should have been dead but revived only as the third twin. I think I can say that Heroes is a super-heroic version of The Dynasty for the Petrellis.

The Office (US edition), the most recent TV shows that makes me smile and laugh lots of times, embarrassedly alone. It’s funny in a strange way, at least “That’s what she said”.

Prison Break in a nutshell: breaking out of a prison, becoming fugitives and running away to Panama, got busted and breaking out again from (this time) a Panamanian prison, and now doing outsource field work for an FBI agent to find a six-headed monster (probably a data centre). Tips from this show to get a heavier plot (probably will be useful for Heroes, see above): kill some of the sidekicks. Although for the lover of the main character, revive her from the other side, at any cost (a side plot on how she’s still alive after all this time is a bonus).

What do you get when a member of a Miami Metro Police Department, specifically a blood splatter analyst, moonlights as a serial killer hunting bad guys unseen by the law? An interesting plot (it’s from a book) and Dexter.

True Blood. Vampires are now eager to live side-by-side with human, at night anyway, due to recent Japanese invention of “True Blood”, a kind of soft drink that has all of what’s in the human blood. They say those vampires are “going mainstream”. But one is in love with a waiter that apparently can read others’ minds. In Bon Temps, Louisiana, nothing is what it seems to be. Guess what? It’s also from a book! Beware of some rather explicit sexual scenes on this show, though. Probably, this vampire theme is also fuelled by the upcoming, highly anticipated movie “Twilight” (also from a book, popular among the girls). If you haven’t managed to see the trailer of a particular Swedish vampire movie, then you should make some time to do so (again from a book!).

Fringe. Amongst all the show I’ve mentioned, this show is the one that has the most resemblance with The X-Files. “Monster of the week” gets a face lift to “weird events that can be solved by even-weirder experiments of the week”. The larger story arc “do alien exists?” is translated to “mysterious ‘Pattern’ of strange events”.

What’s your favourite TV shows today? I still have more, but I’ll save them for the next post

Cheer on Losties!
‘Nuff said!

Yes this is another rant about me delaying things. Definitely unhealthy. I’m a little bit jealous about someone who managed to finish things. While we are in similar conditions, I am already on my second semester and haven’t improved much.

I even made my own personal record. I made a 3-paged paper in only around 8 hours! I had two weeks to finish that assignment and I did it on the last day. This semester, I have two group assignments so far and I became the bottleneck in both. Another group assignment is due in the middle of next month. My individual assignment will due in next week. I will have another class (and most likely another assignment) next week. I still have to think about what to do for dissertation (6-month-project master thesis), and where I will actually do it. Reading or Madrid are more interesting than Thessaloniki. But for Reading, it’s quite hard to find a professor to become a supervisor since most of their expertise are network (due to the name of the course) and I’m quite new in this network thingy.

And I’m now watching the new series Knight Rider. So far it’s cool enough even it’s quite bland. I can almost taste the smell of Smallville (in the season four or five, where everything feels like it is repeated over and over again). The acting is mediocre, but the familiar revamped bum-bada-bada-bum theme sound is nostalgic and refreshing at the same time. The new series predominantly feature more candy eye in terms of special effect to show-off the new KITT (rebranded as Knight Industries Three Thousand). The bullet-proof feature and the ability to switch appearance (color and model morphing plus the famous license plate switch–now morph) boasted by the car now look more realistic and the car itself does look cool and modern (it’s a new Ford Mustang).

There are subtleties that the show is more directed at a liberal-minded audience. Firstly, the main protagonist (the son of the original Michael Knight) is first depicted as losing faith in monogamous relationship (and shown to prefer threesome) although he had deep connection with the daughter of KITT’s creator. Second, the main female FBI agent is hinted to be a homosexual (or is it just me?). And lastly, the show had a premiere on the Playboy mansion. But worry not, no vulgar or explicit scenes shown on the 80 minutes pilot episode. Moreover, I believe that these sexual hints are not to be emphasised more on the next episodes. If you are going to watch this episode, watch out for a very special cameo near the end!

Now Boost me!

We all know that last week, the sixth season of American ended with Jordin Sparks crowned as the American Idol. As expected, after the season ended, several of the finalists seemed to hurrily taking advantage of their sudden famous. These are some up to date news about them, compiled from many resources. One of the finalists signed a contract to participate as the main cast of a sitcom remake about an alien living together with a woman. Another one is going to be play the role-titled award-winning drama inspired by a familiar Columbian telenovela. Other will be involved in an ambitious remake of a 1922 movie. Another finalist was lucky enough to make a prestigious collaboration with an acclaimed R&B artist/producer. And lastly, someone who did not have the chance to be in the finale, almost literally green with envy for the Top 2, can now smile widely because that someone got an offer to be the model of another sequel of a comedy CGI animated picture.

(Now imagine Ryan Seacrest saying…)

This,
is a week after,
American Idol

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