TV audiences are too dumb.

number 2

Bananas in the Falklands does like some tv, but in general the quality of most television is pretty dire. Take for example the remake of the prisoner, which i have never seen but heard of.

The prisoner is an abstract tale, there will be people who plain dont do weird, or insist that the 1960 version was way better. It is a suffering of the remake syndrome though.

Ian McKellen (blessed be the white suit) is genius, as is the set design.  I did not grok the white ball things but the thing has a pulse and deserves a nod to modernity rather than being stuck to a single generations perception even with Jim Caviezel as number 6.

The props might change but theres a lesson fo all in the prisoner, See

Unravelling the special relationship

about time as i see a number of like minded msm articles (an example from the bbc) and an very old example from (my blog)

Bananas was here first ook! – However observe happens when an american is convicted of murder in Italy.

You know dollhouse is in trouble when …

buying a senator

When jumping in as guest stars you get Alexis Denisof & Summer Glau.  Nothing wrong except that Ms Glau is veteran of being canceled by the evil baron Rupert Murdoch.

Dollhouse has the occasional moments of brilliant, and the double combination of guest stars  left one in the lurch.

The writing in Dollhouse remains good, its cancellation and speed up to it affected the Summer plot which i know where it might have been set but left alot of it in the lurch.

Thought wise i like Dollhouse, and the secondary stars are really beginning to shine through. Perhaps it is a good thing that most dont get this idea*.

5/5 bananas.

* its scheduling sucks

Shimotsuma Monogatari

imdb tt0416220 great fun 5/5 bananas.

also by the drector Memories Of Matsuko imdb: tt0768120 very touching 5/5 bananas

Arrr!

A happy ending for Miyuki

Your Under arrest (my blog) is Japanese anime. and rather fun and Miyuki Kobayakawa finally finds love in the end.

If you have not seen it – your missing out.  It is an interesting look at Japan.

It does not always work, but it has moments of brillance for example the scooter lady singing opera on a low powered motorbike, failures included strike man for me as rather drawn out and unnecessary.

It has some great drawing in, and the detail on the larger set piece car chases has to be admired.  Naturally there are bikini episodes, and the other cast members have had interesting tales notable is one about the honor guard, and the rivals from some another police district.

Its not full on ticketing cars for fines (and stuff) and it shows a side of Japan most will not see.

Investigate.

Sir Michael Rake – a man you want be in a desert with you.

Sir Rake is the chairman of British India (british telecom)  who lives in a broadband desert country area in england between High Wycombe and Henley (where the regatta is held)

He is the only man with broadband in the area, to anybody else a connection would cost you £ 68000 pounds sterling.

Oddly the economics and civil service ethics clash – apparently nobody in Hambeldon wants broadband and thus nobody gets it, but if an employee like Sir Rake moves in it is ok, British Telecom (britsih india) also want a .50 pence tax (half of a pound sterling)  on all phones line to pay for Hambledon areas.

The moral of the tale – monopolies are bad and that  bt.plc is no  business (my blog). Thus if in a desert Michaels your man.

Hable con ella

Pedro Almodóvar film imdb tt0287467 well worth the see

5/5 bananas.

also good on the theme: La vie rêvée des anges (imdb tt0120449)

Breakfast on pluto

is a book by Patbrick McCabe isbn:0330352938, which is also a name of a song, and a censored film adaption, thus why i read the book.

a catholic priests son

Irish catholic priests who don’t use a cock lock (my blog) whom end up with out of wedlock children called Patrick who loves to be known as ‘pussy’ (image) and go do things catholics dont usually do.

The book is rather short and frames the 1970’s northern irish troubles with an engaging guide.

3/5 bananas.

Moon

imdb: tt1182345 interesting 2/5 bananas.

Patriotic idiots and the case of Qian Xuesen.

 

Jo McCarthy - man who made china a superpower

McCarthyism was a phase the americans went through, and who is a patriotic american to start with ?  Sarah Palin touched on this theme recently.

 

Naturally hunting for ‘reds’ during the cold war was more an attempt at fud rather than real work, after all a commie script writer in hollywood was really more dangerous to america.

American spies are kept under a closet in america, i bet most people can name some british spies by surname – try it with americans.

Have a think about it….. Did you succeed (they do exist) ? no then read this (my blog)

Qian Xuesen is an interesting example of throwing the wrong person out, for unlike the script writer he helped make China a superpower, strange as might be he held no communist ideology until McCarthy came along.

The ‘true’ american issue haunts american politics even today, since america is a new country by most standards and most people came from somewhere else one could say that no american is a true american at some point of their ancestry.

Obituaries can be well worth reading.