• 4Dec 09

  World Cup Draw, Scrubs and More

  Well the draw for next summer's World Cup in South Africa has been made and the main group of interest is Group C: ENGLAND, USA, Algeria, Slovenia.

  Yes we have been drawn against our friends from across the pond and not only that but it'll be both teams first game of the tournament! I know football isn't the US' main sport but I would've thought that match up will bring about some interest.

  Other groups of interest include the so-called "Group of Death" (the name given to the group with theoretically the best teams in it despite the seeding system) which has Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Portugal. On paper North Korea are the weak link there but you never know. After cheating their way to the finals France have arguably the easiest group alongside South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay. South Africa are only top seed due to them hosting the tournament and therefore are theoretically the weakest of the top teams.

  I'd link the full draw but it'll be everywhere so if you're interested it won't be hard to find! So instead here's a nice picture of the draw featuring FIFA Secretary Jerome Valcke (who looks worryingly like England manager Cappello) alongside the lovely Charlize Theron who did her best to feign interest while presenting and David Beckham in the background.

  

  In other news season 9 of Scrubs started this week (or season 1 of Scrubs: Med School depending on your opinion)! And slightly surprisingly it was really good. Have a look at what I made of the episode here if you're interested. Despite loosing most of the main cast for this year (although every ex main character except Carla was in the premiere) it still feels like the great show it always was. Time will tell if the new characters can fill the void when JD finally moves on, but for now it's still a great watch.

  

  As well as new main characters the background cast has been expanded a bit, the most noticeable inclusion is a stunning Australian girl who's character name I can't actually remember (I wonder if she's happy with the group the Aussies got in the World Cup?). She's of interest not only because she's super-hot but because she was on Aussie soap Neighbours a couple of years ago which is a fairly big show over here in the UK. And for proof that Australia produces the most gorgeous women here's nice picture of her.

  

  In other news Scotland's really, really cold! Ok it always has been but you kind of forget over the summer/autumn. Still if the cold weather means it's almost Christmas I'm happy with it! Shame we haven't had any snow here yet though.

  Well thanks for reading and hope you all have a great weekend!

  • Posted Dec 4, 2009 11:18 am PT
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• 1Dec 09

  It's December!

  Just a quick blog to point out that we're into the last month of the year! Only three and a half weeks until Christmas, I hope you've all started your Christmas shopping (not that I have).

  To be honest there's not much else to add.... Following on from my last blog my reviews for the fall finale episodes of Supernatural and Smallville are here and here. Feel free to let me know what you make of them if you have time to read them.

  I'll be back on before long, maybe with a 2009 recap blog or something. Until then, enjoy December!

  • Posted Dec 1, 2009 11:24 am PT
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• 25Nov 09

  Mid Season Finales Already!

  It only just seems like last week that the new TV season was starting and yet here we are with a few having finished for Christmas. Which I guess is another way of saying it's almost Christmas! But I'll leave the more festive blog for another time, this one is about TV. And I've even got some pretty pictures for you too!

  So what brought about this blog mainly was that Smallville and Supernatural finished for the calendar year last week, and they were awesome! Smallville has a nasty habit of building up then falling flat, but this episode was great. It showed a very cool, dark future which was a great episode in its own right, as well as nicely emphasising how dangerous Zod is by showing what might happen if he gets his way.

  

  Major (not General yet) Zod in Smallville played by Callum Blue

  While I don't want to get too ahead of myself this season really is gearing up to be the best one in a long time!

  Supernatural was also great. I could go on about it but think I'll save it for a review that I'll post later in the week. Exciting stuff, eh!

  Over here on the TV front we had the latest Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars. I don't want to give too much away for those that haven't seen it and plan to but basically it was a good episode, despite taking about 45mins for anything to happen....

  

  There's not long left for the legendary David Tennant as the Doctor

  And finally I'm going to talk a little bit about Lost. A press release came out this week, and while it didn't have any info about the story of the season (for obvious reasons) it did reveal the cast list for season 6. If you don't want to know who's gonna be on the show next year and my opinions of it I'd advise you stop reading here. (If you do thanks for stopping by)

  

  How will the final season play out?

  ABC announces the premiere of the sixth and final season of "Lost," with a special all-night event on Tuesday, February 2. A recap special will kick
  off the night from 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET, followed by the much anticipated two-hour premiere from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
  
  The series will then air in its regular time period - Tuesday nights from 9:00-10:00 p.m., ET - beginning the following week, on February 9.
  
  "Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Jeff Fahey as Frank
  Lapidus, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles,
  Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Terry O'Quinn as Locke and Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana.
  
  "Lost" was created by Jeffrey Lieber and J.J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof. Abrams, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Jean Higgins and Carlton Cuse serve as executive producers. "Lost." which is filmed entirely on location in Hawaii and premiered on September 22,2004, is from ABC Studios.

  First thing to notice is that there are a few new additions to the cast. Season 5 was the only season not to add any extra main characters which thankfully has been rectified here. Although none of the new faces are completely new (they were all recurring characters that've been bumped up) it's still good to have some new blood. While I can't imagine there's too much of Frank's story to tell it's good that he'll have a big part this year. I'm not sure about Ilana though; I had nothing against her last year but she didn't strike me as that great a character (despite her obvious ties to Jacob that seems to make her important). Then there's Richard and I think it's fair to say it's about time they answered what the deal is with him, so making him a regular makes sense.

  Also of interest of the recurring characters is Sayid. Despite being dead I knew Locke would still be on the show in some form, but last we saw Sayid he was dying from a gunshot wound. Sure there's the possibility of the entire show being overwritten by Juliet detonating the hydrogen bomb but I still thought it was interesting. Speaking of it's obvious Juliet won't be a regular this season (mainly due to her role on V) but the person missing that interests me the most is Desmond. Obviously it was a disgrace how he was treated last season, so if they still can't manage to fit him into the story it's probably for the best they write him out. Still it's a shame it's had to come to this for such a superb character. And hopefully he'll still have a small part to finish off his story this year. I still wanna know what he did in the military to get thrown in jail.

  Well that's pretty much it. Thanks for reading and I'll be back before long!

  • Posted Nov 25, 2009 12:08 pm PT
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