Wednesday, 13 July 2011

X-Men: The Last Stand & First Class anomalies

I recently watched the latest X-Men movie (First Class). It is by far the best of the series. But the end brings some anomalies with the beginning of the third movie (Last Stand).
SPOILERS AHEAD!
The majority of First Class is set in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. At the end of the movie Charles/Prof X still has hair, loses the ability to walk, parts ways with Erik/Magneto and starts his school.
The prologue of Last Stand is set "20 years ago" (the majority of the movie is set "in the not too distant future", so this should be in the 80s), where a bald and walking Charles goes with Erik to visit Jean Grey's parents and talk to them about his school.

I think there are two possible explanations for these anomalies.
1) Each od these two movies is set in its own universe, while the other three are set in either or both.
2) Some time after the events of First Class Magneto takes his helmet off and returns to Xavier. Xavier installs some kind of iron exoskeleton and sends telepathic signals to Magneto who in turn uses his powers to move the exoskeleton.

Monday, 11 July 2011

School's out!

For more than a week now, but haven't had the will to post it :D I finished all of my exams so I'm free until October. Except for that one day in September when I have to enrol. But until then I have lots of free time.
I borrowed some Discworld books from the library, I started playing SimCity4 and I plan on doing some programming for fun. And watch movies.

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Series' cancellation

Towards the end of May is the time, when most series get the final verdict, either they are cancelled or renewed. I picked up a few new series to watch this year , so I was especially curious which ones I'll get to watch next season again. The result? Only The Game of Thrones.
Here are the ones that didn't make it:
  • No Ordinary Family: I actually gave up on this super-powered family after about 10 episodes myself, so no tears shed here.
  • Shit My Dad Says: A nice comedy about father-son relationships. It ended with a cliffhanger!
  • Better With You: Another comedy, this time about three couples (a mature couple, their two daughters and their boyfriends). Luckily this one had a nice finale that rounded up the story.
  • Off the Map: Grey's Anatomy in the jungle, what could be wrong about that? Apparently enough to get them cancelled with a cliffhanger.
  • The Event: Biggest disappointment. The show was getting better with each episode. One more episode next week. There's a bit of hope that the show may be picked up by some other network... fingers crossed.
  • Lie to Me: Not a new show, this one got cancelled after three seasons. It was a good show, with real science behind it, good actors and characters. Unfortunately it missed a central plot, a red line to connect the episodes.
  • (Smallville: Not cancelled, but finally reached its final season. It's finally over and I'm free from its spell. At least until the spin-offs come...)

Saturday, 23 April 2011

Pkmn Black: 3rd gym

It's actually been about a week since I've defeathed the 3rd gym, but I haven't had the time and/or will to blog about it.
So, the third gym specializes in bug pokemon. As I chose the fire starter, I already had the type advantage, but even if I didn't, there were already flying type pokemon available to catch. The gym is shaped like a honeycomb with rubbery walls and switches to unlock gates.
But what I actually wanted to note is how many areas that are far from a city (and pokecentre) have a person at the beginning who, once defeated, will heal your team. Another nice addition :)