Weekend Update

 

Audio/Video/Telly

 Doctor Who - Finally! Something was living in the Wi-Fi and that something turned out to be...The Great Intelligence! Same entity from the Christmas episode. And he finally found Clara, or should I say she found him by trying to call tech support (which rang the Tardis). She said the "woman in the shop told her it was the best help line in the universe". Wonder who that was? I'm sure we'll find out. Something I didn't notice first time around: the book the boy had was Summer Falls by...Amelia Williams! Get it? Clara said she cried her eyes out in Chapter 11 and I just made another connection. What was it Dorium Maldovar said?  "It's all still waiting for you: the fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the question!" Suddenly there was more to this episode than I thought!

I bet every geek out there will change his password to "rycbar123". I considered it. There were some really funny one liners in there too. "I can't tell the future, I just work there." and "Do you just crook your finger and people jump inside your snog box?" Clara is sassy, and that's so sexy. This is going to be a fun ride!

 The Walking Dead - So something finally happened. Merle took the samurai chick to the governor, but let her go before they got there. He stirred up some trouble before being killed, and you know what happens when you die. Daryl actually was the one to find him and had to put him down. Season finale is tonight.

How I Met Your Mother - 45 days! Ted finally meets her in 45 days! Should have been three seasons ago. I hope "20 years from now Von" is actually happy, and alive.

New Girl - Not a fun episode, seeing that it was about a funeral for Nick's dad. But we get to meet his family and Jess does an awesome Elvis. In the ghetto...

Downton Abbey - I started watching this because of everyone raving about it. It's okay I guess. Just finished Season 1 where he announced England and Germany were at war. Now I'm a few episodes into Season 2 where the war is full on.

Movies - I guess I've been into all these bleak, post apocalyptic movies lately. I watched The Road, which was, well bleak. And gray. And it was cold and rained a lot. Other than running from cannibals and looking for food, that's about all that happened. Also you can check my review of Moon here.

Music - Not much going on here. I deleted some questionable stuff in an attempt to get my man card back. I lost it Friday because of this. Maybe I should add some death metal or grunge to even things out? Pass. That stuff sucks.

Sports

Braves - Finished spring training with a record of 20-15. Evan Gattis has made the team. He has a great story that you need to check out here. Opening Day is finally here Monday against the Phillies.

Bama basketball - The Tide loses a heartbreaker to Maryland 58-57 in the 3rd round of the NIT. They finish the year at 23-13. Oh well, football season starts in 152 days. Sigh...

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Movie Review

Another movie I've watched recently was Moon (2008). These are the kind of movies I like in a sad kind of way.

So this guy named Sam has a three year contract to work for this company on the moon. For the whole contract, he is the only person at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only real interactions are with GERTY , the intelligent computer (voiced by Kevin Spacey) whose function is to attend to his day to day needs.

Towards the end he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and his baby daughter Eve, who was born just prior to him leaving. With two weeks left, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious. Injured, he wakes up back at the station in the infirmary, he assumes assisted by GERTY. At this time GERTY tells him that a rescue team is heading to the station to fix the harvester.

While he is recuperating, he is beginning to get more and more paranoid, especially when the computer won't allow him to go outside anymore. He eventually breaks something and fakes an accident so the computer will let him outside. Instead of doing the fake repairs, he heads to the broken harvester and finds a body inside. He drags it back to the base and to the infirmary. And lo and behold, guess who it is? Yep, it's him.

So now the old Sam thinks he is just imagining the new Sam. The new Sam wonders where the other came from if he was supposed to be alone up there. As they have "conversations" you're not sure if you're watching insanity or reality. Old Sam becomes convinced he is a clone while new Sam scours the base for a secret room that contains "extra people". In his paranoia, old Sam swears he hears GERTY having a live conversation with someone on Earth. During this time, old Sam's health has been deteriorating badly. As he's trying to prove he was right about GERTY, he actually finds the missing room the new Sam was looking for. They go down there together only to discover...they are both clones. The room is filled with Sam clones.

Then they start to figure out what is going on. They realize they are purposely being left in the dark and without communications and since GERTY was having a conversation with someone, everything must be operational. They each head out in their lunar truck things and go way past the boundary of the base. They discover that there are radar jammers encircling the whole encampment. Old Sam takes out a radio and gets a connection to Earth where he tries to call his wife. A 15 year old Eve answers, and said her mom had died a few years ago. At that point he hears his own voice in the background...

Back at the base they realize that at the end of the three year contract the clone dies (or is killed). Either way he never makes it home, a new one just replaces him. Apparently they've gone through this cycle five times already. Problem is, they both know now and they realize that the maintenance crew that's coming is actually on the way to kill them also. Old Sam is sick and close the death anyway. With the assistance of GERTY (who only wanted to help them), they form a plan for new Sam to escape in those shipments they shoot back to Earth.

GERTY gets a fresh clone out to be awakened as soon as new Sam leaves. New Sam drives the old, now dying Sam back to the harvester and places him back inside, where he loses consciousness. Before new Sam gets in with the cargo, he programs the harvesters to drive over the radar jammers so the next clone (and subsequent ones) won't have to go through what they did. Re-establishing contact and exposing the lies.

New Sam takes off, just as the maintenance team lands. Old Sam regains consciousness just long enough to see new Sam streaking overhead, heading towards the home he will never return to...

And that's how it ends. It's a good movie, but I would have to be in the right mood to watch it again.

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