Ready Player One was a near perfect book for me. Ready Player Two, not so much. Ready Player One was filled with all the nerdy nonsense that I loved when I was growing up. It was set in a world much like our own, but a few years down the road. The tech that made the books’ virtual reality work, was not that far off from the tech of today. Virtual Reality has been popular in science fiction for some time. The real world stuff, the MetaVerse type stuff, has never lived up to the worlds imagined in stories like…
Tag: twists and turns
The Angel’s Share
The story of a group of reprobates and their kind-hearted probation officer who happens to have a soft spot for whiskey-high quality Scotch Whiskey. Our hero is a young thug who nearly beat a man to death for no good reason, has gotten his girlfriend pregnant, and has a surprisingly good nose for single malts. The Probation Officer takes this young fellow under his wing and teaches him to appreciate fine whiskey. They go to tastings and take a tour of a distillery. The rest of the community service crew comes along for the ride, though they clearly lack the…
Robot & Frank
In the not too distant future a retired second story man is losing his mind. His son is tired of having to spend his day off driving out to check on him, so he buys him a robot companion. The robot soon becomes the most important person in his life. There are a few twists and turns in this fairly slow moving story of a man and his robot. Bit by bit we learn about Frank and get a clearer picture of just how bad his memory has become. Robot helps him by providing structure to his life. Part of…
Homeland on Showtime
There are some shows that should only be one season. Heroes and Prison Break would have made pretty good one season shows, as they quickly lost their way after the first season. Damian Lewis had his own short lives series, Life, which should have been left off at one season. The first season of Homeland had a lot of promise. A forgotten POW is found in a locked room after being held hostage for eight years, but is he a hero or a villain? That’s the big question our hero, an ambitious CIA agent, has to answer. We are shown…
True Blood-They Are All Monsters
Season 3 of True Blood wraps up with a few finial twists and turns that show us that the Good Guys aren’t so good. Our hero vampire Bill took a number steps this season that showed he was more evil than we thought. His casual betrayals pop up throughout the season, with his constant backstabbing causing a rift in his relationship with Sookie. Our good old boy bartender Sam turns out to be more of a cold blooded killer and less of a poor misunderstood shapeshifter. Sookie takes the time to torture an evil vampire and takes great pleasure in…