Star Wars Episodes I - VI in 20 Minutes

Stumbled upon this on YouTube. A great opportunity to bring more content to my blog. Give me some more time until I have figured out how this blog will evolve.

The Walking Dead S04E15 "Us" Opinion

Maggy and Glenn finally reunited.

It's been a busy day but what better incentive could there be for all hardships than rewarding yourself with a new episode of The Walking Dead? That's certainly my point of view as this show is constantly growing on me. Thinking about it, it really is an outstanding cross media phenomenon as the comic is super nice and the video game single handedly put the point and click genre back on the agenda.




But what about today's episode "Us"? Even though it showed all of the characters it put the spot light on Glenn and Darryl. Glenn travels with this female companion, the governors left over, through a dark, zombie infested tunnel and eventually reunites with his lover, Maggy. Certainly an emotional moment of joy in this dark age of zombies. I like how the two turn out to be the happy couple everybody wanted Rick and Laury to be in the first two seasons. Let's just hope they survive a little longer. Darryl, on the other hand, is the tough lone wolf again. He quickly worked up the hierarchy in the bandit group in this episode.

And all are heading towards Terminus. At the very end of the episode they arrived and everything looked very inviting and happy. But don't we know all is going to turn to hell? Too fresh are the memories of the governors little town which turned out to be a hell hole. Trouble is about to appear and it looks like Rick will find himself in a serious relation. As the next episode will conclude the season I am wondering more than ever in which direction the series is heading. I do hope that the Washington D.C. story line is followed in season 5. The break will give me time to catch up with the brilliant comics.

Thoughts on Stephen King's "The Body" short story

Fall from Innocence: "The Body" is part of Stephen King's 1982 short story collection "Different Seasons"

Let's keep this blog rolling. I used a few spare minutes this afternoon to finish Stephen King's "The Body" short story which I started already two or three weeks ago. It's not particularly long, remind yourself, it's a short story, I've just been quite busy with finishing up my MA thesis. But that is not part of this realm.

"The Body" focusses on a group of four twelve, thirteen year olds: Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy. Due to some circumstances they learn about where to find the corpse of a missing child, Ray Browers. As they live in a small town in some American rural area "the body" is located deep in a seemingly endless forest area. The story, which is told by an adult narrator (a writer, surprise) reminding himself about this unusual event in his childhood, then is all about the adventures the group experiences on their way to their goal: dangerous guard dogs, walking train bridges, sleeping a night in a forest far from civilization for example. The journey becomes a kind of rite de passage as they leave their childhood behind, face off their fears and eventually make enemies with some older bullies.

I found this to be a nice little short story, not too remindable though. Compared with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" or "An apt pupil"in the same collection it lacks characters that live on in your mind for long. At least that was my impression as I always found myself wondering "who's who again?". But I liked the "let's go and explore" spin that it had, which reminded me a little of the wonderful inside story of "A Wind through the Key Hole".

Next, and last, short story in this volume is "The Breathing Method". Let's see what that is about.

The Walking Dead S04E14 "The Grove" Opinion

Lizzy in The Grove

 Let me finally get this blog started as I will just type in my random impression and thoughts on The Walking Dead S04E14 "The Grove" which just sweetened my saturday afternoon.


Spoilers Ahead just so you know.

First of all, I really liked how this episode was much more straight forward than the last two. This one with Darryl and Hershel's blond daugther reminded me much of Breaking Bads one where they hunt the fly the whole episode. It wasn't bad but much on the "let's show the humane side of the character" side of things. S04E14 was different. People died, characters will have to develop on that, that's for sure. Today's episode killed two little girls which might have grown into strong characters for the future plot line. Also I thought this was a misopportunity as the the show was beginning to have slightly supernatural mystery tendencies with Rick seeing his dead wife in the prison. Lizzy's ability to hear the dead talking to her might have build up on that and introduced another perspective to the Walking Dead. Carol could have exiled Lizzy. I mean, she was a messed up teenage psycho. But killing her own sister. That's a little too much. In any case, that was certainly hard stuff in this episode. I'd have expected the group to flee from this fateful grove with a bunch of walkers on their heels but things turned out different. I'm excited to see what the last two episodes of The Walking Dead Season 4 have in store before the seasons concludes at the gates of whatever Terminus is turning out to be for a place.

Will Update Soon

Finishing the goddamn MA thesis currently. What I consumed recently (reminder)

books:

Stephen King: Under The Dome, Insomnia, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons Collection), An Apt Pupil (Different Seasons Collection)

games:

Skyrim

shows:

The Walking Dead Season 4