Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Who is Tom Keen? Blacklist 1x19

Last night's episode of "The Blacklist" raised the stakes with Lizzie and Tom.  Our criminal was a repeat offender from the pilot episode but that wasn't the part of the show that I'm concerned with.  The show spends the entire beginning showing us just how "bad" Tom Keen is but then at the end we get yet another twist in the Tom Bond Saga.
Reddington has fed Lizzie with the information that her husband was dangerous and for the longest time she wouldn't listen but in the last few episodes she's realized he's up to something.  Two weeks ago, she investigated him but this week, Tom caught on to the fact that she knew and immediately requested to be pulled out.  Reddington used the bad guys of the week to pull Tom back out and give him to Lizzie, which brought the tensest scene of the night.  Liz interrogated Tom, even breaking his thumb, but got nothing.  With the broken thumb, he escaped and they fought.  He made her handcuff herself to the stair rail.  This is when the twist came about, he told Liz that he was never going to hurt her, that he was one of the good guys, and the Red was the danger.  Tom then instructed her to take the key she had found in the previous episode and use it to open a safety deposit box, then he left.  We don't know what's inside the box yet.
My question is, who's bad?  Is Reddington really the threat?  It's obvious he cares for Liz but maybe he has a hidden agenda.  Do we believe Tom?  Tom's lied multiple times but it's hard not the think that he also cares for Liz.  The new craze last night was Team Red or Team Tom.  I don't know which team to be on yet but I do know that I was ready to hate Tom and now I'm not so sure what I should think.  What did y'all think of last night's twist? 

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Men In Black Franchise

I am a huge fan of the "Men in Black" series and would love to see a 4th film.  I think we can all agree that we want to see Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith return.  Also, Will Smith needs to perform the song for the movie, not that I dislike the Pitbull one but it's just not the same.  Another thing I'd love to see in another film would be a strong female character a real Buffy style bad ass.  I also don't want this one to be about time travel, though Josh Brolin did a fantastic job as a young Tommy Lee Jones, I'd rather see more Tommy and Will.  This is a short one but let me know what y'all think...do we want more "Men In Black" fun?

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

The World of Twitter and Role Play


Since "The Blacklist" first aired, I've been infatuated with it to the point of live tweeting every episode.  One night a twitter account @TheReddington favorited one of my tweets so I followed the account.    I began having regular chats with Red and have no idea  who it really is other than a very convincing Raymond Reddington.  From there, I began to search other characters that I love and stumbled up a very well done Rupert Giles, from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", @watcherreturns.  I began having fun conversations with Giles as well but ours went to a different level than my tweets with Red because we have begun actually playing out scenarios.  So, now I have two characters from "Suits" that have begun tweeting with me.  So, I pose the question...when did this world begin and how many of us live out of TV given dreams with these fictional characters?  I imagine there's one for all of us out there.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Jurassic World

I touched on this film before we knew any details in a previous blog but now it's really time to start the discussion.  Let's get started with the confirmed cast members and work our way through.  We have Chris Pratt, Jake Johnson, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio and B D Wong.  I'm really only familiar with Jake Johnson from 'New Girl' and Vincent D'Onforio from his work in 'Men In Black' and 'Law in Order: Criminal Intent'.  I'm assuming Jake Johnson will provide our comic relief while Pratt will be our hero and Howard is our leading lady.  D'Onofrio may be a bad guy but we don't know much of anything yet.  B D Wong was a scientist in the original picture and will be the only returning cast member. 


My first question for my audience is "Don't we all want to see at least one of our leading men back with the dinosaurs?"  I'd prefer Sam Neill as Alan Grant but Jeff Goldblum could be our link also.  The makers of the newer Star Trek film franchise chose wisely in using Leonard Nimoy as Spock Prime to bridge the gap between original fans and people would become fans.  Fandom's need something to tie things together so they can accept the new story and characters.  Obviously, no one wants something cheap where our hero returns just to be killed off or a quick cameo but Alan Grant or Ian Malcom would go back on the island to help these new kids, I believe they both have an eternal fascination with the live dinosaurs.  Neill himself has said that Grant has a "ghastly fascination" and a "love-hate relationship" with the island.  Thanks to @JP4needsSamNeill for that info.  But the director Colin Trevorrow has said it's not going to happen and was quoted saying, ""I know a lot of fans want to see the original characters back." Trevorrow said. "They're iconic. But I respect those actors too much to shoehorn them into this story for my own sentimental reasons. Jurassic Park isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation. The only reason they'd go back to that island is if the screenwriters contrived a reason for them to go."  What do we say to that Jurassic Park fans?

We don't know much about the plot for the new film but we do know they will be shooting in the same locations as the original film and that B D Wong will have a much larger role genetically engineering the dinosaurs.  I don't think it'll be a remake but from what I've learned it seems like a reinvention of the original film.  Thoughts?