First of all, "Heroes"(Monday NBC 8) on Monday was fantastic. The episode was packed with answers(how Bennet ended up with Claire and why Claude, the invisible man, was able to teach Peter) and gave us even more new questions(who was Claude protecting and who is really in charge of who). Heroes has been able to deliver consistently excellent episodes with great storylines that teach us more about the characters each week, while still keeping us in the dark. This show has taken the "slow reveal" format that made "Lost"(Wednesday ABC 9) so intriguing and greatly improved it (Heroes does have a lot more flexibility which makes it easier to pull of without getting boring). Heroes is a show that you must catch up with, now. If you can't stand watching all 17 episodes on your computer, then you should add the show to your Netflix queue so that you will be able to catch up when it comes out on DVD in September(?) and be ready for Season 2.
The first Sox spring training game was today, and thank god its just an exhibition. It feels good to have baseball back, but the first week of games are nothing more than dress rehearsal for a team of the White Sox caliber. It been, like months since we've won a championship!
The Discovery Channel is bringing us "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" on Sunday at 8. Read about it here, they believe they have found the tomb that belonged to the family of Jesus of Nazareth. Oh and James Cameron made the documentary. It should be very controversial, I can't wait.
About this whole Al Gore thing. I do wish he would use less power(he actually pays more each month because he is all Green and has offset his carbon footprint to zero), but my real problem is that this "argument" will distract many people from the actual problem and once again stop most from taking action. I love myself a good conspiracy theory, but this one sure seems like it could be all backed by the power and gas companies. The combination of An Inconvenient Truth winning best documentary and Leo's gushing at the Oscars were almost guaranteed to make a difference or at the very least, it was going to draw more attention to the climate crisis. Now the message has been lost and the power companies are laughing at us as we continue our dependence on them.
Could it really happen again? Could the extra storage space argument for Blu-Ray be equivalent to my "the screen is so clear when you pause" argument for Betamax? 2 Months ago I declared the High Definition DVD format war over and named Blu-Ray as the winner. My reasons at the time(which I didn't even mention because it wasn't an argument, it was a statement) were the extra storage space(30GB for HD DVD vs 50GB for Blu-ray), the support of 7 of the 8 major studios(Only Universal is exclusive to HD-DVD while Disney, Fox, Lionsgate, MGM and Sony are all exclusive to Blu-Ray), and the fact that Blu-Ray is built into the Playstation3 but the HD DVD player for Xbox360 is only offered as a $200 add on. But now I find out that DVDtalk.com(which is a site that I regularly use as a resource) is pushing the HD DVD format. I hope they are doing this just because of HD DVD's lower price for players, which in theory could lead to more sales of HD DVD movies.
I refuse to believe that Sony will allow their newest gaming system to become obsolete anytime soon. So unless there is a clear reason why HD DVD should win, Blu-ray is still the format to beat(Warning-I still think Betamax is the videotape format to beat).
If you missed "The Black Donnellys"(Monday NBC 9) don't forget about the replay Thursday at 9.
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