Dr Who, and the search for America.

Well Dr Who is the longest running Sci-Fi show ever on tv for those who don't know its a British show and is created by the BBC. Since its come back it has gained great support Christopher E, took over for one season and did well to take the Doctor in a new direction. When Christopher E was replaced with David T he strenghthen the Doctors roll and he now concedered one of the best Doctors and some still keep hope he will appear in future Doctor Whos. When David T left so did the Executive Russel T, so the franchise was again going to take a turn. This where I believe we turned towards America with our show, the new season with a younger Doctor Matt S teamed with Stephen M was aiming it shows to the larger dumber American audience. The first season with Matt S was very poor it had dumber story lines and more screaming, the perfect combination for the Americans. Matt S second season started of much better and was strong in America with the first two episode being classics and mostly filmed in the America landscape $$$$$$$$$$. However the following 3 were bad and was leaning towards the Americas again with poor dialogue and acting. What has really annoyed me and is only occurring to please the simple minded Americans is a mid season break what a joke who needs one of those. Mid season breaks do not occur in British TV they do it in America to please people. I like my Doctor who like I like my tea English.

Trade "in" standards

I was listening to the radio a couple of days ago and laughing at the adverts. All you get with radios in case there is those who don't understand, it is voices, so no pictures just some one very excited in your speakers. Well there was an advert for a car and the voice over came on get this beautiful car for only £200 a month with all these extras and it sounds good and he gives you this information and gets you hooked using 25% of there air time. The other 75% is another persons voice giving all the terms and conditions first payment of £1000 last payment of £2000 subject to checks blah blah. When we hear these adverts we laugh cause well its funny when we hear all the T and C's however it got me thinking on TV adverts its exactly the same. The TV shows a nice car with a price tag only £200 a month and its great but then in the bottom of the screen in small writing is the £1000 and £2000 payments and T and Cs. When I realised this I also thought hang on, why in TV adverts can they hide the facts in the bottom of the screen in small writing, that is the equivalent of the radio adverts doing the facts in a whisper. It should be the same if the radio have to do that Facts in a clear voice TV adverts should have to show the facts in a bigger type in the middle of the screen. I don't think that the standards are the same, if radio adverts were in distorted whispers we would be outraged and it would be changed so why not TV adverts with there small print?

United's 19th title.

The moments that won Manchester United there 19^th title, winning anything is a long and drawn out affair and takes great effort and skill throughout the year.  The moments which were paramount in winning the title to me were;

The comeback at Westham when United were two nil down and Rooney scored a hat-trick the spirit of the Manchester United team to come back from the brink is legendary and this was one of those times.  Another time was when Blackpool went two nil up against United and with 10 minutes to go the substitutes Giggs and Hernandez turned the game and United won.  

United at home this season was impenetrable but there away form wasn’t as great, one of the times when United struggled away was at Stoke (who are known for making it hard at their ground). Man United’s new signing Hernandez scored a fantastic backwards header.

 Two of the highlights of the season let alone United fans highlights were United beating City and United beating Liverpool at Old Trafford. These were great highlights because of the goals that won the game overhead kicks that show such ability and confidence. 

 Rooney’s overhead kick came in a game when he wasn’t performing at his greatest but managed to win the game.

Berbatov’s overhead kick really encapsulated his great season. Not just a great goal scoring ratio but his overall contribution was really highlighted in the game against Liverpool. He scored 4 goals in this game and United beat Liverpool 4-3. 

This are the moments that made United’s seasons and shows the ability of United team the skill to score beautiful overhead kicks and backwards headers and also the drive and desire to come from behind and get the win.  United’s 19^th title was truly ground breaking.

A change to my blog.

So today I changed the set up on my blog made it a bit more interesting to the eye and also edited the background now when I see something I like I'll copy it and paste it to my background. Also thought I'll make some rules take it a bit more seriously so my blog will have no more then 200 words and should do one at least each week, and make them more interesting. I hope you enjoy the new set up and why not follow, sub and comment.

All the best, Seb.

Do we cut British comedy short.

I will be writing about British comedy against America comedy not which is funnier but how us Brits seam to cut our comedy short so it becomes almost cult like, where as in America there comedies seam to go on and on. My favorite comedy show is Frasier and that went on for a long time 10 seasons and even now watching them even though the show has been over for a long time still makes me laugh. Other shows which have lasted for a long time in America are Friends which is well liked. Shows in America that lasted for a long time but maybe shouldnt are King of Queens, Everyone loves Raymond and Two and a half men. This shows never changed the characters never evolved and I wonder how they managed to stay on the tv for so long. Other shows in America that are funny new and the characters evolve are dismissed and cut short such as Arrested development and the life and times of tim. These shows are well watched in Britain and has taken the cult like mentality of a British comedy. Americans stretch out there shows well after they have run there course and long after the last laugh. In contrary  British comedies are a short bang then a slow burner shows such as faulty towers and the office this shows are well liked and well followed. A British show that should of been cut short is Gavin and Stacey the first two seasons were good and the third was a poor showing compared to the others.

**I ll continue this another time no one read this anyway so it doesnt matter Im a right lazy ..........

The Bee Movie (racist)

Watched the film the bee movie yesterday and as I watched I was laughing not at the jokes of which there was few but at th slight racism of the film and the messages it was sending to the young audience watching it. The film highlighted some great stereo types and the actors who were doing the voices were encouraging this, did they know or did they not care. So the main voice in this film is Jerry Seinfeld who is of the Jewish religion, he plays a bee who has to find a job and work the same job all his life. All his friends have jewish features for bees and are all hard working (stereo type that all Jews work hard an make money). OK thats not to strong of a stereo type but the ingraining begins, the next one is the bees who go out to collect the honey are big strong bees who all the women bees like. So the message so far is if your big you have a great job and adventure collecting honey and women or your small and work in an office all day with no women. Another part of this film shown all the jewish like hard working bees being "gassed" erm yeah I thought that was strange they were being auschwitz'd, sending the message this is ok. The last stereo type appeared when Chris Rock for no reason was in the film, he played a mosquito and as he said no one likes them there lonely and all women mosquito want to trade up. Sending another message that all black people are hated and black women want to trade up. This film had an underlying level of racism which amused me but also made me wonder has it affected any children watching. The film in general doesn't deserve a mention it is a poor one of the cgi age and not worth seeing.

Shot Story.

"So what, what is so special about being the 3rd child".
"I ll tell you since you didn't ask, nothing, nothing at all, I ll tell you what is special being a 5th child of a 5th child". "I can tell you now that I'm the one telling this story, and I'm a little pissed of with that, cause this story isn't about me but instead my sister". "Since I'm the one telling the story you can figure out that I am not dead, couldn't be more alive, this story ends with me killing my sister, there if anyone wants to stop reading now at least you know I  kill my sister". 

Hangover 2

Well think its fair to start of by saying I wasn't the biggest fan of the first hangover and without seeing the second its safe to say we have all seen it before.
My problem with the hangover film was i missed the hype I was one of them who people were like "dude watch the hangover" "dude you not seen the hangover" "dude" you get the picture. So one day i set out and adventured into watching this film, I was going into it with the attitude that I want to find fault with this film but I hope it is a classic.
My first thought and last thought with this movie was its "dude wheres my car", everything was so similar with the exception that dude wheres my car was a B movie made at a low standard to get more laughs where as the hangover was a big screen money maker. Let me familiarize the two stories for you, in dudes where my car there are this friends who wake up one morning with no memory of what has happened so they set out on a quest to find out what they got up to and hilarious consequences ensue. Where as in the hangover a group of guys wake up one morning with no memory of the night before go out to find out what has happened with hilarious consequences. hmmmm seams exactly the same to me.
So this brings me on to the sequel, some movies shouldn't have sequels there is many reasons why they shouldn't because the first one was so good/bad because of money or because there wasn't a sedge way into a sequel. the hangover could of stood alone and didn't need a sequel a lot like superbad there is no reason why that would need a sequel (although I would love some college years one). Now I said that we have all seen the hangover 2 and that isn't true however the story line is exactly the same a group of guys go out wake up the next morning with no memory and go out to ya ya ya ya. its the same movie with a number on the end set in a different country, I have no doubt it will be loved by many and gross  a lot of money. However there is no need for another hangover is this going to become a new film genre "the wake up forgot what happened go on adventure type" I hope not cause it will become dry and morning. A lot like this post.

All the best.

Thought i ll leave you with the trailers for the hangovers and dude wheres my car movies.

Hangover 2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0pGnzsAZI

Hangover 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7bl-wlvukU

Dudes wheres my car  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYc3gGjYW8

AV made easy.

Well its a first blog that no one will read or know about however it is something to do and will past a few minutes of time before I sit in front of my Xbox. So what should it be about myself? gaming? TV some other form of entertainment? perhaps.
Since the UK is going to have a referendum on a new voting system I thought i ll do a quick and easy explanation of the AV system over the Fptp system.
So the UK is split up in to constituencies and people run to get elected to become MP's,  in first past the post we all have one vote and the voting can go like this. Candidate A 35% B 15% C 20% D 30%. This is a basic look but on this Candidate A wins and becomes the MP for that area of the UK. However simple maths shows that more people in that area didn't vote for candidate A, just more then any other candidate. Under AV we have to list who we want so a person might so they like A B then C, and another person might say they want A C and B. Under AV you would need 50% of the vote so in the above vote distribution Candidate A wouldn't have won in the first round. The person with the fewers votes Candidate D would drop out and they would look at how the people voted for second on his votes. So if someone voted for D then A then B, they would count up the second votes and add them to the Candidates total. The person with the fewest votes would continue to drop out until some gains 50% of the vote.

Although this voting system seams more complicated I hope that this clears up a bit of the confusion.
I have no idea what other blogs will be about but please keep in touch.