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Joss Whedon’s “Dr. Horrible” - Part 3

And there goes the happy ending. ;)

Captain Hammer has everyone fooled, and marks the great hero. Where he has to give a speech about his work for the homeless (which he despises) Dr. Horrible amushes him, freezes him with his freezeray and tries to kill him with his newly invented deathray, but he can’t. The freezeray malfunctions and Captain Hammer (unfortunately) can move again, he hits Dr. Horrible in which course the deathray gets damaged, which Captain Hammer des not notice, so then, when he pulls the trigger to finally kill his foe, the weapon is destroyed in an explosion, and Captain Hammer feel pain for the first time and runs away like a whyning baby. Penny gets hit by debree and dies. Dr. Horrible has now lost everything holding him back on his evil path (And I’m sure Penny’s last words “Captain Hammer will save us” gave him the rest). Dr. Horrible finally can join the evil league (because of Penny’s death) and he now does evil things…

He’s so evil, to even exchange his white coat with a red one.

This last part was alright, but not as good as the first two, because there was no letter from “Bad Horse”, because Dr. Horrible turned evil, because Penny died, and because this episode (in my opinion) was less humorous than the other two.

4/5

Joss Whedon’s “Dr. Horrible” - Part 2

Today the second part of Joss Whedon’s  “Dr. Horrible” came out.

Dr. Horrible’s Arch Nemesis “Captain Hammer” (played by Nathan Fillion) is stealing Penny’s (Dr. Horrible’s true love) heart and Dr. Horrible slowly shifts to the evil side, he’s already on. His atempts do denounce Captain Hammer and win back Penny fail horribly, so he then decides to kill Captain Hammer, ho have him out of he picture, and to finally become a member of the evil league.

In this episode, we get to know a little bit more about Captain Hammer, wo really seems to be all about his strength (and nothing else, apparently). Dr. Horribles fall into evilness continues (can he still be saved?) and with his freze-ray complete he now posesses a weapon worthy of a superhero.

5/5

The final part will air on the 19. July.

Joss Whedon’s “Dr. Horrible” - Part 1

Yesterday the first part of Joss Whedon’s (Creator of the unreached Firefly and the Buffy- and Angel Series) “Dr. Horrible” came out, and is viewable for free until the 21. July on the Dr. Horrible Website.

It tells the story of the social-incapable, evil genious “Dr. Horrible” trying to talk to the woman of his dreams (Penny, who he sees every Wednesday and Saturday in the laundry house) and become a member of the evil league, headed by “Bad Horse”.

It’s funny, at times totally hilarious, greatly scripted and just well done. Allthough some may think it is over-hyped, I think it’s not, its just a extraordinary piece of (what schould I called it?) film, that get’s the recognition it deserves.

5/5

The next part will go on air tomorrow.

Review of “Gavin DeGraw” - Gavin DeGraw

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With his incredible debut album Gavin DeGraw set the stakes very high, and now, sadly, fails to deliver. There are some songs, that are almost as good as the ones on “Chariot” (the debut), but there are also the mediocre titles, such as “Let it Go” or “We Belong Together”. The album is a little over-produced, too mainstream and often lacks the ingenuity and soul of “Chariot”.

All this doesn’t make “Gavin DeGraw” ab bad album, not even a mediocre one. It undoubtedly is a good album. There are several very catchy, good songs, but there are also songs, that disappiont. But compared to “Chariot” it just isn’t as good.

4/5

1. In Love With A Girl (3:27)

This song is about the power of love and it rocks (no surprise, they made it a single). It’s loud, fast and there are a lot of drums and heavy guitars.

2. Next To Me (Wait A Minute Sister) (3:26)

One of my favorites, a very catchy song about a (possibly) unfulfilled love.

3. Cheated On Me (3:39)

A ballad about how jealousy can drive loved ones away, unfortunately, in my opinion a little uneventful and definitely more mediocre songs on this album.

4. I Have You To Thank (3:27)

Starts almost the exact same way as “I Don’t Want To Be” from Gavin’s first album and then turns in to a cool, funky, strong tune. I especially love the bridge and the ending.

5. Cop Stop (3:24)

This song starts terribly, but gets much better with an ingenious, powerful refrain.

6. Young Love (4:08)

A ballad again, very melodic, starts of quite slow, dramatic, but in the last third it thankfully gets a little more exciting.

7. Medicate The Kids (3:19)

Probably one of the best songs on this album, about parents drugging their children. This songs really stands out not just because of the lyrics (they’re funny in a very concerning way ;) ) but also because it is extremely catchy melody and great bridge.

8. Relative (4:12)

A great, rocking song with a little funky lyrics, an awesome (”Jason Mraz”-like) bridge.

9. She Holds A Key (3:50)

This is my favorite song, a wonderful, strong, emotional ballad with great lyrics, rhymes and a superb ending.

10. Untamed (4:00)

A poppy tune, with a great bridge (again), and a very catchy, feel-good ending (with a little guitar solo - Oh I love those…).

11. Let It Go (3:49)

Sleeping pills? At least that was my first impression. Definitely much to depressing and slow, then there is this annoying refrain. This is by far the worst song on the album, the only one, that actually made me wind forward.

12. We Belong Together (5:30)

It’s a littley too clichéd and over-produced for me.

Some new CD’s

I’ve recenty recieved some long longed for CD’s and decided to take a picture of them - aren’t they beautiful?

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There are two albums from Gavin DeGraw: The extraordinary “Chariot” and the latest addition “Gavin De Graw” which I will review soon. Then there are also two albums from Tristan Prettyman, the beautiful “Tristan Prettyman” (What is it with Singer-Songwriters and self-titled albums?) and her newest album “Hello…x” (Which I will review soon, too.). There is a Sister Hazel album (”BAM!”). Then there is the long awaited third studio album from Jason Mraz “We dance, we sing, we steal things” (Which will get a review as well) and there are three albums from John Mayer, two live albums: “the Village Sessions” (You guessed it, review…) and “as/is” (Maybe review…) and his dive into blues with the “John Mayer Trio” one of his best albums “Try!”.

Why Smallville is actually quite good.

But the real question is, compared to what?

I’ve started watching smallville some time ago (I’m somewhere in season 2 right now) and I’ve so far liked it. It’s exciting, well written and in my opinion finds the balance between comedy and drama.

The recurring characters are all well developed except for maybe Pete Ross, who seems to me just to be the black quy, so that there actually is a black guy in the series. He’s got almost no character, we’ve never seen his parents (as opposed to Lana and Cloe) and he just seems to be the only black guy in the whole town. ;)

I like Lana (she’s gorgeous) and I especially like the Luthors. To me, the Luthors are what lifts Smallville over the average tv-show. Both characters (Lionel and Lex) are very well developed and they aren’t just black an white, that’s what makes Smallville interesting.

The bad guys, however are mostly poorly written, they are for some reason altered by meteor rock (ok so far) and they just turn evil (or they were already). I mean, they turn into psychos, why, I don’t get it. For me this translates into almost zero depth, which is kind of annoying.

The episodes are almost all in the “monster of the tweek” (or ” ‘person who gets in contact with meteor rock and becomes an evil fiend’ of the week”) style. But it’s alright, there are some issues, that stretch over more than one episode, but I would not go as far and would actually call them plots.

One of the must humorous things in the whole series is, that Clark never actually kills anyone, but the bad guys almost always die (they have to, because if they wouldn’t anyone would know Clark’s secret in a heartbeat). The bad guys always kill themselves out of mere stupidity (best example the evil coach, who burns himself alive.) or they die in an accident, Clark never has to make the moral decision to let an enemy live and risk him doing more damage (especially with the ones, that could not easily be contained) or just kill him and be done with it.

So I guess, Smallville is better than expected, better than average, actually quite good, if you don’t compare it to firefly, farscape or pushing daisies, at least.

3/5

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