Channel 7 News

On Saturday night Cliff and I were watching the news and the presenter
was talking about Gold Coast Suns and the Geelong game BUT in the
background was the club flags for GCS and Carlton Football Club!

Even Cliff noticed it, but then he would as he follows Carlton!

This was the second mistake this week as on Thursday night there
was a news item about a car accident where it appeared friends were
racing each other and the policeman was Senior Det Sarg Sam Newman.
The presenter then said the a young woman was hurt and a young man
called Sam Newman were injured! Now it could be that both the men in
this news item were named Sam Newman but I DON'T THINK SO!!!

Star Trek IV: The Vogage Home.

Watched this with Kirsten last night. Of course it is not the
first time but this time I noticed that when the bird of prey
decloaks and hoovers over the whaling vessel, it cast a huge
shadow over the ship. In the next scene we see the vessel from
the front and the crew are in panic and the sun is shining down
on the deck. In the next scene we once again see the bird of
prey still hovering over the ship which is once again in deep
shadow!

Hugo

Very thin impossible story line dragged out.

In one scene, Hugo is in a book shop with a young girl.
They are coming down a spiral staircase. The girl is
in the lead. They reach the bottom, the girl in the
lead. The scene cuts to them walking down a narrow
aisle way in the shop, now Hugo is in the LEAD!

Revolution

John tells me this is in it's 3rd session on Austar, while there have only been
three episodes on commerical T.V.

I have never ever know this to happen naturally and if anyone has, please let
me know. A young dark haired child who grows up to have blonde hair!!!

I have know many cases of a blonde haired child who grows up to have darker hair,
but as I said never the other way around!

Yet this has happened to the son Danny!!

What The Hell!

Dexter (the Differences)

It is about time I wrote on this. Firstly I have read all six
Dexter books. I believe that the next season of Dexter is eight.

However the T.V show and the books started to differ with the
very first session.

Dexter has a brother Brian and in the T.V. show he was the Ice
Truck Killer and got engaged to Deb (Dexter's foster sister.
Brian then tried to kill Deb, but Dexter killed him instead.

This did not happen in the book. He was the Ice Truck killer
but not involved with Deb and Dexter did not kill him.

In session two Dexter does marry Rita but they have a little
girl (not boy), and Rita is not killed by the Triple
murderer. She is killed in book six (Dexter: The Final Cut)by
a pedophoile who tries to go off with Astor.

After that the T.V. show is completely different from the books.

Rear Window

I think you would have to live under a rock not to have hear
of Hitchcock's "Rear Window." It is a classic!

Well in the last week I have seen two shows, the first a
recent episode of Castle and the second CSI NY where the plot
has revolved around "the rear window."

In Castle he has a broken leg (like the original)and Alexis
gives him a pair of binoculars which of course he uses to
spy on the neighbours and of course he thinks he sees a
murder. There is even a reference to "Rear Window" in the
episode! Turns out it was all a hoax got up by Kate as he
was so bored! It was his birthday present. He says Best
Birthday Present EVER!!!

In CSI NY Mac is laid up with a broken right hand, ribs
and bruises and contusions (same thing!) as a result of
being thrown off a second floor balcony. He spends his
time watching the neighbours, though not through a pair
of binoculars, but he does use his mobile phone to zoom
in on what he is watching and takes video of it and
pictures and sends them to the rest of the team in the
office!! He does not witness a murder par say, as the
bloke opposite kills a carney with a gas. Turns out it
is Sarin gas and he intends on putting it in a air vent
at the Conservatory Grand Function! Of course they stop
him in time. There is no reference to the Hitchcock movie
in the show! It is the same plot!! (just a different twist!)

Dexter

Weeellll who would have guessed that ending? Meg couldn't wait and had to
go online and stream episode 1 series 8 from USA just to see what happens
now the B*T*H won't tell me what happened!!!!

"Silver Linning"

I'm afraid there was none. Read the blurb and thought it was
a romantic comedy. The only comedy was provide by Chris Tucker
each time he tried to escape from the mental institute.

Robert de Niro's portrayal of a bombastic totally self serving
father was too real to the bone for me. He even looked like my
late husband.

Was shocked at Jackie Weaver's appearance, as the mother, she
looked more like the GRANDMOTHER!

As for Bradley Cooper's performance, I thought it ironic he
refused to take his medication claiming he made him dull and
lifeless, exactly like his performance!

Have never been so happy to see the credits come up on a picture!

The Suit Case

Saw this movie this week. It is a teen musical BUT not one
of the High School musicals. It was about a young girl who
goes to the big city to find fame and fortune but as soon
as she gets off the bus her suitcase is stolen. It is a
white suitcase with a lovely black flower pattern on it.

The next day I watched another musical, called "Sparkle"
in this the eldest sister is called Sister and she leaves
home with a white suitcase with a black flower pattern.
Hang on IT IS the same suitcase! as in yesterday's movie!!
I have never seen another suitcase like it! These movies
must have been made by the same company!

Tis The Season of the Witch.

Watched two movies this week one day after the other. In the
first "Dark Shadows" set in 1972. We hear in the background
the young niece of B Collins playing the

Dynamo Magician Impossible

I have never watched a full episode of this show. But I have
seen a few snippets from time to time.

In one he walked through a glass window. He touched the glass
and we all saw him touch the glass, people were watching from
both inside the room where he was and from the street. When
he finished he just walked off down the street hands in pockets.
With people saying "How did he do that?"

The next time he walked down the side of a building. Once again
people in the street were watching. At first they thought he
was going to jump. Then he walked down, once he was on the street
he put his hands in his pockets and walked away with people saying
"How did he do that?"

The last time was during the week on the 7 prime news. He had his
hand on the side of a double decker London bus and he was floating
along beside it. Just in the air as the bus drove along. The bus
stopped and he lowered himself to the roadway and walked away with
his hands in his pockets with people saying "How did he do that?"

To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes "When you have eliminated the
improbable, whatever remains however impossible must be the truth."

So if he is not using wires or tricks then how does he do it? Well
there is a 'fictional' character that can do all he does, by the name
of Superman. So there is the answer he is an alien!! What better
way to do what comes naturally that to be a magician and earn good
money!!!

Torchwood Again.

An episode about fairies, I thought how exciting. Turns out
these are evil, not good like we have led to believe and I
mean evil with a capital E.

There was a lady who has spent all her life trying to find
them. Turns out she and Jack HAVE HISTORY!

Ends up the fairies drown her by creating a rain storm in
her back yard, though there was no puddle of water to drown
in just a heavy downpour pelting her! She drowned standing
up!!How could that be??

2012

Saw this movie for the second time the other night. The
first thing that I want to comment on is why the hell
after they took off safely from Las Vegas, they did not
jettison the 12 or so cars in the cargo bay. Without
that added weight they would have easily made it to their
destination in China, instead of crash landing on an ice
field.

Next after he had crashed land and the plane is HANGING on
by a thread to the cliff edge why the hell didn't Sasha
run like mad to the rear of the plane and get the hell off?

The girl friend of the Russian billionaire is in the Ark
4, with Jackson, his family and the Asian family who have
sneaked on board. The Asian worker who gets them on, drops
a drill in the works of the hatch door, so that it will not
close. Unless the door is closed the engine will not work.
Thus water is rushing into the Ark. As the water rushes in
automatic doors begin to shut off different sections of the
ship. The girlfriend is caught alone in one of these
compartments. It is sealed off from the rest of the ship
and also from the engine room where the water is coming in.
So my question is where did the water come that caused her
to drown?

Everest is about 29,000 feet above sea level. The Captain
of the Ark informs the leader that a wave of about 1,500
(I'm not sure whether he said meters, which is about 5,000
feet, or feet, but the point is the next thing we see is
a wave coming over the crest of Mount Everest, HOW IS THAT
POSSIBLE?

Lastly after 27 days, the Ark's Captain announces they are
heading for the Cape of Good Hope. It is now the HIGHEST
point in the world as it rose by 1,000 feet! and he states
it never even got flooded!!!

YET EVEREST WHICH IS TALLER DID!!!!

Torchwood BS

Watched an episode of Torchwood last week, it dealt with
a girl that had been a member of the team but after an
encounter with the Cybermen she was now more machine than
human.

The young man who keeps the home base working while the
team are on the road was the young woman's fiancé. He had
her secretly stashed in the basement. For how long??

Anyway he wants to make her human again. Eventually she
takes a pizza girl captive and cuts out her brain and
then cuts out her own brain.. hay wait a moment when she
cuts out her brain WOULDN'T SHE BE DEAD!!

But despite this MAJOR drawback she puts her brain into
the pizza girl and the pizza girl tells the fiancé she
can now be with him as she is his fiancée!!!Bull Sh.t
Brain Surgery.

allmenarebastards.com

Am reading this very funny book and it turns out it was
written by an Australian.

"Push" The Movie.

Watched this last night and I assume it was meant to be
set in a future time here on earth. Was it made on the
cheap and that is why it was set in Hong Kong?

Not a bad story but a very unsatisfying ending as it did
not really end at all! It left too much up in the air,
often a sign that there will be a follow up.

One can only hope as I wonder how things will end.

Names

Was watching "Forrest Gump" (yes again!) and for the
first time noticed the name of the Shrimp Company was
'Bubba Gump', a combination of Forrest's war buddy's
first name and Forrest's surname.

Also that Lt. Dan's surname was Taylor, played by
Gary Sinise. He also plays Detective Mac Taylor in
CSI New York!!! Interesting to note that Sinise also
also played in a band called "Lt. Dan Band"!!!

Hart To Hart

Watched two episodes of "Hart to Hart" over the last
week.

In the first episode titled "Harts Desire." One of
the characters played by Dean Stockwell, appears in
a southern uniform from the American Civil War.

He is reading a book called "Hearts Desire" and
believes he is the Colonel Daniel from the book.

At one stage he throws down on a table, a letter. It
is a discharge from a mental hospital that has the
name James on it.

At the end of the episode, during which the man only
used the name Colonel Daniel, Jennifer Hart says to
Jonathan "What will happen to JAMES?" The name he
NEVER used.

In the second episode "Christmas Hart" we see a young
man lying unconscious on the floor, next to a ladder.
Jonathan rings him. The young man comes to, enough
to crawl to the table about four feet away and pull the
phone off the hook and whisper into it HELP. He then
collapses, with the phone next to his head.

We go back to the Hart house were the Harts are jumping
up to go save the young man. We then go back to the
young man, who is now BACK NEXT TO THE LADDER! and
no phone in sight!

Hart to Hart

Watched an eposide called "On a Bed of Harts." It has been
the worse eposide I have seen in any show so far.

The idea was that it was the Harts anniversary, so Jonathan
bought Jennifer the bed they spent their first night as a
married couple. The only problem was that it was the wrong
bed.

Sop they go to Napa valley to the inn to get the right bed.
It turns out the man who owned the inn had died a few months
before, so the inn and all its contents plus the 40 acres of
vines were up for auction.

So The Harts buy the lot for $5 million.

That night a frenchman sneaks into the bedroom, but leaves
when he finds Jennifer asleep in the bed. Jonathan chases
him down the stairs where the frenchman knocks a suit of
armour on top of him and runs out the front door. Jennifer
is halfway down the stairs and helps her husband back up
the stairs. They go into the bedroom and the bed, a four
poster IS GONE. It has been taken out on to the balcony
and lowered onto a bedtray and they see it being driven
away. REALLY IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES!!!It is a heavy wooden
bed!

They find it at Mrs. Thorn's and take it back. As they
leave you can see the wires attached to the sheet lift the
sheet and drop it onto the road!

They spend the night hiding in a barn, where the frenchman
finds them the next moring, but not knowing the Harts are
actually in the bed he drives off in their car towing the
bed. Of course the bed becomes seperated from the car as
Mrs. Thorn chase them. But the wire attached to the bed
that is pulling it along for about twenty miles, can
clearly be seen.

They crash ino a fruit marketer's cart. He sell them his
old truck and the next thing we see the bed sitting on top
of the boxes of fruit! How did it get there?

They spend the night in the barn AGAIN. They find that the
flowers on the headbed are covering a stolen mother and
child painting that was smuggled out of France.

So I wondered WHAT anniversary the Harts were celebrating?
because how long were the smugglers going to wait till
they sold the painting?

The Harts leave the barn but the old truck breaks down in
front of a nursery. The next thing the Harts are driving
into San Francisco in a VW with the four poster bed sitting
on top! Once again how DID it get THERE?!!

The frenchman follows them and when they go into a valuer
he drives off in the VW. Surely Jonathan didn't leave the
keys in the ignition?!!

The Harts catch up with him at a bedding place. Here two
workmen struggle to get the bed off the VW and push it onto
the display floor.

The frenchman turns out to be an interpol agent. Then he
announces the bed itself is a French 'treasure' because an
infamous maid of an infamous brothel madam owned the bed.

In the final scene the Harts are in the bed because the
frenchman allowed them once last night in the bed.

The camera pans out and we see they are in a display.

We see it is at the The Palace of Versailles!!(A long way
to go to spend one last night in the bed!!!)