Sick Day Entertainment
Jul. 8th, 2011 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianSo I'm watching the remake of the series V and ... yeah, I can see why they cancelled it. I hate that they did it on such a cliffhanger, but while I like the mood of the series better than I did the original in the 80s, there are problems with this show. The number of plot threads they just sort of dropped, or put back together really haphazardly with seemingly no connection to the previous episode, are kind of monumental. Some secondary characters just ... kind of ... vanished. It's not the first show where the writing team didn't seem to be talking to each other at all (I hear rumours about Lost...) but I wish they'd tied it together a little better. Maybe it would have lasted. Then again, possibly not, seeing as it actually seemed to be ... not so much glorifying terrorism but giving a look at the terrorist point of view, which I don't imagine a lot of Americans want to see. Because gods forbid there's any shade of grey in there.
Upshot of the whole News of the World scandal thing is apparently that the NotW is shutting down for good. Under British law, this means that the parent company, run by Mr Rupert Murdoch, is allowed to destroy any and all records pertaining to the News of the World. Convenient, no, when the government is calling for inquiries and all paperwork? I don't know where this is going to go, but Rebekah whatshername is apparently talking about how betrayed she feels. She feels? Aaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha.
Meanwhile, there's been more Warcrack. I have been flitting around Deatholme. Deatholme is scary. Deatholme involves getting mobbed by waves of beasties if one isn't careful. Not that I haven't been surviving (as belf paladin, I've died maybe three times, and that was only because my connection dropped during combat); just that it's tiring and there are three quests I have to do in there. I'm two-thirds of the way through one - and the one that doesn't involve specifically killing anything, at that - but I had to give it up because after so many waves of three or four mobs at a time ... I believe the only comment is "Well, shit". I still need to find one more captive Hordey, then kill off four lieutenants of Big Bad, and then I have to kill off Big Bad himself and pike his head back to some fraidy-yutz hiding in a mountain enclave. This is all apparently to get belfs allegiance to the Horde. Which ... I thought we were ... well, never mind. No one ever claimed this game had to make any sense.
I've checked out Undercity. Undercity is fucking confusing, thank you. And freaky. And kind of annoying. It's the multi-level thing and the map does not actually tell you which level you're on and then it's all walkways over glowing green goo. And these narrow walkways are invariably clogged by some high-level arsehole who will not get off their fucking epic mount for five minutes and get out of the way so that people can go from point A to point B without going around or through them. Got some reasonable mining in Tirisfal Glades, though. That's a bonus.
It's the weekend coming up, so I'm probably going to end up staying up late and trying to finish some of those Deatholme quests. I'm still convinced that I'm going to die horribly, but fuck it. Everyone says Dar'Khan is nerfed. May as well take advantage of that. And saving those stupid captives and killing the lieutenants might get me another level before I take on Big Bad, so ... hey. (Though can I just say that Exorcism? Fucking rocks.)
Upshot of the whole News of the World scandal thing is apparently that the NotW is shutting down for good. Under British law, this means that the parent company, run by Mr Rupert Murdoch, is allowed to destroy any and all records pertaining to the News of the World. Convenient, no, when the government is calling for inquiries and all paperwork? I don't know where this is going to go, but Rebekah whatshername is apparently talking about how betrayed she feels. She feels? Aaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha.
Meanwhile, there's been more Warcrack. I have been flitting around Deatholme. Deatholme is scary. Deatholme involves getting mobbed by waves of beasties if one isn't careful. Not that I haven't been surviving (as belf paladin, I've died maybe three times, and that was only because my connection dropped during combat); just that it's tiring and there are three quests I have to do in there. I'm two-thirds of the way through one - and the one that doesn't involve specifically killing anything, at that - but I had to give it up because after so many waves of three or four mobs at a time ... I believe the only comment is "Well, shit". I still need to find one more captive Hordey, then kill off four lieutenants of Big Bad, and then I have to kill off Big Bad himself and pike his head back to some fraidy-yutz hiding in a mountain enclave. This is all apparently to get belfs allegiance to the Horde. Which ... I thought we were ... well, never mind. No one ever claimed this game had to make any sense.
I've checked out Undercity. Undercity is fucking confusing, thank you. And freaky. And kind of annoying. It's the multi-level thing and the map does not actually tell you which level you're on and then it's all walkways over glowing green goo. And these narrow walkways are invariably clogged by some high-level arsehole who will not get off their fucking epic mount for five minutes and get out of the way so that people can go from point A to point B without going around or through them. Got some reasonable mining in Tirisfal Glades, though. That's a bonus.
It's the weekend coming up, so I'm probably going to end up staying up late and trying to finish some of those Deatholme quests. I'm still convinced that I'm going to die horribly, but fuck it. Everyone says Dar'Khan is nerfed. May as well take advantage of that. And saving those stupid captives and killing the lieutenants might get me another level before I take on Big Bad, so ... hey. (Though can I just say that Exorcism? Fucking rocks.)