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alexsarllThat line makes more sense now the charts mean nothing much, doesn't it? And David Devant's show on Friday...it was only an inchoate feeling until someone else put it into words for me, but it had an air of finality. Ten years on from the debut album, which was meant to make them stars, they played it in order. First track of the encore, the track which came as a free 7" with the vinyl version. And then apparently thrashing through every other song that came to mind...they did say that they'd see us in three years for the Shiney on the Inside anniversary show, but I'm not especially expecting to see them before that. I don't know, maybe it was just the hearing-album-in-order thing that got me. I've only seen that done before at launch shows, not commemorations.
As first support, the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra were as delightful as ever; I especially enjoyed watching their effect on the uninitiated. And Boogaloo Stu was entertaining enough, even if his outfit was a little *too* tight. But The Reality (edit: apparently these were They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, lying)...I can only surmise that they're sponsored by tobacco industry, because they had the non-smokers heading out on their mates' fag breaks, just to get away. The 100 Club itself, it should be noted, *stinks*. Not the gym fug of the Borderline, more the hospital corridor smell of cheap industrial cleaner. David Devant did provide card Fantasy Fags, but they never got round to enacting whatever magic might have empowered them. And on top of the smell...I saw a psster for a George Melly show. And this set me thinking, a little later, all we need now to sum up everything that's made this past week so abysmal is a Fopp poster. Turn around, and there's an ad for an instore right behind me. From that point on I was just surprised by the absence of Catherine Tate.
The Purple Turtle, on the other hand, doesn't smell at all bad; surprising, I know. But the evening...in terms of the music and such, I still like Stay Beautiful. I find Client fairly boring, but inoffensive, especially since they seem to have laid off the faux sapphism. But the clientele, my dears! So many very ugly people. And I mean that in terms of behaviour as much as anything, though be assured, many of the faces and outfits definitely qualify too. I'm sure it's not normally like this, but it has really rather shaken me.
Bear in mind, I couldn't (until now) investigate people's objections to the end of Heroes in any depth for fear of spoilers - but I get the impression that it was widely loathed. Whereas I'm just vaguely disappointed in the way I often am at the end of big superhero stories by the decisions taken with too much of an eye on the franchise's value and too little on the story. Some bits, though, just don't make sense. I know villains escaping at the last minute, but surely Sylar has no powers which would enable him to recover from a katana through the vitals? And isn't it a bit weak to let him survive when 'the Walker system' has already foreshadowed the existence of someone even scarier? As for the Petrellis...
1) Why could Peter get the nuclear business under control when he met Ted before, but not now? What was the point of his training with Claude if it didn't work?
2) Why couldn't Peter fly himself up? Why get Nathan involved? I'm sure we've seen Peter use more than one power at once before - though admittedly, the only definite example I can give is of the hotter, less pathetic, more skilled future Peter.
3) Are we seriously expected to believe that, prats though they may be, either brother died? The get-out clause is too obvious for words - Nathan got up speed and chucked Peter, Peter melts down but then regenerates.
As ever, it is Hiro's arc whose development interests me most.
Still, at least The Shield is still on top form. I've meandered enough before about the bleakness of its moral universe, to general disinterest on here, but this week's episode found another marvellous way to play that.
"Speaking in Hull, the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, said..."I'm hoping that the central government will match up to what the council is trying to do. The response should be quick, fast and swift.""
Is there even a word for going past tautology and using *three* synonymous terms? Perhaps we should just file this as further evidence for Hitchens' argument that, where once the finest minds had nowhere to go but the clergy, times are very different now.
As first support, the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra were as delightful as ever; I especially enjoyed watching their effect on the uninitiated. And Boogaloo Stu was entertaining enough, even if his outfit was a little *too* tight. But The Reality (edit: apparently these were They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, lying)...I can only surmise that they're sponsored by tobacco industry, because they had the non-smokers heading out on their mates' fag breaks, just to get away. The 100 Club itself, it should be noted, *stinks*. Not the gym fug of the Borderline, more the hospital corridor smell of cheap industrial cleaner. David Devant did provide card Fantasy Fags, but they never got round to enacting whatever magic might have empowered them. And on top of the smell...I saw a psster for a George Melly show. And this set me thinking, a little later, all we need now to sum up everything that's made this past week so abysmal is a Fopp poster. Turn around, and there's an ad for an instore right behind me. From that point on I was just surprised by the absence of Catherine Tate.
The Purple Turtle, on the other hand, doesn't smell at all bad; surprising, I know. But the evening...in terms of the music and such, I still like Stay Beautiful. I find Client fairly boring, but inoffensive, especially since they seem to have laid off the faux sapphism. But the clientele, my dears! So many very ugly people. And I mean that in terms of behaviour as much as anything, though be assured, many of the faces and outfits definitely qualify too. I'm sure it's not normally like this, but it has really rather shaken me.
Bear in mind, I couldn't (until now) investigate people's objections to the end of Heroes in any depth for fear of spoilers - but I get the impression that it was widely loathed. Whereas I'm just vaguely disappointed in the way I often am at the end of big superhero stories by the decisions taken with too much of an eye on the franchise's value and too little on the story. Some bits, though, just don't make sense. I know villains escaping at the last minute, but surely Sylar has no powers which would enable him to recover from a katana through the vitals? And isn't it a bit weak to let him survive when 'the Walker system' has already foreshadowed the existence of someone even scarier? As for the Petrellis...
1) Why could Peter get the nuclear business under control when he met Ted before, but not now? What was the point of his training with Claude if it didn't work?
2) Why couldn't Peter fly himself up? Why get Nathan involved? I'm sure we've seen Peter use more than one power at once before - though admittedly, the only definite example I can give is of the hotter, less pathetic, more skilled future Peter.
3) Are we seriously expected to believe that, prats though they may be, either brother died? The get-out clause is too obvious for words - Nathan got up speed and chucked Peter, Peter melts down but then regenerates.
As ever, it is Hiro's arc whose development interests me most.
Still, at least The Shield is still on top form. I've meandered enough before about the bleakness of its moral universe, to general disinterest on here, but this week's episode found another marvellous way to play that.
"Speaking in Hull, the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, said..."I'm hoping that the central government will match up to what the council is trying to do. The response should be quick, fast and swift.""
Is there even a word for going past tautology and using *three* synonymous terms? Perhaps we should just file this as further evidence for Hitchens' argument that, where once the finest minds had nowhere to go but the clergy, times are very different now.
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Date: 2007-07-08 12:22 pm (UTC)Talking of vile things, I heard the Massive Ego version of Never Felt as Good last night. Awful. Just bleh.
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Date: 2007-07-09 06:44 pm (UTC)The problem with SB wasn't just the woman with the corset giving her as much back cleavage as front, and her kind - there were a surprising number of townies in too.
Heroes spoilers
Date: 2007-07-09 09:17 am (UTC)1) Why could Peter get the nuclear business under control when he met Ted before, but not now? What was the point of his training with Claude if it didn't work?
My theory is that there was such a conflux of abilities in Kirby Plaza that he was overwhelmed. Maybe Sylar alone would have been enough to do that. This is total conjecture, though, as the show was frustratingly fuzzy about this.
2) Why couldn't Peter fly himself up? Why get Nathan involved? I'm sure we've seen Peter use more than one power at once before - though admittedly, the only definite example I can give is of the hotter, less pathetic, more skilled future Peter.
Connected to number one: he was too busy not exploding to fly.
3) Are we seriously expected to believe that, prats though they may be, either brother died? The get-out clause is too obvious for words - Nathan got up speed and chucked Peter, Peter melts down but then regenerates.
Peter is almost certainly alive as he was never in danger himself from the explosion. Just like Ted was, he's immune to it. In the future continuity, where Peter had never met Claire, he blew up New York with no ill effects to himself. As for Nathan... we can hope. Classic "if you don't see it, it didn't happen" rules apply.
I know villains escaping at the last minute, but surely Sylar has no powers which would enable him to recover from a katana through the vitals? And isn't it a bit weak to let him survive when 'the Walker system' has already foreshadowed the existence of someone even scarier?
Sylar had faked death before - to escape Mr Bennett's glass cell. And we don't know the full extent of the skills he's learned! In terms of the scary person little Molly sees looking back at her... Is he only scary because he can see her? In which case, isn't it likely to be Peter, duplicating her power when it interacts with him?
Re: Heroes spoilers
Date: 2007-07-09 06:42 pm (UTC)They also seem to confirm that Peter can only use one power at once. Which I still reckon contradicts that future scene, but maybe they just mean modern Peter.
And yes, you're quite right about Sylar faking death - some application of his cold powers, perhaps? It has also been suggested that at the end, he didn't crawl away - he was dragged...