I am a few weeks late, but we just started watching The Walking Dead. If you have been under a rock and have heard nothing of this, please watch the video below as well. This series is amazing. It feeds into one of my biggest geek loves....ZOMBIES. I love anything to do with zombies. Plus, I love dystopian stories as well. Ever since I was a kid, photos or scenes like the one above struck a chord with me. I told my husband as we were watching this, that that shot right there, is THE shot. It gives me chills and warm fuzzies. Morbid? Maybe. But, everytime I see the shot of the abandoned city, chaos left behind, i get warm fuzzies. The empty city, with traces of what man used to be ads to the fuzzies as well. But enough of my fuzzies, back to the show. The Walking Dead has already been confirmed for a second season. The story line is a good one and I am thinking it is going to just get better.
I was super excited to see Lennie James on this series as well. I certainly hope we see more of him. For those of you who missed an awesome show called Jericho that aired for about 1.5 seasons beginning in 2006, you missed out on a great piece of television. I was so upset when it ended and Lennie James' character on the series, Robert Hawkins, was awesome.
Another actor in The Walking Dead, that can be seen in a little movie called Love Actually, is Andrew Lincoln. He was one of my favorite characters in Love Actually, by the way. Yes, I am still a girl and yes, I do still like some girlie movies too. :) Remember this little scene?
So it shows his diversity that he could go from being uber romantic in showing big cardboard signs to Keira Knightley to what you are about to see in the trailer below.
It is apparent that AMC has an awesome team working on this show. The special effects have been awesome, but the storyline has been awesome as well. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next.
Do you ever wake up on a Sunday morning and the first thoughts on your mind are, "I miss Battlestar Galactica"? Yeah, not many people do. But I did this morning. I was thinking about what an awesome story it was. I was fracking excited to see that the entire series is up on Netflix Instant Queue though. Maybe I will have to watch it all again from the beginning.
For those of you who have been under a rock and not watched any of this series, you need to. You need to start from the beginning and continue until you finish it. If you watch this series all the way to the end you will not be disappointed. Unlike the Lost fiasco. Although for some odd reason there were a lot of people who actually liked the ending of that series. But, I digress, Battlestar Galactica was a series that everything any sci-fi geek would love. There was incredible depth to all the characters, many twists and turns in the storyline, and the special effects were amazing. I know for myself, I love special effects, but if there is not a storyline to go along with them, I get annoyed. You have to have an excellent story or all the effects are just eye candy. People don't sit back several years after seeing it and think, wow, I loved those effects. No, they think of the story and Battlestar Galactica had that. It has been almost two years since the series ended and I still get goosebumps when I think about it. The effects are an afterthought. The story is what grabs you. So, in so many words...WATCH IT!
I can't imagine many people have not watched it. But, I know there are still some. For instance, my husband's uncle. He puts on the sci-fi guy front, but he still to this day has not watched it. I try to lure him in with the hot chicks that are throughout it. Which by the way geek girls, if by some crazy chance you are with a guy who is not a geek, tell him about the hot chicks, that will get him to watch it with you. But, not only are they pretty, they kick major ass too. See, I told you it is an all around awesome show. It has everything!
With so many books about vampires lately it seems like the market is pretty saturated. But, there is always the one vampire series that goes back over a decade and that is the Anita Blake Series. I have been a fan of the Anita Blake series as well as the Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton for years. I am currently reading Skin Trade. Skin Trade is the 17th book in the Anita Blake series and I am a little behind on my reading as book 18 and 19 were just released this year. I know many fans of Anita Blake grew frustrated at the increase in sex and the intensity of these scenes that started in book six of the series, The Killing Dance. As not being someone who has bothered by these scenes, but actually has enjoyed seeing the change in Anita, it has been a change in going back to the roots of the Anita Blake series in Skin Trade. I am currently in chapter fifteen and have yet to read one. This has been quite a change from the other recent books in the series.
The story line in Skin Trade begins with Anita receiving a severed head in the mail from that appears to be a Master Vampire, Vittorio that we had seen in a previous book in the series, Incubus Dreams. As usual, Laurell K Hamilton catches readers with her gruesome descriptions. I love the fact that she does not hold back in any of her details no matter how morbid. For instance Olaf or Otto, the crazed Serial Killer/US Marshall. Speaking of Olaf, readers will be excited to know that he and our other favorite US Marshall Ted Forrester is back in this book. For those of you who do not know Ted, he is the first Edward. Many lovers of Anita Blake like to say, "My Edward is a sociopath with a flamethrower." I agree.
I remember wondering in a previous book, "How does she know what an eyeball being squished in its socket sound like?" I am anxious to finish Skin Trade just as I am everyone one of Hamilton's books. I realized when I started the book how much I have missed Anita. She is a great character and Hamilton has written of all her characters as her friends. I must say that her characters become friends to her readers as well. Watching Anita evolve through the books has been an awesome ride. I will write a more detailed review of the book when I complete it.
Homefront game is a new game coming out next March that I cannot wait to play. I saw the video on Xbox 360 the other day and yelled to my husband, "Holy Crap! You have to come check out this game!"
As you may have noticed, I love video games. RPGs are the games I love to play on a normal daily basis, but when it comes to LANs well, FPS are my love. As soon as I saw the video I had to google search it and check out its LAN capabilities. Thankfully I found this in my search:
Frank De Lise, executive producer at Digital Extremes, has promised exclusive enhancements for the PC version, "PC players will be able to set up and host Homefront game dedicated servers and enjoy additional community features including clan support. We believe the core PC first-person-shooter fan will really appreciate these features, which are becoming increasingly rare."
So, this little Geek Chick got super excited when I read that and had to immediately post it on my Facebook to make sure all my gaming friends knew about it.
What is so awesome about this game? Watch the video on the games official site or check it out below to see why. It is set in a dystopian future where Americans fight on the streets for their freedom. How effing cool is that?
Let me know what you think about the upcoming Homefront video game.I will post more as soon as new information is released.
Yes, this game came out last year, and I am way behind in reviewing it...
That said, this game is amazing! For those of you that love RPGs you need to check this game out. I have been a fan of other games by BioWare, but this one takes the cake. I have been playing it on Xbox 360 which is not my normal platform. I prefer PC games.
Dragon Age: Origins is a single player game set in the land of Ferelden. You can choose between three races--Human, Elf, or Dwarf and three classes--Mage, Warrior, or Rogue and you may be male or female. The choices for your character as in most RPGs will decide your storyline. The interaction between your character with the supporting characters will also effect the gameplay. During the course of the game you will be acquiring various party members that will help you in your battle against the Darkspawn. The Darkspawn are an evil horde that comes once every hundred or so years and brings the Blight with it. This Blight is a threat to life in Ferelden as all know it. It threatens to wipe out all that is good in the land. Your job as a Grey Warden is to gather the support of the people of Ferelden to fight the Blight.
That is the general synopsis which at first read may seem very basic, but it is far from it. I have only finished gathering the support of the Elves and am in the process of getting the Dwarves to help me and I have played over forty hours of game time. I might note that I still have two other main places to visit to gather support. That means that this game easily has over 80 hours of game play. I have read in some places that there is 120 hours of game time in Dragon Age.
The one thing in this game that seems to be drawing a lot of attention in the geek area is the interaction between your character and party members, just check out some of the youtube videos. Party Members have an approval rating of you. The more they approve...the more you can uh...do with them. This is an interesting part of the game that breaks up all the killing with a little "love."
With the amazing story line and the awesome game interaction, I give Dragon Age: Origin a 9 out of 10. Why do I only give it a nine? Well, if it had multiplayer capability it would be a perfect game. I don't know how many times my husband and I have said, while playing our own individual games, "I wish I could bring your character in to fight these guys with me. That would be awesome!"
One of the best television shows out now in my opinion is Stargate Universe. The premise of this series is that a group of individuals who were on a distant planet studying a new Stargate were attacked. While they were being attacked the only means of escape for several military personal and civilians was the Stargate they were studying. They had no idea where they were going when they went through the gate, but it was either that or death. When they arrived to the other side of the gate they found themselves on a spaceship created by the ancients. They also found themselves in a part of the space no one had ever visited yet. They also had no way to get back to Earth. So starts the story of Stargate Universe. A group of unlikely people who are strangers to each other, trapped on a ship millions of light years from home.
Actor David Blue, who portrays Eli
My favorite unlikely character is Eli. Eli is the video game nerd who cracked the hidden code in a game that the government had planted. This code was the code that unlocked the new kind of gate I was speaking of. So here is this guy who was a college drop out who loved to game and he is now on a distant planet unlocking a stargate. They get attacked he, along with everyone else, goes through the gate and arrives on Destiny.
SPOILER ALERT! Stargate Universe is in its second season and it has just dropped a huge bomb on viewers as to what the ship Destiny was created to do. It was created to travel to the ends of the universe because the ancients had found a signal that they believe to be THE signal. The FIRST signal that was created at the moment of creation. They are on their way to find where everything began. Instead of now being stuck on this ship and trying to get home, those who are living aboard Destiny will be accepting their own fate and not seeing it as a demise, but their own destiny. I am eager to see where this goes. The writers and creators of this series have truly stepped it up. I think I understand now why Stargate Atlantis ended so suddenly and with such a crappy ending at that. The writers had Stargate Universe in their back pocket and wanted to get it out for our viewing pleasure as soon as possible.
