Wednesday 24 October 2012

Happy Birthday Ellie Bobs





My gorgeous baby niece is one. One ..... where has the time gone???

Shes crawling and almost walking and still the best birthday pressie I ever got.

So a big happy birthday darling and lots of love and hugs xxxx





Tuesday 23 October 2012

Who wants to live forever?



So I worked out how to use my TIVO this weekend and videoed a film that I hadn't watched in years - Highlander. To say it was made when I was 6 I still really enjoyed the whole concept of it. And to be honest Christopher Lambert is in his heyday looking abit dreamy.

Anyway it got me thinking about immortality. If someone told me I could live forever I don't think I would take that choice. I would hate to see people around me grow old and die.

In one sense my belief in an afterlife and reincarnation means we are all immortal. But if everyone is involved then I'm happy with that. The idea that you went through life alone like the highlander did, I couldn't cope.

Some people strive to live on and find ways to beat old father time. We have the ability to freeze heads and full bodies. Scientists are looking for ways to bring people back. More recently:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2175374/Russian-research-project-offers-immortality-billionaires--transplanting-brains-robot-bodies.html

Personally - death is a natural process and not one I feel we should try mess with. Plus the idea or robots and avatars freaks me out somewhat when not in a Guild wars game naturally.

Films like twilight romanticism the idea of living forever. But we will say no more. If I get started on Twilight then this blog will go from something quite interesting to a total rant. Sorry but vampires should NOT sparkle!!!!

Some people reach immortality by the remembered deeds that they do.
I remember reading about a chap referred to as the Count of St Germain. He is supposedly immortal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain

http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanenigmas/a/saint-germain.htm

He has popped up over many centuries and there are lots of reports of him. Fascinating but its makes you wonder. Is he happy or lonely roaming the world forever?

Any thoughts?




Merlin Season 5 Ep 3

The one where Uther is back ........

Merlin and Arthur are returning back from an unsuccessful day hunting when they stumble on a village about to burn a witch. Arthur intervenes and they save her life. In thanks she gives him a horn that he can use to talk to the dead.

Being unable to resist the urge to speak to his father again, Arthur despite Merlin's protests that its powerful and dangerous magic drags him on a trip to some ruins (looked suspiciously like stone henge to me!) and he blows the horn, walks through a portal and has a chat with dear departed dad.

It was wicked to see Anthony Head back on the show again.

Arthur soon regrets his decision as Uther berates him for how he has run the kingdom and for marrying Gwen. Arthur argues he needs to run Camelot how he sees fit. Arthur leaves and before disappearing through the little portal back to the world turns back one last time to look at his father who says he will always love him.

Merlin trys to cheer him up and encourage Arthur that he is respected and a much better king than Uther ever was.

Back at Camelot - upon returning back from their magical detour creepy things are happening in the castle. Doors are opening, chandeliers falling. One of the knights gets attacked by an axe. The Gwen gets quite seriously attacked in the kitchens.

Big Bad - Gaius susses out that in looking back at Uther, Arthur has inadvertently brought his fathers spirit back with him and Uther is pretty mad. Upon Arthur's asking for help, he brews up a potion that will allow Arthur and Merlin to see Uther in his spirit form.

Arthur and Merlin go hunting for Uther. They get separated. Uther knocks his son out after more cruel berating at his running of Camelot. Merlin reveals he is a wizard and attacks Uther who then comes after him intend on killing him but Arthur manages to get there in the nick of time and blow the horn again sending his Dad back to death city just before he revealed our wizards secret.



I liked this episode. Firstly Uther was back and secondly it showed how far Arthur has come. He spared a witch, he accepted and used the magic gift, he sought Gaius to help fix the problem and he stood up to his dad. The magic reveal can't be too far away I think.

The atmosphere of the episode was creepy, flipping back and forth between Uther causing mayhem and some nice scenes between Arther and Merlin. Next week Morgana is back.

Monday 22 October 2012

Red Dwarf Series 10 Ep 3

The one with the lemons .....

To be honest after feeling like the show was back on form last week, this ep just felt like it didn't cut the mustard as much. There was some fairly decent jokes but I wasn't laughing like last week.

Our boys find a rejuvenation shower flat pack. Queue some Sweden jokes and them managing to make a complete pigs ear of assembling it.Although the Cat hammering some tubing was funny.

Somehow - lord knows how when its a rejuvenation shower, they get transported back in to time to 23D and then discover that the remote to get them back is out of batteries. Queue Rimmer remembering back to his childhood and making batteries from potatoes. They are in England so no potatoes for many years yet. So then Rimsy suggests Lemons.

The boys hike thousands of miles to the far east and secure some lemons. They have a little break and get some eats only to discover Jesus is sat behind them. Rimmer wants to go get his autograph and tells the story of how he's from the church of Judas that believed Jesus had a twin brother who actually got crucified allowing Jesus to look like he lived. Interestingly I have not heard of any complaints - I'm sure that suggestion will have annoyed some Christians out there.


Jesus is in a spot of trouble, the guys end up transporting him back to Red Dwarf and then have to perform an op on him as Jesus has kidney stones. Now I think there was potential for a lot more comic gold having Jesus on Red dwarf but no besides him discovering bags! and freaking out reading about himself in a book Lister was reading for his robotics course, that was that.

I did like though the continuity - Lister has enrolled from last week.It will be interesting to see where that goes.

Jesus hops back to 23AD and breaks the remote. He then starts trying to break the commandments and cause trouble so no one will follow him and there be no wars from Christianity. Kryten and co catch up with him and hilariously it turns out they have the wrong Jesus. They head back to the ship - Lister interestingly mentions they need to search for Kochanski. Perhaps this is the story arc going to lead to the conclusion of season 10??? Nothing has been mentioned in the prior 2 eps.

End gag - Jesus is shown selling bags and then a group of twins turn up for a restaurant booking under the names Jesus and Judas.

Saturday 20 October 2012

Weird dream

Don't worry folks I am going to blog about some proper stuff - more TV - there's Red Dwarf ep 3 to review and Merlin will be on tonight but I just woke up from the weirdest dream.

Now normally I don't remember my dreams and the only thing different to my normal friday night routine is the milkshake and donut I had last night on my friend Yvonne and mines cinema trip to see Hotel Transylvania.

This is the donut, a crispy kreme butterscotch sundae and trailer for the film which was surprising very good.


Ah yes the dream. Well it had Adam Richman of Man vs Food fame (Maybe that was the donuts influence?) to begin with. For some bizarre reason I was interning for him and running back and forth like a blue arsed fly in a very strange world (Wouldn't be out of place from the 5th element) while he sat there chucking fruit into shelves. Again - bizarre. But I love Adam Richman and if he ever wanted me to intern for him and just sat there chucking fruit around - power to him.

Then a male friend of mine showed up. I have decided I am not going to name him. Thats when I get in trouble and cause if any of my male friends are reading this blog you will always be wondering ....... He was on the run from the police or police force in this strange Adam Richman world and begged me to help him disguise himself and get past them.

Anyway we all know how soft I am. I immediately caved and the next thing I know Ive changed into a dress (another thing that should have screamed out DREAM in my head) and him and I are pretending to be a disguised married couple. We get past the guards but then some of his mates (More male people I know turned up meeting us in a building me and him had climbed 5 floors up and my geordies turned up! Awesome!~)

His friends inform us that the police people bought our ruse but the illegal credentials they got for us came  up on a lottery and we had won places on a colonization ship to another world which we have to take or they will be onto him again. They urge him to go as getting more fake stuff will be impossible and he will get caught and sent to jail. They cannot follow him to this other planet. He has the chance to start anew.

Again soft old me gets talked into going as its a 2 person trip to work. The married couple has to go. I seemed to make the decision too easy - I think my dream persona had no family as I know in real life I wouldn't have put that much on the line for him. I hug my geordies for the last time and they gift me with some things. His male mates do the same and then we are on this ship. We get put to sleep - must be part of the transport process.

I wake up in a bed and he's spooning me. We have an awkward conversation about giving this fake marriage thing a proper go as we realise we will be the only people each other knows on this new world and can rely on. I agree and theres some kissing and we fall asleep again. Another reason Im not naming the friend ..... It was a dream no reason to get all clicky over dream kissing.

I wake up again alone and we are still on this ship but it seems allowed to walk around now. We have this tiny bedroom thing. I venture out and there's others and other people. I get attacked by this skinny woman. My dream fake hubbie runs up after a while (I was holding my own) and pulls her off. Seems even in the dark reaches of a colony ship an ex can pop up.

Then the dream flashed forward to the new planet and we have to build our shelter. (Too much simms? could it have been the milk in the milkshake. Is milk like cheese? Does it give you strange dreams?????) Anyway the alarm clock went off at that point thank god. I'm so crap at any kind of DIY and even though I was holding my own that lass kicked me around abit and in dream I was bruised.

What can I say ..... Bizare!




Sunday 14 October 2012

Merlin Season 5 Ep 2

The wonder that is Gawain half naked continued! BBC 1 I really really like you now.

Arthur and Merlin manage to escape from Mordred and the Bandits and sneak into the Ismere tower where Morgana is digging to try find this "Key." Strangely through Mordred is bring kind to them, offering food and telling Merlin he will not tell his secret. Arthur has the opportunity to kill Mordred but does not take it much to Merlin's dismay - he is convinced Arthur will come to his end by Mord-reds hand.

Big bad - Morgana is getting her dreams again it seems and she wakes up having dreamed of being shackled to a dragon. Then is interesting twist, she calls out and a little dragon comes plodding up to her. So she has allied herself with a dragon that apparently the great dragon and Merlin as the Dragon-lord don't know about.

Meanwhile back in Camelot, it seems Gwen doesn't really want to execute her handmaiden Sepha who comes and begs for her life.



She's holding tight on the execution decision to lure her father to them so they can see what they are up against. Unfortunately this goes horribly wrong. Liam Cunninghams character comes back to rescue his daughter but he's pretty epic with a sword and some magic. Gwens brother though does manage to stab him. They both escape and he dies but not before managing to send a message to Morgana warning her that Arthur did not return to Camelot.

The creature from last week is healing Gawain. Arthur and Merlin sneak into where all the digging is at, hand a sword to Ser Percival and give orders for him to round up the rest of the knights. They go after Gawain and find him with the creature. She disappears and just as they are about to Gawain out of there Morgana's dragon charges in.

Merlin insists he's going to distract the dragon, follows it and gets to go all Dragonlordy. It seems the dragon understands him but cannot speak. It leaves them alone though.

Big Bad - Mordred arrives and him and Morgana share a hug and dinner in a nice touching reunion. They go down below and catch Arthur. Morgana taunts him with a flying dagger and Merlin comes back just in time to see Arthur get knocked out but he too loses consciousness. Then in the 2nd twist of the night, Mordred stabs Morgana and then returns Arthur to his knights who have cunningly overthrown all the Sarasons of course.

The creature from earlier comes back and heals Merlin and he reasons that she is in fact the key/font of all knowledge. She asks him if he wishes to ask anything and at first he refuses wisely saying it wouldn't be any good. But then in his worry about Mordred he asks about Arthurs bane. It seems that the person most danger to Arthur is in fact Arthur.

Then we return to Camelot where Merlin gives us a further twist. In reward for rescuing him and stabbing Morgana Arthur makes Mordred a knight. I think my jaw was on the floor at this development. Madness.


Merlin and Arthur have a conversation and both it seems are going to keep each others secret. Gaius says to Merlin that people can change but our little wizard clearly does not trust the other druid. And judging by the smile of the younger one at the end and the fact Morgana is still alive and escaping with the dragon, he's right too.

Saturday 13 October 2012

Red Dwarf season 10 Ep 2

In three words ........

BACK ON FORM!!!

Lister as we know from previous seasons is by some time traveling craziness is his own father. And this episodes showed us that every year Lister gets completely and utterly snockered to the point where he can't remember his drunken antics and writes himself a fathers day card, which he gives to Kryten for safekeeping and the droid delivers it on fathers day every to him. Lister always gets surprises at the contents then.



Rimmer and Kryten meanwhile are trying to get the new computer running and they install a blond gothic girl with predictive capabilities. The computer was rather amusing in that she calculated a ton of things and thereby they didn't need to have conversations. But alas she turned sinster towards the end.



There was some funny lines:

Kryten: Thank goodness for that derelict, sir. I am just so excited at the process of having another computer. We so miss Holly.
Rimmer: It's true. We just don't get the same quality of cock-up these days, do we?

Rimmer: Can you hear that?
Lister: What?
Rimmer: That! Can't you hear it? It's been driving me crazy! All over the ship, wherever I go, there's this really annoying, whiny sound!
Lister: Yeah, it's you. Stop talking at once.
Rimmer: It's still there.
Lister: You're still talking!

Also this ep had quite a good gag between Kryten, the Cat and a bunch of food machines around Chinese whispers - each machine of course hearing a different thing.

Lister also after getting really blind drunk decided he needed to discipline himself lol more and be a better father. Queue a few video messages from drunk Lister to sober Lister. Craig Charles nailed it big time!

Drunk Lister insisted that Sober/Son Lister enlist and do something with his life and also get his filling fixed in the medi bay. Lister went to start that process and after finding out he would get a free games package got the ship to open a fill for Dave Lister junior.

However he didn't enlist on a programme to better himself and Drunk Lister hilariously anticipated this and in a cruel move to force him while drunk quit the space core programme.

The new computer then got in on that and informs Lister he will lose his oxygen allowance. Lister ends up being jettisoned into space. The new computer turns even more loopy and attempts to kill them all by flying the ship into a sun but Lister makes it back in time and uses her kooky logic against her. Ironically his record for Dave Lister Juinor saves the day!








Thursday 11 October 2012



Totally loving this. I can feel a Mika Album purchase coming on .......

Anyway Im off to see a medium Dean James Fox this evening in the Hudd.

http://deanjamesfox.com/

Heard good things about this chap. Its Rebecca's first experience of a proper show. Been wearing my charm bracelet my gran got me and having a few words with them upstairs. Fingers crossed one of em might have something to say. I never seem to get messages but I sure do feel them around.

Anyhooo onwards to Spirits of a different kind!

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Two very cool vids



How intriguing is this? I'm not much of a bond fan. Admit-ably I will watch it if its on over Xmas but the idea that 2 guys could film something bondesque using a working holiday on a ship and a bunch of freebies perks the interest.

Secondly episode 2 of the Guild is now out and dream job it is not for Codex. Enjoy!




Sunday 7 October 2012

Merlin season 5 ep 1

SPOILERS .............


I better put this incase Ian reads it before he watches the show. Or I will never hear the end of it at work.

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Oh yes Camelot was back and in full flow last night. We kick off 3 years after Arthur and Gwen's wedding. Camelot has flourished but as usual there are dangers afoot.

Arthur has installed the round table and Gwen has a seat at it too. Merlin is ending up covering for a new hand maiden of Gwen's who keeps getting things wrong and there's a little flirtiness between them.

It seems the Ser Gwaine has ventured north with some men and not returned so Arthur decides to go rescue them, despite the rumors that Morgana is up to her old tricks up north!

Now first off I have to congratulate the BBC for giving us an awful lot of half naked Gwaine time. The man who plays him is just delicious. Enjoy!


Big bad - Morgana catches Gwaine and co and makes them work in some mines. It seems she is hell bent on finding some sort of key. She has also allied herself with a druid played by Liam Cunningham. This was so weird because when he was screen all I could see was his character from Outsiders.









Meanwhile Arthur at Gwens suggestion decides to attack Morgana from the West meaning they march through an allies lands - Queen Ennis. There is a hilarious scene where they are all at dinner with the Queen and she requests Arthur's Fool (She thinks Merlin in a fool!!) entertain them. Then Merlin ends up doing a juggling routine much to Arthurs amazement with a little magic involved of course.

Arthur and his men march forward and come across a village completely annihilated. Merlin wanders off alone and encounters a druid who calls him Emerus.  He shows him a vision in which Arthur falls to a mysterious dark haired swordsman.

Merlin trys of course to warn Arthur but he won't abandon his men and they carry on forward anyway. Merlin sneaks off in the middle of the night, goes all dragon lord and has a conversation with the big dragon confirming that the druid was a seer and a pretty darn good one at that.

Meanwhile back at Camelot - Gwen's handmadien sneaks out in the middle of the night and goes to see Liam Cunningham who it seems is her father and has planted her as a spy. Dunnn dunnnn dunnnn. She tells him of course of Arthurs surprise attack and he goes off and warns Morgana.

Morgana immediately goes to war upon this news and Arthur and Merlin get seperated from the rest of the men as they try to flee as they are outnumbered.

Camelot - the rest of the knights return back and inform Gwen of Morgana's surprise jump on them and that they have lost the king. Gwen rationalises they have been betrayed. She works out it was her handmaiden and sentences her to death under the laws of Camelot. Everyone seems really shocked at this ruling. So hopefully our little Gwen isn't getting to big for her boots now shes a noble. We will see!



Arthur and Merlin manage to escape Morgana again only to get stuck in a trap making a grab for some rabbits. Queue hilarious Arthur/Merlin dialogue hanging in a net by a tree until some thugs cut them down. One recognises Arthur is Arthur and it looks like they are going to ransom or kill him until the mysterious guy from the earlier vision makes an appearance and its ......... dum dum dum Mordred.

All grown up and seriously creepy. For the moment I am presuming he has aligned himself with Morgana but alas we will have to wait till next week to see as its a 2 parter!!!

It also finishes with Gwaine being healed by a floaty luminous light being ...... 




Saturday 6 October 2012

Red dwarf Series 10 Ep 1 - Spoilers as always!




It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone, more or less
Let me fly far away from here
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun

I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun

I'll pack my bags and head into hyperspace
Where I'll succeed at time-warp speed
Spend my days in ultraviolet rays
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun

We'll lock on course straight through the universe
You and me and the galaxy
Reach the stage where hyperdrive's engaged
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun

It was so nice to see the crew back after such a long long long time. Having been a Red Dwarf fan for at least 2 thirds of my life the last few weeks on Dave reliving all the classics really had me excited. More so when the Metro had a massive ad on the way to work monday.

I have to say I have been lucky enough to meet nearly everyone bar the bloke who plays the Cat. Danny - you are still on my bucket list! I have also got my father autographs of all the rest as he loves this show too. My last con, Chris Barrie - who by the way is one of the loveliest people and con guests you can ever meet had me in stitches leaving a party in Red Dwarf socks!

Anyway to the review ......

Episode 1 - the one with Rimmers Brother

Once again Rimmer has failed the officers test and he is grousing about it. He reads one of the questions and its to do with stopping a car in Canada. The reason being to avoid a moose. Queue a brilliantly simple yet hilarious all the way through joke about how everyone bar Rimmer knows its a moose.

Meanwhile they find another ship and there's a distress call from Rimmers brother! Rimmer trys again to pass his test as he doesn't want to see his brother again not being as successful as him. Rimmers holodrive malfunctions and it turns out its due to a Resentment overload. They drain him off and get him back operational again.

Cat and Lister end up getting suckered in by some droid infomercials and decide they want to order a stir-master. They spend most of the episode being passed from droid to droid and department to department. Kryten takes over at one point and ends up yelling. Lister adopts the attitude that he's getting through regardless and is still holding on 3 days later when the boys (after Rimmer fails his test once more) all agree to a ruse to pretend to Rimmers brother that he is a Captain.

Rimmers brother comes on-board with a female sim and he falls hook line and sinker for the rouse. And then hilariously his brothers holodrive has a resentment overload. The Sim says she is going to tranfer them back to a medi base and she allegedly disappears. But alas in a nice doublecross shes an insane women intend on wiping them out and only teleports 3 floors up to the armory.

Cat saves the day (he's ended up getting lost in the new ship and stumbles on the sim holding the rest captive at just the right time). He stabs a something containing the resentment into her neck. She gets neutralized and brilliantly at the end the boys have their stir-master in the form of the sim.

Funny and simple. It was great to see the boys back mostly on form. The Cat was just brilliant. Back in his over the top outfits, back doing his side walking thing. Kryten felt the same. But something was just a tiny bit off with Lister and Rimmer. I can't quite put my finger on it. Hopefully next weeks - whatever is niggling me will be gone.




Thursday 4 October 2012

Pink fluffly unicorns

Somebody I used to work with made a funny comment to someone I currently work with about Unicorns and when this randomly popped up in my Youtube feed I couldn't resist sharing it.



Now then ...... what colour are those unicorns!

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Guild Season 6

Finally my fav web series is back!!!



Loving the new intro.

The guild is hilarious and if you have not watched this genius child of Felicity Days I insist that you go to YouTube immediately and marathon watch all the first 5 seasons. 

Then you have to praise Felicity for the creation of Fawkes played by Wil Wheaton.

 After that you must view all 3 of the awesome music video's they also created listed below:

Do you want to date my avatar?


Game on!


Now I'm the one who's cool



Being a gamer I can totally relate to this series. My guild the Army of Masks is just awesome.

Happy to report I finally got some specialist armour and it cost me a bloody fortune. Proudly presenting my Guildwars 2 character Lily Bloss in full on second tier Slyvari Armour.


Monday 1 October 2012

Merlin

Well sadly my sunday nights are not the same - no Sinbad sobs. But silver lining Merlin is back next week!



From the spoilerific 55 seconds of bliss above ..... the round table finally! Morgana's back, Gwen as queen ......

Bring it on :)

Saturday 29 September 2012

Fazenda



Tonight me and my girls got our inner cave girl on and went to Fazenda for dinner.

http://www.fazenda.co.uk/

Fazenda is a Brazilian steakhouse in Leeds. You fill your plate up from a delicious buffet including all end of salad, veg, potatoes, breads, olives, vine leaves ..... come back to your table and you have a little card. Its green on one side and red on the other.

Set it to green and the waiters come out holding large skewers of different meats and come slice it off for you. When you are full or want a rest you then just flip it to red again. These are all the meats you can have:



Tonight I sampled some melt in your mouth fillet steak, some yummy rump steak, amazing sausages and my favorite minted lamb. The meats were just amazing.




Fazenda is a little bit pricer than what I am normally used too but clearly I have never had GOOD steak before. A meal costs about £28.00 but it was definitely worth it. The service was excellent - our waitress even sorted us a free round of Mohito's! I definitely recommend this place if anyone is in Leeds. We had fun and all carnivorous urges have now been settled!







Bad moon on the rise?

Okay so this is bizarre. I rarely remember my dreams but this morning in my dream that I remembered this song was playing.



Is this just a dream or a warning? Lets see how today pans out ....

In other news ..... I finally finished my second Phillippa Gregory book - the lady of the rivers. This was the story of the White Queen (Elizabeth's) mother Jacquetta. Her family is descended from the water goddess Melusina and she has some gifts but lives in a time that to keep safe she really doesn't not develop them even though her first husband a duke marries her precisely to do that.

When he dies Jacquetta takes her destiny in her own hands having fallen for her husbands squire Richard Woodville. They marry in secret and this time its for love. The rest of the book follows Jacquetta being the lady in waiting to Queen Margaret of Annou and the Sleeping king.

The rise in the court and become the Rivers family - her husband is made a Baron. The story follows them fighting for the king and queen against the house of York bringing us up to their defeat and the start of Elizabeth's story where she marries Edward in secret.

Again I really enjoyed this, so that means the red queen is next and when I finally sort myself a Kindle out the Kingmakers daughter.

Monday 24 September 2012

Sinbad Finale

A good TV show is over before you know it. That was certainly the case last night. That finale flew by. And just left me wanting more. Again I "tweeted" the person known as Sky1insider on twitter at Elliot Knights request expressing my desire for a second season of Sinbad. Anyone reading these reviews I have put up and also on twitter may I ask you to do the same? #SinbadSeason2.

The finale kicked off showing us a glimpse of Taryn's life before she lost her daughter. She promised Alehna played by Evanna Lynch (Luna in the Harry Potter movies and coicidently one of my favourite potter characters) that she would save her and that was apparently her sole focus through the whole of Sinbad. She was trying to get to the land of the dead. Im sure there was an easier way that all the dark magic and killing of royalty but then it wouldn't have made for such other good eps would it?



Cut to Sinbad and co in a pretty heavy storm about to be sucked into a swirling vortex in the middle of some random towers that are the markers for the doorway to the land of the dead. In fact the storms that bad they all have to rope themselves to the boat and everyone passes out.

When our crew comes too they are sailing in smooth waters again in a huge cavern and eventually venture into the land of limbo that looks exactly like Basra except its greyer. The entrance to Limbo is a gate which Gunnar can't move at all but Sinbad at Tigers suggestion just pops it and they can go through.

Big bad - We are immediately introduced to some strange cyclopitic creatures referred to as Guardians. Sinbad impulsively runs off and gets caught by one of these.

The guardian shoots a beam of light at our hero and suddenly he is transported to an alternative Basra and we get to see what life would have been like for Gunnar and Anwar without him knowing them. (Sadly no Rina. Marama Corlett is so under used!!! It would have been brilliant to see Rina in  proper Jewel thief mode).

Meanwhile the scoobies go after Sinbad.

Gunnar is epic - Our warrior firstly realises Tiger isn't who she is and beats (Quite literally) Taryn out of her. The he takes on the guardian. He manages to distract it with a sword and only as Gunnar can so the rest can make a grab to get our hero back.

In alternative Basra, Gunnar has become a street fighter all twisted with rage. Sinbad trys to talk to alternate Gunnar but instead ends up getting the crap kicked out of him. In a nice montage flicking back and forth between limbo and alternate Basra every time Alternate Gunnar hits Sinbad, he's actually whacking the Guardian.

They drag Sinbad to safety and then in Alternative Basra we meet my lovely boy Anwar who apparently went back home after getting seasick on the providence and his father covered up him leaving university. He went on to become a proper - not "student" doctor.

Alternative Anwar finds Sinbad in Alternate Basra and brings him back to his office and patches him up. This is played during the real Anwar in Limbo examining him.

Sinbad is frustrated and confused and leaves after informing Anwar that there is a big world out there and they were friends. He goes and knocks on his houses door to discover his brother Jamil doesn't even recognize him.

In limbo Gunnar insists Taryn try do something, so she starts weaving her magic and whispering for Sinbad to stay alive. In Alternative Basra, Anwar has followed Sinbad to his brothers and tells him that he defy s the laws of science and has no heartbeat. Sinbad is dead. Suddenly the whole of Alternative Basra are staring at him and there's silence. Taryn manages to pull Sinbad back to Limbo and we make the interesting discovery that actually Sinbad has a foot in both the worlds of the dead and living.

We discover that for that reason the Guardians are really after him and it all makes sense Death in ep 3 telling Sinbad they have met before. Our hero realises that he's made an awful mistake bringing all his friends here and takes off after locking them in to sacrifice himself to the Guardians.

Then the real Jamil shows up and manages to get Sinbad to safety. The scooby gang are naturally relieved and Jamil takes them to a place where he's mapped the whole of limbo - secret passages and all. They start planning to get back to the providence.

Queue creepy music that Taryn identifies as a lullaby she used to sing to Alehna. Taryn realises its her daughter calling for her and begs Sinbad to help her find her. It looks for a moment that she has burnt all her britches with all the scooby gang. Even Anwar holds fast and surprisingly its Gunnar that says the words "its your choice" and our hero chooses to then help the witch.

They follow the music to a library. Taryn and Alehna are reunited and we find out more about Sinbads origins. Apparently his mother was preggers wth him when she died and his father was the most powerful mage in the world. He defyed everything and got both him newborn and his pregnant mother out. Sinbad survived fine, his mother ended up in the coma state we saw right at the beginning. Not quite sure what happened to the dad though as Jamil and Sinbad both confirm they never knew him.

At that point I was having a crazy idea that Cook was maybe going to turn out to be his dad or someone working with him - explaining why the providence won't sail without Sinbad . . . and why he can't leave the ship in some way but no ......

After story time is over Gunnar realises the Guardians have found them complete with hounds this time and yells "incoming". My fav line of the ep was Tiger stating "I hate dogs" LOL at the moment. They start trying to barricade the door but realise its pointless. Rina then says they should go down fighting and they are resigned that they will die there until . ....

And I am so glad the writers did this. After 12 eps of Anwar coming so close but then managing to do an Anwar he really pulled through. During story time it seems he started rooting through the library in Limbo. Much to Rina's hilarious exasperation.

Rina and Anwar -  my fav bit of dialogue of the two last night.

Rina - "So while we are making barricades you were looking at dusty books?"
Anwar - "We are in a library in limbo on the edge of the land of the dead. I couldn't resist!"

Paid off  though as the delicious doc managed to find a map of the library and a secret way out. Rina's lock picking skills came in too and I can honestly say I wanted to cheer when Anwar so pleased that they got the door open suddenly utter, "Anwar is amazing." Rina gave him a lovely smile at the moment too!

Gunnar was more epic - holding off the hounds as they all made their escape through the door.

As they are making their escape, Alehna starts hearing a creepy voice calling her.

They escape the Library and a really huge Guardian appears. Jamil then sacrifices himself so that Sinbad can live and Gunnar and Anwar have to drag him away before he goes after his brother.

Then we are once again onboard the Providence. Cook has prepared a huge feast. Rina is gently taking bandages off Anwar. Sinbad finally emerged clearly gutted he got so close to getting Jamil out of there. Tiger asks how he's holding up "dead apparently" our hero replies deflated.

Cook threatens to go impart his wisdom but luckily Anwar decides he will do it instead as he has a speech prepared. Its actually a lovely scene in which he points out there's more adventures out there and Sinbad saved them all - giving them life. Sinbad notes that Anwar used to be afraid of adventures and he quips that Sinbad was a bad influence. We get a hint of smile back on our hero's face.

Anwar goes back to the rest and starts dishing food out. He shares a lovely smile with Rina. I was screaming. Why was there no kiss or something between the two????? I can feel some fanfiction coming on. There was no romance at all in this ep which was very disappointing as I had read some spoilers and Tumblrs alluding to a Tiger and Sinbad kiss, a possible peck on the cheek between Anwar and Rina and the return of Nala.

Sinbad gets a hold of himself and wishes his brother peace. The last scene was Taryn hugging Alehna and her eyes went dark like Deaths in ep 3. Looks like they kept it open for a second season. Something came back with them!!!!!!!

Yes its been cheesy in places with some major plot holes - Cook? How did they get back out that vortex? are just 2 springing to mind........  yes some of the acting has been a bit wooden. But look at Enterprise and Stargate Atlantis. It took 2 seasons before they really got good. And regardless of all that I have loved the journey. I don't know how I am going to fill the Sinbad and Dimitri shaped void in my Sunday nights now.

Fingers crossed this one gets another shot. And failing that  there is some seriously good extras on the boxset I have asked my brother to get me for my birthday.




Saturday 22 September 2012

Sinbad Ep 11

The one with the werewolf type device . ....

It kicks off with a creepy monk type guy clearly in love with a widowed blond women Lara trying to convince her to move somewhere safer with her child.

Our hero's arrive in Malta which Tiger informs us is the land of lamb and honeyed ale. Sounds nice enough yeah. The harbor master has abandoned his post Anwar informs us and Gunnar it seems wants to sell silk and have nothing to do with hunting down the map. Sinbad is a little narked off and after a funny bit where our warrior jumps at a cat, he lets him go.

They got to a bar to meet the monk. And the flamboyant bartender Phillipe played brilliantly by Mathew Horne of Gavin and Stacey fame trys to kick them out. Tiger discovers her monk friend is sick and storms off. Sinbad goes after her and they have a little tiff. He clearly really wants the map and she just cares about her friend.

Suddenly the town starts to go nuts and people are painting on doors. Phillipe does a complete you turn and insists they get inside again. Sinbad demands to know whats passing over (he reconises what the paint means) and Phillipe informs them that its the Xilon fiend and its not safe. It comes in on the wind and can possess people.

Gunnar meanwhile has met the widow - he was relieving silk to her dead husband, ordered before he died. When he realizes hes dead, Gunnar insists she keep it regardless and she then invites him in to eat.

Romantic action - Gunnar finally gets a girl. He fixes up her house a bit, gives her son a necklace with a wolf on and Lara asks him to stay while the fiend is passing over. They have some snogging action oversee by the jealous monk who then arrests Gunnar and makes out he is the fiend as he has given the wolf trinket to her son. Yes guess what the fiend is a wolf!!!!

Lara runs to fetch Sinbad and takes them to the monastry. Sinbad convinces the monks to give him to nightfall to find the real beast or Gunnar dies. They return to the bar and Sinbad is quite cranky with Phillipe demanding information. Sinbad is pretty cranky in most of this.

Meanwhile Tiger visits her friend and he's not all there talking about moonlight revealing the way. Also shock horror Taryn is there posing as a nun also trying to get info. Tiger leave and Taryn kills the brother.

Tiger returns and she and Sinbad decide to hunt the creature much to Anwars annoyance. He points out its more logical to work out the pattern of the killings. The scoobie gang splits up.

Rina and Anwar - They look really happy chatting away as they arrive in Malta. Rina grabs him before they enter the tavern expressing that even Gunnar doesn't want to get involved in this map. Anwar nobly points out that means Sinbad needs them more than ever. They decide to get into the Harbor masters house. Lovely scene where they find his research funnily marked out on the ceiling and they work out the herb wolfbane/contro is involved in the deaths.

Sinbad and Tiger follow the scent of the beast - yes Tiger was brought up by tigers and there by has this amazing smelling ability. They go through some tunnels and stuff and end up back at the tavern at exactly the same time Anwar and Rina do.

Big bad - Wasn't expecting this and it was a brilliant twist - Phillipe was the fiend. He transforms and runs off. The scooby gang take off after him to save Gunnar who is about to be murdered. The monks panic when the real fiend arrives and Lara manages to untie Gunnar.

Gunnar is epic - He lobs an axe at the fiend

They they all run. Lovely montage cutting from monster to steps to monster to Rina tripping and Anwar pulling her up again. Tiger again smells wolf bane on Gunnars coat so he takes it off. Sinbad lobs it out the window. The fiend make a jump for it and ironically falls on top of the evil brother.

Next we have all the gang and Lara looking down at the dead body and there's a rustle. Sinbad pulls his dagger, checks it out and Phillipe is in the bushes in all his naked glory. Haha Sinbad insists someone get a robe. Tiger takes off. Rina hands Phillipe some more bushes (why??? hes in the bushes) to protect his modesty. Anwar suggests he invest in a cage. Phillipe likes the idea and stand up treating them to his nakedness once more. The faces on Anwar, Rina, Gunnar and Lara are just brilliant.

Tiger meanwhile returning back with the robe finds a fountain and then the moon comes out and there's the map!But shock horror Taryn catches up with her. Sinbad then finds Tiger weakened. They return to the ship. Gunnar looks torn for a moment - should he stay with Lara or not. He choses not and returns to the providence as Anwar insists Tiger rest.

The ep finishes with Tiger looking in the mirror and Taryn looking back. Yes the big bad is inside her. All I can say is I am really looking forward to the finale to see how that pans out!


Sinbad Ep 10

The one with the egg . . . .

Another episode I totally loved. Tiger at the end of the last ep freed sinbad (should really have put that in the other review lol) and then he offered her a lift. It seems that she is the first one of the crew to have a really good idea in that they take on a passenger and move some cargo for money!

They take onboard a really haughty professor and a black egg.





The professor makes out its not an egg and Sinbad throws Anwar out of his cabin to make way for her to sleep there. There is a scene where he's clearing out scrolls and shes moving her stuff in.

Rina and Anwar - Seems our boy has been drawing some pics of the crew including lots of Rina.

Anwar works out that the egg isn't an egg and that freaks out the professor so she spins him some lies that its paradise. The egg is full of spores that will populate Tayer island where they are headed and transform it into a paradise.

Rina and Anwar 2 - They indulge in some mutual sulking. Anwar hiding away below deck as he has been kicked out of his room and made to feel stupid by the horrible professor and Rina as she is being ordered around to fetch things for her. Then Rina snaps that Tayer island is populated.

Anwar confronts the professor and she spins more lies and appeals to his science turning his head that she wants him to witness her creation. The egg meanwhile starts to overheat and the professor has a paddy insisting they wash it every 2 hours.

Anwar does an Anwar - He relieves Rina on watch overnight. She hands him an hourglass and reminds him not to forget to water his egg. What does he do? Falls asleep of course and in the more Rina discovers in horror its hatched.

Sinbad and the boys go below deck and discover actually theres a bad ass snake come out of it not spores. They  try catch it and Gunnar gets bit.

The professor after a major hissy fit that shes been found out about the monster, spins more lies and convinces Anwar they can neutralise it. Both of them go below deck to confront the monster and then the bitch locks him down there.

Anwar does an Anwar -  I totally love the character as you know but bloody hell. She's lied to you once and created an evil giant snake. Why on Earth would you trust her a second time?

Our hero rescues Anwar just in the nick of time and then the professor takes the doc hostage. But that backfires and she ends up losing her arm to her own creation. They work out its a night hunter and hatch a plan to kill it, battening down the ship. 

The professor however has other idea's and amazingly finds the only unboarded up door to the lower deck and throws herself in. Anwar discovers her, works out she was actually merging her own life with the snake and Gunnar voices the chilling truth - now it has strength and intelligence. Tiger confirms this when they lower her down in the cage meaning to use her as bait to pull it up and lob its head off.

Instead they go a different route, cook working out from the professor snubbing his food earlier that shes allergic to nuts. He and rina cook up some nutty concoction that Sinbad anoints 3 arrows with. The monster breaks through the next deck and Gunnar and tiger try  get it to show itself. The snake/professor toys with Anwar and drags him around under the water a bit.

Gunnar is epic - Even injured our warrior manages to lob the head off the snake and save the day!

Romantic action - Lovely conversation at the end building on the tension between Tiger and Sinbad. He asks her to stay and she tells him she knows a place that may have a map to the land of the dead.

Sinbad Ep 9

The one with future seeing stone . . .

After Kuji last week I loved this ep. It kicks off with a bloke in robes meditating with a stone and he sees a vision of Sinbad with a knife dripping with blood and him lying on the floor.

Cut to the providence and Sinbad is frustratedly interrogating Anwar on what Kuji said last week. He wants to know what he is facing in the future.

Anwar does an Anwar - Not supposed to say a word Anwar. The annoying goddess last week said that but as usual our lovely doc can't keep his mouth shut!

Cook lets slip about this order of the stone who can see the future. Queue the scooby gang sailing  to where these stone bods live. Sinbad and Rina enter a tavern and pretend to be pilgrims where they meet Griff - the frustrated son of the order of the stone leader (his father is the bloke who had the vision at the beginning). He dashes Sinbads hopes telling him he would have to join the order and pounder about things for 30 odd years.

We pan back to the everyone in the bar and Sinbad pretty much sulking as he didn't get the answer he wants. A pretty barmaid brings them some drinks and flirts with him. This ups our hero's spirits again and much to Gunnar and Anwars amusement he decides the trip might be worthwhile after all and goes and follows her.

Rina made a point that between Gunnars muscles, Anwars brains and her light fingers there is not a vault in the land that they couldn't crack. They are overheard by Griff who tells them the stones in a labyrinth not a vault. Good job Anwars really a boffin and can crack labyrinths - having solved a really big one at 9 years old.

Anwar goes and fetches Sinbad who's quite annoyed at being pulled away from the pretty barmaid who was looking like a sure thing. Griff says that he will let them in to the labyrinth with the only key he has amazingly in his possession if they help him navigate it. Agreement made, they leave the tavern and there's a really funny scene.

Gunnar is epic - he scared Griff within an inch of his life, flinging him up against the wall to check he's telling the truth. Rina states that walking into traps is their specialty and she notes that Gunnar enjoyed that. It was brilliantly played by Elliot Cowan as usual.

They enter the labyrinth and are followed by a dark and creepy looking figure. Anwar starts working on things but Griff is too inpatient and yells at him that they are lost.

Rina and Anwar - not much this week but her sticking up for Anwar and telling Griff that yelling at him was useless, was just adorable. Look how far they have come! Ep 2 she trys to kill him and now she's defending him. Bless.

Gunnar is epic 2 - Our norseman has to protect Griff from poison darts. Queue some awesome sword action

They get caught by the master of the order.  Griff runs off and meets the creepy person following them. Sinbad is to be killed so he can then not kill the master. Griff comes back and his father isn't thick. He works out his son let them in and back hands him ordering him to go somewhere else in the order to learn properly. Griff offers to kill Sinbad instead of his father. Which he does by poison - which is apparently the best method.

Anwar and co watch on in horror and then they are thrown out of a moving cart tied up and blindfolded. But our hero is not dead!!!!! Shady creepy person who has been following them turns out to be a bounty hunter called tiger brought in by Taryn to bring our hero to her. They have a bit of a charged fight and she puts a magnetic collar on him so that if he strays from her poisoned needles will impale his neck.  Sinbad cleverly turns this round to actually she needs to stay with him and runs off to make another attempt on the Labyrinth.

Griff meanwhile has convinced his father he will protect him and they go to the stone.

Meanwhile Anwar and co decide they have to give Sinbad a proper burial and go to the morgue only to discover no body! And a message ARGO carved into a table. Now between you and me I have no clue in the scene where Sinbad woke up and was fighting tiger where he found the time to do that but lets go with it .......

The scoobies knock out some of the order, steal their robes and have another crack at the labyrinth. Tiger meanwhile steps on one of the traps and Sinbad epically saves her by pushing her and landing on top of her. Queue more sexual tension. Anwar and co catch up with him and they all find the stone.

In a nice twist it seems that the stone does show the future but its flashes. It doesn't always fill in all the gaps. Griff ends up accidentally stabbing his dad. Sinbad wrestles the knife off him and that's what was seen. Sinbad realizes the stone is a bad thing and smashes it. It was a really good piece of tv I though - time seemed to slow down and all these parts of the stone were floating showing tiny glimpses of the future.

The episode finishes with Cook questioning Sinbad and him telling him about all the futures he saw including being in love and heart broken from Tiger. So Nala is gone and replaced!

Sinbad Ep 8

The Kuji episode. I was a little nervous as I knew Hannah Tointon was guest staring and after great discussion with Pam at work the consensus was that usually when Hannah Tointon pops up in something .... well it is either really really good aka the inbetweeners or not so good - Hollyoaks. Sorry Hannah. I did love you in the inbetweeners.


Anyway moving on from the last episode it seems that my lovely doctor Anwar is having some confidence problems due to his failed rescue of Rina the week before. Also he had convinced himself he was useless compared to the rest of the group and was thinking of leaving.

Anwar wakes up on his birthday having nightmares (we later find out from Sinbad he has been dreaming of scorpions with Rina's head on - weird . . .). Gunnar is quite cranky with him, Sinbad seems more preoccupied with them finding land and a wreck.

Queue our scooby sailor band rowing ashore and plundering. Theres a funny moment where Gunnar lobs a fish at Anwar's head. He ducks. Good thing too - I wouldn't wish anyone being hit in the face by a fish on their birthday.

Anwar wanders off on his own and find a chest. They drag it out and discover weirdly that the boat is sinking when they try to take it back to the providence. Gunnar and Sinbad much to Anwar's horror try hack it open with their axe and sword respectively.

So Sinbad decides its too valuable. Our hero goes back to the ship and orders cook to meet them at the other side of the island in shallower waters and they will carry it aboard. Queue a lovely shot of him of course diving into the sea. It never gets old drooling over Elliot diving. Thank you Sky 1!

When Sinbad returns Anwars still trying to figure the box out. Sinbad then suddenly blows on it and bam it opens up to reveal Hannah Tointon as Kuji - a goddess. Now I know its not her fault but the deity annoyed me.

Basically the rest of the episode revealed Kuji was being stalked by a drumming army on horses and she was secretly testing Anwars mettle. The Army - an illusion created by Kuji demanded her back and Anwar left the group as they wanted to use Kuji as bait and try pick the army off. But Sinbad and co obviously went to get their doc back hence proving  that Anwar was important and needed.



Also they were heavily outnumbered and everyone died except her and Anwar and when she told him to leave he refused so that showed courage and then finally after almost an hour of Kuji annoyingly and smugly not being able to prove she was a god, she raised her hand, smashed it on the beach and bam army deaded. She revealed at the end he would be essential in the coming journey ahead and resurrected everyone.

Romantic Action - Anwar had a bit of a crush on the goddess. Of course this annoyed me as I am an Anwar/Rina shipper.

Rina and Anwar - Rina actually seemed jealous esp when they discovered Anwar had gone. Gunnar seemed to point out he had done it out of love and she snapped back it was lust.

Gunnar is epic - He had a whole brilliantly lit scene where he explained how to make a bear trap and used shadows to illustrate his story.

Wednesday 19 September 2012

Hashtags

Definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.

Using hashtags to categorize Tweets by keyword:

  • People use the hashtag symbol # before a relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces) in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets and help them show more easily in Twitter Search. 
  • Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets marked with that keyword..
  • Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet – at the beginning, middle, or end.
  • Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.
I heart the internet. I can find out anything . . . . . 

Monday 17 September 2012

Sinbad Ep 7

Our hero's sneak back into Basra and find its a changed place. Akbari has murdered his brother and is about  to be crowned king and Taryn has convinced him to bring the old ways back and is liberating secret black temples which are ironically hidden under places of wisdom. She starts destroying scrolls and knowledge.

The crew witness some of this and then Sinbad decides he has to play hero and chases after some guards who are harassing a scholar.

Gunnar is epic -saves Sinbads butt and fights off some guards with total ease. Then berate Sinbad for not sticking to the plan.

The scholar explains whats happened and states that important learner-ed and scientific people are in danger.

Anwar realises as his father is the professor of medicine he needs to get to them and there is a lovely scene where Sinbad tells him to go and bring them back to the ship. More lovely this is Rina suddenly offers to help him. They run off.

Sinbad goes to find his friend who is a guard and was in the pilot episode to find out where Tayrn has his gran.

Big bad - Taryn meanwhile is realising weird shadow beasts that are teleporting people to a cage inside a building somewhere. Gunnar and Sinbad start off to go rescue his gran and Nala keeps guard outside. She is immediatly taken by the shadows.

Rina and Anwar - Some beautiful dialogue. They walk through the streets and Anwar ponders if their paths ever crossed. Rina says not as she would have robbed him. Cut to outside Anwars parents:

Rina: “You must know a back way in. It’s safer.”
Anwar: “Really?”
Rina: “What? You mean you’ve never sneaked in late?”
Anwar: “No!”
Rina: “Typical.” Then she yanks him away to find another way in.

Great scene of Rina jumping into the house with ease and Anwar struggling to get through a window. They are caught by his mother and despite telling his parents of the danger they insist they have lunch first. His mother lets slip Anwar isn't actually a trained doctor only a student and Rina looks mad as hell and storms off. Cuts to her trying to make him see they are acting strange and it turns out they have called the guards who run in and capture Rina.

Anwar does an Anwar - His rescue of Rina is epically funny. He trys to jump on the cage/cart they have her in and just ends up flat on his face. Rina naturally frees herself.

Sinbad meanwhile loses Gunnar - he ends up on the shadows place too. Then he faces off with Akbari. Suddenly both men make up, the curse is broken and Taryn pretty annoyed at that kills Akbari informing him quite darkly that actually over the last few weeks he has been serving her purpose not her his.

Sinbads gran manages in all the hype to smash the stone Taryn has been using to control the shadows freeing Gunnar and Nala and then she dies but not before her and Taryn imply that Sinbad is so much more important and there are things about him we don't know.

The epsiode ends with a total shock. After some brilliant ribbing of Anwars rescue attempt, Nala leaves?????? Not without giving our hero a kiss though. Shocking, so unexpected.


Sinbad Ep 6

Our hero meets a siren.

The ship gets attacked queue Sinbad getting to dive beautifully overboard to check out the damage. Thank you writers - I am not getting tired of any Sinbad in the water shots :)

He gets washed up on shore complete with 4 scratches down his chest. Then our hero meets the rather gorgeous Roisin played by Georgia King.

He falls hook line and sinker for her. She meanwhile is stealing all his memories. Nala and Gunnar row over to the island and try to bring him back. Nala seems jealous. Sinbad insists he wants to stay so Nala gives him to sunrise to return back to them and the ship.

Gunner is Epic - Not so much fighting this ep but mention of this hilarious line:

Sinbad: “One night. One night where I don’t feel like me. You understand that, Gunnar, right?”
Gunnar: “You might want to write poetry. Life’s a bitch when you’re cursed.”

Romantic Action -  Sinbad and Roisin get it on. No surprises there. In the morning when the curse kicks in the siren removes all memory of his grandmother and it neutralises the curse. Roisin then proceeds to usher Sinbad off on a journey as he is getting more and more disorientated.

Back onboard the ship. The rest of the gang examine a razer sharp thing thats lodged itself on a plank of wood. Cook determines its a fingernail. Rina is not ready to let Sinbad go yet so she and Anwar go after him.

Rina and Anwar - I really do love these two. Finally we see a slight weakness in our scrappy thief. She doesn't like ghosts. They both encounter some swirly dark memories and run off then fall down into some sort of trench thing where they discover some of Roisins past victims missing teeth. Rina has lifted some teeth from Roisins hut so they realise they need to get a move on and stack up aload of skulls to climb back out. Where more memories are waiting including Sinbads gran below.


Rina and Anwar theorise - too quickly in my book that they are memories and Sinbads are being stolen and set off after them, naturally rescuing our hero in the nick of time. Rina does this by offering up her memories and mid way through her story turning them nasty thereby neutralising her.

Interestingly I think that even at the end when Anwar broached asking her if she really got sold into slavery and she made out he was daft to have fallen for it - that was what happened to her. I would love to see an ep exploring Rina's background.

Big bad -  Taryn meanwhile has taken Sinbad's grandmother prisoner and works some magic that ends up giving Sinbad a vision at the end of her calling for his help. Sinbad decides they are going back to Basra.

Twitter

I am actively making an effort to tweet more. Truthfully I don't fully understand twitter yet but got excited this weekend when I realised some of the Sinbad stars are on there. 

I don't know what a re-tweet is. I don't actually know if when I @ . . . .someone they actually read it? I mean where does the tweet I have just made go? I @ 3 people in the last 24 hrs but can't see them anywhere on their twitter feed.

And what is the deal with the hash tag stuff. Was I suppose to #Sinbad when I mentioned it in my tweet? Questions ehh but at least I managed to sort the widget whatever to link my twitter to show on here.

Interestingly as well I have tweeted more in the last 48 hours then since setting up the account so I will keep trying to get my head round it :) Its probably to do with my brother as well telling me he was getting into to twitter. If G can navigate this stuff then so can I. Though saying that G has only tweeted once so actually he is worse than me!!!!

Also I got an email his morning saying I had a new follower. I had a nosy at it and he's called onlinemarketinghelp. Not that exciting ehh but from what I can gather its a blog that possibly helps blogs ????? I will have to have a read properly. Hopefully its that and not some dude who wants to spam me with questionnaires or something.

I know one thing - I have been keeping this account for a few years now. Yes I know I deleted a couple of years of posts but I never really found my direction. The blog wasn't not going the way I wanted it too.

Now it is and I know I actually enjoy blogging about TV and films. And these posts seem to get the most attention. So I will continue doing it. But perhaps I need to look into making this blog more epic. Of course anything techie and I am pap . . . .

Oh well I will just have to learn somehow.

More Sinbad or #Sinbad (if I suss this) reviews to follow. Also I have just started Game of Thrones so might have to say a few words about that too.

Sunday 16 September 2012

Sinbad Ep 5

Some lovely character interaction in this ep. For once our hero's are not starving and at the beginning of this ep are relaxed, carefree and having some fun drinking in a bar. Rina is hilariously trying to give Anwar a tatoo.



Theres a lovely conversation as to why he wants the tatoo and then Nala asked Gunnar about his. The big man totally lies and makes out its a farming tatoo to bless and bring on success in sheep breeding. The group all laugh and Anwar asks Rina not to give him one of those. The writers have to be setting these two up as the looks between them was just brilliant. Just one little snag and we will get to that later



Anwar -  bless him either can't take the pain or has had too much alcohol and needs air. Much to amusement of the rest he runs off. There is a funny shot of him stood next to a donkey and you can clearly see that somethings going through his mind at that point as he trys to psyche himself up to go back. Then he see's 4 guards wandering round with a drawing of Sinbad.

He returns and trys to warn them. At first they all think he is trying to get out of the Tatoo but then they see them and realise they are from Basra. They hatch a plan, after Gunnar quite epically turns into some yoda type and convinces Sinbad who wants to confront them to run and bottle his anger. The distraction was brilliant and my inner fan girl was screaming with delight.

Rina and Anwar - This week to get Sinbad past the guards Nala and Rina pretend to fight over Anwar. Rina yells at him for kissing Nala. Nala pushes past Rina and says he's mine now and plants one on him. Then Rina pushes her away and plants one really long kiss on him then tells him hilariously not to get any ideas lover boy. How can you not after that???


Gunnar and Sinbad escape and the rest are to meet them later sailing round the cape. However when Anwar, Rina and Nala get back to the ship their are guards already on there and Taryn waiting. Quue them getting tied up. It seems every ep they get jailed or something haha.

Taryn seperates Anwar and realising his crush on Rina threatens to kill everyone if he doesn't talk. So he does.

Anwar does and Anwar - Okay I know I love ya and you were under threat of death but really . . . . did you have to mention the curse. You had given Taryn enough!

The sorcerous starts going through their provisions looking for something of Sinbads and dum . . . dum dum shockingly finds Rina has been keeping a lock of Sinbads hair. WHYYYYYYYYY Writers!!! Oh well she will wise up and realise the hunky doc is who she is meant to be with.

Gunnar is epic - Meanwhile Gunnar and Sinbad get attacked by some ninja types. Our warrior puts up a good fight but its not good enough and then in a surprise twist they take the norseman and leave our hero passed out.



Big bad - Taryn meanwhile does some freaky magic ritual with sand and Sinbads hair and creates a monster who wouldn't look out of place as Community's human being.
Anwar and co get locked up downstairs. Rina berates him for giving Taryn information. He berates her for fondly keeping a lock of Sinbad's hair also maintaining he did what he had to do to save their lives. Rina manages to free herself - nice skills theres and unlocks the cage letting them out.

Sinbad wakes up and goes after Gunnar. He finds him captured by the ninja dudes who are wanting to kill him for his past viking stuff. Anyhoo he manages to convince the ninja boss to give him a chance to redeem himself as they discover the monster is after Sinbad.

Back on the ship the rest hatch a plan to stop Taryn involving Rina covered in red making out to the guards that the creature is back. She and Nala wake up Taryn from her trance and they discover now theres no way to control the monster.

However  Gunnar is epic once more- when the creature catches up with him and Sinbad he makes another lovely yoda speech about letting go as its feeding off his anger. In a far to easy in my eyes finish Sinbad practically counts to 10, slows his breathing and the monster falls back into sand again.

They return and Sinbad releases Taryn who has a vision when he helps her up of a blond girl and flashes of Sinbad going somewhere. You know that will be important later!