Well, following on from my Two Towers rant Helen decided to see if the story did match up with Peter Jackson's version when translated into another language and back. Apparently not, it just became a little incoherant. However, I have not actually been disproved as she was unable to translate into Esperanto. Just check Helen's blog to see the results she got.

I rewatched the entire second season of Spaced this weekend. Slight surreal overload maybe? Well, at least it's not an American series, instead of the 22 hours it was only just over 3. That doesn't make it sound bad at all, just like a long film really, plus I watched all the outtakes and deleted scenes. There were some quite good deleted scenes.

One of the best bits in series 2 has to be right at the beginning, when Tim is talking about having some things to sort out, Daisy asks if he means with his girlfriend, he says with George Lucas and you see a clip of him burning all his stuff. "The Phantom Menace was 18 months ago Tim" and when he yells at the little kid in the shop for trying to buy a Jar-Jar toy, it's great. Spaced is such a fantastic programme. It's written by the two stars, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson who play Tim Bisley and Daisy Steiner. I don't know if it's been shown in other countries, it's kind of hard to explain the format, describing it doesn't really work. I spent ages just now trying to think of a short description and have given up, there's one on Here but it's not going to do the show justice, just watch it. I found a site that listed availability and found it has been on in the States, Australia and many other places.

Anyway, the main reason that I was mentioning having watched Spaced was that it was kind of reminding me of how bad The Phantom Menace was, not that I really needed reminding, but I was just thinking about the comparison between that and The Two Towers. Both films which we had high expectations for, both films which let us down immensely. One question on my mind is, which is worse, Midichlorians or Faramir's character reversal? I think it's probably Faramir, because that is a downright betrayal, it's not just adding something annoying. Maybe I should write to Peter Jackson and inform him that the alteration of Faramir is worse than Lucas' introduction of midichlorians (I don't know if that's how you spell them, I don't really care that much to be honest, I think they're stupid, you don't explain the force as some little bug things, like the force is a virus). I don't know if he'd understand the reference, it might be better to say it's worse than JarJar, also a terrible thing inflicted on us by George Lucas. However, I think midichlorians were worse than JarJar. So the ranking is Faramir, Midichlorians, JarJar. I feel let down by film makers, how sad. Well, not all film makers, just those that promise me so much and deliver rubbish.

I'm not supposed to be ranting any more, I should stop. I have been feeling ill this weekend, hence the sitting and watching Spaced all Saturday night. For a lot of Sunday I watched Buffy series 4, not sure why, I didn't really like series 4, but I was kind of checking what episode is on each tape and figured the best way to do that is to watch it. Annoyingly the episodes don't seem to have the titles on them. I hate it when shows do that, give episodes titles, but don't actually broadcast them. Why? What's the thinking behind that? I'm ranting again, anyway, thanks to the internet it wasn't a problem, I just got Helen to look them up for me. She's been online most of the weekend using our broadband connection to try to download some Pretender episodes. Yay, we got to see the pilot episode today, I hadn't seen that before.

Anyway, I really am going, because it's after 1 and I was going to go to bed about an hour ago, I don't know what I'm doing up, it's stupid and pointless, I'm not even being interesting, I'm just doing this and I'm feeling ill, so using a computer isn't sensible, I should sleep.