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Tonight I was surfing through the channels and I started watching Wipeout on ABC. It was a lot like MXC, which was a Spike adaptation of the Japanese Takeshi’s Castle. Wipeout however was not the same. While it is funny watching people beat themselves silly trying to get through an obstacle course, they do take it to an extreme trying to be overly funny when it is not natural to them. There’s just this inconsistency on how people manage to make it to the next level despite their falling and failing to complete a course intact. They just get out of the water and continue…wtf is that? After Wipeout came I Survived a Japanese Game Show the crazy Japanese host reminded me of Banzai.
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What’s with all of the vampires? Recently they seem to have made it back into mainstream culture. Its seems that a society which once shunned science fiction movies and television shows is craving them more and more every day. Vampires however seem to have made the biggest hit. There’s the twilight book series and movies, which altogether seems to ignore most of the vampire tenants introduced by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. There is True Blood, which sucks away all of the finesse and class which has become the widely accepted vampire way while substituting it with something reeking of the CMT channel, lastly there’s Moon Light on Sci-Fi. Lets not even talk about Moon Light. As one would expect from sci-fi programming, the acting and plot are atrocious. I almost forgot about the Underworld trilogy and the less famous Blood and Chocolate. I have to admit, I am a fan of Underworld.
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This commercial comes on several times on NBC during Heroes every Monday. I just can’t help but laugh when Abraham Lincoln rips of his shirt and you see his eagle tattoo. Even funnier is the part they freeze the video on as the letters appear on screen, where Abe is holding two sticks while showing his scrawny musculature.