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Purchase Diary 2011 – December
Harry Potter 1 – 7
02 Dec – €40.43 (£32.03) @ Amazon.co.uk
Raising Hope: Season 1
06 Dec – €1.68 ($17.49) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)
Due Date
07 Dec – €4.44 @ Penny
Come Fly With Me: Season 1
08 Dec – €11.99 (£8.91) @ Amazon.co.uk
Smallville: Season 10
08 Dec – €34.50 (£27.76) @ Amazon.co.uk
Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Bad Teacher · Bedtime Stories · Come Fly With Me · Dexter · Dragonball · Due Date · Green Lantern · Grown Ups · Harry Potter · Iron Man · Mr. Deeds · Raising Hope · Salt · Shrek · Smallville · Source Code · The American · The Losers · Tucker & Dale vs Evil · Unknown · X-Men · Your Highness
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Purchase Diary 2011 – March
The Expendables
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05 Mar – €13 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
Double Impact
05 Mar – €5 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
Knight and Day
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05 Mar – €10 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
The Running Man
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05 Mar – €9 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
The Town
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05 Mar – €12 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Armageddon · Beyond Sherwood Forest · Date Night · Dexter · Dollhouse · Double Impact · Knight and Day · Leverage · Mad Men · Superman · The Expendables · The Librarian · The Running Man · The Town · Universal Soldier · V
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Purchase Diary 2011 – January
Back to the Future 1 – 3
11 Jan – €24.01 (£17.99) @ Amazon.co.uk
Mad Men: Season 1 – 3
18 Jan – €32.46 (£24.79) @ Amazon.co.uk
Dexter: Season 3
20 Jan – €17.28 (£12.89) @ Amazon.co.uk
Dune
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20 Jan – €12.99 @ Media Markt
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
20 Jan – €9.99 @ Media Markt
Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Back to the Future · Dexter · How I Met Your Mother · JAG · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Mad Men · Rabbit Without Ears · Robin Hood · Sherlock · The A-Team · The Good Wife · The Men Who Stare at Goats
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No Ordinary Family
No Ordinary Family @ Wikipedia
No Ordinary Family @ IMDb
The Powells are your run-of-the-mill slightly dysfunctional family. Jim works as a police artist who has not achieved what he had hoped for. Stephanie on the other hand is too successful and has barely any time for her family. And their kids have their own problems at school.
But when their plane crashes in South America something weird happens to all of them. Caching a baseball at 140mph? Running the mile in less than six seconds? Piece of cake… But where does one go from here?
I really enjoyed the pilot. It had the right mixture of fun and seriousness which could make for a very interesting dramedy show. And since I like the actors of both parents already (Michael Chiklis from The Commish and Julie Benz from Buffy, Dexter & Rambo) I think I will like this show very much.
Categories: Short Review, TV Season 2010/2011 Diary
Tags: Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Dexter · No Ordinary Family · Rambo · The Commish
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Since everybody seems to be starting to count at zero instead of one the first decade of this century and millennium is now over. So it’s time to recap these past ten years and take a look at the TV Shows it has given us.
Let me give my résumé at the beginning: Of the four decades I know TV Shows from (70s – 00s) this was without question the best decade for us TV junkies. When you read my review you might say in the end “Hey what about <insert your favourite here>?” (e.g. The Sopranos, Dexter, The Wire, Six Feet Under, …) but that’s exactly my point. This decade has given us so many outstanding shows that it was impossible to watch them all. Also, everybody has a different set of favourite genres but I’d say that every genre got their fair share of excellent series in the last years.
But let’s face it: There’s rarely any series (if there’s one at all) that could keep up the quality and its appeal for its entire run. Some had a bad year in between, some fell short at the end. But even in these “bad years” they had more quality episodes in it than entire shows from previous decades. So all the shows I am going to name have of course aspects that can be criticized and I invite you to do so.
For me the most outstanding characteristic of this past decade’s shows is that they are more often than not more about the “journey” of the character(s) than the actual events. It’s not the character who shines a light upon the unfolding events but it’s the events that shine a light upon the character and his development. I have to say that shows (hereby excluding comedy shows that work with stereo- and archetypes) that don’t have a real character development don’t interest me at all. But if the character development is interesting I might even watch shows from genres that usually don’t interest me at all.
If the character development is interesting enough I might even set the fact aside that my second favourite characteristic is missing: A real story-arc. The first TV Show in my TV universe that had a real story-arc, was Babylon 5. Later Star Trek: DS9 did the same albeit not in that quality and complexity. But these shows were two of the rare exception in the 90s (another famous exception would be Twin Peaks, but I never watched it). It seemed that viewers weren’t interested in either developing characters or story-arcs.
Categories: Short Review, Thought Storm
Tags: 24 · Alias · Angel · Babylon 5 · Battlestar Galactica · Being Human · Bones · Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Burn Notice · Chuck · Dexter · Doctor Who · Farscape · Firefly · Friends · Heroes · House M.D. · How I Met Your Mother · James Bond · Knight Rider · LOST · MacGyver · Six Feet Under · Smallville · Star Trek DS9 · Superman · Supernatural · The A-Team · The Big Bang Theory · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · The Sopranos · The Wire · Thursday Next · True Blood · Twin Peaks · Two and a Half Men · Veronica Mars
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