A Spore Nerd Corner

Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show sometime later this year and I think a little part of me just died inside. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is probably the only reason I started watching the news, and not just one liberal news channel, but every news channel.  After all the jokes are funnier when you actually know who he's talking about. Jon Stewart and the other anchors have brought me endless hours of laughter since 1999 and made me think about everything going on around me. I don't know if the show will be ending as well, or if they have somebody else to take over for him but I know it's never going to be the same.

Last night The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore debuted. I always found Larry Wilmore funny while he was on The Daily Show and I'm used to being able to tune in at this time slot and find something funny, since it just so happens to be where The Colbert Report used to be. Maybe that's why the show just didn't wasn't that great for me, I've set the bar to high?  Colbert used to be one of my favorite shows. I knew if I tuned in I was going to get a good half an hour of funny, social commentary. Last night The Nightly Show just didn't do it for me. It had funny moments, but instead of finding a funny show I found the occasional funny one moment. It was only a first show though and it's hard to judge any show by just that. It always takes a little while for a new show to get on a roll. I would give the show another chance. It had it's funny moments and hopefully those will grow as the show moves along.

The other night the first two episodes of Agent Carter premiered. The story takes place a couple year after the Captain America movie. Agent Carter is stuck in a desk job where she is treated more like a glorified secretary than super spy that she is. I enjoyed the story a lot! I thought the pace was good considering that they had to reintroduce Agent Carter along with the rest of the cast. You can't exactly dive right in. I thought all the costumes, sets, even the music was amazing and fit perfectly for the time period. The acting was well done I didn't feel like anybody was treating it like they were in some kind of hokey comic book T.V. show. A lot of people seemed to think the show was slow, but like I said before I always expect first episodes to be a little slower than the regular show will be, simply because they have to set everything up for the rest of the series, but I didn't think this one was very slow at all. I thought the second episodes moved a lot faster...

We only just had our second episode of the new Constantine show and I loved it. The show moves smoothly, with the right amount of magic action, a dab of humor and a nice little mystery just to round it all out.  If you haven't check the series out it really is worth it. Something else that has me excited is when they showed scenes from next week we found out that Papa  Midnite will be making his first appearance.  He's another character from the comic series, sometimes friend, sometimes enemy, Mob boss, and witch doctor. I'm can't wait for that one.

Last night DC comics took another step into the TV world with the premier of Constantine. John Constantine is the star of the Hellblazer series of comics and books. The new show started off quick paced with possessions, mystic powers, demons, and an exorcise. Constantine, played by Matt Ryan, was his typical magician, detective self, full of cynical, deadpan humor and as usual being pulled back into the fight against the darkness. I really enjoyed this premiere. The humor wasn't over done and it moved fast. Maybe to fast, not giving us enough time to really get to know anybody, but hey, that's a premiere for you. I hope as the story goes along they do more to tell us about the characters and  the world that everything takes place in. Like I said though the show was good and I can't wait for the next episode.

I'm usually a big fan of Blacklist, but something about tonight episode annoyed me.  I can't stand when shows stop thinking for themselves and just start to copy what's going on in the world around us, and that's just what tonight's episode has basically  done. A terrorist group gets  a hold of some ancient form of plague, alters it and releases it on the world. OK so that's the super short version, trying not to spoil anything for everybody but still you get the idea. I don't know, with all the "we're all going to die" going on 24/7 on the news with ebola, I don't want to watch it on TV too. I like to watch TV to escape all the crazy things that are happening in the world, I don't want to escape to a world where they are living out exactly what all the news channels are talking about could happen.

Tonight's episode of Doctor Who, Mummy on the Orient Express, has to be one of my favorites in awhile. The story mashes together elements of Murder on the Orient Express and The Mummy with a sci-fi twist. The story starts off with the Doctor and Clara stepping out of the Tarids onto the Orient Express, which is now a space train. Anyway with the Doctor and Clara's relationship on the rocks, this is supposed to be one last trip before they say goodbye. But as usual things don't go as planned, and suddenly the body counts starts to rise as a mummy that only it's victims can see, starts taking people out. How will the Doctor save them, ooooo ahhhhhhhhh, yeah I guess you'll just have to watch. The story had the feeling of one of the older episodes, I mean a couple Doctors back kinda older episodes. It had a good quick flow, you were never wondering where they were now or what was going on. Their was a clear beginning, middle and an end and I actually felt like we ha...

I've been looking forward to premiere of the new Flash t.v. show. At first I wasn't sure if anybody could actually do a good super hero television show, but then I started watching The Arrow, another show on the same channel that is making The Flash, and actually really enjoy it. It's third season actually starts tonight, fingers crossed they don't screw it up. Anyway in a lot of premieres of televisions shows, they start off slow. Usually the entire story would be him getting his powers in some long drawn out manner leaving you kind of bored, but not in The Flash. The story moved along quickly getting him his powers in a flash... yeah I said it. It introduced all the characters letting us know everybody back-story quickly without leaving the viewer feeling lost about why they were. It gave us little hints about villians we may be seeing later in the story including Mirror Master and Killer Grodd, feel free to cheer, I know I did. I really enjoyed this premiere alon...

In this episode the Doctor and Clara join forces with two others, a shape-shifting lady and a cyborg man, to rob a super secure bank for the Achitect. Who's the Architect, we don't know, why are they robbing the bank, we don't know. Why don't we know, everybody has willingly had their minds wiped. Anyway that's it in a nut shell. To be honest I didn't like the beginning of the story. I felt lost and confused, and while that's how I was supposed to feel to add to the mystery of the story and who the Architect is, I didn't like it.  As the story moved along things were explained and by the end I felt satisfied and wasn't confused anymore. I've never been a big fan with stories that I give the story an 8.5, I don't know if anybody else watched and in the beginning felt confused or almost like we missed the beginning of the story, but I did. After that the story was fun, it felt almost like an Oceans movie

I was a huge fan of the original Fargo movie so when the FX channel said that they would making a TV show I got really excited. I'm not going to tell you all about the episode, if you've ever seen the movie, the show has a very similar theme to it.  I felt like the show started off a little slow but quickly picked up. The quirky, off beat sense of humor we all loved in the movie is all over the place in the show and the twisting plot kept my attention.  I did feel like they were making fun of the Wisconsin accent a little to much. After the first half hour of the show I wasn't sure if I was actually going to like it, but by the end I couldn't wait for the next episode. In the end, in it's own round about, quirky way it had grabbed my attention and wouldn't let go. I'm not sure if the series is going to be great, but after the first episode I'm going to be watching the second.

That's right the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, has announced that this is the end of his roll as the beloved Doctor. Smith joined the epic list of Doctors in 2010, where he stayed for 4 years. He is set to stay around for the 50th anniversary special and the Christmas special where he will be regenerating. The roll of the 12th Doctor has yet to be decided  but the hunt is on.  I can't wait to see who they find. I'll try to keep all my fellow Whovians informed as news is released.