This isn’t going to be that long an entry as I’m watching The X-Files as I type this, so if anything seems nonsensical, or if sentences are constructed in an even poorer manner than usual, that’s the reason why. I’m near the end of Season 5 of the X-Files right now (Episode 15 ‘Travelers’) and have been enjoying it again since I took a little break after Season 4. I don’t know what it is exactly about this show, but I find that the quality, and continuity, of the show really fluctuates. The episodes that pertain to the over arching theme (alien invasion/occupation, government conspiracies, the smoking man, etc, etc) are always interesting and can be easily identified as they are always 2 or 3 parters. Every other episode however is pretty stand alone, adding little to the story that’s existed over every season. For example, in Season 5, you had the episode 12 ‘Bad Blood’ where Mulder believes in vampires and is convinced the town is being preyed upon by one. Then the very next episode, the first of a 2 parter, ‘Patient X’ has Mulder not really believing in aliens, convinced that it was all government manipulation (which to a degree is true in regards to him and his sister – this may change by the end of the series though!). How does the continuity of a series work when in one episode he believes whole heartedly and in the next he’s lost his way, his very faith, in the supernatural?
Oh well, I’m still enjoying it and will probably watch through to the end of Season 9. I’ve invested enough time into this series and these characters that I should see it through.
I’m officially staying in the country for an extra day now. I was supposed to be leaving tomorrow, but Eleanor’s parents are having a dinner party that they wanted me to stay for, so I am. It should be good; mainly because it’s all the awesome food I’ve been having all week in one day. With desert. Gnarly! Once I get home on the Sunday I’ll be locking my script before going location scouting on Tuesday with Gina. Hopefully something good will come out of that, I need to secure a location sooner rather than later and once I get the location, I can get the equipment and then the actors. Then, finally, the project will come together.
I bought Resident Evil 3: Nemesis today from Close Encounters (the comic book store/retro video game store in Bedford) for £4.99. I saw they also had Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2, all for the same price. I was pretty pissed off to see the first Resident Evil there as Eleanor ordered it (the Value series one no less) off of Amazon for about £7/8. If we’d known about the store before we could’ve bought it there and then for less and with slightly better cover art. Not that I’m anal for these things, of course. Eleanor’s brother, Duncan, let us borrow his PsOne (the dinky one) and I play tested it for about a half hour. I’m looking forward to getting back and playing this series properly for the first time. I remember when the game first came out, I could’ve easily picked it up for very cheap (being in Hong Kong and all) but, despite my love of zombies (which came from an unexpected screening of Night of The Living Dead with my mum), I have always had too much of an overactive imagination to play them at that age, despite how much I wanted to. I feel that 13 years later, with the graphics now horribly dated, I may finally be able to! Go me and my conquering of past fears!
On the video game front, a quick note, does anyone else think it’s total bullshit that Ubisoft are releasing Prince of Persia: Epilogue? They’re essentially confirming that they sold an unfinished game, with an unfinished ending. I didn’t really like the game, which is a shame as I loved the other three, but I did kind of like the ending. A lot of other people, however, did not – hence this new ending and additional missions. I find it pretty questionable to ask fans to pay even more for a more conclusive ending which, arguably, should have been included in the first place.
On topic about my country vacation, there’s nothing really to report for today. Eleanor and I went for a walk this morning and then waited around before going back into Bedford where we had a bad experience in a crazy busy CEX (filled with country folk/chavs who talked like chavvy Londoners), I bought her Carmaggedon on the PS for 0.80p, but couldn’t find Resident Evil 3, despite the fact their website claims they have between 1 and 3 in stock. I was super stoked then to find a copy in Close Encounters. That’s pretty much about it today.
Short country blog done, I’m going to concentrate on X-Files now.
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