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TV Commentary:

Covert Affairs- ( spoiler cut )

Make It or Break It- ( spoiler cut )

Pretty Little Liars- ( spoiler cut )

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TV Commentary:

White Collar- I was kinda amused by this ep. ( spoiler cut )

Comic stuff:

Crossed- Heard about this from clevemire and decided to check it out. Its pretty disturbing. Its a zombie comic, though I guess the "zombies" are more akin to the Reavers from Firefly (i.e., less about eating brains and more psycho cannibal-rapists). In any case, the story is pretty messed up. ( spoiler cut )

Scott Pilgrim- Ah, the final volume finally came out, just in time for the movie. I'm kinda curious how closely the movie will follow the series. Did they already know the rest of the story before the last book came out and film based on whatever info they had? I'm actually curious how this movie will do. I mean, it seems like it doesn't have that broad of an appeal. Sure, its chock full of comic book, video game, and other geeky references, but the trailers also come off as hipster-y, so it might turn off the less-snobby/elitist geeks, and might seem a little too wacky and weird for normal audiences.

In any case some thoughts on the last volume. ( spoiler cut )

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Ah, so there is a new upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender project. No, not a sequel to M Night's movie, a follow-up to the original series. Its supposed to take place 70 years in the future and center on the Avatar after Aang, a water-bender named Korra.

Bah, I was hoping for something with the original characters. And for some Zutara of course! Supposedly one of the characters in this is Aang's son, but no word on who his mother is. Who knows, maybe they'll be all sneaky plot wise, and we'll find out that its not Kitata, and that she ended up with Zuko. Or even more amusing, that there's a rift between the fire nation and whatever the hell place Aang decided to reside in because he and Zuko got into a tiff over Kitara.

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So, clevemire informs me that the Crossed stuff I've been reading is actual the sequel and pointed me in the direction of the original series. Its no less disturbing, but its more general survival horror as opposed to the messed up family situation in Crossed: Family Values. In any case, the Crossed are definitely scarier than ordinary "zombies", not only because of what they'll end up doing to you if they catch you, but also because they retain some of their human intelligence, enough to still be able to use weapons and vehicles. Though since they be motivated solely by wrath and lust and wot-not, they're not so organized, at least they don't seem so so far. So its kinda like Dawn of the Dead meets Mad Max.

Degrassi- Wait, so Snake is principal now?! But I guess the new credits show off some of the new characters, and what the, apparently Lizzie from LWD is playing a transgender?! ( spoiler cut )

So, there's some new DLC coming out for the Transformers: War for Cybertron game. 5 new characters, some interesting choices there. I mean, Shockwave and Jazz aren't too surprising, they're popular characters. Interestingly enough, they also have Demolishor, who's from TF: Armada, as opposed to the original G1 the game is based on. But yeah, the last two characters are Scattershot and Onslaught. Which is kinda odd, given a lot of people only passingly familiar with TF will be, "who?!"

Hmm, Scattershot and Onslaught are the leaders of the Technobots and Combaticons, respectively, and form the head/chest of the gestalts their teams form (Computron and Bruticus). Wonder if they'll have that as a special ability. Otherwise, they are kinda random choices for the new characters.