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Heroes: Season 4

By | 28 September 2009 | Rant, Television | 7 Comments

The new season of Heroes started last week. I have been debating whether or not to watch it. I recently caught up by watching season three, and the premiere of season four. My question is: is anyone still watching this show?

The first season of heroes was terrific, but the show has gone down hill since. The second season was utterly nonsensical. The show was clearly a one trick pony, and the powers they gave the main characters didn’t make sense in an on going world. In the second season the writers solution was to give Peter amnesia, and banish Hiro into the past. To make matters worse, the story wasn’t very compelling.

The third season was a mess. The first half, aka volume three was very rushed, and sloppily handled taking down over powered characters. Both Peter and Hiro lost their powers, and Peter got a pathetic power in replacement. In the fourth volume (the second half of season three) featured another rushed story that was a tired story that has been done to death in all media (government persecution of a minority group). In this volume Hiro kind of gets his powers back, but not really, or rather they don’t work correctly. Lovely.

The fourth seasons, aka volume five hasn’t covered enough territory to determine whether or not the storyline will be good, since the villains remain largely cloaked in mystery, and their motives are yet unknown.

What do you think? Are you still watching the show?

Cosmic Justice

By | 28 September 2009 | General, Rant | 2 Comments

Today was turning out to be a rather miserable day for NFL football, as the much maligned Lions, some how, managed to not lose a game today. Based on the Redskin’s performance in the game, I am thinking this game was likely fixed.

I entered the late games with a sense of annoyance, since I could not think of anything positive to take away from the Lions’ victory. But, the Pittsburgh v. Cincinnati game gave me something to be happy about: a Steelers loss.

Apparently, the Lions’ fail to lose was the first time in 20 games that they haven’t lost. Coincidentally, this was also the first time in 20 games that Pittsburgh had two consecutive losses.

Random coincidence, or cosmic justice?

Battle to the Bottom of the Barrel

By | 26 September 2009 | Rant | No comments

Sorry to people not appreciating my slew of football posts today. But, I have some good and bad news. The good news is that Grand Valley State University continues their seasons, thus far undefeated, by defeating Michigan Tech by a score of 55 to 7. The bad news is, the anticipated “Battle at the Ballpark” game at 5/3rd ballpark is looking to be rather underwhelming.

Ferris State is 1-3, 0-3 in the conference, and Michigan Tech is 0-3. This means that this “event” is really going to be a nonfactor in the scheme of things, and the only thing the winner will take away is their first conference win. Bummer. At the beginning of the season we were hoping that this might be a relavent game, and a battle between two schools with winning records.

To make matters worse, in a blunder of poor planning, this game is also being played the same weekend as the family weekend at MTU. Thus, it is uncertain how many student will actually be at the game, it will probably only be alumni.

Sadly, this will be no, “Bash at the Big House” but, two of my brothers are alumni from these schools, so I plan on attending no matter how pointless the game.

Staying Competitive

By | 26 September 2009 | Humorous, Rant | 4 Comments

Michigan State University now finds itself sitting on a 1-3 record. Their only win came from the defeat of a run of the mill division 1-AA school. They play Michigan next week, and while they’ll probably be able to get up for the game, it doesn’t mean they’ll win. Michigan has completely turned around the program in the off season, and at a decent 4-0 they will like prove too much for MSU to over come.

So, at what point does it become relevant to ask: should MSU considering dropping down to 1-AA so they can be competitive again? ;-)

Run, Run, Run, Punt!

By | 26 September 2009 | Rant | No comments

Arriving late in Rockford for the Grand Haven v. Rockford game, I made it just in time for the fireworks.

Last night most of my family went to the Grand Haven v. Rockford game. Sadly, I was the only one of us rooting against Grand Haven. I have three brothers, three of us graduated from GHHS, and one is still attending the dreadful school. My tenure at the high school included a couple of years on the football team, and a lot of misery. I did not then, and continue to disagree with the way that high school is run. To this day I continue to enjoy watching them fail.

Much to my surprise, it was half time when I got there, apparently both teams were exclusively running, and blew through the first half in nearly record time. The score was 0-0, so I didn’t miss anything good. And, by the time I reached the place my family was standing, Rockford scored their first touchdown. Soon thereafter they scored their second, and final touchdown.

Sadly, the final 14-0 score was not as nice as the 51-0 score at GH’s homecoming last year, but you can’t win them all. However, that was not the most amusing event of the evening.

Apparently, the GH football team is returning to the old formula that served them so poorly during the Horodyski era: Run, Run, Run, Punt. This is the first time that I have seen such an abomination in the Farley era.

I’m sure most of my readers don’t care about this, so rant complete. ;-)

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