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What is "My Two Bits?" My Two Bits is the official editorial page for the editor of Techtite.com. Techtite will accept reader submissions, for reviews as well as any editorials deemed well written and pertinent to this web site's audience. ----------------- An Archive of My 2 Bits: ---January 30th: That annoying Battlestar mutiny story arc! ---January 23rd: Galactica, Lost, etc. ---January 16th, 2009: Galactica and 24 ---January 9th, 2009 The New Format... ------------------ Sidebar: -------------------- No sidebar comments for this editorial. Yet. |
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My latest Two Bits for the week ending: Friday, February 6th, 2009------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's my "two bits" on the best news bytes of the week: Michael Phelps. Drugs. Enough Said Here. ...or is it? Simply put, Michael Phelps really hit a major media land grenade on this one, when he was caught taking drugs and just like that, his fan base is pretty much over...though not his career, apparently. Supposedly the only thing the Olympics care about are their own drug tests prior to attending the Olympics. So in a way the Olympics are the fairest ones here; they aren't basing their final judgment on one tabloid photo. Unfortunately the fans and media are not as forgiving. Word is that Kellogs has already dropped him as a sponsor. Before you buy 100 boxes of cereal with Phelps below the cereal name, hoping to strike it rich on eBay; keep in mind food products are not allowed on eBay, last I heard. Not that you'd get a tidy profit anyway; few people seem to be terribly forgiving to Phelps after the drug photos struck the internet. In fact; every major weekly celebrity magazine has Jessica Simpson on the front cover, with rarely any mention of Phelps at all. Yeah, see; apparently, Jessica is no longer a twig and that means she's "fat" according to total morons. Mini editorials aside: Jessica gaining 5 pounds was considered more cover story worthy than Phelps. Ouch! A word of caution: the rest of the editorial covers my "2 bits" on the major action and sci-fi shows of the week, including Lost, 24, and Battlestar Galactica. If you're the sort of shmoo who likes to wait until the DVD season set is released instead of watching them on TV for free, well; jump out of the editorial now because spoilers are rampant from this point on... 24's Latest Hour: Who's Kidnapping Who? Bauer wants one guy to participate in his own kidnapping so they can track him as they assure him he's not really being kidnapped though actually he is though Jack insists he isn't because he'll save him at the eleventh hour because this is "24" and well, he's Jack. Meanwhile, as kidnapped victim number one is saved there's another guy who two knuckleheads were supposed to kill though they didn't so the apparent Big Bad Guy this season says okay, don't kill him, we'll kidnap him instead. Got all that? Well, if you didn't, don't feel bad, because I barely did either. At the very least 24 is back in good form, and this was another good "hour" this season. Lost: Not as Good As Last Week, Though Still Cool. How can you top last week's secret-revealing nail biter? Well, this week's Lost doesn't bother to try, though it's still another great episode for this season. We get a glimpse as to why the Oceanic Six are supposedly "needed" on the island, with the redhead slowly dying from all the time warps happening all around her, with her spirit-talking body apparently following suit soon after her, and now, Juliet as well. Meanwhile, in the "real world"; the Oceanic Six, sans Hurley, meet at the docks, with SUn ready to shoot Ben Linus and Kate ready to do something similar after learning that it was Ben who tried to take young Aaron from her (apparently as a motive for Kate to want to return to the island "or else" she'll lose Aaron). We also see yet another gang of non-Others shooting at the castaways in one of their many time-jumps, while in the episode's finest moment; Sawyer goes to the moment in time when Kate was still on the island and helping Claire give birth to Aaron. Even without saying a word, Sawyer rocked in this scene. The end result may not have been as perfect as last weeks, though it was pretty close. Galactica Shoots Gaeta and Apollo V 1.0; headed for Earth again. Yay! Just a week after berating Battlestar Galactica for its frustrating "mutiny" story arc; the story was resolved tonight with a bang. No; make that a firing squad of bangs. Gaeta is gone in a big way, as is the original "Apollo" Richard Hatch, who brilliantly played the new series' seedy Vice President, and President Roslin's arch-rival. They're both gone now, and it's on to find Earth again. It's about time; there are only six episodes left here! Set the engines to full thrust, people! Previews make this moment even more inriguing. Yes; Ellen is a Cylon, so either she's the "12th," or she's doing a heck of a job pretending to be, as she is shown in one of those now infamous resurrection gel baths that Cylons are "resurrected" in once they die. This means that not only is the ship back on course; so is the series, which might yet have time to resolve a few major plot holes before the series finale's final moments air. What's so bloody important about Cylon #12 compared to the other 11? Why does she look suspiciously like an "angel" in the previews and should I be afraid to ask? I'd be really upset if the finale of the series showed that disco chandelier from the original series, insisting heaven is a giant spaceship. Tell us it isn't so, Moore! ----- ...That's about it for the first "weekly" editorial. Until next week!
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