Now in recent weeks I've got to admit I've being a little bit disappointed with the standard of TV (I have being streaming stuff from America BTW). Big Bang Theory is just standard, How I Met Your Mother has had some good character stuff but seems to of lost a bit of it's comic edge, Doctor Who promised much but failed to deliver and the less said about Glee season 4 the better. But there has being one thing that's kept my hopes up that maybe TV isn't dead in the form of The Walking Dead season 3.
Season 1 was good, but it did have the standard struggle to balance introducing characters, i didn't find season 2 as bad as everyone else, but have to admit it does seem quite slow now thinking back. But now that the gang are back on our screens with season 3 they seemed to have upped the anti. Now it's kind of a given that the show isn't exactly what you'd call a happy hour of your life, but so far this season with had 4 thrilling episodes and one that was most simply one of the most superb and enthralling hours of TV ever (you must now i'm talking about episode 4!!)
Right lets straight down to talking about that episode!!! In case you haven't seen it i think i should really say Spoiler Alert - i think that should be big enough to warn away any walkers who don't know. The main reason i can think of for the success of the episode of the fact that it was so unexpected that in an episode that you wouldn't expect to have so many major events in it! I think we all knew that Lori was going to end up biting the dust this season but i never for a moment that she would end up giving birth so early on in the shows run. And not only that, but the fact that it came just minutes after we saw the death of another of the original characters. You've got to feel sorry for T-Dog he spends two years doing nothing other than being clumsy and then just as he started to become cool he's zombie bate. Oh and did i mention that another of the original characters could be dead as well and that the central character has gone a little bit crazy....
OK this post was really just to talk about how amazing that episode was but this season is shaping up extremely nicely. The addition of David Morrissey as the Governor has being a master stroke managing to be the perfect blend of nasty, nice and intriguing. Merle's return has being every thing we wanted and more and even Carl isn't really that annoying anymore THANK THE LORD. So in general TV at the moment is disappointing but The Walking Dead is defiantly the best show on at the moment and if it continues this way will be the best show on TV until it has to fight against Game of Thrones when it returns for it's third season!!
Is it just me or are Horror films a bit crap at the moment? So i decided to go a little bit retro and before you start going on about how can a film student not of seen this film, trust me there's other films you'd be rather angry that i haven't seen (I never did say i was a good films student). So onto the film itself, as i mentioned horror films recently aren't really that scary, but thankfully films like The Thing still exist. Although not featuring a whole bunch of jumpy moments for a first time watcher you just can't get away from the tension that Carpenter manages to create right from the get go. At the core of the film is a human drama of who do you trust when you can't trust anyone. This of course means that the film has manage to age extremely well, and even when the titular thing appears it stands up extremely well when its on screen and is a heck of a lot scarier then some of the shit horror antagonists you get nowadays (here's looking at you guy from House At The End Of The Street). It's easy to see why John Carpenter's remake (yeah its a remake!!) is considered one of the best horror films!
