Highlight of the Weekend? Brilliant Doctor Who Episode - Let's Kill Hitler!

1. Regarding Hurricane Irene, which is over now - no damage in my area that I can see. No flooding that I can see. Power still on and the cable is still on. But according to the media - it's a mess out there, the highways are flooded and has fallen trees. And you can't go anywhere. Well not unless you have a canoe. I don't know if I can believe them or not. The storm according to the red band at the bottom is a category one, but they said it was down-graded to a tropical storm when it hit us.

Still...I don't know...feels like a lot of strum and drang signifying nothing. I took a shower. The water is fine. The power is still on. The cable is still on. Seriously, I've had worse things happen during the thunderstorms in the spring and in June.

The media is interesting...they are trying to justify all the strum and drang, stating it's worse than it really is. And not noticing that this is not all that different from other storms we've had.

We got 60 mph winds. So no window breakage.

I swear we should call this the age of MISINFORMATION.


2. Regarding Last Night's Episode of Doctor Who - "Let's Kill Hitler" - surprisingly AWESOME! I loved that episode. Everything about it. I was watching Dexter, realized Doctor Who was on - and was so not going to miss it, and glad I jumped over. Far more entertaining and a lot less predictable.

That's been my problem with Dexter this season, I sort of know what will happen next. So my attention wanders. It's my problem with Alphas too - which I kept trying to watch yesterday and kept losing interest during. Was so bored with the stock characters, stock responses, and stock
episode that metaphorically shows issues with the leads, but not directly. Formula tv at it's best.
Bored now.

Then I saw Stephen Moffat's twisty Doctor Who episode "Let's Kill Hitler" and for the first time all day, I was distracted by the show, and into it. It was so good. And not at all what I expected. So glad that I was NOT spoiled for that one. Being spoiled for Doctor Who, ruins Doctor Who.

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Finished watching Dexter S5 - rather predictable and lack-luster season, falling at times into cliche. But it did hold my attention through the last four or five episodes. And Quinn is growing on me. He feels a lot like Deke from the first two seasons, who I liked a lot better. So it's not going to end well.

The best part of Dexter S5 and only character arc that worked for me was Debra Morgan's. Also liked Dexter/Astor relationship. Lumen felt more like a catalyst character...and I'm not sure she worked all that well. Also Liddy was far more interesting and scarier presence than Johnny Lee Miller's Jordan Chase, in part because Peter Weller is a better actor. Miller just looked bewildered.

Watching the first episode of The Borgias, or half watching it, but it's just not my cup of tea. So glad I picked Game of Thrones on HBO to subscribe to instead.

Weather here is funky and doesn't quite match the news' weather forecasts...they said it would get drier and no rain and less wind. It's stayed very windy and we have frequent squalls, much like yesterday. I swear, I feel like I live in Florida or the Islands.

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Go here for what is involved in restoring the Mass Transit System (buses, subways, and trains) to service, along with damage reports, etc in NYC:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/hurricane-irene-new-york-mta_n_939612.html

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Don't know about you, but tired of hurricane stuff. Anyhow here's a photo of the sunset outside my window tonight:






Hopefully that worked.

After watching Dexter S5 finale, the first two episodes of the Showtime comedy "Episodes" was on, it reminded me a lot of the film The TV Set, except not as funny and as series. Or what it must have been like when Steven Moffat tried to bring his hit UK series Coupling to the US. Not amusing enough to continue with.