The One Tree by Stephen R Donaldson

The Matrix lost it’s way once the Wachowski Brothers decided the machines were the good guys and humans didn’t matter.  Once the Programs took the lead, the story was doomed. In The One Tree, Stephen R Donaldson starts down the same dark path that the Wachowski Brothers took-he begins to make mere humans irrelevant.  The fruit of his love affair with demi-gods will not ripen until the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, but the seeds are planted here. I still loved The One Tree, for all it’s nonsense about Elohim and The Worm of The World’s End and The Guardian…

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Hatfields and McCoys on History Channel

The History Channel’s Hatfield & McCoys is a story without heroes.  We start off in the mist of The US Civil War and watch two soldiers struggle to stay alive.  One of the two soldiers, a man named Hatfield, decides to desert from the Confederate Army and leaves his friend, a fellow named McCoy, behind.  Mr Hatfield heads home and proceeds to make a good deal of money from logging.  Mr McCoy gets to spent some time in a Union Prisoner of War camp.  When Mr McCoy comes home after the War, he is none to happy to see Mr…

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I Am Number Four

Shown in Theater Number 4, cute, huh?  The story of a group of aliens being hunted by another group of aliens all of whom have supernatural powers and are hiding in plain sight here on Earth-while blowing up everything they run across and showing up on YouTube.  It’s a pretty standard issue story and a movie only made possible by super cheap CGI. Like all setup movies, I Am Number Four is crammed full of dull and boring backstory about our super hunk alien and the nasty fish people who want to kill him.  Only it’s backstory that doesn’t really…

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True Blood-They Are All Monsters

Season 3 of True Blood wraps up with a few finial twists and turns that show us that the Good Guys aren’t so good.  Our hero vampire Bill took a number steps this season that showed he was more evil than we thought.  His casual betrayals pop up throughout the season, with his constant backstabbing causing a rift in his relationship with Sookie. Our good old boy bartender Sam turns out to be more of a cold blooded killer and less of a poor misunderstood shapeshifter.  Sookie takes the time to torture an evil vampire and takes great pleasure in…

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The Host by Stephenie Meyer

first pulished on Technorati Image Robert A Heinlein’s Puppetmasters from the point of view of the alien invaders.  Or the Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the point of view of the Pod People.  Stephane Meyers’s Host is one more story where there is no black and white, only many shades of grey.  The bad guys aren’t really bad, the good guys aren’t really good. The Host is set in the not too distant future where the Earth has been invaded and conquered by small parasitic lifeforms which attach themselves to the victim’s brains.  The alien minds are stronger than…

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