I can feel it coming in the air tonight

*Phil Collins drum solo*

T'was the night before E3 (my favorite time of year apart from Christmas), and I am eagerly awaiting the slew of news articles, previews, screenies, and video clips of oh so many games. Myst V is what I'll be trying to keep my eye on (despite it being shown behind closed doors), but I'm also dying to see what the Nintendo Revolution is going to look like, what games are going to be released for the DS and GBA, and anything that strikes my fancy. I hope that the games themselves won't be overshadowed by all the next-gen unveilings from The Big Three. Just remember guys, the power of all this upcoming hardware is great, but it will be all for naught if you don't have the software to back it up.

The news is starting to trickle in already: Wil Wright's Spore, a sequel to Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, a 2D Metroid game for the DS, backwards compatibility for the Revolution...

God, I wish I could be there. The upcoming days will see gaming advances, perhaps some miraculous.

Enterprise Is Dead, But Trek Will Live

I'm not sure how to start this. How about a warning? Okay, WARNING: SPOILERS!

The series finale of Enterprise was on tonight. I'm left feeling indifferent, although I'm sure I wouldn't be feeling that way if I had followed the entire show. I lost interest in the middle of Season Two, and have only started watching it again when they showed the Mirror Universe two-parter. If I had kept up with the whole series, I would have felt far more disappointed.

It was a double-dose of Enterprise; the first episode was the conclusion to the Terra prime episode. There was excellent acting by both Billingsley and Trinnear (Phlox and Trip). That should have been the series finale, because the actual finale...

Look. I love The Next Generation. It's my favorite Trek series. Troi and Riker are cool. But the finale should have been about Enterprise and its crew, not a giant shoutout to TNG. It's a bit of a slap to the face to the Enterprise actors, because most of the focus was on Riker!

They also killed off Trip. It's almost funny; at the start of Enterprise, I wanted to shove him off into space, he annoyed me so much. Now they've killed the character needlessly, and I hate that he's dead!

This series overall also needed more Phlox, but I've been of the opinion of late that everything needs more Phlox. He is the only character I will truly miss from the show.

So I look back at what I watched (and the few better later episodes that I've been able to find), and I'm so disappointed. This show could have been so much more. The acting was fine, and while there are far worse television shows out there, this Trek iteration was just flat and uninspired. It's probably for the best then that I'm not nearly as hardcore about Trek as I was when I was a preteen.

But Star Trek isn't dead, although Berman and Braga made every attempt to kill it (by the way, get these two away from Trek permanently). Quite simply, it's too big to die, and the fans won't let it die. The format allows for imagination and infinite possibilities. Let the TV series lie fallow for awhile. Nothing wrong with taking a break. Let future Trek writers rest, and dream. Hell, The Original Series ended with a whimper, and look what happened?

Twin Peaks and Carnivale are twinsies

1. They share an actor--Michael Anderson played The Man From Another Place in Peaks, and Samson in Carnivale.
2. Said actor describes Carnivale as "Twin Peaks with logic".
3. Both are very creepy yet aren't relentlessly dark.
4. I love both of them.

BONUS EXAMPLE: Both shows got cancelled after a season-ending cliffhanger!

BOY I SURE KNOW HOW TO PICK THE WINNERS!

Spring Computer Cleaning

Actually, I'm just re-naming and sorting all my Myst-related video clips into separate folders. I had no idea I had that many Myst videos--over 5 gigs worth! I'm having a lot of fun watching them all again. Although I'm hesitant to tackle my Myst picture collection...