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I stumbled across this one through one of my favorite webcomics, Three Panel Soul.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the storyline. It's about this girl who was created accidentally by God, and so to correct the mistake there are angels around her who try to make her as unnoticeable as possible. There's this one panel where it shows her making these art projects throughout various times in her life, and the angels ruining them in one way or another. Eventually she gives up on her passion because nothing ever works out and she just becomes this miserable, snarky, extremely sarcastic girl. It's fantastic!

Usually when I'm drawn to a webcomic it's the artwork THEN the writing. In this case it's the vice versa. Not saying the artwork is bad by any means, but the writing for this is brilliant. The timing of all the responses and reactions are phenomenal. I can absolutely see this as a sitcom or a movie. It does remind me a little of George from Dead Like Me (FYI: IMDB has that it's coming back in 2009!!).

Anyway, please check it out. It's only been around since the beginning of the year, and gets updated about once a month, so you'll catch up quick.

SPOILER ALERT!

So the highly anticipated series, Heroes, returned Monday night with a 2 hour special.

I don't know about anyone else but I was really disappointed. Let me start off with Claire. They totally mocked season 1 with her storyline in the first episode. ALL of season 1 was spent to protect the cheerleader so that Sylar doesn't become "immortal" and that gets disproven in one episode?!? Come on!

I'm thinking we'd be done with Sylar by now, but no. The sucker is still around. It's getting old. I hope they keep Sylar in that little room for awhile and focus more on Adam Monroe/Kensei Takezo. Just change something... anything. Because if you think about it... they've been running the same plotline since season one. Yes, yes the world is in danger. Yes the cheerleader has something to do with it. Yes everyone is intertwined in some way. Yes the company is out to ruin everyone in some way. I feel like a lot has happened in the season and at the same time nothing has changed.

You know what... someone needs to die! I thought Nikki was gone for good and was glad, because to be honest she annoyed me. She didn't really have a power, she just a severe mental disorder a.k.a. multiple personality disorder. The Petrelli brothers were each supposed to die, and ended up living by some miracle... oh yes that's right Claire's blood. Does that mean all of the characters are going to live throughout the series?

As much as I complain I will probably end up watching all the episodes. So I'll come back when there's something worth mentioning. But here are my predictions:

• Hiro is going to be chasing that girl for the formula for the whole season.
• If it doesn't happen during the season finale it'll happen close to it: Ando and Hiro will have a face to face battle.
• Future Peter is going to spend the whole season fixing his mistake.
• Present Peter is going to be stuck with those gang of convicts for quite some time.
• Mrs. Petrelli might end up being evil and take Sylar under her wing, can't tell yet.
• Mohinder might actually die, or he'll create a cure for his side effect and end up coming up with a cure for the virus.

That's all I got for now. I'll probably alter the list or add new ones as the season goes on. But my suggestion is if they want to make this season finale end with a bang Mohinder has to create a cure for the virus which also makes Claire, Sylar and finally Adam mortal. Booyah!

What just happened? Seriously, that's what I thought when the movie ended. This movie picked one of the hottest and controversial topics and actually managed to go through the entire two hours not really discussing... anything. So in that sense I'd have to give it a nice round of applause to waste how ever many millions of dollars to make this film about absolutely nothing.

The entire movie felt like you walked into someone else's conversation midway and they're talking about the topic without being direct about it. So you just feel lost and you don't want to leave yet, because maybe they'll start making sense soon... hopefully?

This movie seemed like it was trying really really hard to sound really really smart and come off artsy... and failed abysmally.

I always love the movies that are told in a semi-documentary/biographical sort of way. Apollo 13 and Girl with the Pearl Earring (one of my top favorites) are good examples. So I figured that this would be a good pick, aside from the fact that it won a lot of awards and it was critically acclaimed blah blah blah...

First off, Paul Dano (Girl Next Door, Little Miss Sunshine) was fantastic. He was perfect for the role of Eli Sunday, the over zealous wanna-be prophet for the town. He was creepy and conniving when he needed to be and during the moments when Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) didn't give him what he needed/wanted, you are reminded that he is still a kid and how naive he is.

Daniel Day-Lewis didn't impress me at all. It seemed like he was impersonating someone from that time as opposed to acting like someone from that era. He just seemed so out of place and there was something about his character that was unnatural.

As for the storyline... this movie would be a good example of a horrible translation from book to film. As the story progresses for what appears to be no reason at all Daniel became more and more irrational. In the beginning you see him as this very calm level-headed businessman. I suppose everyone has a snapping point though, and his would have to be when his son became deaf after an explosion when they struck oil. Even then you still feel disconnected from his character and unrelatable. I'm left confused by his actions instead of feeling sympathetic and understanding.

Oh, and what was up with the soundtrack?! WORST soundtrack ever. It seemed like they ran out of money making the film so they took the soundtrack from a disposable B-rated horror film and slapped it on this one.

My assessment... overrated. I'm hoping the book will be better. I'll let you know.