Raithe

I just got hold of the first half of season 1 The Pretender. Oh the 90's nostalgia. That was a crazy ass weird show (that was generally entertaining) and everyone only had one name. Jarod the odd genius raised by the mysterious Centre because he has the uncanny ability to assume any identity, the skills that go with it, and analyse a situation through from their viewpoint. Breaks out of the Center in the first episode and goes on the run, taking identities and doing good and punishing bad-guy-of the week in ironic ways. Always leaving just one step ahead of the team chasing him. Ms Parker, the femme fatale leading the group hunting down Jarod. Sydney, the Doctor who raised him and while sympathetic is also one of those tasked with hunting Jarod down after he escapes. Broots, the amiable but cowardly tech guy who also is part of the team hunting Jarod down. Seriously, 4 years of that show and they never had any more names than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIfbU_nz2UY

For yet more cheap shots from this side of the Atlantic..

Cute but slightly offputting. Now where is my holy hand grenade.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru__6sQ_bpE

https://vimeo.com/183479286

I think in some ways it's easy to forget that the original MacGyver was mostly working for that fuzzily undefined Government funded think-tank / agency. But that was just more of a mechanism to get Mac involved in various things, so there was rarely any particular emphasis on it. In this day and age, they always tend to put a big focus on the organisation in todays tv shows.

Did you try the Beyond Earth expansion? I heard it made it a lot better, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to throw more money at it. I want to try the expansion.. but I really can't justify basically buying a 2nd game to make the first one decent. Which the way they're pricing it, is pretty much seems to be.

Don't get distracted by.. oooh.. shiny!

When I was a kid, I remember going across the Bay of Biscay on the Canberra. Even with the cruise liner stabilisers, the amount of passengers that got extremely seasick due to those rolls was quite entertaining for someone who wasn't bothered by it. I've been in an odd and somewhat introverted/anti-social mood this weekend, so I pretty much ignored the adult world and for the first time in years re-read David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean series (well okay, I've only got about 3 books into the Mallorean at current time). Kind of odd to think that Eddings is now dead, and that the Belgariad was originally written in the early 80's.

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