Bandwagons: I jump on them late

My roommate subscribes to Netflix, so between that and Hulu, that's all the television I watch as there's no need to pay for cable (except for Food Network. How I miss that channel). Usually, I'll start watching a show, and then my roommate will start watching the same show at a quicker rate because it's easier for her to watch tv and do homework. I have no issues with her copying me, the only downside is that it means I get sick of the show before I ever get very far into the series. Our latest show has been Bones, which has a nice mix between crime solving and humor. I kind of hesitantly liken it to House, but without all the drama involved in the later House seasons. Of course, there's still going to be drama in later seasons of Bones, but I'm hoping it won't annoy me as much as the drama in House did. Bones is a show where the watcher can either sit back and allow the characters to explain everything, or they can try and figure out if the jargon the characters are spouting makes actual sense. Most of the time, I'm content to try and figure out who the murderer is by basic cues, like one person seeming excessively defiant. One thing detective stories always fall back on is that it's always the guilty party who requests a lawyer. It makes sense, but I wish they'd find a way to circumvent the trope. Much like many other crime-solving shows, Bones is not something I find very entertaining to watch all day. I can watch two or three episodes, and then they all seem to be the exact same- find a body, figure out identity of body, figure out murderer. It's a basic formula, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing sometimes. As is to be expected, the longer I watch the show, the less I notice basic things that would have bothered me at the beginning of the show. For example, Emily Deschanel's enormous jawline has been bothering me a lot less.

One critique I have is that they tried to throw Brennan and Booth together from episode one. Some jokes about sexual tension are perhaps normal, but I feel the writers overdid it so much that I almost don't want Brennan and Booth to get together. If they did get together, it would feel like they were getting together because everyone expected them to. The movie, When Harry Met Sally suggests that men and women can't be friends or crime-solving partners without it leading to sexual relations, but I feel that's all over-dramatized and not true, and it irritates me when shows have to throw in the inevitability of their main characters getting together.

Keflings

Today I came home from work and turned on my Xbox 360 intending to play a little Ilomilo before doing homework stuff (which usually just translates into watching stuff online instead). However, while running through the menus to get to the game, I noticed I had downloaded the trial for A World of Keflings because Ilomilo, A World of Keflings, and Raskulls all had associated content. Figuring I'd try the game to see if it needed to be deleted, I loaded it up and played through until I unlocked an achievement, which wasn't terribly long. Deciding that it had been fun enough to justify the purchase, I went ahead and unlocked the rest of the game. Six freaking hours later, my roommate came home and I felt guilty enough about how much time I had just spent on the game to actually turn it off. A World of Keflings is not a game that's going to revolutionize the gaming industry or anything, nor does it deserve game of the year. It reminds me of Warcraft (not World of, just regular Warcraft), but without all the conquesting. You travel to different kingdoms, build different buildings and go on fetch-quests. To me, it seemed like an MMORPG without the online feature but with maybe a little more story. I've never been able to play MMORPGs more than two or three times as I get bored very quickly because I am not good at joining guilds/making friends with strangers which becomes the glue to bind people to a particular game. (Just a quick example, plenty of people are still playing World of Warcraft years after its release because they have friends who they don't get to talk to otherwise.) Now I'm not saying that everyone should go out and download this game RIGHT NOW because it's just that amazing, but I am saying that I was pleasantly surprised by how fun it was. Despite doing the same actions over and over the thing that seemed the most tiresomely repetitive was the music. It wasn't terrible, but it didn't really change from world to world so it was like listening to the same soundtrack for six hours. Now my only goal is to not let the game absorb my weekend because I have cleaning to do.
Obviously this game has nothing to do with Persona 3 like I'd mentioned, so I will just quickly mention that I still haven't beat that dang game. It's taking me a ridiculous amount of time... however, my compendium is 80% full! (The person who introduced me to it usually plays it for a week straight and only gets 50-60% completion on their compendium... which sort of helps explain why this game has taken me 185+ hours and I still haven't beaten it...) The next post I'll try to write about a tv show or movie, just to keep it balanced so I don't talk only about one thing or the other.