I watched the first episode of season six of the acclaimed House M.D. a few hours ago on FOX. I've been a big fan of the series, although I watch TV shows on DVD usually. So I've watched all five seasons within the past six-seven months, that's how I watch my TV shows, but now I'm trying to watch a show live on TV and its proving to be an annoyance.
 
Here's the central problem with House: They never change anything. Look at the first episode and one of the last episodes of season five, House is still a dick, still a maverick, same job, same people, slightly different crew (only two of the three aren't there, but they're still there a lot). Throughout these five seasons we've had all these possibilities: Vogler, a new team, Sandy love interest, Cameron being the boss, Foreman dying, Wilson leaving, characters being written off or never returning, Tritter, Huddy relationship, and you know what? NOTHING CAME OUT OF ANY OF IT.
 
The entire show is setting up conflict to resolve it again with no change to the formula or flow of the show. They're being super conservative about it and its making the show into a borefest. Even now, House was in a mental hospital, a love interest was introduced, and quckily done away with, and after one episode of him being in treatment, he's going to come back to being his old self next week. The show needs to take a damn risk. I'm sick of him always solving the case, always being right, always being on Vicodin. If your character can't form and be interesting, your show isn't interesting. 
 

Shit's nuts.
 
 

Got this game in the mail. Here's the first 30 minutes (heavily edited into 10 minutes)
 

Saw a midnight showing. A full review will be forthcoming, with a little announcement I guess. But here at the bullets: 
 

• All the actors and characters were fantastic. Tarantino is known for his characters, and this movie certainly doesn't break the trend
• Very very long movie, midnight show ended at 2:50. Given some traliers and previews, that's roughly 2 1/2 hours. Be prepared.
• Very funny, enjoyed all the plotlines and side stories, had a lot of charm as always, however
• For a movie called Inglorious Basterds, they barley show up. You see more of a the German Inspector and Jewish French girl than any of the basterds. Side note: BJ Novak of The Office fame has four lines in the entire movie. Eli Roth has around five lines, so the only basterd you'll be hearing from is Brad Pitt.
• Extremely long build ups to everything. We're talking a 35 minute set up to literally a five second death montage. I'm not exaggerating.
• Zero action in the movie. I'm not complaining, but one of the people I went with was expecting "silly nonsense like Death Race" there is not a single fight scene or shoot out in the movie. All the violence is quick, its mostly talking. Just go in with the right expectations
• Overall I enjoyed the movie, to what extent, not sure yet

So, hate for another plug, but its all I got time to write. Actually fuck that last sentence, I'm not going to delete it, but forget its there.
 
I know there are at least six or seven people on GiantBomb who have listened to my TalkGames podcast before. Well got some bad news for people not up to date, it ended. The last podcast went up last night after five hours of recording which resulted to three hours of show. You can find the mammoth episode here (and directly download it) or go to iTunes and look up TalkGames and you'll find it in there.
 
Its probably the best podcast we've ever done, too bad the new guy Slade was introduced for the last show, because he was really good. I had a lot of fun doing the podcast but it had to end because it wasn't working anymore. That being said my co-host Tom Bowen will create a podcast soon and you'll find out more information as he updates his YouTube channel. I'll probably post a blog if it ever goes up as well.
 
I just wanted all the GiantBomb followers/fans of the show to see this was the last episode, and hopefully get some comments from them. I asked people to email me in the show, but more people have sent me PMs on GiantBomb then sent emails. So tell me what you think of the show, and any thoughts on the podcast, favorite moments? Favorite co-host maybe? Or maybe send me some suggestions for future podcasts im on. It would mean a lot.
 
Thanks.

I just put up a text review up over at TalkXbox, you can read it there.


I also recorded footage for the entire game, so it's very likely that I will make a YouTube video about it, but that'll be a separate blog post.