Beginning Lost

After the delay of the television series Prison Break until this spring, I didn’t have something to anticipate for each week. It was fun downloading and seeing a new episode every Tuesday, and now I decided I had to change to another series to get addicted to.

I had always heard of the show Lost, I'd seen it on MBC Action and I had read about it on the internet. But I never had the chance to actually see it from the beginning. So today I went ahead and downloaded the first four episodes. Luckily with my new internet speed, one episode is on my computer in less than half an hour.

To sum up what I've learnt about the series, you can say it all begins with a plane crashing in mid air onto a large island in the middle of nowhere. After the first few days after the crash, the remaining survivors begin to realise that they're being searched for in the wrong place.

That's not it, but the thoughts of surviving on the island become a major part of the survivors lives, as well as discovering the secret of the mysterious island the plane landed into. What's also a part of the series is the flashbacks it shows which characterize each survivor.

Although I am still in the beginning of the series, I am enjoying it a lot, maybe not as much as the first episodes I saw of Prison Break, but still much entertaining and thrilling. Also, the fact that this show is now in its fifth season is reassuring that its a success.

Prison Break Continues

The show took a break after the 16th episode, and will return supposedly on 6/1/2009, which is in three more days. Above is the tralier for the 17th episode, in which Lincoln and Micheal seperate, each to find Scylla but each with a different goal. Be sure to watch it.

More Prison Break

Here are some more stills from Prison Break, this time the third and fourth episodes of the fourth season of one of the best ever TV shows made.

A lot more break ins, disguises and the bird book is shown to be one hell of a plan that Whistler conjured up, and now T-Bag has to follow in his steps, as we begin to follow along with every element of the plan, that seems to be written in the book.

Prison Break, Season 4

The 1st of September was the launch date for the new season of Prison Break, still airing in America every Monday. I downloaded the first two episodes and I can say one thing - the director is amazing.

Talk about focusing on what people like and dislike from the series, this new season is just right. Seeing that viewers loved most the action - breaking in or out, the planning and the execution - this season is packed full of it, with more to come.

Here are some images I managed to take from the first two episodes, using the rather interesting and light weight Media Player Classic. The next episode airs on 8/9, but it'll be 4am on 9/9 in our time. Enjoy!

Prison Break Season 4

The trailer is here at last to feed the addiction of all fans, like me. Its a bit short but you can find out quite a lot from it.

Making Origami Cranes

After being a bit too much obsessed with Prison Break, I decided to make an origami crane like the one in Prison Break.

The one in the series is a simple version of the real one, and most call it an ugly crane. Like the one below.

I wanted to make one so I resorted to Youtube, and found a good one that I followed...



...and, after a lot of frustration and trial and error, I made the final product.



Try it out yourself, you might learn something new.

Prison Break

As you may already know, but may have breathed your last one while waiting for another post, is that I have completed watching the first season of the well known series, Prison Break. And I can tell you one thing for sure, it is without a doubt, magnificent.

For those sad bunch of you who still haven’t taken the honor of watching the series, I’ll condense the opening plot for you all in a paragraph. Lincoln Burrows, an innocent man, is framed for the assassination of the vice presidents brother, and is serving the death penalty.

Determined to prove his brothers innocence, but with time against him, Michael Scofield devises a plan to get his brother over the walls of prison and away from the electric chair, in order to prove his innocence once outside the reach of the death penalty.

This film is spectacular from each characteristic and every detail. From the actual story, which resembles the love of a brother and determination to get him out, to the plot of escape, which shows absolute genius in the crafting of the idea.

Each character has his own ideas and they represent his own profile in the film, from the mastermind Scofield, to the raw animal T-Bag, and even the dumb but innocent Sucre. The filming shows every detail and flashbacks give you an idea of what’s happening and why.

Even the soundtrack is great, which gives the right piece of calm or thinking or action, to back up the moving pictures. In fact, I took the liberty of downloading the whole soundtrack. Beautiful, I must say.

So what are you waiting for? Go buy the first season and start watching. You’ll never regret it.

Prison Break DVDs

After I had borrowed season two on DVD from my friend, I needed to get season one somewhere, so I could see the whole series at once.

I went off to my favorite place to buy DVDs, a shop in Istiklal Mall, which sells high quality DVDs for 1JD each. I recommend this place for any film lover.

I asked him for season one, and he had the DVDs. They were 6 discs but he had an offer so I only payed 5JDs. If you went to any old shop, you would've payed 9JDs.

Although, looking at the actual profit the shop makes, which is huge - since one blank DVD costs barely anything, you could sell it at any price.

I checked one disc to see its quality and it was great. It turns out the episodes are recorded from some Fox TV thing. And it was HD, lucky america.

When I went back home to see which disc was which, to write on them which disc each one was, I found out each case, which carries two discs, contained exactly the same episodes.

So now I need to go back to Istiklal Mall, but my mum is not willing to go back again. I will have to wait, in despair, until tomorrow.

Does anyone know when the shops in the mall open (which time)?

So, now readers, tell me what movies/series you're watching/going to watch now? I want to know.