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TV – Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 4

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Episode 4 was some what forgettable. The Torchwood team travel to California to Phi Cop’s Head Office. From the data they got from the PR Agents computer, they need a server to find out whose behind Miracle Day. As the team plan how to get in to Phi Cop and get pass the biometric security in to the server room, they are being followed. It seems that whoever is behind Miracle Day has hired a hit man to take out Captain Jack.

Meanwhile medical leaders in America decide to use an old hospital to house those that should be dead but aren’t. A “good” citizen decides starts a dead is dead campaign. She argues that those that should be dead should have no rights. Oswald (the openly admitted and found guilty paedophile and murder) not wanting to face a mob and enjoying his new found celebrity status steps in and becomes the voice of the living dead. The people behind Miracle Day crush the “good” citizens car with her inside, in order to get rid of her. It also means she’s now the living dead. In the UK Gwen is in touch with Rhys about her father and asks Rhys to get her father out of the hospital. She has a feeling and doesn’t trust them.

As the team enter Phi Cop’s server room all is going well, until the hit man comes along. The hit man is curious as to why his employers want Jack dead, and he explains that work has been quiet since Miracle Day (seen as no one can die). Rex shoots the hit man just as he’s about to reveal his employers. The team escape with the Phi Cop servers.

Once they start to look at the servers they find all sorts of plans for Miracle Day including over-flow camps to house the living dead. Rhys rings Gwen saying he’s got her father in an over flow camp and she pleads with him to get him back. This ends the episode for this week.

You can read previous Episode Reviews here:

  • TV – Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 1
  • TV – Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 2
  • TV – Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 3

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    Tuesday 9 August 2011

    OMG…OMG…the latest in The Enemy Series by Charlie Higson

    By Amazon, Books & AuthorsNo Comments

    Oh my god…Oh my goddess…just been on Amazon and seen this: The Fear by Charlie Higson. The newest book in the The Enemy Series is available to pre-order now! It’s due out mid-September. I’ve just pre-ordered it!

    Write soon,

    Antony

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    • Wednesday 3 August 2011

    Ebooks

    By Amazon, Books & Authors, TechnologyOne Comment

    Amazon has recently reported it’s selling two ebooks on it’s kindle to one of every paper book sold. This got me thinking, why can’t I embrace my love of literature through the medium of technology. I have an Iphone, with the kindle app. on it, yet don’t use it. So let’s look at the advantages of ebooks versus paper based:

    Ebooks Paper Based Books
  • Access to your entire purchased library at any time.
  • Technology smaller and easier to carry than a paper based book.
  • Take up less space, no over filled bookshelf.
  • Usally some what water proof. * Not that I’d recommend you put it to the test.
  • Book mark doesn’t fall out of the book.
  • It will recommend other books you might like based on what others who’ve purchased the book have also read.
  • No postage and packing costs, as they are delivered via download over the Internet.
  • No waiting for delivery, purchase of the book is instant as is delivery via download.
  • Environmentally friendly – no trees are required along with the process of making paper, the process it’s self can also be damaging to the environment.
  • Fonts can be resized for those who have poor eye sight.
  • Often cheaper than paper based books.
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  • Presented as the author intended.
  • Doesn’t require battery power.
  • Reliable information – publishers check information and the authors credability, whereas anyone can publish an ebook apparently.
  • Editorial – good level of grammar and spelling, ebooks might not have that level of editorial if self-published.
  • Many publishers now use recycled paper or participate in schemes such as for every one tree used, we plant two.
  • A paper book has soul.
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    Clearly the ebook has many more advantages than paper books. But to me paper books have soul. It’s a bit of a difficult concept to explain. I can walk over to my bookshelf and run my finger along the titles looking for some information I’ve previously read. I find one that I think might have in the information I’m looking for, and I pick it up. It feels like the book were I’ve previously read the information. I just know it is. The glossy cover encourages me to open it up and inside the paper has that new book smell. I run my finger down the contents scanning for what I’m looking for and then get distracted by another section in the book. I eventually sit back satisfied, I’ve not only found the information I’m looking for but also reread several other chapters that I’d completely forgotten about, generating new ideas and concepts for me to explore later.

    You don’t get any of that with ebooks. You click your app, and use the search to find what your looking for in your purchased library. Results come up, done. You don’t go through the journey of finding the information and therefore don’t find any of those other chapters that generate new ideas and concepts. Remember it’s not the destination that’s important, but how you get there.

    So the reason I love paper books versus ebooks is because they have soul. Not the most factual based reason, but it’s how I feel. And remember, no one can ever tell you what you feel is wrong. Even if kids do look at you as if you’ve got two heads when you pull out a paper back in Costa Coffee.

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    Antony



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    Monday 1 August 2011

    TV – Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 3

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    Episode 3 was the best episode to date! It starts with Captain Jack, Gwen, Rex and his colleague starting to investigate whose responsible for Miracle Day. At the same time the world start to realise the impact of Miracle Day: that people need pain killers as they’re in pain but can’t die with some believing that they are soulless. Meanwhile Oswald (the openly admitted and found guilty paedophile and murder) starts going on TV talking about how he feels he’s been forgiven for his crime.

    Jack and the gang are led to a pharmaceutical company called Phi Cop and discover a warehouse containing a stockpile of pain killers. How did Phi Cop know Miracle Day was coming? As they discuss infiltration of Phi Cop, Rex falls out with the gang and goes off on his own – going to a doctor who treated him after a accident that happened on Miracle Day. Rex has an intimate encounter with the Doctor and she tells him of the PR Agent who has invited her to a meeting at Phi Cop. Who is this PR Agent? Why is she working for Phi Cop? The PR agent approaches Oswald and he has a meeting with Phi Cop.

    Jack’s theory of morphic fields hits the mainstream web meaning investigating the phenomena is more difficult. Jack, Gwen and the CIA collegue of Rex’s are walking along and Jack sees a gay bar. Jack leaves for the bar, smiling, saying “I’m a mortal man, with mortal needs.” Jack meets a bar man and what follows is a really steamy sex scene. After the sex scene, drunken Jack rings Gwen saying how he wishes Ianto was there, if only he’d survived a few more months. Drunken Jack feels lonley and says to Gwen that as long as they’ve got each other they don’t need anyone else. Jack is practically naked in this scene with a cover covering his bits (which is probably why it’s my favourite episode so far – as John Barrowman is hot!). But Gwen’s not really listening as she’s made contact with Rhys and her baby securely on the computer through the Torchwood’s systems. Jack sighs realising she doesn’t feel the same, that she’s moved on from the Torchwood family and got her own now.

    Rex comes back to the team after asking the doctor to attend the meeting at Phi Cop. The team using Gwen with contact lenses (that show the others what she’s seeing) start their infiltration of Phi Cop. Gwen goes to the PR Agents office and downloads information from her computer, nearly getting caught. Meanwhile Jack confronts Oswald at the TV station to find out about the conversation with Phi Cop. Oswald admits that he enjoyed the rape and murder of the young girl and Jack realises that he actually wanted to be executed. Jack has it on tape, but Oswald’s security take it off him, beat him up and kick him out of the TV studio. And that brings the episode for an end this week.

    Can’t wait for the next episode! As always review it when I’ve watched it!

    You can read previous Episode Reviews here:

  • TV – Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 1
  • TV – Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 2

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    Sunday 31 July 2011
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