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My interest in Person of Interest is hanging by a thread.  This started out as a wonderful show about 4 individuals (Reese, Carter, Finch, Fusco) and how they worked as a team to carry out saving the people represented by numbers coming from Finch's machine. This season, they pretty much broke up "the team," and if this finale is anything to go off of, Shaw and Root pretty much took Fusco and Carter's places.  Fusco wasn't even in the finale and they breezed over Carter's story so fast I found my self upset by it.

In all of this time, why hasn't Reese taken her to Finch's secret hideout? Now, I'm going to guess she's been there because she had Bear in a previous episode, and I doubt Finch dropped him off with her, but it's possible.  Still, that could have been shown.  I know Reese took Shaw there this episode because he had to, but the way it happened and the personal stuff that was covered made it seem like... I don't know.  I just feel like Carter keeps being sidelined and she's a main character, meanwhile "recurring" characters get better focus and inclusion.  It just reminds me of Teyla on SGA, and that's not something I want to sit and watch again.  In fact, I won't.

Anyway, the bright spots in this finale were Finch and is ex-fiancee (I absolutely LOVE them together, and to think, they're married in real life ;)) and Finch realizing what an "irrelevant" number really means. I might watch the premiere of season 3, might not.  At this point, they'd have to sell me on the team (the real team) being a major part of the series again for that to happen.   I'm ready for Shaw to get her own show so people that like her can watch her and the regular team can be a team again.

Mini-Rant:  It's time for Carter to learn about the machine so she can help more.  That "it's for your own good" bs isn't cutting it anymore because she's already in waaaaaay too deep.  She already helps them with their missions, so I don't see why knowing how they get their info is going to change anything.  She can already be "tied" to Reese, and he's "tied" to Finch, so really, her not knowing is just another way for the writers/producers to sideline her.  /end rant.

Okay, it's official.  I think I'm in love with Tony Stark.  Iron Man 3 was everything Iron Man 2 should have been, but wasn't.  It has action, love, good buddy moments between Stark and Rhodes, believable danger, and a formidable opponent.

Rather than giving a detailed run-down of the story, I'll just point to the things that either I liked or had some issue with:

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So there you have it.  There are far more reasons to watch this film than not.  Iron Man 3 was just as good or better than the first Iron Man movie in all ways but one:  The way the first movie took the "War on Terror" and used it to humble a selfish, egotistical, billionaire, bringing him into a fold of reality he never had see or even acknowledge, is hard to top.  Thank goodness for Iron Man 3 that it doesn't have to in order to be a worthy sequel.

Final Analysis:  Lots of heartfelt fun with bits of danger and comeuppance thrown in.  Save a few bucks and see it in 2D.
Grade:  A

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Well, I've had a lot going on lately, but I was able to finally complete the second chapter of my Reunited story about Russell and Talbot from True Blood.  This is my first time writing chapters, so I hope this works out.



Read Chapter 2 Here... 

Okay, so since GoT is about to start soon, I decided I'd make some icons to celebrate the series coming back for its third season.  Here they are:




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Enjoy! :)

This one is the one I've been working on for a little while.  I promised it to a friend, and here is the first chapter.  Any feedback will be welcome. :)








Read Story Here.

So, this is the new trailer for Iron Man 3.   This is THE number 1 movie I want to see this year, and this trailer makes me wish that May was here already.  Just thought I'd share.  :)

Well, I figured it was about time to get around to doing another PS post.  I decided to try working with text effects again.  One thing I've learned with my limited work with typography is that it may look simple, but getting those nice looking text creations takes some time, creativity, and patience.

So anyway, I decided to work on words creating a word.  I thought of all the words I could think of to describe either Teyla and/or her journey in the Atlantis show, and then I used those words to create the word Teyla.  As per usual with my first attempts, it didn't quite turn out exactly as I'd hoped, but I did learn what I need to do differently the next time so that I can get the desired effect.

Here's the small Blue version of my Teyla Wallpaper:



See what I mean?  The words didn't quite frame the word "Teyla" the way I wanted them to, but that was because I didn't make sure that the words I used kept to the edges of the word I wanted to create enough.  I added in some shading to help fill in the word "Teyla" and created different background colors below:

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I also did another one where I faded out the bottom to see if that helped a bit, and it did (at least to me it did).  All in all this was fun, particularly because I created my own backgrounds (instead of using pre-made backgrounds) and I learned how to add a spotlight on my work.  I had to upload some more brushes (can you ever have enough, lol) that were a grungy set in addition to uploading more fonts.  Then, I added some extra texture to the picture using the grain effect.

That's it for this time around. So, until next time,

♥ Bye. ♥

Um, I just happened to click on ONTD's rules page, and I got this scary warning below:



I've never seen anything like this on LJ, and so I wonder, has anyone else seen a message like this?  It says that it was "reported" as an attack page, so I don't know if the report could be true or not.  And if it is an attack page and someone has low security settings on their browsers, does that mean that the page won't be blocked for them and they'll possibly get infected with something that "monitors" or "steals private information" from them???  It just seems scary.  I hope LJ is checking into this because this is bad if it's truly an attack page AND this is the flagship community of the website.  Yikes!

Let's just hope I'm being paranoid for no good reason, but this looks bad.  :(