Well folks here they are! I know skins fans are opinionated and loyal but most the fan comments on e4 have been bashing the second generation with little hope for the third. I along with a good deal of other Skins fans have confidence and hope in the show that is as known for reinventing it's self as it is for it's controversial story lines. I love this show and like everyone else I was sad to see the first generation replaced but I grew to love the second generation and I know the third generation and the next two seasons to come will be just as interesting and entertaining. This time around the cast has a totally different look and vibe I'm excited to see them all in character on screen! This is my totally superficial guess at who I think will be the most interesting characters :) I'll update when the show stars to see if my estimations are correct.
Beautiful hipster tomboy... I wonder what her issues will be?
He could be a loyal best friend with a wishy washy sexuality or a tortured trouble maker! 
She could be a goody goody or the wild child...
One thing is for sure, I'll be watching!
I've been a fan of this show since I learned that Alan Ball was behind it and the first two seasons which stuck strongly to the storyline of the Charlaine Harris novels were exciting and entertaining but as a whole I think season 3 sucked! It was lack luster and boring compared to season two. The third season strayed from the third Charlaine Harris book to such a disappointing degree that they royal screwed themselves out of a great storyline that spread through the rest of the series. Vampire Jessica was hardly around and when she was her storyline was typical and predictable. Sam evolved from the dependable good guy to a real asshole with a killer past. Eric had some of the best moments this season but his ever changing hairstyle is distracting and conflicts with things they've said about vampires. His hair was long then short now it's short and nearly brown. 
Jason is the one character they just won't let us figure out because they keep throwing him into crazy situations where he reacts differently almost like he's got a multiple personality disorder! As for Sookie what happened to the polite and proper girl we saw in season one? With her ever growing bad attitude and new found love of curse words they put her over the edge by dumping Russel's lovers melted insides down the drain and thenhaving her laugh a hauntingly evil laugh that made me wonder how much farther down this road the writers are going to take her. Don't even get me started on the weak and forgive my using the term "retarded" way they are portraying her Fae heritage. 
The best actor coming out of this show by far is the actress Tara played by Rutina Wesly. She has been the silver lining through out the whole season and the one character the writers have evolved and even tortured in a way I can appreciate and enjoy watching. She is one hell of an actress that deserves an Emmy for this season. I was however heartbroken to see her cut all that beautiful hair off before she left town in the finale. Overall season 3 is not one I'll be watching again on dvd. I'll tune into season 4 out of curiosity and hope that it'll be better. Also the fact Sookie now knows the truth about Bill I'm really looking forward to season Eric and Sookie's relationship heat up! 
This season needed more Evan Rachel Wood!!! She's great as the vicious and sometimes vulnerable Queen Sophie Ann. An just to beat this old drum one more time I hate seeing Anna Paquin with blond hair! She was just so much prettier as a brunette and I don't think I'll ever really like her blond it just doesn't suit her!
It's during this time she get approached by Kim Foley to audition for lead singer of his new band The Runaways. That part is history she makes the band and bonds with Joan and Sandy while clashing with Lita. The road leading up to their fame is bumpy and filled with dozens of drug addled and misguided adventures every teen faces, rock star or not. As well as shocking manipulations these girls faced and accepted at such a young age as the price you must pay to be in a successful band.So much goes on in this book that covers their first, second and final tour in Japan. One thing missing from the book is the strong bond Cherie says to have shared with Joan that is never really explained. Little comments about how Joan could always take her out of a depressive spell if just for a moment with a smile or a joke but nothing that really makes the reader understand it. It's almost completely over looked in the book which is odd because in the movie it plays a pretty major part in the bands dynamic as well as Cherie's life. I can only think that she wanted to keep those details private... but then other sad and horrible details pertaining to her sexual abuse and abortion where left in the book which suggests that maybe she left out the true nature and bond of the relationship she shared with Joan per Joan's own request. 
Either Way this book is so good and I wish I could give my opinion of every detail of this book and describe all the thing I took away from it.
Conspiracy Theory is about as blatant and in your face about what the MKULTRA project was and is. A very good movie, some funny moments with a kinda boring and cookie cutter ending but the storyline and specifically a lot of things Gibson's character mentions in the first half of the movie are all based on facts. I guess it's purpose was to either rub it in our face that it's going on or to make it seem like fiction so it would seem less believable or both.
I've yet to see the original Manchurian Candidate but I plan to especially since I've read reports that suggest Frank Sinatra was a controller and in this movie he plays the part of a mind controlled victim. The new version is pretty damn good though and disturbing. It's a movie that only hits the tip of the ice burg about who's behind all of it but it's a must see. Still it's another movie that tries to fictionalize these issues and it has cookie cutter ending as well. 
V for Vendetta is about a lot issues we are facing right now even if some are less apparent and in your face as they are in the movie. I like this movie for showing the control these groups of controllers have over not just the government but the media. The news is patrolled and people who think everything on CNN or where ever is accurate and up to date are ill informed. Who do you think owns all these big media companies? They tell people what they want them to know. Also the mind controlling techniques & torture & experimentation that V experiences is all to familiar to things I've read about MK-ULTRA survivors.
Now I'm not suggesting that this movie is 100% true, I think one thing that the controllers are good at is putting a lot of misinformation out to confuse people that read between the lines. But I think the whole Buy, Consume, Obey mind controlling and brain washing that goes on in advertising is right on the money! Also anyone who isn't at least open to the possibility that aliens, star beings, people that aren't human exist is in serious denial. I also believe that aliens are on this planet in the form of shape shifters or connected through royal bloodlines that have a different DNA pattern as well as ulterior motives and plans for our plant. It's a good more it more ways than one. It's scary in a real life way but also very comical in the way the aliens look. Worth your time for sure!
Who hasn't seen or hear or read A Clockwork Orange? Obviously mind controlled is used to try and :cure" his bad behavior in the movie but I find the underlying implications to reveal he was a programed controller who's vicious and evil ways got too out of hand and needed some extra re-programing. 
This movie points out that while all humans are both mixed with good and bad qualities and tendencies so possibly are aliens and beings from other places in the universe. Brain washing is a pretty big theme in a lot of Hollywood movies! 
The Matrix, everyone has seen it by now and while I don't believe we are all in a computerized life game, I do think that it's possible beings and entities on higher levels and frequencies can influence the matrix of this planet and our universe in ways we can't understand. Consciousness is what drives this planet and I don't it's all entirely human.
Now this movie is awful. Like really, really bad but it holds a lot of Miss-directed truths. Brainwashing people through music, mind controlling mass amounts of people to buy buy buy and stay up on what's in and popular. Good message in a bad movie.
This is by far the best picture I've seen from the Emmy's/after parties! I love True Blood and least anyone forget the extremely entertaining Charlaine Harris books the show is based on and I've always thought Anna Paquin was just adorably quirky and cute but I really hate her as a blond, I know Sookie Stackhouse is a blond and all and Anna plays a perfect Sookie but she looks so much better as a brunette!!!
An even though her gold metallic studded dress was on a lot of worst dressed lists I actually really like it. She took a risk and went kinda glam warrior. I love it!
Yay!!! Jim Parsons won an Emmy for being so super awesome on The Big Bang Theory... that is moving to Thursday nights! I love the show and it's in LARGE part to Sheldon Cooper!!!!! Congrats.
A lot of great music has been filling my ears lately and this one band hasn't been filling my ears enough! Partly because their album which is apparently already out has been a pain in the ass to find. I don't mess with itunes I like Cd's! But the 5 songs I've listened from them are weird, wonderful and brilliant. I missed the last concert they played at the mad hatter in convingtion KY and today I noticed on their website they're not selling tickets to their next gig there which is for later this month. I don't know it they're sold out or not for sale yet but I'm on a mission to find out. If all else fails I'll be taking a drive up to Cleveland to see them! I also really like the wacky photos of the band some are cool other are crazy but in a good way. I wonder who photographs them?
The lead singer is really hot to he has that johnny depp quality where he can look kinda dirty and unkempt but still be sexy! The entire band is pretty good looking even the big dude with the fro in a quirky way, but the music is what makes them so check them out!
