| May. 3rd, 2009 @ 02:01 am Reviews: Get the Led Out & LotS episode 19 'Cursed' |
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Current Mood:  excited
Current Music: No. 11, Ed Gerhard
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A double feature tonight since I got too involved with reading last night to review 'Get the Led Out.'
I almost decided not to go to the concert Friday night with al the flu scares and 'probable cases' in Concord. But then yesterday I stopped looking at news of any kind and, taking all precautions and tons of hand sanitizer, decided to go anyway. I got in ten minutes past the start time due to delays at the restaurant, but they didn't start until a minute after I got into my seat. It was very nice of them to wait for me. ;) jk.
The concert was very poorly attended. I walked in and wondered if all our clocks and watches were wrong. I got my very nice front row side aisle seat about a couple of months ago (They've been on sale for a year.) so I don't think it was the flu scare. It is a shame because the band has a great deal of talent... perhaps the most raw talent of any of the tribute bands I have seen. They were fantastically versatile and talented musicians and their singer had a voice that was eerily similar to Robert Plant's. He was not at all hard to look at, either, I must add. Not hard at all. :D
These guys played their hearts out for three hours without an intermission. You could tell the performance meant a lot to them. While I will never name Led Zeppelin as among my favorite bands, I really appreciated the passion, integrity and skill of these men and I truly hope they win the audiences and success they deserve.
**** 1/2 stars.
LotS Episode 19 'Cursed.'
A much darker episode than last weeks, for sure. It starts out with a woman running away from a hideous monster... and failing to get away.
Zedd, Richard and Kahlan are called to a kingdom that borders D'Hara that have fought and won many hard battles against the enemy. While they have been recently left alone by the D'Harans, they are under siege by the aforementioned hideous monster. It turns out that Shota, the witch woman who lives next door to the kingdom, has, at the king's request, cursed the king to turn into a monster every night to protect the people from the D'Harans. He appropriated a Rada'han (A collar that suppresses magic.) to keep the monster in check when he isn't ravaging D'Harans, but the collar can't contain the beast, allowing him to rampage through the woods killing his own people every night... eventually including his own wife. (The woman we saw in the beginning.) The only thing that can kill him now is the Sword of Truth. The king, (whom is normal during the day and does not remember the monster's rampages) tells Richard to kill him when he turns into a monster at night, if Zedd can't convince Shota to remove the curse. That night the king escapes his confinement and Richard is forced to kill him, passing the kingdom and the curse to his daughter. Eventually they discover there is a D'Haran mole in the castle that is scheming to nab the throne and give the kingdom to Darken in exchange for promises of power. It turns out the Rada'han does work, but the mole drugged the king and removed the collar before his transformations. A badly planned battle with the D'Harans ensues. The day is, again, saved by Zedd, (with Shota this time) and the young queen in her monster guise.
All of this is done pretty well, for the most part. Kahlan goes into the Con Dar blood rage when Richard is cornered by the beast king, and has difficulty snapping out of it. She then goes on about how she is a monster and snaps the Rada'han around her own neck in a fit of stupidity. Richard does redeem himself somewhat from the previous episode when he tells her that this power is a part of her and she should learn to embrace it. It was very book!Richard like advice. I'd like to see more of that Richard and less of horny-teenager-in-a-tv-show!Richard in the future. There were a few oddities and canon twisting, but it worked reasonably well and was one of the stronger episodes.
*** 1/2 Stars.
We're coming down to the wire now. Only three episodes left to go this season. I'll be petsitting next Saturday for a new client for just the one night. I hope they have a good TV to watch the show on. I am petsitting the next weekend as well. Unfortunately I'll be home for the finale, though. I would have liked to see that on a larger, nicer screen.
It should be a good mail week coming up. I got a flower head wreath for the faire and a new cloak if it is cool. I have a couple of doll wigs and a pair of eyes, too.
I ordered the new Soom Monthly dolls Hati and Skoll on layaway. I just couldn't handle having a layaway that ended in September so I made it four months instead of my customary five. Heliot's layaway is coming tantalizingly close to done, Amber has two left, Iplehouse Ryan has one left, and Glot and Glati have three. By the middle of June Heliot, Amber and Ryan will be paid for. I can't wait to get everyone home! |