Saturday Snippet: FIN

Aloha, a hui hou.

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Saturday Snippet: Mahalo

It was announced today that Hawaii Five-0 will end after 10 seasons.

This picture perfectly captures everything about the show.

Mahalo.

xx

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Sunday Scrap: McDanno

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Saturday Snippet: Boys will be Boys

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Saturday Snippet: Famous Last Words

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Talkie Tuesday: The Meg

"Meg versus Man isn't a fight ... it's a slaughter."

Hello everyone!

I hope you appreciate this blog post because, lemme say this loud and clear, I will NOT be doing this again.

No, seriously. 

Although, 'never say never' is probably one of those sayings you should learn to live by, and I remember when I was a kid I tended to even follow it, but it seems I managed to forget since becoming an adult.

Of course I said never to this movie. Any SANE person would say never to this movie! I still have nightmares about the bloody In the Heart of the Sea.

And then what happened was I had to eat my big, fat never, because once the movie actually rolled around, I couldn't get up and walk away even if I tried.

I'm talking about the one and only, of course.

The Meg.

Saturday Snippet: McGarrett

McGarrett being ... well, McGarrett.

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Saturday Snippet: Catching Up

Me tonight, watching TV shows.

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Saturday Snippet: Chris Vance

The British version of Lt. Com. Steve McGarrett.

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Talkie Tuesday: Season Finales

"Who's turn is it, anyway?"

Hello everyone!

This week's blog post is going to be slightly different as I forgot, just a tiny bit, about a promise I made to write it all out once the regular shows in season through the year came to a close. Well, they've certainly been on hiatus now, and still no post from me! 

You'd think by now I'd learn to actually make note of what I should or shouldn't write.

Nope. Not me.

In any event, after reliving through Pirates 5 in the beginning of the week, it's time to turn my attentions somewhat closer to the smaller screens again. This post will not, in fact, delve into all the details about what happened during each season finale I'll be talking about, but it will certainly give you enough information to go look them up if you feel inclined to watch, and haven't already!

Come to think of it I may rewatch some of them, just because they were so amazing ...

Saturday Snippet: Work & Music

Hello everyone!

So I don't know about you, but I find that, sometimes, I work much better when there's music involved. Although, to be honest, not just any kind of music, either.

For example, as a translator, I need to focus specifically on the words that are staring at me from the computer screen. This means that if  hear any kind of song where the artist starts singing, especially in one of the two languages I'm working with, my concentration will be shot pretty much to hell, and I'll need to start a sentence from scratch again.

This is probably one of the chief reasons why I've gravitated towards score music over the years.

I've always loved soundtracks. I remember when my dad would still order CDs from a magazine that was delivered once a month to our house (yeah, this was way before online shopping), my sister and I could each pick one CD every few months, maybe once or twice a year.

First one I picked?

The Fellowship of the Ring. Haven't looked back since.

My current addiction are the extended Hobbit soundtracks; please ignore the playlists in the middle as I'm way overdue for some overhaul, those are the same as they were five years ago!

Over the years, as I became more and more immersed in popular culture, I realized that movies and TV shows alike usually have two different kind of musics running through them: on one track, there are songs by featured artists, either written specifically for that purpose or picked because the message the song conveyed was on the spot; on the second track, the orchestral score with no lyrics, underlining what was going on.

I will sometimes enjoy the first set very much, but mostly I veer sharply towards the original scores. There's something incredible about hearing the main theme of something you're watching on-screen. Probably everyone knows the Game of Thrones one, or Star Wars!

Which is why, when I translate, I make sure to pop in my headphones, get my original motion picture scores, and crank them up so they block out all other noise.

Then, in my happy place, I translate.

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Some of the composers I enjoy listening to: Howard Shore, John Williams, Klaus Badelt, Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, Bear McCreary, Blake Neely, Trevor Morris, Michael Giacchino

Favourite Score: The Lord of the Rings

Favourite Track: The Bridge of Khazad-Dum

Favourite composer: Howard Shore; Hans Zimmer is a close second

Favourite theme song(s): The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean

Summer tune: Hawaii Five-0 (2010 version)

Talkie Tuesday: The Tudors (season 1)

Hello everyone!

So last week, I talked about how I was watching a TV show and needed to finish it before I would write about it. I can now happily confirm that I've watched the full first season of The Tudors, and after a break during which I finished Hawaii Five-0 season 5 (yes, yes this isn't a blog post about THAT, but I recommend it. It's SO. GOOD.) I plan on starting season two.  

So, the Tudors is an older show which has already finished, as most of you probably already know (if not, you just learned). It ran for four seasons, with ten episodes in three seasons and eight in one. Since it ran between 2007 and 2010 (or was it 2011?), you're probably all wondering the same thing:

how come I'm talking about this now?

Well, here it goes: my friend Maegan and I were talking at one point, and one thing led to the other, which eventually led to Henry Cavill. This went on to the Tudors, and the conversation suddenly turned into something like this:

Maegan: It's my favourite show ever, I rewatch episodes so much.

Me: I'm almost ashamed to admit that I've never watched it from start to finish, just random eps.

Maegan: WHAT?

Me: Um ... I've never seen the Tudors, strictly speaking?

Maegan: BLASPHEMY! WE MUST CHANGE THIS!

Haha, okay, it wasn't EXACTLY like that. But we DID decide that, for my home schooling project titled 'How to make sure you DEFINITELY watch The Tudors', Maegan and I decided to watch the show together.

Synopsis Saturday: clandestine operations, irony and John Diggle

Hello everyone!

It's Saturday, and that means the second synposis since this blog started. Luckily, this week was still full with shows, because as of the next one, a lot of them are taking a week (or two) of a break, which means I'll get some air to breathe inbetween keeping up with the lot I watch, if nothing else! It was an action-packed week on every single episode it would seem, but SO much good writing that I was sitting on the edge of my seat almost all the time. Awesome!

This week saw a newbie make its debut, so I'm going to start the review with the new kid on the block, State of Affairs.

Katherine Heigl, State of Affairs, NBC

Synopsis Saturday: dance elimination, Inhumans and religious conflicts

Hello everyone!

It's time for the first synopsis of this blog! As I've mentioned before, I watch a lot of TV shows during their regular airing schedules, although granted since I live in Slovenia I have to watch them differently than on actual TV, since we don't have the channels. I'm going to briefly review/comment on the episodes I watched this week, providing you with links to each show as I go. 

(Dancing with the Stars, ABC)