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I’ve been meaning to have a quick personal go at the Heroes finale that aired this last Monday. For the sake of everyone who hasn’t seen it, mass spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned!

The Good!

- It actually wrapped up! I know this seems to be an odd comment for a season finale of a show. However a lot of shows leave so many loose ends at the end in addition to presenting the hooks for the next season that you are left in a huge turmoil of frustration. Heroes wrapped up a lot of points nicely and settled the main storyline of the first season. And did it ever introduce a bunch more spoilers to get me pumped for next season.

- Hiro is bad-ass. Ando is likewise totally bad-ass, but kinda silly.

The Bad

- Ok, Sylar vs Peter vs Heroes. The fight in the future setting was already about a bijillion times cooler. First of all, Sylar, for being so smart in previous battles just totally sucked. The best he can do is watch Hiro run like 10 meters towards him with a sword and stab him? Please! This fight had epic potential written all over it and could have been amazing, yet it was mostly irrelevant. No one died, nothing really cool happened, there wasn’t an oh my god my jaw just dropped moment.

- Only one hero dies, period, it might be the right one in terms of a redemption plotline, but he hasn’t really done anything bad yet either. So not sure. Speaking of, why did he have to do that anyway. Peter can certainly use any of his other powers on his own, why not flight also, why not Hiro’s teleportation while we’re at it.

- There were also about a million and one ways that they could have stopped Peter from exploding, and yet they went with perhaps the most cliche one. Knock him out, shoot him, have him teleport somewhere, have him fly on his own, etc.

The Interesting Comments

- So Sylar is not dead, again.

- That samurai in the past, is it the one Hiro admires? Is it his father? Is it his grandfather? Why does the samurai army use the yet unexplained symbol that appears as a tattoo on Nicki’s shoulder? What is that symbol?

- Who was the guy in the past that saw Peter? Why does he know so much? Who is the previous group of Heroes that’s discussed as starting with a good goal, but then shattering?

- Where do we go from here, I can’t foresee a storyline in the past, it would just seem to odd, especially considering how many characters are left in the present.

- Do all those plot twists in the future not matter at all? Why were they so elaborate then if the future is completely changed?

I almost think I want to sit down and have a conversation with someone who watches the show and discuss so many more points! But maybe soon, we shall see

I had my first season game of soccer today. I joined as an individual, so we got assigned teams of other people who joined by themselves, in my case I think the team is I31 Inter Intermediate Agents… interesting. I showed up at the fields really early, kinda didn’t have much else to do, so I figured I’d just watch some other games until our time. There was some concern for a while about how many players we had, since until the last moment we didn’t have a full team =P Oh well, I kinda like playing without any substitutes, more fun

We lost the game 0 to 2 by the way. Which isn’t too bad, I think we could have had it really. We spent most of the first half just getting settled into some positions and figuring out who plays better where. The first goal was a huge scramble in front of our net, and for a sec I thought we cleared it, but I guess not. The second one was, uhm, shite. There are two refs in the game, the main one, and one to call just outs and offsides on the opposite side. Apparently the one covering our goal didn’t know what the offside rule is until we brought it up at the half way point. Anyway, so that’s what happened with the second goal I also had one of my shots hand-balled right in the box without a call, meh. So, now that the griping part is over, it was a lot of fun! If our schedules were actually posted, I’d be saying “Can’t wait for ______!”, instead I’ll just go with can’t wait for it!

Was watching the hockey game in the lounge in the evening today too, and Sam actually gave me an awesome idea by proxy. He signed up for an all-star team and an advanced team to get more games. I should have really done the same if I thought of it sooner, good thing there’s always next year!

When leaving my last class of the day yesterday, I was greeted with a very nice outside scene of absolutely pouring rain. Not really wanting to wait around for it to calm down since I wanted to get home, and well equipped with sandals on my feet I just walked through it. It was rather amusing because on some parts of the path my sandals were definitely entirely submerged in water, and then sometimes a stream would sort of flow over them when I had to cross the road; I was somewhat eyeing the metal lamp-posts that I was passing by because of the lightning and thunder, in summary, cool! I think the end result would have been the same if I had jumped into a pool and got out after a couple of minutes.

I didn’t end up risking taking my phone out outside, it already got a bit wet as is despite being in my bag. But here are some contrast pictures from that sunshine, and I snagged 2 videos, which are really bad quality but do sort of get the point across as you can see the wind and the rain squalls on the road.

Now, sorry for the quality, but if you’re interested, here are the two videos:
Video 1 and Video 2.

In the end, this storm trapped Adam inside his house with power lines and we didn’t go to the movies, but the rain itself with the storm was really cool

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Went to do some shopping today before my class. I ended up getting some shorts, because it’s getting entirely too hot for pants and jeans, a light t-shirt for soccer (mmm…) and the main attractions which follow!

First of all, meet my new toy, the Nintendo DS! I haven’t named it yet, but I probably should, it was an awesome birthday present from Sharon and Adam! The other item, Puzzle Quest, as presented by PA is the new purchase of the day. I meant to get it earlier, it was actually the game I tried to find for Sharon’s birthday in April, but it was impossible to get without hounding the store on the day it arrived XD I mainly got it because my Econ statistics class is taught by a professor who seems really bad. She also spends an hour on items that should take 10 minutes and then 2 hours the next class reviewing them. So, here’s to passing time

*Glazed puppy eyes with tears go here*, it’s been a really long time since I had proper soccer cleats. I had them in grade school, or was it just at the beginning of high school when I played soccer here for a bit. I can’t remember those, but then before those I had a really nice set of Puma ones which I think I grew out of. Anyway, meet the new pair I picked them up at SportsCheck, a bit of a tense moment there, because there weren’t really any others that I liked, except a really, really expensive pair that I probably wouldn’t have bought. So when the sales guy came back saying he could only find 11 1/2 after I asked for a size 12 I was like “common, fit!” and they did! So yeah, my first official season game is this Thursday, Rhesa is coming out as my “coach” as he said haha, and I think we’re playing again for fun on Friday. These are going to get a lot of use this summer!

So yeah, with Sharon on her Japan adventure I wanted some things to fill in the extra time and these two seemed like the best choices. I also got some book with 4 fictional short stories about events in history that could have gone differently — it was $4 — so I couldn’t really say no.

Well, as some of you know, I’ve managed to move into a double room all by myself And since I’m almost sure I took some pictures out of all the windows of my previous residence during a blizzard, this time around I figured I’d do it during a really nice and sunny day. The picture descriptions are mostly self-explanatory, so, enjoy!

I’m probably going to suffer a horrible death due to lack of air caused by severe coughing later, but that’s mostly irrelevant because I just played 2 hours of some awesome soccer! The good news, we didn’t lose, we were actually up 5 to 1 for a fairly long time. But what can I say, when the other team keeps switching to new players, eventually they just start to outrun you, so we ended on a nice 5 - 5 tie XD

Got 2 goals, got some goale time, so YATTA! Not entirely as tired as I thought I would be too, which is a nice bonus and apparently we’re doing this every Friday in addition to the games I’m going to be playing at campus rec, I like this whole summer thing already

Footnotes:
1. Thanks Penny-Arcade
2. I’m sick
3. Meh

Not quite yet I guess, but close enough. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that my brain really doesn’t feel like writing a summary of the year right now.
I’m technically done my first week of classes, mostly because I don’t have any on Friday’s. Looks like it should be good all around, in terms of the fun factor, and in terms of me getting some more awesome marks.

This post was interrupted by me meeting some more new people, it seemed like a good way to generally break up the lack of things to do and people around evening. So, back to wherever it was that I was.

Sharon and Adam stopped by yesterday with a present, despite me insisting on something small, like milk and cookies, they got me something small like a DS Lite, so touche. Thanks for it and the card! We went out for dinner to Mongolian, it’s delicious, except I just had dinner — so I was sooo full before I even started haha, yeah XD It was an alright night, nothing big, just hanging out, kinda. Had a serious conversation with Adam later that night, that was sweet, it’s great to have friends who you can have a serious conversation with and actually get some good advice and not be like do they even care? So, yey to that =D

So, I think I’ll leave it at that. I kinda want to stop aging, this whole getting older thing isn’t so cool anymore. But, onwards to another weekend!

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…of course more, and all credit goes to ratscape on his devART page.