Monthly Archives: September 2006

The Boring Diplomat

By terje | Published: September 30, 2006
Home helping my parents with the apple harvest this weekend, and when I’m home, I always try to make my family watch a good movie. This weekend, we saw “The Constant Gardner” form 2005. Not too hard talking them into seeing it, as my mother’s a fan of John le Carré, and as there wasn’t [...]
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No cliffhanger solution >:( — BS7×09 “Never Leave Me”

By terje | Published: September 25, 2006
Good episode. Not among the best this far, but neither among the worst. Although it’s possibly the worst of the episodes directly connected to the seaon arc, but that may only be because it was so… partial. I began as a continuation of a previous episode, and ended like the beginning of another, kinda. Not a [...]
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Cliffhanger of the millenium… BS7×08, “Sleeper”

By terje | Published: September 23, 2006
Finally, the plot arc has taken precedence over the monster-of-the-week dominated episodes. And man, what a hold of me that change gave the season! This episode was in many ways a continuation of episode 7, the review of which I don’t bother to link to, seeing as it’s posted two inches below this post. Very Spike [...]
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BS7×07 – “Conversations with dead people”

By terje | Published: September 23, 2006
This may very well be the hook. Every bloody part of this episode was awesome; the Buffy part was both sad and also funny, at times; the Dawn part was one of the scariest and most creey sequences of scenes I’ve seen in a long time; the Willow part started out sad, but grew more and [...]
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Even Steven

By terje | Published: September 23, 2006
Just finished watching “The Martix Reloaded“, and I gotta say that it was way, way, way better than I remembered. It even made me re-evaluate my rating of “The Matrix”… Like “The Matrix”, “The Matrix Reloaded” was visual perfection. The fight scenes were stunningly chireographed, the actors always looked like the kings of cool (especially when [...]
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Political Compass… 3rd time.

By terje | Published: September 22, 2006
Took that political compass test again, and what do you know? I’ve moved both towards the right and towards the authoritarian extreme. In febuary, I ended up at -9.38 on the left-right axis, and at -8.46 on the authoritarian-libertarian axis. This time, on the other hand, I ended up at -5.38/-6.72. Which probably just goes to [...]
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Grimm, indeed…

By terje | Published: September 22, 2006
“The Brothers Grimm“. A mediocre film, which starts off as a horrible thing, but gets better and better. The acting and the dialogue is dubious, the plot is decent, and the effects and scenery is oustanding. Not much more to say, really, apart from a rating: 5.0/10.
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The Curse of the Evil Football Team Jacket — BS7×06

By terje | Published: September 22, 2006
Whoa. As the previous post indicates, the episode preceding this one was one of the most stunning and emotionally breathtaking episodes ever. This one, on the other hand, was perhaps one of the cheesiest episodes I’ve seen in a long, long, long time. Not that it was completely bereft of uncheesy scenes; one of the opening [...]
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“There’s only me” — impressions of BS7×05

By terje | Published: September 21, 2006
One of the best Buffy episodes ever. Character driven, excellent dialogue, a stunning plot, and heartbreaking character moments, two of which brought tears to my eyes. (Here be spoilers! Or so I believe…) .. I’m not really sure if I can say much more than this, as my words’ll only ring hollow in my ears. It’ll merely be [...]
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Theories in IR: Radicalism — lecture #7

By terje | Published: September 21, 2006
Central topics. Radical theories are often concerned with the role of states in the international economy. Being based on the works of Marx, they also tend to focus in the preeminence of the economic structure over other spheres of society, both as an object of analysis and as a driving force behind social change. Furthermore, Radicals [...]
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