Blessed are the Damned.

In case you didn't know this about me, I like the character John Constantine. Granted I didn't fall into this until a few years after the Keanu Reaves movie came out. Ever since I picked it up though I have come to like hte character more and more. I even emulated him in my pathfinder games that I ran as a major character. Although I couldn't really do a good Newcastle accent. Nord and Australian though I have to a recognizable tee. So I come to you this evening to talk about the NBC show Constantine

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I, like many, watched the pilot episode for Constantine months ago. And I got worried. I wasn't the biggest fan of what I saw. I liked Matt Ryan's portrayal of Constantine and accepted that he was still finding his place in the role. The woman in the story though. Major meh. Thankfully they listened to the fans. She was quickly replaced and they didn't even explain it really. Now Constantine is being followed around by a much better story character in the newly awakened psychic. I'm current with the show as of the writing of this blog.  Thankfully Hulu gets the show next day.

I had a few gripes with the show at first. I felt a lot like it needed a higher rating and that the show was being held back by John having to be kept from smoking and cursing. The character is no idol. He is imperfect. He has vices and works to conquer them finding himself more capable of dealing with other peoples problems than his own. He is easy to relate to. a few episodes in and the show is really starting to pick up. If you stopped watching I suggest picking it back up if you are a fan of this type of story. Episode 5 with papa midnight, Constantine casually lights a fire with a cigarette that we never saw him light or smoke. This lead me to believe he was filmed smoking and it was just cut out. So I was starting to have some faith that maybe there was more filmed than what aired. Maybe Constantine did smoke in the show and cursed occasionally. Maybe their play was to release the unrated dvd collection afterwards and rake in the secondary money.

Then end of episode 6 he lights a cigarette. Nobody talks about it. All next episode nobody talks

about how he suddenly started smoking. A few curse words were thrown in while we were at it I noticed. He went from clean mouthed to ass. Not arse. Ass. Which was a little weird but I let it pass. Maybe I don't understand English accent differences as much as I thought I did. Having never been to England and All. New England doesn't count. It is just cold and full of Steelers fans.  So here he is now smoking and cursing. The occult is getting more and more up to par with what I expect out of it. You can follow what they are doing with their occult stuff and it doesn't feel overly christian like the 2005 movie did.

So now here we are. I feel caught up on Constantine the show and I'm watching the latest epp legally the day after it aired. I'm loving this future where producers realize what people want out of them and give it to them. I liked this episode a bit more than the rest. We didn't durdle around as long in filler scenes. The basic premise of this episode was that a holy man with sin on his soul tore a feather from an angel on his way to the afterlife and found himself back to life now as a healer of the people as an angel lays dying in the woods. John is found smoking and cursing to a small degree throughout the show.  Most importantly he is the typical master of the dark arts that we expect from him. Skeptical of everything he sees and sure that he is always right.

As usual he is proven to be wrong a few times in this episode. The twists are only predictable once they have set us up the clues they intended us to see. We still don't know who exactly Zed is. Her mysterious past is a welcome plot line for me. They like to tease little things here and there from throughout the DC universe and the Hellblazer/Constantine story-line. I'm excited to see more of how this story goes.

Of course there were rumors that Constantine may be on its way out the door at NBC. We have the rest of the season to go for us yet to tell. So if you have a neilson box go ahead and give Constantine a watch on Friday nights please. Also hit it up on hulu and any other valid online streaming method you have so that they know you are watching and that people like the show. #SaveConstantine

Thanks everybody for bearing with me and my poor writing skills. I started blogging because I like to express myself. I keep blogging to try and improve my writing and organization skills. If you have any comments or concern please feel free to comment below or email me at jesuisunbear@gmail.com (soon to change see about me for updated info)

suggested listening today is

And Then I Posted nothing again.

I moved. It took a while and I had some troubles and some trials. This has actually been one of the best living situations I have had in a while though. Roommate stays to herself and I stay to myself. It works out here. What didn't work out was the Internet. We both had bad records with Time Warner and were trying to find a way around it. Eventually we just caved and took care of our problems and now we have the Internet. Also I finally have a computer back, which I have had for a few months without internet.

So here I am. Settled in. I said I would keep posting again once I was settled in and here I am 8 months later finally doing that. The problem is, however, that I haven't read shit. Last time I bought comics was halfway through the 'Death of Wolverine'. I still have to finish that even. I have some backlog to go through just to catch up in the series I want to read the most. Also now that I actually pay rent my comic book budget is quite lower. Also the store nearest me close and i don't live near the good comic book store anymore.

So basically not a lot of things going in my favor. Life wise though I am fine. I have been riding the bike and playing Pokemon. But, this isn't a life blog. Check the sidebar, or whatever current place links are with the format you are reading in, for Adventures of Nothing in Particular. Lets get back to comics.


That is about all that I have to contribute for now. :/ I'm catching up on Constantine, Arrow, and Flash. Not rushing to catch up on SHIELD. Maybe I can talk about those for a bit but mostly I'm just going to talk about Constantine. That is more than I needed to tell you for now. Thanks for reading. I guess I really did want to go back to blogging.

See you later space cowgirls.