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For many months, we have waited and waited–and WAITED for Nickelodeon to do something with the show: The Avatar: The Last Air Bender. This was in the beginning a first for an American cartoon shop, as the style and story were more similar to their Japanese counterparts, than they were to typical American toons. This is part of the reason why this show, in my opinion, caught on so quickly.

Quickly isn’t always the best, as this was seen as the release of episodes from season to season and within a season began to slow at an extrodinary rate. So much so that you began to wonder are they going to keep it going?

For those who don’t follow Japanese anime, you typically find anime fall into:

• 12 episode
• 24 episode
• 52 episode
• 100+ esisodes

Given the number of episodes that the Avatar had and the power of the story, it would have been easy in my opinion for them to take this toon and carry it on for 100+ episodes. What American tooners aren’t use to are story arcs, arcs that divert from the main story line and come back or not, and intertwin and unravle and all kinds of things! This is what makes shows like Naruto be able to continue on for 250+ episodes with no sight in end as to when they will be done. Now keep in mind, that within those episodes there are episodes that you just want to pull out your hair and think to yourself, OMG won’t they bloody end these things!

But nonetheless, the show is now over. In an impressive last 4 episodes regarding Sozens Comet, the show came to a peaceful ending with most of the loose ends wrapped up. It’s what I would consider to be a fairy tale ending. Nothing compared to the heart wrenching ending that say shows like Full Metal Alchemist have, things that have reply values of LESS than 1! But are nonetheless AWESOME anime that are at the top of my all time favor list.

• I know what you did last summer
• I still know what you did last summer
• Party of Five
• Can’t hardly wait

Recently she’s done a bit more interesting roles, such such films as:

• Garfield
• Garfield 2: A tale of two kitties

But I have to admit, what really got me, was how good both the show and her acting has been in the CBS hit show: Ghost Whisperer.

There are a few things that make this show stand up against other shows such as Medium. The biggest difference is the fact that on Medium Patricia can see visions that the afterlife presents to her either in dreams or visions that she has. Jennifer on the other hand, sees ghosts in realtime and can interact with them while they are concentrating their energies to make themselves appear to her. There have been a few frustrating times whereby they need to get a critical statement across to her and they have vanished–kinda makes you wonder how free as a bird they really are.

Nonetheless, the show has gained a lot of credibility in my book, and I would urge everyone to go out and purchase the seasons or DVR it from CBSHD. It’s on my wish list, so feel free to link through it, and purchase them via Amazon (gotta love them!).

The one annoying bit, but at the same time is a bit interesting is the fact that she always seems to wear outfits that you would think would both be uncomfortable, cause others within her quiet little town to look at her like she was a prostitute or something, as they are all quite revealing. Also throughout the show it seems like her breasts are about to pop out at any moment and in certain camera angles you get a glimps of more than you would expect, or see her running and it appears that she’s not wearing a bra! Needless to say his is a bit provacative, but will draw in the male crowds! On the flip side, her husband in the show, Jim, is certainly not without his benefits, and there are situations where he is topless and demonstrating just what a fire fighter/paramedic’s physical attributes would look like. My wife has commented on this several times as we watch the show together.

Regardless from these little bits that might distract you from the show, the acting is top notch and the stories, both in the episode itself, as well as the story arches that CBS has chosen to go with to tie in multiple stories together, has really given me a reason to watch the show. I do have to say that CBS, while I don’t want it for much else, the shows have been top notch!

As most who know me know that I’m someone who reluctantly got dragged into watching Sex and the City with my wife back when it was “hot”. And as much as men these days would say that those types of shows are for women only, similar to shows like ‘The View’ or ‘Opera’, I say, men alike, we can watch these shows and take marvel in the drama just like the next gal. Sure we won’t understand all the little aspects of the show that are inside jokes for women alike, but nonetheless, a good show.

So the creator of Sex and the City recently came to light on NBC with a show called ‘Lipstick Jungle’. Now I have to admit, I was a bit skeptical of this show to begin with–first let’s consider this. If the creator of Sex and the City focused on a show that takes place in New York City, and stars women of varying degrees of success, but still highlighting the power roles that women hold, and who are encumbered by odd and sometimes twisting sexually based circumstances, what could the next series offer that is different? Surprise, surprise, based in New York, power women, sexually charged issues–but there’s a catch, there is something different about this show! You know, I haven’t quite figured out what that is, but there is. So for all those who are wondering, this is a GREAT show so check it out!

So I was scouring the internet to see when one of my favorite shows, Entourage, was going to be returning from a cliff hanger of a season end–turns out that they might not be bad until the Fall 2008 season!!!! How can this be!

You wonder how much of this has to do with the writers guild strike, but again you wonder what other impact this is going to have on the 2008 TV season. All of these shows are now 3-4 months behind their production timescales, will they have time to recover? Will TV be reruns for 2008! OH NO!