Hi, I'm Fernando Souza. A Bittersweet Life is my personal website, a place where I keep my own blog in which I write mainly about useless facts about my pathetic life. Nothing very interesting, really!

Can Heroes be saved?

by Nando on February 7, 2010

Once upon a time there was a show about ordinary people with super powers and at the time it was one of my favourite shows on TV. There were the good guys and the bad guys. The good guys didn’t know each other, but they were all mysteriously drawn together, in a mutual objective that was to stop an atomic bomb from exploding in New York. There was also that funny japanese dude called Hiro, who had the most amazing super power – freezing time and time travelling. Hiro had to save the cheerleader no matter what.

Four years later, this same show has changed completely.  We still have the same original characters, but their objectives, reasons and past actions seem to be lost in the middle of a very poor and badly written plot. The so called Heroes have lost and gained back their powers several times during the storyline, sometimes they’ve gained different super powers (wtf?). They’ve also died and come back to life, as well as been lost in time (several times) and brought back to the present. Very confusing, right? On top of that, every new episode we were introduced to these new characters who were not important at all, but they wanted us to fear them because they had these so cool super powers that could be used to do bad things. Whatever…

Can Heroes be saved? It’s indeed a difficult question. I guess it still can. But they should to it very fast!

What’s the first thing they should do? Well, they have to figure out who the bad guy is. Is it Sylar? Or is it the crazy dude from Prison Break with the forced scottish accent? My vote is on Sylar! I’m tired of this Sylar is good and then he’s bad again, thing. Sylar is the bad guy, he kicks everybody’s ass when he’s bad, period! Kill the other dude. But, if you think eveybody’s is tired of Sylar, kill him and keep t-bag. The thing is, we only need one big bad guy.

The second thing is to put the coolest character as the main character again. Yes, I’m talking about Hiro. It was all about him in the first season, right? So, bring him back! Seeing Peter Petrelli with his original super power would be cool too, since he is the only one who can fight equally with Sylar, but then this would only be necessary if you decide that Sylar has to live.

The third thing is a major objective that would make the characters get together again and fight for the same thing.

That’s it. It seems pretty simple, doesn’t it?

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An Education

by Nando on February 3, 2010

Carey Mulligan, write down this name! I’ve just watched An Education, and I was extremely surprised by her performance. That’s one of the best performance from an actress that I’ve seen in the past few years. I Can’t even remember the last time I felt this way by an actress. The film, which is the first screenplay written by Nick Hornby (another favourite of mine), is indeed very good and Carey’s performance makes it excellent. Of course she has help from a very good cast, which features among others Emma Thompson and Alfred Molina, but Carey herself makes the film very enjoyable to watch. I won’t be surprised if she wins the Oscar for best actress. It would be very deserving! Have I mentioned that she’s British and has a sexy accent? This definitely one of the many reasons why she is now one of my favourite actresses!

kr5jj2-aneducationThe film is set  in the early 1960’s,  and sixteen year old Jenny Mellor (Carey Mulligan) lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father’s wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than his. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny’s life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Of course David’s intentions are others and in order to know about them, I recommend you to watch the film. You won’t regret.

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I had the feeling something like this would happen. Someone leaked the first four minutes of the last season of Lost. In this sneak peek you will see the last scene from the last season (Juliet hitting the bomb, and what happens next). If you don’t like spoilers, do not watch the video below!

Now you can compare the scene you’ve just seen with this scene from the first season. There are some important and/but subtle differences. Can you notice?

So, what do you think?

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Some questions I want Lost to answer

January 28, 2010

I’m very excited about the return of Lost. I can’t wait to find out the mysteries of the famous island. However, since this will be the last season I know that they will probably not answer some of those mysteries. Here are the questions I want and feel that the writers must answer:

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Thesis Theme 1.6

January 28, 2010

Wow! It took me exactly one week, but I managed to deliver the new design as promised! I’m really happy with the final result and I hope you like it too. I’ve chosen to use a theme called Thesis Theme, which is now in its version 1.6. I chose it because it gives you the [...]

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Shame on me

January 19, 2010

Exactly, shame on me! It’s January, 19th and it’s been more than 2 months since my last post! And I haven’t even finished my Manaus diary! You know what, I won’t finish it! I don’t think I did more exciting things than the ones I mentioned below. One thing worth mention is the fact that [...]

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Google Wave

November 13, 2009

I’ve just got an invitation from google to start using Google Wave. Didn’t think twice to accept it but to be honest with you I have no idea what google wave actually is. Well, I’ve seen the tutorial videos and everything but I still don’t understand how and why people will use it. And if [...]

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Manaus – Day 3

November 13, 2009

Sorry for taking more than a week to write about day 3 of my trip. I’ve been really lazy and I know this is not a an excuse for that. Day 3 was probably the most amazing day of the trip. Amazing because it was not an ordinary day, it was a day in which [...]

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Manaus – Day 2

November 1, 2009

We woke up extremely early (thanks to the time zone) and so we went to have breakfast at the hotel. Gotta love hotel breakfasts! And this one is amazing, I ate like a pig! (just one quick note: the guarana juice is great!) After breakfast we decided to go downtown, the old part of the [...]

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Manaus – Day 1

October 31, 2009

I woke up at 4:30 AM, left home at 5 and my flight took off at 6:45 AM. It was a 1h50min flight to Brasília, capital of Brasil, where I would meet my father, his wife and my little brothers. I had never been to Brasilia before and I still haven’t. I can’t consider knowing [...]

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