Pair of Unrelated Items

Two things I felt like talking briefly about.

Firstly, I completed Prince of Persia last week (the new one) after sitting down for a bit and forcing through it. I stopped playing it a while back because I got bored but I managed to return to it and rushed to the end. It was a really odd game.... it was just one bit quick time event. See a pad press triangle, press circle for rings, press cross for everything else. That's about it. It got really annoying in the last part of the game due to a 3 minute sequence of the things that I kept failing. Nearly gave up at that point. It looked really good but it just didn't make up for the lack of game play. Bleh .... least I didn't spend much on it.

Secondly, I watched through Torchwood - Children of Earth over the last few days. I'm a bit torn on how I feel about this one. On the one hand I obviously really enjoyed it, I was enthralled each time I sat down to watch it and plowed through it as quickly as I could. The story was solid and I really liked the aliens reason for wanting the children, that was just disturbing. But I felt it was let down a little by a poor ending. Well..... actually.... it was just let down by Captain Jack in general. Its a really good character but it seemed like they didn't know which way to write him - tortured old soul, hardened warrior capably of making tough sacrifices, or loving family man and protector of all that is good. They could have picked 2 of these, or some combination of their different parts. But they picked all three and it was just a mess. Combine that with John Barrowman (he has good days sometimes......) and well ........ bleh. On the whole I enjoyed it though.

Now what should I play and watch next.....?