God bless the weekends
After a long and hard week of work, weekends usually mean getting some rest and catching up with the rest of the world. Being grad students means working on the weekends sometimes, but it doesn’t have to be the same as a weekday, so we can take it easy. I actually like to start working starting Sunday afternoons, whether I have any work to do or not. It actually helps me get over the “I hate Mondays” syndrome really quick.
Archana and I have a really lazy way of spending weekends. We spend most of the time catching up on the TV shows and picking movies to watch. It actually takes us an hour to pick a movie to watch and we usually end up not liking it. We don’t watch horror or drama, so that limits the choices. It’s almost always romance and comedy that wins the vote. Unless we want to get some regional flavor, we watch Telugu or Hindi movies and it’s difficult to find a good Hindi/Telugu movie that is intelligent and devoid of all the hyping up of the hero.
In Indian movies, the hero can hit a 100 people single-handedly without even using a weapon. It seems believable in Kung-fu movies where Jackie Chan jumps around taking a few blows but still managing to beat up a few thugs using the environment as props. It is also quite believable if Keanu Reeves fights 100 Agent Smiths in Matrix, because it is a fictional world. But, in Indian movies, the hero punches every thug into the air with just one mighty blow. Worse, the hero is almost always a lanky kid (who is probably the son of a veteran actor). The Indian hero is Superman, without a cape. Even in movies that does not involve a lot of action, the emotions seem unreal and over the top.
Our latest obsession is watching TV shows. We pick a TV show and watch all its episodes from its season 1 until we reach the current season. We started this trend with “Prison Break” and we quickly got addicted to the show. We used to spend our weekends just watching one episode after the other. The show is in its final season now. I guess the season finale is supposed to air on May 15th. It was a good show and even though we will miss Michael Scofield and his crew, I think the decision to end the show is a good move. It was getting predictable and it doesn’t bode well for the show that relies on surprising the viewer at every corner.
Currently we are watching the Heroes and loving it. Even if it’s getting a little contrived after 12 episodes, it’s still quite enjoyable. I hope it will be as interesting and fun as Prison Break.
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