Shinies

No gold, no jewels, no funky glass, but Clone Troopers.
They (We) are the best troops of the Galaxy, if full trained.
They (We) have the best genetic potential thanks to our "father" Jango Fett, but without proper training they (we) are like an uncut diamond.
Today I watched the Episode 5 of the 1st Season of the new animated series The Clone Wars where a bunch of shinies (new, non completely trainer Clone Troopers) man a small outpost on the observation line of the Republic. The line is formed by a large number of such outpost with the mission to establish a perimeter of early warning for incoming Separatist attacks.
Not needing to say, a droid commando tries to seize the outpost to allow a Separatist fleet to approach Kamino unnoticed.
The Episode is simple (as all the episodes of this TV Series) but the wakening op the shinies is great. They discover what for a potential they have.
Also, as far as I know, this Episode mentions by the very fist time the existence of the 501st, the elite legion of the Empire, which started as an Elite Clone Trooper group.

Defend the Republic, join the Empire ;)

New Amsterdam

What means being immortal? Is it a curse or a gift? That’s probably what John Amsterdam must be thinking all the longest minutes of his eternal life. Born 400 years ago, his life changed completely when he saved the life of a young American native girl. His generous action was rewarded with a sword through his chest and a new immortal existence courtesy of a bunch of native women and a shaman. It’s supposed that an eternal life is time more than enough to find the true love but, what happens meanwhile? How can someone wait calmly for “the one” while his sons and daughters die one by one and the world he has once known disappears?
This is more or less the plot of New Amsterdam, a new TV series which mixes the search of this immortal man for the only woman in the world who can make him mortal and the problems of his current personality as a detective for the police department. Chapter after chapter, we find out how a man, who has committed all the mistakes a human being can make during hundreds of “lives”, faces the worse that mankind can offer in a city like New York, full of crime and sorrow.
Armed with the cynicism and the self-confidence that only have seen everything can give, John Amsterdam spends his time between murderers, corpses and memories of past times, not necessary happier. Out there, in the same place where all began (the old dutch colony of New Amsterdam, today called Manhattan), waits the woman of his dreams. Will he be able to find her?
More information in http://www.fox.com/newamsterdam/.

Yellow Umbrella

Luke, I am your father....

and I will tell you...

How I met your mother

This TV Series is already in its 3rd season, at the moment on the episode 13th. Basically the story is centered around Ted Mosby (in the picture in the middle) and his search for "the" woman, o better said, the one he married and which he has two kids, a girl and a boy.

Each episode starts on 2030, with both kids sitting on a sofa and the voice of Ted in off remembering past times.

The first season is situated in the space-time coordinates of New York-2005 and refers mostly to the wedding plans of Marshal and Lili (on the picture on the left), the relation with Robin and the "activities" of Barney (both on the right of the picture).

On the course of the three seasons we learn more and more things about Ted and his friends, and, of course, about the girls that Ted and, especially, Barney meet with.

I don't intend to explain here the series in deep, first of all because I have no intention to spoil it to any one, just to recommend it.

The series does not refers to social or political issues, only neutral issues are normally treated and always in a funny, rather simple approach. Don't expect deep philosophical or moral dilemmas here, only just some fun.

I you decide to check it or are already watching it, don't forget to check for the yellow umbrella...