‘Justified’ Premier – Tone Shift

  • January 8, 2014
  • Matt

I watched the Justified premier last night, and while I enjoyed it, it didn’t feel much like the Justified I’m used to. The show seems to have gone through a tone shift, to a much darker place. The characters are somewhat emotionless (until angry) and villain characters like Boyd Crowder are less likable due to his (and their) increased ruthlessness. So far, the show has lost some of its fun, but there’s only been one episode. I’ll need to see how this season pans out before making any judgment on the show’s direction.

Almost Human

My final evaluation of Fox’s “Almost Human” is that it’s not clever enough for SciFi fans. The plots are quickly figured out and plot holes are easily identified. That being said, the characters are likeable and the acting is good. If they’d get slightly better scripts, I’d continue to watch.

Simple Handbrake CLI Batch File

I was looking for a simple bat file for HandBrake CLI to fascilitate the transcoding all my videos in a specific directory, but didn’t really find one online. So I wrote this one. Hopefully, someone will find a use for it.

For those not familiar with batch scripts, this particular script changes to the F: drive, changes to the directory “Movies”, and then for each file with the extension “.vob” it runs Handbrake, transcodes the video using the “AppleTV 3” preset, and then deletes the old video file.

@echo off
f:
cd \Movies
FOR %%! IN (“*.vob”) DO (
c:\handbrake\HandbrakeCLI.exe -i %%! -o %%!.mp4 –preset=^”AppleTV 3^”
del /Q %%!
)
c: