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sisterjuneSo my last post was kind of angry and I wrote it in a flurry of caffeinated rage. Basically before yesterday I hadnt updated for a while and wasnt really commenting on my flist's entries for the most part. The reason is I am very busy lately with school, with getting my life together because I'm getting older, my parents are getting more burdened with expenses from my siblings and I basically need to start focusing on getting my shit together and being independent already. The only reason I havent announced a hiatus is because I do like to update my lj and respond to friend's entries whenever I feel like it. So I'll pop in now and then to say hi to people or talk about shit in my lj, but otherwise I just wont be as active online for awhile.
Anyway moving on..
I changed my layout a little while ago, it is now very pink with some black. I tend to alternate between black and pink alot with my layout coloring choices. Methinks after this one it's time to change things up. Maybe dabble in purples and yellows for a while.
TV
Leverage 209 - a bit anticlimactic for a mid season break, but it's understandable considering it wasnt originally planned for that. That being said I enjoyed it alot and I love how Tara was introduced to the team. I'm gonna miss Sophie the elegant European grifter but Tara the tough American grifter seems pretty cool too. I think the best part of the episode was Nate's HORRIBLE suits. God they were so ridiculous I loved each and every one of them. I loved Nate's character's last name "poppadockalas"? I wish he'd play that character every episode. I cant decide who I like more nate's sleazy lawyer persona or his go as a quirky german headmaster of a private school. both of those were GOLD. *sigh* no Leverage till January :(
Psych 4x05 - I am so glad this show is back! That week it skipped due to it being labor day weekend just about killed me. I need a steady dose of Psych in my life or I start to go into horrible withdrawal, I get a rash and everything people srsly. This was a great episode, I loved the beginning the most though. I really love how psych is balancing the humor and the drama lately, I mean it's definitely let itself get more intense with the cases in the later seasons but I still enjoy the show so much. It's just alot of fun no matter what. I felt the first episodes of the season were weak but everything since then has been great. and I CANT WAIT for the bollywood episode! I just know it's going to be awesome. and unlike the telenovela episode (which I loved anyway) I will actually get most of the jokes and references. Since my parents love bollywood and I've seen more than my share of bollywood films (ok about 3...and a 1/2. but believe me, it is enough)
True Blood S2 Finale This was very much not what I was expecting. and by that I mean. Deeply anti climactic. Alan Ball said this finale would be very satisfying. YOU LIED TO ME BALL! Don’t think I will forget this!
Having Sam be the one to kill Mary Ann after she harassed him all season definitely had it's poetic justice but the fact that her final death scene was orchestrated between Sam and Bill and took less than 3 minutes to execute was just beyond irritating. Sookie effectively did NOTHING but scream the whole time. It was HER house, and she barely got to do anything. and what about Tara! Wasnt Tara the one who supposedly CALLED Mary Ann forth? But Tara had nothing to do with anything at the end. Since Tara called her, shouldnt Tara have had SOMEthing to do with Mary Ann's death or destruction? I mean Sookie at least go to tear down that ugly statue on her yard but wtf did Tara do except stay under Mary Ann's thrall for the past few episodes. She didn’t even have to take responsibility for calling forth a crazy maenad! Can I get a WTF? But that's not even the part that bugged me the most. No the larger issue was, Mary Ann has been an ominous presence since the end of S1 and all throughout this season, she kept talking about a God Who Comes and after ALL that build up. Her storyline is wrapped up in under twenty minutes, with absolutely no real repercussions from her actions on the show? SERIOUSLY? I mean the whole time I kept watching and thinking "thats....it? that's it? THAT'S IT?" It just felt like such a waste. I kept waiting for there to be a hint even the barest of a hint of SOMETHING being awoken, even briefly from Mary Ann's occult ceremony. But instead it was just "is there no God?" from Mary Ann and I'm just like OF COURSE. We can except the existence of vampires, faeries and werewolves on this show but not the divine. I mean seriously this is a show where the Supernatural is ever present and yet they cant even entertain the notion that Gods or Deities exist? I mean obviously he wasnt going to show up cause the whole point is that Mary Ann doesn’t have the power she thinks she has but they still should have let SOMETHING otherwordly happen from Mary Ann's ceremony. She was building up to this for so many episodes and we the viewers sat through hours of her antics and it just all came to NOTHING. I was expecting some seriously EPIC shit! and I hate how Mary Ann's entire existence was basically made into "just a crazy girl" and her faith in a divinity is what turned out ot be her undoing. How fucked up is that? Even though Mary Ann did have some wise and important things to say between all her crazy shenanigans and DID improve Tara's life for a while. I…just the whole thing was somehow deeply offensive to me and I'm even sure how to explain why. Let’s just move on.
After everything that took place, this whole show seemed to undergo some kind of reset. I mean Tara is back to being miserable, Jason is back to being stupid and useless, Jessica is back to being a hell child of the night, bill and sookie are back to being lovey dovey, and bon temps is back exactly to the way it was. Now there were some interesting developments yes. Hoyt finally realizing what a horrid shrew his mother is, Sam is going to look for his birth family and hopefully there will be some serious repercussions from Egg's death. Since Jason killed him and if Tara finds out his and Sookie's role in Egg's death I'm sure there will be hell to pay. Still Egg's death was also something most of us saw coming from day 1 so his death was hardly shocking, the fact that Jason killed him and Sookie drove him mad was a little more surprising but will ultimately not be worth a damn if this doesnt cause a rift between Tara and the Stackhouses. Also where the hell did Tara's mom go? She just disappeared!
Honestly I hate being so negative about a show I love watching and I rarely bitch like this but after enjoying the past few episodes so much, having to wait an extra week to see this and feeling excited wondering what was Mary Ann's purpose in the end....I got this. and really by itself it's not a bad episode. But as a season ender? WEAK. So weak. and they could have easily given the end of Mary Ann more time and more depth, and focused less time on the revival of bon temps, it was nice to see everyone getting it together again but it didnt need to be that LONG. I was very bored for a big chunk of the episode and I'm rarely bored watching this and I SHOULDN’T be bored during a season FINALE!
All bitching aside there were some things I enjoyed about the episode. Like Lafeyette in the maiden's gown, the scene with Eric and the Queen, Lafeyette’s adorable little clap before the opening credits, and Sam finally getting some respect for at least 2.5 seconds. Looking forward to his story next season btw, I hope this means we get more shapeshifters next season. Sadly as far as what I loved that's all I can really think of. The cliffhanger for this season was also rather weak I should say, I mean obviously bill wont die and I know I should be thinking "OH NOES what happened to him!? Who took him?!" but I just could not give less of a shit. And I don’t care if it’s Eric or Lorena either. Oh well, hopefully next season will be better. I'm still gonna watch and hope that I wont be so disappointed next time. I really hope Tara gets to do something next season cause this time bitch got ROBBED.
Jane Eyre 2006 - started this and havent seen the final ep yet but I am struck by the liberties BBC took with the plot on this one. Usually BBC is all about being faithful to the source material. I imagine it's because they did a Jane Eyre adaptation 20 years prior and decided that this time they could just go crazy with it. That being said I cant blame them for trying to make Rochester seem like less of a douchebag. Because OMG he was so unpleasant in the book and to cap it off UGLY. I keep thinking the only reason Jane got with him was cause she was too low on herself to think she could ever do better. Plus he had money, after starving most of your life you'd probably marry any schmuck with a fancy coin purse. I think the best part is when they show Rochester's wife and she turns about to be this beautiful but insane spanish woman and she starts shrieking at Jane when she sees her "PUTA, PUTAAAA" omg I cracked up SO HARD. This is totally the crack version of Jane Eyre. Also WTF Rochester, he is ridiculously good looking and kept going on about how he is so ugly and no one can love him even though there was a gorgeous blond trying to marry him for the first 3 episodes so wtf is he on about? (he insists it's cause of his money which...ok valid) but srsly I think I yelled at my screen once "OMG STOP BEING A FUCKING GIRL AND SUCK IT UP" so ridiculous. But this is why I would never be the heroine of a romance novel or a Gothic horror novel. Cause I'd tell the Hero to STFU everytime he whined and I would NOT follow the creepy laughter in the dark ominous hallway. OMG WHY DO THAT? WHAT GOOD CAN COME OF IT?
I will end this post by saying NEW GOSSIP GIRL TONIGHT! GLEEEE~
Anyway moving on..
I changed my layout a little while ago, it is now very pink with some black. I tend to alternate between black and pink alot with my layout coloring choices. Methinks after this one it's time to change things up. Maybe dabble in purples and yellows for a while.
TV
Leverage 209 - a bit anticlimactic for a mid season break, but it's understandable considering it wasnt originally planned for that. That being said I enjoyed it alot and I love how Tara was introduced to the team. I'm gonna miss Sophie the elegant European grifter but Tara the tough American grifter seems pretty cool too. I think the best part of the episode was Nate's HORRIBLE suits. God they were so ridiculous I loved each and every one of them. I loved Nate's character's last name "poppadockalas"? I wish he'd play that character every episode. I cant decide who I like more nate's sleazy lawyer persona or his go as a quirky german headmaster of a private school. both of those were GOLD. *sigh* no Leverage till January :(
Psych 4x05 - I am so glad this show is back! That week it skipped due to it being labor day weekend just about killed me. I need a steady dose of Psych in my life or I start to go into horrible withdrawal, I get a rash and everything people srsly. This was a great episode, I loved the beginning the most though. I really love how psych is balancing the humor and the drama lately, I mean it's definitely let itself get more intense with the cases in the later seasons but I still enjoy the show so much. It's just alot of fun no matter what. I felt the first episodes of the season were weak but everything since then has been great. and I CANT WAIT for the bollywood episode! I just know it's going to be awesome. and unlike the telenovela episode (which I loved anyway) I will actually get most of the jokes and references. Since my parents love bollywood and I've seen more than my share of bollywood films (ok about 3...and a 1/2. but believe me, it is enough)
True Blood S2 Finale This was very much not what I was expecting. and by that I mean. Deeply anti climactic. Alan Ball said this finale would be very satisfying. YOU LIED TO ME BALL! Don’t think I will forget this!
Having Sam be the one to kill Mary Ann after she harassed him all season definitely had it's poetic justice but the fact that her final death scene was orchestrated between Sam and Bill and took less than 3 minutes to execute was just beyond irritating. Sookie effectively did NOTHING but scream the whole time. It was HER house, and she barely got to do anything. and what about Tara! Wasnt Tara the one who supposedly CALLED Mary Ann forth? But Tara had nothing to do with anything at the end. Since Tara called her, shouldnt Tara have had SOMEthing to do with Mary Ann's death or destruction? I mean Sookie at least go to tear down that ugly statue on her yard but wtf did Tara do except stay under Mary Ann's thrall for the past few episodes. She didn’t even have to take responsibility for calling forth a crazy maenad! Can I get a WTF? But that's not even the part that bugged me the most. No the larger issue was, Mary Ann has been an ominous presence since the end of S1 and all throughout this season, she kept talking about a God Who Comes and after ALL that build up. Her storyline is wrapped up in under twenty minutes, with absolutely no real repercussions from her actions on the show? SERIOUSLY? I mean the whole time I kept watching and thinking "thats....it? that's it? THAT'S IT?" It just felt like such a waste. I kept waiting for there to be a hint even the barest of a hint of SOMETHING being awoken, even briefly from Mary Ann's occult ceremony. But instead it was just "is there no God?" from Mary Ann and I'm just like OF COURSE. We can except the existence of vampires, faeries and werewolves on this show but not the divine. I mean seriously this is a show where the Supernatural is ever present and yet they cant even entertain the notion that Gods or Deities exist? I mean obviously he wasnt going to show up cause the whole point is that Mary Ann doesn’t have the power she thinks she has but they still should have let SOMETHING otherwordly happen from Mary Ann's ceremony. She was building up to this for so many episodes and we the viewers sat through hours of her antics and it just all came to NOTHING. I was expecting some seriously EPIC shit! and I hate how Mary Ann's entire existence was basically made into "just a crazy girl" and her faith in a divinity is what turned out ot be her undoing. How fucked up is that? Even though Mary Ann did have some wise and important things to say between all her crazy shenanigans and DID improve Tara's life for a while. I…just the whole thing was somehow deeply offensive to me and I'm even sure how to explain why. Let’s just move on.
After everything that took place, this whole show seemed to undergo some kind of reset. I mean Tara is back to being miserable, Jason is back to being stupid and useless, Jessica is back to being a hell child of the night, bill and sookie are back to being lovey dovey, and bon temps is back exactly to the way it was. Now there were some interesting developments yes. Hoyt finally realizing what a horrid shrew his mother is, Sam is going to look for his birth family and hopefully there will be some serious repercussions from Egg's death. Since Jason killed him and if Tara finds out his and Sookie's role in Egg's death I'm sure there will be hell to pay. Still Egg's death was also something most of us saw coming from day 1 so his death was hardly shocking, the fact that Jason killed him and Sookie drove him mad was a little more surprising but will ultimately not be worth a damn if this doesnt cause a rift between Tara and the Stackhouses. Also where the hell did Tara's mom go? She just disappeared!
Honestly I hate being so negative about a show I love watching and I rarely bitch like this but after enjoying the past few episodes so much, having to wait an extra week to see this and feeling excited wondering what was Mary Ann's purpose in the end....I got this. and really by itself it's not a bad episode. But as a season ender? WEAK. So weak. and they could have easily given the end of Mary Ann more time and more depth, and focused less time on the revival of bon temps, it was nice to see everyone getting it together again but it didnt need to be that LONG. I was very bored for a big chunk of the episode and I'm rarely bored watching this and I SHOULDN’T be bored during a season FINALE!
All bitching aside there were some things I enjoyed about the episode. Like Lafeyette in the maiden's gown, the scene with Eric and the Queen, Lafeyette’s adorable little clap before the opening credits, and Sam finally getting some respect for at least 2.5 seconds. Looking forward to his story next season btw, I hope this means we get more shapeshifters next season. Sadly as far as what I loved that's all I can really think of. The cliffhanger for this season was also rather weak I should say, I mean obviously bill wont die and I know I should be thinking "OH NOES what happened to him!? Who took him?!" but I just could not give less of a shit. And I don’t care if it’s Eric or Lorena either. Oh well, hopefully next season will be better. I'm still gonna watch and hope that I wont be so disappointed next time. I really hope Tara gets to do something next season cause this time bitch got ROBBED.
Jane Eyre 2006 - started this and havent seen the final ep yet but I am struck by the liberties BBC took with the plot on this one. Usually BBC is all about being faithful to the source material. I imagine it's because they did a Jane Eyre adaptation 20 years prior and decided that this time they could just go crazy with it. That being said I cant blame them for trying to make Rochester seem like less of a douchebag. Because OMG he was so unpleasant in the book and to cap it off UGLY. I keep thinking the only reason Jane got with him was cause she was too low on herself to think she could ever do better. Plus he had money, after starving most of your life you'd probably marry any schmuck with a fancy coin purse. I think the best part is when they show Rochester's wife and she turns about to be this beautiful but insane spanish woman and she starts shrieking at Jane when she sees her "PUTA, PUTAAAA" omg I cracked up SO HARD. This is totally the crack version of Jane Eyre. Also WTF Rochester, he is ridiculously good looking and kept going on about how he is so ugly and no one can love him even though there was a gorgeous blond trying to marry him for the first 3 episodes so wtf is he on about? (he insists it's cause of his money which...ok valid) but srsly I think I yelled at my screen once "OMG STOP BEING A FUCKING GIRL AND SUCK IT UP" so ridiculous. But this is why I would never be the heroine of a romance novel or a Gothic horror novel. Cause I'd tell the Hero to STFU everytime he whined and I would NOT follow the creepy laughter in the dark ominous hallway. OMG WHY DO THAT? WHAT GOOD CAN COME OF IT?
I will end this post by saying NEW GOSSIP GIRL TONIGHT! GLEEEE~
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Date: 2009-09-14 11:43 pm (UTC)I will just say I had fun watching the True Blood finale as a cap to my epic 7 episode marathon. It worked for me, but yeah it was certainly bizarre. I didn't see it stamping out the notion of a higher power succinctly in that one line across the entire show and its themes, but I do see the metaphor (that it was her belief that caused her undoing) and think that it's actually great due it it being so fucked up. I'm actually really impressed by this show and it's inclusion of religion and ideas and notions of god. They entertain the idea constantly in scenes, plotlines, and characters and their own ideas and opinions. I definitely didn't see Mary Ann's conclusion as the show being like "our supernatural world has no god or gods" ever at all ever. Was that what you're saying or you just didn't like the metaphor as to how it played out with Mary Ann?
I can see how waiting for that episode for 2 weeks might have let to a disappointment, but it worked for me as the conclusion to a 7 episode marathon lol. I guess I don't even know how to break down the different episodes, it's all one giant story in my head. It seemed to flow really well with the rest of it and capped things off in this way that, while the last half could feel deflating, I felt was more like setting up newly-damaged-by-s2-events bowling pins and then starting to knock them down again already.
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Date: 2009-09-15 12:00 am (UTC)See I think I totally would have enjoyed it more if I watched it all in succession like that. True Blood is definitely one of those shows that works better when you watch the episodes close together/right after each other. Cause Ball let's the episoes continue exactly where the previous one left off, rather than having each episode have it's own story. It's why I enjoyed S1 as much as I did cause it really has some slow spots, if I'd had to watch it week after week I'd have gotten frustrated much more easily.
The Mary Ann storyline was so long! I didnt mind it really but after all that time, over a year if you count S1 eps which I'd watched before S2 had started. You'd think more would have happened. But oh well man :( It really wasnt terrible, but I felt like with all the build up and the waiting it felt like such a let down. I think that's the problem with weekly progams, you gotta take into account how time can affect viewers perception of the show.
As for the deity thing it was more I didnt like how the metaphor played out. But I think I did do some ranting in general about tv and religion. Cause alot of people and tv shows sort of look down on people with a strong faith. and I feel bad that that's the way Mary Ann had to go in light of that, but as a plot device by itself it really IS clever in a way. and I dont think Ball necessarily meant ill against ANY one who believes in something strongly when he did that, but if it's something you're already sensitive about like myself, then it's hard to see it any other way. It was a momentary anger though, I ranted it out and I feel better about it now. As for Gods on True Blood, who knows, the way Alan Ball spoke abot Mary Ann in an interivew and her God conjuring did make it sound more like she couldnt summon a God and less like there are no Gods to be summoned. So it's entirely possible that Ball might entertain that idea in the future, though as far as I know the Stackhouse books dont have any Gods in them. Either way, I still love this show, and I hope I can go back to squeeing about it like a fangirl again soon! It's really great to have more people on the flist who like it. So I can have conversations like this :)
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Date: 2009-09-15 12:14 am (UTC)And I totally get you! I was just wondering re: if it was the micro level of the plotline that bugged or the macro level of the entire series as a whole. I was simultaneously all "what the hale is going on now?" and "wow that is so strange and imagery and oh and weird and kind of beautiful" re: the bull thing. But definitely I can see where people are coming from from all sides on this finale. And I completely agree with you re: themes on tv in general. I think supernatural shows are the best and exploring these themes and its a shame when their creators don't take advantage, no matter what their own beliefs are. I thought the scene between Godric and Sookie on the roof was so beautiful, so when they have that and then all these different other scenes going on as well I think that's points in its favor. BUT I TOTALLY SUPPORT YOUR RANTING! RANTING IS GOOD. I love when TV makes people crazy, including myself! :)
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Date: 2009-09-15 09:15 am (UTC)but for me... i read the books... i´m just pissed about the fact that they changed so much contrary to the books....
nothing is right.... i love the sookie from the books but on screen she is a very different woman *sigh*
and i say that not because of the whole sookie/bill/eric thing.... no... all is just so wrong!
the others shows i don´t watch, so i can not really say something about them :)
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Date: 2009-09-15 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-15 08:48 pm (UTC)I enjoyed the treadmill scene of Psych this week. So far, nothing has topped Gus going through the lasers in the season opener, for me. That was so hilarious.
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Date: 2009-09-15 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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