Thank goodness for small favors.

[sisterjune]

I saw the film Waitress last night. It's a really beautiful film and I recommend it to everyone. I thought the story was very empowering and uplifting, particularly to women who are having a hard time the way the heroine of the film was. She's undergoing alot but she's never self pitying or defeatist and at the end she makes two very important and powerful decisions about her life. It's hard for me to go into detail beyond this without spoiling, and I really want people to go into this as I did, blind. Nathan Fillion was really lovely in it and charming, it was odd to see him play an awkward slightly nervous guy since the last time I saw him he was leading a ship of misfits across space. Being that I am very fond of Fillion and his sexy Canadian ass. Waitress almost made me sad that I dont watch Castle. I really did try to watch it but I just could not get past the first fifteen minutes. It just bored the bejeezus out of me. I heard it was quirky and offbeat so I thought it's like a less manic/silly version of psych or something (in tone not premise) but it was just totally boring, like any other procedural. I'm sure if I'd gone past the fifteen minute mark I might have gotten to the more interesting bits but by that point I was ready to call it a day.

I also attempted to watch Vampire Diaries last night, and unfortunately I just couldnt stand it. It's not that it was bad (well it IS bad but that's not the problem) I mean I expected to be more witty and occult I guess? It just felt like your typical teen show but with vampires in it. I watched it and felt so bored, I found stefan dull and as cute as damon is he is a walking cliche, in fact they both are. They are conventional characters, in a conventional story, with convetionally good looks. Now I guess if the vampire/hot brooding guy trying to reform/snarky talking evil hottie fighting over the same girl is your thing than yeah it'd be fun to watch but it's not really my thing. I mean it's basically a mash up of the typical teen drama with a typical vampire redemption plot and the requisite evil vampire trying to bring him back to his primal side. I think this was similiar to my problem with Being Human actually.
The result in both cases was me feeliing very sleepy after the first 20 minutes. and This was not the first ep, this was the most recent one that aired and I taped it on my DVR. So it's not like I just havent gotten to the good parts yet. Honestly though and this is something I knew already, I am long over the vampire thing and was never quite a big fan of it to begin with. I think the only reason I watch true blood is cause the human characters and setting is so interesting, and also skarsgaard is a swedish sex god. But True Blood to me was fresh, interesting, played up and poked fun at alot of vampire tropes, and also has alot of crazy situations and humor. I think really as a show it doesnt take itself too seriously. It also has a great mythology to it behind all the vampire antics, who most importantly are not the center of the whole plot, the center is a human girl. Honestly I dont buy either Stefan or Damon as vamps, the are more like teen boys in pale face make up. but there you are. Ah well, cant love em all I guess!

I've decided to drop Gossip Girl and House. I'll follow House's proceedings via the house_cuddy comm, since that's really the only aspect of the show I care much about. and While I love hugh laurie and I'll keep an eye on him as house because of that, I was never particularly fond of the character House himself. He's kind of a huge douche. which I get is the point but still.

In other news Glee continues to be blah but I cant stop watching it just yet. (especially not after that recent news about whedon directing an ep!) I liked the whole Puck/Rachel thing in this weeks ep, I hope they actually can form a friendship at some point but the ending didnt really seem to support that personally I think it's a little odd how little puck seems to be bothered that quin is carrying his CHILD, but previews for the next week or so seem to indicate he hasnt totally forgotten about that (I also FFed through very Emma/Willa scene, they annoyed me that much with their treacly saccharine crap that just glosses over the fact that they are both selfish cheating assholes)

I Love Community. Have I said that? I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I want more people to watch this show so bad. Hell if I can figure out a way to do so, I wanna send a letter to Dan Harmon thanking him for making this show so even if it does get cancelled after this season he knows there are people who appreciated his effort and his story. Apparently Community and it's characters were based heavily on Harmon's own experiances which explains so much why it feels so real and honest even when it's being quirky and odd in it's humor or plots. I love how real everything feels honestly and I sympathize so strongly with alot of the characters. It's strange how familiar alot of them feel, and each day I find myself relating with Britta more strongly. I mean she's abrasive, doesnt get girl ettiquette, has issues making friends and clearly has daddy/family issues and clearly spent alot of her life being confused, lost and going all over the place but never quite sticking with anything. Her bonding in last night's ep with the sweet Shirley was really lovely and heartwarming. As was Jeff realizing what a douche he was when he made sweet little annie burst into tears in public and his reconciling with her is really precious. The best part of the ep however was Pierce and the Dean attempting to create a mascot for their school team "the human beings" in order to "not be racist" the two conspire to pretty much remove any remotely racial/ethnic identifyers from the mascot, that means no asian eyes, no irish chins, no dark skin or blonde hair etc. The end result is both hilarious and utterly horrifying. and a very apt description of how race is dealt with today, which is to say it's often prevented from being acknolwedged or allowed to exist as a concept when of course it does! To quote Jeff "I think not being racist is the new racism". Anyway everyone NEEDS to watch this, it's funny, it's fresh, it's not full of horrible gender and race cliches, it's smart and best of all it'll make you smile at the end. I gaurantee you, everytime. I am still SO HAPPY THAT IT GOT A FULL SEASON ORDER. However I realized something, I'm not happy enough with just one season. I want another and another and another! So that's why, I am doing a damn pimp post. All y'all better prepare yourselves!

Lie to Me this week was also amazing and I went through a ridiculous amount of grief to finally get a hold of the file since I only got half the ep thanks to stupid baseball running over time. However it was all worth it cause it was a GREAT intense ep, tim roth excels so much at the intense stuff and my shipper heart did many leaps at all the lovely Cal/Gillian interaction at the end. This show just gets better every week. I am counting down the days to the inevitable Cal kicks everyone's ass in poker episode. I loved it when Pysch did it, and I loved it when The Mentalist did it and I know I'm gonna love it when Lie2Me does it too. (speaking of the Roth, I recieved my DVD copy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead yesterday! CANT WAIT TO WATCH IT *bounces with joy*)

To conclude this entry: White Collar's pilot airs tonight! (one of these days I am gonna watch Burn Notice. I have a feeling I'd like it)

Comments

[kipani-mariko.livejournal.com]

I love Nathan Fillion <3 My family watches Castle (my mom loves it) and although Nathan as Castle is hilarious and great, the lead girl to me is rather boring and stereotypical. You know--the pretty and tough lead detective who is probably the romantic interest and stuff. Besides him I also like the girl who plays his daughter--she's really smart and quirky and she acts like Castle's mom sometimes because Castle can be so childish XD I saw Waitress too but I totally forgot that he was in it lol

I wanted to check out Glee for the Puck thing but I never got around to it. I guess I'll listen to Puck's song on youtube or something.

I heard about White Collar. Wasn't sure if it'd be good...? Anyways let me know what you think about it afterwards.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Oooh Mari I didnt know you were a Fillion fan! I am actually quite fond of him. Sadly I only really saw him in 3 things, waitress, buffy and firefly. None of which are long term roles. and I like Fillion enough that I wanna try to give Castle another chance cause I didnt actually get far at all. Everyone who watches it says it's funny and offbeat but I didnt see anything to that effect, which makes me wonder if I jumped the gun too soon? I might do better watching clips from the better parts of the show on YT to get a better idea of the actual tone. Still I have a backlog of tv to catch up with so that may be why I'm harsher than usual.

Yeah if you are only interested in the Puck part I gaurantee you'll find it on YT. I enjoyed his song it was real sweet and I maintain that Puck is the hottest man on that show. Those ARMS *__*

I LOVED WHITE COLLAR MARI. LOOOVED IT. It's totally hooked me from ep 1, that is hard to do with a picky bitch like me let me tell you. and It wasnt all just matt bomer's gorgeous blue green eyes and fedora hats (though I wont lie, those things helped) It was genuinely intelligent, funny, and entertaining. and I got an extra kick out of it since Mark sheppard was a guest star, he's so diabolically british <3 Give it a shot mari, I think you'll enjoy it :) and I might come bug you on MSN in a half hour or so. Just gotta finish up some stuff first.

[wingstodust.livejournal.com]

Aww, it's too bad you didn't enjoy Vampire Diaries. =/ Or Being Human. =/

lol, I'm telling myself to give up on Glee. I watched this week's ep on the tube, and I couldn't even FF those ridiculous Emma/Will moments of blah. When one starts laughing more in a commercial than one does during the entire 40 minutes of the whole episode, you know you gotta quit while you still can. Hopefully when the whedon ep comes out somebody will post about all the good bits so I can just FF to them. :D :D

I AGREE ABOUT THE MASCOT PART OF COMMUNITY BEING THE BEST PART. ♥ I was strongly reminded of dark knight's joker's face with the end results, personally. *shudders* Homg and Community really got a full season order?!!??! I'M SO SO HAPPY WEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I'm looking forward to your pimp post! =D

p.s. i hope you don't mind me friending. you're still the only lj person i found who watches community, and your journal is very awesome. =D

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Yeah I feel bad about it honestly, cause so many of my friends love those shows and they just dont do it for me. I cant even fully explain why. Oh well :(

Yeah I love the kids too much to call it quits just yet, I'm not gonna let one shitty ship ruin the show for me. I feel like it'snot fair to those talented kids for some reason lol. Anyway I still hold out the vain hope that it will stop sucking soon and start surprising me. Plus with no Glee I'll have nothing to watch on wednesdays!

THAT MASCOT WAS TERRIFYING. I almost cried looking at it, it was so freakish and alien looking. If that's the face of not!racism then I'd take bigotry over it any day. Yes it truly got a full season order! Dan Harmon the show creator himself twittered about it! and Ausiello a tv reporter also confirmed it. NBC probably kept it cause if it cancelled all it's poorly performing shows this season they wouldnt have anything left except the Office, 30 rock and Jay leno.

Friend away! I so need more community fan friends :D

[wingstodust.livejournal.com]

lol! Don't feel bad~ If a show's not your thing, it's not your thing. =D

Well, if I had an inkling of a hope that either Artie or Tina are finally gonna get an episode to themselves with a PROPER solo and their own unique storyline, maybe I'd reconsider my Glee renounciation.

It was totally the face of trying-to-be-not!racist-by-completely-misunderstanding-the-issue-at-hand-and-failing-in-epic-proportions. *shuuuuuuuudders*

Clearly, I have to follow Dan Harmon on twitter now. >D

Is it mean of me that I want Community to replace the Office in popularity? I mean, I liked the first 2 seasons, but after a while the show just wore on me

YAY. =D

[dazzlingsoup.livejournal.com]

"(I also FFed through very Emma/Willa scene, they annoyed me that much with their treacly saccharine crap that just glosses over the fact that they are both selfish cheating assholes)" How are they selfish cheating assholes when neither of them have acted on their obvious attraction to one another? The fact that they haven't actually done anything beyond just innocent flirting is almost praise worthy given how interested they are in one another since most people would just cave in at that point and throw common sense to the wind. Especially on Emma's part, when she has pretty much been talked into a relationship she obviously has no desire to be apart of because Ken can't accept no as an answer.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

well here's my view of it, even if selfish cheating assholes is harsh to me there is such a thing as emotional cheating. yes will nor emma have actually had sex but it doesnt matter, they have been emotionally unfaithful, I am more annoyed at will over this than emma since she was only recently married and ken knew already that she's not really in love with him. Before I go into will, I will say this about emma. Normally I take the girl's side but in this case Emma is not an innocent, Ken did not bulldoze her into anything, she said I am gonna marry you cause I dont wanna be alone. That was her reason, nothing we have seen so far in shows it that it is otherwise. I mean emma said they wont tell anybody about the marriage, they wont live together, they wont hang out after work. Her conditions are pretty ridiculous and unfair but ken still agreed to them. She wont even let him touch her and he pretty much let's it go. I"m not saying he should be more belligerent to her about it, imho he should realize a hopeless case when he sees it and know that this relationship will never work for him and he needs to move on. So while I pity him a bit, it's very minor cause he's letting himself stay in this crappy relationship. In Emma's case though, I have ZERO sympathy. Yes she's lonely and that's sad, yes the person she loves is taken, and that's sad. But at the end of the day, she chose to say yes to marriage to a man she clearly has zero romantic feelings for, actually finds kind of gross, all because the guy she likes is taken. and Yet she still continues to flirt with him even after she accepted to marry ken and she believes will is married to a PREGNANT woman. That is pretty fucked up IMO. Will likewise though he says he's never intentionally encouraged emma, he's pretty obvioulsy flirting with her and when his wife showed up he seemed angry that she was around because she was preventing him from being around Emma. H clearly has feelings for Emma. There is doubt of this to either of them or the viewers. Basically in reality, when a married person is in this situation 1 of two things happen, an emotional affair occurs that may very well lead to a physical affair or the person or persons in question wise up and realize that this is not going to lead good places and then they pretty much limit their interactions to the strictly professional and make sure they rarely see each other. This is a tv show so it's not like it has to be totally realistic but that doesnt mean I can ignore what's going on here. I had no problem with Will/Emma in the first few eps cause it was all minor and subtle and i could believe they had no idea what was going on or what they were doing. but now? there's no innocent parties here. Personally though my biggest problem with the storyline now isnt that everyone is being dishonest, it's that it's taking up so much of the plot away from the younger student playing actors. Who are I thought supposed to be the center of the show. and yet will has a big chunk of plot every week and it's usually him flirting with emma and the various manufactured obstacles that will keep him and emma apart. of which I cannot even remotely care less.
But hey man, we can agree to disagree too. everyone likes the show for their own reasons.

[dazzlingsoup.livejournal.com]

But an emotional affair is nothing horrible, people are attracted to others even though they are still very much in love with another person. I know that once I get married that even though my heart will be with the person I marry, I'll probably still find some attraction in another person, though never to the point I would actually feel like I needed to leave the one I leave (which is pretty much Wills situation since he has never made any sort of effort to leave Terri even though shes a psycho wench). I expect the same with anyone else because remaining completely neutral post marriage is just an ideal situation. Plus, maybe it will take his emotions growing for Emma to make him realize that he was never really suited for his wife in the first place. Is it really all that fucked up of her to flirt with someone she clearly loves very deeply? Maybe it's because I've been in a similar situation to Emma that I can understand what she is going though. Also, as for the episode when crazy wench started working at the school, I saw that as more of a her invading his personal space instead of "Oh you're wrecking my flirting time". I'd be pissed off if my husband or whatever suddenly started working wherever I do because I need my personal space. Hell, Terri has her craft room for her personal time to get away from Will.
Oh well, to each their own.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, that's why you were upset about what I said. I never took you as the hardcore shipper type so I thought it was odd you were bothered by my dislike of Will/Emma but now I get it. Something similiar did happen to you I remmeber that but Kayla just fyi I really did sympathize with you in that situation but there are some large differences between what happened with you and what is happening on Glee. 1. the people in you're scenario i am assuming were all around your age and thusly very young. 2. no one was pregnant in your situation (yes terri isnt actually pregnant but both will and emma THINK she is) and 3. neither you nor the other people involved in your situatoin were married or engaged. these are all huge differences for me. While I wouldnt say emotional cheating is ever a good thing, I think there is a point where it can be much more forgivable and understandable if/when it occurs. such as in your situation. In Will's situation, he's married to terri, been with her over five years, she's (assumedly) pregnant, and emma has recently gotten engaged in herself. The fact that their are feelings is not the real issue, the issue is, both are aware of this yet continue to shamelessly flirt and engage in some IMHO very intimate gestures, conversations and actions. and the show sort of plays it off as romantic when I'm just looking at it and feeling irritated and grossed out. It also bothers me that Terri is protrayed as a psycho so Will can get a free pass for engaging in that behavior and to me I dont care how scary terri is, he made a vow to her on his wedding day, he made a promise and call me old fashioned but he makes a promise like that it means he has to uphold it. Even on the days when Terri is being a bitch. and If she's really at the point where there's more bad than good then he needs to talk with her about it and it's not worth it to him to save his marriage then he should be honest about that at least cause from what I see so far, for all her faults, Terri really loves will and doesnt want him to leave her.
This whole she annoys me but i cant leave her so i'll just flirt with my sweet passive coworker instead thing that Will is pulling is dishonest and underhanded at worst and weak and spineless at best. He needs to take responsiblity, he's still under the impression he's gonna be a dad which is something he seems to care about yet he's engaging in these flirtations and I mean it's worse even cause he now knows she's engaged to his fellow coworker and said coworker confronted him about it and he's still playing this so obvliviously. it's plain wrong IMHO.
I can see why you sympathize with him a bit but there is a big difference between finding someone hot while being married and what will/emma are doing. It's definitely gone way past the point of innocent friendship by now as well. Just my opinion of course, I'm not judging you either way just want you to know that. At the end of the day it's just a tv show and my biggest peeve with will/emma remains that they take time away from the aspects of the show I truly enjoy rather than any question of morality.

[whited-79.livejournal.com]

tim roth excells so much at the intense stuff and my shipper heart did many leaps at all the lovely Cal/Gillian interaction at the end.

I also heard Cal called Gillian 'love' the other day...how British of him yet it still made me giddy LOL!

[not-as-we.livejournal.com]

I am counting down the days to the inevitable Cal kicks everyone's ass in poker episode. I loved it when Pysch did it, and I loved it when The Mentalist did it and I know I'm gonna love it when Lie2Me does it too.

:D:D:D:D:D

[whited-79.livejournal.com]

I think I replied to the wrong comment LOL!