1. I'm waiting for the moment when I stop hating Caitlin. I was watching this in the basement of the SUB and there was another guy who came down and watched it too - we don't really talk, but we both laughed at her when she said whatever her line was about killing "the bitch" that is Veronica Mars. Hey, in my opinion, Veronica did us a huge favor. There are way too many characters on this show right now, and Veronica is just doing a little tidying up. I hope you're next, Caitlin. I'm pretty sure you're no match for Veronica's blue electricity Emperor Palpatine-esque power.
2. I hate the cheerleaders. Even the nice ones. They're pointless. I don't really understand why Claire likes cheerleading because she isn't like any of those girls, as far as I've noticed.
3. I'm kind of confused how Monica got to New York. She was like "so are you going to tell me what this is all about?" or something to Mohinder... why didn't she ask him that stuff before she left her house with him? I mean he could have been some kind of murderer or whatever. And look what happened, she did almost die. Mohinder was going to inject her with whatever that virus thing was and it was going to either kill her or take away her powers. I'm surprised Monica was stupid enough to just get up and go with him, no questions asked.
4. "It's for the greater good." This dude has been hanging out with Gellert Grindelwald! (Well, I know a lot of people have said "for the greater good" before J.K. Rowling put it in her books but that is what I will always think of when anybody ever says it. Anyway.)
5. Okay, who are these Ukraine people? Claire's dad went to visit them to see the rest of the paintings from Isaac Mendes (which, by the way, how many more paintings can the guy have). And he's part of the Company apparently... so how widespread is the Company? It's in the Ukraine and America... where else? Probably several places. (It was Ukraine, right?)
6. Wow, that LG fridge looks totally awesome.
7. OH WEST. You can't just go up to the cheerleader girl and say "I'm hot and I have a power. Put me on the squad." Those two things do not automatically qualify you as a good cheerleader. Also, I'm not a fan of this public humiliation idea, West. Not cool. I hope it's not like "let's dump food on her!" Because that would be so stupid.
8. OH A MENTION OF CLAUDE! Come back Claude. Please. Go get Peter and bring him to his senses.
9. Mr. Bennett/HRG = still a great big douche. I'm back to totally hating him like I did last season. I realize he's just trying to protect his family, but still. I just don't like him.
10. Did Maya, Alejandro and Sylar really think it'd be that easy to get across the border...? And I'm kind of surprised that they came to a section of the border fence that just so happened to have one piece missing from it.
11. I'm really confused as to why the cheerleaders just hang out in their uniforms all the time. Is that a realistic interpretation of cheerleaders?
12. Okay Claire and West... that was admittedly pretty creative way to publicly humiliate Debbie, or whatever her name was, but also kinda crappy and mean. That said, she deserves it for being retarded enough to be drinking on school property.
13. Um... I don't care about Sark, Hiro, and Mulan anymore. Pretty much I think Hiro should come back to the present and maybe bring Sark too, so I can continue to look at his cute face. Mulan can stay in the past though.
14. Okay, so did the Company really change? Or is it a ploy to keep Mohinder there?
15. Ummm... Mulan figured all that out from holding her hand up to Hiro's face? That makes no sense. But poor Sark.
16. "Delicious power." What a great way to have Sylar describe how he sees their powers. Especially what with how he eats their brains to get their powers. Poor Alejandro though, I wish he could speak English. How does his twin sister know English and he doesn't?
17. Not sure how I feel about Sark punching Hiro but I'm not all that fussed about stupid Mulan getting captured. I wonder how all of that is going to play out. I thought it was pretty cut and dry (and therefore boring) so I'm glad they surprised me with this "shocking" turn of events. Although, it does seem sort of stupid of Sark to just give up and join the bad guys, just because he saw Hiro kissing his girlfriend - a girlfriend that he wouldn't even have if it wasn't for Hiro, BY THE WAY. Sark, you're kind of an idiot.
18. I'm really amused by Peter randomly discovering his powers. I hope he turns invisible, and then can't figure out how to not be invisible.
19. So it looks like it's a virus they're going to have to stop this time, rather than a nuclear bomb. Hmm. The alternate futures they keep coming up with are pretty interesting though.
20. I didn't really like this episode either but at least it seems to be getting slightly more interesting.
Monday, October 29, 2007
take me on, take on me, I'll be gone in a day or two
1. Ohh, I love "Take On Me" by Aha! It makes me happy. And Dan's wearing a mask because it's Halloween, right?
2. Yay for the awesome theme music.
3. Where were they just leaving money around that their kid found it? Why isn't it in a safe or something?
4. That'd be so weird to see yourself in the past. I'm kind of annoyed though, because in the previews they kept saying "if you had the chance to go back in time and tell yourself something, what would it be?" Well, the part where Dan sees himself was for like two seconds, and he doesn't say anything to himself. He's kind of staring when Jack is yelling at him for being out late, and then one of them (was it Jack? It would make more sense if it were Jack) sees him and goes "what are you staring at?" and I can't remember what Dan says, but Livia stops him from going over and intervening. I wonder if Dan remembers that now and remembers seeing himself and not knowing it then.
5. Clearly the little brother is the bomber.
6. I was right.
7. I really want one of those Sync car radios. Those are amazing. You just tell it to play whatever music you want and it does it. You don't have to worry about almost crashing when you're changing CDs or songs on your iPod when you're driving. It's probably really expensive though. BUT STILL. IT'S COOL.
8. Did anyone else see the commercial for that new air hand dryer thing! That was so cool! And yeah, I do the thing where you wash your hands, "dry" them off on the dryer and then wipe them off on my pants because it never gets the job done! Wow! I hope those things get installed in places soon because I want to try one.
9. I was watching this in the basement of the SUB and a HUGE spider walked across the floor in front of the TV. It was the biggest one I've seen that was not a tarantula in Costa Rica. It was gross. I put my shoes back on at that point because I was nervous that it would come over to me and walk on my bare skin and poison me or something. (It didn't.)
10. Whoa, the crazy bomb guy knows Dan's time travelling... hmm.
11. I like Jack. He's really just trying to help... I wish Dan would just tell him the truth about his little habit, so he could stop being so suspicious all the time. And I'm glad Katie wasn't cheating on him, and that she really does love Dan. I don't need another reason to hate her.
12. I think next week's episode looks sweet. Going back in time to protect yourself... I think that's cool and will probably be more exciting than this episode was. I like thinking about the paradoxes like that... it's the most interesting part of time travel stories.
2. Yay for the awesome theme music.
3. Where were they just leaving money around that their kid found it? Why isn't it in a safe or something?
4. That'd be so weird to see yourself in the past. I'm kind of annoyed though, because in the previews they kept saying "if you had the chance to go back in time and tell yourself something, what would it be?" Well, the part where Dan sees himself was for like two seconds, and he doesn't say anything to himself. He's kind of staring when Jack is yelling at him for being out late, and then one of them (was it Jack? It would make more sense if it were Jack) sees him and goes "what are you staring at?" and I can't remember what Dan says, but Livia stops him from going over and intervening. I wonder if Dan remembers that now and remembers seeing himself and not knowing it then.
5. Clearly the little brother is the bomber.
6. I was right.
7. I really want one of those Sync car radios. Those are amazing. You just tell it to play whatever music you want and it does it. You don't have to worry about almost crashing when you're changing CDs or songs on your iPod when you're driving. It's probably really expensive though. BUT STILL. IT'S COOL.
8. Did anyone else see the commercial for that new air hand dryer thing! That was so cool! And yeah, I do the thing where you wash your hands, "dry" them off on the dryer and then wipe them off on my pants because it never gets the job done! Wow! I hope those things get installed in places soon because I want to try one.
9. I was watching this in the basement of the SUB and a HUGE spider walked across the floor in front of the TV. It was the biggest one I've seen that was not a tarantula in Costa Rica. It was gross. I put my shoes back on at that point because I was nervous that it would come over to me and walk on my bare skin and poison me or something. (It didn't.)
10. Whoa, the crazy bomb guy knows Dan's time travelling... hmm.
11. I like Jack. He's really just trying to help... I wish Dan would just tell him the truth about his little habit, so he could stop being so suspicious all the time. And I'm glad Katie wasn't cheating on him, and that she really does love Dan. I don't need another reason to hate her.
12. I think next week's episode looks sweet. Going back in time to protect yourself... I think that's cool and will probably be more exciting than this episode was. I like thinking about the paradoxes like that... it's the most interesting part of time travel stories.
Chuck Versus... I don't know, the crazy homeschooled kid.
The villain in this episode is some kid that was raised in a basement by the government. He's psychotic.
1. "Tang has the charm of a prostrate exame." HA. I like Big Mike. I do not like Tang, because he is the most ridiculous character on the show. Well, besides Morgan probably. Still.
2. Morgan is annoying and immature. (I think they emphasized it more in this episode so that the change toward the end is more obvious, but yeah. It was worse this episode.)
3. "You gave me goosebumps." "Super, Jeff." Jeff is so determinedly creepy, it's hilarious. I really love the word "super" lately. Also, props to Chuck for finally telling Morgan to grow up, and then not apologizing for it later in the episode. Because it's the truth.
4. "Help me, Chuck Bartowski. You're my only hope." You know, I totally didn't see it coming that the Lazlo the Homeschooled Psycho would actually be psycho. I really thought he was okay. (Also he didn't really say that, he just said "you're my only hope," but you know that's what you were thinking when he said that. If you watch this show. Which maybe you don't. But you should.)
5. "Probably off doing something really mature, like seeing an opera. Or reading." That's Morgan's idea of maturity? No wonder he's still an idiot.
6. I love Captain Awesome. Making Morgan tuck his shirt in and everything, showing him how to be "mature." That was the best part of this episode.
7. Talking about sandwiches for four hours - how is there even enough to say about sandwiches for that long? Either way, Casey having to listen to it through the bugs in Chuck's room is probably the funniest thing ever. Oh Casey.
8. "You're still a giant douche for spying on me." I love how this is the way Chuck reacts to finding the bugs in his house. In pretty much every other show or movie in which a person finds that their house is bugged, they completely flip out and try immediately to get away from the people who did it. Chuck just goes and yells about it and calls Casey a douche, and Casey doesn't even deny it. He's just like "yeah. It's for your own protection you moron." I guess they should have told him to avoid Chuck getting all pissy about it, but I guess they never had any reason to suspect he'd find out. Still, I'd be kind of weirded out if I found out my house was bugged by the people I worked for.
9. Wow, Morgan really did start acting like an adult. Well, kind of. More like a kid pretending to be one, but hopefully he'll figure it out eventually.
10. Chuck and Morgan in that Dune worm costume = the most ridiculous thing ever.
11. HAHA, Casey listening to Chuck and Morgan talk about sandwiches again, and Chuck's totally doing it on purpose. I LOVE YOU CHUCK. I LOVE YOU CASEY.
12. Pretty good episode... next week's looks pretty intense and probably kind of sad, what with finding out the specifics about Chuck getting kicked out of Stanford.
1. "Tang has the charm of a prostrate exame." HA. I like Big Mike. I do not like Tang, because he is the most ridiculous character on the show. Well, besides Morgan probably. Still.
2. Morgan is annoying and immature. (I think they emphasized it more in this episode so that the change toward the end is more obvious, but yeah. It was worse this episode.)
3. "You gave me goosebumps." "Super, Jeff." Jeff is so determinedly creepy, it's hilarious. I really love the word "super" lately. Also, props to Chuck for finally telling Morgan to grow up, and then not apologizing for it later in the episode. Because it's the truth.
4. "Help me, Chuck Bartowski. You're my only hope." You know, I totally didn't see it coming that the Lazlo the Homeschooled Psycho would actually be psycho. I really thought he was okay. (Also he didn't really say that, he just said "you're my only hope," but you know that's what you were thinking when he said that. If you watch this show. Which maybe you don't. But you should.)
5. "Probably off doing something really mature, like seeing an opera. Or reading." That's Morgan's idea of maturity? No wonder he's still an idiot.
6. I love Captain Awesome. Making Morgan tuck his shirt in and everything, showing him how to be "mature." That was the best part of this episode.
7. Talking about sandwiches for four hours - how is there even enough to say about sandwiches for that long? Either way, Casey having to listen to it through the bugs in Chuck's room is probably the funniest thing ever. Oh Casey.
8. "You're still a giant douche for spying on me." I love how this is the way Chuck reacts to finding the bugs in his house. In pretty much every other show or movie in which a person finds that their house is bugged, they completely flip out and try immediately to get away from the people who did it. Chuck just goes and yells about it and calls Casey a douche, and Casey doesn't even deny it. He's just like "yeah. It's for your own protection you moron." I guess they should have told him to avoid Chuck getting all pissy about it, but I guess they never had any reason to suspect he'd find out. Still, I'd be kind of weirded out if I found out my house was bugged by the people I worked for.
9. Wow, Morgan really did start acting like an adult. Well, kind of. More like a kid pretending to be one, but hopefully he'll figure it out eventually.
10. Chuck and Morgan in that Dune worm costume = the most ridiculous thing ever.
11. HAHA, Casey listening to Chuck and Morgan talk about sandwiches again, and Chuck's totally doing it on purpose. I LOVE YOU CHUCK. I LOVE YOU CASEY.
12. Pretty good episode... next week's looks pretty intense and probably kind of sad, what with finding out the specifics about Chuck getting kicked out of Stanford.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
most magical show of all
1. Digby is the new Lassie!
2. OUCH, Ned. That's why I hate bees. Bees suck. Chuck has bees for pets. That is just weird.
3. Why can't they hug? They're wearing clothes. As long as their faces don't touch, it would probably be okay. I guess it would be pretty risky, but still.
4. Hahahahaha Olive making Ned touch her heartbeat. That's so awkward.
5. "It's dead, and it's a bird. It's diseased." I agree Emerson. Don't touch it.
6. Why is there a squirrel in the middle of the city?
7. "Just because there's vodka in the fridge doesn't mean I have to drink it. Wait, yes it does." Emerson, you're awesome.
8. Oh Ned! Chuck is kinda weird and fickle! Run away while you can!
9. "What's a rooftop full of bees compared to someone who can catch her when she falls?" I love that line.
10. No commercials again. I'm on a roll.
11. The pigeon that died randomly had a message tied to its leg? Right. That's okay, I don't need this show to be realistic. It's not trying to be.
12. Oh my gosh! Of all the random things that could have happened, Ned pulls the hijacker guy's fake arm off.
13. Why would they just sit there with a fake arm lying on the table in front of all those customers? That seems like a no-no.
14. I want to see a scene where Ned washes his hands. He really should, what with all this touching of dead people.
15. Okay, I don't think putting that dead bird's wing on the one that lost it is going to help it fly again.
16. THE WINDMILL GIRL WAS IN HEROES. She was Charlie, the one that Hiro liked that Sylar killed, the one who could remember stuff really easily.
17. Emerson in the car listening to Chuck and Ned bickering: "I'm going to kill myself."
18. How did that one armed guy manage to tie the windmill girl up without knocking her out? He has one arm. And then he used bows to tie her? That's hilarious. And they're totally falling for each other. How cute.
19. Hahahaha, the windmill girl just gets up.
20. I really like the black and white flashback with the random colors scattered throughout... so wonderful.
21. How in the world did the windmill girl lose her leg? But oh my gosh... Olive's reaction to the girl opening the compartment in her wooden thigh to reveal the diamonds was completely priceless.
22. Okay, dancing in beekeeper outfits around the beehives is not romantic to me. But they are very cute.
23. I love this show! I really, really do. It's so wonderful.
2. OUCH, Ned. That's why I hate bees. Bees suck. Chuck has bees for pets. That is just weird.
3. Why can't they hug? They're wearing clothes. As long as their faces don't touch, it would probably be okay. I guess it would be pretty risky, but still.
4. Hahahahaha Olive making Ned touch her heartbeat. That's so awkward.
5. "It's dead, and it's a bird. It's diseased." I agree Emerson. Don't touch it.
6. Why is there a squirrel in the middle of the city?
7. "Just because there's vodka in the fridge doesn't mean I have to drink it. Wait, yes it does." Emerson, you're awesome.
8. Oh Ned! Chuck is kinda weird and fickle! Run away while you can!
9. "What's a rooftop full of bees compared to someone who can catch her when she falls?" I love that line.
10. No commercials again. I'm on a roll.
11. The pigeon that died randomly had a message tied to its leg? Right. That's okay, I don't need this show to be realistic. It's not trying to be.
12. Oh my gosh! Of all the random things that could have happened, Ned pulls the hijacker guy's fake arm off.
13. Why would they just sit there with a fake arm lying on the table in front of all those customers? That seems like a no-no.
14. I want to see a scene where Ned washes his hands. He really should, what with all this touching of dead people.
15. Okay, I don't think putting that dead bird's wing on the one that lost it is going to help it fly again.
16. THE WINDMILL GIRL WAS IN HEROES. She was Charlie, the one that Hiro liked that Sylar killed, the one who could remember stuff really easily.
17. Emerson in the car listening to Chuck and Ned bickering: "I'm going to kill myself."
18. How did that one armed guy manage to tie the windmill girl up without knocking her out? He has one arm. And then he used bows to tie her? That's hilarious. And they're totally falling for each other. How cute.
19. Hahahaha, the windmill girl just gets up.
20. I really like the black and white flashback with the random colors scattered throughout... so wonderful.
21. How in the world did the windmill girl lose her leg? But oh my gosh... Olive's reaction to the girl opening the compartment in her wooden thigh to reveal the diamonds was completely priceless.
22. Okay, dancing in beekeeper outfits around the beehives is not romantic to me. But they are very cute.
23. I love this show! I really, really do. It's so wonderful.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
mississippi moon won't you keep on shining on me
1. Oh, poor little Zack, that would have completely traumatized me to have my dad vanish like that. Dan should've known better than to go off with his kid just the two of them though.
2. When/where the heck is Dan? A very scary place... and that was a parachute, right? At first I thought it was a hot air balloon.
3. NO COMMERCIALS THIS TIME EITHER! AWESOME!
4. I don't really get why Dan doesn't tell Jack about his time traveling stuff.
5. I'm really confused how nobody has managed to see Dan disappear. He's done it several times in the newsroom, where there are tons of people.
6. Katie has the same kind of toothpaste as me.
7. How can I be in love with so many different TV show heroes at once. Seriously - Dan Vassar, West, Chuck Bartowski, does Jim Halpert count? Well, I really like Dan, is all.
8. Hey, it's Black Water by The Doobie Brothers. I LOVE that song.
9. Hey, the tachyon scientist guy is the guy who played the president in The Island. Katie's probably the only one who will get that reference.
10. I really want there to be a society of time travelers or something like that. It would be cool.
11. K, the scientist guy obviously knows something is going on and that Dan isn't really writing a novel.
12. OH AWESOME, Zack is the first one to see Dan disappear!!!!! That's so cool!
13. You know what I'm willing to bet happens? In a future season, Dan's gonna meet his son when he's older while he's traveling... and I bet he's travelling too. I BET YOU ANYTHING Zack's going to be a time traveler too. And that's going to be exciting.
14. The guy who plays Dan's dad looks familiar to me...
15. Awww! Zack is cute. The look on Dan's face when Zack hugged him after saying he saw his "magic" was so great.
16. I love this show. This was the best episode of all the ones I watched today.
2. When/where the heck is Dan? A very scary place... and that was a parachute, right? At first I thought it was a hot air balloon.
3. NO COMMERCIALS THIS TIME EITHER! AWESOME!
4. I don't really get why Dan doesn't tell Jack about his time traveling stuff.
5. I'm really confused how nobody has managed to see Dan disappear. He's done it several times in the newsroom, where there are tons of people.
6. Katie has the same kind of toothpaste as me.
7. How can I be in love with so many different TV show heroes at once. Seriously - Dan Vassar, West, Chuck Bartowski, does Jim Halpert count? Well, I really like Dan, is all.
8. Hey, it's Black Water by The Doobie Brothers. I LOVE that song.
9. Hey, the tachyon scientist guy is the guy who played the president in The Island. Katie's probably the only one who will get that reference.
10. I really want there to be a society of time travelers or something like that. It would be cool.
11. K, the scientist guy obviously knows something is going on and that Dan isn't really writing a novel.
12. OH AWESOME, Zack is the first one to see Dan disappear!!!!! That's so cool!
13. You know what I'm willing to bet happens? In a future season, Dan's gonna meet his son when he's older while he's traveling... and I bet he's travelling too. I BET YOU ANYTHING Zack's going to be a time traveler too. And that's going to be exciting.
14. The guy who plays Dan's dad looks familiar to me...
15. Awww! Zack is cute. The look on Dan's face when Zack hugged him after saying he saw his "magic" was so great.
16. I love this show. This was the best episode of all the ones I watched today.
Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp
1. Chuck and Morgan's Enter the Dragon thing... hilariously dorky.
2. Chuck: I thought you were off this stuff, buddy!
Morgan: Yeah, well, I'm sorry, Chuck! Daddy needs his fix!
Chuck: Dude! ...You know how I feel about fireworks!
Morgan: You know what, to defeat fear, you must embrace fear.
Chuck: I'd rather embrace my LIMBS. Specifically all of them! No fireworks!
3. "You hear that sizzle? It's like the sound of angels' laughter." Morgan really likes shrimp.
4. OH AWESOME. NO COMMERCIALS AGAIN! Nbc.com is really making up for its crappiness.
5. Robert Duncan McNeill is a producer of this show. That's the guy who played Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager. Fun fact! And I knew that without having to look it up on IMDB.com! (Although I did to make sure.) Isn't that sad?
6. Morgan is a terrible salesman. Poor guy though - I wonder how long it'll be before he finds out about Chuck's situation. Hopefully not too long...
7. After Chuck ordered shrimp under the name Charles Carmichael to be delivered to their car while they were staking out a Chinese place:
Casey: The idea of a stakeout is to remain inconspicuous, you moron.
Chuck: Um, hello? That's why I used an alias.
8. Chuck hanging out in the car waiting for Sarah and Casey to get back from trying to find the Chinese lady is awesome. "Stakeouts are kinda fun!"
9. I don't really like Ellie.
10. Hey, I have a magnet like that. The "peace" one on the fridge.
11. Why are the lights off in this house? Dramatic effect, I guess.
12. "This is the part where we hide."
13. Aww, Chuck. He's more like Superman than you think, Ellie, so shut up.
14. Good episode. Not as good as the first few, but I'm loving this show.
2. Chuck: I thought you were off this stuff, buddy!
Morgan: Yeah, well, I'm sorry, Chuck! Daddy needs his fix!
Chuck: Dude! ...You know how I feel about fireworks!
Morgan: You know what, to defeat fear, you must embrace fear.
Chuck: I'd rather embrace my LIMBS. Specifically all of them! No fireworks!
3. "You hear that sizzle? It's like the sound of angels' laughter." Morgan really likes shrimp.
4. OH AWESOME. NO COMMERCIALS AGAIN! Nbc.com is really making up for its crappiness.
5. Robert Duncan McNeill is a producer of this show. That's the guy who played Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager. Fun fact! And I knew that without having to look it up on IMDB.com! (Although I did to make sure.) Isn't that sad?
6. Morgan is a terrible salesman. Poor guy though - I wonder how long it'll be before he finds out about Chuck's situation. Hopefully not too long...
7. After Chuck ordered shrimp under the name Charles Carmichael to be delivered to their car while they were staking out a Chinese place:
Casey: The idea of a stakeout is to remain inconspicuous, you moron.
Chuck: Um, hello? That's why I used an alias.
8. Chuck hanging out in the car waiting for Sarah and Casey to get back from trying to find the Chinese lady is awesome. "Stakeouts are kinda fun!"
9. I don't really like Ellie.
10. Hey, I have a magnet like that. The "peace" one on the fridge.
11. Why are the lights off in this house? Dramatic effect, I guess.
12. "This is the part where we hide."
13. Aww, Chuck. He's more like Superman than you think, Ellie, so shut up.
14. Good episode. Not as good as the first few, but I'm loving this show.
yawn.
1. So... Molly's in a coma?
2. Parkman is an idiot - why would he make Molly look for his dad, a.k.a. Nightmare Man, if he wasn't planning on going and looking for him? Or did he chicken out after Molly freaked out.
3. They better explain why Monica didn't want to identify the guy that broke into her fast food place.
4. Oh, vomit. When did Milo Ventimiglia start sucking at acting? Because this is painful. At least his Irish girlfriend is trying to tell him to open the damn box. Why doesn't she just open it?
5. Peter is such a douche for being okay with abandoning anybody that might be looking for him. Why wouldn't he care about any family he might have?
6. Nathan still looks like crap. It's kind of endearing though. Like, "fine, I'll shave off my beard, but I'm only doing it once and if it comes back everybody can just deal."
7. "I'm not a cargo jet, Parkman..." Hahaha. Well, I thought it was funny.
8. Monica: "I didn't want some crack head looking for revenge, so I said I didn't recognize him." Um, wouldn't he be looking for revenge anyway, given that you like, double roundhouse kicked him in the face?
9. So far my opinion of this episode is extremely low, but I'm really fond of Nathan, even if he seems sort of out of character for what I'm used to.
10. Wow, Micah can play the piano. I didn't know that. Maybe the actor has been taking lessons.
11. Oh my gosh!!! It's the scary wrong other future where Peter blew up!! Is that what Molly keeps dreaming about? I don't know. Clearly Nightmare Man can do more than just read minds.
12. Aww, Sark. Cuuuute. I don't care what he's doing, I just like looking at him.
13. Where are Claire and West.
14. Whoa, Nikki is clearly not happy.
15. FINALLY Peter's opening the box.
16. I think Veronica Mars is not a good guy. I hope she roasts that Irish guy though, with her electric powers, or whatever it is she can do. Oh, well, there we go.
17. I am so, so confused about what's going on with Nathan and Parkman. I think Nightmare Man is just messing with the stuff he found in their heads... but still. Oh - wait, I get it, he's making them fight each other. Wow, that is crazy. Still, the stuff leading up to it was kind of confusing for me. AND I STILL WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE DEAL WITH NATHAN'S GROSS FACE IS. UGHHHH.
18. Ando going to that guy to help him read the notes from Hiro was really funny.
19. How do the people Mohinder work for find all the heroes as soon as they start realizing their powers? The answer to this question used to be Molly, but she was gone and currently is in a coma. So what's the explanation?
20. Veronica Mars sounds like she's arguing with her dad. Oh, she was arguing with her dad.
21. Well, that episode was pretty... blah. Veronica Mars' introduction was good, overall, and I'm 100% sure that her dad will be someone we have seen before. Other than that, and the fight between Nathan and Parkman, I was pretty bored with this episode... and not just because there was no Claire or West.
2. Parkman is an idiot - why would he make Molly look for his dad, a.k.a. Nightmare Man, if he wasn't planning on going and looking for him? Or did he chicken out after Molly freaked out.
3. They better explain why Monica didn't want to identify the guy that broke into her fast food place.
4. Oh, vomit. When did Milo Ventimiglia start sucking at acting? Because this is painful. At least his Irish girlfriend is trying to tell him to open the damn box. Why doesn't she just open it?
5. Peter is such a douche for being okay with abandoning anybody that might be looking for him. Why wouldn't he care about any family he might have?
6. Nathan still looks like crap. It's kind of endearing though. Like, "fine, I'll shave off my beard, but I'm only doing it once and if it comes back everybody can just deal."
7. "I'm not a cargo jet, Parkman..." Hahaha. Well, I thought it was funny.
8. Monica: "I didn't want some crack head looking for revenge, so I said I didn't recognize him." Um, wouldn't he be looking for revenge anyway, given that you like, double roundhouse kicked him in the face?
9. So far my opinion of this episode is extremely low, but I'm really fond of Nathan, even if he seems sort of out of character for what I'm used to.
10. Wow, Micah can play the piano. I didn't know that. Maybe the actor has been taking lessons.
11. Oh my gosh!!! It's the scary wrong other future where Peter blew up!! Is that what Molly keeps dreaming about? I don't know. Clearly Nightmare Man can do more than just read minds.
12. Aww, Sark. Cuuuute. I don't care what he's doing, I just like looking at him.
13. Where are Claire and West.
14. Whoa, Nikki is clearly not happy.
15. FINALLY Peter's opening the box.
16. I think Veronica Mars is not a good guy. I hope she roasts that Irish guy though, with her electric powers, or whatever it is she can do. Oh, well, there we go.
17. I am so, so confused about what's going on with Nathan and Parkman. I think Nightmare Man is just messing with the stuff he found in their heads... but still. Oh - wait, I get it, he's making them fight each other. Wow, that is crazy. Still, the stuff leading up to it was kind of confusing for me. AND I STILL WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE DEAL WITH NATHAN'S GROSS FACE IS. UGHHHH.
18. Ando going to that guy to help him read the notes from Hiro was really funny.
19. How do the people Mohinder work for find all the heroes as soon as they start realizing their powers? The answer to this question used to be Molly, but she was gone and currently is in a coma. So what's the explanation?
20. Veronica Mars sounds like she's arguing with her dad. Oh, she was arguing with her dad.
21. Well, that episode was pretty... blah. Veronica Mars' introduction was good, overall, and I'm 100% sure that her dad will be someone we have seen before. Other than that, and the fight between Nathan and Parkman, I was pretty bored with this episode... and not just because there was no Claire or West.
Friday, October 19, 2007
to whomever it may concern: this is my favorite episode of The Office.
1. "One of the cutest little asparagus farms you'll ever see."
2. Wow - Jan is really mean. "Why do you need a car? For improv? Why don't you just pretend you have a car?"
3. Dwight and his literal wild oats.
4. Michael has a second job! Selling diet pills on the phone...! I feel bad for him though.
5. Jim and Pam going to Dwight's bed and breakfast is going to be hilarious.
6. Jim: "We will be requiring a bed time story."
Dwight: "No."
Jim: "Not even Harry Potter?"
7. I LOVED when Jim was talking about what he thought his and Pam's first night away would be... "I didn't think Dwight would be involved at all."
8. Those beets were disgusting. Ugh.
9. OH MY GOSH... Dwight reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and doing voices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jim and Pam cuddled up and cute listening!!!! I think that scene is probably my absolute favorite of the whole entire show. And I don't think it can possibly be beaten by anything else. That has made my life. I want Dwight to read me Harry Potter.
10. Wow, Michael totally fits in with all those telemarketers. That's kind of sad.
11. Aww, Dwight was crying over Angela's cupid figurine. Well, that's what you get for putting her cat in the freezer.
12. Ugh, Ryan. I really hate him these days.
13. "Power point. Power point. Power point." I think that might be the funniest thing Michael Scott has ever done. (The pointing, I mean.)
14. Kelly is a ridiculous human being.
15. I loved the debate over "whomever" and "whoever." That was amazing.
16. "Well maybe you should look in the smart part of your brain." I love pretty much everyone on this show, but I like Andy a lot since he got back from anger management.
17. Ha ha! Meredith is playing spider solitaire on her computer.
18. Darryl, run away from Kelly. Seriously. She is crazy.
19. "Bankruptcy is like nature's do-over." Why does anybody ever believe anything Creed says.
20. ANDY! Trying to catch that cat was hilarious. I really think Angela and Andy should be together. Sorry Dwight.
21. Dwight playing a green recorder by the dumpster. That is so sad and pathetic and hilarious.
22. Jim and Pam are so nice to Dwight, it makes me happy.
23. THAT CAT IS SO CUTE. Awww.
24. OH JIM AND PAM KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally knew that was coming! This is the best episode ever!!!! I mean - first, Dwight reads Harry Potter, second, Andy gets Angela a cat, and finally, Jim kisses Pam in front of everyone. I love it.
25. Yay, Dwight is back to normal. I was afraid he would try to leave or something, and I wouldn't be able to handle that.
26. Jim's kind of in love with "Italian food." Oh man. When are they going to get married? Because seriously - it's coming. I wouldn't be surprised if they eloped or something, after the whole Pam being engaged for like seven years and never setting a date thing. It would be cute.
2. Wow - Jan is really mean. "Why do you need a car? For improv? Why don't you just pretend you have a car?"
3. Dwight and his literal wild oats.
4. Michael has a second job! Selling diet pills on the phone...! I feel bad for him though.
5. Jim and Pam going to Dwight's bed and breakfast is going to be hilarious.
6. Jim: "We will be requiring a bed time story."
Dwight: "No."
Jim: "Not even Harry Potter?"
7. I LOVED when Jim was talking about what he thought his and Pam's first night away would be... "I didn't think Dwight would be involved at all."
8. Those beets were disgusting. Ugh.
9. OH MY GOSH... Dwight reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and doing voices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jim and Pam cuddled up and cute listening!!!! I think that scene is probably my absolute favorite of the whole entire show. And I don't think it can possibly be beaten by anything else. That has made my life. I want Dwight to read me Harry Potter.
10. Wow, Michael totally fits in with all those telemarketers. That's kind of sad.
11. Aww, Dwight was crying over Angela's cupid figurine. Well, that's what you get for putting her cat in the freezer.
12. Ugh, Ryan. I really hate him these days.
13. "Power point. Power point. Power point." I think that might be the funniest thing Michael Scott has ever done. (The pointing, I mean.)
14. Kelly is a ridiculous human being.
15. I loved the debate over "whomever" and "whoever." That was amazing.
16. "Well maybe you should look in the smart part of your brain." I love pretty much everyone on this show, but I like Andy a lot since he got back from anger management.
17. Ha ha! Meredith is playing spider solitaire on her computer.
18. Darryl, run away from Kelly. Seriously. She is crazy.
19. "Bankruptcy is like nature's do-over." Why does anybody ever believe anything Creed says.
20. ANDY! Trying to catch that cat was hilarious. I really think Angela and Andy should be together. Sorry Dwight.
21. Dwight playing a green recorder by the dumpster. That is so sad and pathetic and hilarious.
22. Jim and Pam are so nice to Dwight, it makes me happy.
23. THAT CAT IS SO CUTE. Awww.
24. OH JIM AND PAM KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally knew that was coming! This is the best episode ever!!!! I mean - first, Dwight reads Harry Potter, second, Andy gets Angela a cat, and finally, Jim kisses Pam in front of everyone. I love it.
25. Yay, Dwight is back to normal. I was afraid he would try to leave or something, and I wouldn't be able to handle that.
26. Jim's kind of in love with "Italian food." Oh man. When are they going to get married? Because seriously - it's coming. I wouldn't be surprised if they eloped or something, after the whole Pam being engaged for like seven years and never setting a date thing. It would be cute.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Pooh! Kick, Pooh! Kick!
1. I wonder how many episodes are going to have the narrator explaining about Ned's ability. It's good that it's there, because then people (like you) can start watching it even if they missed the first few episodes.
2. I'm really sad that Chuck and Ned can't be together because Ned brought her back to life, and if he touches her again she goes back to being dead.
3. I'm also really sad that Chuck's nickname is Chuck. Her real name is Charlotte Charles, I think, but she goes by Chuck, which bothers me, because there is another good show I watch about a someone named Chuck, and that Chuck is a guy.
4. Olive is so funny. I feel bad for her because of how much she likes Ned though. Kristen Chenoweth is so tiny and adorable.
5. Chuck is actually kind of annoying me right now. She was okay the first two episodes, but she's starting to get to me.
6. Ned needs to tell Chuck about what happens when he lets dead people stay alive. Oh - there we go. He did. Okay. Next step is telling her it's his fault her dad died.
7. Somehow I lucked out and I got an episode that isn't showing intermittent commercials. This also happened when I watched The Office last week. It's kind of amazing. Thanks ABC.com.
8. "This is a pie house, not some herbal crack den." Oh Olive.
9. How does Chuck have so many different outfits? I mean in the first episode she was wearing one of Ned's coats. I like that she wears such bright colors though, considering this is her second chance at life and she wants to get as far away from death as she can.
10. That's a really, really fancy funeral home.
11. This show makes me want to work in a pie store.
12. Hmm, I think Olive is going to figure out what's going on.
13. "Where are we going?" "You're going to heaven!" "I got in?!" "Yeah! But heaven's closing in like five minutes."
14. These minutes are awfully long.
15. "Are you adopted?" That's exactly what I was wondering, Ned, what with an Asian guy with a really heavy southern accent claiming he is descended from a civil war hero. But then the backstory explained about the stealing of identity and it made more sense.
16. This is slightly reminiscent of Pirates of the Caribbean.
17. Ha ha! Ned, I love you.
Bad guy: "I think you should know I was thrice named alternate sword master at the southern area regional volunteer infantry re-enactment regiment."
Ned: "I wanted to be a Jedi."
18. Emerson getting stuck in the window is just hilarious. And then Chuck trying to get him out - "Remember! Mind over matter makes Pooh unfatter!"
19. "You killed Louis Shatz and put him in my freezer. I put FOOD in there!" Ned... I think I want to marry you.
20. Awww, Ned is a prince charming all by himself, he doesn't need a sword and a corny accidental Roman looking toga.
I love this show. So dearly.
2. I'm really sad that Chuck and Ned can't be together because Ned brought her back to life, and if he touches her again she goes back to being dead.
3. I'm also really sad that Chuck's nickname is Chuck. Her real name is Charlotte Charles, I think, but she goes by Chuck, which bothers me, because there is another good show I watch about a someone named Chuck, and that Chuck is a guy.
4. Olive is so funny. I feel bad for her because of how much she likes Ned though. Kristen Chenoweth is so tiny and adorable.
5. Chuck is actually kind of annoying me right now. She was okay the first two episodes, but she's starting to get to me.
6. Ned needs to tell Chuck about what happens when he lets dead people stay alive. Oh - there we go. He did. Okay. Next step is telling her it's his fault her dad died.
7. Somehow I lucked out and I got an episode that isn't showing intermittent commercials. This also happened when I watched The Office last week. It's kind of amazing. Thanks ABC.com.
8. "This is a pie house, not some herbal crack den." Oh Olive.
9. How does Chuck have so many different outfits? I mean in the first episode she was wearing one of Ned's coats. I like that she wears such bright colors though, considering this is her second chance at life and she wants to get as far away from death as she can.
10. That's a really, really fancy funeral home.
11. This show makes me want to work in a pie store.
12. Hmm, I think Olive is going to figure out what's going on.
13. "Where are we going?" "You're going to heaven!" "I got in?!" "Yeah! But heaven's closing in like five minutes."
14. These minutes are awfully long.
15. "Are you adopted?" That's exactly what I was wondering, Ned, what with an Asian guy with a really heavy southern accent claiming he is descended from a civil war hero. But then the backstory explained about the stealing of identity and it made more sense.
16. This is slightly reminiscent of Pirates of the Caribbean.
17. Ha ha! Ned, I love you.
Bad guy: "I think you should know I was thrice named alternate sword master at the southern area regional volunteer infantry re-enactment regiment."
Ned: "I wanted to be a Jedi."
18. Emerson getting stuck in the window is just hilarious. And then Chuck trying to get him out - "Remember! Mind over matter makes Pooh unfatter!"
19. "You killed Louis Shatz and put him in my freezer. I put FOOD in there!" Ned... I think I want to marry you.
20. Awww, Ned is a prince charming all by himself, he doesn't need a sword and a corny accidental Roman looking toga.
I love this show. So dearly.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I want a nerd with a mind like a diamond
Concerning Chuck, which no one but me watches.
I really love that the theme song is "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" by Cake. I had just made that song my ringtone right before I watched the episode where they first showed the intro, and well, I was thrilled. The show has really good music throughout the episode, too - unsurprising because the guy who made this show was part of making The OC, which according to iTunes and the general populace of the world, has good music music, whatever else it is (I've never watched it, so I'm going to try not to judge).
This episode had a very James Bondsy feel to it. Maybe James Bond meets Pink Panther, given that they were stealing a diamond combined with how goofy the entire premise is in general.
I love Zachary Levi. He is perfect at being a lovable geek. Or rather, nerd, since he is on the "nerd herd" at "Buy More." I want to find someone like that in real life. And Adam Baldwin is completely fantastic - good ol' Jayne. He's the best.
Some favorite quotes...
"I need to ask you a favor, and feel free to say no. And by that I mean, say no."
-Chuck
"How am I supposed to know Karina has a remote control jet ski? It's not usually an option in real life!"
-Chuck
Morgan: You know, if our relationships don't work out.... okay, because we got each other.
Chuck: That's really really sad.
Morgan: I know.
"Your grape soda's on the kitchen floor!"
-Chuck to Morgan
(I liked that one because it was after he dropped it when a ninja lady came in and attacked him. It's all about context.)
Concerning Journeyman, which I watch, and my dad watches, and no one else watches.
I'm really loving this show. I really like Kevin McKidd. He's very... heroic. Perfect description.
The way this episode started was great - waking up in a church in the middle of a wedding rehearsal.
I LOVE the music in the opening credits. I'm very big on music.
One thing about this show I really don't like is the wife. She just bothers me. I do like the brother, Jack, and I hope he figures out soon what's going on with Dan so he can stop looking like the bad guy.
I still hate NBC.com. I watched Heroes, and then Chuck and I guess the NBC player got tired because it kept freezing when I was watching Journeyman. Very frustrating, but I'm more used to it now.
I really love that the theme song is "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" by Cake. I had just made that song my ringtone right before I watched the episode where they first showed the intro, and well, I was thrilled. The show has really good music throughout the episode, too - unsurprising because the guy who made this show was part of making The OC, which according to iTunes and the general populace of the world, has good music music, whatever else it is (I've never watched it, so I'm going to try not to judge).
This episode had a very James Bondsy feel to it. Maybe James Bond meets Pink Panther, given that they were stealing a diamond combined with how goofy the entire premise is in general.
I love Zachary Levi. He is perfect at being a lovable geek. Or rather, nerd, since he is on the "nerd herd" at "Buy More." I want to find someone like that in real life. And Adam Baldwin is completely fantastic - good ol' Jayne. He's the best.
Some favorite quotes...
"I need to ask you a favor, and feel free to say no. And by that I mean, say no."
-Chuck
"How am I supposed to know Karina has a remote control jet ski? It's not usually an option in real life!"
-Chuck
Morgan: You know, if our relationships don't work out.... okay, because we got each other.
Chuck: That's really really sad.
Morgan: I know.
"Your grape soda's on the kitchen floor!"
-Chuck to Morgan
(I liked that one because it was after he dropped it when a ninja lady came in and attacked him. It's all about context.)
Concerning Journeyman, which I watch, and my dad watches, and no one else watches.
I'm really loving this show. I really like Kevin McKidd. He's very... heroic. Perfect description.
The way this episode started was great - waking up in a church in the middle of a wedding rehearsal.
I LOVE the music in the opening credits. I'm very big on music.
One thing about this show I really don't like is the wife. She just bothers me. I do like the brother, Jack, and I hope he figures out soon what's going on with Dan so he can stop looking like the bad guy.
I still hate NBC.com. I watched Heroes, and then Chuck and I guess the NBC player got tired because it kept freezing when I was watching Journeyman. Very frustrating, but I'm more used to it now.
oh golly
1. Mr. Bennett, you meeting Claire's new BF is not going to really work out. Mainly because you kidnapped him when he was like eight. These things always come back to getcha. Anyway - I'm not really liking ol' Horn Rimmed Glasses these days. I wasn't ever all that fond of him, but I didn't mind him towards the end of last season. But now I'm back to being annoyed by him.
2. I still don't know what to make of Mohinder and Parkman playing "my two daddies" to Molly. Other than that I think it's sort of funny. I mean, they fight like a married couple.
3. Your kids don't like your beard either, Nathan. Please take heed. Poor guy though - why can't he see his kids, exactly? I guess that all happened in the four months between the seasons. I'm kind of confused though, because what would he have done that would make him not allowed to see his kids? I know he's not the best dad, but as far as I'm aware he's not the worst, either. So why the apparent restraining order?
3.5. Oh - that's right, he had a drinking problem. I forgot about that... that would do it though. He seems more or less fine, though, when he shows up to talk to people. And didn't he get elected? What happened with that? Did he resign or something?
4. Jersey guy, you should have just run him over. Really.
5. Wow. I do not like the kid that woke up Micah. "Nana, I need sixty five dollars." I do like Uhura though - a lot. "That's funny, so do I." And she watches HGTV, apparently. I can relate. The older girl is okay so far.
6. Obviously, Mama Petrelli is lying. I guess she's trying to make a sacrifice for the greater good of all the other heroes. I STILL WANT TO KNOW WHAT HER POWER IS. It is making me crazy. Obviously she has one. And what was Mr. Sulu's power?! They never said!!!!
7. Ugh, Claire, please don't do the cheerleader thing again.
8. Aww West. Getting dumped already. But dude, calm down. "Is it because we flew together? I weirded you out, didn't I?" Yeah, who wouldn't be weirded out by a completely adorable guy literally picking you up flying you to the beach during school? I mean, if the flying thing wasn't totally enough already, ditching school to go to the beach should do it. Well, it would for me at least. Seriously. West, when you find out that Claire's dad is the one who kidnapped you, hit me up. I'll appreciate you.
9. "Are you reading my mind right now?" "No. Yes. Sorry."
10. It is not looking good for Maya and Alejandro. At least Alejandro is slightly suspicious.
11. Hmm... Sylar introduced himself as Gabriel Grey. I guess he reverts to that because he no longer has any powers... he even seems like he's acting human. I'm not sure that's going to last. But, I think he has the virus, and that's why his powers don't work. So his incapability is only temporary, and his villainous ways will be back before you know it.
12. I don't like these weird Bennett dinners, where they show their faces up close like that. It's annoying. And I kind of hate Lyle.
13. I wonder if the Petrelli kids (the legitimate ones) will have any powers. I would be surprised if that came up in this season, but maybe in future ones.
14. "This guy's name is Bob." I don't know why that was so funny to me.
15. WHOA, PARKMAN'S DAD! That's crazy but somehow, not really surprising! Everybody's dad or mom is somehow involved. I was expecting Claude to be in that picture, though - maybe he was lower down in the operation, and not one of the original important leader figures. When is he coming back, anyway? I know he is.
16. The Claire/West scenes in this episode were so much better and less corny than the ones in the last episode. "I know you can heal, Claire, but I never want to see you hurt." I really, really love them together. I don't care who knows it.
17. I still don't really get what Micah's power is... is it just that he can manipulate machinery?
18. What's the Burger Girl's name? I think it's Monica. And what's her power, that she can carve tomatoes? Or what? I like her though, and I think she and Claire should be friends.
19. Okay, I don't know why I didn't see Parkman's dad being the Nightmare Man thing coming. Dun dun duuuuun.
20. Oh, Peter, I remember that kid. What is he up to, anyway?
21. WHAT is up wih that gross reflection of Nathan? Ooky.
22. Does anybody else see the irony in the random Jersey guy telling Sylar about how they have murderers in the car with them? Yes? Okay, good.
23. "Oh, golly, they seem so..." I actually kind of like Sylar right now. I know he's faking it, but it's kind of funny.
24. So Monica's power is that she can see things and imitate them exactly? That's pretty cool.
25. Oh what happened to Molly! Ahhh! Cliffhanger! I'm sure she'll be fine though.
The one thing I really don't like about watching the shows online is that they don't show the previews. I know I could probably find it if I hunted around for it enough, but I think it'd be nice if they put them at the end of the episodes like they do on real TV. Oh well.
2. I still don't know what to make of Mohinder and Parkman playing "my two daddies" to Molly. Other than that I think it's sort of funny. I mean, they fight like a married couple.
3. Your kids don't like your beard either, Nathan. Please take heed. Poor guy though - why can't he see his kids, exactly? I guess that all happened in the four months between the seasons. I'm kind of confused though, because what would he have done that would make him not allowed to see his kids? I know he's not the best dad, but as far as I'm aware he's not the worst, either. So why the apparent restraining order?
3.5. Oh - that's right, he had a drinking problem. I forgot about that... that would do it though. He seems more or less fine, though, when he shows up to talk to people. And didn't he get elected? What happened with that? Did he resign or something?
4. Jersey guy, you should have just run him over. Really.
5. Wow. I do not like the kid that woke up Micah. "Nana, I need sixty five dollars." I do like Uhura though - a lot. "That's funny, so do I." And she watches HGTV, apparently. I can relate. The older girl is okay so far.
6. Obviously, Mama Petrelli is lying. I guess she's trying to make a sacrifice for the greater good of all the other heroes. I STILL WANT TO KNOW WHAT HER POWER IS. It is making me crazy. Obviously she has one. And what was Mr. Sulu's power?! They never said!!!!
7. Ugh, Claire, please don't do the cheerleader thing again.
8. Aww West. Getting dumped already. But dude, calm down. "Is it because we flew together? I weirded you out, didn't I?" Yeah, who wouldn't be weirded out by a completely adorable guy literally picking you up flying you to the beach during school? I mean, if the flying thing wasn't totally enough already, ditching school to go to the beach should do it. Well, it would for me at least. Seriously. West, when you find out that Claire's dad is the one who kidnapped you, hit me up. I'll appreciate you.
9. "Are you reading my mind right now?" "No. Yes. Sorry."
10. It is not looking good for Maya and Alejandro. At least Alejandro is slightly suspicious.
11. Hmm... Sylar introduced himself as Gabriel Grey. I guess he reverts to that because he no longer has any powers... he even seems like he's acting human. I'm not sure that's going to last. But, I think he has the virus, and that's why his powers don't work. So his incapability is only temporary, and his villainous ways will be back before you know it.
12. I don't like these weird Bennett dinners, where they show their faces up close like that. It's annoying. And I kind of hate Lyle.
13. I wonder if the Petrelli kids (the legitimate ones) will have any powers. I would be surprised if that came up in this season, but maybe in future ones.
14. "This guy's name is Bob." I don't know why that was so funny to me.
15. WHOA, PARKMAN'S DAD! That's crazy but somehow, not really surprising! Everybody's dad or mom is somehow involved. I was expecting Claude to be in that picture, though - maybe he was lower down in the operation, and not one of the original important leader figures. When is he coming back, anyway? I know he is.
16. The Claire/West scenes in this episode were so much better and less corny than the ones in the last episode. "I know you can heal, Claire, but I never want to see you hurt." I really, really love them together. I don't care who knows it.
17. I still don't really get what Micah's power is... is it just that he can manipulate machinery?
18. What's the Burger Girl's name? I think it's Monica. And what's her power, that she can carve tomatoes? Or what? I like her though, and I think she and Claire should be friends.
19. Okay, I don't know why I didn't see Parkman's dad being the Nightmare Man thing coming. Dun dun duuuuun.
20. Oh, Peter, I remember that kid. What is he up to, anyway?
21. WHAT is up wih that gross reflection of Nathan? Ooky.
22. Does anybody else see the irony in the random Jersey guy telling Sylar about how they have murderers in the car with them? Yes? Okay, good.
23. "Oh, golly, they seem so..." I actually kind of like Sylar right now. I know he's faking it, but it's kind of funny.
24. So Monica's power is that she can see things and imitate them exactly? That's pretty cool.
25. Oh what happened to Molly! Ahhh! Cliffhanger! I'm sure she'll be fine though.
The one thing I really don't like about watching the shows online is that they don't show the previews. I know I could probably find it if I hunted around for it enough, but I think it'd be nice if they put them at the end of the episodes like they do on real TV. Oh well.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Pulling Pansies
I just watched the second episode of Pushing Daisies.
This show is insane and totally wonderful. I don't know why it took me so long to notice this, but Kristen Chenoweth plays Olive, the waitress who works at the pie shop and is in love with Ned. (If I hadn't seen it on IMDB, I certainly would have figured it out when she started singing.)
But - cars that run on dandelions? The way that mascot girl was dressed up? I loved that. Who came up with this show?* It is the most creative TV show I've ever watched. And Lee Pace is just adorable and makes you love him more every scene.
And Emerson. Emerson and his knitting. Emerson and his total straight face in every situation. Emerson and every single thing he says. "If I wanted to mingle with a bunch of geeks wearing leotards, I'd have stayed in art school." So great.
Anyway... if you haven't started watching this show, you should watch it. If you watch any of the new shows I tell you to watch, pick this one, because it's just... wonderful.
*Bryan Fuller made this show. Looking at his IMDB profile (if you didn't know, I am kind of addicted to IMDB.com), he was apparently a producer and writer for Heroes last season, and he wrote the episode Company Man, which is the episode that a lot of people say is like, the best one of the whole series so far. He also had a lot to do with Wonderfalls, which I vaguely remember watching parts of, and there were talking inanimate objects in it, and a girl worked at a novelty shop at Niagara Falls... and it was on Fox, so it got cancelled after eleven episodes. And apparently he also did some stuff with Star Treks Voyager and Deep Space Nine.
This show is insane and totally wonderful. I don't know why it took me so long to notice this, but Kristen Chenoweth plays Olive, the waitress who works at the pie shop and is in love with Ned. (If I hadn't seen it on IMDB, I certainly would have figured it out when she started singing.)
But - cars that run on dandelions? The way that mascot girl was dressed up? I loved that. Who came up with this show?* It is the most creative TV show I've ever watched. And Lee Pace is just adorable and makes you love him more every scene.
And Emerson. Emerson and his knitting. Emerson and his total straight face in every situation. Emerson and every single thing he says. "If I wanted to mingle with a bunch of geeks wearing leotards, I'd have stayed in art school." So great.
Anyway... if you haven't started watching this show, you should watch it. If you watch any of the new shows I tell you to watch, pick this one, because it's just... wonderful.
*Bryan Fuller made this show. Looking at his IMDB profile (if you didn't know, I am kind of addicted to IMDB.com), he was apparently a producer and writer for Heroes last season, and he wrote the episode Company Man, which is the episode that a lot of people say is like, the best one of the whole series so far. He also had a lot to do with Wonderfalls, which I vaguely remember watching parts of, and there were talking inanimate objects in it, and a girl worked at a novelty shop at Niagara Falls... and it was on Fox, so it got cancelled after eleven episodes. And apparently he also did some stuff with Star Treks Voyager and Deep Space Nine.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Superman or Green Lantern ain't got nothing on West
Heroes...
1. Peter, I'm really getting sick of you. "I lost my memory, I'm not an idiot." Wrong. If you weren't an idiot you would have left Ireland a long time ago. Please, just get out of there. I'm so done with that storyline and it's only the third episode of the season. (Hey, that was the guy from Enterprise.)
2. So, Alejandro looked all around before breaking into that car, but still failed to see the cop standing, like, right across the street? Good going.
3. Micah looks older... Is DL still alive? No? No. Okay, DL is dead. That sucks, because I liked him.
4. I LOVE West. Seriously - best part of the season so far. Claire: "It was a pedicure." West: "Well, you're not very good at it." But so - what he was doing outside her house was "trying to lend her a book." Lending her a book by standing outside her house in the bushes, looking in her window? Come on West. That's not a great excuse. Although he did really have the book with him so maybe that really was what he was doing. Still.
5. I don't know why I love the little... um... "partnership" Mohinder and Parkman have going on. I don't mean it like that obviously, but I just think it's sort of funny. I loved how Parkman snuck up on him in the kitchen with the gun and Mohinder was all "oh for God's sake." Good stuff. I even don't completely hate the little girl - last season she annoyed me. She's less irritating now, even if she does draw creepy pictures.
6. How did Ando manage to sneak a sword to work? And why didn't anybody in all those centuries between 16-whatever and now (four centuries, give or take a few decades) look at the end of that sword and see "Ando, open" and then proceed to open it? That seems pretty unlikely to me. But, okay.
7. Okay, I really don't understand Sark's reaction to his discovery of his healing power. "You cursed me! You're a devil!" What? How is being able to heal from any wound a curse? And how did he not notice it before? He's a grown man. He NEVER cut himself or stubbed his toe or got stung by a bee or something and healed instantly? Maybe he was just oblivious.
8. "Lightning! Sparks! Lightning!" Peter, you are so completely brain dead.
9. WEST! His whole "lizard girl" thing was fantastic. Claire has NO sense of humor. (Well, I understand her feelings, and the whole safety issue, but still.) AND THEN---! She goes outside to cry, and he goes out there too and he's all, "I take it you're annoyed." And she's like "What do you want from me?" And he says, "I just want you to admit that you're different!" "Okay, fine. I'm a freak. All right? I am such a freak in fact that I have to tiptoe around this school pretending to be some brainless barbie doll so no one notices how different I am! Because if they find out, I'll get carted off to some human zoo to be poked and prodded for the rest of my life! So yeah, West. I'm different. And you can tell the world if you want to because I am tired of pretending to be someone I'm not." And he goes "Claire, shut up." And he picks her up and they go flying off into the sky to some corny music and it is so, so wonderful.
10. Why is Peter so worried about the whole "stealing tickets" thing they're doing, or whatever it is (I'm not sure, because I wasn't really paying attention). I mean - superpowers? Remember? Yawn.
11. I'm bored with Mulan, too. Hiro, you barely know her. You have a crush on her. That is all. You will be fine.
12. Is the lady Nikki's leaving Micah with someone famous? I swear I've seen her before. At first I thought it was Uhura from Star Trek but I looked that up on IMDB and I didn't see it on there.
13. I am so, so ready to know what the deal is with Maya's creepy, creepy power.
14. Come back to the light side, Darth Peter. I can't believe he got that stupid family crest tattoo. Good thing he healed and it went away because that would be ridiculous. And then he makes out with the annoying Irish girl. Peter, open the box. You were not a bad person before. Just do it, okay? Do it and get your butt back to New York away from annoying... I don't even know her name. The Irish girl, and her annoying family of criminals.
15. Claire and West are SO, SO CUTE. I totally saw that coming with Claire's dad being the one that kidnapped West when he was younger, though. That'll make family dinners a little awkward.
16. I don't think the deal with Nikki and Werner from Sneakers (no one knows that reference) will turn out to be something good. I think that's fairly obvious.
17. I am totally disturbed by the Sylar being alive thing. That girl is stupid, first of all, for thinking she could make Sylar love her and not kill her. Obviously he was going to eat her brain the first chance he got. Second, who was she working for that wanted him alive? Probably has something to do with the guy in the little girl's dreams. It seems like something is awry with Sylar's ability to glean powers from brain sandwiches - he ate that girl's brain and nothing happened. Sucks for you, Sylar, but rocks for everyone else.
18. So does anybody think Claire's dad is really going to get it this season? Not everything from Isaac's paintings comes true, but a lot of it does. And who is that making out with Claire in the back of that picture? (Probably West.) (What if West kills her dad for kidnapping him or whatever? Oh no West don't be like that!)
1. Peter, I'm really getting sick of you. "I lost my memory, I'm not an idiot." Wrong. If you weren't an idiot you would have left Ireland a long time ago. Please, just get out of there. I'm so done with that storyline and it's only the third episode of the season. (Hey, that was the guy from Enterprise.)
2. So, Alejandro looked all around before breaking into that car, but still failed to see the cop standing, like, right across the street? Good going.
3. Micah looks older... Is DL still alive? No? No. Okay, DL is dead. That sucks, because I liked him.
4. I LOVE West. Seriously - best part of the season so far. Claire: "It was a pedicure." West: "Well, you're not very good at it." But so - what he was doing outside her house was "trying to lend her a book." Lending her a book by standing outside her house in the bushes, looking in her window? Come on West. That's not a great excuse. Although he did really have the book with him so maybe that really was what he was doing. Still.
5. I don't know why I love the little... um... "partnership" Mohinder and Parkman have going on. I don't mean it like that obviously, but I just think it's sort of funny. I loved how Parkman snuck up on him in the kitchen with the gun and Mohinder was all "oh for God's sake." Good stuff. I even don't completely hate the little girl - last season she annoyed me. She's less irritating now, even if she does draw creepy pictures.
6. How did Ando manage to sneak a sword to work? And why didn't anybody in all those centuries between 16-whatever and now (four centuries, give or take a few decades) look at the end of that sword and see "Ando, open" and then proceed to open it? That seems pretty unlikely to me. But, okay.
7. Okay, I really don't understand Sark's reaction to his discovery of his healing power. "You cursed me! You're a devil!" What? How is being able to heal from any wound a curse? And how did he not notice it before? He's a grown man. He NEVER cut himself or stubbed his toe or got stung by a bee or something and healed instantly? Maybe he was just oblivious.
8. "Lightning! Sparks! Lightning!" Peter, you are so completely brain dead.
9. WEST! His whole "lizard girl" thing was fantastic. Claire has NO sense of humor. (Well, I understand her feelings, and the whole safety issue, but still.) AND THEN---! She goes outside to cry, and he goes out there too and he's all, "I take it you're annoyed." And she's like "What do you want from me?" And he says, "I just want you to admit that you're different!" "Okay, fine. I'm a freak. All right? I am such a freak in fact that I have to tiptoe around this school pretending to be some brainless barbie doll so no one notices how different I am! Because if they find out, I'll get carted off to some human zoo to be poked and prodded for the rest of my life! So yeah, West. I'm different. And you can tell the world if you want to because I am tired of pretending to be someone I'm not." And he goes "Claire, shut up." And he picks her up and they go flying off into the sky to some corny music and it is so, so wonderful.
10. Why is Peter so worried about the whole "stealing tickets" thing they're doing, or whatever it is (I'm not sure, because I wasn't really paying attention). I mean - superpowers? Remember? Yawn.
11. I'm bored with Mulan, too. Hiro, you barely know her. You have a crush on her. That is all. You will be fine.
12. Is the lady Nikki's leaving Micah with someone famous? I swear I've seen her before. At first I thought it was Uhura from Star Trek but I looked that up on IMDB and I didn't see it on there.
13. I am so, so ready to know what the deal is with Maya's creepy, creepy power.
14. Come back to the light side, Darth Peter. I can't believe he got that stupid family crest tattoo. Good thing he healed and it went away because that would be ridiculous. And then he makes out with the annoying Irish girl. Peter, open the box. You were not a bad person before. Just do it, okay? Do it and get your butt back to New York away from annoying... I don't even know her name. The Irish girl, and her annoying family of criminals.
15. Claire and West are SO, SO CUTE. I totally saw that coming with Claire's dad being the one that kidnapped West when he was younger, though. That'll make family dinners a little awkward.
16. I don't think the deal with Nikki and Werner from Sneakers (no one knows that reference) will turn out to be something good. I think that's fairly obvious.
17. I am totally disturbed by the Sylar being alive thing. That girl is stupid, first of all, for thinking she could make Sylar love her and not kill her. Obviously he was going to eat her brain the first chance he got. Second, who was she working for that wanted him alive? Probably has something to do with the guy in the little girl's dreams. It seems like something is awry with Sylar's ability to glean powers from brain sandwiches - he ate that girl's brain and nothing happened. Sucks for you, Sylar, but rocks for everyone else.
18. So does anybody think Claire's dad is really going to get it this season? Not everything from Isaac's paintings comes true, but a lot of it does. And who is that making out with Claire in the back of that picture? (Probably West.) (What if West kills her dad for kidnapping him or whatever? Oh no West don't be like that!)
Thursday, October 4, 2007
creative title
Bionic Woman.
1. I still hate NBC.com. But I love Katee Sackhoff too much to stop watching this show.
2. I still can't stand Jamie Sommers. She's unbelievably irritating for a main character. I hope she gets better, because I feel bad when I don't like the lead. I did warm up to her a little this episode, when they showed her actually having emotions at her boyfriend's funeral (who I guess is dead after all).
3. In the intro credits, they show Jamie punching Sarah Corvus... what they don't show is the rest of the fight, where Sarah completely kicks Jamie's butt in every single way, and the only reason she "won" is because Sarah left when the other people from that agency showed up.
4. OMG ANOTHER BSG PERSON. Roslin's priest lady is the bratty sister's principal. At first I was like, how are all the same people on this show, but then I realized oh, because of David Eick. (BSG producer.) Still. It's kind of blowing my mind.
5. "Pot's not really a drug. It comes from the earth." Thank you, bratty sister. That makes it okay then. Yep. Go ahead, keep smoking pot. It will make you more interesting.
6. Bratty Sister wants to move in with their dad... I thought the dad didn't want her to live with him? Remember how Jamie was like "Dad dropped you off on my doorstep"? Wasn't that Dad going "I don't want you to live with me"? Seems like it would be. Just saying.
7. Jamie's friends were just stupid. "Oh my gosh! You got into Columbia Law! How great! Let's talk about it right here in front of our friend who never went to college and make her feel really crappy about it." And then they looked confused and hurt when she made an excuse and left. Dumb. Good thing they will probably never be on the show again.
8. I love Isaiah Washington (from here on referred to as Burke) and I don't care who knows it. I think he's a fabulous actor - Grey's is worse off for losing him, I don't care what the drama was behind that. Maybe he's a jerk in real life, but whatever. He's a great actor. So this show is all the better for having him.
9. I really loved when that tech guy hit Jamie in the head to fix the ringing in her ear. Really. She deserved that. So thanks random tech guy.
10. All I could think about during the training montage they had Jamie go through was the montage song in Team America: World Police.
11. How did Sarah Corvus get into that guy's office without anybody seeing her? The security seems extremely lax in that place, for it being a super secret agency. And are they really married or is that a cover up or something? I don't really get it.
12. I really don't like the other blonde lady. She reminds me too much of the Stargate SG-1 girl. Also she's annoying as a character.
13. Burke when he's interrogating that guy: "...or I could take a pair of pliers and show you something someone once showed me..." Was that someone Jack Bauer*?
14. Thank God Wilco sang over the Annie Get Your Gun song the Bratty Sister was singing in the talent show at the end.
15. The end of this episode was a little too Gilmore Girlsy for me.
The Office.
The Office was amazing tonight, as usual. I watched it in the Junior Commons in the TV with a bunch of guys (including the Brooks College president - the vice president was also there, but she's a girl). I staked out the TV - only two people were like "let's watch Grey's Anatomy!" and I was able to successfully hold the TV from them.
This is out of order because I didn't take notes as I was watching it (I was around other people, that would have looked weird.)
1. Thank you Ryan for finally yelling at stupid Michael for all the idiotic things he does. I want to, all the time, no one else does, but finally, you did. I still think you're kind of a jerk, but you win points for saying what everybody else has been thinking.
2. Dwight and Angela are officially over... I LOVED her eye roll at the end of the episode, when Dwight got back with Michael after the gift basket incident. Every time she was on the screen, someone in the room would be like "she went to Baylor!"
2.5. Dwight bringing a new cat for Angela... "It's a barn cat. He's named Garbage, because he likes to eat garbage! I trapped him this morning. He's very useful, he killed an entire family of raccoons." And then he just locks him in a random office. I love Angela though. She rocks.
3. One of my favorite lines from tonight: "I am not old. You are old. You are like a hundred."
4. CREED oh my gosh. He dyed his hair... and said he was about to turn thirty. In the last episode he said he was eighty two.
5. I don't know if this was just the TV and the fact that it's widescreen, but Steve Carell's nose looked so huge.
6. Everyone knows about Jim and Pam now. What the heck was up with Phyllis going up to Pam and telling her, all sweetly of course, not to redirect the new sales calls to Jim just because she's sleeping with him? Geez... Phyllis is actually kind of mean, it turns out.
7. "YES! CASH BASKET!" and "If you can't see how that's awesome, then... you need awesome lessons." Andy is so much more hilarious since anger management training. And Andy and Kevin going on about how cool Ryan is now and how he can get any girl he wants (see 9).
8. I liked the old Dunder-Mifflin website, the one that said "Dunder-Mifflin - Under Construction. Coming Christmas 2002!" better than the new one.
9. OMG RYAN HITTING ON PAM! AHHH! That was so hilarious... wow. Okay. FAVORITE moment tonight was when Pam said, "I'm dating Jim," and the camera pans to Jim, who is right there and heard everything, obviously, and he just keeps looking at his computer when he waves at the camera... and then he says in his next talking head, "I guess he can't get any girl he wants..." JIM, you're the best. (There was a guy** sitting there with the rest of us who had never watched it before, who I don't think really got the concept of the show at first ["Why do they keep looking at the camera?"] but when this scene started, he was like "he's totally hitting on her," and I was almost like "no, that can't be" but then he ended up being right. Basically I was impressed.)
10. That moment is tied with the moment when MICHAEL DROVE INTO THE FREAKING LAKE. "The machine knows what it's doing!" I have a Michael tolerance, and for the majority of this episode I was like "ugh, Michael is being even more idiotic than usual in this one" what with the ageism meeting and everything to do with that, and then harassing their former clients with gift baskets and so forth. It just kept getting worse and worse and then finally it reached a point of ridiculousness that it started being funny again. Everything Michael did after the car thing was just hilarious. Especially when he went back to that guy's office and demanded the gift basket back.
11. Finally (and this is paraphrased)...
Jim: So, Angela and Dwight? They've been dating, for like, six months.
Pam: Really? They've actually been dating for like two years.
Jim: What? You never said anything to me!
Pam: You never said anything to me, either.
Jim: We should have started dating so much sooner!
Um... yes!
*And the award for the Most Talked About TV Character On a Show I Do Not Watch goes to...
**This same guy was reading what looked like a science fiction book (don't know which one). During one of the commercials, where we saw a preview for Heroes, he and I had the following conversation in front of like, a ton of other guys:
Nerd Guy: Does anybody else watch that show ever?
Me: I do.
Nerd Guy: Okay, so Sylar takes people's brains, but what does he do with them?
Me: He eats them.
Nerd Guy: Really? They never say that in the show, do they?
Me: No, it was in an interview, they said it would be too gross to put on the show but yeah, that's what he does.
Nerd Guy: Ohhhh, okay...
I didn't know whether to be proud that I knew the answer to that question or incredibly embarrassed that I knew the answer to that question. (...I think I'm more proud.)
1. I still hate NBC.com. But I love Katee Sackhoff too much to stop watching this show.
2. I still can't stand Jamie Sommers. She's unbelievably irritating for a main character. I hope she gets better, because I feel bad when I don't like the lead. I did warm up to her a little this episode, when they showed her actually having emotions at her boyfriend's funeral (who I guess is dead after all).
3. In the intro credits, they show Jamie punching Sarah Corvus... what they don't show is the rest of the fight, where Sarah completely kicks Jamie's butt in every single way, and the only reason she "won" is because Sarah left when the other people from that agency showed up.
4. OMG ANOTHER BSG PERSON. Roslin's priest lady is the bratty sister's principal. At first I was like, how are all the same people on this show, but then I realized oh, because of David Eick. (BSG producer.) Still. It's kind of blowing my mind.
5. "Pot's not really a drug. It comes from the earth." Thank you, bratty sister. That makes it okay then. Yep. Go ahead, keep smoking pot. It will make you more interesting.
6. Bratty Sister wants to move in with their dad... I thought the dad didn't want her to live with him? Remember how Jamie was like "Dad dropped you off on my doorstep"? Wasn't that Dad going "I don't want you to live with me"? Seems like it would be. Just saying.
7. Jamie's friends were just stupid. "Oh my gosh! You got into Columbia Law! How great! Let's talk about it right here in front of our friend who never went to college and make her feel really crappy about it." And then they looked confused and hurt when she made an excuse and left. Dumb. Good thing they will probably never be on the show again.
8. I love Isaiah Washington (from here on referred to as Burke) and I don't care who knows it. I think he's a fabulous actor - Grey's is worse off for losing him, I don't care what the drama was behind that. Maybe he's a jerk in real life, but whatever. He's a great actor. So this show is all the better for having him.
9. I really loved when that tech guy hit Jamie in the head to fix the ringing in her ear. Really. She deserved that. So thanks random tech guy.
10. All I could think about during the training montage they had Jamie go through was the montage song in Team America: World Police.
11. How did Sarah Corvus get into that guy's office without anybody seeing her? The security seems extremely lax in that place, for it being a super secret agency. And are they really married or is that a cover up or something? I don't really get it.
12. I really don't like the other blonde lady. She reminds me too much of the Stargate SG-1 girl. Also she's annoying as a character.
13. Burke when he's interrogating that guy: "...or I could take a pair of pliers and show you something someone once showed me..." Was that someone Jack Bauer*?
14. Thank God Wilco sang over the Annie Get Your Gun song the Bratty Sister was singing in the talent show at the end.
15. The end of this episode was a little too Gilmore Girlsy for me.
The Office.
The Office was amazing tonight, as usual. I watched it in the Junior Commons in the TV with a bunch of guys (including the Brooks College president - the vice president was also there, but she's a girl). I staked out the TV - only two people were like "let's watch Grey's Anatomy!" and I was able to successfully hold the TV from them.
This is out of order because I didn't take notes as I was watching it (I was around other people, that would have looked weird.)
1. Thank you Ryan for finally yelling at stupid Michael for all the idiotic things he does. I want to, all the time, no one else does, but finally, you did. I still think you're kind of a jerk, but you win points for saying what everybody else has been thinking.
2. Dwight and Angela are officially over... I LOVED her eye roll at the end of the episode, when Dwight got back with Michael after the gift basket incident. Every time she was on the screen, someone in the room would be like "she went to Baylor!"
2.5. Dwight bringing a new cat for Angela... "It's a barn cat. He's named Garbage, because he likes to eat garbage! I trapped him this morning. He's very useful, he killed an entire family of raccoons." And then he just locks him in a random office. I love Angela though. She rocks.
3. One of my favorite lines from tonight: "I am not old. You are old. You are like a hundred."
4. CREED oh my gosh. He dyed his hair... and said he was about to turn thirty. In the last episode he said he was eighty two.
5. I don't know if this was just the TV and the fact that it's widescreen, but Steve Carell's nose looked so huge.
6. Everyone knows about Jim and Pam now. What the heck was up with Phyllis going up to Pam and telling her, all sweetly of course, not to redirect the new sales calls to Jim just because she's sleeping with him? Geez... Phyllis is actually kind of mean, it turns out.
7. "YES! CASH BASKET!" and "If you can't see how that's awesome, then... you need awesome lessons." Andy is so much more hilarious since anger management training. And Andy and Kevin going on about how cool Ryan is now and how he can get any girl he wants (see 9).
8. I liked the old Dunder-Mifflin website, the one that said "Dunder-Mifflin - Under Construction. Coming Christmas 2002!" better than the new one.
9. OMG RYAN HITTING ON PAM! AHHH! That was so hilarious... wow. Okay. FAVORITE moment tonight was when Pam said, "I'm dating Jim," and the camera pans to Jim, who is right there and heard everything, obviously, and he just keeps looking at his computer when he waves at the camera... and then he says in his next talking head, "I guess he can't get any girl he wants..." JIM, you're the best. (There was a guy** sitting there with the rest of us who had never watched it before, who I don't think really got the concept of the show at first ["Why do they keep looking at the camera?"] but when this scene started, he was like "he's totally hitting on her," and I was almost like "no, that can't be" but then he ended up being right. Basically I was impressed.)
10. That moment is tied with the moment when MICHAEL DROVE INTO THE FREAKING LAKE. "The machine knows what it's doing!" I have a Michael tolerance, and for the majority of this episode I was like "ugh, Michael is being even more idiotic than usual in this one" what with the ageism meeting and everything to do with that, and then harassing their former clients with gift baskets and so forth. It just kept getting worse and worse and then finally it reached a point of ridiculousness that it started being funny again. Everything Michael did after the car thing was just hilarious. Especially when he went back to that guy's office and demanded the gift basket back.
11. Finally (and this is paraphrased)...
Jim: So, Angela and Dwight? They've been dating, for like, six months.
Pam: Really? They've actually been dating for like two years.
Jim: What? You never said anything to me!
Pam: You never said anything to me, either.
Jim: We should have started dating so much sooner!
Um... yes!
*And the award for the Most Talked About TV Character On a Show I Do Not Watch goes to...
**This same guy was reading what looked like a science fiction book (don't know which one). During one of the commercials, where we saw a preview for Heroes, he and I had the following conversation in front of like, a ton of other guys:
Nerd Guy: Does anybody else watch that show ever?
Me: I do.
Nerd Guy: Okay, so Sylar takes people's brains, but what does he do with them?
Me: He eats them.
Nerd Guy: Really? They never say that in the show, do they?
Me: No, it was in an interview, they said it would be too gross to put on the show but yeah, that's what he does.
Nerd Guy: Ohhhh, okay...
I didn't know whether to be proud that I knew the answer to that question or incredibly embarrassed that I knew the answer to that question. (...I think I'm more proud.)
Pushing Daisies
This show is magical. I thought it was going to be another show kind of like CSI or Law and Order with a supernatural element in it - or maybe more along the lines of Psych, where some random guy is helping the police solve crimes. But it's not really like that at all. It's more like... well, like Amelie, or Big Fish, or something similar with that magical realism aspect. The characters are all endearing and wonderful, and I like the narrator. It's cute and funny and very imaginative - nice to have a murder mystery solving type show that isn't exactly like the other eight million murder mystery shows that have existed in the past.
And, Ned, the main character, is a pie maker. Which makes me think of the most wonderful movie ever made - Waitress. So more or less, Pushing Daisies is a combination of Amelie and Waitress - my two favorite movies that don't have a superhero in it.
And, Ned, the main character, is a pie maker. Which makes me think of the most wonderful movie ever made - Waitress. So more or less, Pushing Daisies is a combination of Amelie and Waitress - my two favorite movies that don't have a superhero in it.
Monday, October 1, 2007
all in one post this time
I discovered a way to watch my shows on a real TV, when they actually air, as opposed to the next day. In the basement of the SUB, there is a big screen TV. And nobody watches anything on it, at least on a Monday night. And there's a couple of really nice couches. So it's pretty perfect, because nobody knows about it, or remembers it at least, and not a lot of people are walking by, usually. It is right by the bowling alley, though, so if some people do happen to wander down there and decide to bowl, it can get a little noisy. But no big deal. Just turn it up. Yep.
I got to watch three shows tonight! Cool huh. Yeah. Three hours... but it's okay, because I did actually study for my Latin quiz during the commercials. And it's fine if you don't believe me that this strategy actually worked, but it was just memorizing a chart I have to write down on a piece of paper tomorrow. And I probably studied more than I would have, because I didn't have anything else to do during the commercials. So, really this is a good development, that I managed to commandeer a TV for this purpose. And I can go to bed sooner, because I already finished studying, and that makes everyone happier.
First, Chuck. SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS SHOW. IT IS BEYOND... swell! Okay, I'll just say it - awesome. Chuck is awesome. It's unrealistic and corny and just hilarious. It's a spoof spy show. And you need to watch it, so it doesn't get cancelled. (Please. You have no idea how paranoid I am about that happening. TOO MANY GOOD SHOWS GET CANCELLED BEFORE THEIR TIME!)
1. Chuck has government secrets in his head, and in this episode he has to get tested by a doctor (which happens at the beginning). They start showing him random images, because certain images are related to top secret things and he's supposed to say those if they're related and say when it's "just a turtle" or whatever. One of the first things he says when he gets going on the slides having to do with secrets is: "Oceanic Flight 815 was shot down by..." and then he goes on - he talks really fast. If you are as TV nerdy as me, or maybe not even that much because tons of people probably recognize that, you realize that HELLO THAT IS A REFERENCE TO LOST! HOLY CRAP! "SHOT DOWN BY"?! I THOUGHT DESMOND DID IT WITH THE MAGNETIC PULSE THING!!!! And okay, I'm not entirely sure it was "shot" instead of "brought," but as my sister pointed out on the phone when I called home immediately after this (well, at the next commercial break), those sort of mean the same thing. And granted, this is a spoof show, all tongue in cheek, so maybe it's just a joke. BUT STILL. And this is even on NBC, and Lost is on ABC, so who even knows what that means... well, it either means the influence of Lost is even greater than anybody thought and it might take over the world, or the people at NBC are just messing with us. Either way though... still really cool reference.
2. I really love John Casey. He is played by Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne on Firefly. He's so funny... he's a lot like Jayne in this show, actually, only more intelligent. "I don't kid about quiche."
3. Sarah, the other agent (Casey is the NSA agent, Sarah is CIA) is working at Wienerworld as a cover. She seems to be the only person who works there, which makes no sense. But whatever. She and Casey don't get along and they have a huge random fight there, which also made no sense, but it's not really supposed to, is it? (No.)
4. Chuck has to fly a helicopter at the end of the episode and I think that was probably the funniest moment of the two episodes we've seen so far. Sarah's trying to tell him it's just like a video game, and Chuck gets all situated finally and he's above a bunch of water and he's like, "Is this one of those games where the helicopter can turn into a boat?" I loved it. Chuck is just so lovable and nerdy.
5. One of my favorite things about this show is how the references to real chain stores are so ridiculously obvious. Chuck works at "Buy More," in the "Nerd Herd." And he drives a "Nerd Herd" car to go and help people with computer problems. "Buy More" is right next to "Large Mart," which looks exactly like Sam's inside (which I obviously got a kick out of, especially the five or six speeding forklifts Chuck runs into when he's there).
6. Please just watch it. It's wonderful.
Heroes!
1. So the Irish guy did say iPods. ...WHAT? That's all they could think of? I really wanted Peter to be like, "what's an iPod?" I mean, he has amnesia, why would he know what an iPod is?
2. It seems that these Irish dudes are differently abled. Um - a half naked guy chained in a warehouse who doesn't remember who he is took all the iPods. That makes sense. Did he stuff them in his pants? Or did you check there already? Or are you too busy beating him up to realize that he really doesn't know what an iPod is? And I don't like their accents. (Jessica, yes.) If those are actual Irish people, and that's really their voice, then whatever, I'll take it back. But if they're faking it then they really just need to stop. And go away. That Caitlin chick especially. That was terrible. If that girl is Peter's new love interest I am going to be incredibly annoyed.
3. Any time Claire hurts herself deliberately is gross. Sticking her hand in a boiling pot? Gross. More on this later, obviously.
4. So the F shaped symbol thing that everybody kept seeing last season means "great ability." Thanks Ando! Why didn't anybody think to ask the random Muggle last season? Seriously that whole time he knew what it meant? And finally someone asked him and he's like "oh, yeah, I know what that means, it means 'great ability.'" UGH. Okay, whatever. It's a comic book show. It's not supposed to be realistic.
5. Sark and Hiro are just wonderful. I love that story line!!!!!!!! "You look like a fish when you talk." Cool Sark! Thanks! Poor Hiro though, because he's totally crushing on Mulan.
6. I LOVE WEST. I love him. The first time he was there this episode, when Claire was obsessing over the regenerative lizards in Biology, and he was just sitting there, looking at stuff, I was like AHHH. WEST I LOVE YOU. I LOVE. YOU. He's just adorable. And he hasn't really done anything yet, except be a creeper around Claire's house...
7. Okay, I don't understand the Spanish people. They're twins, and the girl kills people somehow and the guy heals them, at least when they're affected by her weird power. I don't really understand what her thing is though. If they're separated, and she gets the least bit freaked out, she kills everyone around her? I don't get it.
8. The Haitian!! I'm glad he's back. He's cool. Mr. Bennett's partner in crime. Or saving the world, whichever.
9. Mulan, seriously, you are stupid. What are you doing? Did you really think you could fight like ten samurai guys by yourself? You better be thankful Hiro is around to save your ass. And Hiro was completely awesome in that scene, with getting the swords and the bows from those guys... so cool to see it the way the other people do as opposed to Hiro's perspective.
10. Seriously I'm so done with these Irish people. He saves the sister from getting raped or whatever, and then the brother comes in all pissy and like "look what you did, now they're mad at me. I have to get them more iPods" or something. What is your problem? I thought Irish people were supposed to care about their families more than anything else. And since these Irish people seem pretty stereotypical, I feel like that should be included. And what is with that box? Where the heck was that "on" Peter? When they found him, all he was wearing was pants. Was that thing just sticking out of his back pocket or what? So lame. And the Irish guy is like "you'll help me, or I will throw this box in the fire and you will never know who you are or anything else about you!" Nerny nerny nerny! Okay Peter, listen up: freeze time, take the box, and LEAVE. THERE YOU GO YOUR PROBLEM IS SOLVED AND WE DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE ANNOYING IRISH PEOPLE ANYMORE! Then you can just fly back to New York, show up to your brother and mom, and say "I'm not dead." Well, presuming you remember who they are at some point.
11. Claire's car got stolen! HA HA! Did West give you a ride then? Did he fly you up into the atmosphere and talk about how he hears everything and that he was sorry for leaving you when he went to visit his blown up home planet? No? Well, it's only a matter of time! But seriously, West is just so adorable. And he and Claire are totally sucking face in all the previews so we know that happens eventually. Yay.
12. Okay, ew. Is EVERYBODY almost related on this show. Mr. Sulu and Mrs. Petrelli? GROSS. And who is after Mama Petrelli! SCARY! But good that Nathan showed up to save her, kind of.
13. Sark is so great when Mulan comes up and gives him the sword... and then he's all, "alright, I'm in." And then he goes outside and promptly gets shot. OH NO. But wait, um - what? He's healing? THAT'S SO COOL! HE'S LIKE CLAIRE'S BIG BROTHER ALMOST! Well! Neat!
14. Claire, that is just disgusting. Please don't EVER cut your pinky toe off again. GROSS. And okay, West? At least when Superman stalks Lois, he doesn't let her see him. You could use some lessons from him on that, I think. Fortunately for you, Claire's so dumb that she's probably just thinking "OH NO HE SAW ME CUT OFF MY TOE AND THEN SAW IT GROW BACK!" and not "holy crap how did he find out where I live? What was he doing out there?!" And she chases him outside, and the yappy dog comes too, who admittedly is kind of cute when he's jumping up and down on the driveway freaking out, and Claire just picks up that book and looks around, on the ground, while the dog is looking UP and barking... CLAIRE, come ON, your real dad can fly! THIS SHOULD OCCUR TO YOU! Whatever. Just, I know that they will be madly in love soon. And I'm pretty sure he's going to fly her up and kiss her up there. Just like Superman! And I will be so very happy.
15. Sylar in the preview: rescued by a lady who clearly doesn't recognize DISTURBED when it walks in front of her munching on brains.
Journeyman.
1. This show is so cool! It's a lot like the Time Traveler's Wife, I think more so than Quantum Leap. Although still elements of both obviously. Anyway, a lot of people seem to find that annoying, but I don't. I LOVE it.
2. I really want to know what the back story is with the romance stuff concerning Dan and his brother. Katie, Dan's wife, was with the brother, whose name I forgot, at some point. There was a little reference to it this time, but not enough to satisfy me.
3. I love how everything is connected, and all the times Dan runs into himself or other people he knows in the past. He doesn't let them see him, usually... but I thought it was great that one of the cops chasing him when he paid for a cab with "counterfeit" money (one of the the new twentys) was his brother. And when he was hiding from himself in his apartment, that was funny too.
4. The girl in the past that he's supposed to help, when she confronts her dad that she's never met before, I got so sad and angry that there are men like that in the world. All he does is say, more or less, that "your mom claimed I'm the father, I gave her some money and she was never supposed to tell you about me. Here's some more money to go away." How can someone even fathom doing something like that? He fathered that girl. She has lived her whole life without him, and then when she finally finds him, she just wants to know if there's a possibility for a relationship there, and he just blows her off. So easy for men to do that, because they aren't the one who gets pregnant. I absolutely loathe that lack of a sense of responsibility for their actions. Treating a child like they're just an "inconvenience." They are a person, and how can anybody forget that? I know this was fictional, but it happens in real life, and that disgusts me.
I got to watch three shows tonight! Cool huh. Yeah. Three hours... but it's okay, because I did actually study for my Latin quiz during the commercials. And it's fine if you don't believe me that this strategy actually worked, but it was just memorizing a chart I have to write down on a piece of paper tomorrow. And I probably studied more than I would have, because I didn't have anything else to do during the commercials. So, really this is a good development, that I managed to commandeer a TV for this purpose. And I can go to bed sooner, because I already finished studying, and that makes everyone happier.
First, Chuck. SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS SHOW. IT IS BEYOND... swell! Okay, I'll just say it - awesome. Chuck is awesome. It's unrealistic and corny and just hilarious. It's a spoof spy show. And you need to watch it, so it doesn't get cancelled. (Please. You have no idea how paranoid I am about that happening. TOO MANY GOOD SHOWS GET CANCELLED BEFORE THEIR TIME!)
1. Chuck has government secrets in his head, and in this episode he has to get tested by a doctor (which happens at the beginning). They start showing him random images, because certain images are related to top secret things and he's supposed to say those if they're related and say when it's "just a turtle" or whatever. One of the first things he says when he gets going on the slides having to do with secrets is: "Oceanic Flight 815 was shot down by..." and then he goes on - he talks really fast. If you are as TV nerdy as me, or maybe not even that much because tons of people probably recognize that, you realize that HELLO THAT IS A REFERENCE TO LOST! HOLY CRAP! "SHOT DOWN BY"?! I THOUGHT DESMOND DID IT WITH THE MAGNETIC PULSE THING!!!! And okay, I'm not entirely sure it was "shot" instead of "brought," but as my sister pointed out on the phone when I called home immediately after this (well, at the next commercial break), those sort of mean the same thing. And granted, this is a spoof show, all tongue in cheek, so maybe it's just a joke. BUT STILL. And this is even on NBC, and Lost is on ABC, so who even knows what that means... well, it either means the influence of Lost is even greater than anybody thought and it might take over the world, or the people at NBC are just messing with us. Either way though... still really cool reference.
2. I really love John Casey. He is played by Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne on Firefly. He's so funny... he's a lot like Jayne in this show, actually, only more intelligent. "I don't kid about quiche."
3. Sarah, the other agent (Casey is the NSA agent, Sarah is CIA) is working at Wienerworld as a cover. She seems to be the only person who works there, which makes no sense. But whatever. She and Casey don't get along and they have a huge random fight there, which also made no sense, but it's not really supposed to, is it? (No.)
4. Chuck has to fly a helicopter at the end of the episode and I think that was probably the funniest moment of the two episodes we've seen so far. Sarah's trying to tell him it's just like a video game, and Chuck gets all situated finally and he's above a bunch of water and he's like, "Is this one of those games where the helicopter can turn into a boat?" I loved it. Chuck is just so lovable and nerdy.
5. One of my favorite things about this show is how the references to real chain stores are so ridiculously obvious. Chuck works at "Buy More," in the "Nerd Herd." And he drives a "Nerd Herd" car to go and help people with computer problems. "Buy More" is right next to "Large Mart," which looks exactly like Sam's inside (which I obviously got a kick out of, especially the five or six speeding forklifts Chuck runs into when he's there).
6. Please just watch it. It's wonderful.
Heroes!
1. So the Irish guy did say iPods. ...WHAT? That's all they could think of? I really wanted Peter to be like, "what's an iPod?" I mean, he has amnesia, why would he know what an iPod is?
2. It seems that these Irish dudes are differently abled. Um - a half naked guy chained in a warehouse who doesn't remember who he is took all the iPods. That makes sense. Did he stuff them in his pants? Or did you check there already? Or are you too busy beating him up to realize that he really doesn't know what an iPod is? And I don't like their accents. (Jessica, yes.) If those are actual Irish people, and that's really their voice, then whatever, I'll take it back. But if they're faking it then they really just need to stop. And go away. That Caitlin chick especially. That was terrible. If that girl is Peter's new love interest I am going to be incredibly annoyed.
3. Any time Claire hurts herself deliberately is gross. Sticking her hand in a boiling pot? Gross. More on this later, obviously.
4. So the F shaped symbol thing that everybody kept seeing last season means "great ability." Thanks Ando! Why didn't anybody think to ask the random Muggle last season? Seriously that whole time he knew what it meant? And finally someone asked him and he's like "oh, yeah, I know what that means, it means 'great ability.'" UGH. Okay, whatever. It's a comic book show. It's not supposed to be realistic.
5. Sark and Hiro are just wonderful. I love that story line!!!!!!!! "You look like a fish when you talk." Cool Sark! Thanks! Poor Hiro though, because he's totally crushing on Mulan.
6. I LOVE WEST. I love him. The first time he was there this episode, when Claire was obsessing over the regenerative lizards in Biology, and he was just sitting there, looking at stuff, I was like AHHH. WEST I LOVE YOU. I LOVE. YOU. He's just adorable. And he hasn't really done anything yet, except be a creeper around Claire's house...
7. Okay, I don't understand the Spanish people. They're twins, and the girl kills people somehow and the guy heals them, at least when they're affected by her weird power. I don't really understand what her thing is though. If they're separated, and she gets the least bit freaked out, she kills everyone around her? I don't get it.
8. The Haitian!! I'm glad he's back. He's cool. Mr. Bennett's partner in crime. Or saving the world, whichever.
9. Mulan, seriously, you are stupid. What are you doing? Did you really think you could fight like ten samurai guys by yourself? You better be thankful Hiro is around to save your ass. And Hiro was completely awesome in that scene, with getting the swords and the bows from those guys... so cool to see it the way the other people do as opposed to Hiro's perspective.
10. Seriously I'm so done with these Irish people. He saves the sister from getting raped or whatever, and then the brother comes in all pissy and like "look what you did, now they're mad at me. I have to get them more iPods" or something. What is your problem? I thought Irish people were supposed to care about their families more than anything else. And since these Irish people seem pretty stereotypical, I feel like that should be included. And what is with that box? Where the heck was that "on" Peter? When they found him, all he was wearing was pants. Was that thing just sticking out of his back pocket or what? So lame. And the Irish guy is like "you'll help me, or I will throw this box in the fire and you will never know who you are or anything else about you!" Nerny nerny nerny! Okay Peter, listen up: freeze time, take the box, and LEAVE. THERE YOU GO YOUR PROBLEM IS SOLVED AND WE DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE ANNOYING IRISH PEOPLE ANYMORE! Then you can just fly back to New York, show up to your brother and mom, and say "I'm not dead." Well, presuming you remember who they are at some point.
11. Claire's car got stolen! HA HA! Did West give you a ride then? Did he fly you up into the atmosphere and talk about how he hears everything and that he was sorry for leaving you when he went to visit his blown up home planet? No? Well, it's only a matter of time! But seriously, West is just so adorable. And he and Claire are totally sucking face in all the previews so we know that happens eventually. Yay.
12. Okay, ew. Is EVERYBODY almost related on this show. Mr. Sulu and Mrs. Petrelli? GROSS. And who is after Mama Petrelli! SCARY! But good that Nathan showed up to save her, kind of.
13. Sark is so great when Mulan comes up and gives him the sword... and then he's all, "alright, I'm in." And then he goes outside and promptly gets shot. OH NO. But wait, um - what? He's healing? THAT'S SO COOL! HE'S LIKE CLAIRE'S BIG BROTHER ALMOST! Well! Neat!
14. Claire, that is just disgusting. Please don't EVER cut your pinky toe off again. GROSS. And okay, West? At least when Superman stalks Lois, he doesn't let her see him. You could use some lessons from him on that, I think. Fortunately for you, Claire's so dumb that she's probably just thinking "OH NO HE SAW ME CUT OFF MY TOE AND THEN SAW IT GROW BACK!" and not "holy crap how did he find out where I live? What was he doing out there?!" And she chases him outside, and the yappy dog comes too, who admittedly is kind of cute when he's jumping up and down on the driveway freaking out, and Claire just picks up that book and looks around, on the ground, while the dog is looking UP and barking... CLAIRE, come ON, your real dad can fly! THIS SHOULD OCCUR TO YOU! Whatever. Just, I know that they will be madly in love soon. And I'm pretty sure he's going to fly her up and kiss her up there. Just like Superman! And I will be so very happy.
15. Sylar in the preview: rescued by a lady who clearly doesn't recognize DISTURBED when it walks in front of her munching on brains.
Journeyman.
1. This show is so cool! It's a lot like the Time Traveler's Wife, I think more so than Quantum Leap. Although still elements of both obviously. Anyway, a lot of people seem to find that annoying, but I don't. I LOVE it.
2. I really want to know what the back story is with the romance stuff concerning Dan and his brother. Katie, Dan's wife, was with the brother, whose name I forgot, at some point. There was a little reference to it this time, but not enough to satisfy me.
3. I love how everything is connected, and all the times Dan runs into himself or other people he knows in the past. He doesn't let them see him, usually... but I thought it was great that one of the cops chasing him when he paid for a cab with "counterfeit" money (one of the the new twentys) was his brother. And when he was hiding from himself in his apartment, that was funny too.
4. The girl in the past that he's supposed to help, when she confronts her dad that she's never met before, I got so sad and angry that there are men like that in the world. All he does is say, more or less, that "your mom claimed I'm the father, I gave her some money and she was never supposed to tell you about me. Here's some more money to go away." How can someone even fathom doing something like that? He fathered that girl. She has lived her whole life without him, and then when she finally finds him, she just wants to know if there's a possibility for a relationship there, and he just blows her off. So easy for men to do that, because they aren't the one who gets pregnant. I absolutely loathe that lack of a sense of responsibility for their actions. Treating a child like they're just an "inconvenience." They are a person, and how can anybody forget that? I know this was fictional, but it happens in real life, and that disgusts me.
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