So I have one main reaction to Heroes tonight, and oddly enough it only involves Sylar in the periphery; it is mainly about Weevil (Jesse, whatever; he's always Weevil). Spoilery.( Read more... )
And I ought to say something about Gossip Girl. Spoilery:
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Spoilers and squee

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You know what, I really love Greek because even though it is TV and thus has no relation to real-life at all, and even though my college didn't even *have* fraternities and sororities (and I never felt the lack), it *still* reminds me of how awesome college was sometimes.

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And on a completely different note:
So, I don't mean to get too political because a) TV journal and b) once Hillary was gone I stopped being really excited. But I saw this, and it kind of made me crack up because the first thing I thought when I heard about Sarah-Palin's-baby's-baby-gate was 'does McCain have any sort of vetting process at *all*?' Answer, according to the NY TImes? Not really, no. And I saw this website and it kind of made me giggle. I think it's awesome that McCain chose a woman for VP (even if her her stances kind of make me cringe) since that means this November will be historic no matter what, and I get that he's going for a 'two mavericks storm Washington!' thing, which is cool, but if they'd really properly vetted their VP and found the whole teenage-mother thing wasn't a deal-breaker, couldn't they have at *least* spun the story well enough that it didn't evolve into 'Palin's youngest son is actually her oldest daughter's son' before setting the record straight? I mean, I don't know much about handling the media, but I do know that you try to break the story first, on your own terms, before people start speculating that your son is your grandson. Anyway, amusingly...Vet Sara Palin!

http://content.vetpalin.com/index.html

Cutting for spoilers of 2x01 of Gossip Girl.

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ETA: Not at all Gossip Girl related, but also hilarious. The Hottest Signers of the Declaration of Independence:

http://thegoodreverend.blogspot.com/2007/05/hottest-signers-of-declaration-of.html

OK so this is clearly only amusing to me because I am an idiot who cannot distinguish actors from characters, but this People blurb cracked me up because I can't help picturing Chuck  reciting poetry with a I Am Deep look on his face to piss Dan off.

Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick: Actor, Rocker...Poet?
http://tvwatch.people.com/2008/08/22/gossip-girls-ed-westwick-actor-rocker-poet/?xid=rss-topheadlines

Clearly fall TV needs to come back soon to save me from myself. I really hope this whole working-while-a-student thing will give me enough time to devote to TV-watching, which is clearly my true calling. That and, apparently, reading about dragons fighting Napoleon (I am currently reading the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik and it is *really* addictive).

Yet again, I've waited an age without posting. I'm sorry about that! The TV season should come back soon. For now, I'll just mention my favorite summer season things, because why not.

First off, I loved The Middleman. It is so cracktastic, I can't stand it. 'Flowers for Algernon!' indeed. And now Wendy has a viable love interest, hooray. I am so sad it probably won't come back.

Secondly, Psych is such fun. I love Shawn and Gus, they are a wonderful team. I love that Gus was voted Most Likely to Succeed in high school!  I love that Juliet has to find Lassitar a girlfriend, and he accidentally picked up a hooker! I love the exasperated way they flashed their police badges when they figured it out. And most of all I love the slew of John Hughes movie references in last week's episode, *especially* the Breakfast Club ending. Psych is lovely.

I've started watching the Brideshead Revisited series with Jeremy Irons, and it's fun, but I find Sebastian a little bit creepy, and kind of want to snatch Jeremy Irons up and introduce him to much nicer boys who don't carry around teddy bears and won't puke in his room. But still, very interesting.

On the non-TV-front, I really loved The Dark Night (The Joker freaked the hell out of me), and almost fell asleep during Mamma Mia (Pierce Brosnon (Brosnen?) should never be allowed to sing in a movie again). I caught The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants on TV, and you know what, it is not as bad as I remembered. I kind of love Amber Tamblyn; she needs to get another TV show because she was great in Joan of Arcadia (imo).

Also, I have to take the ethics part of the bar tomorrow, and I'm freaking out a bit, but it will be okay. Because my bosses were nice enough to give me today and yesterday off to study, so it would be deplorable if I didn't pass.

So apparently it will be airing on DirecTV in October, and then on NBC in February. Zach Gilford's (Matt's) suggestion for fans? Just download it [illegally]...But then it would be in good conscience to watch it on NBC when it airs there." This he says during an NBC panel. ~_~ Oh, Matt. I like how I don't really distinguish between the characters and the actors.

I've also heard some spoilers for season 3

I generally stay out of the Twilight Buzz. I mean, I read the first book awhile ago, and really didn't care for it but didn't want to hurt the feelings of those that do. So I generally avoided the Twilight-mania except for to laugh at the odd post making jokes about it. And then I ran into this, the cover of EW, featuring Edward and Bella from the upcoming movie. Is that really what it's going to be like? Because that's hilariously awful.





I thought they were going the 'vampires are preternaturally hot' route, not the 'hey, if you never go out in the sun and live off of animal blood you will probably look like a cadaver' route. But hey, whatever floats your boat.

So, wow. I intended to keep this LJ mainly TV-centric, but what the hell. The real TV event for me the past two weeks has been Wimbledon, and today's final was absolutely out of this world good. I am incoherent about how good it was. I am so happy I bailed on going to a movie and decided to see it. So effing good.

OK, so I don't know what possessed me, but I watched the first episode of The Secret Life of the American Teenager (or something like that), the new show by the makers of Seventh Heaven, the show that would not die. Actually, I do know what possessed me: a) I was bored, b) I like Molly Ringwald, and she plays the mom, and c) I did not know until the end that the woman who made Seventh Heaven made this crap too. Although I really should have guessed. It was terrible in that cracktastic way that the few Seventh Heaven episodes I watched after I hit puberty were (musical! terrible musical!). There will be spoilers, but honestly, there's nothing much to spoil.

I mean, it was basically one of those horrible TV-movies you had to watch in Health Class. For future knowledge, my three favorite awful health class movies are:

3)  'Daddy', in which a smooth-talking high school hunk acoustic guitarist gets his girlfriend pregnant and spends the rest of his life working at an ice cream parlor hating himself for having unprotected sex.

2)  'Secret Between Friends', or as my friends called it, 'Anorexi Lexi', the story of a clique of girls who have various eating disorders. And then have hallucinations about the others of the clique calling them fat.

And drum roll please for # 1....

I don't know the title, alas, but it was a movie about the dangers of drug addiction as told by *cats*. Seriously! Live-action cats walking around 'acting out' the scenes as a narrator voiced over the 'plot'. The cat drank water out of a bowl to represent alcoholism. The cat buried its head in a bunch of flour to represent cocaine abuse. And best of all was the part where the cat 'drinks and drives' by getting in this little plastic toy red sports car, and then veering wildly out of control as it (he? she?)  tries to avoid hitting a kitten crossing the street. It then winds up in, honest to god, jail, with hooker-cats. You know they are hooker-cats because they are wearing feather boas and necklaces and posed "sexily" draped over the bars. It was phenomenal. It all ends with the cat going into a 12-step-program, as represented by the cat literally walking up twelve steps.

But I digress. To the horrible TV!

Anyway, only my boredom levels will determine if I watch again. But my god, the hilarious awfulness was so bad I just had to share.

OK so I'm reading Cotillion by Georgette Heyer. It's very fun and entertaining romance, but sometimes I run across a line and think '...I have no idea what that means.' Example:
"You have not yet answered my question!" interrupted Hugh. "What has brought you here?"
"Hired chaise," said Freddy. "Thought of driving myself down, but too far for the tits. Bad weather too."

Obviously it's not the modern usage, but what on earth are they trying to say? It drives me nuts.

OK, so you may or may not know this, but I love unicorns. When I was little I practically had a herd of stuffed unicorns that were all named 'Uni'. This somehow did not get confusing. So when I stumbled across this story of a an actual sort-of-unicorn I pretty much squealed like a little girl and decided it was worth deviating from the TV-only rule for this LJ. I mean, it's summer hiatus, what else am I going to talk about but awesome genetically defective deer in Italy?



http://jezebel.com/5015545/the-first-unicorn

So it doesn't have a snowy white pelt and wings. Whatever, close enough!

So I watched the finale of Gossip Girl. I was determined to enjoy it. So, I will get my bitchery out of the way in the first paragraph and then concentrate on squee, no matter what.


After Gossip Girl, I actually watched last week's episode of Greek, and man, this show is *so good*! I cannot even believe how much I love it! I bought the first season DVD. It's great; do not scoff at it being on the Family Channel! It's about a bunch of students in frats/sororities in a fictional college in Ohio (but it's filmed in California, so it leaves me like 'yeah, I grew up in Ohio; it totally is not light-jacket-weather in December'). Now, I have never been in a sorority; my mother was in one, and I made a conscious decision to go to a college with no greek life because I didn't want to deal with my mom pushing me into pledging. So I'm coming at this from a Greek-apathetic, if not anti-Greek, attitude. And I still love it; the characters are fun and funny (even the background characters; I want to marry Beaver). I have found myself actually switching sides in the big Love Triangle, not because the show decided to make one guy an ass and the other a saint, but because both guys are human, and I understand that they both have history and feelings for Casey (the girl in question). Oh, and a lot of people hate Casey at first; I never did, but going on other people's comments, just give her time.Oh, and Rusty, Casey's nerdy little brother who is intent on entering a fraternity, is adorable. And his roommate Dale, the Confederate-flag-hanging Southern Baptist, is a great character in his own right. Watch it! Here! It's all online!
http://abcfamily.go.com/abcfamily/path/section_Shows+Greek/page_Video-Greek_Viewing_Party
And for these past two weeks eps, I'll make a spoiler cut

 


Oh and one thing about Ugly Betty

Since finals are over, apparently I am watching *way* too much TV. Still, I just watched last night's episode of Bones, and it was possibly the most ridiculous thing ever. Even more ridiculous than *last* week, where they tried to convince us that 'pro hac vice' means that someone who has never studied law a day in his life can be temporarily admitted to the bar and try a case as a prosecutor, and I almost died because I was studying Evidence and Lawyer Ethics practically nonstop and it was almost extraordinary how much they got totally, absolutely wrong. I mean, it's only TV and not even a law show, so I shouldn't expect so much, but it was still driving me nuts. Anyway, this week's Bones was also crazy. There are many spoilers beneath the cut. Honestly, it's practically a recap. This was a ridiculous episode.

Well, I'm done with finals at long last, meaning I have a small window of free time I need to make the most of before work starts. Which means, because I'm a huge dork, that I've read Middlemarch, which is so much better than I thought it would be. I mean, I read Silas Marner in ninth grade, and hated it, but I'm finding myself liking a lot of the things I hated in ninth grade. But this is a TV-LJ so, on to TV! Multiple cuts for spoilers.







And the Gossip Girl recap is *thirty-six pages* long. What on earth can that guy have to say about the last episode for thirty-six pages?

So, you can listen to the new New Kids on the Block single here:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20197878,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
My first thought is, look at that picture, you guys are too old to be singing about a romance with a girl who has a 10:00 phone curfew without it being *super creepy*. I mean, I'm all for resurgent boybands, I find it hilarious and fun, but come on guys.

Speaking of creepy things, a seal attempted to have sex with a penguin (what? Is this a sign of the apocalypse?):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7379554.stm

Oh, and to involve TV:
( Brothers & Sisters squee )

So I haven't posted in approximately forever -sorry about that. I'm in law school, and sometimes it pretty much eats me alive; this past semester has been really hectic. I've probably been de-friended for inactivity by everyone, and I wouldn't blame them in the slightest! But, well, the return of Gossip Girl has woken me from the dead (that and my desire to not study for exams), and I've felt the sudden urge to talk about it.

( Gossip girl is back! And I've broken my spoiler-ban on the show, so beware )