Gobble Gobble Quack
Does anyone know the song they use in that Intel (I think it's Intel) commercial? You know, the one with the robot girls in the really weird sort of mod-ish outfits and the engine? And it's all "HEY!" and then there's a bunch of words I can never really understand or remember, but it's got a good beat and there's clapping?
...Yeah, never mind.
But, as long as we're playing the "does anyone know" game, does anyone know if Pushing Daisies and/or Bionic Woman are new tonight? I'm pretty sure BW isn't...I don't know. I mean, I was 100% sure that both NCIS and House were gonna be repeats or not playing at all last night, and found out at the last possible second how wrong I was. So I kinda give up on me.
Speaking of TV...I know I'm terminally late to the party on this, but here's a round-up of a couple thoughts about Heroes, both this week's episode and some more in general:
Bennet -
Fuck YEAH, bitches. I fear some people might be whining about how they did a cop-out on us, but c'mon. We got the Painting of DOOOOOM pay-off, AND THEN HE CAME BACK. AT THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND (season one throwback that keeps it in the family: "Son of a bi-"). Getting all Lazarus up in your grill. HOMG BADASS. And Claire doesn't know he's alive, so she can be emo about that for a bit, and now he's being kept prisoner by the dreaded Company (GASP!), and WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?? Everybody wins! (is he going to have powers now? I'd think not, but I guess you never know; it'll be intriguing to watch in any case)
Mohinder -
Oh, for the love of...!!!...okay. Look, I get that Mo's all conflicted right now, yes. I also get that he just wants to do The Right Thing, that that's very important to him, but it's hard to know what's right right now, blah blah blahcakes. HOWEVER. Mo, let's break this down. In the short time you've known him, Bob has: stalked you, asked you to inject an unwilling girl with a potentially deadly virus, and gotten you involved in attempted murder and kidnapping, AMONG OTHER THINGS. Bennet on the other hand, you trusted enough in the first place to do covert ops with, and the only thing really bad that he's done that you know of is killing his mentor, Russian Guy. AND YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT FROM BOB. WHO VERY WELL, FROM YOUR POV, COULD HAVE BEEN LYING. But in the great "Who do I trust??" staredown of '07, you choose to shoot Bennet in the face. UM. WHAT. I just......whatever. Go emo about it for a bit. I don't even know. (is it too much to hope for that your boyfriend will smack some sense into you since you guys are apparantly hooking back up next episode? huh? huh??)
Mama Petrelli -
This is both a whole episode late and most likely already pointed out by everybody, but anyone catch how she was getting all handsy with Nathan's wife? And then basically talked her into thinking Nathan was a coo-coo pants? So, right now I'm thinking her power is to persuade people to do/think things, and that she needs to be touching people in order to do it. WHICH EXPLAINS SO MUCH FROM SEASON ONE, OMG. It would also potentially cover why Matt had to practically hemorrage her into cooperating this week, if her own ability sort of overlaps with his in the persuasive thinking department. Speaking of...
Matt -
Ullllgh. Yeesh, talk about "morally gray". Um. Okay. How do I feel about this? I should probably start by saying that characters with psychic/persuasive/thought-related abilities always make me extremely uncomfortable for this very reason. Making someone do something they don't wanna do is bad; making someone do something they don't do via mindfuck is, to me, about a hundred times worse. Mind-reading actually doesn't bother me too much, even if you're using it to cheat and get the answers; not nearly as much as what basically amounts to brainwashing, that is. As of right now Matt is doing it with good intentions and because he doesn't seem to think he has another choice and, I think, he's a little wary of going overboard and becoming his dad. So, how do I feel about what he did to Angela? Well, I guess I can be okay with him forcing her to tell the truth at the beginning, because he honestly thought peoples' lives could be at stake and was seriously getting tired of the Elder Heroes run-around (aren't we all?). But at the end, where she gave an honest, good reason for not telling him what he wanted to know and (judging from the extra post-it on the photo at the end of the episode) he forced her to do it anyway? No. That is somehow over the line. I'm not even 100% where the line falls on this, but that's over it. Bad Matt. No biscuit.
Hiro -
ILU. I just...yes. Nothing else to say. You did everything right this episode: tried to use your powers to do what you thought was right, realized it was selfish and owned up to it, said your tearful loving goodbye (sniff!), and then had the foresight to stick around and find out what the audience already guessed: Adamensei was the one that threw your daddy off the roof (poooooor Hiro). Oh, and that eulogy. GOD. Am I...just that easy? I mean, I have this sense of foreboding that probably everybody but me thought that part was cheesy as hell, but it owned me. I wasn't crying or anything, but oh. Also, I'm really not sure what it says that the voiceover Mo-nologues annoy the fuck out of me 99% of the time but the Hiro monologue was all that and a bag of crisps. Is it Hiro, or Mo, or the subject matter (science vs. dead loved ones?), or the writing, or me, or what?
West -
...Goddammit, I'm going to have to actually like you now, aren't I??
Elle -
I'm horribly conflicted about the direction they seem to be taking her as of this episode. It seems rather shallow, I know, but I guess I was kind of enjoying having a bad guy I could just be squicked out and amused by every week and just leaving it at that. I didn't really want her to have layers. I mean, not everyone does, right? I just have this feeling like they're going to do some sort of redemption/side-switching thing with her, which just...ehhh. Well, okay: I think I could like it if they did it where she turns against her dad and the Company and then basically self-destructs in one glorious moment of embittered self-sacrificing anilation. THAT I could handle. But I will take serious issue if they do a full-blown redemption arc with her, just because there are certain levels of psychological forumulative damage you cannot undo with any amounts of hugs and puppies. And that kind of deep-seated sociopathy is one of them.
The Company -
...I'm sorry, but at this point I rather think you guys are all kinds of pretty damn stupid. Firstly: I get it that Adamensei is the Evilest Evil that Ever Eviled and needs to be locked up forever and a day. If that's so, however, why isn't he, IDK, buried sixty feet uynderground?? Or in a super special cell in a super duper secure ultimately platinum top secret facility?? If he is so unbelievably, awesomely, mind-warpingly DANGEROUS (seriously, I'm not even saying he isn't) then why in the WORLD is he in the same facility as everyone else, where anyone can get to him, where he can get to EVERYONE, and to top it off, you put him in the room right next to Peter Petrelli, the Amazing Human Power Sponge. I...what? Who thought THAT was a good idea?? (Please let it turn out that that was a purposeful manuever as a part of somebody's Evil Plot. Please. Otherwise, I am forced to think of the bad guys as collectively retarded.) Secondly: So, Bob, you've got this incurable potentially lethal, power-killing super-human mutated virus. And you've got this hot if emo and occasionally dim scientist who's been repeatedly telling you how afraid he is that the virus could turn into a plague that'll kill everyone on the entire planet if it's allowed to spead and mutate. And then you've got this person that you know is infected with said potentially plague-inducing virus and that you probably don't know if they're contagious or not. And then you let her leave the facility and go home to mingle with her family and the rest of the general population. Are...are you following me? Are you maybe seeing why I'm sort of having a hard time keeping up with the math on this one?? Maybe?
Still speaking of TV, finally getting to watch Battlestar Galactica: Razor this weekend! No, I haven't seen it yet, so what? I felt like waiting and watching it "live" rather than downloading it illegaly (and potentially getting arrested) ahead of time. So there!
Oh, I am all kinds of psyched. I mean, for good or bad, it's new BSG. Finally. After, oh what...months and months and months? I'm not even going to think about how I'm going to hold up until (sob) APRIL after this. No. Really. It's probably best not to think about it.
(Dear Reader:
I keep having the strangest urge to drop out of college and become a writer for television, just so that I can create a SciFi series starring James Callis as an action hero and thereby ensure he gets to stay on my TV regularly and maybe be baddass and occasionally get to use a gun. Is this normal?
Love,
Contemplative in Columbus)
On the subject of SciFi: so, anyone having any thoughts about the "Tin Man" miniseries coming at the beginning of December?
I was a little iffy at the first ads, but it's starting to sort of look like the kind of over-the-top hyper-involved Sci-Fantasy thing I tend to be into. IMHO, it seems like it just as easily could either go spectacularly amazing or spectacularly bad. I dunno...I'm actually really intrigued and tentatively excited after watching some of the featurettes they've got up on Sci-Fi.com.
I think it's pretty safe to say I'll at least be watching the first part or whatever when it airs. I guess I'll just have to see where it goes from there.
And, okay: has anyone out there seen Enchanted yet? Because I keep wildly flipflopping on this one, but right now I'm thinking I've more or less swayed over to the point where, yes, I am going to go see it. Soonish.
So unless anyone can tell me for sure that it's not as WTFamazing as the concept would initially imply...?
Well. I guess that pretty much covers it as far as to what's on my (shallow, obsessive, random) mind at the moment.
In case you hadn't already guessed, I'm headin' home for Thanksgiving. Get to see the folks, get mauled by hug the kitties, spend mucho time with my friends that I don't get to see while I'm at college, consume copious amounts of turkey and trimmings, you know the drill.
Since "home" also happens to mean The House That Good Internet Forgot, I can't be sure how often I'll get online over the next four days, if at all. So, I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving filled with food, family and appropriately-themed festivities! Those of you that celebrate, obviously. Good weekend, to the rest of you.
Well, my ride'll be here in...*clock-glance*...about another hour and a half, and I've got a few more things to pack, so. Catch ya laters, all.
...Yeah, never mind.
But, as long as we're playing the "does anyone know" game, does anyone know if Pushing Daisies and/or Bionic Woman are new tonight? I'm pretty sure BW isn't...I don't know. I mean, I was 100% sure that both NCIS and House were gonna be repeats or not playing at all last night, and found out at the last possible second how wrong I was. So I kinda give up on me.
Speaking of TV...I know I'm terminally late to the party on this, but here's a round-up of a couple thoughts about Heroes, both this week's episode and some more in general:
Bennet -
Fuck YEAH, bitches. I fear some people might be whining about how they did a cop-out on us, but c'mon. We got the Painting of DOOOOOM pay-off, AND THEN HE CAME BACK. AT THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND (season one throwback that keeps it in the family: "Son of a bi-"). Getting all Lazarus up in your grill. HOMG BADASS. And Claire doesn't know he's alive, so she can be emo about that for a bit, and now he's being kept prisoner by the dreaded Company (GASP!), and WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?? Everybody wins! (is he going to have powers now? I'd think not, but I guess you never know; it'll be intriguing to watch in any case)
Mohinder -
Oh, for the love of...!!!...okay. Look, I get that Mo's all conflicted right now, yes. I also get that he just wants to do The Right Thing, that that's very important to him, but it's hard to know what's right right now, blah blah blahcakes. HOWEVER. Mo, let's break this down. In the short time you've known him, Bob has: stalked you, asked you to inject an unwilling girl with a potentially deadly virus, and gotten you involved in attempted murder and kidnapping, AMONG OTHER THINGS. Bennet on the other hand, you trusted enough in the first place to do covert ops with, and the only thing really bad that he's done that you know of is killing his mentor, Russian Guy. AND YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT FROM BOB. WHO VERY WELL, FROM YOUR POV, COULD HAVE BEEN LYING. But in the great "Who do I trust??" staredown of '07, you choose to shoot Bennet in the face. UM. WHAT. I just......whatever. Go emo about it for a bit. I don't even know. (is it too much to hope for that your boyfriend will smack some sense into you since you guys are apparantly hooking back up next episode? huh? huh??)
Mama Petrelli -
This is both a whole episode late and most likely already pointed out by everybody, but anyone catch how she was getting all handsy with Nathan's wife? And then basically talked her into thinking Nathan was a coo-coo pants? So, right now I'm thinking her power is to persuade people to do/think things, and that she needs to be touching people in order to do it. WHICH EXPLAINS SO MUCH FROM SEASON ONE, OMG. It would also potentially cover why Matt had to practically hemorrage her into cooperating this week, if her own ability sort of overlaps with his in the persuasive thinking department. Speaking of...
Matt -
Ullllgh. Yeesh, talk about "morally gray". Um. Okay. How do I feel about this? I should probably start by saying that characters with psychic/persuasive/thought-related abilities always make me extremely uncomfortable for this very reason. Making someone do something they don't wanna do is bad; making someone do something they don't do via mindfuck is, to me, about a hundred times worse. Mind-reading actually doesn't bother me too much, even if you're using it to cheat and get the answers; not nearly as much as what basically amounts to brainwashing, that is. As of right now Matt is doing it with good intentions and because he doesn't seem to think he has another choice and, I think, he's a little wary of going overboard and becoming his dad. So, how do I feel about what he did to Angela? Well, I guess I can be okay with him forcing her to tell the truth at the beginning, because he honestly thought peoples' lives could be at stake and was seriously getting tired of the Elder Heroes run-around (aren't we all?). But at the end, where she gave an honest, good reason for not telling him what he wanted to know and (judging from the extra post-it on the photo at the end of the episode) he forced her to do it anyway? No. That is somehow over the line. I'm not even 100% where the line falls on this, but that's over it. Bad Matt. No biscuit.
Hiro -
ILU. I just...yes. Nothing else to say. You did everything right this episode: tried to use your powers to do what you thought was right, realized it was selfish and owned up to it, said your tearful loving goodbye (sniff!), and then had the foresight to stick around and find out what the audience already guessed: Adamensei was the one that threw your daddy off the roof (poooooor Hiro). Oh, and that eulogy. GOD. Am I...just that easy? I mean, I have this sense of foreboding that probably everybody but me thought that part was cheesy as hell, but it owned me. I wasn't crying or anything, but oh. Also, I'm really not sure what it says that the voiceover Mo-nologues annoy the fuck out of me 99% of the time but the Hiro monologue was all that and a bag of crisps. Is it Hiro, or Mo, or the subject matter (science vs. dead loved ones?), or the writing, or me, or what?
West -
...Goddammit, I'm going to have to actually like you now, aren't I??
Elle -
I'm horribly conflicted about the direction they seem to be taking her as of this episode. It seems rather shallow, I know, but I guess I was kind of enjoying having a bad guy I could just be squicked out and amused by every week and just leaving it at that. I didn't really want her to have layers. I mean, not everyone does, right? I just have this feeling like they're going to do some sort of redemption/side-switching thing with her, which just...ehhh. Well, okay: I think I could like it if they did it where she turns against her dad and the Company and then basically self-destructs in one glorious moment of embittered self-sacrificing anilation. THAT I could handle. But I will take serious issue if they do a full-blown redemption arc with her, just because there are certain levels of psychological forumulative damage you cannot undo with any amounts of hugs and puppies. And that kind of deep-seated sociopathy is one of them.
The Company -
...I'm sorry, but at this point I rather think you guys are all kinds of pretty damn stupid. Firstly: I get it that Adamensei is the Evilest Evil that Ever Eviled and needs to be locked up forever and a day. If that's so, however, why isn't he, IDK, buried sixty feet uynderground?? Or in a super special cell in a super duper secure ultimately platinum top secret facility?? If he is so unbelievably, awesomely, mind-warpingly DANGEROUS (seriously, I'm not even saying he isn't) then why in the WORLD is he in the same facility as everyone else, where anyone can get to him, where he can get to EVERYONE, and to top it off, you put him in the room right next to Peter Petrelli, the Amazing Human Power Sponge. I...what? Who thought THAT was a good idea?? (Please let it turn out that that was a purposeful manuever as a part of somebody's Evil Plot. Please. Otherwise, I am forced to think of the bad guys as collectively retarded.) Secondly: So, Bob, you've got this incurable potentially lethal, power-killing super-human mutated virus. And you've got this hot if emo and occasionally dim scientist who's been repeatedly telling you how afraid he is that the virus could turn into a plague that'll kill everyone on the entire planet if it's allowed to spead and mutate. And then you've got this person that you know is infected with said potentially plague-inducing virus and that you probably don't know if they're contagious or not. And then you let her leave the facility and go home to mingle with her family and the rest of the general population. Are...are you following me? Are you maybe seeing why I'm sort of having a hard time keeping up with the math on this one?? Maybe?
Still speaking of TV, finally getting to watch Battlestar Galactica: Razor this weekend! No, I haven't seen it yet, so what? I felt like waiting and watching it "live" rather than downloading it illegaly (and potentially getting arrested) ahead of time. So there!
Oh, I am all kinds of psyched. I mean, for good or bad, it's new BSG. Finally. After, oh what...months and months and months? I'm not even going to think about how I'm going to hold up until (sob) APRIL after this. No. Really. It's probably best not to think about it.
(Dear Reader:
I keep having the strangest urge to drop out of college and become a writer for television, just so that I can create a SciFi series starring James Callis as an action hero and thereby ensure he gets to stay on my TV regularly and maybe be baddass and occasionally get to use a gun. Is this normal?
Love,
Contemplative in Columbus)
On the subject of SciFi: so, anyone having any thoughts about the "Tin Man" miniseries coming at the beginning of December?
I was a little iffy at the first ads, but it's starting to sort of look like the kind of over-the-top hyper-involved Sci-Fantasy thing I tend to be into. IMHO, it seems like it just as easily could either go spectacularly amazing or spectacularly bad. I dunno...I'm actually really intrigued and tentatively excited after watching some of the featurettes they've got up on Sci-Fi.com.
I think it's pretty safe to say I'll at least be watching the first part or whatever when it airs. I guess I'll just have to see where it goes from there.
And, okay: has anyone out there seen Enchanted yet? Because I keep wildly flipflopping on this one, but right now I'm thinking I've more or less swayed over to the point where, yes, I am going to go see it. Soonish.
So unless anyone can tell me for sure that it's not as WTFamazing as the concept would initially imply...?
Well. I guess that pretty much covers it as far as to what's on my (shallow, obsessive, random) mind at the moment.
In case you hadn't already guessed, I'm headin' home for Thanksgiving. Get to see the folks, get mauled by hug the kitties, spend mucho time with my friends that I don't get to see while I'm at college, consume copious amounts of turkey and trimmings, you know the drill.
Since "home" also happens to mean The House That Good Internet Forgot, I can't be sure how often I'll get online over the next four days, if at all. So, I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving filled with food, family and appropriately-themed festivities! Those of you that celebrate, obviously. Good weekend, to the rest of you.
Well, my ride'll be here in...*clock-glance*...about another hour and a half, and I've got a few more things to pack, so. Catch ya laters, all.