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Ordered today: A Harry Potter paperback boxed set (the shinier, less childish-looking and slightly more expensive one, because look: PRETTY!), the first four Valor-books by Tanya Huff and the first Dragon Age-game. Thanks for the recs guys, you know who you are!
True Blood:
AHAHA, oh man! I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard, atleast at something that wasn't a comedy show. That was some massive and literal LOLs, that was. Still giggling! I mean, I already knew this would be a far cry from the finale of the book, where it's an all-out awesome battle with pretty much everyone involved, but I was sure as hell not expecting ... THIS. I suppose I should have, because this is the way things have been headed lately, but somehow I just always expect this show to have hit the ceiling of ridiculousness or rock bottom or whatever you wanna call it.
But no! Instead of epic battle? Some random killing, another freaking episode of freaking Ghost Whisperer, and some more random killing in a slow, stunty pace that made it feel like the episode should have ended 5 times over by the time it was done. And that whole awesome Sookie-owes-Eric-but-he-doesn't-remember-that-she-owes-him dynamic? Replaced by an actual, honest-to-God Kelly-style "I choose me" scene (f'real, I can't even type this without giggling, I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS REALLY HAPPENED!). Which I guess I should be eternally grateful that it didn't turn into a threesome instead!
And I mean, it's not like this is just "the book did it better" sour grapes, there was plently of show-only material that was just pissed away. Witch battle aside, having Marnie resolved by a therapy session with Gran and Antonia (no matter how much of a whiny emo teenager she turned out to be with the cutting and the "nobody understands me" and the "but I wanna kill all the vampires mommy" hissyfits)? LAME. And they had Holly dressed up as an actual freaking fairy, started the season with fairy-land, did all that crap with Andy stumbling into a fairy porno-flick in the woods last episode, and then ... no fairy stuff? Oh-kay. And don't even get me started on freaking René coming back to haunt Arlene ... to warn her about one of this shows last remaining somewhat-sympathetic characters. What. The. Fuck.
I want to be clear though: I very much enjoyed this episode! It should be hailed as one of the most spectacular failures and worst episodes of all time, but I did enjoy it. Just ... in the same way I enjoy watching crappy teen slasher flicks where the group splits up EVERY SINGLE TIME, or those Killer Tomatoes-movies. And I dunno, maybe that's what they were going for here? If so, mission accomplished - I will be laughing about this all week for sure. Haha, of all the shows to rip off, they went with Beverly Hills and Ghost Whisperer, that's priceless.
Lost Girl:
Awwww, Kenzi/Bo. <3 Favorite BFFs on TV right now, yo! Yep, that includes Mike and Harvey from Suits, because there are loads of bromances around but far too few awesome girl-friendships. I'd be happy if this show was just Bo and Kenzi sitting on the couch eating ice cream and talking about boys. Hell, lets be honest, I'd be happy if this show was Kenzi just reading the phonebook, because you know she'd make snarky comments about anyone with a funny last name.
Other stuff: CotW: boring, new Ash is whatever, intrigue and mystery and Bloodking stuff = meh, IDC.
Oh look, a meme! Stolen from ... someone, sorry, I have the memory of an ant. A senile ant.
Rules: Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Underline a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order), but you must delete one show for each one that you add.
24
30 Rock
7th Heaven
ALF
Alias
American Gothic
American Idol
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Blake’s 7
Bonanza
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Clarissa Explains it All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Community
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Ghost Whisperer
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Grey's Anatomy
Grange Hill
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kim Possible
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order: SVU
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life As A Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mythbusters
NCIS
Ned Bigby's Declassified School Survival Guide
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Parks & Recreation
Perry Mason
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rookie Blue
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scrubs
Seaquest DSV
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
Square Peg
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Amazing Race
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Magnificent Seven
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Powerpuff Girls
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Traders
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Unfabulous
V (2009)
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Xena: Warrior Princess
(I dutifully excluded the shows I wasn't sure I'd seen 3 whole episodes of - lots of these shows ran on TV when I was growing up and I caught bit and pieces here and there, but with some I wasn't sure if those bits amounted to 3 episodes. I also changed out 3 shows, cookies and internets if you can guess which ones I put in.)
True Blood:
AHAHA, oh man! I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard, atleast at something that wasn't a comedy show. That was some massive and literal LOLs, that was. Still giggling! I mean, I already knew this would be a far cry from the finale of the book, where it's an all-out awesome battle with pretty much everyone involved, but I was sure as hell not expecting ... THIS. I suppose I should have, because this is the way things have been headed lately, but somehow I just always expect this show to have hit the ceiling of ridiculousness or rock bottom or whatever you wanna call it.
But no! Instead of epic battle? Some random killing, another freaking episode of freaking Ghost Whisperer, and some more random killing in a slow, stunty pace that made it feel like the episode should have ended 5 times over by the time it was done. And that whole awesome Sookie-owes-Eric-but-he-doesn't-remember-that-she-owes-him dynamic? Replaced by an actual, honest-to-God Kelly-style "I choose me" scene (f'real, I can't even type this without giggling, I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS REALLY HAPPENED!). Which I guess I should be eternally grateful that it didn't turn into a threesome instead!
And I mean, it's not like this is just "the book did it better" sour grapes, there was plently of show-only material that was just pissed away. Witch battle aside, having Marnie resolved by a therapy session with Gran and Antonia (no matter how much of a whiny emo teenager she turned out to be with the cutting and the "nobody understands me" and the "but I wanna kill all the vampires mommy" hissyfits)? LAME. And they had Holly dressed up as an actual freaking fairy, started the season with fairy-land, did all that crap with Andy stumbling into a fairy porno-flick in the woods last episode, and then ... no fairy stuff? Oh-kay. And don't even get me started on freaking René coming back to haunt Arlene ... to warn her about one of this shows last remaining somewhat-sympathetic characters. What. The. Fuck.
I want to be clear though: I very much enjoyed this episode! It should be hailed as one of the most spectacular failures and worst episodes of all time, but I did enjoy it. Just ... in the same way I enjoy watching crappy teen slasher flicks where the group splits up EVERY SINGLE TIME, or those Killer Tomatoes-movies. And I dunno, maybe that's what they were going for here? If so, mission accomplished - I will be laughing about this all week for sure. Haha, of all the shows to rip off, they went with Beverly Hills and Ghost Whisperer, that's priceless.
Lost Girl:
Awwww, Kenzi/Bo. <3 Favorite BFFs on TV right now, yo! Yep, that includes Mike and Harvey from Suits, because there are loads of bromances around but far too few awesome girl-friendships. I'd be happy if this show was just Bo and Kenzi sitting on the couch eating ice cream and talking about boys. Hell, lets be honest, I'd be happy if this show was Kenzi just reading the phonebook, because you know she'd make snarky comments about anyone with a funny last name.
Other stuff: CotW: boring, new Ash is whatever, intrigue and mystery and Bloodking stuff = meh, IDC.
Oh look, a meme! Stolen from ... someone, sorry, I have the memory of an ant. A senile ant.
Rules: Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Underline a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order), but you must delete one show for each one that you add.
24
30 Rock
7th Heaven
ALF
Alias
American Gothic
American Idol
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Blake’s 7
Bonanza
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Clarissa Explains it All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Community
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Ghost Whisperer
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Grey's Anatomy
Grange Hill
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kim Possible
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order: SVU
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life As A Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mythbusters
NCIS
Ned Bigby's Declassified School Survival Guide
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Parks & Recreation
Perry Mason
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rookie Blue
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scrubs
Seaquest DSV
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
Square Peg
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Amazing Race
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Magnificent Seven
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Powerpuff Girls
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Traders
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Unfabulous
V (2009)
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Xena: Warrior Princess
(I dutifully excluded the shows I wasn't sure I'd seen 3 whole episodes of - lots of these shows ran on TV when I was growing up and I caught bit and pieces here and there, but with some I wasn't sure if those bits amounted to 3 episodes. I also changed out 3 shows, cookies and internets if you can guess which ones I put in.)