basically all I do these days is watch tv - which makes me really happy :D
1. OH HELLO, am I only starting this post at 5.49am? Well done as usual to any attempts to sleep like a normal person on my part - not that I've been trying very hard. This is a lazy, gorgeous weekend for me: literally I spent the whole of Saturday concussed in bed, either sleeping or watching TV (on which I have many many thoughts) and I finally uprooted myself from my bed to make icons of the pretty prettiness that is the House season premiere episode, Now What?.
2. HONESTLY I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS EPISODE, GUYS, I have no words for it. So obsessed I changed my LJ header, come visit:
ellixian ellixian ellixian
I'm currently sitting on 65 icons (stopped just after Wilson's first attempt to contact House i.e., at best halfway through the episode?! *weeps*) and will post a nice, big batch when I get through the entire episode. I CAN'T CHOOSE ICONS TO USE. I DON'T KNOW HOW, THERE ARE TOO MANY POSSIBILITIES. As for the episode itself: I think I must have watched it something like 3-4 times all the way through by now, with many MANY other viewings for specifically the House/Cuddy scenes (not going to estimate, actual number will only be horrific to most of you). Basically I STILL think it's as close to perfect as I could have asked for, really, in terms of finally getting what I've been pulling for for the last six years. ♥ I still watch the scenes in Now What? like... I can't believe they've HAPPENED, and that they all count as CANON now. Honestly, with this episode, I know that whatever shitstorm is going to follow for House and Cuddy (because shitstorm there will most definitely be), at least we had 7x01 - and everything this episode means for House and Cuddy and the love they have always had for each other. HAPPY SIGH.
3. Basically the entire last week of my life has been about fall tv coming back and filling a void in my soul. Seriously. I even had a really fantastic tv night in on Friday with noldoparma and C - really it was AWESOME. We left work on time (SUCH A FEAT!!), went down to Borders where we had skinny pizza (om nom nom) for dinner, then bought a whole truckload of snacks and ice cream to head back to my house. Where I insisted they watch House (WHAT, I'M NOT OBSESSED) - both Now What? and Help Me, because I refused to allow them to miss out on that gorgeously-filmed, impeccably acted final episode for Season 6. After that, we watched the season premiere of Boooones as well as 30 Rock. OMG TV I LOVE YOU FOREVER.
4. And since there's truly very little going on in my life right now apart from tv, tv and more tv - I'm gonna talk about TV. (SURPRISE!!) I actually have a question about House to ask those who watch spoilers and stuff more closely than I do. (Yes, I really am mostly unspoiled for what's to come. That means there are no spoilers inside the cut beyond the pics that exploded all over the interweb during the summer hiatus, if y'all are worried.)
Okay, I'm REALLY as unspoiled for the subsequent episodes as I can possibly be, I think. Beyond what's on Tumblr (which can definitely get annoying) and the fact that I COULD NOT resist watching the House/Cuddy/Wilson scene from next week, I have even avoided the other previews. I don't want to get spoiled for lovely moments again - I was spoiled for Cuddy kissing House's scar in the first couple of minutes of Now What?, which I think drained some of the emotional impact out of that moment for me i.e., MAJOR BIG-TIME SUCKAGE. I'm currently in one of those moods when I hanker for the days when it was SO HARD to find out what would happen next on your favourite show, and you'd literally be on tenterhooks and clearing space in your schedule specifically to be home in front of the tv set every week - tv set, how quaint. Who even watches tv on tv anymore?!?!
Anyways, my question is: WHAT THE EFF HAPPENED TO THE BEACH SNUGGLING SCENES WE APPEARED TO HAVE COMING OUR WAY, BASED ON PICS LEAKED ONTO THE INTERNET OVER SUMMER HIATUS? I am speaking, of course, specifically of the pics I flailed about in this post. HELPFUL REMINDER, since I can never flail about the pretty enough nor put it adequately into words:
WHERE DID ALL THIS ADORABLE GO? I think a lot of people assumed that these scenes were from the season premiere - partly because House still has a scar on his nose (continuity for 6x21, which suggests that the beach snuggling took place very soon after the events of the Season Six finale), and also because of a leaked script (which I gather was called Thunder Roadtrip or some such and which involved House and Cuddy having a day off to... go to the beach, a restaurant and see a concert). I didn't read this script but it was hard to avoid the flail that exploded all around it when it was released. Plainly, none of the events mentioned actually happened in the season premiere - and apparently Greg Yaitanes has since debunked the script as a fake.
So... where are these scenes?! Did the House writers drastically and completely revamp the first episode of the season!?! Or... are these scenes coming, in subsequent episodes? Because all I know of future episodes are the synopses that have been officially released by Fox. None of which seem to suggest a day away from the hospital for House and Cuddy. Seems kind of excessive to have an entire crew go out and film scenes that will never see the light of day in the end... are the House people really THAT annoyed by people leaking spoilers from the set?! That they'd take the trouble to film all over California and then junk all those scenes?! Bah.
Of course, if they junked beach scene in favour of lots and lots and LOTS of naked!Cuddy, I guess I'm okay with that. WHY WOULDN'T I BE?!
I MADE THIS. LOOK AT HOW MUCH NOT-CLOTHING LISA EDELSTEIN IS WEARING.
But still. Harrumph. I want to have my cake and eat it too!!
5. I have also been exalting over the fact that my other TV shows are BACK BACK BACK. :D Flail follows beneath the cut. Spoilers for the premiere episodes too, of course.
a. Castle was ADORABLE. As always. Honestly I don't know how much longer the show can play out the whole Castle/Beckett thing, because it's so INSANELY OBVIOUS with this ship - like, most times the characters keep denying they're in love (or in lust) until at least three or four seasons in. Beckett spent the whole of this episode throwing the equivalent of a passive-aggressive jealous hissy-fit in Castle's direction! She broke up with her boyfriend for him at the end of last season! Batshit. But whatever, I guess it'll make a shipper happy. I'm still in love with Nathan Fillion AND Richard Castle, forever, so my favourite moment was predictably when he kept turning up at murder scenes with gun in hand (ha ha), and then Beckett grabbed his ear like a school-marm and he yelled, "I STAR 6-9-ED IT, I STAR 6-9-ED IT!!!" Ahahaha, Castle, ILU. I also thought Ryan was the cutest I've ever seen him in this episode, what with the out-of-control chair, the broken egg on the autumnal equinox, and the STUPID LOOK he had to give when Castle and Beckett were wondering if Ryan and Esposito could crack the case before they could - handy illustration right here.
b. Bones: SO MUCH FUN to get to watch it with noldoparma, who basically squeed in an unnaturally loud fashion, in perfect harmony with me, much to the amused horror of C. This show really makes me happy in a way that few others do - and I PRETTY MUCH DIED FROM THE LOLZ when the Indonesian guerillas had surrounded Brennan and Daisy and Brennan was, like, LET'S SHOW THEM WE'RE WOMEN, and started posing like some kind of fashion model. OMFG SO FUNNY. I squeed too, of course, when Booth and Brennan first hugged at the reflecting pool. But the episode was really about two things for me: ANGELA AND HODGINS GENERALLY BEING THE MOST ADORABLE THINGS TO EVER ADORABLE (especially when Angela was all, "You're going to cry. You're gonna cry. Don't cry. If you cry, I'll cry!"); and HBIC BAMF CAROLINE JULIAN, WHO NEEDS TO STAR IN HER OWN SHOW ABOUT HBIC BAMF BADASSERY. WHO'S WITH ME. XD It is, indeed, as Brennan thought it was - Caroline is the linchpin personality in this group. We all thought we were watching a show about Booth and Brennan. Bah humbug, it was about Ms Julian all along. ;)
c. 30 Rock was also brilliant. WELCOME BACK, SHOW, I'VE MISSED YOU. It was a fantastic episode - many things I loved about it, including Jack as Daddy Bear (omg so wrong and so right at the same time), Jenna relieving Pete of his producing duties, Tracy missing Kenneth badly... all good things. INCLUDING PUBE SHIRT. But this moment was pretty much my favourite of all time:
Jack: And you versus Carol, how is that going?
Liz: I don’t know, we had a pretty emotional breakfast.
OMG LOLOLOLOLOL LIZ LEMON ILU
d. Glee! I didn't get around to watching it right away because I honestly don't care enough and was in any case expecting it to be its usual vaguely dreadful self. I guess there's something to be said for negative expectations, because I didn't revile it as much as I thought I would. Charice plainly sings circles around Lea Michele (whose final number, an ode to how much RACHEL LOVES HERSELF, was just... ewww). Even Finn did not annoy me as much as he usually does, basically because he laid a very excellent smackdown upon Rachel at the end that almost made me buy their relationship. And Sue - almost a little TOO much for me this time??! Jane Lynch was still pretty much the best thing about the premiere though... oh wait, except for the real winner and star of the whole episode? CHEYENNE JACKSON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WHO WAS HIS RUGGEDLY HANDSOME SELF WITH ADDITIONAL HELLO KITTY BACKPACK. A++++++++++++++
I LOVE HOW TUMBLR ENABLES ME.
6. After watching all of that, I finally got around to blasting through the second half of Season 1 of Hot In Cleveland. Which, you know, I really shouldn't have found so amusing since it's such an old-school, old-fashioned sitcom that I could see so many of the jokes telegraphed from a mile away. But the CAST. OMG, every single one of them I've loved at one point or another - well, except for Valerie Bertinelli. But Betty Mothereffin' White (who is SO HILARIOUS when she deadpans or snarks through a scene as Elka), Wendie Malick (HBIC HBIC HBIC) and Jane Leeves? Yeah, I'm quite quite happy to go to there. I legit LOL-ed quite a bit during the episodes. NOT ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT. And hey, one of the regular guest-stars was CARL REINER i.e., legendary creator/writer of the Dick Van Dyke Show, THAT CARL REINER.
7. On top of all the shows I've already flailed about, I'm also looking forward to Monday (for me), since then I'll be able to watch the season premieres of Desperate Housewives and The Amazing Race! :D And there are other new shows I might want to try out too... OMG FALL TV SEASON, ILU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. XD
8. And now it's 6.50am (EEK) and I really need to go to bed. In theory, anyway.......
2. HONESTLY I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS EPISODE, GUYS, I have no words for it. So obsessed I changed my LJ header, come visit:
ellixian ellixian ellixian
I'm currently sitting on 65 icons (stopped just after Wilson's first attempt to contact House i.e., at best halfway through the episode?! *weeps*) and will post a nice, big batch when I get through the entire episode. I CAN'T CHOOSE ICONS TO USE. I DON'T KNOW HOW, THERE ARE TOO MANY POSSIBILITIES. As for the episode itself: I think I must have watched it something like 3-4 times all the way through by now, with many MANY other viewings for specifically the House/Cuddy scenes (not going to estimate, actual number will only be horrific to most of you). Basically I STILL think it's as close to perfect as I could have asked for, really, in terms of finally getting what I've been pulling for for the last six years. ♥ I still watch the scenes in Now What? like... I can't believe they've HAPPENED, and that they all count as CANON now. Honestly, with this episode, I know that whatever shitstorm is going to follow for House and Cuddy (because shitstorm there will most definitely be), at least we had 7x01 - and everything this episode means for House and Cuddy and the love they have always had for each other. HAPPY SIGH.
3. Basically the entire last week of my life has been about fall tv coming back and filling a void in my soul. Seriously. I even had a really fantastic tv night in on Friday with noldoparma and C - really it was AWESOME. We left work on time (SUCH A FEAT!!), went down to Borders where we had skinny pizza (om nom nom) for dinner, then bought a whole truckload of snacks and ice cream to head back to my house. Where I insisted they watch House (WHAT, I'M NOT OBSESSED) - both Now What? and Help Me, because I refused to allow them to miss out on that gorgeously-filmed, impeccably acted final episode for Season 6. After that, we watched the season premiere of Boooones as well as 30 Rock. OMG TV I LOVE YOU FOREVER.
4. And since there's truly very little going on in my life right now apart from tv, tv and more tv - I'm gonna talk about TV. (SURPRISE!!) I actually have a question about House to ask those who watch spoilers and stuff more closely than I do. (Yes, I really am mostly unspoiled for what's to come. That means there are no spoilers inside the cut beyond the pics that exploded all over the interweb during the summer hiatus, if y'all are worried.)
Okay, I'm REALLY as unspoiled for the subsequent episodes as I can possibly be, I think. Beyond what's on Tumblr (which can definitely get annoying) and the fact that I COULD NOT resist watching the House/Cuddy/Wilson scene from next week, I have even avoided the other previews. I don't want to get spoiled for lovely moments again - I was spoiled for Cuddy kissing House's scar in the first couple of minutes of Now What?, which I think drained some of the emotional impact out of that moment for me i.e., MAJOR BIG-TIME SUCKAGE. I'm currently in one of those moods when I hanker for the days when it was SO HARD to find out what would happen next on your favourite show, and you'd literally be on tenterhooks and clearing space in your schedule specifically to be home in front of the tv set every week - tv set, how quaint. Who even watches tv on tv anymore?!?!
Anyways, my question is: WHAT THE EFF HAPPENED TO THE BEACH SNUGGLING SCENES WE APPEARED TO HAVE COMING OUR WAY, BASED ON PICS LEAKED ONTO THE INTERNET OVER SUMMER HIATUS? I am speaking, of course, specifically of the pics I flailed about in this post. HELPFUL REMINDER, since I can never flail about the pretty enough nor put it adequately into words:
WHERE DID ALL THIS ADORABLE GO? I think a lot of people assumed that these scenes were from the season premiere - partly because House still has a scar on his nose (continuity for 6x21, which suggests that the beach snuggling took place very soon after the events of the Season Six finale), and also because of a leaked script (which I gather was called Thunder Roadtrip or some such and which involved House and Cuddy having a day off to... go to the beach, a restaurant and see a concert). I didn't read this script but it was hard to avoid the flail that exploded all around it when it was released. Plainly, none of the events mentioned actually happened in the season premiere - and apparently Greg Yaitanes has since debunked the script as a fake.
So... where are these scenes?! Did the House writers drastically and completely revamp the first episode of the season!?! Or... are these scenes coming, in subsequent episodes? Because all I know of future episodes are the synopses that have been officially released by Fox. None of which seem to suggest a day away from the hospital for House and Cuddy. Seems kind of excessive to have an entire crew go out and film scenes that will never see the light of day in the end... are the House people really THAT annoyed by people leaking spoilers from the set?! That they'd take the trouble to film all over California and then junk all those scenes?! Bah.
Of course, if they junked beach scene in favour of lots and lots and LOTS of naked!Cuddy, I guess I'm okay with that. WHY WOULDN'T I BE?!
I MADE THIS. LOOK AT HOW MUCH NOT-CLOTHING LISA EDELSTEIN IS WEARING.
But still. Harrumph. I want to have my cake and eat it too!!
5. I have also been exalting over the fact that my other TV shows are BACK BACK BACK. :D Flail follows beneath the cut. Spoilers for the premiere episodes too, of course.
a. Castle was ADORABLE. As always. Honestly I don't know how much longer the show can play out the whole Castle/Beckett thing, because it's so INSANELY OBVIOUS with this ship - like, most times the characters keep denying they're in love (or in lust) until at least three or four seasons in. Beckett spent the whole of this episode throwing the equivalent of a passive-aggressive jealous hissy-fit in Castle's direction! She broke up with her boyfriend for him at the end of last season! Batshit. But whatever, I guess it'll make a shipper happy. I'm still in love with Nathan Fillion AND Richard Castle, forever, so my favourite moment was predictably when he kept turning up at murder scenes with gun in hand (ha ha), and then Beckett grabbed his ear like a school-marm and he yelled, "I STAR 6-9-ED IT, I STAR 6-9-ED IT!!!" Ahahaha, Castle, ILU. I also thought Ryan was the cutest I've ever seen him in this episode, what with the out-of-control chair, the broken egg on the autumnal equinox, and the STUPID LOOK he had to give when Castle and Beckett were wondering if Ryan and Esposito could crack the case before they could - handy illustration right here.
b. Bones: SO MUCH FUN to get to watch it with noldoparma, who basically squeed in an unnaturally loud fashion, in perfect harmony with me, much to the amused horror of C. This show really makes me happy in a way that few others do - and I PRETTY MUCH DIED FROM THE LOLZ when the Indonesian guerillas had surrounded Brennan and Daisy and Brennan was, like, LET'S SHOW THEM WE'RE WOMEN, and started posing like some kind of fashion model. OMFG SO FUNNY. I squeed too, of course, when Booth and Brennan first hugged at the reflecting pool. But the episode was really about two things for me: ANGELA AND HODGINS GENERALLY BEING THE MOST ADORABLE THINGS TO EVER ADORABLE (especially when Angela was all, "You're going to cry. You're gonna cry. Don't cry. If you cry, I'll cry!"); and HBIC BAMF CAROLINE JULIAN, WHO NEEDS TO STAR IN HER OWN SHOW ABOUT HBIC BAMF BADASSERY. WHO'S WITH ME. XD It is, indeed, as Brennan thought it was - Caroline is the linchpin personality in this group. We all thought we were watching a show about Booth and Brennan. Bah humbug, it was about Ms Julian all along. ;)
c. 30 Rock was also brilliant. WELCOME BACK, SHOW, I'VE MISSED YOU. It was a fantastic episode - many things I loved about it, including Jack as Daddy Bear (omg so wrong and so right at the same time), Jenna relieving Pete of his producing duties, Tracy missing Kenneth badly... all good things. INCLUDING PUBE SHIRT. But this moment was pretty much my favourite of all time:
Jack: And you versus Carol, how is that going?
Liz: I don’t know, we had a pretty emotional breakfast.
OMG LOLOLOLOLOL LIZ LEMON ILU
d. Glee! I didn't get around to watching it right away because I honestly don't care enough and was in any case expecting it to be its usual vaguely dreadful self. I guess there's something to be said for negative expectations, because I didn't revile it as much as I thought I would. Charice plainly sings circles around Lea Michele (whose final number, an ode to how much RACHEL LOVES HERSELF, was just... ewww). Even Finn did not annoy me as much as he usually does, basically because he laid a very excellent smackdown upon Rachel at the end that almost made me buy their relationship. And Sue - almost a little TOO much for me this time??! Jane Lynch was still pretty much the best thing about the premiere though... oh wait, except for the real winner and star of the whole episode? CHEYENNE JACKSON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WHO WAS HIS RUGGEDLY HANDSOME SELF WITH ADDITIONAL HELLO KITTY BACKPACK. A++++++++++++++
I LOVE HOW TUMBLR ENABLES ME.
6. After watching all of that, I finally got around to blasting through the second half of Season 1 of Hot In Cleveland. Which, you know, I really shouldn't have found so amusing since it's such an old-school, old-fashioned sitcom that I could see so many of the jokes telegraphed from a mile away. But the CAST. OMG, every single one of them I've loved at one point or another - well, except for Valerie Bertinelli. But Betty Mothereffin' White (who is SO HILARIOUS when she deadpans or snarks through a scene as Elka), Wendie Malick (HBIC HBIC HBIC) and Jane Leeves? Yeah, I'm quite quite happy to go to there. I legit LOL-ed quite a bit during the episodes. NOT ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT. And hey, one of the regular guest-stars was CARL REINER i.e., legendary creator/writer of the Dick Van Dyke Show, THAT CARL REINER.
7. On top of all the shows I've already flailed about, I'm also looking forward to Monday (for me), since then I'll be able to watch the season premieres of Desperate Housewives and The Amazing Race! :D And there are other new shows I might want to try out too... OMG FALL TV SEASON, ILU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. XD
8. And now it's 6.50am (EEK) and I really need to go to bed. In theory, anyway.......