Why can't we just celebrate the crazy? Why do we have to rank it?
Things are crazy lately. Just- crazy. CRAZY.
*hands*
Stuff of ungoodness is going on both with my family and my job, so, as at all times when serious thought is necessary, I turn instead to fandom.
MY THOUGHTS ON FANDOM, IN BRIEF:
I can't figure out if "Unfinished Business" is the poor man's "Redemption Island" or vice versa. I also don't understand why everyone going on a reality show the second time is looking for redemption. Why exactly do you need to be redeemed? And if you need to be redeemed, shouldn't you be playing a somewhat different game than you played the first time?
I don't have any horse in the race this season for Amazing Race, although I do have an anti-horse, in that I really don't want Amanda and Kris to win. It's not even that I have anything against them; I just feel like if you are the only team I can't identify- and I can't even identify you as "the only team I can't identify" because you're THAT UNMEMORABLE- something is wrong. I am less invested in an all-female team winning this season than I was last time, now that the hot lady docs did it and it's no longer something that has never been done.
The whole thing where they didn't have anyone leave in the first leg is pretty bullshit, though. If "Unfinished Business" means that each episode will not have satisfying conclusion, I'm out the second we lose- okay, I'm not, because I like these teams, BUT I TOTALLY WOULD BE IF YOU'D PICKED CRAPPIER PLAYERS.
Survivor is CRACKING MY SHIT UP. Oh Phillip, with your spear-hunting for tiny crabs and your embarrassing underwear. I feel like I normally wouldn't like Ralph at all, but the editors are clearly playing up the Hantz-doesn't-have-a-clue aspect of this season, and you know what? I'm easy. It's working for me. Although I do feel bad for him, because he's managed to go this long with NO ONE explaining to him what a f3 goat is, so that's somehow his GOAL, and that means something is seriously wrong with your fundamental understanding of the game, even if you are the greatest player of all time or whatever he says he is.
I find myself spending a lot of time each episode thinking about how Amber must be reacting to the episode to Rob and the way everyone in the game has a giant crush on him. It's really entertaining to me, although I acknowledge that the Amber in my head is probably more entertaining than the Amber in real life 90% of the time. All that I've really retained about Amber are her awesome moments, like when she and Rob argue with Big Tom and when she wears the Sherlock Holmes hat on TAR. (I imagine this is mostly because the rest of her is pretty effing forgettable, but that's not the POINT, okay?)
The redemption island twist is- you know, whatever. It's kind of like three days on Exile Island, except on Exile you don't have a shelter, a lantern, flint, or your luxury item, so I am really not feeling that it's that big a punishment for being voted off. Frankly, if I had the choice of competing every three days to stay in a shelter with Phillip or to stay in a shelter alone, I'm going with plan B.
I'm disappointed we're probably losing Fransesqua (...I have dry mouth), but I don't see her beating Matt in any type of competition, which is tragic, because Matt's pretty boring and Fransweska is pretty awesome. DON'T LEAVE ME THIS SOON AND GIVE ME JESUS FABIO INSTEAD!
In other reality TV news, TOP CHEF. I did not ever watch Top Chef, on account of my issues with food, which unfortunately were in effect by the time I started watching reality television. GUYS I REGRET THAT NOW SO MUCH.
I watched because, obviously, Elmo and Cookie Monster and Telly were on. And the quickfire was to make COOKIES for them. I am kind of disappointed that none of them made their cookies triangle-shaped to appease Telly (really? You put zucchini on a cookie but can't manage a damn triangle?), but other than that, it was AWESOME.
You know what else is awesome? CARLA AND JAMIE ARE AWESOME. Other people are probably awesome too, but I am watching season five and all of my love is tied up in Carla and Jamie.
I am kind of scared to watch the current season, though, because I can't find spoilers and I am now invested in Carla winning. Reality TV is always easier when you don't care.
I have surprisingly few feelings about Community. It's adorable, it makes me laugh each time, Troy/Abed OTP, but- why is everyone mean to Britta? I mean, I get what she's a parody of and I find it funny, but I find it kind of irritating that Britta's preoccupation with holier-than-thou liberalism/feminism make her off-putting to people in a way that Jeff's narcissism, Annie's perfectionism, and Abed's personality DON'T. (Really? She got fewer votes than Pierce in that election? Really?) That said, I am a defensive Britta wife, so this is not surprising.
You know what was epic enough to make up for that, though? Jeff's Real World audition video. That pleased me so much it is kind of surreal.
I know that last night's Fringe basically upended a lot of continuity and is kind of hard to believe on any number of levels based on what we've gotten from the past 2.5 seasons, and that's great, but you known what I got from the episode?
BABY GENIUS OLIVIA DUNHAM, THAT IS WHAT I GOT. I love current Olivia, because I am a right-thinking human being who does not suck at life, but tiny!Olivia is basically my OTC, and I love when my OTC is on TV. And it makes me love current Olivia THAT MUCH MORE to not just know that she was a baby genius, but SEE that she was a baby genius.
Also Peter was there and he did stuff. He had a distracting haircut and plausible angst, although I don't quite buy him not remembering any of it. bb!Peter is significantly less interesting to me than bb!Olivia.
I would like to buy a YA novel about Olivia. I would like that very much. Failing that, I would like an epic fanfic. Plz to deliver, fandom.
And since I haven't watched Thursday's Vampire Diaries yet, that is pretty much all of my TV to date. Next weekend I will pick up Celebrity Apprentice, which- if I were any more excited, it would frankly be a little creepy.
This is probably the lightest TV schedule I've had in years, which is probably kind of sad in the exact opposite way from how I am saddened by it.
Today is the monthly NYPL book sale. I think, if they still have it, I am going to splurge and buy the gorgeous Jasper Johns coffee table art book. But mostly I'm looking for BSC and Gordon Korman and summer camp books, because I has standards and 90% of them revolve around shit like that.
I have so many books. I really don't need new ones. But if there is something more relaxing than going through a used book sale and picking out things you haven't been able to find, I am not familiar with it.
Cross-posted at http://fox1013.dreamwidth.org/46275.html. Comment wherever you feel more comfortable.
*hands*
Stuff of ungoodness is going on both with my family and my job, so, as at all times when serious thought is necessary, I turn instead to fandom.
MY THOUGHTS ON FANDOM, IN BRIEF:
I can't figure out if "Unfinished Business" is the poor man's "Redemption Island" or vice versa. I also don't understand why everyone going on a reality show the second time is looking for redemption. Why exactly do you need to be redeemed? And if you need to be redeemed, shouldn't you be playing a somewhat different game than you played the first time?
I don't have any horse in the race this season for Amazing Race, although I do have an anti-horse, in that I really don't want Amanda and Kris to win. It's not even that I have anything against them; I just feel like if you are the only team I can't identify- and I can't even identify you as "the only team I can't identify" because you're THAT UNMEMORABLE- something is wrong. I am less invested in an all-female team winning this season than I was last time, now that the hot lady docs did it and it's no longer something that has never been done.
The whole thing where they didn't have anyone leave in the first leg is pretty bullshit, though. If "Unfinished Business" means that each episode will not have satisfying conclusion, I'm out the second we lose- okay, I'm not, because I like these teams, BUT I TOTALLY WOULD BE IF YOU'D PICKED CRAPPIER PLAYERS.
Survivor is CRACKING MY SHIT UP. Oh Phillip, with your spear-hunting for tiny crabs and your embarrassing underwear. I feel like I normally wouldn't like Ralph at all, but the editors are clearly playing up the Hantz-doesn't-have-a-clue aspect of this season, and you know what? I'm easy. It's working for me. Although I do feel bad for him, because he's managed to go this long with NO ONE explaining to him what a f3 goat is, so that's somehow his GOAL, and that means something is seriously wrong with your fundamental understanding of the game, even if you are the greatest player of all time or whatever he says he is.
I find myself spending a lot of time each episode thinking about how Amber must be reacting to the episode to Rob and the way everyone in the game has a giant crush on him. It's really entertaining to me, although I acknowledge that the Amber in my head is probably more entertaining than the Amber in real life 90% of the time. All that I've really retained about Amber are her awesome moments, like when she and Rob argue with Big Tom and when she wears the Sherlock Holmes hat on TAR. (I imagine this is mostly because the rest of her is pretty effing forgettable, but that's not the POINT, okay?)
The redemption island twist is- you know, whatever. It's kind of like three days on Exile Island, except on Exile you don't have a shelter, a lantern, flint, or your luxury item, so I am really not feeling that it's that big a punishment for being voted off. Frankly, if I had the choice of competing every three days to stay in a shelter with Phillip or to stay in a shelter alone, I'm going with plan B.
I'm disappointed we're probably losing Fransesqua (...I have dry mouth), but I don't see her beating Matt in any type of competition, which is tragic, because Matt's pretty boring and Fransweska is pretty awesome. DON'T LEAVE ME THIS SOON AND GIVE ME JESUS FABIO INSTEAD!
In other reality TV news, TOP CHEF. I did not ever watch Top Chef, on account of my issues with food, which unfortunately were in effect by the time I started watching reality television. GUYS I REGRET THAT NOW SO MUCH.
I watched because, obviously, Elmo and Cookie Monster and Telly were on. And the quickfire was to make COOKIES for them. I am kind of disappointed that none of them made their cookies triangle-shaped to appease Telly (really? You put zucchini on a cookie but can't manage a damn triangle?), but other than that, it was AWESOME.
You know what else is awesome? CARLA AND JAMIE ARE AWESOME. Other people are probably awesome too, but I am watching season five and all of my love is tied up in Carla and Jamie.
I am kind of scared to watch the current season, though, because I can't find spoilers and I am now invested in Carla winning. Reality TV is always easier when you don't care.
I have surprisingly few feelings about Community. It's adorable, it makes me laugh each time, Troy/Abed OTP, but- why is everyone mean to Britta? I mean, I get what she's a parody of and I find it funny, but I find it kind of irritating that Britta's preoccupation with holier-than-thou liberalism/feminism make her off-putting to people in a way that Jeff's narcissism, Annie's perfectionism, and Abed's personality DON'T. (Really? She got fewer votes than Pierce in that election? Really?) That said, I am a defensive Britta wife, so this is not surprising.
You know what was epic enough to make up for that, though? Jeff's Real World audition video. That pleased me so much it is kind of surreal.
I know that last night's Fringe basically upended a lot of continuity and is kind of hard to believe on any number of levels based on what we've gotten from the past 2.5 seasons, and that's great, but you known what I got from the episode?
BABY GENIUS OLIVIA DUNHAM, THAT IS WHAT I GOT. I love current Olivia, because I am a right-thinking human being who does not suck at life, but tiny!Olivia is basically my OTC, and I love when my OTC is on TV. And it makes me love current Olivia THAT MUCH MORE to not just know that she was a baby genius, but SEE that she was a baby genius.
Also Peter was there and he did stuff. He had a distracting haircut and plausible angst, although I don't quite buy him not remembering any of it. bb!Peter is significantly less interesting to me than bb!Olivia.
I would like to buy a YA novel about Olivia. I would like that very much. Failing that, I would like an epic fanfic. Plz to deliver, fandom.
And since I haven't watched Thursday's Vampire Diaries yet, that is pretty much all of my TV to date. Next weekend I will pick up Celebrity Apprentice, which- if I were any more excited, it would frankly be a little creepy.
This is probably the lightest TV schedule I've had in years, which is probably kind of sad in the exact opposite way from how I am saddened by it.
Today is the monthly NYPL book sale. I think, if they still have it, I am going to splurge and buy the gorgeous Jasper Johns coffee table art book. But mostly I'm looking for BSC and Gordon Korman and summer camp books, because I has standards and 90% of them revolve around shit like that.
I have so many books. I really don't need new ones. But if there is something more relaxing than going through a used book sale and picking out things you haven't been able to find, I am not familiar with it.
Cross-posted at http://fox1013.dreamwidth.org/46275.html. Comment wherever you feel more comfortable.