Sir Grumbles-a-lot
1). I watched the much-hyped Glee recently, and I have to say that, while I liked it, I'm totally over some things in the show. They are a). letting another Fox character be obsessed with Journey; when The O.C. did it, it was pretty funny. But it's been done, and Journey sucks, so lets branch out, shall we? b). making another Type A female teenager. Again, it's been done, and it's been done much better. Where are all the Type A boys? Where are the girls who are incredibly smart who also don't give a fuck about school? c). writing another "quirky" show with "quirky" characters for USA executives to orgasm over. You're not actually doing anything OMG ~*unique*~ and interesting if at least 70% of the successful comedies out there are doing the exact same thing in the exact same tone as you. I'm not saying it's an automatic fail in my book, but it would be nice if comedy writers occasionally found inspiration in sources other than the DSM-IV and Journey's music catalog.
2). This article on Yahoo is about liberals wondering why we have failed to close Guantanamo or to keep guns out of our national parks. My favorite part of the article is where a Maryland (of course) Obamatron representative defends President Obama and his failures by saying on Guantanamo, "I think it's one of the few times that he didn't think it all the way out" and on the gun legislation, "I don't think he put a lot of energy into it." Oh, well I feel so much better! The President of the United States doesn't think about the ramifications of his actions or put a lot of effort into following his plans through! That's such a comforting thought, Elijiah Cummings! Thanks so much for telling me that, you dumb fuck. The idiocy of someone from MD aside, it's kind of funny that Obama didn't put a lot of energy into gun control after he made a point of insulting millions of Americans for owning guns during his campaign. If loving guns and Jesus is really a terrible thing, then what does it say about the man who knows that but can't muster up the passion to do anything about it? Answer: nothing I didn't already know. D:
3). A CSI writer/producer is being sued for basing two pervy characters after people she had bad dealings with in real life. I'm going to say... guilty by association, or rather, guilty by being in the same franchise as CSI: Miami. :-P Honestly, I've been hoping for years now that Miami would get better, and it's just... not. I mean it's pretty bad when you can't tell if the season finale promo's promise that "two CSIs are going bad" was being intentionally misleading or unintentionally so, because the writers have lost all perspective on how their characters normally look. Because... everyone in the finale appeared to be relatively human. Horatio only killed like 3 people, for God's sake! How is that going bad when he's shot a good 20 people in 30 seconds, forced me to picture him having sex with Elizabeth Berkley, and forced his own son to remain living with his cracked out bipolar mess-of-a-mother, despite the kid's protestations in previous episodes? Honestly, the only evil I saw in the season finale was Emily Procter trying to emote through the tubs of Botox and Restylane she's had injected into her face. And even that wasn't so much evil as it was ugly and futile.
2). This article on Yahoo is about liberals wondering why we have failed to close Guantanamo or to keep guns out of our national parks. My favorite part of the article is where a Maryland (of course) Obamatron representative defends President Obama and his failures by saying on Guantanamo, "I think it's one of the few times that he didn't think it all the way out" and on the gun legislation, "I don't think he put a lot of energy into it." Oh, well I feel so much better! The President of the United States doesn't think about the ramifications of his actions or put a lot of effort into following his plans through! That's such a comforting thought, Elijiah Cummings! Thanks so much for telling me that, you dumb fuck. The idiocy of someone from MD aside, it's kind of funny that Obama didn't put a lot of energy into gun control after he made a point of insulting millions of Americans for owning guns during his campaign. If loving guns and Jesus is really a terrible thing, then what does it say about the man who knows that but can't muster up the passion to do anything about it? Answer: nothing I didn't already know. D:
3). A CSI writer/producer is being sued for basing two pervy characters after people she had bad dealings with in real life. I'm going to say... guilty by association, or rather, guilty by being in the same franchise as CSI: Miami. :-P Honestly, I've been hoping for years now that Miami would get better, and it's just... not. I mean it's pretty bad when you can't tell if the season finale promo's promise that "two CSIs are going bad" was being intentionally misleading or unintentionally so, because the writers have lost all perspective on how their characters normally look. Because... everyone in the finale appeared to be relatively human. Horatio only killed like 3 people, for God's sake! How is that going bad when he's shot a good 20 people in 30 seconds, forced me to picture him having sex with Elizabeth Berkley, and forced his own son to remain living with his cracked out bipolar mess-of-a-mother, despite the kid's protestations in previous episodes? Honestly, the only evil I saw in the season finale was Emily Procter trying to emote through the tubs of Botox and Restylane she's had injected into her face. And even that wasn't so much evil as it was ugly and futile.