jarvelous!
i had to watch izombie tonight and have the slightest of liveblogs for it.
did izombie have a real genius reference?
ravi: i believe it was socrates who said about hemlock "i drank what?"
>.<
("i was thinking of the immortal words of socrates, who said 'i drank what?'")
kristen bell being the reader of grace's audiobook was kinda fun. liv feels a real connection to her, hee. also, ravi and major going along with her wrestling fantasy was cute. they're just the cutest couple. i don't really ship them, but seriously, they are just adorable, especially dealing with liv on zombie brain. but wow, were those brief passages of erotica painful.
did major just leave minor on a bus?? what the hell, man? that's just mean. i'm going to assume a dog person found him and took him home and gave him the love he deserves.
i kinda like drake! and not just because he's built like a brick shithouse. he's oddly adorable, personality-wise.
peyton, honey, sleeping with your informant/star witness is generally a dumb idea, and it would be even if he wasn't a murderer and zombie opportunist. i really hope this doesn't come back to bite you in the ass, because i like you.
i only have a couple things to say about agent carter. dragon-slaying young peggy didn't even seem like the same person as the adult peggy who didn't want to join the soe and who was engaged to a stifling, boring dude. he was, as @jane_anon said on twitter, oatmeal. there was no connection between child peggy and adult peggy. and i was disappointed that her brother had to die before she realized that marrying mr oatmeal would be a mistake. she couldn't reach that conclusion on her own? and while i get that the ptb were probably trying to show how she was trying to conform in ladylike fashion to society's expectations, she didn't seem at all uncomfortable sharing news of her engagement or turning down the soe. i liked whitney's flashbacks better - they made more sense, in terms of who she started out as and how she became the person she is - except the radio in the first flashback, in 1920, was all wrong. the first commercial radio station started broadcasting at the end of 1920 from pennsylvania, and it did not reach as far as oklahoma. she couldn't have tinkered with that thing and gotten it to play jazz for her. besides, radios in the 20s looked like this, this, or this, not so much like the one on the table. it looked like bakelite, which i don't think was being manufactured for household appliances yet, altho i could be wrong about that.
historical pedantics aside, i liked the episode. jarvis is a treasure.
boar curling! in which helpful skaters push some stranded boars off a frozen lake with their trekking poles. apparently boars slide really well.
some sweet facts about marshmallow fluff, probably somerville's sweetest export. a former commander of the international space station brought some fluff with her to the iss. fluff! in! spaaaaace!
watch a minifig build its own lego speeder. stop motion meets lego. adorable and nifty.
at the olympics this year, the us team will include the first american olympian who will compete in a hijab. she's a fencer. how cool is that?
did izombie have a real genius reference?
ravi: i believe it was socrates who said about hemlock "i drank what?"
>.<
("i was thinking of the immortal words of socrates, who said 'i drank what?'")
kristen bell being the reader of grace's audiobook was kinda fun. liv feels a real connection to her, hee. also, ravi and major going along with her wrestling fantasy was cute. they're just the cutest couple. i don't really ship them, but seriously, they are just adorable, especially dealing with liv on zombie brain. but wow, were those brief passages of erotica painful.
did major just leave minor on a bus?? what the hell, man? that's just mean. i'm going to assume a dog person found him and took him home and gave him the love he deserves.
i kinda like drake! and not just because he's built like a brick shithouse. he's oddly adorable, personality-wise.
peyton, honey, sleeping with your informant/star witness is generally a dumb idea, and it would be even if he wasn't a murderer and zombie opportunist. i really hope this doesn't come back to bite you in the ass, because i like you.
i only have a couple things to say about agent carter. dragon-slaying young peggy didn't even seem like the same person as the adult peggy who didn't want to join the soe and who was engaged to a stifling, boring dude. he was, as @jane_anon said on twitter, oatmeal. there was no connection between child peggy and adult peggy. and i was disappointed that her brother had to die before she realized that marrying mr oatmeal would be a mistake. she couldn't reach that conclusion on her own? and while i get that the ptb were probably trying to show how she was trying to conform in ladylike fashion to society's expectations, she didn't seem at all uncomfortable sharing news of her engagement or turning down the soe. i liked whitney's flashbacks better - they made more sense, in terms of who she started out as and how she became the person she is - except the radio in the first flashback, in 1920, was all wrong. the first commercial radio station started broadcasting at the end of 1920 from pennsylvania, and it did not reach as far as oklahoma. she couldn't have tinkered with that thing and gotten it to play jazz for her. besides, radios in the 20s looked like this, this, or this, not so much like the one on the table. it looked like bakelite, which i don't think was being manufactured for household appliances yet, altho i could be wrong about that.
historical pedantics aside, i liked the episode. jarvis is a treasure.
boar curling! in which helpful skaters push some stranded boars off a frozen lake with their trekking poles. apparently boars slide really well.
some sweet facts about marshmallow fluff, probably somerville's sweetest export. a former commander of the international space station brought some fluff with her to the iss. fluff! in! spaaaaace!
watch a minifig build its own lego speeder. stop motion meets lego. adorable and nifty.
at the olympics this year, the us team will include the first american olympian who will compete in a hijab. she's a fencer. how cool is that?