Moar teevee watchin' (glee + bones + game nerdery)

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ღ - Loads of new Dragon Quest VI screencaps and, as I'm going through these, it occurs to me that I've becom that fan about these games. The one who pounces on screencaps of the game as soon as the Japanese version starts getting teased--but I can't help it! It's the final game in the "heaven" trio! I want to know if I love it as much as I love

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AHHHHHHHHHHH GLEE. I almost screamed when Will found the baby bump thing. I was talking to my roommate about the chances of Will forgiving, or trying to forgive, Terri. To be honest, I think a redemption plot might be looming, especially after Emma's little speech at the end of the episode. Which. Ugh. Okay, I can understand why Terri would fight for Will but I cannot, under any circumstances, accept what she did. It's one thing to lie, but also deceive him, trick one of HIS STUDENTS INTO GIVING YOU HER BABY and never planning to TELL HIM ABOUT IT, and oh god, guiltying him into doing what you want under false pretenses -- it's all just too fucked up for me.

I don't think Terri is a monster, but when the shit hit the fan she blamed Will for their relationship problems, "ever since the Glee kids", and "this relationship only works when you're not equal to me" - seriously, wtf??

Ugh. Whatever. Give me more mattress jumping and Aretha squeals. LOVED THE LAST NUMBER. LOVED IT SO HARD.

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I am really, really on the fence about Terri right now. I-- I would actually like to see a redemption plot if, for no other reason, than because the show tried so hard to make her completely unsympathetic, I think it could be awesome to defy the expected there.

The thing is, I'm with you on how her actions were beyond understandable and how she was planning to do something that was just NOT OKAY in any way. I can get past the lying to Will about where the baby came from, but the way she was using the baby to try to draw them back together? The kind of person she was, who was clearly not actually ready for a baby? That's a lot harder to forgive. A baby isn't just a thing, a baby is a REAL LIVE HUMAN BEING

[katmillia]

JFC KINGDOM HEARTS I STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED 358/2 DAYS!!! ARRGGGG~~~~~ I should get on that, but I'm a BAD KH player where it takes me a long time because I'm not terribly coordinated with the whole active battle thing. I think I actually beat one particularly GROSS battle on the plane back from Japan just because I knew it would take me so long (it did- like 40 minutes).

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THANK GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HASN'T FINISHED IT. (Though, mine is because the game makes me nauseated every time I try to play because the controls just don't seem to be meant for a DS game and even when I change them so I have more control, they still swing around on me too much too fast and AAUUUGH GAME STOP MAKING ME WANT TO VOMIT.)

I do want to play Birth By Sleep, but I have to admit. I'm already missing Sora and Riku and Kairi. Not that I don't love Roxas and all or the new characters, but. I WANT TO PLAY AS SORA AGAIN. (And I don't think we will get to see him with this game?)

And, ugh, active battle systems like KH's just. Don't work as well on the DS, imo. I'm surprised the battery lasted long enough to get that far. :|

[katmillia]

ommggggg I mean I adore Roxas he was like my favorite ever from KHII but damn I want to play as S/R/K again, I really miss them! :( I never cared much about Org XIII save for Roxas, so I'm like waaah where is my emotional connection in this? Where are LEON AND CLOUD?! but yeah I think I'm on like day 117 or something, and I have to admit, every time I get one of those memory flashes across the bottom screen of Sora/Donald/Goofy I kind of go WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH my babies and get all misty-eyed. Why are these games so emotionally addicting? ;______;

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IT IS LIKE YOU WERE INSIDE MY BRAIN. (Well, aside from you got a lot further along than I did with that game.) I love Roxas! I love Axel a little, too! But Org XIII doesn't do much for me and I have no emotional connection and I just want my original trio back and the Disney characters and the Final Fantasy characters and I know the KH games were silly and dumb sometimes, BUT THEY WERE SO EMOTIONALLY INVESTABLE. THE CHARACTERS WERE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS AND LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH. ;___;

(I think that's a lot of why OrgXIII doesn't really work for me. If they don't give a crap about each other, why should I give a crap about them?)

Though, if Zack is going to be in Birth By Sleep, hopefully we'll get to see some of our old favorite FF characters again? PLZ TO BE LETTING ZACK INTERACT WITH SEPHIROTH OR CLOUD OR AERITH, SQUEENIX. (Even if he apparently lives in the Coliseum, but I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR KH!ZACK OKAY.)

[littledust]

The majority of my reaction to last night's Glee is OH, RACHEL. ♥ I'm choosing to believe that she wanted Finn as co-captain because of his leadership abilities, not because she has a crush on him. I am going to get seriously angry at the writers if Rachel never catches a break with her fellow students, but next week's promo has me hopeful

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If nothing else, I loved this episode for letting me love Rachel again, because she is kind of wonderful (and, god, I adore Lea Michele like CRAZY) when she's so single-minded about getting auditions for the glee club and when she's working to cheer herself up because she'll be the only one in the club picture it just breaks your heart for her. When they actually GIVE RACHEL A STORYLINE, she gets a thousand times better, SO PLEASE DO THAT MORE OFTEN, SHOW.

I feel really torn on how to talk about that scene, because... they're married, you know? They're husband and wife. They should touch each other! Grabbing Terri's arm by her husband just doesn't strike me as something we should blame Will for, especially in a situation like that. It didn't look physically painful, but emotionally painful and there was no way Terri's lies coming to light weren't going to be incredibly emotionally painful.

I think Will's asserting himself is less about I AM A MAN AND THEREFORE WHAT I SAY GOES so much as I AM PART OF THIS MARRIAGE, I AM YOUR

[littledust]

Ah, I see where you're coming from. I think my feelings about being grabbed are getting factored in to my reaction: I HATE it and it always hurts even when the other person didn't mean it that way. (Maybe because I have the world's boniest wrists? Who knows.)

It is interesting (and frustrating) that my problem's with Will's character can be pretty much chalked up to the writers. :/ But Matthew Morrison played heartbroken amazingly well in this episode. I felt for Will once I got past the shock of the confrontation. Especially him alone with the mattresses, dear god.

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Oh, man, I know that feeling--when you experience something intensely personal so you can relate to being in that person's shoes, it's not so easy to let it go, while other people can. Because you know what it's like in that position and maybe other people don't so much. (I have this problem with House A LOT.)

THAT IS SUCH A PROBLEM I HAVE. I blame a lot of Will's problems on the writers, but... is that fair? Can I say, "Oh, Will isn't that bad, it's just the writers!" when, you know, Will is a creation of the writers? But I still feel like it's a valid point!

And GOD YES. The scene with Terri was emotional wrecking, but seeing him staring at the mattress and standing in the shadowed doorway, just emotionally destroyed? Heartbreaking.

[beckerbell]

*doodles hearts around this comment* I really, really hate TV's habit of introducing a flawed marriage for the SOLE PURPOSE of breaking it apart, like, haha, we're supposed to root against A MARRIED COUPLE just because his wife is a shrew! And forget making it an interesting, layered relationship that's just falling apart and they find themselves in complicated circumstances with other people or she's actually a human being! No! She must be a total shrew and SHE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR WILL

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I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd knocked something over or pushed the wall, but I'm also glad he didn't. Will isn't a physical person and the scene was so much more powerful for the (semblance of) subtlety in not knocking things over.

It really surprises me how consistent they've been with Quinn's character, because she's not the character I would have expected it from! I would have thought they'd focus more on Rachel or Finn or Will. I can't say I'm not kind of in love with the surprise of Quinn being the breakout character, though. ♥