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Feb. 18th, 2012 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsSo, there's no Glee live tour this summer? Its disappointing, but understandable. Regardless of what you think of the show, it still has one of the hardest, if not the hardest working casts in the business. I mean, in addition to the usual stuff you do for a TV show, they also have to go into the studio to record, and the dance room to learn the choreography for the numbers they're doing on the show. Its not uncommon to see the cast tweet about still being on set until late at night. Though not in a complaining sort of way, because it seems like they love what they do, despite the hours. But I digress, the fact that they go on a multi-city international tour after filming these past two seasons is intense. I think they deserve a break!
Anyways, since there were a lot of awesome moments on the shows I watch this week, let me break down my favorites: (warning, spoiler heavy!)
Gossip Girl- As I said, I was expecting to be sorely disappointed with this week's ep. That it would be more of the same teasing with no payoff that's been happening week after week on this show. But then Dan and Blair finally kiss (which was totally unexpected!) and it looks like they're finally moving forward on the Dair front.
Raising Hope- Hey, that ending was one of the greatest things evar! That has gotta be one of the all time best scenes for a couple getting together on a TV show.
Once Upon a Time- Hey, I thought the Rumbelle stuff was nice. Wasn't sure how it was going to work out by having Rumpelstiltskin be the Beast, but the stuff with Belle in Fairy Tale land was nice, and brings a whole new interesting side of Rumpel's character.
Other mentions: Really good episode of Glee, probably the best of the season so far. The songs were all good, all the plot stuff was good, and Brittany and Santana get an actual real on screen kiss, satiating the fans who complained lesbos weren't getting any love and the show only focuses on heterosexual and homosexual male couplings.
Grayson's proposal to Jules on the return ep of Cougar Town was pretty sweet, but unfortunately, that Raising Hope thing happened, and it just doesn't compare.
On Justified, I enjoyed the "shades of Crank" with Dewey Crowe and the kidney stuff. Also, Raylan shooting someone center of mass THROUGH someone was cool. Less cool was that it was Jules from Psych. How could one do that to such a pretty little sweet-talking thang!
Missteps of the week: Revisiting Ted and Robin on HIMYM. We know she's not the mother, so why continue to go down that road. (Oh, BTW, I find it hilarious the writers were apparently considering having Lyndsy Fonseca be the mother. The scenes with Ted's kids are apparently stock footage, and now that Lyndsy's older, they were thinking maybe she could play the mother since she would obviously look like the daughter. Ida know, there's something about that that just seems totally wrong.
The ending of this week's Castle. So the guy they found is supposed to be some genius spy who managed to hide and lay low for several years. Now, I know he realized they had realized he had walked into a trap, but instead of telling Castle and Beckett, aav('Its a trap!') and trying to warn them so they could make an escape, he friggin freaks out and runs into the middle of an open area?! He should've known he would've gotten his ass sniped. It does not make cents!
Breaking into the Russian consulate on Hawaii Five-O. This isn't 24. And even though Jack Bauer gets results, we're supposed to see him as this flawed individual who goes too far at times. But on this show, they constantly do effed up things! I mean, they once strapped a guy to the hood of a car and sped through the streets to get him to talk. WTF! And they act like the governor assigning them Lori as a liason to reign them in at the beginning of the season was total BS. I think they kinda need it. Too bad she did a piss poor job at reigning them in, so her resigning is probably best.
But yeah, they're all "F U, Russians, for not turning in this rapist guy who we have no solid evidence on!" and friggin drive a truck rigged up to look like it might be a WMD through the front gate of the RUSSIAN CONSULATE. Just so they would evacuate the guy, and they could ambush the car he was in once it was outside of the consulate so they could illegally grab him from a diplomatic car (granted the guy left the car, but still).
Yes, we know the guy did it, and he killed that one woman to cover up raping her sister. But they had no proof, so they had no right to demand the consulate give him up, and then engineer a plan to grab him when they wouldn't. Now, I'm fine with it on shows like 24 and Nikita because grabbing possible bad guys from other countries who don't want to help is their purview. Secret government spies and assassins can do that. But not the friggin cops! Its one of the effed up things with the Closer. I'm fine with the idea of people doing bad things for the greater good, but only when its dark/grey characters who realize what they're doing is wrong and brood over it. Supposed white hats doing that? That's not right. Or at least have them feel really bad about it and have an arc where they have a huge moral crisis over what they did. The non-effed up big hero type doesn't do such things and act like everything is fine and dandy afterward, like they did nothing wrong.
I rag on Superman and Captain America and other lame goody goody boy scouts, but you need such heroes. You can't have them killing unarmed men or torturing people for information or engineering their deaths because they can't be brought to justice!
Anyways, since there were a lot of awesome moments on the shows I watch this week, let me break down my favorites: (warning, spoiler heavy!)
Gossip Girl- As I said, I was expecting to be sorely disappointed with this week's ep. That it would be more of the same teasing with no payoff that's been happening week after week on this show. But then Dan and Blair finally kiss (which was totally unexpected!) and it looks like they're finally moving forward on the Dair front.
Raising Hope- Hey, that ending was one of the greatest things evar! That has gotta be one of the all time best scenes for a couple getting together on a TV show.
Once Upon a Time- Hey, I thought the Rumbelle stuff was nice. Wasn't sure how it was going to work out by having Rumpelstiltskin be the Beast, but the stuff with Belle in Fairy Tale land was nice, and brings a whole new interesting side of Rumpel's character.
Other mentions: Really good episode of Glee, probably the best of the season so far. The songs were all good, all the plot stuff was good, and Brittany and Santana get an actual real on screen kiss, satiating the fans who complained lesbos weren't getting any love and the show only focuses on heterosexual and homosexual male couplings.
Grayson's proposal to Jules on the return ep of Cougar Town was pretty sweet, but unfortunately, that Raising Hope thing happened, and it just doesn't compare.
On Justified, I enjoyed the "shades of Crank" with Dewey Crowe and the kidney stuff. Also, Raylan shooting someone center of mass THROUGH someone was cool. Less cool was that it was Jules from Psych. How could one do that to such a pretty little sweet-talking thang!
Missteps of the week: Revisiting Ted and Robin on HIMYM. We know she's not the mother, so why continue to go down that road. (Oh, BTW, I find it hilarious the writers were apparently considering having Lyndsy Fonseca be the mother. The scenes with Ted's kids are apparently stock footage, and now that Lyndsy's older, they were thinking maybe she could play the mother since she would obviously look like the daughter. Ida know, there's something about that that just seems totally wrong.
The ending of this week's Castle. So the guy they found is supposed to be some genius spy who managed to hide and lay low for several years. Now, I know he realized they had realized he had walked into a trap, but instead of telling Castle and Beckett, aav('Its a trap!') and trying to warn them so they could make an escape, he friggin freaks out and runs into the middle of an open area?! He should've known he would've gotten his ass sniped. It does not make cents!
Breaking into the Russian consulate on Hawaii Five-O. This isn't 24. And even though Jack Bauer gets results, we're supposed to see him as this flawed individual who goes too far at times. But on this show, they constantly do effed up things! I mean, they once strapped a guy to the hood of a car and sped through the streets to get him to talk. WTF! And they act like the governor assigning them Lori as a liason to reign them in at the beginning of the season was total BS. I think they kinda need it. Too bad she did a piss poor job at reigning them in, so her resigning is probably best.
But yeah, they're all "F U, Russians, for not turning in this rapist guy who we have no solid evidence on!" and friggin drive a truck rigged up to look like it might be a WMD through the front gate of the RUSSIAN CONSULATE. Just so they would evacuate the guy, and they could ambush the car he was in once it was outside of the consulate so they could illegally grab him from a diplomatic car (granted the guy left the car, but still).
Yes, we know the guy did it, and he killed that one woman to cover up raping her sister. But they had no proof, so they had no right to demand the consulate give him up, and then engineer a plan to grab him when they wouldn't. Now, I'm fine with it on shows like 24 and Nikita because grabbing possible bad guys from other countries who don't want to help is their purview. Secret government spies and assassins can do that. But not the friggin cops! Its one of the effed up things with the Closer. I'm fine with the idea of people doing bad things for the greater good, but only when its dark/grey characters who realize what they're doing is wrong and brood over it. Supposed white hats doing that? That's not right. Or at least have them feel really bad about it and have an arc where they have a huge moral crisis over what they did. The non-effed up big hero type doesn't do such things and act like everything is fine and dandy afterward, like they did nothing wrong.
I rag on Superman and Captain America and other lame goody goody boy scouts, but you need such heroes. You can't have them killing unarmed men or torturing people for information or engineering their deaths because they can't be brought to justice!
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