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Ah, another interesting item at this year's Shot Show, the RAAC Akdal MKA1919. Its a semi-auto shotgun from Turkey based on the M16 platform. So its got the AR ergonomics going for it. Its prolly not as reliable as the Saiga, but the AK is not as easily accessorized as the AR.

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Pretty Little Liars- Argh, the old "break up with someone to protect them because the bad guy won't mess with them to get to you" routine. I've stated my displeasure at such plot lines. Maybe it makes me a jerk dragging people I care about down with me, but I just don't feel keeping them in the dark protects them. Because honestly, I don't know the bad guy will stop messing with them if they think I don't care. I mean, if I was a bad guy, why would I stop? It could be a ruse! And lacking any other options, what other pressure points do I have to push? I won't know its no longer a pressure point unless I push it and nothing happens. At best, it works. And its no skin off my back if it doesn't, I'm evil! So all you're doing is keeping them uninformed about a potentially dangerous situation! ( spoiler cut )

House- So Chase has a younger sister? She sounds hot! Though I may only think that because she has an Aussie accent (or whatever the hell Chase is). ( spoiler cut )

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Castle- Weird, I totally did not recognize the reality star chick as Hilarie Burton at first. I guess it was mostly the hair (she seems to change her hair often!), but also because she seemed to be playing more mature roles, like Sara on White Collar. But here she seemed to be playing younger.

Hart of Dixie- I think I've been starting to pinpoint why Lemon annoys, she's more Lauren from MIOBI than Blair from Gossip Girl. They're all pretty mean bitches. I don't know if its Leighton Meester giving Blair some likable nuances, or the way Blair is written, but I at least feel sympathy for her character. Lauren and Lemon? Not so much. Maybe its that they all have abandonment/esteem issues, but while Blair has a Serena to be constantly compared to, someone who often unintentionally takes from Blair, the other two make up a conflict with another girl in their head and make it more than it needs to be. (Zoe for Lemon, every other girl on the show for Lauren) Though I guess for the two blonds, their frenemy is a scrappy underdog, someone trying to finally get a chance to shine and they're too selfish to let go of the spotlight, whereas with Blair, she's the one who's awesome and no one can see it because Serena is always outshining her without even trying.

I guess there's also her interactions with Zoe- with them two its all catty bitchiness. Whereas with Brick, he seems to be as annoyed with Zoe as his daughter, but he has something to back up that annoyance. Yeah, he wanted to finally have the practice to himself, and Zoe comes in out of the blue, but at least his gripes are more legitimate than that. As he said, she may be a good doctor, but she kinda sucks at the bedside manner. And I think this episode was also good in highlighting that conflict- Bluebell seems like a stepping stone to her, some place she doesn't want to be, so why is she? And as he said, the whole never asking until now about this whole friggin side of her family she never knew seemed to indicate that. So I actually liked the end, where he was warmly telling her about all her relatives. Moreso than her and Lemon's truce after Zoe gave her the pep talk about how she's not going to turn out like her mom.

Also, its odd that this show is about Zoe, but they spend so much time on side plots. I guess they want to give the other characters something to do, but the side plot with Levon and Didi (it still weirds me out to hear Catalina with a Southern accent) took up more screen time than was necessary. At least the stuff with Wade and George told us more about their characters, which is somewhat important since they're both potential love interests for Zoe.

And I realize its the 21st century, but its still interesting how integrated the town is for a small Southern town. I mean, the Belles even have a couple of non-whites among their number! Aren't they like the equivalent of some sort of Daughters of the Confederacy sort of group?!

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Weird fact I learned today: Melissa and Jenny Mccarthy are actually related? (Cousins, apparently) Was this common knowledge? Of course, I had no idea Kate and Oliver Hudson were brother and sister and didn't piece the LaPaglias were brothers even though its frickin' obvious from looking at them. (I know there was one more pair of famous siblings that its ridiculous I didn't realize they were related even though it was obvious, but they're not coming to mind.)

Things that make me sad: Looking at the Glee tag on tumblr and seeing all the people freaking out that there's no new Glee on tonight, even though all the commercials and promos since last week said the next ep was on the 31st. I dunno, I've said this before, and maybe its because I watch TV more religiously than the average person, but if its a show that you are a big enough fan of that you curse and scream that its not on, how the frick do you not know its schedule?! I mean, if its something that you're going to be all, "Dammit, I was looking forward to this all day!" about, I would think you'd make sure you know its schedule inside and out!

It makes me as sad as all those idiots tweeting why Wikipedia was down last week, when it said why it was down ON THE FRIGGIN SPLASH PAGE!

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Being Human- So I caught the marathon last week during MLK, and it piqued my interest. As if I don't watch enough shows with vampires and werewolves and other supernatural creatures. I didn't think I was one of those people. I guess I don't watch Grimm out of protest about it being up against Fringe. Much like I don't watch that one Tim Allen show with him and Nancy Travis as the parents of young Eloise Hawking, Loretta Mcready from Justified/Megan Mullally's daughter on Party Down, and epileptic jockey chick from that one ep of Royal Pains because its up against Glee. I don't know why I feel the need to boycott this show, its not like I don't watch other shows at the same time as Glee- I still watch NCIS, and will watch Cougar Town when its back on (neither live, of course).

But I digress, between this and Lost Girl, as if I didn't have enough to watch on Monday nights!

Lost Girl- So, this is apparently an old (well by a couple of years) Canadian show that SyFy is starting to show. Its an interesting enough show about a hot succubus with a teenage sidekick (so is this was Tasha was doing while she was with a new foster family/in juvie on Life Unexpected?), so its not like I'm not going to check it out. The pilot was okay (and heh, its definitely a Canadian show, what with Emmanuelle Vaugier showing up) but the upcoming previews seem intriguing enough. Though I haven't looked it up, is this show still going on in Canada, or are there just a limited number of eps and once SyFy burns through all of them, that's all?

Oh, and heh, when Trick was all in last night's ep, "You were born from two fey" to Bo, I'm guessing one of her parents is dark and one light?