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Argh, can't sleep, I hate that. So I have the telly on- its that one ep of Psych where Yin or Yang (whichever one wasn't Ally Sheedy) captured both Juliet and Abigail and Shawn had to choose which one to try and save. Well, which one he'd go to personally, its not like he was the only character on the show who could do stuff. But he chose to save Abby with his dad, while Lassie and Gus went to rescue Juliet. As I said the first time I saw this ep, Juliet herself felt Shawn should save Abby, but I'm sure it didn't hurt any less that he did choose the latter. And even more hilarious that Abigail broke up with him right afterward because she couldn't take the danger.

Occasionally, I'll watch the Clone Wars cartoon if the commercial for the ep piques my interest and nothing else is on. And this one did look interesting enough. ( spoiler cut )

Oh, and watching the latest ep of Transformers Prime tonight, I did enjoy the Star Wars reference when Agent Fowler had to bluff Breakdown over comms. Is there any geek, who when seeing a protagonist in a TV or movie (or playing one in an RPG) who's subdued a guard post and the guard's allies are calling for a status update, don't think of that one Han Solo scene on the death star? That's what I immediately thought of when the situation arose, so it was amusing to see the show actually go there.

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So, how does one actually get served? No, seriously, from the snippets of those dance movies like Step-Up that I've seen, I just don't get how the competition works. As far as I can tell, one crew does a routine, and the other follows up and so forth. And then at some point, an announcer is all, "Dayum, they ain't gonna recover from that!" Recover from what?! Is it simply when one group doesn't do something cooler than the other? But that seems so subjective!

Also, I've mentioned how creepy that once dance style is where a person pretends to be some sort of automaton. I mean, hey, that's pretty slick that you can do a pretty good imitation of being a robot in human skin, but is it really dance? Another "style" of dance I find weird is the one where a bunch of dancers pretend to be vicious attack dogs barely restrained by chains held by some handler. Sometimes there are actual chains, sometimes they're imaginary. Which I will admit, takes talent to make it look like you are being barely restrained by some invisible chain. But again, is some person holding back 4 or 5 other people pretending to be rabid pit-bulls really dance? And what exactly is the style of dance called? Attack doggin'? Pitbullin'? I'd try to look it up, but so far, I've been unsuccessful. I mean, what do you google for? "Dancing like a restrained attack dog?" Amusingly enough, googling for that term, one of the hits I get are tips on how to fight a pit bull with your bare hands.