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Apr. 6th, 2010 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsSince they're relatively cheap, decided to upgrade my 8 gig flash drive to a 16 gig one over the weekend. So, I was pleasantly surprised that it arrived yesterday when I got home from work. Spent the next couple of hours doing laundry and switching rooms. I don't know if its good or bad that I was able to move everything around in a couple of hours. I mean, my room is by no means spartan, I have a fair amount of stuff. But I guess they're all in neat piles. Well, as neat a pile as you can have of various swords and airsoft pistols and machine guns. (And why the hell do I have handcuffs and a hardhat?)
TV commentary:
Chuck- Wait, this wasn't the season finale? I mean, it seemed very much like one, but there's new eps in three weeks. As I suspected, Shaw wasn't taking Sarah out to the desert to kill her, but to reveal to her what she had done and ask for her help in taking down the people responsible. But Chuck shows up with an army and General Beckman reams him for the waste of taxpayer money, but Shaw actually sticks up for him and Sarah is of course all flattered.
Anyways, in the wake of all that, he tells her the "L" word, and she says it back (because Casey told her he's not really a killer and she's still the Chuck she fell for, plus, he like sent a whole army to rescue her!), so they're together. But they have no time to break it to Shaw as they have a mission- ambush Romo Lampkin, director of the Ring and capture him. I was a little confused if there primary mission was to capture him, but then when he was all, "Oh, you must be here for the cipher", they were all, "Oh, um, yeah, that's exactly why we're here!" So, they get him to give them info on it but then it looks like they're caught, then Shaw saves the day by killing the Ring agents surrounding them, then executing Romo Lampkin. Only when Chuck and Sarah leave to give the cipher to the General, we learn the whole firefight was fake and Shaw has been turned.
General Redhead is still dissatisfied with Chuck's performance as of late, so she decides to bench him and go with her original plan of sending Sarah and Shaw back to DC to head out anti-Ring ops. And their first mish is to head to Paris.
In the meantime, Morgan ended up quitting his job because of an offhand comment that Chuck would make Morgan a spy if he could find Casey for him earlier in the ep since Chuck had to talk to him. For some reason, Morgan takes this at face value. Chuck sets him straight, and he feels like an idiot, but then Chuck shares the footage of Shaw during their last mission, and apparently Morgan has watched so many kung fu movies he can tell the fight was staged. Instead of telling Beckman himself, Chuck brings Morgan to Castle to explain it. Because for some reason he can't say "hey this fight is fake and point to the exact parts of the footage where you can tell" himself? So, Beckman's so pissed that she hangs up on him and suspends him and won't take his calls.
So, they head to Casey, who's reluctant to help at first, but then Morgan gives him a pep talk and he and Chuck suit up and head to Paris since Chuck is sure something is wrong.
And he's right, Shaw takes Sarah to the place she killed his wife, wherein the mickey he slipped her earlier finally takes effect. (How convenient!) He takes her to meet up with Romo at some cafe and tells her they will strike a blow to the CIA by killing her. (was there something else too, because killing one agent doesn't seem like too big a deal) Romo takes his leave to let Shaw finish his final test and killing her. But then Chuck shows up, having figured out that since Shaw visits the site of wife's death every year, and if he is unhinged and wants revenge, he would show Sarah first.
While Casey is off capturing Romo off-screen, Chuck chases Shaw who has Sarah hostage. It culminates in a final showdown, where Shaw doesn't think Chuck has the stones to draw down on him. But he does, and blows Shaw away in front of drugged up Sarah. She awakes in a hotel room, and thankfully, they didn't do anything stupid like she was too drugged up to remember, or have Chuck lie that he didn't kill Shaw in light of her earlier comments about how she loved innocent Chuck. He tells the truth, and again, she's flattered, because apparently its okay for nice guys to kill people if its to save her ass. The general interrupts their smooch to try and send them on a new mission, but they hang up on her and decide to spend the next few days in Paris frakking each others brains out.
Meanwhile, since Casey has Romo, he has leverage to get his job back, which he does, and for some reason he gets Morgan a place with them too?! Of course, he learns this just as he gets his old job back from Big Mike. Seriously, why the hell would they make Morgan an interim agent? Because he can handle Chuck, and spotted a fake fight? But like I said, with all that, it seemed like this ep could've served as a season finale (or even a series finale!)
Gossip Girl- So, its Nate's b-day, so Serena decides to throw him a surprise party. So she gets everyone to blow him off, which little capitalizes on by taking Nate to the movies and getting him to stick around because she's still upset over being drugged and almost gang-raped last week. Eventually, she brings him back for the party, and Eric is the only one who seems to notice Jenny is making a play for Nate even though its totally obvious. In the end, Nate kinda figures it out when Jenny kisses him to distract him so she can win the assassin's game (Nate's favorite game, which Serena arranged for the guests to play), but even then he seems placated when little J plays it off.
Dan is writing an essay to get into that Tish thing, so V is all, "Here, I'll proofread it, and you critique my play". He doesn't think its great, but when Vanessa asks, he lies and does the good bf thing and says he loves it. She claims she hasn't had a chance to read his stuff, but later, he finds his essay in her bag with all sorts of red marks and critiques. Because he's a little bitch, he gets all mad and pissy about it. In the end, they make up and thank each other for the honest critiques, because they need the assessment, not ass-kissing. Then we find out that unbeknown to Dan, Vanessa applied for that Tish scholarship too, so they're in direct competition since there's very few spots.
Jack makes Chuck a proposal- he'll give him back the hotel for one night with Blair. Well, we don't actually hear him give Chuck that proposal (or at the very least, if he did he's supposedly all, "certainly not!"), but he makes sure Blair knows. Chuck is despondent because he hears Jack is going to just shut down the hotel permanently, so Blair secretly goes to Jack to offer herself for the hotel. She gets him to sign a legal document, which he does, and then he does... nothing. The fact that Chuck would be willing to sacrifice her is satisfaction enough, happy that he's ruined their relationship. She's all what now? Apparently, Chuck was willing to sacrifice Blair, but he couldn't tell her that, he had to trick her into it. What the?!
She comes back pissed, and he's all, "You said you'd stick by me no matter what horrible things I would do!" Because he's apparently an insane idiot if he thinks "whoring her off" is something Blair would be accepting of! But ooh, maybe they'll break up, and Vanessa and Dan will break up over the Tish thing, opening up the door for some Dair! One can dream.
What else, Vanya proposes to Dorota, and Eric finds a new bf. And Rufus is back in the UES for some reason. Did I miss an ep where all was forgiven and he moved back?!
10 Things- I'll say it before and I'll say it again, its a little weird how vastly different the show is from the movie. I mean, its not like this is just a way longer version of the movie that will play out the same way, its its own thing. Not that that's bad. Like obviously, Kat and Patrick, there's no him being secretly paid to take her out so Bianca will be allowed to date. And since they're new to the school, there's no Kat having lost her virginity to Joey and then him dumping her after she wouldn't do it again, so there's no reason for her to not want Bianca and him to date.
As I've said before, TV Joey is actually a nice guy. Well, at least not intentionally harmful, because he is kinda clod. With some insight. Because with Bianca unable to take the freeze out she's been getting from the other girls, they get her to break up with him. He's kinda upset, and tells her what kind of friends do that, emotionally blackmail her into breaking up with a guy she really likes. So she tells them off, and that's enough to convince the girls to stop the freeze out, much to Chastity's chagrin.
The whole dating someone else's ex is always a muddy sitch. But its not like Bianca and Joey did anything while he and Chastity were together. She dumped him. Sure, she could've given Chastity a heads up, but I can see why she didn't because Chastity prolly would be a bitch about it. I dunno, I say, you should let the involved parties know, and they in turn, if they see that their friend really likes them and it makes them happy, should be okay with it.
And re-iterating TV Cameron is enormous, seriously, he seemed like he barely fit on that balcony, like he had to slouch just so he didn't smack his head on the ceiling. And the girl they thought was gonna be "Miss Dependable", she looked like a midget next to him!
Life Unexpected- Okay, I like "trying to turn his life around and getting to be friends with Lux's family instead of telling her to ditch them and she needs only him" way better. So, Tosh's ex smacks him around, because he apparently sold their stash since he needed money. Baze saves him, then tells him off for still hanging with those elements. Uh, he wasn't exactly inviting them over, they ambushed him in an alley! They later trash the bar in revenge, which somehow Baze did not noticed despite living above it!
Lucky for Bug, Cate found some old b-day cards from he absentee father that her mom kept from her while looking for stuff in the attic. She wants to see him, so Lux uses this opportunity to buy Bug some time by insisting they go on a road trip "as a family, since its that last (and first!) time they'll really be able to do so since Cate's about to marry Ryan" to see the guy in Tahoe.
They have an accident because of Baze's cocky "I'm a great driver"-ness since he's trying to teach Lux how to drive (and apparently sell her State Farm insurance?), leading to some accidental snuggling between him and Cate at a bed and breakfast since Lux apparently kicks in her sleep, prompting her to share a bed with Baze. (I'm a little surprised she would do so!)
They meet up with her dad, and Baze reads him for an a-hole, so she tries to warn Cate, but of course Cate gets pissed at him. And he feels even more shitty when he's about to leave, and then Lux has to break to him about Bug trying to fix up the bar, so he's all, "Oh, you didn't want to do the family thing either".
The next morning, Cate's dad bails on her, so she takes a taxi to confront him and gets rightly pissed when she sees he'd rather go fishing then spend time with his daughter. She comes to the realization that all her issues with men stem from her dad, not Baze. So she takes her leave and sees Baze waiting for her- he didn't leave, he just kept his distance and slept in his car ready to swoop in and save her just in case he was right that her dad was a deadbeat.
So, she apologizes to Baze about taking things out on him and how she was displacing her daddy issues on to him, and they spend the ride home singing along to Starship. This family fun time is enough to want Lux to make them sign the adoption papers and make them officially a family.
In the end, Baze tells Bug he needn't have worried, he wouldn't have fired Bug for his past, because he knows he's trying to make something of himself. And Lux picks up that her dad may be feeling things for her mom and talks to him about it.
TV commentary:
Chuck- Wait, this wasn't the season finale? I mean, it seemed very much like one, but there's new eps in three weeks. As I suspected, Shaw wasn't taking Sarah out to the desert to kill her, but to reveal to her what she had done and ask for her help in taking down the people responsible. But Chuck shows up with an army and General Beckman reams him for the waste of taxpayer money, but Shaw actually sticks up for him and Sarah is of course all flattered.
Anyways, in the wake of all that, he tells her the "L" word, and she says it back (because Casey told her he's not really a killer and she's still the Chuck she fell for, plus, he like sent a whole army to rescue her!), so they're together. But they have no time to break it to Shaw as they have a mission- ambush Romo Lampkin, director of the Ring and capture him. I was a little confused if there primary mission was to capture him, but then when he was all, "Oh, you must be here for the cipher", they were all, "Oh, um, yeah, that's exactly why we're here!" So, they get him to give them info on it but then it looks like they're caught, then Shaw saves the day by killing the Ring agents surrounding them, then executing Romo Lampkin. Only when Chuck and Sarah leave to give the cipher to the General, we learn the whole firefight was fake and Shaw has been turned.
General Redhead is still dissatisfied with Chuck's performance as of late, so she decides to bench him and go with her original plan of sending Sarah and Shaw back to DC to head out anti-Ring ops. And their first mish is to head to Paris.
In the meantime, Morgan ended up quitting his job because of an offhand comment that Chuck would make Morgan a spy if he could find Casey for him earlier in the ep since Chuck had to talk to him. For some reason, Morgan takes this at face value. Chuck sets him straight, and he feels like an idiot, but then Chuck shares the footage of Shaw during their last mission, and apparently Morgan has watched so many kung fu movies he can tell the fight was staged. Instead of telling Beckman himself, Chuck brings Morgan to Castle to explain it. Because for some reason he can't say "hey this fight is fake and point to the exact parts of the footage where you can tell" himself? So, Beckman's so pissed that she hangs up on him and suspends him and won't take his calls.
So, they head to Casey, who's reluctant to help at first, but then Morgan gives him a pep talk and he and Chuck suit up and head to Paris since Chuck is sure something is wrong.
And he's right, Shaw takes Sarah to the place she killed his wife, wherein the mickey he slipped her earlier finally takes effect. (How convenient!) He takes her to meet up with Romo at some cafe and tells her they will strike a blow to the CIA by killing her. (was there something else too, because killing one agent doesn't seem like too big a deal) Romo takes his leave to let Shaw finish his final test and killing her. But then Chuck shows up, having figured out that since Shaw visits the site of wife's death every year, and if he is unhinged and wants revenge, he would show Sarah first.
While Casey is off capturing Romo off-screen, Chuck chases Shaw who has Sarah hostage. It culminates in a final showdown, where Shaw doesn't think Chuck has the stones to draw down on him. But he does, and blows Shaw away in front of drugged up Sarah. She awakes in a hotel room, and thankfully, they didn't do anything stupid like she was too drugged up to remember, or have Chuck lie that he didn't kill Shaw in light of her earlier comments about how she loved innocent Chuck. He tells the truth, and again, she's flattered, because apparently its okay for nice guys to kill people if its to save her ass. The general interrupts their smooch to try and send them on a new mission, but they hang up on her and decide to spend the next few days in Paris frakking each others brains out.
Meanwhile, since Casey has Romo, he has leverage to get his job back, which he does, and for some reason he gets Morgan a place with them too?! Of course, he learns this just as he gets his old job back from Big Mike. Seriously, why the hell would they make Morgan an interim agent? Because he can handle Chuck, and spotted a fake fight? But like I said, with all that, it seemed like this ep could've served as a season finale (or even a series finale!)
Gossip Girl- So, its Nate's b-day, so Serena decides to throw him a surprise party. So she gets everyone to blow him off, which little capitalizes on by taking Nate to the movies and getting him to stick around because she's still upset over being drugged and almost gang-raped last week. Eventually, she brings him back for the party, and Eric is the only one who seems to notice Jenny is making a play for Nate even though its totally obvious. In the end, Nate kinda figures it out when Jenny kisses him to distract him so she can win the assassin's game (Nate's favorite game, which Serena arranged for the guests to play), but even then he seems placated when little J plays it off.
Dan is writing an essay to get into that Tish thing, so V is all, "Here, I'll proofread it, and you critique my play". He doesn't think its great, but when Vanessa asks, he lies and does the good bf thing and says he loves it. She claims she hasn't had a chance to read his stuff, but later, he finds his essay in her bag with all sorts of red marks and critiques. Because he's a little bitch, he gets all mad and pissy about it. In the end, they make up and thank each other for the honest critiques, because they need the assessment, not ass-kissing. Then we find out that unbeknown to Dan, Vanessa applied for that Tish scholarship too, so they're in direct competition since there's very few spots.
Jack makes Chuck a proposal- he'll give him back the hotel for one night with Blair. Well, we don't actually hear him give Chuck that proposal (or at the very least, if he did he's supposedly all, "certainly not!"), but he makes sure Blair knows. Chuck is despondent because he hears Jack is going to just shut down the hotel permanently, so Blair secretly goes to Jack to offer herself for the hotel. She gets him to sign a legal document, which he does, and then he does... nothing. The fact that Chuck would be willing to sacrifice her is satisfaction enough, happy that he's ruined their relationship. She's all what now? Apparently, Chuck was willing to sacrifice Blair, but he couldn't tell her that, he had to trick her into it. What the?!
She comes back pissed, and he's all, "You said you'd stick by me no matter what horrible things I would do!" Because he's apparently an insane idiot if he thinks "whoring her off" is something Blair would be accepting of! But ooh, maybe they'll break up, and Vanessa and Dan will break up over the Tish thing, opening up the door for some Dair! One can dream.
What else, Vanya proposes to Dorota, and Eric finds a new bf. And Rufus is back in the UES for some reason. Did I miss an ep where all was forgiven and he moved back?!
10 Things- I'll say it before and I'll say it again, its a little weird how vastly different the show is from the movie. I mean, its not like this is just a way longer version of the movie that will play out the same way, its its own thing. Not that that's bad. Like obviously, Kat and Patrick, there's no him being secretly paid to take her out so Bianca will be allowed to date. And since they're new to the school, there's no Kat having lost her virginity to Joey and then him dumping her after she wouldn't do it again, so there's no reason for her to not want Bianca and him to date.
As I've said before, TV Joey is actually a nice guy. Well, at least not intentionally harmful, because he is kinda clod. With some insight. Because with Bianca unable to take the freeze out she's been getting from the other girls, they get her to break up with him. He's kinda upset, and tells her what kind of friends do that, emotionally blackmail her into breaking up with a guy she really likes. So she tells them off, and that's enough to convince the girls to stop the freeze out, much to Chastity's chagrin.
The whole dating someone else's ex is always a muddy sitch. But its not like Bianca and Joey did anything while he and Chastity were together. She dumped him. Sure, she could've given Chastity a heads up, but I can see why she didn't because Chastity prolly would be a bitch about it. I dunno, I say, you should let the involved parties know, and they in turn, if they see that their friend really likes them and it makes them happy, should be okay with it.
And re-iterating TV Cameron is enormous, seriously, he seemed like he barely fit on that balcony, like he had to slouch just so he didn't smack his head on the ceiling. And the girl they thought was gonna be "Miss Dependable", she looked like a midget next to him!
Life Unexpected- Okay, I like "trying to turn his life around and getting to be friends with Lux's family instead of telling her to ditch them and she needs only him" way better. So, Tosh's ex smacks him around, because he apparently sold their stash since he needed money. Baze saves him, then tells him off for still hanging with those elements. Uh, he wasn't exactly inviting them over, they ambushed him in an alley! They later trash the bar in revenge, which somehow Baze did not noticed despite living above it!
Lucky for Bug, Cate found some old b-day cards from he absentee father that her mom kept from her while looking for stuff in the attic. She wants to see him, so Lux uses this opportunity to buy Bug some time by insisting they go on a road trip "as a family, since its that last (and first!) time they'll really be able to do so since Cate's about to marry Ryan" to see the guy in Tahoe.
They have an accident because of Baze's cocky "I'm a great driver"-ness since he's trying to teach Lux how to drive (and apparently sell her State Farm insurance?), leading to some accidental snuggling between him and Cate at a bed and breakfast since Lux apparently kicks in her sleep, prompting her to share a bed with Baze. (I'm a little surprised she would do so!)
They meet up with her dad, and Baze reads him for an a-hole, so she tries to warn Cate, but of course Cate gets pissed at him. And he feels even more shitty when he's about to leave, and then Lux has to break to him about Bug trying to fix up the bar, so he's all, "Oh, you didn't want to do the family thing either".
The next morning, Cate's dad bails on her, so she takes a taxi to confront him and gets rightly pissed when she sees he'd rather go fishing then spend time with his daughter. She comes to the realization that all her issues with men stem from her dad, not Baze. So she takes her leave and sees Baze waiting for her- he didn't leave, he just kept his distance and slept in his car ready to swoop in and save her just in case he was right that her dad was a deadbeat.
So, she apologizes to Baze about taking things out on him and how she was displacing her daddy issues on to him, and they spend the ride home singing along to Starship. This family fun time is enough to want Lux to make them sign the adoption papers and make them officially a family.
In the end, Baze tells Bug he needn't have worried, he wouldn't have fired Bug for his past, because he knows he's trying to make something of himself. And Lux picks up that her dad may be feeling things for her mom and talks to him about it.
