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Apr. 16th, 2010 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsKaiser's whole being able to view your test results online is interesting. I mean, there's a lot of stuff I can't make sense of (without googling, but even then I'd wait for the doctor's final analysis), but it does flag when things are wrong, so I can at least get a general idea of whether the test went well or not.
TV commentary:
Vampire Diaries- every week this show makes me eat my words (in regards to proclaiming the show was bland after watching the pilot). As I've said before, its refreshing to see stuff actually happen. Instead of dragging out about whether X will learn about Y, where they dance around and tease until they finally find out during sweeps, the secrets get revealed pretty fast on this show. And that's fine, because then there's some new crazy and amazing new twist that comes up. And not in a unlikely, nonsensical, out of left field, soap opera-ish (or 24-ish way), but legitimate reveals that are surprising and intriguing but still make sense with respect to the greater story. Of course, one will have to see how this pace will hold up when the show gets renewed and they have another season (I assume it is, if it already hasn't been, because I think its one of the CW's higher rated shows), and they run out of things to do. But for now, the season is definitely a great ride.
So, no Anna (or the rest of Pearl's coven, for that matter), but I assume she's pretty pissed and staying away from Jeremy. Actually, as much as everyone finds out things pretty quickly, I'm trying to figure out if Elena and the Salvatores know about the whole Jeremy/Anna thing. I mean, the Salvatores obviously know Anna is a vamp, and I'm trying to remember if either of them saw her at the Gilbert house, or mentioned to Elena that she's a vamp. I would think if Elena knew, she'd keep her brother away. But I'm trying to figure out if that never happened because Jeremy kept his whole fling with Anna a secret (though it seems like Jenna was somewhat aware, maybe she didn't think it was important enough to mention to Elena or Elena was too busy with her own thing to notice), or because there was a breakdown in the usually clear information flow and didn't realize Anna was a vampire and thus that Jeremy needed to be wary of her.
In any case, Jeremy does finally find out about Elena being adopted (If I were him, I'd be, jackpot!), though given later revelations unknown to the two not-siblings for now, they might still be blood related. But he's still suspicious of Vicki's death, and his questioning of both the sheriff and Elena leads him to be more suspicious, particularly that Elena is hiding something. So he breaks into her room and reads her diary and learns everything!
Other developments in the Gilbert household. They have an Uncle John who shows up (played by Sark!) He's from the Gilbert side, claims he's in town to prevent the sale of the Gilbert shop in town/Pearl's old apothecary, and Jenna has frakked him in the past. And he's apparently a guy in the know! He shows up at the Founder's Council meeting with all sorts of intel about missing students and hikers and blood bank break ins that he thinks points to a vampire incursion. At the Founder's 150th celebration, Damon confronts him, and Uncle John tells him he knows all about him. So Damon snaps his neck and throws him off a balcony.
But! He shows back up at the party later, alive and well, and acting like everything's fine. That's when Damon notices the same kinda ring Alaric has. Which raises red flags, particularly given the whole Gilberts taking caring of Isobel during her pregnancy and adopting Elena. They're thinking maybe Uncle John knocked Isobel up, and the family kept everything on the down-low to avoid a scandal? They suspect at the very least that he knows stuff about Isobel that they don't. So the erstwhile rivals decide to confront Uncle John together. Apparently, Alaric's ring was John's, and the one John has is his brother's. And he knows all about the whole tomb under the church thing, and reveals he was the one who sent Isobel to Damon, and claims to be sitting on even more secrets, many of which he's keeping from the Founder's council. Intrigue! Definitely a lot of players now. I mean, you have Alaric, Elena, and the Salvatores trying to figure things out, and though they are aware of the Founder's council, the Founders don't know the full extent of what the gang knows (or that the Salvatores are vamps!). And then you have Pearl and her people, who are trying to make a play and get Damon to be their spy on the council. And now you have John, who seems to have his own agenda in this, and is playing his cards close to the vest. I guess its the Founders who drew the short stick, because although they know all about vamps and the dangers they present, they're being lied to by at least two members of the council who have their own agendas.
Of course, maybe some council members have secrets of their own (which Sark may or may not know about). Vicki's death has hit a lot of people hard. Jeremy, as mentioned before. But obviously Matt and her mom, as well as Tyler. So they're all getting wasted. And mother of the year Kelly, drunk off her ass, puts the moves on Tyler. Matt is of course pissed and starts fighting Tyler, but Tyler quickly turns the tables on him and totally whips Matt's ass, even scratching up his face. After the fight is broken up, the Mayor bitch slaps his son for embarrassing the Lockwood name. There's something definitely suspicious there, beyond Tyler being the classic dick bully with the fine, upstanding father who smacks him around and berates him and causes those personality traits in his son. I mean, the way he turned the tables on Matt and scratched up his face? I can see the theories some have about him being a werewolf. Because he's definitely not a vamp, and if he's not a vamp, that's the only other thing he could be.
As for Matt and Kelly's fallout from all this, his mom making out with his friend is the last straw, and he's kicking her out of his life.
Finally, Stefan is still jonesing for the human blood after the incident with Elena last week. He keeps trying to fight it (despite Damon whispering in his ear to give in, he doesn't even have to kill or drain actual humans, he can get it from a blood bank!), and tries to fight the urges by getting drunk off his ass until the urges go away. But that doesn't appear to be working, and in fact, he's starting to abuse his powers, glamering people left and right. After the fight between Matt and Tyler, where Kelly had been knocked down and cut her head, Stefan can smell the blood, hear her stressed out heartbeat, and talks to her, and in a daze wipes off some of the blood on her forehead with his fingers. He runs away before he does something untoward to her, but as soon as he's alone, he cleans the blood off his fingers with his mouth as if it were fried chicken grease.
Then, when one of the guys he glamered at the party wants to start something up with him in the parking lot, Stefan easily kicks his ass, but it takes all his strength to stop from feeding on him, which he later informs Elena. But he's trying, but in the mean time he thinks its dangerous for Elena while he's off the wagon. In the end, Damon tries to inform Stefan about the Uncle John stuff, but seeing how messed up Stefan is, gives him the sell on human blood again, even going so far as to leave his glass of blood there for Stefan to drink. Oddly enough, despite his attempts to tempt his brother, at the same time he seems worried and concerned. Its like, why are you tempting him then?
Fringe- So, as the commercials said, this ep was about Robocop having the ability to time-travel. Unfortunately, we don't actually find that out in the ep until almost halfway in, so the promos kinda spoiled this important plot detail. Though given the fact its Peter Weller, I'm guessing its an intentional in-joke that his time travel ability involves him wiring all sorts of cybernetics into himself?
Anyways, Robocop is trying to travel back in time to save his wife, who died tragically 6 months earlier. Once Walter figures out what's happening, he can sympathize. (Oh, its kinda amusing that Olivia seems to have a sense of deja-vu from Robocop's messing with the timestream, so you think that will come into play in solving the mystery, but its totally inconsequential! HA!) But, he also knows the dangers of doing such crazy things. So, he gets the Feebs to let him talk to Robocop and try to change his mind. The time travel, once he arrives at his destination, requires a huge influx of energy once he gets there. So, everything around gets its energy drained, electronics and what have you, but also humans, who end up dying. After studying Robocop's old journals and papers they confiscated from his apartment, Walter figures out why Robocop has been unable to jump back far enough, and actually gives him the info he needs to jump that far back. But Walter is also all, if you jump back in time to when his wife died, the energy require could kill hundreds. But Robocop is all, he knows the exact place he wants to appear, an open field with a hot air balloon in the middle of it that he was at the day of his wife's death. So he'll drain the energy from the plant life, but no one will get hurt. Plus, if he does this, this will undo his future time traveling (from the point of his wife's death, its the past in regards to the convo he and Walter are having) and the people who died and sparked the Fringe division investigation will not have. So happy endings all around!
But Walter cuts off his mike feed to the FBI so he can reveal to Robocop about stealing Peter from the other dimension and the consequences resulting from that and how god will smack them down for their hubris. But Robocop is all "science is god", and there's some metaphor about a white tulip he mentions. Since the Feebs don't like that they don't know what's going on in the room, they storm in, but Robocop time jumps out of there to just a few hours earlier. Using the info Walter gave him, he quickly makes the necessary changes, and seems to write a letter to Walter.
Then he jumps back to the field and gets in the car with his wife. Now, his biggest regret about that day was that he got into a fight with his wife, and she died before he could apologize and make it right. Coincidentally, that day, when he was thinking things through and wandered into the aforementioned field, his contemplation at the field helped him to figure out time travel, right at the very moment his wife died.
Anyways, future Robocop runs to save his wife. Or so you think! Walter's words seem to have affected him, and instead of pulling her out of the car, he gets in, and tells her he loves her one last time before a truck slams into them, killing them. So, with the majority of the ep unwritten, we see one of Robocop's colleagues pull a letter out of a file cabinet, apparently Robocop left instructions to deliver it to Walter on the date the ep started at. Walter opens it and all it is a white tulip. Which given he never had the convo with Robocop, must be quite confusing for him.
Oh, in non CotW happenings, Walter is struggling with how to reveal to Peter his other-verse origins. He writes a letter, which almost accidentally gets given to Peter in two iterations of Robocop's time-travelling. But in the final iteration where the case never happens, Walter is not interrupted from his letter writing by Peter about the new case, and once he finishes his letter, we see him toss it in the fireplace. I guess as much as he wants to do the right thing, he's not ready? Unfortunately, he's dealing with this by being very cold and distant to Peter, so Peter knows something is wrong. Which combined with Liv's weirdness toward him as of late (which he thought was due to their almost kiss), has to start making him suspicious, but not yet.
TV commentary:
Vampire Diaries- every week this show makes me eat my words (in regards to proclaiming the show was bland after watching the pilot). As I've said before, its refreshing to see stuff actually happen. Instead of dragging out about whether X will learn about Y, where they dance around and tease until they finally find out during sweeps, the secrets get revealed pretty fast on this show. And that's fine, because then there's some new crazy and amazing new twist that comes up. And not in a unlikely, nonsensical, out of left field, soap opera-ish (or 24-ish way), but legitimate reveals that are surprising and intriguing but still make sense with respect to the greater story. Of course, one will have to see how this pace will hold up when the show gets renewed and they have another season (I assume it is, if it already hasn't been, because I think its one of the CW's higher rated shows), and they run out of things to do. But for now, the season is definitely a great ride.
So, no Anna (or the rest of Pearl's coven, for that matter), but I assume she's pretty pissed and staying away from Jeremy. Actually, as much as everyone finds out things pretty quickly, I'm trying to figure out if Elena and the Salvatores know about the whole Jeremy/Anna thing. I mean, the Salvatores obviously know Anna is a vamp, and I'm trying to remember if either of them saw her at the Gilbert house, or mentioned to Elena that she's a vamp. I would think if Elena knew, she'd keep her brother away. But I'm trying to figure out if that never happened because Jeremy kept his whole fling with Anna a secret (though it seems like Jenna was somewhat aware, maybe she didn't think it was important enough to mention to Elena or Elena was too busy with her own thing to notice), or because there was a breakdown in the usually clear information flow and didn't realize Anna was a vampire and thus that Jeremy needed to be wary of her.
In any case, Jeremy does finally find out about Elena being adopted (If I were him, I'd be, jackpot!), though given later revelations unknown to the two not-siblings for now, they might still be blood related. But he's still suspicious of Vicki's death, and his questioning of both the sheriff and Elena leads him to be more suspicious, particularly that Elena is hiding something. So he breaks into her room and reads her diary and learns everything!
Other developments in the Gilbert household. They have an Uncle John who shows up (played by Sark!) He's from the Gilbert side, claims he's in town to prevent the sale of the Gilbert shop in town/Pearl's old apothecary, and Jenna has frakked him in the past. And he's apparently a guy in the know! He shows up at the Founder's Council meeting with all sorts of intel about missing students and hikers and blood bank break ins that he thinks points to a vampire incursion. At the Founder's 150th celebration, Damon confronts him, and Uncle John tells him he knows all about him. So Damon snaps his neck and throws him off a balcony.
But! He shows back up at the party later, alive and well, and acting like everything's fine. That's when Damon notices the same kinda ring Alaric has. Which raises red flags, particularly given the whole Gilberts taking caring of Isobel during her pregnancy and adopting Elena. They're thinking maybe Uncle John knocked Isobel up, and the family kept everything on the down-low to avoid a scandal? They suspect at the very least that he knows stuff about Isobel that they don't. So the erstwhile rivals decide to confront Uncle John together. Apparently, Alaric's ring was John's, and the one John has is his brother's. And he knows all about the whole tomb under the church thing, and reveals he was the one who sent Isobel to Damon, and claims to be sitting on even more secrets, many of which he's keeping from the Founder's council. Intrigue! Definitely a lot of players now. I mean, you have Alaric, Elena, and the Salvatores trying to figure things out, and though they are aware of the Founder's council, the Founders don't know the full extent of what the gang knows (or that the Salvatores are vamps!). And then you have Pearl and her people, who are trying to make a play and get Damon to be their spy on the council. And now you have John, who seems to have his own agenda in this, and is playing his cards close to the vest. I guess its the Founders who drew the short stick, because although they know all about vamps and the dangers they present, they're being lied to by at least two members of the council who have their own agendas.
Of course, maybe some council members have secrets of their own (which Sark may or may not know about). Vicki's death has hit a lot of people hard. Jeremy, as mentioned before. But obviously Matt and her mom, as well as Tyler. So they're all getting wasted. And mother of the year Kelly, drunk off her ass, puts the moves on Tyler. Matt is of course pissed and starts fighting Tyler, but Tyler quickly turns the tables on him and totally whips Matt's ass, even scratching up his face. After the fight is broken up, the Mayor bitch slaps his son for embarrassing the Lockwood name. There's something definitely suspicious there, beyond Tyler being the classic dick bully with the fine, upstanding father who smacks him around and berates him and causes those personality traits in his son. I mean, the way he turned the tables on Matt and scratched up his face? I can see the theories some have about him being a werewolf. Because he's definitely not a vamp, and if he's not a vamp, that's the only other thing he could be.
As for Matt and Kelly's fallout from all this, his mom making out with his friend is the last straw, and he's kicking her out of his life.
Finally, Stefan is still jonesing for the human blood after the incident with Elena last week. He keeps trying to fight it (despite Damon whispering in his ear to give in, he doesn't even have to kill or drain actual humans, he can get it from a blood bank!), and tries to fight the urges by getting drunk off his ass until the urges go away. But that doesn't appear to be working, and in fact, he's starting to abuse his powers, glamering people left and right. After the fight between Matt and Tyler, where Kelly had been knocked down and cut her head, Stefan can smell the blood, hear her stressed out heartbeat, and talks to her, and in a daze wipes off some of the blood on her forehead with his fingers. He runs away before he does something untoward to her, but as soon as he's alone, he cleans the blood off his fingers with his mouth as if it were fried chicken grease.
Then, when one of the guys he glamered at the party wants to start something up with him in the parking lot, Stefan easily kicks his ass, but it takes all his strength to stop from feeding on him, which he later informs Elena. But he's trying, but in the mean time he thinks its dangerous for Elena while he's off the wagon. In the end, Damon tries to inform Stefan about the Uncle John stuff, but seeing how messed up Stefan is, gives him the sell on human blood again, even going so far as to leave his glass of blood there for Stefan to drink. Oddly enough, despite his attempts to tempt his brother, at the same time he seems worried and concerned. Its like, why are you tempting him then?
Fringe- So, as the commercials said, this ep was about Robocop having the ability to time-travel. Unfortunately, we don't actually find that out in the ep until almost halfway in, so the promos kinda spoiled this important plot detail. Though given the fact its Peter Weller, I'm guessing its an intentional in-joke that his time travel ability involves him wiring all sorts of cybernetics into himself?
Anyways, Robocop is trying to travel back in time to save his wife, who died tragically 6 months earlier. Once Walter figures out what's happening, he can sympathize. (Oh, its kinda amusing that Olivia seems to have a sense of deja-vu from Robocop's messing with the timestream, so you think that will come into play in solving the mystery, but its totally inconsequential! HA!) But, he also knows the dangers of doing such crazy things. So, he gets the Feebs to let him talk to Robocop and try to change his mind. The time travel, once he arrives at his destination, requires a huge influx of energy once he gets there. So, everything around gets its energy drained, electronics and what have you, but also humans, who end up dying. After studying Robocop's old journals and papers they confiscated from his apartment, Walter figures out why Robocop has been unable to jump back far enough, and actually gives him the info he needs to jump that far back. But Walter is also all, if you jump back in time to when his wife died, the energy require could kill hundreds. But Robocop is all, he knows the exact place he wants to appear, an open field with a hot air balloon in the middle of it that he was at the day of his wife's death. So he'll drain the energy from the plant life, but no one will get hurt. Plus, if he does this, this will undo his future time traveling (from the point of his wife's death, its the past in regards to the convo he and Walter are having) and the people who died and sparked the Fringe division investigation will not have. So happy endings all around!
But Walter cuts off his mike feed to the FBI so he can reveal to Robocop about stealing Peter from the other dimension and the consequences resulting from that and how god will smack them down for their hubris. But Robocop is all "science is god", and there's some metaphor about a white tulip he mentions. Since the Feebs don't like that they don't know what's going on in the room, they storm in, but Robocop time jumps out of there to just a few hours earlier. Using the info Walter gave him, he quickly makes the necessary changes, and seems to write a letter to Walter.
Then he jumps back to the field and gets in the car with his wife. Now, his biggest regret about that day was that he got into a fight with his wife, and she died before he could apologize and make it right. Coincidentally, that day, when he was thinking things through and wandered into the aforementioned field, his contemplation at the field helped him to figure out time travel, right at the very moment his wife died.
Anyways, future Robocop runs to save his wife. Or so you think! Walter's words seem to have affected him, and instead of pulling her out of the car, he gets in, and tells her he loves her one last time before a truck slams into them, killing them. So, with the majority of the ep unwritten, we see one of Robocop's colleagues pull a letter out of a file cabinet, apparently Robocop left instructions to deliver it to Walter on the date the ep started at. Walter opens it and all it is a white tulip. Which given he never had the convo with Robocop, must be quite confusing for him.
Oh, in non CotW happenings, Walter is struggling with how to reveal to Peter his other-verse origins. He writes a letter, which almost accidentally gets given to Peter in two iterations of Robocop's time-travelling. But in the final iteration where the case never happens, Walter is not interrupted from his letter writing by Peter about the new case, and once he finishes his letter, we see him toss it in the fireplace. I guess as much as he wants to do the right thing, he's not ready? Unfortunately, he's dealing with this by being very cold and distant to Peter, so Peter knows something is wrong. Which combined with Liv's weirdness toward him as of late (which he thought was due to their almost kiss), has to start making him suspicious, but not yet.
