Now there's only love in the dark
May. 4th, 2010 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsTV Commentary:
House- So wait, are they saying House just switched his vicodin addiction into alcoholism? Was his line about not wanting to be just friends with Cuddy the first time he's been so overt about his feelings?
Coming out of the cut, I've been trying to figure out why Susan Sarandon's daughter looks weird. I mean, when they had that side profile of Eva Amurri's face in the beginning, the was something off about her nose and I think its not that she has a big nose, but she has weirdly shaped nostrils.
Gossip Girl- Bah, no Dan and Blair interaction, and it looks like they might be reuniting Chuck and Blair soon, since he got her into Columbia. Speaking of Chuck, it looks like he and little J might be teaming up soon to expose Serena's dad's plot since Jenny seems to have figured something's off. (How did she do that anyways? Was it just a weird logical leap from Lily looking healthy and the one girl exposing her drug dealing telling her how she sold her bf the wrong drugs and it cause weird complications, and that made her think Serena's dad was drugging Lily with something to cause the symptoms?)
Anyways, what amused me about this ep where that there were several little things going on that were unrelated, but together managed to further contribute to William's plan to break up Rufus and Lily. Since Serena figured out Jenny was trying to steal Nate away, they've been at war, turning the whole Rufus vs William into a Humphreys vs Van der Woodsen thing. Then the whole Blair-Columbia thing comes in, when the Columbia mean girls pressure Blair into striking back against Jenny for what she did to Serena, which again exacerbated the fight between Jenny and Serena. So, it didn't take all that long for William to get Serena in his pocket and unwittingly help him drive a wedge between Lily and Rufus. And then neighbor lady Rufus went to when he thought Lily and William were having an affair confronts Serena, which drives the final nail in the column, putting her fully on Team William.
But yeah, not only did the Blair thing somehow tie into that, so did that one guy Eric's been crushing on. Because Eric was very distrustful of his dad, and was siding with Rufus, but with that one guy around, it gave his dad leverage, inviting him over so his dad could be all, "See, I'm fine with your gayness!" and further making it Humphrey vs Van Der Woodsen. Even the Jenny drug-dealing being exposed, since Rufus was mad, he took her back to Brooklyn, leaving it solely Van Der Woodsen in the UES and allowing them to see what it would be like if he never left.
Oh, and as some people have said, Serena hiding her wild ways from the dad was total BS! Wasn't her insane behavior last season her purposely trying to get her dad's attention, by acting like such a crazy whore that he couldn't avoid her since she'd be all over the tabloids?
Chuck- Heh, so Chuck and Sarah got a glimpse of what they might be in 30 years with Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz's characters. So apparently, it is fine to mix love and the spying business? Like if they're such legends, particularly as a spying super-couple, why have they never used them as evidence before that Chuck and Sarah (or even Sarah and Bryce or Sarah and Superman) could work. There's precedent!
So even though Morgan failed all his tests, since he had the balls to go toe to toe with a tiger, he's good in Casey's book. I'm totally annoyed by the gun range test though, where the gun was so powerful that it flew out of Morgan's hands.
Getting out of the cut so I can make a general rant, I hate when TV has some nerdy character at the gun range and he fires a gun and goes flying back or it flies out of his hands. Firing a gun is not gonna do that to you, all it does is make people not at all familiar with guns think they are these extremely dangerous tools that if you even touch them funny, you'll kill yourself. Yes, they're dangerous, but as long as you follow basic safety, you'll be fine. Respect them, but you don't need to be that afraid of them, and scenes like this perpetuate the fear.
I'm particularly annoyed since I have first hand experience with the particular scenario- so, they have Morgan trying out a Sig P-229. Now, I don't know whether it was chambered for .40 S&W or .357 Sig in that scene. But anyways, I've only fired the 229 in .357 sig, but that has a bigger kick than the .40 S&W version anyways, in my opinion. And I'm a skinny wimp, and I had no problems with it. And I would think I'm in the same boat as Morgan in terms of physical ability- if I can do it, a TV nerd can do it.
So, anyways, I guess Ellie and Awesome are coming back? That was kinda weird though, so the Ring made Awesome sick so they'd head back to the states? Why not just grab them? What's their plan? But seriously though, I think its getting time to let Ellie know what's the what. I mean, her dad, her brother, her husband, her brother's friend she's known since they were little, all of them know this big secret, why not her? And its not just Chuck, I mean, her dad has been involved in the spy game for a really long time, so they're keeping a significant part of her family history from her.
House- So wait, are they saying House just switched his vicodin addiction into alcoholism? Was his line about not wanting to be just friends with Cuddy the first time he's been so overt about his feelings?
Coming out of the cut, I've been trying to figure out why Susan Sarandon's daughter looks weird. I mean, when they had that side profile of Eva Amurri's face in the beginning, the was something off about her nose and I think its not that she has a big nose, but she has weirdly shaped nostrils.
Gossip Girl- Bah, no Dan and Blair interaction, and it looks like they might be reuniting Chuck and Blair soon, since he got her into Columbia. Speaking of Chuck, it looks like he and little J might be teaming up soon to expose Serena's dad's plot since Jenny seems to have figured something's off. (How did she do that anyways? Was it just a weird logical leap from Lily looking healthy and the one girl exposing her drug dealing telling her how she sold her bf the wrong drugs and it cause weird complications, and that made her think Serena's dad was drugging Lily with something to cause the symptoms?)
Anyways, what amused me about this ep where that there were several little things going on that were unrelated, but together managed to further contribute to William's plan to break up Rufus and Lily. Since Serena figured out Jenny was trying to steal Nate away, they've been at war, turning the whole Rufus vs William into a Humphreys vs Van der Woodsen thing. Then the whole Blair-Columbia thing comes in, when the Columbia mean girls pressure Blair into striking back against Jenny for what she did to Serena, which again exacerbated the fight between Jenny and Serena. So, it didn't take all that long for William to get Serena in his pocket and unwittingly help him drive a wedge between Lily and Rufus. And then neighbor lady Rufus went to when he thought Lily and William were having an affair confronts Serena, which drives the final nail in the column, putting her fully on Team William.
But yeah, not only did the Blair thing somehow tie into that, so did that one guy Eric's been crushing on. Because Eric was very distrustful of his dad, and was siding with Rufus, but with that one guy around, it gave his dad leverage, inviting him over so his dad could be all, "See, I'm fine with your gayness!" and further making it Humphrey vs Van Der Woodsen. Even the Jenny drug-dealing being exposed, since Rufus was mad, he took her back to Brooklyn, leaving it solely Van Der Woodsen in the UES and allowing them to see what it would be like if he never left.
Oh, and as some people have said, Serena hiding her wild ways from the dad was total BS! Wasn't her insane behavior last season her purposely trying to get her dad's attention, by acting like such a crazy whore that he couldn't avoid her since she'd be all over the tabloids?
Chuck- Heh, so Chuck and Sarah got a glimpse of what they might be in 30 years with Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz's characters. So apparently, it is fine to mix love and the spying business? Like if they're such legends, particularly as a spying super-couple, why have they never used them as evidence before that Chuck and Sarah (or even Sarah and Bryce or Sarah and Superman) could work. There's precedent!
So even though Morgan failed all his tests, since he had the balls to go toe to toe with a tiger, he's good in Casey's book. I'm totally annoyed by the gun range test though, where the gun was so powerful that it flew out of Morgan's hands.
Getting out of the cut so I can make a general rant, I hate when TV has some nerdy character at the gun range and he fires a gun and goes flying back or it flies out of his hands. Firing a gun is not gonna do that to you, all it does is make people not at all familiar with guns think they are these extremely dangerous tools that if you even touch them funny, you'll kill yourself. Yes, they're dangerous, but as long as you follow basic safety, you'll be fine. Respect them, but you don't need to be that afraid of them, and scenes like this perpetuate the fear.
I'm particularly annoyed since I have first hand experience with the particular scenario- so, they have Morgan trying out a Sig P-229. Now, I don't know whether it was chambered for .40 S&W or .357 Sig in that scene. But anyways, I've only fired the 229 in .357 sig, but that has a bigger kick than the .40 S&W version anyways, in my opinion. And I'm a skinny wimp, and I had no problems with it. And I would think I'm in the same boat as Morgan in terms of physical ability- if I can do it, a TV nerd can do it.
So, anyways, I guess Ellie and Awesome are coming back? That was kinda weird though, so the Ring made Awesome sick so they'd head back to the states? Why not just grab them? What's their plan? But seriously though, I think its getting time to let Ellie know what's the what. I mean, her dad, her brother, her husband, her brother's friend she's known since they were little, all of them know this big secret, why not her? And its not just Chuck, I mean, her dad has been involved in the spy game for a really long time, so they're keeping a significant part of her family history from her.
