152 insights into my soul

TV Commentary:

10 Things- Even though they showed the last two eps back to back last week, the finale only came up on hulu today. I still can't believe they canceled this show. I mean, how can they tout this as their third most popular show and drop it! They cancel this but keep Secret Life?! And like Kyle XY, this show ends totally unresolved. Oh, and I just saw that the chick who plays Dawn played that androgynous doctor in that one ep of Bones were they were trying to figure out if it was a dude or a chick. Weird! This last ep though, in the locker room with the mid-riff baring baby T-shirt and tight short shorts, there's no doubt she's a chick. spcv('Nice!')

Anyways, onto the actual ep. ( spoiler cut )

Burn Notice- Heh, when Michael Ironside shows up, at first I was thinking, "That actor looks like a fat Michael Ironside!" Then I realized, oh wait, that actually is Michael Ironside. Now there's an even bigger disconnect between him and Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell. I mean, I already found the Splinter Cell voice work slightly jarring because Sam Fisher isn't nearly as old looking as Michael Ironside. But now I won't be able to stop picturing that this spec-ops bad-ass is being voiced by some old out of shape dude. Anyways, onto the actual ep. ( spoiler cut )

So I've been checking out snippets from the Glee tour shows on youtube, and I didn't realize they were doing so many songs, pretty impressive. ( set list under the cut )

I like how they start with "Don't Stop Believin'" and end with "Somebody To Love", as I think those were there two most compelling performances to date. But cool, they also have "Defying Gravity" and "Like a Prayer". Actually, it looks like they did stuff not on the show yet. I've already raved about "Bad Romance", but they also do "Faithfully" and a "Any Way You Want It"/"Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" mashup, which is in there upcoming "Journey to Regionals" CD coming out on June 8th. The CD is not all Journey though, just half, there's also "Bohemian Rhapsody", "To Sir, With Love", and a version of the Israel Hawaiian name I can't spell that's really long and starts with a K's "Over the Rainbow". In any case, ah can't wait, since Journey rocks, I'm eagerly anticipating "Faithfully"!

TV Commentary:

10 Things- Man, it really sucks this show is being canceled. Yeah, its yet another high school show, but this was actually one of the better ones- pretty good writing and cast, its kinda dumb that this gets canceled and Secret Life gets renewed. ( spoiler cut )

TV Commentary:

10 Things- You know, some people say Rachel Berry or Taylor Townsend are annoying freaks, but I find characters like Kat Stratford way more annoying. The former chyx, their behavior is a cry for help, they're trying to fill something missing in their lives. The latter is a kinda pretentious douche who think they're so great and that they're helping the masses by imposing their ideas on them. I mean, tonight's ep, if that had happened at my school, I'd totally be pissed off.

Campaigning to get a more vegetarian friendly menu at the cafeteria, that's fine. Forcing the school to have "meatless mondays"?! That's total BS! I'm sure its healthy, but I'd rather it be a choice. Its should be my prerogative whether or not I have a good and balanced diet. I mean, I'd prolly go with a salad (and hey, I'd even pick a dressing other than ranch/bleu cheese) once in a while if it was offered. But offering only veggie lasagna or soy dogs, I feel like the choice is being forced upon me.

Anyways, as for the plot of the more tolerable Stratford sister (at least in my mind) this week, Bianca gives a girl a makeover in the hopes that if Cameron finds someone else, he can get over her and be friends again. This brings up one of my other issues with the show, the whole Cameron/Bianca friendship has for me always been a case where they say and not show. I mean, they can say they were good friends, but the show hasn't really demonstrated that to me. Like what does she feel she's missing out on? I could at least understand it if they were friends for years and they just grew apart because Bianca wanted to be more popular, but they haven't even really known each other for more than a semester. It just rings false for me.

And then they had Bianca teaching this tall girl all this stuff about Cameron (okay, the Lost references were kinda funny, particularly when she was telling the girl all about Kate- "She blew up her father in his trailer, but later you find out she was totally justified". Though the line was wrong because it wasn't his trailer, it was their house. Not all southerners live in trailer parks! Even if they're poor.). Like from what they've seen from the show so far, I can see Cameron knowing some stuff about Bianca since he's trying to get in her pants, but I never saw a case where she'd have occasion to learn anything of substance of Cameron. Not that she's self-involved, just that it seems like he hid a lot of himself for fear it would turn her off.

I guess they say later she just did a lot of research on him. Which I was kinda skeptical about, like how could she find all that information so fast. But then I thought, between my facebook and LJ, one could figure out a lot about me. I mean, a quick glance of my profile and boxes on facebook, you'd know a lot of my favorite things, and everywhere in the world I've been and what books I've read. LJ is obviously more informative. Well, if one had the patience to read through the thousands of entries (~3400 as of this post!) Of course, I tend to get long winded and post so much, I bet most people gloss over a lot of stuff. (Like people prolly don't even know whats up with the two floor/one floor thing or what the hall to nowhere is) I mean, this post, since I didn't put the commentary under a cut, is already long enough that no one managed to read this far. Particularly since this is the middle and I still have 24 and House to comment on.

House- Woah, is it me, or did the queen have a totally awesome rack? And she was played by the white supremacist guy's daughter on Sons of Anarchy who set up Peggy Bundy to have that untoward thing happen to her. And then Peggy Bundy shot and killed her in the season finale. What a waste! ( spoiler cut )

24- I'm a little surprised (and disappointed!) of the recent turn of events ( spoiler cut )

Vampire Diaries- actually, the TWoP weecap reminded me of something which does illuminate an issue/problem I was curious about in my last post about the show. ( spoiler cut )

Since 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. ( spoiler cut )

Gossip Girl- ( spoiler cut )

10 Things- ( spoiler cut )

Life Unexpected- ( spoiler cut )