152 insights into my soul

Oh weird! So back in the day, I remember hearing about this hot chick from this series of body spray commercials being in an upcoming (at the time) show on comedy central called "Not Another High School Show". It was a parody of all the teen shows at the time, with her character playing "Spring", a version of Rachel Bilson's character from "the OC." I hadn't heard anything about it since, so I figured it wasn't picked up.

Cut to today, where someone posts a clip from the pilot: (and hey, there's the aforementioned chick at the :50 second mark)



Why did they post it, because apparently Alison Brie was on it playing a buffy type character? Also, Jennifer Lawrence shows up as a random passerby at the 1:42 mark. So the site is all, look at this pilot from years ago where beloved by the internet geekdom actresses Alison Brie and Jennifer Lawrence were on.

That is so weird to see those two in something like this! But I guess plenty of famous actors and actresses do lame projects before they hit it big.

Finally saw Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing". Its a cute little movie, and Amy Acker looks mad cute, as per usual. Lots of people from Whedon stuff- besides Wesley and Fred, there's Coulson, Castle, Topher, Simon Tam, Reed Diamond, Tom Lenk, as well as Chrissy Seaver, Finn's mom, the kid from Gladiator (what the hell, he's like grown up now!) and whichever of Garfunkel and Oates that's not on Raising Hope. (is it confusing to mix characters names with actors names when listing? Or saying Castle, instead of saying roles Nathan Fillion had in actual Whedon productions, like Mal or Captain Hammer?)

I'm not familiar with the play, nor the movie from the 90s, but I hear its pretty true to the source (despite taking place in modern times), with one supposedly subtle change, but more than that later. Since they talk in that old English style, I had a little trouble following. Like Nathan Fillion is playing Dogberry, who in the original play uses a lot of malapropisms. And like I caught some of them, but I have no idea if there were some I just failed to pick up on because they're talking all Shakespearean and shit.

But I got the gist of the movie, even if there were some dialogue I found hard to understand. Benedict (Alexis Denisof) and Beatrice (Amy Acker) hate each other, but some of their insults, I was all, "what the hell are they talking about?" And then their friends think they are way too obsessed with each other, and with nothing else to do, decide to trick them into falling in love with each other. Here's the change I hear that was subtly introduced in the beginning of the movie- Benedict and Beatrice had a former dalliance, but I guess it ended badly, which is why they're always insulting each other? Whereas in the original work, I guess they just hated each other? It was totally cute how dorky they got when they thought the other was in love with them. And then in the end, with the scheme revealed, even though they totally are in love with each other now, they still try to deny it, but thankfully finally admit their feelings.

But I guess the overarching story was that Don Pedro (Reed Diamond), Claudio (Fran Kranz), Benedict, and Don Pedro's brother, Don John (Sean Maher) visit Leonato's (Clark Gregg) villa, whereupon Claudio falls in love with Leonato's daughter Hero (Jillian Morgese). And all the while Benedict and Beatrice (who is Leonato's niece) talk shit about each other. Claudio asks for Hero's hand in marriage, and as I said previously, out of boredom since they apparently don't have anything better to do before the wedding, the rest of them decide to get Beatrice and Benedict together.

Well, Don John has other plans. He wants to ruin the wedding, so he sends his man Borachio (Spencer Treat Clark) to bang Hero's maid Margaret (Ashley Johnson) in Hero's room, while wearing one of her dresses. And Don John's all, "Oh, your betrothed is a slut! Don't believe me, spy on her window tonight!" So they do and Claudio and Don Pedro are livid. So Claudio for some reason the best way to handle it is to go through with the ceremony, but then publicly embarrass her. Like he's all weird and awkward, and everyone thinks its some sort of weird joke, but then he goes to Leonato, "Take your whore daughter back, because she's a whore!" She faints over the whole deal and Claudio and Don Pedro take their leave

And what the frick, I suppose it was olden times, but instead of believing his daughter, since Don Pedro and Claudio are men of honor and thus would never make something up (or be wrong!?), he's basically, I wish you were dead for bringing shame upon the family. Its like, screw these dicks! You're going to believe them over your daughter? And you wish her dead?! Eventually he relents, but still! In any case, the priest is all, "She should pretend to be dead and then if Claudio really loves her, he'll feel totally bad!"

Meanwhile some constables happen upon Borachio telling Conrade (Riki Lindhome) the scheme, so they arrest them and Dogberry and Verges (Tom Lenk) get the whole story and tell Don Pedro. Meanwhile, Beatrice is all, "if you really love me, you'll kill Claudio for slandering my kinswoman!" to Benedict. At first he's all, "That's crazy, plus, he's my friend!" but eventually he acquiesces because he does love her. Which is kinda disturbing for a romantic comedy- "Oh, this guy totally humiliated my cousin! Hey, guy who I used to hate but now love, if you want to prove you love me (and show that you're a real man!), you'll kill your friend!" But I guess that was more acceptable back then or something?

And its like, after Don Pedro finds out the truth, there's no scene where they tell B&B what happened! He did like challenge his friend, and its good he was all, "I shall duel you on the morrow!" because one could have killed the other, making this romantic comedy take like a dark and tragic turn. But yeah, when Don Pedro and Claudio go to see Leonato after Benedict's challenge, since he revealed Hero is dead, he's all, "See, you were tricked by your brother schemes! Thanks for killing my daughter, dicks!" So they're all wanting to do anything to make up for it. Leonato is all, "If you want to make up for it, you'll marry my other niece whom you have not met and no one has ever mentioned up to this point (but is really Hero in disguise)!"

Claudio agrees, and on the day of, they're all, "Gotcha! Even though you publicly shamed my daughter, the fact that you were willing to force yourself into an arrange marriage makes everything alright!" And then Benedict and Beatrice wait for the other to make some big overture to the other and ask the other to reveal their love, but they're both being stubborn asses, so the rest of the gang have to show them letters the other wrote talking about how in lurve they are with each other! So its two weddings!

But like I said, despite me knocking some parts of the story, I did enjoy it.

Thing that has blown my mind for today: Jeremy Renner was Penn on Angel! So ND was making a comment about not realizing Hawkeye was in the new Bourne movie. So I decided to imdb him to see what the first thing I saw him in- I was thinking 28 Weeks Later, but SWAT was before that. But as it turns out, it was Angel! What the frick, and that's one of my favorite episodes too! It was the ep where Kate first finds out about Angel- someone has been killing people, and they think its Angel at first, but they eventually figure out its some random protege he had when he apparently wasn't hanging out with Darla, Spike, and Drusilla (and that random couple from the 3rd season premiere who they acted like had a history with Angelus and Darla). But I digress, I just thought the ep was cool, because on the show (and BtVS) up to that point, they've only shown regular people (not counting Slayer and friends) being attacked by vamps. I just thought it was interesting to see him stroll into the police station and wipe the floor with everyone there to showcase how dangerous vamps really are.

But I digress again, like I said, thinking about it now, that totally was Jeremy Renner! It just blows my mind he was doing random guest spots on Angel. But I guess everyone has to get their start somewhere. Amusingly enough, he's not the only person from MI:4 to randomly appear on Angel, lest we forget before Sawyer was on Lost, he was a random vampire who Angel dusts in the pilot for Angel.

Oh, Renner was also in an ep of Time of Your Life, which as I think I posted about a few months ago, I totally forgot existed. Time of Your Life being the JLH-centered spinoff of Party of Five (pgv('What the hell is Party of Five?!')). Once I started recalling it, I remembered that Jennifer Garner was on it after Felicity but before Alias. But I had no recollection of Pauly Perrette being on it. I mean, its hard to imagine her as anything but Abby on NCIS.

So there's a Buffy the Vampire Slayer pr0n parody coming out:



I'm surprised it taken this long to make one. This one stars one of my favorite pr0n chyx, the mad cute Lexi Belle (though she'd rank higher on my list if she did "certain things") as Buffy.

Speaking of cute chyx playing Buffy, how the hell did this video turn into a rumor of Aubrey Plaza playing Buffy in a Buffy re-boot? Also, so that's the name of the guy who plays Gabe in the Office? I like saw "The Office" in parentheses and was thinking, who the hell is that, and then I realized Gabe is the only person it could possibly be because I'd recognize everyone else's names. Speaking of the Office, I had no idea Jenna Fischer played a college chick on Undeclared, which I learned from this article the other day of 20 celebrities who got their start on a Judd Apatow show. I had no idea Apatow was involved in the Ben Stiller or Larry Sanders shows.

Anyways, back to the Buffy pr0n, I'm surprised they have the characters they have. I mean, Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, and Angel are givens. Maybe Spike. But it was a surprise that they had Harmony and Jenny Calendar. No Tara or Kennedy for some HLA? Or Dawn for some total wrongness? I couldn't tell if some of those vampire chyx were supposed to be Darla or Drusilla, or if they're just randoms. Was there a Cordy? Or a Faith, that would've been hott. Especially if they reenacted that one Faith story that Xander said they should show every Christmas (you know the one I'm talking about)

Alas, since Lexi Belle doesn't do "certain things", I guess there's no devil's threesomes with Buffy and Angel and Spike (which Buffy did actually fantasize about in the Buffy season 8 comic, so its not like it would be something they pulled totally out of their ass)?

Oh, and I forgot to mention, I got a @reply from one of my favorite actresses on twitter today, so that was cool. She had tweeted about the latest Glee ep, and I basically just responded how awesome it was that she was a hot gamer girl who watches Glee, and was on the OC and one of the Fast and Furious movies. She thanked me for the complement and mentioned that she watches a lot of TV. I think I've said this before, but a hot chick who plays video games and watches a lot of TV (especially Glee) and was on one of my favorite teen dramas? She's like my perfect woman!

Actually, I guess my perfect woman would also have to love karaoke (hey, I need a duet partner!) and shooting guns and junk food and I don't know if she does.

So apparently the First Annual tumblr TV awards are going on right now. So in the best ship categories its down to 5 couples: Faberry and Britanna from Glee, Sherlock and Watson on Sherlock, Dean and Cas from Supernatural, and Dair from Gossip Girl. Like this year's E!-online poll, only one of the finalists is a straight couple, but the rest are same-sex. Which is an interesting trend. Is it that people who vote in such polls (or are vocal about "shipping") tend to favor same-sex couplings?

And is it a sign that the world is more accepting of homosexuality, or that those that are accepting have cornered modern media? Of course, another data point is of those 4 same sex couples, only 1 of those (Santana and Brittany) are an actual gay couple. The rest are non-canon. And among those three, only in the Sherlock/Watson case did the show have characters outright ask them, "Are you guys gay for each other?" The other two couplings are just supposed subtext and only in the minds of some viewers.

The finalists in the other categories that are still open: ( under a cut )

It looks like voting has either ended on the other categories (or hasn't entered final voting)

So I just read the latest ish of Buffy. ( spoiler cut )

Ha, so it looks like that E! Poll is down to the final four. I correctly guessed the winners would be Britanna, Jannie, Destiel, and Faberry. However, they switched it up and put Britanna against Faberry. So right now its looking like the finals will be Faberry against Destiel. But, heh, I am getting more suspicious that E! doesn't want that, because this year they've instituted a "wild card" vote from Twitter to let people vote for any of the previous couples that might have lost.

3 more entries until my 4000th post. So since zombie levels are all the rage nowadays for online FPSes, looks like Call of Duty: Black Ops has one coming out, Call of the Dead:



So its a 4 person squad, Left 4 Dead style, and I'll give the game props for who they got to be in this- Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gallar, Robert Englund, and Michael Rooker (Merle from The Walking Dead. I know he's been in other stuff, but he's not as famous as Machete, Buffy or Freddy friggin Krueger.) And a cameo by George Romero himself as well? Is it me, or does zombie Romero look a little like Stan Lee. But I digress. I wouldn't say they're a zombie killing "dream team", but it is a cast with decent of cred in the action and horror communities.

I'm also a little surprised SMG would be in such a thing, but I guess it is a paycheck.

A comment by propace on FB sparked a convo about top TV characters one would want to bang. I've had a similar list on here before, but if its just want to do, I think my choices would change. I'd also have trouble settling on number one. So let's make it top 10, in no particular order:

1) Faith Lehane from Buffy/Angel
2) Saffron (yeah, I know that's not her real name, and Browncoats prefer referring to her as "Yosafbridge", but Saffron sounds hotter) from Firefly
3) Kate Austen from Lost
4) Starbuck from BSG (Kara Thrace, not Face from the A-Team!)
5) Remy "13" Hadley from House
6) Cerie Xerox from 30 Rock
7) Julie Taylor from Friday Night Lights (possibly in a threesome with her similarly lusciously melon-ed mother Tami)
8) Rory Gilmore from Gilmore Girls (again, possibly in a threesome with her blue-eyed, brunette mother, Lorelai, which I know breaks my similar heights/different hair rule, but I'm willing to make an exception)
9) Katherine Pierce (or I guess Elena Gilbert, though I'd prefer the vamp over her human doppleganger because I assume she'd be more naughty!) from Vampire Diaries
10) Santana Lopez from Glee (which would automatically include Brittany given their relationship)

Anyways, that convo sparked another convo about what TV characters would you actually want to date (surprisingly not started by me) but that list would go:

1) Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl
2) Rachel Berry from Glee
3) Annie Edison from Community
4) Taylor Townsend from the OC
5) Summer Roberts from the OC
6) Chloe O'Brian from 24 (Ida know, I've always been strangely attracted to her)
7) Chloe Sullivan from Smallville (I'd put the similar Veronica Mars, but she can be such a huge bitch at times, and not in the way I like!)
8) Elle Bishop from Heroes. (I know, isn't that a more insane and bitchier Kristen Bell character than the aforementioned Veronica Mars? What can I say, I'm a sucker for hot, broken girls)
9) Winifred Burkle from Angel
10) Adrianna Tate-Duncan from 90210

Is it odd that a good portion of my "want to do" list are sociopaths and/or killers, and my "deeper connection" list is mostly full of neurotics and weirdos, many of which have deep seated emotional and psychological issues?

Geez, its been getting colder in here as of late. WTF?! And I could not drift off to sleep before midnight no matter how hard I tried. I swear, when I lie there thinking about the time and how I'm not gonna get enough sleep, it makes it even harder to fall asleep.

TV commentary:

Buffy Season 8- Technically not a TV show anymore, but since its canon (and written by the former writing staff, this current arc is by Jane Espenson), I'll throw it in here. Though is it really proper to call it season 8 though? Its been going on a couple of years now, and enough stuff has happened that if it were translated back into TV, it would be more than a season.

One thing annoying about the comic though is that I sometimes can't tell characters apart, particularly since they don't look like their TV counterparts. Obviously, some I have no problem with identifying Xander (b/c of the eyepatch) or Giles (b/c of the glasses) or Warren (b/c of the lack of skin). And for the most part I can pick up on Buffy and Willow. People like Dawn, Faith, and Kennedy, I can't tell its actually them until I get some frame of reference. I mean, if you told me to pick out Andrew, Riley, or Oz right now in the comic, without having any dialogue boxes, I don't think I could do it.

But woah, there's one thing that came as a shocker in this latest ish. I can't believe they went there. ( huge spoiler cut )

10 Things I Hate About You- Again, the whole Joey and Cameron diffs from the movie are disconcerting. I mean, Joey's "Fivehead" nickname for Bianca is cute, particularly since he doesn't see it as an insult, while Cameron's ultimatum comes off as creepy. It was fine in the movie for Cameron to tell Bianca off, but I dunno if its because its only a half hour show, but we rarely see any evidence of their actual friendship. I mean, if there was more of the way he was in "Dance Little Sister" (well, before you found out he stole that guy's phone), their friendship would be more believable. But her being all, "You're my best friend!" just rings a little false. ( spoiler cut )

90210- Interesting bunch of changes this season. ( spoiler cut )

Had the usual suspects over for Lost. The roomie cooked up a Shepherd's pie, though is it still pie when it comes in a casserole tray? Anyways, hadn't tried it before, surprisingly. I mean, its a pie full of meat, why hadn't I tried such a thing? I liked it.

TV commentary:

( Lost )

Oh, read the latest Buffy ish. ( spoiler comments )