152 insights into my soul

Oh, the other day Family Guy made a joke about that tv-movie "starring a cast of people that make you say 'oh', because you didn't know they were still acting". Granted, David Faustino seems to be doing mostly voice work nowadays, but hey, he was Mako in LoK! And apparently Grant Show has been in a bunch of stuff since Melrose (not to mention Swingtown) according to his imdb profile. Apparently he was in a few eps of Burn Notice? Why do I not remember that? But Rachael Leigh Cook and Robin Tunney are female leads on their very own shows! Sure, RLC's show was just canceled and the Mentalist is in its final season. But I thought the Mentalist was kinda popular back in the day. Also, their go to for Robin Tunney is "the bald chick from Empire Records"? Though I guess if they said, that chick from the Craft, they might have though Fairuza Balk or Neve Campbell. She at least ranks over whoever the fourth girl was.

So the music from this week's upcoming ep of Glee is out. Apparently its a bunch of Carole King and Alanis Morissette songs, which seems like a pretty random combination. And I'm kind annoyed they used some of my least favorite Alanis songs. Like "Hand in Pocket". Its just such a weird song! I can't believe Dawson's Creek was originally going to use it as it's theme song, because "I Don't Want to Wait" just seems so iconic to that show. Like if they used the Alanis song, it might have turned me off of the show. Like my whole life could be different because I wouldn't have watched it!

But I digress, here's the tunes:

It's Too Late- Klaine duet of the Carole King classic. Pretty good!

So Far Away- Another Carole King classic, done by Quinn and Tina. Have they ever had a song together? They sound amazing on this.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow/Head Over Feet- sung by Jane and Mason. I'm actually curious about how this song will play out in the show, like why is Mason singing with Jane instead of his sister? Will it end up being a the twins are a little too close, so the club is having them sing with other people? But yeah, I think this is the best of the mashups, because I like the sound of the new newbies in this.

You Learn/You've Got a Friend- An ensemble number. You've Got a Friend is one of my all time favorite songs, so I'm not too keen on them mashing it up with something. Particularly You Learn, since they don't really seem like they go together. I mean, it doesn't sound as discordant as I expected. Its not great, its fine.

Hand in Pocket/I Feel the Earth Move- Britanna duet. Heh, like I said above, my disdain for Hand in Pocket may have prejudiced me a little against this, but it does at least sound kinda fun.

ME blather- Finished up Rebellion, so now all I have is Outsider Mastery. And that's the last of the masteries I can complete. Because eff N7 mastery, and Squad Elite, I'd have to do 23 more gold extracts, and then 25 platinum extracts. Which is pretty damn hard solo. I mean, the 2 golds I have for solo were harrowing, I don't look forward to trying to do that 23 more times. There's also do 100 revives, but again, that entails playing with people with which to revives with. Map Mastery is in a similar boat, but at least its waves and not extracts.

But yeah, to do Outsider, delving back into the Drell and Awakened Collector. Haven't played biotics in a while. But like I said, I've gotten better since the last time I played any of those.

TV commentary:

Suits- Hey, all is right with the world. For now. ( spoiler cut )

Burn Notice- Oh, c'mon, you know that didn't happen! ( spoiler cut )

Graceland- Ah'm skeptical. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Degrassi- Well, that episode was kinda predictable, but also went off in WTF territory. ( spoiler cut )

Burn Notice- Well, tough choices, this ep. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Burn Notice- So we learn some things about Michael's past. ( spoiler cut )

Graceland- aav('WHATTTT??!!') ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Perception- This ep aggravated me a little. ( spoiler cut )

Burn Notice- ( spoiler cut )

Continuum- You know, I hate the whole "if one could go back in time, they have to kill Hitler" thing. No, that's a terrible idea. Yes, its one of the most horrible atrocities in history, but what makes that so special compared to all the other atrocities in history? Didn't Stalin slaughter more people overall? Why not kill him? Besides, its just arrogant to think changing this one thing will make the world better. WW2 caused a lot of loss of life, but I hate to say it, but with war comes technological advance and political change. Who knows what the world will be like if you killed him. There's just too many unknowns at this point now. Like, if you were like a year or two after WW2, going back to kill Hitler won't change the word too much by your view. But 50-60 years now? Who knows what the eff you're doing to the world? It will surely be so different from the world you know.

( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Burn Notice- Heh, shouldn't their record speak for itself by now? ( spoiler cut )

Graceland- Okay, very tricky show. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Burn Notice- Heh, what's with all the Heroes folks? ( spoiler cut )

Graceland- Decided to check this out. Nothing to write home about, just your typical bunch of good looking undercover cops doing undercover crop. I did hear they replaced Jeanne from NCIS with Smallville Zatanna (that chick from Breakout Kings) in subsequent eps though. Which explains why the latter is all over the upcomings after the ep.

Ugh. given two separate issues happened at work yesterday, the big wigs are freaked out about any "unnecessary" maintenance going on, at least until registration is over. So now I have a couple of projects I have to sit on until after next week. I really hate putting off til tomorrow what I can do today, but whatever, if that's what they want, I'll abide.

TV commentary:

Burn Notice- Heh, that Hyundai product placement was hilariously terrible last night. Could they be any more obvious? What with the Michael VO being all, "Sometimes spies need a high performance car, but fancy mods might make the bad guys suspicious. So instead, they need to use a car that's high performance out of the box, like this Hyundai Genesis we've been showing you during this VO!"
( spoiler cut )

Degrassi- The beginning tag (where thankfully Miss O and Claire's mom believe her about the allegations) and want to go to the police and Claire doesn't want to and get humiliated again when they don't believe her and is all, "Don't I get a say in this?", given you're a minor Claire, you don't. In any case, its interesting to see the role reversal and Eli being the level headed one and not wanting Claire to go with the insane scheme to plant racy photos of herself in his computer to get him arrested for child pr0n. Also, it was interesting to see Claire and Katie share this plot though. I mean, after the whole Claire/Jake fallout, they really haven't interacted on the show much, so its easy to forget they used to go out and are currently step-siblings. So they have Jake in common. But glad to see she came to her senses, and it looks like that last intern she interviewed was also harassed and is on Claire's side now, so maybe she can get justice the right way.

It was nice to see Owen stick up for his brother against his teammates. And for Becky to step up and help with the play. I know some people don't like Becky because of her anti-homosexuality beliefs in the beginning, but its called a character arc! They're definitely going the Becky/Adam route, and as someone once said, they don't write love stories about the ones that come easy. Some people are all, can't Adam get with someone nice who wasn't thinking he was all sinful for being trans? Well, sure, but then you'd get complaints about how boring the plot is!

Suits- How hot did Donna look in that cleavage-y dress? And heh, what the frick, Mike? Could you make Rachel any more wetter for you? I mean, there was the time a couple of weeks ago where he saw her tooling around that dating site and came up with that incredible, heartfelt description of her when she asked what she should put under "about myself". Then today she spies him using his bonus to buy an apartment for his ailing grandmother?! She looked like she was about to cry! ( spoiler cut )

Creepy not all that obtuse comment of the day: Do you know what really grinds my gears? When iafd says a scene contains something, and the company's website even lists it in that category, but it does not contain such things! bbv('This is total BS!') Also, if you already have this, and you already have that, why not just take it the little step further?! Particularly if there's that many folks. Its like, what's the other person supposed to do, stand there like an idiot?! Well, okay, they don't just stand there doing nothing, obviously there's things that can be done. But its like being at a bank, and you have two folks taking turns at one window and a third at the other, when there's like a window not being used, when it was used earlier! I mean, if that window was just closed altogether, then its understandable. But if there's no problem using any of the windows, or using the first one and the second, or the first and the third, why not the second and the third simultaneously?

Actually, I guess the analogy would be more, a bank with 5 windows, 3 with good tellers, and 2 with okay tellers. And you have one person at one of the good teller windows, but then another two taking turns between another good teller and an okay teller, instead of using the last good teller, which was earlier shown to be open for business! Or rather, using that last good teller, but never at the same time as the other good teller. Ooh, I can continue to use the bank analogy for my other pet peeves. Like BBs really piss me off, because its like you have three bank windows, one that is the most commonly used, one that is the second most commonly used, and one that is only sometimes used. And its just a bunch of people using the second most commonly used one! Its like sure, don't use the rarely used one, that's totally fine. But not using the "normal" one?! That does not make cents! That's not a good scene, that's the beginning of a good scene, in my book.

Also, when you have a couple of people using the normal window at the same time, and never touching the rarely used window. 1) That's freaking weird! and 2) surely that's less comfortable or at least equally uncomfortable as having someone at the normal window and the rarely used window at the same time. Then again, the normal window is designed to accommodate big things. Well, going out, but it should work the other way.

TV commentary:

Burn Notice- Sad ep of Burn Notice! Though the commercial did say something was going to happen. ( spoiler cut )

Suits- ( spoiler cut )

if there's one good thing about this hot weather, its all the hottie nymphets in short shorts. spcv('Nice!')

TV commentary: (coincidentally, with more redhead talk)

Suits- Holy crap, is it me, or did Donna look totally friggin hot when she mussed her hair up to make it look like she and Mike had been making out in the records room? What's with USA and these lawyer shows with hot older ladies like Donna and Lauren (although apparently Lauren is younger than me, cliffv('what's up with that?!')) looking all sexed and pr0nny? I awonder if Rachel will hear about this, and then she and Donna get into a cat fight... with sexy results!

In any case, its intriguing that all we know about Hardman is from what we've heard Harvey and Jessica, and they make him out to be this monster. Yet so far, he doesn't seem so. I mean, he seems extremely suspicious at times, but that might be colored by Harvey and Jessica's accusations. But trust seems to be an ongoing theme this season. No one trusts each other, and its leading to so much conflict between everyone.

Burn Notice- I totally forgot about Kristanna Loken being part of the new team Michael was given at the end of last season and her betraying them all. But I guess that's what the previouslies are for.