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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 my sources say Josh Schwartz is gonna have the OC and Gossip Girl crossover? Well, have them exist in the same universe. He could go for his show trifecta and throw Chuck in there as well, but while I can see the OC and Gossip Girl going together, Chuck would not. But yeah, my sources tell me they're thinking of having a young Lily (apparently the pilot is already being filmed, with Brittany Snow as young Lily, and Krysten Ritter is in it as well?) interacting with a young Kirsten Cohen (well, I guess that would be Nichols) and Jimmy Cooper, and possibly young Julie Cooper as well, though I can't see how that would work. It always seemed to me that Jimmy didn't get with Julie until long after Kiki dumped him, and I thought they got married because she was knocked up with Marissa. And wasn't she 18 at the time, so unless Jimmy was a pervert, they couldn't have been going out for too long. So for Marissa and Seth to be the same age, the Coopers couldn't have been going out until Kirsten and Sandy had been together for a while.

But I digress. What if other shows made by the same creator existed in the same universe? The David E Kelley stuff, didn't Boston Public, the Practice/Boston Legal, and Ally Mcbeal all exist in the same world? Like I think Joss could make it so either Buffy/Angel or Dollhouse existed in the same universe as Firefly (though I don't think Buffy/Angel and Dollhouse being the same world would work). I'd throw Dr. Horrible in there as well, but I think they've hinted very heavily that it takes place in the same universe as The Tick. Although one could geekily argue that the Buffyverse is the same as the Firefly-verse through the Alien: Resurrection connection. (which Joss wrote). Weyland-Yutani is the corporation in the Alien series, whom Wolfram & Hart listed as a famous client in the 5th season of Angel, and more than a few of the weapons in Firefly have the Weyland-Yutani logo on it.

But heh, I don't think it would be too far fetched for Alias, Lost, Fringe, and Felicity to exist in the same universe. After all, Driveshaft does exist in the first two. And Felicity has had mystical elements (the deus ex machina spell Meghan cast first season that broke Felicity and the Gnoll up and hooked her up with Ben, and of course Felicity going back in time and reliving her senior year of college). So I don't think there's anything preventing those shows from taking place in the same universe. Like I don't think the weird stuff in Alias, Fringe, or Lost really contradicts each other. Hey, I totally think Rambaldi, the Island, and the Pattern could exist in the same world without stepping on each others toes.

TV commentary:

Smallville- I was complaining about how terrible this show was last week, but I will say I do like how they're doing the whole Doomsday storyline, making it more like an evil-Hulk kinda thing. When the show isn't about Clark moping about his secret life and how he can never tell Lana (now Lois), it isn't too bad. ( spoiler cut )

Supernatural- Interesting ep of Supernatural last night. As I've said, I like the addition of angels to the mythology. I guess this is kinda blasphemous, but I've always found the whole angel or angels doing something bad out of jealousy of the human race, being all they're the most loyal, but humans are the big G's favored creation even though many don't even acknowledge him and do all sorts of things against his will, to be an interesting storyline. ( spoiler cuts )

The Office- Wow, some crazy developments in the Office as well. ( spoiler cut )

What's up with "nay" going into disuse? Its a cool word. Much fancier sounding than plain old "no". And if someone asks you a Q, and you ansfer in the negatory, you can be all "Nay, I say!" and its like a little rhyme!

Oh, and I guess I'm all caught up on Television Without Pity recaps (or rather they're caught up with all the season finales for the shows I watch), so that's one less thing I have to entertain me. But they did mention that the Felicity website talks about how Elena survived! Anyways, for some reason, they've cut out the scenes explaining it. It turns out that right before Felicity goes to bed for the last time in the alternate reality, she suddenly realizes Elena will die. (One of her best friends, and she only realizes now that her trip to the future will kill her?) So she tells her to go to Duke instead of Columbia. Thus, at the wedding, she is surprised to see Elena and Tracy walk in. That's all fine and well, but as I've said before, if Elena didn't die, Ben wouldn't cheat on Felicity! Weak!

Oh, and lesson for the day for all you prospective fighter pilots out there: Never go to guns to prove a point. If you got a missile lock on the enemy, use it. While you're fooling around, his wingman is on your six tearing you a new one.

And what's up with some of the guys these hot (or at least decently attractive) chicks are going out with these days? Its like I see this couple at lunch and ask myself, what's she doing with him? And here I am, all by my lonesome. Surely I am a greater man than he! I mean, I'm the total package here! Clean cut looks, brains, a sense of humor, not to mention such great wit and charm! The only bad thing is that there isn't enough of me to go around!

Something around here smells interestingly delicious. Its making me hungry. I forgot to bring breakfast. I'll prolly have lunch at Junior's around 1130. Then I'll prolly pick up a card. There's just too many things to do today! Because I also have to get a haircut and do laundry. Mebbe its good I didn't get an answer about tonight. Yeah, right.

Getting back to my roots, I'll blather on about ( TV! )

Happy Hollandaise! Murray Christmas to y'all!

Anyways, its been a long time since I wrote here. Well, what's been going on? Decided to take the rest of the week off. Was feeling eh Sunday night and I still had stuff to take care of before I headed to NY. Got my haircut and all the bills I needed to pay came in the mail so I didn't have to worry about anything asking for money while I was in NY. Tuesday night hung out at Krug's and played some GTA3 to kill time before LOTR. We ate at Don Pablo's then saw LOTR: Fellowship at 1201 at Parkway Pointe.
It was 12 of us, Me, Krug, Chris, Krug's friend Gary, Matt, Ben, Jeremy and his friend, Bill and Joseph, and Jason (Egger) and his sis. The movie was pretty good, I enjoyed it a lot even though I never read the book.

Was basically a layabout Wednesday. Went out and around, hung out with Krug, then stated home to catch the last DC and Felicity of the year. I like how the DC ep went. Dawson's with Jen now and Joey's all cool with it. Hopefully there'll be a P/J reunion? They do look like they're gonna hook up Pacey and Audrey though. A triangle perhaps? And Felicity and Ben are back together and before the break too! No teasing about "Will there be hope fore them?" since there won't be an ep for a few months.

Went back to NY Thursday. Most of my meals here have been Mickey D's or Pizza. Went to LI Saturday. Hit the mall with Albert. Dion, and Theresa. Shopped for presents. Got this fisher pricey dump-truck thingy for my godson Angelo. Then we went to the East buffet for dinner. Cool place, had sushi, dim sun, and sesame chicken.

Went into Manhattan on Monday. Went to confession at the church near the Manhattan mall then walked over to Mom's work to have lunch with her. Theresa actually rode the train into Manhattan with us, but she split off to go to the Museum of Natural History. Some cuties at church during the Midnight mass. They were all shy and checking me out! I am so great.

Went to NJ as usual Christmas day. Just sat around while the old folks sang karaoke and talked and stuff. There was a TV in the car so I was able to catch Gilmore Girls on the way home, which was cool. It was the X-mas ep, which was a pretty good ep.

Now you're all caught up!

I was asked, "You know what's going to happen, why are you still watching?" Not that it was something I saw already, just that I read over the net was going to happen. Sure, I know what's coming, but it doesn't ruin it for me. Yeah, I know the outcome, but half of it is seeing it happen. Like tonight's DC, I knew the Flash (Dawson's dad) was going to die, but that didn't ruin the ep for me. I usually read the wildfeed previews for Buffy and Angel, and I still enjoy the eps regardless. I mean, its one thing to read about it, but its another to see it happen.

And what's with the Felicity previews saying Ben finds out about Felicity and Noel's little affair? No he didn't! He didn't even come close to figuring it out! And what's with all these shows where dudes come into a lot of money and offer to give it to chyx needing to pay for college?!