152 insights into my soul

TV commentary:

Venture Bros- Oh weird, I never would have guessed Wide Whale's daughter Sirena was being voiced by the Mother on HIMYM. But I guess if Cristin Milioti do an accent on Fargo, she can pretend to be eye-talian here. Well, I guess pretend isn't the right word, since she's actually Italian, but to do the NY Italian accent.

Anyways, some interesting developments. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

HIMYM- This is why I hate the finale. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

HIMYM- Finally! ( spoiler cut )

Being Human- Oh, you frickin tease, show. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

HIMYM- Hmm, interesting reveal, though I'm kinda confused as to what the future holds then. ( spoiler cut )

Being Human- Uh oh! ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Almost Human- Hilarious ep! Well, hilarious in a pretty dark way. ( spoiler cut )

HIMYM- "I wonder if I'll like bacon?" Ha, awesome. Pretty cute ep. Even if they had a really dark joke there. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

HIMYM- Ha, "How Your Mother Met Me". Also, I am impressed they managed to have a whole episode centered around the Mother, and not once mention her name. ( spoiler cut )

How about this for something non TV/movie/video game/music-related? So sometimes, people are talking to me about boring-ass crap I could give a rat's ass about. I smile and nod along, but in my mind, I'm actually thinking, "I'll take boring-ass crap I could give a rat's ass about for 500, Alex!" or if I'm in a particularly bad mood, I imagine Malcolm Tucker saying, "You know what, you're a real boring eff!" (well, I imagine him using the actual f-word, but I'm trying to keep this post devoid of the 7 words you can't say on TV, which is why I'm also using "crap") Which is kinda mean, since I often talk about boring-ass crap people could give a crap about. But then I think about people actually ignoring me, or outright stopping me in the middle of whatever I'm babbling about and saying, "WTF, I don't give a crap about this crap!" Which of course makes me angry, because its like, "What the frick, I listen to people's dumb-ass effin crap that I could care effin less about all the time, its my turn to inflict my crap upon the world!" Well, in my mind, because I'm kinda non-confrontational. Which is prolly why I have so much pent up aggression, that usually only gets out in video games or the road.

And amusingly enough, its not like the people who don't listen are the ones telling me uninteresting (to me) crap that I patiently sit through, so its not like they owe me anything, but its still frustrating all the same.

Now back to the usual subjects. So today is the last of Scars on 45's acoustic Monday previews of songs off their upcoming album that they post on their youtube channel. Its like, they sound so amazing, and I'm all, okay, when is this upcoming album, dangit!? But they don't have anything other than "early 2014".

ME blather- Heh, you know, I can't believe I've been playing the mp this whole time, and hadn't realized the awesomeness of chaining lighting an enemy up with incendiary ammo, hitting them with warp to detonate a fire explosion, then hitting them with another detonator power for a biotic explosion. Though to be fair, I've only recently playing more of the biotics in my quest to finish up the waves challenges. Plus, I'm pretty stingy with my incendiary ammo.

TV commentary:

Lost Girl- Heh, interesting twist there. ( spoiler cut )

HIMYM- Hey, finally, an ep with the actual mother. Hopefully as they get nearer to the actually wedding ceremony, we'll start seeing more of her, because its kinda ridiculous that they added her to the cast, and yet she only shows up every few episodes. One cute touch I enjoyed in the episode was that she was wearing driving gloves when she was driving the van. Its a nice little call back.

Nikita- I was actually surprised by last week's ep. ( spoiler cut )

Sons of Anarchy- Some thoughts on the last few eps since I hadn't posted about this show in a while. ( spoiler cut )

Picked up the new Avril album, which, I didn't realize I was a big enough fan that I have all her albums. Anyways, I like it. Lots of stuff dropping within close proximity, Prism was a couple of weeks ago, and Artpop comes out next week.

TV commentary:

HIMYM- Wait, do Canadians really refer to ZZ Top as "Zed Zed Top"? I mean, that's how they pronounce Z, but I would think if its a proper name they'd make an exception. But aw, sweet episode. ( spoiler cut )

Hart of Dixie- Heh, interesting. ( spoiler cut )

Glee- So this week is "A Katy or a Gaga". Going by the songs they chose though, I guess my vote is for Gaga? But that's because the Katy Perry songs they chose were "Wide Awake" and "Roar", which I'm not too keen on.

Applause- Pretty good rendition by Sam, Blaine, Artie, Ryder, and Marley.

Wide Awake- as done by Tina, Unique, Jake, and Kitty. Its a nice, acoustic version, but like I said, its not one of my favorite Katy songs.

Marry the Night- a pretty rockin version, done by Adam Lambert's guest character, Starchild.

Roar- as done by the usual, but featuring Dani and Starchild as well.

Hmm, does NBC not like Parks and Rec? All the eps for the next few weeks being pre-empted until 11/14 and 11/21. cliffv('What's up with that?!')

So they're not showing this week's ep because of the Voice's "Battle Rounds" this week going over, forcing it to spill over into this Thursday. Then next week, instead of showing Park and Rec's Halloween ep, they're pre-empting for some stupid SNL Halloween special? THEN, the week after that, they were going to originally preempt the crappy Michael J Fox show and Sean Saves the World show for another Voice thing, but they decided to preempt Parks and Rec instead. bbv('This is total BS!')

Parks and Rec is by far NBC's best sitcom, though I guess it doesn't have great ratings because people are effin stupid and would rather watch BBT? Though at the same time, is it that NBC is taking it for granted and all, "Eh, people will still watch it whenever the hell we put it on", so they choose to preempt it instead of that new crap because they're hoping people will watch their new crap?

Of course, I'm acting all indignant, when I don't even watch it live myself- I mean, there's Vampire Diaries at 8pm, Glee at 9pm, and then 10pm is Elementary. Not that I'm anywhere as big a fan of Elementary as I am the first two, its just clevemire also watches Elementary so that's what's on the telly at 10pm. Like if I had to rate my current top 10 hour long dramas that are still on that I watch (thus, Breaking Bad is absent because it just ended) it would be: (not necessarily in this order)

1) The Vampire Diaries
2) Glee
3) Pretty Little Liars
4) Game of Thrones
5) Once Upon a Time
6) Person of Interest
7) Doctor Who
8) The Originals
9) Arrow
10) The Walking Dead

(the Fosters and Agents of SHIELD just barely miss being in the top 10) Like if I slipped into a coma, got kidnapped by aliens, fell into a dimensional rift, or what have you and missed like this entire fall and spring TV season, these are the ten (12) hour long dramas I would catch up on first. Agents of SHIELD just hasn't grabbed me yet, like its fine, but not to the point where my anticipation is to the level the actual top ten shows are. Of course, it prolly also gets a boost in my eyes because of the Whedon connection and its Marvel. Like Marvel >> DC in terms of the actual comics, and definitely at the box office. But I think DC's been doing a better job on TV. Maybe its because the show is really new and hasn't hit it stride. Or maybe because they're not willing to explore their properties as heavily as DC is on Arrow (and back when it was still on, Smallville) Which could be because DC doesn't give an eff since they're getting their ass kicked movie wise (save for Batman), so its like they just have everyone (except Batman) show up. But since Marvel actually is making lots of bank in the theaters, they're more hesitant to use this person or that when they can introduce them in a movie and make more $ out of it. Which is disappointing, because if I'm watching a Marvel/DC show, I want to see people I know show up!

Oh, and truthfully, the Originals makes it into the Top 10 because I like the characters, its basically just an extra hour of TVD, so honestly, I should just wrap it up with TVD and bump up one of the other shows to top ten status.

Half hour sitcoms would be of course:

1) Parks and Rec
2) Its Always Sunny
3) Archer
4) HIMYM
5) Community
6) Modern Family
7) The League
8) Cougar Town
9) Brooklyn Nine-Nine
10) Wilfred

I'd put Venture Brothers on there, but it doesn't come back until 20-friggin-15.

But I digress, I don't get to see Parks and Rec until 11pm or the next day. Which makes me kinda a hypocrite to complain.

ME blather- So I've finished up the Phoenix Adept and Batarian Sentinel, leaving the extracts for the Demolisher, Phoenix Vanguard, Talon Merc, and Asari Justicar. I'm actually half way through the vanguard, but since I've already done the biotic charge, lash, and smash challenges on this go through of biotic mastery, I started up on the justicar to finish up the reave challenge, putting me at 13 of 14 in biotic mastery. I'm 75% through Annihilation Field, so I can play the Fury to finish that up. And since that will reset all the counts for completing biotic mastery, I can complete it again (along with dark channel and throw) whilst re-finishing up fury extracts. Plus that will also allow me to earn points on powers again whilst going through the justicar and phoenix vanugard.

But yeah, playing the justicar again from the last time I tried her, having gotten better at the game, I've gotten better at playing her. My mistake last time was thinking I had to throw up biotic spheres and wait for enemies to go into them and detonate biotic explosions with reave. But nope, her version of reave is more powerful than the other characters. Its like, I just keep spamming it and even boss units die quickly. I mean, I still use biotic sphere, but the way its meant to, all defensive- between the damage reduction of the sphere and the damage reduction from reave, I usually come out ahead just standing in it and spamming it. And if I get in trouble, then I can flee, and when enemies go through to get at me, then I cast reave at them and set off a biotic explosion when they enter the sphere.

TV commentary:

HIMYM- Dangit Lily! ( spoiler cut )

Bones- Ah, I figured that's how that was going to go. ( spoiler cut )