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So, here's an arbitrary ranking of all the Saturday morning TNBC shows. They only actually rank five of them, relegating the rest to not even good enough to be ranked, which is fair because I vaguely remember some of those shows, and never heard of a few.

The only TNBC shows they (correctly) deem worth mentioning are ranked as such:

5) Saved by the Bell: The New Class
4) City Guys
3) California Dreams
2) Hang Time
1) Saved by the Bell

I mean, obviously "Saved by the Bell" has to be #1, it was the heart of the TNBC Saturday morning lineup. There wouldn't even be a TNBC without them. I dunno about ranking New Class last. Like if it were me, I'd rank it over City Guys, because it at least had a bunch of hotties. I don't even remember any girls being in City Guys. A google search shows there were, but given I can't remember a thing about thing, whereas I can remember most of the girls on the other shows, they don't count.

Actually looking more into it, I seem to remember a girl on it being named Cassidy Guliani. Wait, was she supposed to be like the Mayor's daughter or something? Because its not like Guliani is a common last name. Like, the show takes place in NYC, during the time Guliani was mayor, and she just coincidentally share his last name? I mean, its a TV show, so why would you intentionally have your character share the surname of the current mayor at the time if they weren't related?! Maybe they were, but I'm not seeing anything on a cursory google search so far.

I would also rank California Dreams over Hang Time. It may be because I like music more than sports. Whatever, the theme song was awesome. Better than the themes of the rest of the shows on this list. Also, I did not realize Julie was supposed to be the main star of Hang Time. I mean, these shows are all ensemble casts really, but its cool that one of them is ostensibly considered to have a girl as the central character.

Heh, had this amusing dream where I met Karen Gillan at a bar, and we hit it off, and she took me back to her place. Just to talk! But in the dream she was married to Jason Bateman, who caught us and thought we were having an affair. So he like dumps her and she's all sad and needs comforting, but alas, then I wake up.

But speaking of Karen Gillan, with it being a new year, I guess I should do a list of my top 10 (its too much effort to come up with more than 10) favorite babes of 2014. I say favorite, because there's too many expectations from saying "hottest", because then people are all, how could you rank x over y and all that jazz. At least by saying favorite, I'm indicating the list it totally subjective.

1) Barbara Palvin: still my favorite current supermodel. Pretty face, gorgeous lips, banging body (she is a Victoria's Secret model, after all), and you know how I like that brown hair/blue eyes combo.

2) Karen Gillan: Glad to see she still had a somewhat busy schedule post-Doctor Who. And looking totally hot in all the projects I'd seen her in in 2014. She was great in A Touch of Cloth, and of course Selfie. Still the most disappointing cancellation of this season. I'll miss her as Eliza Dooley strutting around in all those cute outfits looking all hott. Heh, even as a bald, blue alien cyborg in Guardians of the Galaxy, she was still smoking.

3) Nina Dobrev: My favorite Canadian vampire. A perfect combination of sexy and cute.

4) Alexandra Daddario- Who cares if her eyes are like, really, really blue that they're almost alien? As I said above, dark hair/blue eyes is my favorite. Plus, that one scene in True Detective is friggin awesome.

5) Evangeline Lilly: My favorite Canadian elf. She is like ridiculously pretty as Tauriel in the Hobbit movies. Too bad they made her character less kick-ass in the last movie.

6) Shay Mitchell: My favorite Candian Lesbian and Liar. Pretty and fit and you know how being part Flip always makes a girl slightly hotter in my book.

7) Shelley Hennig: From witch to were-coyote, she was a great addition to the already gorgeous ladies of Teen Wolf. I mean, it was sad to see Crystal Reed go, but they replaced her with not one, but two hotties in Shelley and Arden Cho.

8) Amy Acker: The girl who shares my exact birthdate, she's awesome on PoI. I mean, its always great when Amy plays the bad girl. Like she looks so sweet and innocent, and it works when she plays adorkable nerds like Fred, but somehow she becomes 1000x sexier when she's not playing the good girl role. But yeah, Root is bad ass, and is one half of one of my favorite OTPs.

9) Sarah Shahi: The other half of the aforementioned OTP. Shaw is a bad-ass in her own right, and I love her tough girl attitude. Shoot (or Raw, if you prefer) make quite the ass-kicking pair on PoI.

10) Anna Kendrick: Again, the brown hair/blue eyes thing. And, her being weird and dorky in real life amplifies her cuteness. Plus, she can sing, which is always a plus! Ah can't wait for Pitch Perfect 2.

WO blather- So after mentioning how awesome Xu Shu was, I thought I'd make an updated list of my top 10 favorite WO characters.

1) Xu Shu- I know, maybe its new character syndrome, but he is pretty awesome. I mean, even without the cheesy r1, he's still really cool. He has a great moveset, the rapier and hook dart looks really cool. If I have any complaints about any of it, its his running attack. He goes airborne on it, which means he can't chain his normal combos off of it like other characters can. That, and if you're charging towards a crowd of mooks, he'll basically just fly over the majority of them. (On the other hand though, its fine against officers because you can use it to knock them in the air and air combo them to death.) Plus he has a really cool musou, a la Wesker's hyper in UMvC3, the whole zig zagging back and forth slashing in hyperspeed. The fact that you can just throw out R1 arrow rains and then do all of this other stuff is just gravy.

I also love his character design, especially in Wei colors. The hooded cloak makes him look like an Assassin's creed character. In the game, he's in the Shu faction, but historically, he started in Shu, but then was forced into Wei's service. Still, I hear in DW8, he willingly joins Wei's service. Between him, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Sima Yi, Wei had some awesome strategists. I can't see how anyone not think Wei is the best- they have the coolest warriors and strategist, and the best leader.

2) Ginchiyo Tachibana- lightning girl herself. She's a beast. She has a great and varied moveset, being an SW "normal" type, with awesome moves at c5, c6, and c8 and c9. c9 is a good starter, as not only will that cause lightning bolts to start dropping, it will charge her sword, beefing up her other combos. She also has a really great R1 with elemental activation, which serves as a good panic button- get in trouble, just whip it out and it will auto-refill her to full automatically if she has absorb and osmosis. I mean, I can chaos "speed is of the essence" with her no problem at all. She also has an amusing personality.

3) Mitsuhide Akechi- Like Ginchiyo, he's a SW "normal" type, so he has a whole bunch of different and cool looking charges, and he has a really good R1 with elemental activation, so again, it serves as a good panic button to refill him to full when he has absorb and osmosis. Plus, I like that he starts out as Oda's bad-ass right hand man, like his personal reaper (reaper was his name in Devil Kings, which his appropriate), taking out anyone who stands in his master's way. And he has a cute daughter.

4) Zhong Hui- Ida know some people don't like his moveset because its "unrealistic", but I like the floating swords and him doing the whole flying torpedo thing. But yeah, his personality is great, I love that smug arrogance, bragging about his special training. I also like his whole, "You must have had some sort of special training" that he spouts out whenever he gets beaten or someone does better than him.

5) Xiahou Dun, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao- My Wei warriors 3. These guys just drip bad-assedness. I'm sad they don't have a unique triple attack together. And, they all use different weapon types (Xiahou Dun the Podao, Xu Huang the big-ass Axe, and Zhang Liao with the twin axes) with their own unique style. Heh, and I think you could even do an elemental theme with them. Xiahou Dun is obviously fire, what with his c3 and c6 being very fiery and explosive, Xu Huang would be earth, what with the giant earth strike he does for his musou, and Zhang Liao air, what with his rushing musou attack. All they need is someone to be water.

6) Kojiro Sasaki and Kotaro Fuma: I think they're really cool character designs, very Exalted Abyssal-ish in nature, like an undead samurai and ninja. I first noticed this pairing in SW, where one of the boards had them together going after you. They just have this scary, demonic aura about them, and they certainly revel in killing and causing chaos. In the vanilla version of the game, I couldn't think of anyone who matches them to be their third, but now I'm thinking Tamamo might work. She's got a similar aura of demonic-ness and death.

7) Lu Bu- C'mon. "It's.. it's.. Lu Bu!" The big bad-ass of DW himself. I'm sorry, I think he's more bad-ass than Honda or Keiji. At the very least, I think he has a way better moveset.

8) Zhou Tai- I may think the Wu are a bunch of low-class river people, but they do have cool guys like him at least. I mean, the silent bad-ass in black armor with the iaijutsu-ish fighting style? He just oozes bad-assedness.

9) Wang Yi- Again, Wei just has all the coolest people. This girl is easily the most bad-ass of the DW characters. Plus, I like Ma Chao and all (he just barely got edged off this list) but he's always babbling about his spear of justice, and since they're nemeses, I like using her to shut him up. I think her story also points out the hypocrisy of the Shu (heh, can you tell which faction is my favorite, given how much I badmouth the Wu and Shu). Its like, Ma Chao is always carrying on about wanting revenge on Cao Cao, but what about what he and his people did to her family. At least she's honest about it being revenge.

10) Masamune Date- I wish his moveset was a little better, but c'mon, he uses a katana and twin pistols, that's awesome! He does have a great look too, as well as a hilarious personality. He has some great lines.

Other comments, I do like all the Ninja Gaiden folks are in here now- Hayabusa, Kasumi, Ayane, Rachel, and Momiji. And Sophitia from Soul Calibur is definitely someone who fits well into the series.

I do like the new boss characters too. Hundun is a monster. Literally, he's as tall as Gyuki, and looks like this 4 armed, 4 winged demon creature. His R1 lets him take flight and rain down death on the hapless. Tamamo, as I mentioned before, has this cool demonic aura, and her moveset is really good. She has some gaps in her defense, but if you know those and protect them from being exploited, she's unstoppable.

Her upgraded form, Kyubi, is no less bad-ass. Like her c4 automatically hits 700 times, so she'll always be activating alacrity when you pull that off. Her air r1 makes her invincible, and her ground r1 summons a PC officer to fight for you. Normally one of the closest enemy PC officers, but if there are none, a clone of one of the people on your team. But yeah, I guess if you also press down on the d-pad to make your team active all at once, doing her R1 gives you an additional 4th person to fight?

So falling down a stream of consciousness rabbit hole, I went from albino dark elves, to Maztica in the Forgotten Realms, to Lolth, to Lolth vs Takhisis, to Tiamat formerly residing in Zigguraxis, to Ziggurats, to Obelisks, to Monoliths (from 2001). And I think those things are up there with the Elder Gods and True Fae as creatures that utterly revulse me in fiction, what with them being all large and featureless and of perfect mathematical dimensions in a significant ratio (1:4:9).

So I made a list of top 5 fictional things that utterly horrify and disgust me with their existence:

1) elder gods (like from the Cthulu Mythos)
2) true fae
3) monoliths (like from 2001)
4) the angels from Evangelion
5) the celestials from the Marvel universe

Ida know what it is about these things, but they just creep me the hell out.

TV commentary:

Suits- Argh, this show is so frustrating! Honestly, most of the show boils down to someone experiencing a perceived slight, them firing back, and it snowballing into a huge thing that effs everything up for everyone.

Graceland- Weird, so I remember looking up Oberyn from Game of Thrones in imdb, being stumped because it said he was on several eps of Graceland, but I have no memory of who he would be on that show. And watching the previouslies last night, I saw he was Mike's handler from the 1st season. Which, holy cow, he looks totally different.

So, Ask Men's Top 99 Most Desirable Women's list for 2014 is out. Here's the top 10:

10) Kate Moss
9) Margot Robbie (prolly fresh in the voters minds because of Wolf of Wall St)
8) Amy Adams (ditto, but for American Hustle
7) Kerry Washington
6) Kate Upton
5) Emma Watson (I don't care what certain people say, Emma Watson is cute)
4) Jennifer Lawrence
3) Emily Ratajowski (Did she get famous from the Blurred Lines video)
2) Alison Brie
1) Emilia Clarke

Annie Edison and the Khaleesi as #2 and #1? Sure, why not, at least its ladies I know of, as opposed to some random model.

TV commentary:

The Following- Ah, so that's what's going on. ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Doctor Who- ( spoiler cut )

Its that time of year, when people come out with their hottest lists. Because I'm lazy, I'm just doing a top 10. Which isn't that different from last year's top 10, with only a couple new entrants and some rearrangement. Links go to their tags on my tumblr:

1) Barbara Palvin- surprise, surpise, a blue eyed brunette. But yeah, I just love those lips and that smile. (among other things!)

2) Victoria Justice- Not to sound creepy, but unlike a number of former teen actresses, she did indeed grow up to be as hot as people suspected she would be. Its a shame she's not in more stuff.

3) Karen Gillan- Still my favorite redhead of the moment. After all, she's already way hott, but she gets the accent boost to her hotness, which kinda makes it unfair.

4) Nina Dobrev

5) Odette Annable- Yeah, she was #1 last year, but I will admit there is always a factor of "famosity" to these kinda lists, and unfortunately, she's just been out of my mind's eye since House was canceled. Apparently she was in an ep of New Girl this year, but that must be after I stopped watching it.

6) Katrina Bowden

7) Sarah Shahi

8) Ashley Greene

9) Alison Brie

10) Naya Rivera

Eh, I'm too lazy to come up with something clever to say for all of them, other than, "they're all cute and hott". I could do a top 25, or even a 40, but top ten is all I can bother to arrange.

So, Complex just posted their list of the "50 Hottest Funny Girls of All Time". Here's their top 10:

10) Anna Farris
9) Mila Kunis
8) Isla Fisher
7) Alison Brie
6) Rashida Jones
5) Aubrey Plaza
4) Jennifer Aniston
3) Sofia Vergara
2) Tina Fey
1) Emma Stone

I have nothing clever or snarky or negative to say, since I actually like all those actresses, with two of them being in my own top 10 hotties list.

Finally saw Colombiana, since it happened to just start on Encore as I was eating dinner. It was okay. Slightly boring, though Zoe Saldana runs around in real skimpy outfits, and G-D does she have a tight little body. Speaking of, here's a list of my top 5 really skinny hotties who play bad-ass assassins/spies/thieves: (In no particular order)

1) Amy Acker
2) Olivia Wilde
3) Zoe Saldana
4) Dichen Lachman
5) Beth Reisgraf

So some site did a sexiest list, here's their results:

Sexiest Woman Alive: Kelly Brook

Sexiest Blonde: Scarjo

Sexiest Redhead: Deborah Ann Woll - Jessica on True Blood, since some people might be "who?", and that's like her only big role. Apparently these were voted on, and the category is invalid because Karen Gillan was not a choice. I mean, they had obvious picks, like Emma Stone, Christina Hendricks, Amy Adams, and Jessica Chastain. But while I like DAW, its odd that she made the nominees list and not Karen Gillan, because they're both mainly known for only one show (does Christina Hendricks also fall under that? Because people really started thinking she was hot in Firefly, but she got way more exposure from Mad Men)

Sexiest Brunette: Mila Kunis - looking more at the nominees list, were they just limiting the categories besides Sexiest Woman Alive to 5? Because its odd that Alison Brie was up for their sexiest woman alive, but wasn't in the nominees for sexiest brunette, given she's a brunette. They had Mila Kunis beat out Kate Beckinsale, Gemma Arterton, Olivia Wilde, Hayley Atwell in this category, and besides Alison, the other brunettes who were nominated for the sexiest woman alive category who were snubbed in this one were Monica Bellucci, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sofia Vergara, Carla Gugino, and Rosario Dawson.

Sexiest Woman over 40: Rachel Weisz

Sexiest Smile: Rachel Mcadams

Sexiest Model: Kelly Brook

Sexiest Hair: Amber Heard

Sexiest Funny Girl: Emma Stone

Sexiest Eyes: Olivia Wilde

Sexiest Voice: Gemma Arterton - this is a totally weird category, the other nominees were Hayley Atwell, Alice Eve, Scarjo, and Emma Stone. Maybe its because I'm American, so I'm thinking the latter two have distinctive voices, but the other three are all English, so I'm thinking they were put on this because English accents are sexy, though I couldn't tell you if their voice was sexier than some other English chick's.

Sexiest slim lady: Keira Knightley

Sexiest curves: Hayley Atwell

Sexiest tough chick: Gina Carano - I'm amused by this category, because she would wipe the floor with the other nominees, Michelle Rodriguez, Michelle Yeoh, Kate Beckinsale, and Maggie Q. Its like she's legitimately tough, whereas the other play "tough girl" roles.

Most Beautiful Face: Dianna Agron

Sexiest Underrated Hottie: Erin Cummings - Amusingly enough, she didn't make Guyism's most underrated women celebrities of 2012 list, though several of the winners and nominees in these other categories did. She beat out Katie McGrath, Ellen Page, Imogen Poots, and Emmanuelle Chriqui. Which is weird, because I wouldn't say Ellen Page and Emmanuelle Chriqui are underrated, they're effin' famous! I'm not sure how famous the latter two are, as they're English. I only know them as Morgana from Merlin and the girl from "28 Weeks Later".

But speaking of the underrated women list of 2012, here they are: (And I bet zarathustra94 doesn't even know who most of these are! They're like Lombard Montague and Grace McLady to him)

66) Danielle Panabaker
65) Odette Annable
64) Frieda Pinto
63) Peyton List (the one from Flashforward, not the eldest daughter on Jessie)
62) Tori Praver
61) Jamie Alexander
60) Emily Blunt
59) Zoe Kravitz
58) Isabel Lucas
57) Hayley Atwell
56) Claire Daines
55) Nina Dobrev (geez, could they pick a worse pic of her?! There's plenty of hot pics of her, one where she's not wearing too much makeup!)
54) Summer Glau
53) Aimee Teegarden
52) Rachel Taylor
51) Adrianne Palciki
50) Laura Vandervoort
49) Diane Kruger
48) Autumn Reeser
47) Poppy Montgomery
46) Rashida Jones
45) Emmanuelle Vaugier
44) Margot Robbie (the first chick on this list who I'm legitimately, "who?!")
43) Kristin Kreuk
42) Hilary Rhoda (again, who?)
41) Katie Leclerc (wait, she's not actually deaf?! I thought she was like Marlee Matlin or that chick from Jericho, actual deaf actresses playing deaf characters! clevemire, are you offended?)
40) Rose Byrne
39) Ashley Greene
38) Gabrielle Union
37) Amanda Seyfried
36) Rachelle Lefevre
35) Katie Cassidy
34) Willa Holland
33) Alexandra Daddario
32) Abbie Cornish
31) Eva Green
30) Camilla Belle
29) Alice Greczyn
28) Jane Levy
27) Daniela Ruah
26) Naya Rivera
25) Lucy Hale
24) Abigail Spencer
23) Lyndsy Fonseca
22) Gemma Arterton
21) Jayma Mays
20) Levin Rambin
19) Ciara
18) Lily Collins (it still weird me out she's Phil Collins' daughter)
17) Olga Kurylenko
16) Piper Perabo
15) Maggie Grace
14) Rachel Nichols
13) Anna Torv
12) Alessandra Torresani (she likes to call herself Mama Cylon, but she'll always be original Egg to me)
11) Renee Olstead
10) Noomi Rapace
9) Mary Elizabeth Winstead
8) Saoirse Ronan (it still blows me mind that that's pronounced "Seer-she"!Em Did none of the trailers for Hanna or the Lovely Bones or Atonement actually mention her name aloud?)
7) Emily Browning
6) Elizabeth Olsen (and it weirds me out that there's another Olsen sister out there, one who's all critically acclaimed and stuff)
5) Hannah Ware (who?)
4) Maggie Q
3) Joan Smalls (who?)
2) Marion Cotillard
1) Carla Gugino

Ah, so there are going to be 3 more seasons of Avatar: The Legend of Korra, according to Comic Con. They're apparently breaking from the elemental theme of The Last Air Bender with the 2nd book being called Spirits.

Ah, and apparently they've been giving out A:TLoK posters at Comic Con, one featuring the current cast, and the other featuring grown up Aang, Katara, Toph, Zuko, and Sokka. The grown up versions of the old gang look pretty bad-ass. Particularly Zuko!

Since I was told my Top 25 Celeb Hotties of 2012 was too short, I'll make it a top 40. So here's 26-40:

26) Minka Kelly
27) Zhang Ziyi
28) Alexis Bledel
29) Danielle Panabaker
30) Michelle Trachtenberg
31) Emmanuelle Chriqui
32) Rachael Leigh Cook
33) Molly Quinn
34) Kristin Kreuk
35) Jamie Chung
36) Sara Jean Underwood
37) Ariana Grande
38) Autumn Reeser
39) Felicia Day
40) Lea Michele