So wait, that Finding Carter show on MTV starring Emily Fitch from Skins (I still need to watch that show) where she's kidnapped as a baby by L&O cop chick, but her parents are really Libby and Wesley Wyndham Price- she has a twin sister, and she's not played by Katie F*ckin Fitch? I mean, its kinda weird to have one half a pair of twin actresses having a twin sister, that's not actually played by her twin sister!

Also, not only did her parents name her a weird not-girl's name (Lyndon), her kidnapper also named her a weird not-girl's name (Carter)?

Oh, weird, I did not know Arlene from True Blood was married to Ben Linus in real life. I guess that's why she was picked as Finch's love interest on Person of Interest?

TV commentary:

Arrow- What the hell, Ollie? ( spoiler cut )

SVU- ( spoiler cut )

Criminal Minds- Nothing much to say this ep, other than JJ was looking pretty fit.

I would comment on Supernatural, but its not up on the CW site yet! WTF?!!

So, this is slightly early, since last year's list was posted only 9 months ago, according to the time stamps on LJ and tumblr. But I think I made the comment that when I released that list, it wasn't an ideal time. May-July is a good time, because one has had several months to ruminate on the hotness of TV actresses as you have a whole TV season to go by, and all the hotties in the upcoming summer movies have most likely been getting a push for the past couple of months as well. Its too hard to come up with a top 100, so screw it, I'm limiting it to a top 25 for 2012: (links go to their chickapedia entries)

1) Odette Annable- honestly, I just feel she would be the result if Megan Fox and Jessica Alba had a love child (and who wouldn't want to see them try and do that)

2) Nina Dobrev- she's got a really cute face and a smoking hot body. Nuff said.

3) Karen Gillan- One of the hottest (if not the hottest) redheads on the planet. The hot Scottish accent is just gravy. No offense to Christina Hendricks (who is still in my top 25), but my tastes still tend towards the petite.

Yeah, I know, the same top 3 as last year, only slightly reordered. But at least the rest of the list, there are people who weren't on here last year, and some significant movement on some of the ladies (up and down).

4) Katrina Bowden- She was voted Esquire's sexiest woman alive for 2011, and with good reason!

5) Emma Stone- Granted, her making it into the top 5 may have been heavily Spiderman influenced, but like I said, I really liked her look in this. The only thing that would make it perfect would be if she had glasses. And maybe the red hair.

6) Ashley Greene- I think I made this comment last time as well, but has she done anything besides the Twilight movies? I mean, I've seen most of the first, and maybe the last half of the third, but I haven't actually seen her all that much in stuff. Other than photo shoots I guess.

7) Alison Brie- You know my penchant for blue eyed brunettes (although is it really a penchant if she's the only one in the top 10? Olivia Wilde doesn't count because she's actually a natural blond) All the "bouncy" gifs help. And the fact she sings. And plays a neurotic brunette on TV and is part of one of my current favorite TV ships.

8) Naya Rivera- Lesbians apparently dig her (if her being #1 on the AfterEllen Hot 100 list is any indication), and so do I.

9) Olivia Wilde- Seriously, she has just got the tightest little body on her.

10) Victoria Justice- She's really coming into her hotness after turning legal last year.

11) Kate Beckinsale- Heh, you know, I think she may be the oldest chick on this list.

12) Amy Acker- I'm still curious why she's not more famous. She's a good actress, and like super pretty. I mean, she gets consistent work on TV and was recently in the Cabin in the Woods, but she was prolly only in that because of Whedon.

13) Evangeline Lilly- Its disappointing she's not in more stuff being all hot.

14) Leighton Meester- Again, hot neurotic brunette on a TV show I like. Or used to like, I'm still angry over that Dair stuff. But I digress, she has the doe-iest doe eyes.

15) Dianna Agron- The short hair was good on her this year. Especially when it was dyed pink.

16) Anna Kendrick- I just find her everyday cute. The singing helps, and you know I'm seeing Pitch Perfect in the theater. And buying the soundtrack.

17) Sarah Shahi- It took Fairly Legal to remind me how hott she is.

18) Aimee Teegarden- You know, I haven't actually seen her in anything since FNL, unless you count commercials for movies. I just think she's a pretty girl.

19) Anna Silk- Hey, she was a pretty good casting choice to play a hot succubus.

20) Mila Kunis- She's cool as hell, and hot to boot. Just gorgeous and funny.

21) Jessica Biel- I've said it before, but the Total Recall remake already has one thing going for it, it has hotter chicks in the female roles, between Jessica and Kate Beckinsale.

22) Krysten Ritter- I've actually found her strangely attractive since Veronica Mars, but she looks good in Don't Trust the B.

23) Christina Hendricks- The epitome of the voluptuous bombshell, I think.

24) Vanessa Hudgens- She was notably absent from last year's list (I have my reasons), but she's back on after prancing around in all those tiny bikinis for Spring Breakers.

25) Emma Watson- Whatever, Hermione is hot. I also like her pixie-ish do in the upcoming "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". And how slutty she looks in the upcoming "Bling Ring". (I did make two photosets of it on tumblr)

Some of you may be wondering, why aren't X or Y on here, because it does seem like there are some notable omissions. And there are superficial reasons for the exclusion of some chicks, which whatever, this is a list of my top 25 favorite celeb hotties, its supposed to be superficial. Like I've actually been slowly getting turned off Megan Fox for a while now, and BAG knocking her up sealed it. And Anne Hathaway does look hot as Catwoman, but then she hacked off all her hair for Les Miserables.

So Hulu has added this optional face match feature to select episodes of a few TV shows so far (Glee, The Office, Wilfred, Lost and Modern Family. Though while I do enjoy Wilfred, I didn't think it was nearly as popular as those other shows that they would do this for it). Basically, if you have the option turned on, there'll be clickable boxes around the actors' faces which you can click to pull up info on them from wikipedia, as well as twitter and facebook links.

I don't know if its cool or excessive. I guess it depends on how far it goes. I mean if its just for the main cast, what's the point? Like the shows they have on this so far (particularly Glee) I already know all about them and follow many of them on twitter! I'd find this feature most useful for guest stars. Like if I saw a "That Guy/Girl" and wanted to know where I knew them from or wanted to know who some hot guest actress was, that would be useful. Of course, since this is on hulu, you'd be watching it through your computer anyways, so you could just do a quick imdb or google search to figure it out, Though I suppose the click on the face would make it extremely convenient.

TV commentary:

Sons of Anarchy- That was kinda underwhelming. ( spoiler cut )

Dynasty Warriors blather: I'm still all over the place when it comes to playing this game. I suppose its a good thing that I find that there's still so much to do. But yeah, do I work on titles, finish getting the rest of the nightmare weapons, etc. I do have all the chaos one, and the majority of the nightmare ones for the people I play most and/or that don't have useless elements. As for the final titles I've gotten them for these so far:

Lu Bu
Xiahou Dun
Xu Huang
Zhang Liao
Ma Chao
Zhou Tai
Guo Jia
Zhong Hui
Zhuge Liang (he's not actually a favorite character of mine, but I did need to be him to get Zhao Yun's best weapon)

The ceremonial robes look fine on most of them. It sucks that its only added as an option to their 1P costume. The only one it really improves is Zhou Tai. Because his armor looks cool, but in 7 he doesn't have a cape, so his outfit just doesn't look as cool as in previous games. But the ceremonial robes give him a cape! They also work for Lu Bu, I wouldn't say it makes his outfit look all that better, but its appropriate, kinda gives him this dark champion feel.

And it doesn't look bad on Xiahou Dun, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, or Ma Chao, but its a bit ostentatious for them, it doesn't seem to fit their personalities. And it makes Guo Jia look a little too kingly. Which would be fine if he was a leader, but he's a loyal strategist. While his character is portrayed as a man who likes the finer things, he'd also find it as totally inappropriate to wear.

But it totally doesn't work for Zhong Hui. For one, I like the shawl thing he has going on, and the cape ruins that. And while this will sound like totally ghey, the cape also covers up his cool looking form fitting body armor and the crown his mop of hair. It would actually work on his new costume in XL that is basically just a blue version of Jiang Wei's costume.

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So, a few posts ago, I did a Top 50 Favorite Hot Chyx list. Now that I've had time to ruminate, using that list, I came up with a top 10 list that's actually ordered and everything. ( cut for brevity )

So, the mean age of this group is 26, which actually meshes with the whole your age divided by 2 plus 8 rule. So maybe I don't show a preference for chyx who are way too young for me. I would go so far to say I like girls of the appropriate age for me!

But breaking it down again, I noticed they're all snowflakes, mostly brunettes, with just two red heads and no blonds. Well, unless you count Odette Yustman as Latina, and technically Olivia Wilde and Emma Stone are natural blonds, they just dye their hair to a color that works way better for them. clevemire jokingly(?) commented I need to come up with 250 girls to get better data. But alas, I've only come up with 164 so far. The problem with shooting for a particular number though, is at least when I was just coming up with girls off the top of my head, I could trust I really found them attractive. But if I have to think of 86 more girls, I might just be naming them to fill the spots.

TV commentary:

Warehouse 13- Wow, what a way to end the season. ( spoiler cut )

So Buddy TV came out with a TV's 100 Sexiest Women of 2010. While I approve of many of the chyx on this list, I disagree with the rankings of many of them, particularly compared with the placements of others. Also, the absence of certain chyx. Anyways, here's the top 10:

10) Heather Morris, Glee: Actually Brit's not the only Glee girl on this list. Lea Michele (Rachel) was at 98, Dianna Agron (Quinn) at 50, and Naya Rivera (Santana) at 23.

9) Evangeline Lilly, Lost: Well, obviously. But did Lost only end this year?

8) Katie Cassidy, Gossip Girl and Melrose Place: Didn't watch Melrose, but she was definitely a nice looking edition to GG.

7) Tamara Taylor, Bones- No offense to Dr. Saroyan, she's attractive, but top 10 attractive?

6) Eva Longoria Parker, Desperate Housewives- Wait, when did she start going by Longoria-Parker? Amusing that I only hear about it when she's prolly not going to be going by that any more!

5) Kaley Cuoco, Big Bang Theory

4) Padme Lakshimi, Top Chef

3) Christina Hendricks, Mad Men

2) Sofia Vergara, Modern Family- Heh, two huge racked chyx in a row?

1) Yvonne Strahovski, Chuck- She's hot and all, but is she really #1 hot? (Particularly with the pic they chose! You'd think they'd try to get something more flattering if they're gonna proclaim her #1)

You know, I had seen the "allisonscag4cassie" trending topic on twitter the other day, but had no idea what it meant. So then when I was trying to look up why Allison Scagliotti would be writing an intro to an upcoming "Hack/Slash" according to her twitter I learned apparently there's a push by internet nerds to have her play Cassie Hack in the movie version of "Hack/Slash" (if it ever gets made!). (well, I guess its not just them, she's friends with the writer, and they both think she could do it as well)

And, I don't know what to think about that. I think she has the right attitude and sass, but while I do certainly think she's cute and all, I think she's a different kinda of attractive. I mean, I can't imagine her in the kinda outfits you see Cassie running around in. Okay, I can. ("heh.") But it would be like seeing Felicia Day, Alyson Hannigan, or Allison Mack running around like that. They're all cute chyx (I grouped them together since I assume they have the same type of appeal), but it just doesn't seem "them". I mean, when I think real-life Cassie Hack, I think someone who looks like Stoya or Megan Fox or something. But maybe that's because the comic is ridiculously fan-service-y. I guess it depends on what the movie is going for. I can see the movie working with either AScag or the Fox, but they'd be totally different movies, I think.

TV commentary:

Lost- Saw the "twelve minutes". It answers many of the questions people have. Though not all of them, and the answers they give might not be satisfactory to some, but they're answers!

Leverage- ( spoiler cut )

Oh, random webbing the other day, you know, I had no idea you could connect the Autobot and Decepticon combiner leaders (Silverbolt, Motormaster, Onslaught, Hotspot) to Metroplex and Trypticon's city modes? Apparently, it was a feature left out of the instructions! I had Metroplex and all the Aerialbots! If I knew that in addition to them forming Superion, you could connect them to Metroplex (because apparently you can also connect Combiner limbs to Metroplex's robot mode) in all sorts of different ways, I would've thought that was totally awesome! I mean, you already have 5 robots that can combine to form an even bigger robot, but to learn you could connect them to other robots as well?

3500th post!

Wow, and to think one of my first entries (almost a decade ago!) I was remarking how I'd post a few things here, get bored and forget about it.

TV Commentary:

Lost- Anyways, I forgot to mention one of the most hilarious parts of the Lost finale, Jack's flying death punch:



Seriously, what was up with that? I can't decide if its totally ridiculous or totally awesome. I know, poll time:

[Poll #1569554]

So if Jack had busted out some Island mojo enhanced moves against Smokey (perhaps with The Glow playing in the background), would people have checked out right then and there instead of waiting until the end to be pissed off? (even though I still say the ending was satisfying!)

HIMYM- You know, if I actually cared about that Don guy, maybe the whole thing with him choosing his career over Robin after she made the exact opposite choice and actually opened up the position he was offered would have some sort of impact. As it was, for me it was "finally, he's gone!" As I've said before, if you want me to care about some coupling show me why they're a good couple, don't just have everyone say, "Hey, they're a great couple!" and make me take them at their word.

Anyways, as much as I enjoy Rock Band, obviously my favorite part to do is the vocals. Even though I can never fully rock out like you're meant to- the parts of the vocals where you're not being scored and just have to shout "Yeah!" or "Ow!" or what have you, I can't not feel self-conscious and ridiculous. At least if its a part with a bar, then its a part of the game. But when you're just free-forming it? I'm just way too uptight to do that!

But I digress. While Rock Band was the obvious step forward for Harmonix as it is a cooler party game than their "Karaoke Revolution" series, it doesn't lend itself to all music. Like they do have a Lady Gaga DLC track pack, but I don't think you could really do something as equally awesome like ABBA or Madonna. I'd love to be able to do something like "Mamma Mia" or "Papa Don't Preach". prv('You know how I know you're gay? You want to sing "Mamma Mia" or "Papa Don't Preach" on Rock Band') But yeah, I think it'd be fun for the vocalist, but what does the rest of the band get to do?

Oh, even though I still suck at the instruments, I'm learning to do it more aurally than visually. Obviously there's an audio and video component to it, but once you think of it in terms of the sound rather than hitting the red button when it shows up, it becomes way easier to do. Of course, I still think people who play the instrument on expert are some kinda crazy magicians.

More Lost blather:

The skits on the post-Lost Jimmy Kimmel show were kinda funny (although the whole making fun at the Sopranos ending has been overly done as of late, though they get points for production quality. Heh, were those multiple Richards?), and I'm amused that they were able to get ex-guest stars to lurk there in the background mysteriously every so often.

More Lost gabbery: (taken from my FB):

Oh, I also think Lindelof and Cuse purposely left certain things in the air because they decided they'd rather have people up pissed off at them for leaving things unanswered instead of giving a definitive answer and have people mad about how stupid the answer was. (look what happened with BSG- Lost's ending was infinitely more satisfying)

Yeah, its still kinda a cop out. But for me, some of the unanswered Qs, they drop enough hints that you can interpret your own answer out of them. I mean, it would be better to learn exactly "this is what X is", but I'm satisfied with thinking, "I think this is what X is".

So overall, I didn't feel like I was left hanging, but I can totally see why other people would feel they were. And I think its also dependent on what people were more invested in on the series. As a story about the journey of the characters, I think the conclusion was perfectly satisfying. But in terms of the mythos the show set up, I think people were left wanting.

But to elaborate on my points up there, from a sci-fi geek standpoint, I do think in the long run its better to have people dissatisfied that certain things were unanswered, allowing for nerds to debate about what certain things really meant than to give a definitive answer and have people be all, "this was effin stupid!" Sure, some people will just be all, "Oh, those effers didn't know what they were doing and they never had answers" but I can't fault Lindelof and Cuse too much because when you make a show like this, no way was the ending going to live up to the hype. I mean, you could hope it would, but I think the ending was "good enough" rather than "bad". To me, they answered enough, and they wrapped up the characters' storylines just fine.

I do think there are a few things that people think were unanswered but were, but that wasn't satisfying enough for them so they continue to believe they were unanswered. ( spoiler cut )

I think there were cases where viewers were kinda hoping the answer was X, proving their theory was right, but since they never got confirmation, they feel let down because they don't have the satisfaction of being able to yell "I knew it!". But isn't it better to think your answer could be the way things are rather than learn you were wrong and the real answer is totally stupid? I think I remember hearing an interview with Lindelof and Cuse said they were gonna do what they exactly ended up doing. There were just so many theories out there that were pretty good that they figured no matter what they do, someone is gonna be pissed off and think they did it wrong. Sure, that kinda seems that they were making crap up as they went along. And I don't think that's the case- they made up the world as they went along, but the heart of the story- the characters' journeys and experiences, I think they progressed over a perfectly reasonable arc from start to conclusion. So from the perspective of people like Jack and Locke trying to figure out their life and fix the hole they feel, overcome that flaw that every one of the characters seems to possess, does it matter what the island really truly is?

Had pre-Lost dinner at Ipp's with the usual suspects. propace tried the Aglio-e-olio sauce (Olive oil, garlic, capicolla ham & crushed red pepper) on his pasta. That did catch my eye on the menu, but I wasn't feeling adventurous enough to try it.

TV Commentary:

Lost- Last ep before the 2 and a half hour season finale this Sunday! ( spoiler cut )

Glee- Some cool performances tonight in this Joss Whedon-directed, NPH guesting ep. You know, my first watch through, I didn't realize Brittany was one of the dancers during the Safety Dance scene (well, I didn't notice Kurt or Mercedes there either, I still don't know if the others were there). Prolly because she had her hair down. I dunno what it is, but she's like way hotter with her hair down. ( spoiler cut )