152 insights into my soul

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Finding Carter- So we find out a little about Carter and Max's pre-start of the show life. ( spoiler cut )

Modern Family- Argh! ( spoiler cut )

SVU- Well, that was a surprise! ( spoiler cut )

Supernatural- Huh, that can't be good. ( spoiler cut )

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Hart of Dixie- Argh. ( spoiler cut )

Arrow- A few unexpected surprises, and some interesting flashbacks. ( spoiler cut )

Modern Family- ( spoiler cut )

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Modern Family- I think they kinda messed up with the Spanish soap opera joke at the hospital. I mean, "real life" people acting out scenarios straight out of a bad soap opera, I suppose that's kinda amusing. But it kinda loses its humor since it ends with Cameron and Mitchell absolutely devastated that they're unable to adopt another kid. It wasn't that funny a joke to begin with, and the fact that it leads to something horrible just makes the whole thing fall flat.

SVU- Wait, was that the season finale? Because that ep was totally confusing and all over the place. So as far as I can tell, some of Taub's hookers were pulling double duty for farm ladies "match-making service", and it started a war between the two of them? But their clientele is a who's who of the rich and powerful, so SVU is encouraged to drop the case?

And wait, is guy from 1st season really just on a big undercover case, or are they implying he's a little shady? And it was totally confusing at first with Amaro. At first it seemed like they were implying he secretly likes the hookers, and for all his anger at his wife because he suspected she was having an affair, he was cheating on her the whole time and lying to everyone about being all pure and noble. But I guess it just that that Karissa chick smelled the marriage woes on him and was trying to seduce him/get in his head? But like all their convos for the ep were so full of innuendos and implications that I couldn't tell if they were trying to say something had been secretly going on before, or if the lady was trying to get something going on.

But ha, that ending was hilarious? Cragen waking up in a bed with a dead hooker, being framed by the super conspiracy who doesn't want to get exposed. So since the subtle threats weren't working, they decided to really eff SVU over?

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.

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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 some of the Glee Folks (along w/ Sofia Vergara, the one chick of Garunkel & Oates who's not Ted's gf from Scrubs/babysitter chick on Raising Hope, and some other chick) did an amusing Funny or Die video:



I'm guessing the Sofia Vergara part was a reference to the whole Ed O'Neill saying she should have won some award instead of Jane Lynch that the media blew totally out of proportion?

Also from the cast of Glee (or at least Other Asian), Three Minutes:




If Glee is too ghey for you, here's a near 90 minute feature composed entirely of footage from GTA IV called, The Trashmaster:



Too bad the voice acting is terrible.

TV commentary:

Undercovers- Dang, since they had David Anders guesting, I was kinda hoping they were doing an Alias cross over, and he was actually Sark. Actually, I always kinda amused myself by thinking what if all the JJ Abrams shows were in the same universe? Felicity, Alias, Lost, Fringe, Undercovers. I mean, technically Driveshaft was played on Alias so they might be in the same universe. Although having Magic/Time Travel (Felicity), Rambaldi (Alias), The Island (Lost), and the Other Side (Fringe) existing in the same world might be a little too crazy. And heh, I just noticed Undercovers is the only one of his shows that does not have some sort of mystical element (yet!). And Sam's mentor is totally not dead. Whenever someone on these kinds of shows talks about someone in their past whose death really affected them, and say they died in way that doesn't leave an easily identifiable body, the person is totally alive!

South Park- Woah, this current story arc is gonna be a three parter? I am amused by the random set of references. I mean, supposedly the Cartman/Cthulu thing is a My Neighbor Totoro ref, and at the cultist meeting, they had a bunch of Arkham Horror expansions sitting on a book shelf in the background? ( spoiler cut )

Modern Family- I think Haley looked hotter tonight because since they had her playing sick, she wasn't wearing a lot of make up, making her look infinitely better. Usually she's wearing too much- I mean, even in the Hawaii ep, where she had gotten plastered, even though she was supposed to be sick from puking her guts out, she still looked better than usual because of the cut down in make up. But heh, I don't blame her bf for dreaming about the mom, and then later finding out, it was actually a threesome with the mom and Haley.

In any case, I found the whole soap opera thing totally hilarious, particularly when Haley was all, "Is that Jesse?" Because then I recognized that it was indeed Jesse and Angie from All My Children (speaking of, I did not realize Marcy from Married With Children was actually on AMC for a while before MWC started!). I thought he died! So I had to wiki it, and he indeed did die, and even though he did show up as a ghost a few times later, they apparently resurrected him in the early oughts by saying he didn't die and actually went into hiding to protect his family? So, what, all those times people saw ghost him, it was just a figment of their imagination?!

Although thinking about it, Jesse died back in 88, which would've been before Haley was even born (weird!). But she sounded all shocked to see Jesse, but since that was way before she was born, they only time she would've seen Jesse was when he was already back and alive. So it shouldn't be all that shocking to her!

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Some quick shots first:

Modern Family- While it was a hilarious scene, that whole thing with the grandma's picture coming out of the printer would freak me the hell out if that happened to me! I mean, they ask if her ghost is in the room, and then a picture of her face suddenly prints out in the printer?

Cougar Town- Weirdly enough, Cougar Town also had a faux ghost thing going on. Speaking of though, Ellie letting that one guy accidentally believe her baby was dead to get him to do stuff for her? Totally messed up! Ida know, I've always thought when crafting a lie, its extremely bad juju for the lie to involve someone who's alive being dead. You might jinx them!

SVU- Hey, its JLH! Oh, since I saw L&O LA before I watched SVU, I didn't realize they had a little connection there by having Skeet show up to help Olivia. Speaking of, L&O: LA was kinda boring, I couldn't bother to pay attention. Though it did have the cute Danielle Panabaker playing a LiLo type.

30 Rock- Oh, from reading the forums, I apparently missed when someone (Jack?) gave "always put crisps in your sandwiches" as advice. I'm always amused when I hear TV characters doing that, because it makes me feel like less of a freak. Odd thing though, I only put potato chips on sandwiches I make myself. I don't do that on samiches made by others or I get from subway or jersey mike's or firehouse or jimmy john's or what have you. ( spoiler cut )

IASIP- Wow, Dennis is a monster, that's all I have to say. Of course, they're all monsters on this show, but that was pretty dark!

Glee- Was this past week's Glee the most controversial ever? Not in terms of content. I mean, it was its highest ratings ever (apparently people love Britney Spears more than Madonna or Lady Gaga?), was second place for the night behind NCIS, and was the first time a show's ratings went up the next ep after a season premiere. But, it seems to me viewers either totally loved it or thought it was the worst ep ever. I guess one's feelings on Britney Spears influenced their feelings on the ep, but since the first 2/3 of the show were them basically recreating Britney Spears videos and little plot, that seemed to really irk people. I wouldn't say I grew up with Britney, since I was already grown up when she started, but I for one enjoyed the nostalgia at seeing throwbacks to all those old music videos.

It didn't help that there were some really gross moments from Jewfro, which some people thought were a little too much. So people who didn't like the Brit re-enactments, but loved the version of Toxic at the school assembly (which was the only one of the songs in the ep was an interpretation of the song rather than a straight cover) felt they coulda done without him and Twilight Girl going all crazy.

Vampire Diaries- Interesting reveals in this ep. ( spoiler cut )

Went to Ippolito's for dinner for the first time in like years- its the same route to get from the house to the Roaster's on Roswell road, except one turns left at one point instead of following that one road down onto Roswell road, because that other street also intersects Roswell, but where Ipp's is. It was good as usual, though its weird how the place still looks the same.

Heh, before we left, I had heard the roomie watching "Modern Family" on his computer. Warming Glow had stated that Wednesday night's ep cemented itself as being the best new sitcom of the season over "Community", so that piqued the roomie's interest. The eldest daughter on the show is played by Sarah Hyland who I think clevemire once said looks like Mila Kunis' jailbait little sister. But ha, when the roomie first started watching he thought she was like 12 or something, then was all shocked that she was 15 on the show. Then he was even more shocked when I told him she was totally legal.

TV Commentary:

Flashforward- you know, this show has potential, but I don't think its really realized it yet. ( spoiler cut )

The Office- People said last week's ep was the worst, but this week's was less enjoyable in my opinion. (Oh, btw, is it me, or does the upcoming Subtle Sexuality Office webisodes sound like they might be awesome?) ( spoiler cut )