It's rare that I can make an obvious connection between Heroes and Gossip Girl, but this week I did.
Both shows announced in these episodes one of their major intentions, to explore the humanity of those who we thought had little to none left, and to see a different side to those that we thought were good.
Both episodes gave us huge leaps into the humanity of the "evil" characters, whether it's socially evil (Chuck) or actually evil (Sylar) Dan wanted to get outside his comfort level and decided how better to do this than hang with Chuck and it turns out that Chuck's real mom died in childbirth, and that's why Bart resents him and why Chuck hates himself so much. Oh how easily this is explained. What's left of Sylar's humanity is exploited by Angela Petrelli, his birth mom? I'm still confused on that, but I have a feeling that she's telling the truth, and the company made her give him up because his natural power is latent. Anyway, he and Bennett are partners now, and Bennett's none to happy about it...you know given Claire's recent trauma and all. But Angela insists, and he understands as the episode goes on that having a sociopathic multi powered partner is totally beneficial. Anyway, in the "Next Week on Heroes" thing, we saw Peter in the future going to see Sylar who was baking and playing with Mr. Muggles wearing those glasses he wore before he went all evil, saying, "If I knew you were coming, bro, I'd have made more." That's going to be fun.
Also we saw completely different sides to characters we thought we knew well. We're finally seeing as Chuck calls it "The Real Serena." This is the Serena that Cecily Von Zeislinger created, she social climbs without trying or thinking and leaves everyone in her dust without a moment of scheming completely unaware that her actions are hurting others (Others read: Blair) It should be fun to see what Schwartz and Co do with that. As far as Heroes is concerned we totally got a new view of Claire. Yes, Claire often does her own thing, and defies the borders given her, but she takes things to a new level here, stealing her father's company paper work and going after the level 5 escapees on her own, much to the chagrin of her moms.
Oh right and did anyone else know that the Style Network has a ripoff of The Soup with Topanga in the hosting spot? It's called "The Dish." I will watch and report.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
"We are Starting Over": Grey's Anatomy
It seems that Shondra Rhimes took her season premiere as an opportunity to apologize to us for last season.
It was sweet of her, really because last season needed serious apology! We begin on one of Merideth's crazy dreams. She's dreaming that Derek dies. Then we're at the hospital and everyone is sitting waiting for the rankings of teaching hospitals. Seattle Grace has fallen to twelve. This throws everyone and enrages the chief.
Lexi's crush on George has exploded. He's oblivious, because, well, he's George. Merideth wants to ask Derek to move in. She won't shut up about it. Christina is annoyed. Derek says he'll move in but when Merideth changes her mind, he's like "Fine, I don't want to push you." Izzie is thrilled that Alex is now sensitive and nice. She confides this in Merideth who then teases Alex about it, who then snaps at Izzie about it. Rose is being an uber bitch to Derek, not that he doesn't deserve it. Callie and Hahn decide to be lesbos. Sloane is a pig. The chief feels like he's coddling Merideth and Lexi to make it up to their father. Um there we are.
The plot of the episode? Three super rich couples two limos crashed. The wives in one, husbands in the other, Bernadette Peters is one of the wives. She can't move her face anymore, Bernadette, not the character. There's something about an affair and blah blah blah.
The crucial moment comes in the last five minutes, when the chief gathers everyone and lets them know in no uncertain terms that they will be the best again. It's time to get back down to business.
YES! This to me was the apology. It was Shondra way of saying, "We're back, we're sorry, we promise to do better by you!"
I'm giving them two more episodes if they don't get really for me in that time. Sorry kids, grace period is OVER, I'm watching The Office in real time. Think of that every other show out there when you decide to give your best character their own series!
It was sweet of her, really because last season needed serious apology! We begin on one of Merideth's crazy dreams. She's dreaming that Derek dies. Then we're at the hospital and everyone is sitting waiting for the rankings of teaching hospitals. Seattle Grace has fallen to twelve. This throws everyone and enrages the chief.
Lexi's crush on George has exploded. He's oblivious, because, well, he's George. Merideth wants to ask Derek to move in. She won't shut up about it. Christina is annoyed. Derek says he'll move in but when Merideth changes her mind, he's like "Fine, I don't want to push you." Izzie is thrilled that Alex is now sensitive and nice. She confides this in Merideth who then teases Alex about it, who then snaps at Izzie about it. Rose is being an uber bitch to Derek, not that he doesn't deserve it. Callie and Hahn decide to be lesbos. Sloane is a pig. The chief feels like he's coddling Merideth and Lexi to make it up to their father. Um there we are.
The plot of the episode? Three super rich couples two limos crashed. The wives in one, husbands in the other, Bernadette Peters is one of the wives. She can't move her face anymore, Bernadette, not the character. There's something about an affair and blah blah blah.
The crucial moment comes in the last five minutes, when the chief gathers everyone and lets them know in no uncertain terms that they will be the best again. It's time to get back down to business.
YES! This to me was the apology. It was Shondra way of saying, "We're back, we're sorry, we promise to do better by you!"
I'm giving them two more episodes if they don't get really for me in that time. Sorry kids, grace period is OVER, I'm watching The Office in real time. Think of that every other show out there when you decide to give your best character their own series!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
It always comes back to the Duck
Today I will focus on one line from Fringe.
"I told you, it always comes back to the duck!"
I giggled. For quite a bit. Of course it comes back to the duck. Because it comes back to Peter, who you know, is Josh. Who's you know a Duck.
Oh right, there are people who don't understand this.
I love The Mighty Ducks...the movies not the hockey team. Joshua Jackson, Ducks, Fringe. I don't know, I thought it was funny.
"I told you, it always comes back to the duck!"
I giggled. For quite a bit. Of course it comes back to the duck. Because it comes back to Peter, who you know, is Josh. Who's you know a Duck.
Oh right, there are people who don't understand this.
I love The Mighty Ducks...the movies not the hockey team. Joshua Jackson, Ducks, Fringe. I don't know, I thought it was funny.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Second Coming: Heroes
I have just begun to process the Heroes two part season premiere. First of all, we get to see Future Peter again...and ahh, Milo + Scar. MMM.
Part I:
So, Claire's super evil in the future, that's kind of awesome. She's pointing a gun at Future Peter's face. They're both wearing leather and we get a ton of that awesome Claire and Peter creepy sexual tension that I totally missed last season. It's awesome. Claire tells Peter she's sorry, and she's always loved him, he stops time before the bullet hits, stares at her all creepy and takes her gun. Then he teleports. Future Claire looks around baffled. Can we start out with the WTF factor? I mean, we all know that that creepy Peter/Claire vibe is because of the creepiness of Milo and Hayden, alright? But seriously, she's his niece! And sixteen! It's gross! That being said, Hayden looks damn sexy in leather. Why is it that in post apocalyptic futures people are always wearing leather? Moving on.
Cut to the present day. We see Peter, Parkman and Nathan...giving Nathan's big reveal of the powers. We see future Peter pull on a coat and baseball cap and...WAIT! Future Peter is the shooter?? OMG! He runs away from Present Peter and Parkman. Claire watches from home, and immediately calls Peter, saying that she should be there, she can help! Peter instructs her to stay put and he'll call her as soon as they know something. Claire's kinda flipped out, goes up to her bedroom and who's waiting for her, Sylar!! AHHH! Scary. Sylar is all creepy and cryptic and they have a really killer fight. Good for Claire, holding her own against him.
Next we see Hiro, who's chillin, messing around with time (forward a half hour, back a half hour) in a big fancy office. Ando comes in and they banter. Oh how I missed Hiro and Ando bantering! Hiro admits that he's bored and wants to be on a quest again. Ando's like, dude you're rich deal! Then a guy shows up with a DVD, a message that Hiro's father left him before he died. Sulu warns Hiro not to open his safe, his destiny is to be a sentinel! Hiro's like, screw that, and opens the safe while Ando goes, "No, stop!" in the safe is another DVD and an envelope. "I told you not to open the safe!" says Sulu, "But since you did don't let anyone get this formula (?) because in the wrong hands it could be devastating." As this happens, it gets swiped from Hiro's hand by a red and white blur. He freezes time and goes after the blur. It's a pretty blonde girl who's confused by him. They banter a bit, she punches him in the face and takes off. Hiro has his quest!
Maya is chilling in Mohinder's dingy Brooklyn apartment, scared of her own shadow. Mohinder comes in and says he put Molly on a plane. A plane to where? What's going on? Where'd they send Molly? Anyway, we see Mohinder and Maya have some sexual tension (I called it! I SOOO called it!) Maya begs Mohinder to take her power away, and he's like, I can't do that. She gets upset, starts to release her evil blackness or whatever the hell her power is, then calms down and Mohinder's all "How'd you do that?" and she's all, "I just did," shrug. Mohinder realizes that the powers are in the adrenal gland and that by using a powered person's adrenal fluid you can get powers too! I am impressed by the sciencey words, but nervous about the implications of this, also I don't like Mohinder being power hungry. I like meek little bookish Mohinder who needs Nikki or Sylar to do his dirty work.
Parkman finds Peter in a closet holding a gun. He suspects Peter may know something about the shooting. Parkman tries to read Peter's mind, Peter does that cool weird Static thing, remember that from season 1, morphs his face, he's got a scar! It's FUTURE PETER? But where's present Peter? CONFUSION! Peter makes Parkman disappear. Nathan gets up and walks out of the hospital and goes to a church and says that he now knows he has to do God's bidding. It's all kind of eerie and awesome. He collapses and Peter catches him, and carries him, we assume back to the hospital.
Sylar succeeds in his attack on Claire. He splits her skull as always, and is inspecting her brain, Claire's awake for this, and it's a completely frightening scene. Although I did enjoy the dialog, especially:
Claire: Are you going to eat it?
Sylar: Eat your brain? Claire, that's disgusting!
Hahahaha! Remember when we all thought Sylar ate brains, how silly we were! Sylar figures out how the healing works, and heals from where Claire stabbed him. Yeah. She stabbed him. I think we're going to get lots of "Claire's really bad ass" moments this season. He gives her back her scalp and it heals up. Claire's mom comes and Claire tells her what happened. Wait, Claire can't feel pain anymore, am I still human?
And speaking of Nikki...She's up to her old tricks...or so we think. Ali Larter in a corset talking to a governor about Nathan. They say that "he's their guy." Yeah, we all know about you and Nathan, Nikki, thanks!
Hiro goes into the future to see what happens if he doesn't get the formula back. Ando with powers kills him! AHH! Ando asks what he saw, he says never mind...We know how Ando gets his powers now, which is exciting.
Nathan returns to his room and Peter and Mrs. Petrelli visit him. After they walk outside and Mama Petrelli asks "Who are you and what have you done with Peter?" Future Peter is startled that she knows him. She laughs and reminds him that he inherited his first power, his prophetic dreams, from her. YAY! We know what Mama Petrelli's power is. Peter assures her that present Peter is someplace safe. Cut to level 5, where some ugly bald guy is banging on glass shouting, "HEY! I'm Peter Petrelli! Let me out!" Back in Nathan's room, he has a visitor. LINDERMAN??? But didn't he die?
Part one ends with Parkman walking around the desert, Mohinder injecting himself on some pier staring at the same picture while the Mohinder voice over read "The Second Coming" by Yeats...which is freaky, since we just did that poem in Modern Brit lit. Anyway, after injecting himself, Mohinder passes out. Uh oh!
Part Two:
Mohinder is woken up by three guys trying to mug him. One holding a gun to his head. He snaps up and bends the gun barrel. Mohinder has super strength. COOLSIES! He runs off into the night.
Parkman wakes up hearing a voice telling him that the plants store water. He looks up and sees a turtle. We assume this means that Parkman can now commune with Animals. We assume wrong. When he thanks the turtle a weird African dude asks "Why are you talking to a turtle?" They converse and he reveals that he can paint the future and that Parkman is supposed to be on a spirit walk.
Nathan and Linderman strategize. And then Nikki comes in and offers him a senate seat. And he's all, "Nikki, remember when we did it?" and she's all, "My name is Tracy!" After she leaves Linderman assures her that she's not Nikki, but he should consider this whole senator thing. Peter comes at some point and tells Nathan everything and asks for his forgiveness. Nathan gives it.
Peter goes to see Claire, who was standing in front of Train, trying to feel human again. They chat, and she begs him to teach her how to defend herself. He says no, he can't and disappears. Claire gets broody.
Maya comes to check on Mohinder and finds him on the ceiling meditating. He explains to her that his senses are heightened, that he's never felt like this before. Then he climbs up the wall. Apparently Mohinder turned himself in Spiderman, which is cool I guess. Then he and Maya do it. Oh right, and he was shirtless this whole time. Mmm, Mohinder's got abs dude!
We get confirmation that Tracy lady is not Nikki, because we find out she has Ice Powers.
Elle and Bob are back, they have a fight about Elle letting Sylar get away and about provoking Claire. Bob yells at Elle about her Daddy issues and she runs away angry. Then when she comes back Bob's dead! AH! She runs to level five and sees he's there. They fight and as he's about to take her out, when she has a huge electro burst and knocks him out. All the level 5 dudes escape, including guy who Peter's trapped as.
Later, Mrs. Petrelli tells Elle she's fired. I'm thinking this is a bad idea, but what do I know. Then she talks to Sylar, and tells him she's his mother! He says, this isn't possible, she says but it is! AHH!
Claire is thrilled when her father comes home and he says that he's going after the level 5 guys. Claire says she wants to go with him. He says she can't. She gets broody again, then they give away the big ending...CLAIRE'S REAL MOM IS BACK! YAYS!
Oh right, and Nathan's playing chess with Linderman, and his nurse comes in, and it turns out, oop, Nathan's crazy, Linderman's not really there. That's going to be SUPER FUN!
Yeah, and Hiro and Ando have an adventure in France going after super speed lady. It was kind of boring.
Mohinder waked up all snuggly with Maya and goes into the bathroom. He washes his face and notices his skin is peeling off. EW.
SO there you have it. I tried to capture the awesomeness, I couldn't. It was unbelievably good. Like beyond words good. It should be an amazing season. Plus, uh TWO PETERS!!! YAY!
Part I:
So, Claire's super evil in the future, that's kind of awesome. She's pointing a gun at Future Peter's face. They're both wearing leather and we get a ton of that awesome Claire and Peter creepy sexual tension that I totally missed last season. It's awesome. Claire tells Peter she's sorry, and she's always loved him, he stops time before the bullet hits, stares at her all creepy and takes her gun. Then he teleports. Future Claire looks around baffled. Can we start out with the WTF factor? I mean, we all know that that creepy Peter/Claire vibe is because of the creepiness of Milo and Hayden, alright? But seriously, she's his niece! And sixteen! It's gross! That being said, Hayden looks damn sexy in leather. Why is it that in post apocalyptic futures people are always wearing leather? Moving on.
Cut to the present day. We see Peter, Parkman and Nathan...giving Nathan's big reveal of the powers. We see future Peter pull on a coat and baseball cap and...WAIT! Future Peter is the shooter?? OMG! He runs away from Present Peter and Parkman. Claire watches from home, and immediately calls Peter, saying that she should be there, she can help! Peter instructs her to stay put and he'll call her as soon as they know something. Claire's kinda flipped out, goes up to her bedroom and who's waiting for her, Sylar!! AHHH! Scary. Sylar is all creepy and cryptic and they have a really killer fight. Good for Claire, holding her own against him.
Next we see Hiro, who's chillin, messing around with time (forward a half hour, back a half hour) in a big fancy office. Ando comes in and they banter. Oh how I missed Hiro and Ando bantering! Hiro admits that he's bored and wants to be on a quest again. Ando's like, dude you're rich deal! Then a guy shows up with a DVD, a message that Hiro's father left him before he died. Sulu warns Hiro not to open his safe, his destiny is to be a sentinel! Hiro's like, screw that, and opens the safe while Ando goes, "No, stop!" in the safe is another DVD and an envelope. "I told you not to open the safe!" says Sulu, "But since you did don't let anyone get this formula (?) because in the wrong hands it could be devastating." As this happens, it gets swiped from Hiro's hand by a red and white blur. He freezes time and goes after the blur. It's a pretty blonde girl who's confused by him. They banter a bit, she punches him in the face and takes off. Hiro has his quest!
Maya is chilling in Mohinder's dingy Brooklyn apartment, scared of her own shadow. Mohinder comes in and says he put Molly on a plane. A plane to where? What's going on? Where'd they send Molly? Anyway, we see Mohinder and Maya have some sexual tension (I called it! I SOOO called it!) Maya begs Mohinder to take her power away, and he's like, I can't do that. She gets upset, starts to release her evil blackness or whatever the hell her power is, then calms down and Mohinder's all "How'd you do that?" and she's all, "I just did," shrug. Mohinder realizes that the powers are in the adrenal gland and that by using a powered person's adrenal fluid you can get powers too! I am impressed by the sciencey words, but nervous about the implications of this, also I don't like Mohinder being power hungry. I like meek little bookish Mohinder who needs Nikki or Sylar to do his dirty work.
Parkman finds Peter in a closet holding a gun. He suspects Peter may know something about the shooting. Parkman tries to read Peter's mind, Peter does that cool weird Static thing, remember that from season 1, morphs his face, he's got a scar! It's FUTURE PETER? But where's present Peter? CONFUSION! Peter makes Parkman disappear. Nathan gets up and walks out of the hospital and goes to a church and says that he now knows he has to do God's bidding. It's all kind of eerie and awesome. He collapses and Peter catches him, and carries him, we assume back to the hospital.
Sylar succeeds in his attack on Claire. He splits her skull as always, and is inspecting her brain, Claire's awake for this, and it's a completely frightening scene. Although I did enjoy the dialog, especially:
Claire: Are you going to eat it?
Sylar: Eat your brain? Claire, that's disgusting!
Hahahaha! Remember when we all thought Sylar ate brains, how silly we were! Sylar figures out how the healing works, and heals from where Claire stabbed him. Yeah. She stabbed him. I think we're going to get lots of "Claire's really bad ass" moments this season. He gives her back her scalp and it heals up. Claire's mom comes and Claire tells her what happened. Wait, Claire can't feel pain anymore, am I still human?
And speaking of Nikki...She's up to her old tricks...or so we think. Ali Larter in a corset talking to a governor about Nathan. They say that "he's their guy." Yeah, we all know about you and Nathan, Nikki, thanks!
Hiro goes into the future to see what happens if he doesn't get the formula back. Ando with powers kills him! AHH! Ando asks what he saw, he says never mind...We know how Ando gets his powers now, which is exciting.
Nathan returns to his room and Peter and Mrs. Petrelli visit him. After they walk outside and Mama Petrelli asks "Who are you and what have you done with Peter?" Future Peter is startled that she knows him. She laughs and reminds him that he inherited his first power, his prophetic dreams, from her. YAY! We know what Mama Petrelli's power is. Peter assures her that present Peter is someplace safe. Cut to level 5, where some ugly bald guy is banging on glass shouting, "HEY! I'm Peter Petrelli! Let me out!" Back in Nathan's room, he has a visitor. LINDERMAN??? But didn't he die?
Part one ends with Parkman walking around the desert, Mohinder injecting himself on some pier staring at the same picture while the Mohinder voice over read "The Second Coming" by Yeats...which is freaky, since we just did that poem in Modern Brit lit. Anyway, after injecting himself, Mohinder passes out. Uh oh!
Part Two:
Mohinder is woken up by three guys trying to mug him. One holding a gun to his head. He snaps up and bends the gun barrel. Mohinder has super strength. COOLSIES! He runs off into the night.
Parkman wakes up hearing a voice telling him that the plants store water. He looks up and sees a turtle. We assume this means that Parkman can now commune with Animals. We assume wrong. When he thanks the turtle a weird African dude asks "Why are you talking to a turtle?" They converse and he reveals that he can paint the future and that Parkman is supposed to be on a spirit walk.
Nathan and Linderman strategize. And then Nikki comes in and offers him a senate seat. And he's all, "Nikki, remember when we did it?" and she's all, "My name is Tracy!" After she leaves Linderman assures her that she's not Nikki, but he should consider this whole senator thing. Peter comes at some point and tells Nathan everything and asks for his forgiveness. Nathan gives it.
Peter goes to see Claire, who was standing in front of Train, trying to feel human again. They chat, and she begs him to teach her how to defend herself. He says no, he can't and disappears. Claire gets broody.
Maya comes to check on Mohinder and finds him on the ceiling meditating. He explains to her that his senses are heightened, that he's never felt like this before. Then he climbs up the wall. Apparently Mohinder turned himself in Spiderman, which is cool I guess. Then he and Maya do it. Oh right, and he was shirtless this whole time. Mmm, Mohinder's got abs dude!
We get confirmation that Tracy lady is not Nikki, because we find out she has Ice Powers.
Elle and Bob are back, they have a fight about Elle letting Sylar get away and about provoking Claire. Bob yells at Elle about her Daddy issues and she runs away angry. Then when she comes back Bob's dead! AH! She runs to level five and sees he's there. They fight and as he's about to take her out, when she has a huge electro burst and knocks him out. All the level 5 dudes escape, including guy who Peter's trapped as.
Later, Mrs. Petrelli tells Elle she's fired. I'm thinking this is a bad idea, but what do I know. Then she talks to Sylar, and tells him she's his mother! He says, this isn't possible, she says but it is! AHH!
Claire is thrilled when her father comes home and he says that he's going after the level 5 guys. Claire says she wants to go with him. He says she can't. She gets broody again, then they give away the big ending...CLAIRE'S REAL MOM IS BACK! YAYS!
Oh right, and Nathan's playing chess with Linderman, and his nurse comes in, and it turns out, oop, Nathan's crazy, Linderman's not really there. That's going to be SUPER FUN!
Yeah, and Hiro and Ando have an adventure in France going after super speed lady. It was kind of boring.
Mohinder waked up all snuggly with Maya and goes into the bathroom. He washes his face and notices his skin is peeling off. EW.
SO there you have it. I tried to capture the awesomeness, I couldn't. It was unbelievably good. Like beyond words good. It should be an amazing season. Plus, uh TWO PETERS!!! YAY!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Emmys!
I love award shows. I really do. The fancy clothes, the self indulgent speeches, the random musical numbers, the forced witty banter. And on that note, this years Emmys did not disappoint. The clothes were mostly good...America Ferrera had a rare and unfortunate misfire. Eva Longoria gets my best dressed, Hayden after that, then Kate Walsh. Tina Fey won 4 Emmys last night! YAY Tina Fey!!!
The 5 hosts, Tom Bergeron, Ryan Suckcrest, Jeff Probst, Howie Mandel and of course Heidi! I have to say the opening bit, Bergeron and William Shatner ripping off Heidi's clothes couldn't have been funnier.
The highlights though.
Obviously anything with the Daily Show guys, both winners. Colbert won for writing Stewart for hosting. Their presentation was funny...not allowed to make any statements, Colbert pulled out a bag of prunes and was talking about how "America needs a prune!" Get it? Then Ricky Gervais demanding that Steve Carrell return his Emmy from last year. "Look at him. Look at his stupid face." President Bartlett addressing the nation once again, urging us to vote and then introducing The President of The Academy. And the best moment of the whole night Josh Groban sings your favorite TV themes.
Like I said, I'm really excited that Tina Fey won all those Emmys, and 30 Rock won even more, but I'm not so thrilled that as a result of this a certain blonde haired um, "actress" who I graduated high school with got loads of face time. ICK.
Anyway, it was a good telecast.
Heroes premiere tonight! YAY!
The 5 hosts, Tom Bergeron, Ryan Suckcrest, Jeff Probst, Howie Mandel and of course Heidi! I have to say the opening bit, Bergeron and William Shatner ripping off Heidi's clothes couldn't have been funnier.
The highlights though.
Obviously anything with the Daily Show guys, both winners. Colbert won for writing Stewart for hosting. Their presentation was funny...not allowed to make any statements, Colbert pulled out a bag of prunes and was talking about how "America needs a prune!" Get it? Then Ricky Gervais demanding that Steve Carrell return his Emmy from last year. "Look at him. Look at his stupid face." President Bartlett addressing the nation once again, urging us to vote and then introducing The President of The Academy. And the best moment of the whole night Josh Groban sings your favorite TV themes.
Like I said, I'm really excited that Tina Fey won all those Emmys, and 30 Rock won even more, but I'm not so thrilled that as a result of this a certain blonde haired um, "actress" who I graduated high school with got loads of face time. ICK.
Anyway, it was a good telecast.
Heroes premiere tonight! YAY!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Some more info
I'll start serious analysis next week, but I realized that there are a few things I still need to go over.
First of all there's my code for when I talk about 90210. I don't call any of the new characters by their names...but by code names that I made up by combining which old characters they are most like.
Annie: Donda, Donna's nice girl innocence combined with Brenda's bitchiness and new girl lost syndrome
Dixon: Dyldon, Brandon's nice guy and new guy "I don't buy all of this Beverley Hills" stuff combined with Dylan's bad boy past.
Naomi: Valkelly, Kelly's super popular status combined with Valerie's ruthless pure evil
Ethan: Stylan, Steve's cool West Beverley jock status combined with Dylan's surfing and girl issues
Navid: Davedrea, David and Andrea's outsider status, Andrea journalistic aspirations, David's video camera.
Adriana: Bremdrea, Brenda's theatrical aspirations, Emily Valentine's substance abuse issues, Andrea's poor girl among rich kids thing
Silver: I call her Silver, because she is an original character...umm, sort of, because back then her name was Erin...and she had blonde hair, but whatever, I think she's awesome.
OK, shall we talk about Project Runway?
I have to say, I'm really rooting for Jerell now. He's done two amazing looks in a row, and he seems to really have an understanding of what's going on. It was too bad to see Joe leave, I did enjoy his stuff, but it was very costumey. At the beginning, I liked Kenley, I really did, but now I'm bored, do something besides the whole 40s and 50s thing. I love a good vintage look more than the next girl but you have to be capable of something else. Although, who knows, maybe she'll win, I mean Jeffrey did the same thing week after week too. Glad to see most of the people who are gone be gone, because there just wasn't a whole lot happening for them, but especially Blayne, there is only room for one Christian Soriano in this world dude, sorry.
In other news:
Disney is currently working on a Tomorrowland movie. It's going to be Sci Fi Action (Thank God they aren't trying to do it as a comedy! Learn from your mistakes The Haunted Mansion? The Country Bears?) starring The Rock. It should be awesome...if they get the right people behind it. Personally I was really pulling for Big Thunder Railroad or The Jungle Cruise as the next ones. Guess I'll just have to write those ones myself, haha! Alright, that's all for now! I'll be back on Monday with my impressions of the Emmys! See you guys soon!
First of all there's my code for when I talk about 90210. I don't call any of the new characters by their names...but by code names that I made up by combining which old characters they are most like.
Annie: Donda, Donna's nice girl innocence combined with Brenda's bitchiness and new girl lost syndrome
Dixon: Dyldon, Brandon's nice guy and new guy "I don't buy all of this Beverley Hills" stuff combined with Dylan's bad boy past.
Naomi: Valkelly, Kelly's super popular status combined with Valerie's ruthless pure evil
Ethan: Stylan, Steve's cool West Beverley jock status combined with Dylan's surfing and girl issues
Navid: Davedrea, David and Andrea's outsider status, Andrea journalistic aspirations, David's video camera.
Adriana: Bremdrea, Brenda's theatrical aspirations, Emily Valentine's substance abuse issues, Andrea's poor girl among rich kids thing
Silver: I call her Silver, because she is an original character...umm, sort of, because back then her name was Erin...and she had blonde hair, but whatever, I think she's awesome.
OK, shall we talk about Project Runway?
I have to say, I'm really rooting for Jerell now. He's done two amazing looks in a row, and he seems to really have an understanding of what's going on. It was too bad to see Joe leave, I did enjoy his stuff, but it was very costumey. At the beginning, I liked Kenley, I really did, but now I'm bored, do something besides the whole 40s and 50s thing. I love a good vintage look more than the next girl but you have to be capable of something else. Although, who knows, maybe she'll win, I mean Jeffrey did the same thing week after week too. Glad to see most of the people who are gone be gone, because there just wasn't a whole lot happening for them, but especially Blayne, there is only room for one Christian Soriano in this world dude, sorry.
In other news:
Disney is currently working on a Tomorrowland movie. It's going to be Sci Fi Action (Thank God they aren't trying to do it as a comedy! Learn from your mistakes The Haunted Mansion? The Country Bears?) starring The Rock. It should be awesome...if they get the right people behind it. Personally I was really pulling for Big Thunder Railroad or The Jungle Cruise as the next ones. Guess I'll just have to write those ones myself, haha! Alright, that's all for now! I'll be back on Monday with my impressions of the Emmys! See you guys soon!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Here We Go!
Alright everyone! Here I am, and I've decided to go public...seriously, share this with your friends who don't know me...it'll be fun.
I've decided to retire my LJ...not entirely just for my TV and Movie and occasional celeb gossip related rants. I'm going to try to update at least 3 times a week.
For those of you who don't know me:
I'm Reenie, I'm 20 years old, I live in the Northeast United States, live in one state go to school in another. I was raised Catholic, but I've sort of lapsed in the faith a little (more out of laziness than no longer being a believer!) I watch way too much TV, own too many movies, and am overall kind of a waste. I did write a book this summer though, what did you do?
This is the first time I've tried serious blogging, and this is just a preliminary. Before this I had a Xanga and a LIvejournal, neither of which I did much more on than rant about pop culture. A couple of my friends suggested separately that I try doing a real blog about this stuff, and since I have no web design skills, I'm here. (If anyone does have web design skills, please, teach me!) The title of the blog is Popgirl lives, which is totally lame I know, but just know now that I suck at titles. Some of the things you can count of from me for the next few months at least:
In depth commentary on the following TV shows(Alphabetical Order):
30 Rock
90210
Brothers and Sisters
Desperate Housewives
Dancing With The Stars
Fringe
Gossip Girl
Heroes
How I met Your Mother
My Name is Earl
Pushing Daisies
Private Practice
Project Runway
The Big Band Theory
The Office
Ugly Betty
Movie reviews anytime I catch anything that I had strong positive or negative feelings about, CD reviews anytime my younger sister forces me to try something new, exciting and stimulating dialogs between me and certain friends and family members who I have different views from! Hope you guys are as excited as I am to get this baby started!
I've decided to retire my LJ...not entirely just for my TV and Movie and occasional celeb gossip related rants. I'm going to try to update at least 3 times a week.
For those of you who don't know me:
I'm Reenie, I'm 20 years old, I live in the Northeast United States, live in one state go to school in another. I was raised Catholic, but I've sort of lapsed in the faith a little (more out of laziness than no longer being a believer!) I watch way too much TV, own too many movies, and am overall kind of a waste. I did write a book this summer though, what did you do?
This is the first time I've tried serious blogging, and this is just a preliminary. Before this I had a Xanga and a LIvejournal, neither of which I did much more on than rant about pop culture. A couple of my friends suggested separately that I try doing a real blog about this stuff, and since I have no web design skills, I'm here. (If anyone does have web design skills, please, teach me!) The title of the blog is Popgirl lives, which is totally lame I know, but just know now that I suck at titles. Some of the things you can count of from me for the next few months at least:
In depth commentary on the following TV shows(Alphabetical Order):
30 Rock
90210
Brothers and Sisters
Desperate Housewives
Dancing With The Stars
Fringe
Gossip Girl
Heroes
How I met Your Mother
My Name is Earl
Pushing Daisies
Private Practice
Project Runway
The Big Band Theory
The Office
Ugly Betty
Movie reviews anytime I catch anything that I had strong positive or negative feelings about, CD reviews anytime my younger sister forces me to try something new, exciting and stimulating dialogs between me and certain friends and family members who I have different views from! Hope you guys are as excited as I am to get this baby started!
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