So I've been watching the new NBC series Merlin, which is meant to be a Camelot origin story (I know, brilliantly orginal idea...NOT) There are quite a few reasons I started watching.
1. Love all things Camelot and Arthur related
2. Love most things fantasy related
3. Love origin stories
4. ANTHONY HEAD AS UTHER PENDRAGON
5. Giant CGI Dragon in every episode
6. ANTHONY HEAD AS UTHER PENDRAGON
7. Promise of cutey mc cute cute boys as Arthur, Lancelot, Gawaine and other knights of the round table.
8. ANTHONY HEAD AS UTHER PENDRAGON
I really like watching the show, and me and my mom and my dad watch it together every Sunday night, it's very bondy bondy. But I have some problems with it.
1. In this version, Merlin is in fact younger than Arthur...not so much working with that.
2. Arthur has always known he was the prince and future king of Camelot.
3. Guinivere is Morgana's (who I assume is to become Morgan Le Fay) servant, and black (Please note, not a race issue, but Guinivere is supposed to be WELSH, and BLONDE or possibly a REDHEAD, if you're stretching it) and has a crush on Merlin
4. Avalon is a place where weird evil fairies live. Except, well, that's NOT WHAT AVALON IS!
5. Arthur is kind of a dick
6. The dragon is still really freaking cool.
7. Mordred's origins have not been explain at all, but he was in it two episodes ago
8. I forgot that Uther is supposed to be a huge a-hole and get very sad when he is. I want him to be less Uther and more Giles with a crown.
Anyway, what do you all (*cough* Jen *cough*) think about Camelot getting the Smallville treatment?
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
HOW DARE YOU?
OK, so I get it, musicals are really cool right now. That's awesome, I love musicals, I've made that clear.
BUT I think there is a limit, and some of the stuff that's coming out now, I have a real problem with:
Footloose-Footloose is NOT a good musical. I had a whole lot of fun when I was in Footloose but it truly is a piece of shit. Although Zefron's rendention of "I can't stand still" is probably going to please
They are remaking My Fair Lady...No, I'm not kidding. It gets worse, they're remaking it with Kiera Knightly. KIERA KNIGHTLY...who I hate...HATE. And she's playing Eliza...MY Eliza. Seriously, its one of my many dream roles (Not that I could sing it anymore.) and oh right Audrey and Julie's Eliza! These are two of the most amazing and graceful women in the history of the world and they're letting Elizabeth Swann play their role?
The only way I will accept this movie is if this man is playing Henry Higgins:
And even then, I'll be skeptical.
BUT I think there is a limit, and some of the stuff that's coming out now, I have a real problem with:
Footloose-Footloose is NOT a good musical. I had a whole lot of fun when I was in Footloose but it truly is a piece of shit. Although Zefron's rendention of "I can't stand still" is probably going to please
They are remaking My Fair Lady...No, I'm not kidding. It gets worse, they're remaking it with Kiera Knightly. KIERA KNIGHTLY...who I hate...HATE. And she's playing Eliza...MY Eliza. Seriously, its one of my many dream roles (Not that I could sing it anymore.) and oh right Audrey and Julie's Eliza! These are two of the most amazing and graceful women in the history of the world and they're letting Elizabeth Swann play their role?
The only way I will accept this movie is if this man is playing Henry Higgins:
And even then, I'll be skeptical.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Fan freaking tastic and a PSA
The people over at Desperate Housewives have made me a very happy little nerd girl.
Ahem
The character of Karen McClusky (Played by the actress who I affectionately call Mrs. Laningham) her sister was introduced this week. This sister, is being played by Lilly Tomlin.
Get why this makes me happy?
Can't figure it out?
On The West Wing, Mrs. Laningham was President Josiah Bartlett's personal secretary, that is until she was killed by a drunk driver in one of the best season finales in the show's seven year run. I say best in the sense that it was incredibly heart wrenching and the TV nerd in me is still upset by it. Mrs. Laningham was replaced after an extensive search process by Lilly Tomlin. She never really did actually replace Mrs. Laningham, in fact I can't even remember her character's name (Jenna help me out here.) I'm just saying this is awesome.
I'm actually watching a West Wing marathon now. I completely forgot how well written and perfectly executed this show is.
Also, a part of me wants to write Jed Bartlett in tomorrow...Who's with me?
Granted I'm a hardcore crazy small government Republican and he's a practically socialist big government Democrat, not to mention fictional and played by an actual socialist, but I think that this is good.
And really, who doesn't want to see what would happen if Emilio, Charlie and Renee were the first children? All of a sudden the Bush daughters don't look so bad, right? I mean, next to Charlie Sheen, they're saints.
So do I have a point? Yes! I am making my first self important political statement. When I say I'm a Republican I'm not shitting around. I believe in small government and low taxes. I think that every day decisions should be in the hands of the people who have to make them every day, or if absolutely necessary on a state level. I believe in protect all people's rights, whether they're born or convicted of a crime, or making the difficult decision to protect this country by joining the armed forces. Incidentally this puts me against the current party leadership (Neo Conservatives are not real republicans) in several ways. Yes, I oppose abortion, I also oppose the death penalty, the war, human torture and I support equal rights for all Americans (I don't think that Gay marriage will destroy anything except for unfair double standards for heterosexual couples). I support John McCain because he feels the same way on most of these issues, gay marriage being the exception, but I refuse to be a single issue voter.
I'm a Republican, I'm not a fan of Bush, I think the fact that our country is in the toilet at the moment is evidence of what he and his administration have done. But I also think it should be known that The Senator from Arizona is the same way.
I've always supported this man, but after seeing him speak in person, I know that this is what we need.
It also doesn't help that according to Barack Obama my family is rich and yet both my parents work full time, don't own their home, can barely make tuition payments my mother is driving around in a on its last leg 15 year old mini van. I have trouble trusting anyone who's that out of touch with people in the middle class. Especially when they claim to be advocates of that group. White collar workers are still middle class...not just blue collar. I resent when people don't make the distinction between my father, an upper management consultant in a big corporation and The CEO of a fortune 500 company. There is a big difference. It's called upper middle class people, we exist, and we're hurting too, know why? Most of our money is in the stock market. Raise our taxes, and guess what happens? We don't have money to put in the stock market and the economy doesn't get better, it gets worse. Raise our taxes and give that money to other people, then you piss us off...We work for that money, (OK, in my case my father does, but someday I will) it's ours, we need it, to do things that we've earned, like take nice little weeks near the ocean to be with out families and recharge our batteries. Or buy new cars that we don't live in fear will stop working halfway through a drive through the Pennsylvania mountains to take our children to college. Those are just a few examples of things that my family has had to give up because of the current economic status. I assume other families like ours are in similar spots.
Ahem
The character of Karen McClusky (Played by the actress who I affectionately call Mrs. Laningham) her sister was introduced this week. This sister, is being played by Lilly Tomlin.
Get why this makes me happy?
Can't figure it out?
On The West Wing, Mrs. Laningham was President Josiah Bartlett's personal secretary, that is until she was killed by a drunk driver in one of the best season finales in the show's seven year run. I say best in the sense that it was incredibly heart wrenching and the TV nerd in me is still upset by it. Mrs. Laningham was replaced after an extensive search process by Lilly Tomlin. She never really did actually replace Mrs. Laningham, in fact I can't even remember her character's name (Jenna help me out here.) I'm just saying this is awesome.
I'm actually watching a West Wing marathon now. I completely forgot how well written and perfectly executed this show is.
Also, a part of me wants to write Jed Bartlett in tomorrow...Who's with me?
Granted I'm a hardcore crazy small government Republican and he's a practically socialist big government Democrat, not to mention fictional and played by an actual socialist, but I think that this is good.
And really, who doesn't want to see what would happen if Emilio, Charlie and Renee were the first children? All of a sudden the Bush daughters don't look so bad, right? I mean, next to Charlie Sheen, they're saints.
So do I have a point? Yes! I am making my first self important political statement. When I say I'm a Republican I'm not shitting around. I believe in small government and low taxes. I think that every day decisions should be in the hands of the people who have to make them every day, or if absolutely necessary on a state level. I believe in protect all people's rights, whether they're born or convicted of a crime, or making the difficult decision to protect this country by joining the armed forces. Incidentally this puts me against the current party leadership (Neo Conservatives are not real republicans) in several ways. Yes, I oppose abortion, I also oppose the death penalty, the war, human torture and I support equal rights for all Americans (I don't think that Gay marriage will destroy anything except for unfair double standards for heterosexual couples). I support John McCain because he feels the same way on most of these issues, gay marriage being the exception, but I refuse to be a single issue voter.
I'm a Republican, I'm not a fan of Bush, I think the fact that our country is in the toilet at the moment is evidence of what he and his administration have done. But I also think it should be known that The Senator from Arizona is the same way.
I've always supported this man, but after seeing him speak in person, I know that this is what we need.
It also doesn't help that according to Barack Obama my family is rich and yet both my parents work full time, don't own their home, can barely make tuition payments my mother is driving around in a on its last leg 15 year old mini van. I have trouble trusting anyone who's that out of touch with people in the middle class. Especially when they claim to be advocates of that group. White collar workers are still middle class...not just blue collar. I resent when people don't make the distinction between my father, an upper management consultant in a big corporation and The CEO of a fortune 500 company. There is a big difference. It's called upper middle class people, we exist, and we're hurting too, know why? Most of our money is in the stock market. Raise our taxes, and guess what happens? We don't have money to put in the stock market and the economy doesn't get better, it gets worse. Raise our taxes and give that money to other people, then you piss us off...We work for that money, (OK, in my case my father does, but someday I will) it's ours, we need it, to do things that we've earned, like take nice little weeks near the ocean to be with out families and recharge our batteries. Or buy new cars that we don't live in fear will stop working halfway through a drive through the Pennsylvania mountains to take our children to college. Those are just a few examples of things that my family has had to give up because of the current economic status. I assume other families like ours are in similar spots.
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