Don't Stop Believin', indeed.
There's not much that can't be sold by a great song. I was won over by the show, but I did spend most of the episode waiting in expectation for them to sing "Don't Stop Believin'". And when they did, it was enjoyable. Plus, who doesn't want to watch Jane Lynch playing an insane cheerleading coach?
The Goat Returns!
4.24 "The Leap"
Hey show. Sorry I gave you a hard time two weeks ago about not including the goat. You definitely made up for it with the finale. The awesomeness of this episode can be broken down into four parts:
- The return of Lily and her brilliant friend manipulating ways!
- The creation of a new term: The Mosby!
- Ted wrestling the Goat!
- Everything Barney & Robin! ("I love you" "Let's get married" "No, you're smothering me"!)
What's done is done.
The Lost finale has been watched and cannot be unwatched.
If that hydrogen bomb exploding in the electromagnetic whatever really is some kind of reset button for the events of the series, I am going to be pissed. And if it's not a reset button that means that Juliet, Daniel, Charlotte, Charlie, Alex, Karl, Rousseau and Jacob are all still dead so I'm still going to be pissed.
I hate this show.
Still haven't watched the Lost finale.
The show is there and a part of me wants to know what happens and yet there are so many things I'd rather be doing right now than watching 2 hours of Lost. These things include, but are not limited to:
- Making a grilled cheese sandwich (actually doing this now)
- Going to the movie theater to watch Star Trek again
- Packing up my apartment
- Watching last week's Gossip Girl
- Eating a burned grilled cheese sandwich (the result of making while blogging)
- Catching up on Heroes
- Doing laundry
I've already said this, but College Humor says it better.
And as I mentioned before, it doesn't make either of them any less entertaining.
What is wrong with me and this show?
I have the two part season finale of Lost on my Tivo. I'm staring at the info screen. I can't seem to press play. I don't know what the problem is with me and this show. I want to watch it, and yet I don't. Part of it is the time commitment, I think. I've become increasingly ADD over the years and it's really hard to commit 2 hours to something, even if it is only more like 86 minutes. And the weirdest part is that I only have this problem with one other show, Gossip Girl. How is it that both shows inspire me to want to know what happens, but not enough to actually spend the time watching to find out?
Anyway, I'm hoping I get around to the finale at some point this evening. It just occurred to me what would make Lost a lot more palatable to me. Zachary Quinto. Although, as far as I can tell, there's pretty much nothing that wouldn't be improved by his presence. Seriously. He's being wasted on Heroes (at least I assume, since I haven't watched since December) and he really needs to move on to a better show. Or maybe just focus on that promising film career. That reminds me. I do want to watch the rest of the past season of Heroes, no matter how disappointing it may be. But I'm telling myself I can't start that until I've watched the finale of Lost.
A Bromance for the Ages
Star Trek was awesome. It was fun, action-y, didn't take itself too seriously, was well cast, and was just generally enjoyable to watch. I have a little more than that to say so I'm going to break my thoughts down into three points:
1) I've only ever watched bits and pieces of the original series and the only previous movie I've seen is The Wrath of Khan, which is to say that before this my knowledge of the relationship between Kirk and Spock* didn't go much beyond general pop culture references. If this movie is at all a reasonable interpretation of how that relationship has been portrayed over the last 43 years, then I can now say that I understand what people are talking about. I thought Chris Pine and Zach Quinto played off each other really well and by the end of the movie I was disappointed that they hadn't had more scenes together. So yeah, I get it. It's a bromance. And it's a good one.
2) As soon as the movie ended my first thought was "I wish this was a TV show." And I was only half joking. The movie did a really good job of presenting the characters as easily likeable and I felt like I wanted to get to know them better and to watch them interact with each other some more, regardless of the circumstance. Guess I'll be watching TOS sometime in the near future. But part of it really was a desire to see more of these actors playing these characters. I really did think the casting was great. Particularly Karl Urban. I never would have thought that a New Zealander who at times during his career has definitely resembled a cross between Brad Pitt and Colin Farrell could so easily walk the fine line between serious and ridiculous that is Bones.
And this final point I don't mean as criticism, simply as amusing observation...
3) It was the plot of Star Wars. A bored and reckless kid lives someplace unreasonably dusty. Random comments about his dead father are enough to convince him to go do something better with his life. He finds a mission somewhat related to his father's death (it's amazing that those of us with living fathers can manage to accomplish anything these days). An old guy in a cave tells him he has a destiny. He starts hanging out with a guy who's overly logical and likes to state the odds of things. He meets another guy (with a sidekick who doesn't speak) who knows how to MacGyver stuff into flying faster. There's a smart girl. He and his new friends blow up a giant thing in space that destroys planets. Star Wars. Didn't make it any less entertaining.
All of that being said, I want to see it again.
* I originally wrote "Kirk/Spock relationship", but then I couldn't manage to not think about slash fic, which, while it has its place and is very understandable in this case, was not where I was intending to go with the paragraph so I reworded.
Some nice filler
5.15 "Follow the Leader"
I think this episode was about something. I couldn't really tell you what. Looks like Daniel really is dead. The 1977 version of his mom is super hot. Jack is a moron for wanting to hit the big Swan reset button and this is the first time ever that Kate has been right about something. And then she turned around to be wrong again by getting in the way of Sawyer and Juliet's potential off-island happiness. I didn't even remotely understand why Locke decided to kill Jacob. It basically seemed like 45 minutes to bridge the gap between the previous episode and the finale. Super exciting, writers!
However, I did love Phil for being such a douchebag.
From the makers of Desmond...
Sometime back in February io9 posted this humorous mock up. After laughing about it the first time, I couldn't remember where I saw it and spent at least an hour Googling to try and find it again, but with no luck. Luckily io9 just included it in a new post so I could steal it and include it here. It's nicely sums up exactly why I love Faraday and why I'm going to be incredibly disappointed if he's dead for good.
I can't wait til they make the counterpart:
Kate was too stupid. Sun was too sensible. From the makers of Juliet comes...CHARLOTTE, pour homme.
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