Seriously, this is why I married him.

A while back I posted this question: What's a good euphemism for having sex with someone and then killing them? As it turns out, I should have asked my husband at the time. For some reason I just asked him now and his response was brilliant: "To mantis."

Way to pull a George Lucas, RTD!

2009 Thanksgiving Special "The Waters of Mars"

I finally got around to watching the Thanksgiving special. I don't have much to say. I spent the first 40 minutes or so trying not to fall asleep. I spent the rest of it screaming "What the fuck?" at the TV. I do kind of like the callback to the idea that he needs someone to tell him when to stop (Hi Donna!). But seriously RTD, three episodes left and this is what you give us? REALLY? You are a crazy person who has lost...

...wait, I just had a thought. Maybe RTD has made the Doctor all power mad (it certainly seemed to be there in that last special with everyone gushing about how awesome he is) so that we'll start to dislike him and be ready for the new guy when he dies instead of mourning the loss of David Tennant. There's no way RTD is that smart though, is he? There's no way. There's no way the man who purposely plotted that Davros/Donna/everyone the Doctor's ever met shitstorm could ever be that clever. And if he was that clever, you'd think he'd at least be making the stories interesting as he's making us hate the Doctor.

Whatever. I am not looking forward to The End of Time. Gee RTD, thanks for ruining my childhood (and by childhood I mean two years ago when I started watching Doctor Who)!

There's not near enough shirtlessness on this show.

I only have one spoiler to confirm at this point (two episodes from the end of season 3), but it pleases me tremendously:

• The boys get matching chest tattoos (and this time I found a picture!):

Although, I must say, I'm more than a little disappointed that we didn't actually get to see them getting the tattoos. They couldn't have fought a tattoo parlor ghost and then gotten this clever idea while they were there? I imagine they'd be making pretty much the same faces they're making in this picture.

You can't always get what you want....but sometimes you get Glee!

I watched the premiere of Glee back in May when it aired the first time and I enjoyed it.

Then I started watching it when it started regularly this fall and I enjoyed it...slightly less. It was mainly the whole deal with Will's wife and her hysterical pregnancy that was bugging me. It was so annoying and completely beyond reasonable suspension of disbelief (and this on a show where people spontaneously burst into song!) and it involved her horrible sister and I could just barely stand it. There were some episodes that didn't deal with the kids at all and there just wasn't nearly enough "Don't Stop Believin'". I stopped watching sometime in October and considered letting it go.

I had the last several episodes sitting on the DVR, but finally caught up today. And I'm glad I did. Now that all of the pregnancy related secrets have been spilled and Will has potentially left his stupid, annoying wife (who, despite the character's terribleness, is excellently played by Jessalyn Gilsig) it seems like the show could maintain a pretty high level of entertaining-ness from here on out.

There's still nothing quite as awesome as Sue Sylvester at her craziest. I love it when she makes fun of Will's hair. Quinn, despite seeming like a villain early on in the series, has become one of the most likable, not to mention sweetest, characters. Emma is super adorable and has a to-die-for wardrobe. Puck is both super-hot, hilarious, and weirdly endearing with his bad boy charm. Mercedes, Tina, Kurt and Artie are all very enjoyable. But I think my absolute favorite character, for the moment, is Brittany, the cheerleader who's stupidity absolutely defies comprehension. I believe another character referred to her as being so dumb that "she thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows." I don't think there's a line of dialog that comes out of her mouth that isn't completely hilarious. Plus, she's always the one doing the most bizarre things while standing in the background. I love her.

So I guess the show's not on again until April. Oh well. More time for me to watch Supernatural.

Summer Glau is definitely a robot in real life.

2.05 "The Public Eye" & 2.06 "The Left Hand"

I have three thoughts on these two episodes:

1. I feel like at some point after it was announced that Summer Glau was going to be on Dollhouse Joss commented that he was going to let her play a normal person for once in her career. (Ah yes, here it is.) Maybe he was referring to some future project. Don't get me wrong, she was completely awesome with the dead arm and the OCD and the using her job to carry out her own vicious revenge plots, but I wouldn't call her character "normal".
2. Victor as Topher was hilarious and wonderful. Enver Gjokaj is seriously amazing. I hope he gets good jobs out of this and doesn't just have to keep circling back around to Joss' projects. He might be the best actor on this show. Although that's not terribly difficult with this group. Olivia Williams and Amy Acker might be his only competition. And maybe Alan Tudyk. And sadly only one of those three is a series regular.
   
3. I don't even feel like I have a clue what's going on in this show anymore. What's more is that I'm not even sure that what's going on is supposed to be followable. I can't tell if that's on purpose or it's a product of the writers working with no definitive time frame of any kind, or if Joss has simply checked out, moved on to other things and left Jed & Maurissa running the show. Joss isn't even writing the series finale!
   

I'm starting to feel like this entire series should have just been a two hour TV movie that was some combination of "Echo" and "Epitaph One" and then called it good on this idea. Or possibly the whole show could have taken place in flashbacks from the "Epitaph One" future. Then we'd only have to watch the interesting and relevant parts. Although I guess then we'd never have gotten to see Victor as Topher...or Victor as Mr. Dominic...or Victor as that crazy party girl. So we would have missed a lot of Victor, but that's about it.

Destination unknown...

What I thought I knew:

• There's a demon named Ruby who's played by a blonde actress...
• Sam may be the Antichrist

What's actually happened as of 3.05 "Bedtime Stories":

• There's a demon ("fallen angel" in her words) named Ruby who's played by a blonde actress named Katie Cassidy
• According to Ruby and the random demon in a body named Casey in 3.04 "Sin City", Sam was chosen by Azazel (Yellow Eyes) to be the second in command when he brought forth the demon army from the Devil's Gate. Ruby used the word Antichrist. Casey said Sam was supposed to lead the demons after Azazel was killed and that she had faith and would have followed him. So I'm going to say in this case that Sam was intended to be the Antichrist, and lost that position when Jake killed him. And maybe it remains to be seen what he is now.
  

So...that Antichrist thing is pretty awesome. And I'm already digging the idea of this war between Heaven and Hell with humans stuck in the middle.

I'm also pretty gung ho on this idea of Sam as something other than human. So far we know that Yellow Eyes was feeding baby Sam his blood and that Mary Winchester recognized Yellow Eyes the night he killed her. Also, Yellow Eyes systematically killed off all of Mary's friends and acquaintances after she died. What was going on with her and Yellow Eyes? Poor Dean and Sam. It seems like their parents were a seriously messed up pair. Those boys never stood a chance at normal.

According to Kansas, Dean shouldn't be crying anymore. Apparently he's not listening.

Although I am seriously starting to wonder if Kripke has based the entire series on "Carry On Wayward Son".

2.21 & 2.22 "All Hell Breaks Loose" Parts I & II

So now that I've already moved on to watching season 3 I'm not really going to say anything about the season 2 finale other than this. Dean cries like three or four times just in the two part finale. I'm pretty sure that's more than he's cried in the rest of the series so far. And due to all the crying scenes, I noticed something:

This is a regular Dean Winchester scene:


This is a scene in which Dean is emotional and crying and it's pretty representative of any scene I've watched so far in which Dean is emotional and crying:


This has me wondering whether the thick Texan accent is an acting choice by Jensen Ackles or whether the accent thickness is just a natural product of him being on the verge of tears. He is from Dallas, after all. But that accent is thick. I'm thinking it's most likely an acting choice, but regardless, I enjoy it. Probably just because I enjoy Dean crying. I hope Sam dies a few more times over the course of the series. And then just keeps undying. I guess he's not listening to Kansas either.