Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Decisions, decisions

I've decided not to continue posting my thoughts on eps of the shows I watch.  I can't rightly call them recaps and it's not fair to expect you all to wait while I catch up to technology [as far as making gifs, etc.]
It's not that I haven't enjoyed doing it, but I don't enjoy it enough to keep doing it without seeing any type of response on the blog itself.  I even tried it on tumblr.  I got I think maybe one note and that disappeared.  Also since I'm taking more voiceover training, I don't think my schedule would allow for too much more leeway anyway. 
Thank you to all who glanced at some of my posts and told me what you thought on Twitter, etc.   I didn't forget or overlook you. 
Just trying to eliminate stress for myself wherever/however I can. 

Saturday, October 8, 2011

My thoughts on Supernatural Seas. 7, Ep 3 Girl Next Door (Contains Spoilers!)

First off, I want to say that Jensen Ackles did a wonderful job directing.  I think what I'd like to do sometime today is look at both eps he directed back to back and see if I can pick up any signature stuff.   I love doing stuff like that.  I enjoyed how we got to see stuff from Dean's point of view for a little bit when he was on the morphine for his leg.

Bobby -  I knew he wasn't dead, mainly because of spoilers.  There has been some speculation that perhaps he was Leviathan!Bobby.  I really hope not.  :(   Time will tell.

Dean -  The scene where Dean was trying to get out of the hospital bed on his own cracked me up.  Where he thought he was going, esp. without crutches, I don't even know.   I was worried for a while that he would get left behind at the hospital.  I was relieved when he made it to the ambulance Bobby comandeered [How Bobby managed that, I'll never know, but that was Badass.] The part where he was watching the telenovelas cracked me up too.  [I'd really love to know what started him watching that kind of thing. ]  His sawing the cast off after three weeks also cracked me up. [I wish I had Winchester healing power.  Really.]   I do not hate Dean.  I kind of feel like some stuff he did last night was like taking two steps forward and then two back though.   Dean socking Sam when he came back from confronting Amy...Ok, Dean couldn't have known that she knocked Sam down too, and I get that he wasn't thrilled with Sam taking off with the Impala and just leaving a note, but if Sam's still hallucinating and he had a concussion 3 weeks ago, is knocking the sh*t out of  him smart?   I know they've hit each other before, but still... I just wasn't happy about that.  I also thought Dean calling Amy a freak was unnecessary, especially when he knows how words like freak and monster make Sam feel.  Maybe he felt like it was Ruby 2.0 revisited...I know once trust is lost...it's depending on what's happened, it can be very difficult to find again, but still...
As far as Dean killing Amy goes...It reminded me of the part in Kill Bill Vol. 1 where Vernita Green's little girl walks in and sees what Beatrix [Beatrice?] has done.  I don't know how to feel about this...I do believe Amy or the boy would possibly have killed again.  But if he would have killed the boy too...I'd be even more conflicted...And then who was the boy saying he could go to?  They better hope it's not one of the Leviathan or else this is going to totally turn around and bite The Winchesters and possibly Bobby too.  [ No pun intended.]


Sam - The scars on Sam's hand and the fact that he's still having the hallucinations, make me wonder why Dean thought it was ok to send him to the store, but not ok for Sam to work a case on his own.
The cake and pie thing...  I don't think Sam meant to be insensitive when it came to that.  Maybe the store didn't have pie.   Maybe the pie in the store looked nasty.  Maybe Sam's one of those people that thinks all sweets are the same.  Or maybe he doesn't like sweets at all and so would probably never get that cake is not pie.  We'll probably never know,  but I don't think he deliberately brought cake back to mess with Dean.
Sam thinking of himself as a "freak" ...  That messes with me so bad.  I won't bore you with all the reasons why here, but I just...it's painful to watch and I mean that in a good way, if it's even possible to say such a thing.  
Colin Ford did an amazing job as always playing Young Sam.  That scene where Amy shoots Sam down at first when he's trying to talk to her...I was just like Wow! I loved seeing him back.  Also, that line about 8 years...Was there some significance to that particular number?   [I know way to read too much into sh*t, right?]



Easter eggs - When Dean dozes off in front of the TV  they give a nod to My Bloody Valentine in 3D.  

Amy Pond the alias Amy uses is from Doctor Who.  She is a friend to the 11th doctor.

The rock aliases:    Lemmy Kilmister [Motorhead] and Lars Ulrich [Metallica of course]

Unpopular opinion:  Ok, so far as I know Kitsune are Japanese in origin.  Casting a Japanese actress or Japanese American actress would have made more sense to me here.  I'm all for open casting and all, but this was a bit of a stretch, even for me.  When a particular figure from folklore is unique to a region...I feel like it's important to retain some aspect of the culture.  The actresses playing Amy did excellent jobs, I still stand by my opinion though.















Saturday, October 1, 2011

My thoughts on "End of the affair" Vampire Diaries Seas. 3, Ep. 3

Damon - Has no shame.  lol  I loved when Gloria essentially told him using his charm on her wouldn't work. 

Gloria - Made it to the end of the ep.  I feel like that is a huge victory in and of itself.   I still want Lucy to come back. 

Stefan - I have nothing to go on here, because there is no Rebecca in the book.  Just because Klaus made him remember doesn't wipe away all his experiences and feelings for Elena though.  I feel like if anything, this will only just further complicate things. 

Klaus - The running from someone premise...Didn't we see this before with Katherine?  I'm starting to get bored with Big Bads running from Even Bigger Bads.  I guess that whole idea just doesn't make sense to me, because sooner or later you have to hit the top of the food chain, don't you?  (I'm sorry, but it has to end somewhere.) 

Rebecca - I just felt nothing...I'll give it a few episodes.  Also, if she threw that much of a tantrum over her missing necklace...I don't even want to see the one she's going to throw if/when she finds out where it is. 

Tyler -  I can't profess my love for him enough. 

Sheriff Forwood - I think she might finally be over seeing Caroline as a monster.  Caroline needs at least one of her parents to have their head on straight.  Thursday night was just heart wrenching. 

Caroline - Candice Accola...There are a lot of talented people that make up this cast, and she is one of the ones that can put on performances that leave me truly speechless. 

Elena - I can't figure out whether she's ready to give up on Stefan or not.  I don't want to see that, but if Klaus finds out she's alive...I really do see what I predicted in one of my previous posts happening. 

Katherine - Couldn't figure out for the life of me where she was last night.  Also, I wish they'd not waste that character. She just seemed like so much filler to me. 

Bonnie - We finally get to see her again next week.  Not that I'm not over the moon about the introduction of Gloria. 

No Jeremy, Vicki, or Anna :(

The 1920's flashbacks - They were alright...Maybe Boardwalk Empire has spoiled me here.  To be fair though, the CW is not HBO, and the flashbacks were not the whole of the story.  I'm also not an expert on the period, so I don't know how accurate they were or weren't, what anachronisms there were, etc.

My thoughts on Supernatural Seas. 7, Ep 2 Hello Cruel World (Contains Spoilers)

Bobby - Bobby called Cas a friend.  I loved this.    I'm not certain where he is, but I know Bobby's not gone.  Devastated about his house though.  No more panic room either.  :(
Also that line about Sam not being curled up beneath the sink...I'm going to hope he was just being facetious and Sam was never literally curled up beneath the sink.   [He's in such bad shape it definitely wouldn't be that far fetched, except for he's going out of his way to prove to everyone he can function.]

Sheriff Rhodes -   I was worried for her when she passed out.   I love that she kept Bobby in mind. She thought quickly and she had one of the best lines in the ep.

Castiel -  The zombie shamble thing that Leviathan caused just made me sad.  I refuse to believe he's gone.  We just saw the coat.  No body, no wings... On the other hand, the vessel (Jimmy Novak) has been through so much.  I don't know.  For once, I want to think positively though.

Dean -  I love the way he hung on to Cas's coat, I didn't expect that.   It took something happening at Bobby's and possibly to Bobby to get Dean to admit that he wasn't ok.  That broke my heart.
Dean might possibly be on his own and with a broken leg...I have to know how they get out of this...[You have to carry me...I didn't know whether to laugh or cry about that line.  I think I did both.  These poor dudes...]


Sam - Where do I even begin? The way he started, when Dean woke him...[This poor guy...Can this be fixed? ]  That line that Sam and Lucifer say at the same time..."You can't torture someone who has nothing left for you to take away."  That was creepy, sad, and very effective.  And then, that look that Sam has on his face when Dean asks him, if he can see Lucifer as they're talking.  
The part in the warehouse...it's funny a tear fell before I even realized I was crying...And then, when Sam was repeatedly digging into that cut...I just felt so very badly for him...
Dean's speech to Sam kind of reminded me of Pt. 2 of Bargaining in Seas. 6 of BtVS, the part where Buffy asks Dawn if she's in Hell and then Dawn has to convince her not to jump from the tower again, because she's all messed up.
That nervous, self-concious little laugh he gives the real Dean when he assures him he's not seeing any white rabbits. 
The blow to the head...won't that make things even worse?  And Sam was seizing???!!!!
I was positively incoherent at/about the cliffhanger.   [If I said I wanted Jared Padalecki to stop blowing me away, I'd be lying.]


Lucifer - Mark Pellegrino has that menacing, funny, and sarcastic thing down.




The allusions from The Bell Jar, to Alice in Wonderland to A Beautiful Mind...I loved them all.

And the use of The Doobie Brothers "Black Water"...I was absolutely giddy.

Edlund and Bee did a fantastic job.  IMO Edge of your seat viewing.