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annakovsky) wrote2008-05-07 11:33 am
annakovsky) wrote2008-05-07 11:33 am
I'm just going to jump the fence and jog home.
Lately, in the television show of my life, a lot of RL characters who left the series years ago have suddenly popped up out of nowhere to cause drama, as though we're a) having ratings problems, and b) gearing up for a big season finale. Which is a little troubling, because I do not have time for the mayor to turn into a giant snake at my students' graduation, you guys.
Anyhow, actual television! I have been watching my stories, but haven't found time to post about it, because now they're on EVERY WEEK which takes me by surprise. I'm all, "B-But we just had a new episode seven days ago! Shouldn't there be a four month wait now?"
The Office
Things That Have Delighted Me Since The Writers' Strike:
1) Hot coked up Ryan
2) Phyllis, coming alive! ("No, all right, no, she can't fit in a rowboat.")
3) Kevin breaking my heart and being hilarious -- WAY TO ACT, BRIAN
4) Andy Bernard, just in general
5) Hot coked up Ryan
6) Pam's adorable back-up glasses ahahaha. We've all been there.
7) Jan/Hunter??????? Ahahahaha.
8) TOBY FLENDERSON: BATMAN?
9) Everyone in the office shipping Andy/Angela more than Jim/Pam
10) Dwight Schrute, Ladies' Man???? ("I'm not going to call her.") That was hot, I'm not going to lie to you.
11) Hot coked up Ryan reprimanding Jim Halpert hahahaha
12) Jim wanting to abandon Pam at Michael's dinner party -- haha, I totally agree, Jim, it was an every-man-for-himself situation. Also apparently I really enjoy it when Jim isn't being Your Perfect Gay Boyfriend, especially since it didn't bother Pam at all and she pwned his ass anyway.
13) Pam Beesly being SUPER AWESOME AND DELIGHTFUL ALL OVER THE PLACE. Haha, when Dwight showed up at the dinner party with his babysitter and she says, "Awesome." Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
14) Jim Halpert: kind of racist? See #12 above.
15) Darryl: NEWSIE.
16) Hot coked up Ryan?
I keep wanting to write post-ep fic where Ryan wakes up, all hungover, sleeping all smooshed in between Michael and Dwight with a cameraman filming him, sore because some girls beat him up. I believe that is the definition of "rock-bottom," right there.
Things That Have Perturbed Me Since The Writer's Strike:
1) Dinner Party was definitely the most uncomfortable episode since Phyllis's Wedding. Auuuuuugh I could barely make it through and I am usually completely fine with this show's discomfort level.
2) The storyline that began with Jim going fishing with his cousin Deagol?
God, I am really hoping this effing engagement thing is going to end with Pam turning him down, because holy CRAP, buying a ring a week into a relationship is so incredibly creepy. I mean, they may have been friends for years, but being friends is not DATING. Also, THEY HAD BARELY SPOKEN FOR A YEAR. Also, he had JUST broken up with Karen. I feel like him doing that shows more than ever that his relationship with Pam is half-fantasy. Ugh, it gives me the creeps. GROW UP, HALPERT. Also, fake joke proposals aren't cool.
That whole thing was extra upsetting because Jim and Pam have been being super cute and chill lately and I was really shipping them. GOD, SHOW. YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING INTERESTING WITH THIS. Because if Jim proposes by suspending the ring in Jell-O like something out of one of the NUMEROUS TERRIBLE FICS ABOUT JIM AND PAM GETTING ENGAGED, you guys, I will shoot someone in the head. Possibly myself.
How I Met Your Mother
I love this show, you guys. It is my happy place. The fandom has EXPLODED since the Barney/Robin thing, though, which is weirding me out. (Also I run the fic comm so I am tagging and tagging and tagging and EVERYTHING is Barney/Robin which -- hey, I love them too, but would it kill you guys to write a Ted/Marshall once in awhile? COME ON.) And I just -- I just don't want fandom to ruin my happy show for me, okay? Look what happened to Jim Halpert. ANYway, in terms of actual content, I'm really enjoy the Barney/Robin storyline, obvs, and Ted's being really super charming with Stella. But the Ted/Barney breakup is BREAKING MY HEART (I was seriously really sad for a couple of days afterwards, no fooling), so I REALLY REALLY HOPE they make up by the finale. DON'T BREAK UP, YOU GUYS, YOU'RE GREAT TOGETHER.
30 Rock
FLOYD!!!!!!! COME BACK, FLOYD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, "Choosing a sandwich over a guy. That's less cliche." And "I CAN HAVE IT ALL" through the sandwich KILLED ME FOREVER.
Also, I have never been much of a Jack/Liz shipper, but Alec Baldwin is giving her some LOOKS lately. If Tina Fey doesn't want people shipping them, she should get that under control. Yeesh.
SVU
Okay, seriously, the first 40 minutes of Olivia going undercover at the women's prison confirmed my opinion that this show is the best comedy on television, but then the last 20 minutes were just straight up torture porn. I was honestly so angry and offended I turned it off and vowed never to watch again.
And whatevs, so I watched the Robin Williams episode (which... this show has just given up on making sense, hasn't it?) because I heard Elliot touched Olivia's neck, but I AM STILL REALLY CLOSE TO BEING DONE WITH IT FOREVER. I SWEAR TO GOD.
Life
I am still so late to the party on this one, but I love this show so so so so so much. Charlie Crews may be my favorite character ever put on television, and that's a fact. OH LOOK, THIS SHOW HAS CHARACTERS WITH LAYERS. I think what I really like about it is that you have some characters with serious, serious issues, but they're not all angsty all the time -- they're also funny, and they're coping, and they can do their job and have a life and get through the day. And they're actively trying to deal with themselves, both Charlie with his Zen-ish nonsense and Dani with her half-hearted AA, and I really like that. And I enjoy how the format of it is a procedural, but the characters act more like the cops on Homicide, talking about other things at the crime scene, with things beyond the case going on.
Also, I love how Charlie is dorky and funny and annoying, but then also REALLY FUCKING INSANE AND SCARY. And I also really love how Dani is honestly irritated with him most of the time, and rightly so -- and it's not sexy annoyed, it's, like, dumb little brother annoyed. And how when Easley shows up the dynamic is totally big sister, middle brother, baby brother, and they're driving her crazy. ALSO, I LOVE TED A LOT.
In conclusion, I really need season 2 to start, because there's only so many times I can watch the 11 episodes that exist.
(P.S. This poem, which was one of my favorites before I'd even seen this show, is so Charlie Crews I can't even deal.)
In Treatment
Have any of you guys seen this? My parents and rockstar!bro were talking about it when we were all on vacation together, and GOD, it's a good show. I never thought people just sitting in a room and talking could be so incredibly compelling.
Anyhow, actual television! I have been watching my stories, but haven't found time to post about it, because now they're on EVERY WEEK which takes me by surprise. I'm all, "B-But we just had a new episode seven days ago! Shouldn't there be a four month wait now?"
The Office
Things That Have Delighted Me Since The Writers' Strike:
1) Hot coked up Ryan
2) Phyllis, coming alive! ("No, all right, no, she can't fit in a rowboat.")
3) Kevin breaking my heart and being hilarious -- WAY TO ACT, BRIAN
4) Andy Bernard, just in general
5) Hot coked up Ryan
6) Pam's adorable back-up glasses ahahaha. We've all been there.
7) Jan/Hunter??????? Ahahahaha.
8) TOBY FLENDERSON: BATMAN?
9) Everyone in the office shipping Andy/Angela more than Jim/Pam
10) Dwight Schrute, Ladies' Man???? ("I'm not going to call her.") That was hot, I'm not going to lie to you.
11) Hot coked up Ryan reprimanding Jim Halpert hahahaha
12) Jim wanting to abandon Pam at Michael's dinner party -- haha, I totally agree, Jim, it was an every-man-for-himself situation. Also apparently I really enjoy it when Jim isn't being Your Perfect Gay Boyfriend, especially since it didn't bother Pam at all and she pwned his ass anyway.
13) Pam Beesly being SUPER AWESOME AND DELIGHTFUL ALL OVER THE PLACE. Haha, when Dwight showed up at the dinner party with his babysitter and she says, "Awesome." Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
14) Jim Halpert: kind of racist? See #12 above.
15) Darryl: NEWSIE.
16) Hot coked up Ryan?
I keep wanting to write post-ep fic where Ryan wakes up, all hungover, sleeping all smooshed in between Michael and Dwight with a cameraman filming him, sore because some girls beat him up. I believe that is the definition of "rock-bottom," right there.
Things That Have Perturbed Me Since The Writer's Strike:
1) Dinner Party was definitely the most uncomfortable episode since Phyllis's Wedding. Auuuuuugh I could barely make it through and I am usually completely fine with this show's discomfort level.
2) The storyline that began with Jim going fishing with his cousin Deagol?
God, I am really hoping this effing engagement thing is going to end with Pam turning him down, because holy CRAP, buying a ring a week into a relationship is so incredibly creepy. I mean, they may have been friends for years, but being friends is not DATING. Also, THEY HAD BARELY SPOKEN FOR A YEAR. Also, he had JUST broken up with Karen. I feel like him doing that shows more than ever that his relationship with Pam is half-fantasy. Ugh, it gives me the creeps. GROW UP, HALPERT. Also, fake joke proposals aren't cool.
That whole thing was extra upsetting because Jim and Pam have been being super cute and chill lately and I was really shipping them. GOD, SHOW. YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING INTERESTING WITH THIS. Because if Jim proposes by suspending the ring in Jell-O like something out of one of the NUMEROUS TERRIBLE FICS ABOUT JIM AND PAM GETTING ENGAGED, you guys, I will shoot someone in the head. Possibly myself.
How I Met Your Mother
I love this show, you guys. It is my happy place. The fandom has EXPLODED since the Barney/Robin thing, though, which is weirding me out. (Also I run the fic comm so I am tagging and tagging and tagging and EVERYTHING is Barney/Robin which -- hey, I love them too, but would it kill you guys to write a Ted/Marshall once in awhile? COME ON.) And I just -- I just don't want fandom to ruin my happy show for me, okay? Look what happened to Jim Halpert. ANYway, in terms of actual content, I'm really enjoy the Barney/Robin storyline, obvs, and Ted's being really super charming with Stella. But the Ted/Barney breakup is BREAKING MY HEART (I was seriously really sad for a couple of days afterwards, no fooling), so I REALLY REALLY HOPE they make up by the finale. DON'T BREAK UP, YOU GUYS, YOU'RE GREAT TOGETHER.
30 Rock
FLOYD!!!!!!! COME BACK, FLOYD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, "Choosing a sandwich over a guy. That's less cliche." And "I CAN HAVE IT ALL" through the sandwich KILLED ME FOREVER.
Also, I have never been much of a Jack/Liz shipper, but Alec Baldwin is giving her some LOOKS lately. If Tina Fey doesn't want people shipping them, she should get that under control. Yeesh.
SVU
Okay, seriously, the first 40 minutes of Olivia going undercover at the women's prison confirmed my opinion that this show is the best comedy on television, but then the last 20 minutes were just straight up torture porn. I was honestly so angry and offended I turned it off and vowed never to watch again.
And whatevs, so I watched the Robin Williams episode (which... this show has just given up on making sense, hasn't it?) because I heard Elliot touched Olivia's neck, but I AM STILL REALLY CLOSE TO BEING DONE WITH IT FOREVER. I SWEAR TO GOD.
Life
I am still so late to the party on this one, but I love this show so so so so so much. Charlie Crews may be my favorite character ever put on television, and that's a fact. OH LOOK, THIS SHOW HAS CHARACTERS WITH LAYERS. I think what I really like about it is that you have some characters with serious, serious issues, but they're not all angsty all the time -- they're also funny, and they're coping, and they can do their job and have a life and get through the day. And they're actively trying to deal with themselves, both Charlie with his Zen-ish nonsense and Dani with her half-hearted AA, and I really like that. And I enjoy how the format of it is a procedural, but the characters act more like the cops on Homicide, talking about other things at the crime scene, with things beyond the case going on.
Also, I love how Charlie is dorky and funny and annoying, but then also REALLY FUCKING INSANE AND SCARY. And I also really love how Dani is honestly irritated with him most of the time, and rightly so -- and it's not sexy annoyed, it's, like, dumb little brother annoyed. And how when Easley shows up the dynamic is totally big sister, middle brother, baby brother, and they're driving her crazy. ALSO, I LOVE TED A LOT.
In conclusion, I really need season 2 to start, because there's only so many times I can watch the 11 episodes that exist.
(P.S. This poem, which was one of my favorites before I'd even seen this show, is so Charlie Crews I can't even deal.)
In Treatment
Have any of you guys seen this? My parents and rockstar!bro were talking about it when we were all on vacation together, and GOD, it's a good show. I never thought people just sitting in a room and talking could be so incredibly compelling.
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