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Oh man, I am so enjoying having internet again finally. I am also super enjoying my Netflix account. I've watched one DVD (Gone With the Wind, which I loved, but not as much as I was expecting? I don't know, I might post a review of it and other films I've been watching at some point soon) and 3 with Instant Watch (M, The Lady Eve, and Cool Hand Luke, all of which were very good; Cool Hand Luke was probably my favorite, but I am completely infatuated with Paul Newman, so that's to be expected. It was a great film besides him, as well, though), so I feel like I've been getting pretty good use out of the account considering that brings me to $2.25 a movie and it hasn't even been a full week yet. And I'll probably watch another one or two tonight.
I've pretty much decided not to watch the Olympics. Well, it's been mostly decided for me, as I don't have a TV and am coming off of several weeks without internet so I have loads of TV to catch up on plus I'm (obviously) very focused on watching movies right now plus the fact that I am a full-time college student and things are starting to get busier in the semester as we're close to the half-way point between the start of the semester and Spring Break.
The thing is, I adore the Summer Olympics, more than I can really explain considering I don't follow sports outside of the Olympics. But I adore them so much, and if this was the Summer Olympics, I would do everything in my power to watch as much as I could and ignore everything else. But this is the Winter Olympics, and while I remember enjoying them the last few times they were on, it's not like I can really remember anything that happened or have really fond memories of the 2002 or 2006 games (which is not true for the 2004 and 2008 Summer Games, which I have very fond memories of). Basically, I'm not really going to care about the Olympics in a few weeks, and I have other stuff that's more important to me going on, so I just don't have the time or energy to devote to watching them.
Anyways, I've caught up on some TV, so here are some random thoughts on what I've been watching:
I do not in any way understand some of the outrage about Monday's episode and the people that were like "WE SHOULD BOYCOTT THE SHOW SO THEY PUT CHUCK AND SARAH TOGETHER" or whatever. Like, ignoring the fact that there's no way that would work for a million different reasons (the main one being THEY'VE WRITTEN ALL THE EPISODES BUT THE FINALE ALREADY, and the second main reason being SHOW=CANCELED is not the way to get Chuck and Sarah to ever be together, wtf), I still don't understand how you can watch Monday's episode and then go "Well clearly the show is telling me Shaw and Sarah are meant to be, as are Hannah and Chuck, and they are the show's new OTPs and Chuck and Sarah will never get back together." It's just... have you WATCHED a television show before? I mean, I totally understand not enjoying the new pairings and wanting Chuck/Sarah, or maybe thinking they came on too fast (especially in the case of Sarah/Shaw) or that you don't understand the character's motivations for getting together or it doesn't fit or so on, but just... the belief that Chuck and Sarah will never get together again unless you boycott the show is just so... incomprehensible to me. It's a will-they won't-they kind of storyline, so they're not going to get them together at the end of season 2 and be happy for the rest of the show. I mean, even Jim and Pam took an extra year to get together after Jim confessed his feelings to Pam and Pam called off her engagement to Roy (not saying that Jim/Pam is like... the ideal storyline, but I'm just saying, I don't get how people are so up in arms about it, I guess). Whatever, I just adore this show so much that I find it hard to find flaws in it. I'm just willing to let them take me wherever they want. I feel like once I see where the story is going, then maybe I'll let myself judge it and be more critical, but for now, I'm very happy. But whatever, that's just me. It's less any outrage that I find surprising and incomprehensible and more that there's THIS MUCH outrage, that I'm reading about it on random sites, like TVbythenumbers or whatever else. It's just kind of baffling. And I'm saying all this being a super crazy shipper who will be devastated if Chuck and Sarah don't end up together by the series finale and would like to see more of their relationship before that point, if possible, and whose favorite moments tend to be Chuck/Sarah moments, and all that. It's not like I don't get where crazy shippers are coming from; trust me.
I just... that episode was so inoffensive, that seeing comments like "Yesterday's episode still hurts. I have deleted Chuck off my DVR forever" (this, btw, is not coming from anywhere on LJ at all, and I doubt this applies to anyone on my flist, but if I offend you in some how anyways, I'm really sorry), and it's like... SERIOUSLY. NOTHING HAPPENED. They've both had these relationships with people before. How can you POSSIBLY believe Chuck and Sarah won't come back to each other? It's not like one of them was killed off! Or that even either of them were like "I DETEST YOU AND THINK YOU SHOULD DIE" or anything! They're just temporarily moving on. SHAW AND HANNAH AREN'T EVEN SIGNED ON FOR THE WHOLE SEASON. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE HERE. sigh.
HEATH/CALVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aw I'm still holding out hope for them in the end. Especially because Grant is a douche.
I love everything about Casey/Cappie. They're adorable. Especially on the baseball field, when they were at the same base, omg so cute. I love them. I adore how their relationship has been handled so far. I was afraid I'd stop loving them or being as interested in them once they got together, but I'm enjoying them so much now.
lol forever at Casey and Rusty's relationship. I love her going to him for advice in the middle of the game and he's like "I can see both sides!" and she's like "WELL THAT DOESN'T HELP." and I forget what else but it was kind of hilarious.
Evan/Rebecca is also kind of cute. idk, I just love everything about this show. Have I not mentioned that before?
Ok, the main thing I didn't like about this show when I first started watching it (before giving it up a few episodes later) was Olivia had no personality and I didn't think the actress is particularly good. While I still don't love her as much as I do many other female characters on other shows, I'm definitely liking her more now, and somehow I've become a serious shipper of her and Peter. I don't know where that came from, but I suspect it has a lot to do with Joshua Jackson and how he has chemistry with basically everything. There have been a lot of kind of... I don't know, mediocre episodes this season? Or just, episodes I didn't care much about. But there have also been some really amazing ones, and I adored the last one. Especially when Peter and Olivia almost kissed and how they didn't really make a big deal about it afterwards and it didn't become a huge spot of angst, and instead they just decided to go out to have drinks or dinner or whatever, and it totally was a date despite what Peter told Walter, but they were playing it low-key anyways. I don't know, it was just awesome. I also tend to love episodes where the main characters are put in danger instead of it all being focused on other people (this is true with Criminal Minds as well, where my favorite episodes tend to be ones where the cast members are put into danger. Especially when Reid is in danger, even though (or perhaps because) he is my absolute favorite). So yeah, now I'm sad that it's not coming back forever (right? Not until April, I believe?). I'm definitely glad I listened to the people who were saying how good the show became after I gave up on it and started watching it again, because despite it being uneven, when it's good, I really get sucked in.
I kind of loved Ted in this episode. I don't even know why. He was just kind of adorable. "FLAVOR COUNTS." That whole argument was awesome. (I'm with Marshall, btw. I always love birds more.)
I'm tired of the Don/Robin plot already. If she actually does end up married to him, I will be super pissed. Also I STILL WANT MORE FROM BARNEY/ROBIN. Just like... a small moment indicating they still have feelings or even just one of them does or SOMETHING I don't know. But at this rate I feel like they'll never get back together and that's really annoying. It's what got me hooked and made me fall for the show, and even if it didn't exist, I'd still enjoy the show, but I wouldn't have loved it nearly as much.
I found this episode funny and entertaining and all that, but the show just doesn't have the same heart it has in the past, and it makes me sad.
l;kajsdfl;jkasdflkj SHELDON AND PENNY HUGGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS FREAKING ADORABLE. HE WAS SO EXCITED!!!! OH SHELDON.
At first I kind of thought Sheldon was being a bit of a jerk about it, but I thought about it, and no. Yes, Leonard gets to decide who goes with him, and yes, I can understand why he would want to go with Penny, and if he and Sheldon hadn't had the agreement then I would be more inclined to give Leonard more credit. But if a friend had agreed to do something with me or take me somewhere, even if at the time they thought it wasn't something that would actually happen, and then it was going to happen and they were like "Wait, I'm putting my boyfriend/girlfriend first," I would be totally pissed. And even if they HADN'T had an agreement with me originally but it was something I desperately wanted since I was freaking 9 years old, and they chose to take their significant other instead of me when it was something that DOESN'T interest their significant other, I would feel really hurt and be incredibly upset. I know that I adore Sheldon and identify with him lots of the time and thus am more inclined to agree with him over Leonard, but this is seriously a case where I would feel exactly the same as Sheldon. And I get annoyed with the show where they present cases where Sheldon's actually reasonable in the way he's acting (even if it's not quite by the same... social norms, I guess?) but the show presents him as being unreasonable and Leonard being perfect. ugh I'm tired of Leonard.
The only time I ever talk about Bones here seems to be when I rant about their treatment of psychology. I was very, very pissed off that they had a psychiatrist say that psychiatry often ignores empirical evidence/science/whatever, although then it turned out that he was a deluded patient, so I guess that made it better if we want to assume that the fact that he was a patient indicates that what he said wasn't valid. But I don't know that they want to say that, especially considering that Brennan agreed and thanked him for saying that. I just hate this show's attitude towards psychology. They are so off all the time. They're basically stuck in the 50s/60s in terms of psychological attitudes and beliefs. Seriously, psychology is DRIVEN by empirical studies. The show has also indicated that Freud is popular and followed still, but NO. 99% of psychologists hold no weight in Freud's theories because, guess what, you can't actually test or prove them, which is an essential part of psychology. Psychology is the most scientific of all the social sciences, so just stfu about your outdated psychology opinions. ugh.
At least the psychologist guy whose name I can't remember (but I want to call him Will because I know that was his name on some other show I saw him on. I mean, I've seen him a lot of places, and definitely on Sports Night and The West Wing, but I can't remember which show his name was Will on. Maybe The West Wing?) called Brennan out for being an ass, but even so, he didn't dispute any of the stupid claims she's made about psychology that are so baseless and insulting. I'm so thankful for Criminal Minds, which is actually pretty awesome in its use of psychology. Also, Castle was really awesome in one episode, I remember. But Bones has been consistently horrible, despite even having a psychologist as one of its main characters, and it was one of the things that made me dislike the show and stop watching after the first few episodes back when it first started airing.
I'm also caught up now on Castle, Psych, House, White Collar (I think I haven't mentioned it before, but last semester I said that I'd stop watching because I wasn't that interested/invested and had too much stuff going on, but I caught up on it at the very end of winter break and now all of a sudden I'm in love with it. It's so much fun, and Peter and Neal are excellent. Plus, the more Matthew Bomer on my TV, the better), Community and Lost. I haven't seen a single episode of Skins this season yet, and I'm like 4-5 episodes behind on both Friday Night Lights and Legend of the Seeker and 3-4 episodes behind on Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries. In addition to other shows that I haven't bothered to remember or check how far behind I am. I will slowly get back on track. I actually don't have much work this weekend (I have an exam in Origins on Friday which I'm a little nervous about, but I already made flashcards, and we're going to have more lecture and probably some review on Monday and Wednesday, so I feel like it makes more sense to start preparing on Wednesday), and I got done with most of the stuff I needed to get done. So I'm going to research possible project topics/ideas for Origins for a group project that we need to have an idea for by Wednesday and research the genetics of depression for Mood and Anxiety for a group discussion on Tuesday, neither of which should take me very long since there's nothing I actually need to turn in for either, and then maybe I'll get more caught up on TV and tonight I might watch another movie or two. I'm enjoying how much more relaxing this semester has been than last semester (up until now, at least; it may get worse in the next few weeks. Although I don't know that anything could be worse than the combination of my Capstone and Discrete Math, or even the semester before with Multivariate Stats and RIP II and Differential Equations, all of which were loads of work).
I've pretty much decided not to watch the Olympics. Well, it's been mostly decided for me, as I don't have a TV and am coming off of several weeks without internet so I have loads of TV to catch up on plus I'm (obviously) very focused on watching movies right now plus the fact that I am a full-time college student and things are starting to get busier in the semester as we're close to the half-way point between the start of the semester and Spring Break.
The thing is, I adore the Summer Olympics, more than I can really explain considering I don't follow sports outside of the Olympics. But I adore them so much, and if this was the Summer Olympics, I would do everything in my power to watch as much as I could and ignore everything else. But this is the Winter Olympics, and while I remember enjoying them the last few times they were on, it's not like I can really remember anything that happened or have really fond memories of the 2002 or 2006 games (which is not true for the 2004 and 2008 Summer Games, which I have very fond memories of). Basically, I'm not really going to care about the Olympics in a few weeks, and I have other stuff that's more important to me going on, so I just don't have the time or energy to devote to watching them.
Anyways, I've caught up on some TV, so here are some random thoughts on what I've been watching:
I do not in any way understand some of the outrage about Monday's episode and the people that were like "WE SHOULD BOYCOTT THE SHOW SO THEY PUT CHUCK AND SARAH TOGETHER" or whatever. Like, ignoring the fact that there's no way that would work for a million different reasons (the main one being THEY'VE WRITTEN ALL THE EPISODES BUT THE FINALE ALREADY, and the second main reason being SHOW=CANCELED is not the way to get Chuck and Sarah to ever be together, wtf), I still don't understand how you can watch Monday's episode and then go "Well clearly the show is telling me Shaw and Sarah are meant to be, as are Hannah and Chuck, and they are the show's new OTPs and Chuck and Sarah will never get back together." It's just... have you WATCHED a television show before? I mean, I totally understand not enjoying the new pairings and wanting Chuck/Sarah, or maybe thinking they came on too fast (especially in the case of Sarah/Shaw) or that you don't understand the character's motivations for getting together or it doesn't fit or so on, but just... the belief that Chuck and Sarah will never get together again unless you boycott the show is just so... incomprehensible to me. It's a will-they won't-they kind of storyline, so they're not going to get them together at the end of season 2 and be happy for the rest of the show. I mean, even Jim and Pam took an extra year to get together after Jim confessed his feelings to Pam and Pam called off her engagement to Roy (not saying that Jim/Pam is like... the ideal storyline, but I'm just saying, I don't get how people are so up in arms about it, I guess). Whatever, I just adore this show so much that I find it hard to find flaws in it. I'm just willing to let them take me wherever they want. I feel like once I see where the story is going, then maybe I'll let myself judge it and be more critical, but for now, I'm very happy. But whatever, that's just me. It's less any outrage that I find surprising and incomprehensible and more that there's THIS MUCH outrage, that I'm reading about it on random sites, like TVbythenumbers or whatever else. It's just kind of baffling. And I'm saying all this being a super crazy shipper who will be devastated if Chuck and Sarah don't end up together by the series finale and would like to see more of their relationship before that point, if possible, and whose favorite moments tend to be Chuck/Sarah moments, and all that. It's not like I don't get where crazy shippers are coming from; trust me.
I just... that episode was so inoffensive, that seeing comments like "Yesterday's episode still hurts. I have deleted Chuck off my DVR forever" (this, btw, is not coming from anywhere on LJ at all, and I doubt this applies to anyone on my flist, but if I offend you in some how anyways, I'm really sorry), and it's like... SERIOUSLY. NOTHING HAPPENED. They've both had these relationships with people before. How can you POSSIBLY believe Chuck and Sarah won't come back to each other? It's not like one of them was killed off! Or that even either of them were like "I DETEST YOU AND THINK YOU SHOULD DIE" or anything! They're just temporarily moving on. SHAW AND HANNAH AREN'T EVEN SIGNED ON FOR THE WHOLE SEASON. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE HERE. sigh.
HEATH/CALVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aw I'm still holding out hope for them in the end. Especially because Grant is a douche.
I love everything about Casey/Cappie. They're adorable. Especially on the baseball field, when they were at the same base, omg so cute. I love them. I adore how their relationship has been handled so far. I was afraid I'd stop loving them or being as interested in them once they got together, but I'm enjoying them so much now.
lol forever at Casey and Rusty's relationship. I love her going to him for advice in the middle of the game and he's like "I can see both sides!" and she's like "WELL THAT DOESN'T HELP." and I forget what else but it was kind of hilarious.
Evan/Rebecca is also kind of cute. idk, I just love everything about this show. Have I not mentioned that before?
Ok, the main thing I didn't like about this show when I first started watching it (before giving it up a few episodes later) was Olivia had no personality and I didn't think the actress is particularly good. While I still don't love her as much as I do many other female characters on other shows, I'm definitely liking her more now, and somehow I've become a serious shipper of her and Peter. I don't know where that came from, but I suspect it has a lot to do with Joshua Jackson and how he has chemistry with basically everything. There have been a lot of kind of... I don't know, mediocre episodes this season? Or just, episodes I didn't care much about. But there have also been some really amazing ones, and I adored the last one. Especially when Peter and Olivia almost kissed and how they didn't really make a big deal about it afterwards and it didn't become a huge spot of angst, and instead they just decided to go out to have drinks or dinner or whatever, and it totally was a date despite what Peter told Walter, but they were playing it low-key anyways. I don't know, it was just awesome. I also tend to love episodes where the main characters are put in danger instead of it all being focused on other people (this is true with Criminal Minds as well, where my favorite episodes tend to be ones where the cast members are put into danger. Especially when Reid is in danger, even though (or perhaps because) he is my absolute favorite). So yeah, now I'm sad that it's not coming back forever (right? Not until April, I believe?). I'm definitely glad I listened to the people who were saying how good the show became after I gave up on it and started watching it again, because despite it being uneven, when it's good, I really get sucked in.
I kind of loved Ted in this episode. I don't even know why. He was just kind of adorable. "FLAVOR COUNTS." That whole argument was awesome. (I'm with Marshall, btw. I always love birds more.)
I'm tired of the Don/Robin plot already. If she actually does end up married to him, I will be super pissed. Also I STILL WANT MORE FROM BARNEY/ROBIN. Just like... a small moment indicating they still have feelings or even just one of them does or SOMETHING I don't know. But at this rate I feel like they'll never get back together and that's really annoying. It's what got me hooked and made me fall for the show, and even if it didn't exist, I'd still enjoy the show, but I wouldn't have loved it nearly as much.
I found this episode funny and entertaining and all that, but the show just doesn't have the same heart it has in the past, and it makes me sad.
l;kajsdfl;jkasdflkj SHELDON AND PENNY HUGGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS FREAKING ADORABLE. HE WAS SO EXCITED!!!! OH SHELDON.
At first I kind of thought Sheldon was being a bit of a jerk about it, but I thought about it, and no. Yes, Leonard gets to decide who goes with him, and yes, I can understand why he would want to go with Penny, and if he and Sheldon hadn't had the agreement then I would be more inclined to give Leonard more credit. But if a friend had agreed to do something with me or take me somewhere, even if at the time they thought it wasn't something that would actually happen, and then it was going to happen and they were like "Wait, I'm putting my boyfriend/girlfriend first," I would be totally pissed. And even if they HADN'T had an agreement with me originally but it was something I desperately wanted since I was freaking 9 years old, and they chose to take their significant other instead of me when it was something that DOESN'T interest their significant other, I would feel really hurt and be incredibly upset. I know that I adore Sheldon and identify with him lots of the time and thus am more inclined to agree with him over Leonard, but this is seriously a case where I would feel exactly the same as Sheldon. And I get annoyed with the show where they present cases where Sheldon's actually reasonable in the way he's acting (even if it's not quite by the same... social norms, I guess?) but the show presents him as being unreasonable and Leonard being perfect. ugh I'm tired of Leonard.
The only time I ever talk about Bones here seems to be when I rant about their treatment of psychology. I was very, very pissed off that they had a psychiatrist say that psychiatry often ignores empirical evidence/science/whatever, although then it turned out that he was a deluded patient, so I guess that made it better if we want to assume that the fact that he was a patient indicates that what he said wasn't valid. But I don't know that they want to say that, especially considering that Brennan agreed and thanked him for saying that. I just hate this show's attitude towards psychology. They are so off all the time. They're basically stuck in the 50s/60s in terms of psychological attitudes and beliefs. Seriously, psychology is DRIVEN by empirical studies. The show has also indicated that Freud is popular and followed still, but NO. 99% of psychologists hold no weight in Freud's theories because, guess what, you can't actually test or prove them, which is an essential part of psychology. Psychology is the most scientific of all the social sciences, so just stfu about your outdated psychology opinions. ugh.
At least the psychologist guy whose name I can't remember (but I want to call him Will because I know that was his name on some other show I saw him on. I mean, I've seen him a lot of places, and definitely on Sports Night and The West Wing, but I can't remember which show his name was Will on. Maybe The West Wing?) called Brennan out for being an ass, but even so, he didn't dispute any of the stupid claims she's made about psychology that are so baseless and insulting. I'm so thankful for Criminal Minds, which is actually pretty awesome in its use of psychology. Also, Castle was really awesome in one episode, I remember. But Bones has been consistently horrible, despite even having a psychologist as one of its main characters, and it was one of the things that made me dislike the show and stop watching after the first few episodes back when it first started airing.
I'm also caught up now on Castle, Psych, House, White Collar (I think I haven't mentioned it before, but last semester I said that I'd stop watching because I wasn't that interested/invested and had too much stuff going on, but I caught up on it at the very end of winter break and now all of a sudden I'm in love with it. It's so much fun, and Peter and Neal are excellent. Plus, the more Matthew Bomer on my TV, the better), Community and Lost. I haven't seen a single episode of Skins this season yet, and I'm like 4-5 episodes behind on both Friday Night Lights and Legend of the Seeker and 3-4 episodes behind on Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries. In addition to other shows that I haven't bothered to remember or check how far behind I am. I will slowly get back on track. I actually don't have much work this weekend (I have an exam in Origins on Friday which I'm a little nervous about, but I already made flashcards, and we're going to have more lecture and probably some review on Monday and Wednesday, so I feel like it makes more sense to start preparing on Wednesday), and I got done with most of the stuff I needed to get done. So I'm going to research possible project topics/ideas for Origins for a group project that we need to have an idea for by Wednesday and research the genetics of depression for Mood and Anxiety for a group discussion on Tuesday, neither of which should take me very long since there's nothing I actually need to turn in for either, and then maybe I'll get more caught up on TV and tonight I might watch another movie or two. I'm enjoying how much more relaxing this semester has been than last semester (up until now, at least; it may get worse in the next few weeks. Although I don't know that anything could be worse than the combination of my Capstone and Discrete Math, or even the semester before with Multivariate Stats and RIP II and Differential Equations, all of which were loads of work).
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congrats on finally getting internet :)
SHELDON AND PENNY HUGGED!!!!!!!!
Im glad i'm not the only one who was excited about this lol.
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Heh, yeah, I was just a bit excited about that. Their first hug in the Christmas episode last season was amazing, and I so was not expecting them to hug in this episode, especially not Sheldon just going for it and not even hesitating. It was really sweet. I really love all their scenes together so much.