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Mar. 23rd, 2010 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordSo I went through all the episodes of TV I need to see, and I'm like 44 episodes behind. That's 2 complete seasons of TV! I am going to actually try to catch up on a lot of this stuff this week (although there's no way I'm getting to all of it, especially since right now I'm pretty obsessed with watching as many movies as possible, and I'm half-way through The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and I'm really liking it, so I'll want to spend some time reading that. Also, I probably should spend some time on schoolwork and stuff).
I finally watched the Psych finale, and lakjsf;lkj omg Hitchcock! They even included Frenzy, which while one of my least favorites of Hitchcock is one of his lesser known, so I liked that they didn't just stick to the major obvious ones. And Lifeboat! That's one of his I haven't seen (I've actually only seen half of all his films, but I have seen all his major ones and many of his minor ones). I suspected Mary of being Yin from the start and I was disappointed when it looked like it was heading that way, but I was super glad that that's not how it turned out. It just seemed too obvious and seemed like too much of a retcon (I mean, it was still a bit of a retcon as it was that Yang had a partner, but still, I can accept that because it brought me a Hitchcock-themed episode!).
Also, Juliet crying during that montage, omg I had such a hard time not crying myself at that. I love Juliet. Also, Shawn crying whenever he did (either at Juliet being taken or at Abigail or maybe both) also destroyed me, because Shawn is always so in control and even when he's scared, he's always making jokes or whatever to lighten up the situation. Actually, that's similar to Juliet; while she doesn't joke around like he does, she usually doesn't show herself to be horribly affected by whatever goes on, so her breaking down like that got to me for the same reason. Also, I hated the idea of Shawn and Juliet together when I first started watching season 1, but by the end of season 3, I found myself randomly suddenly shipping them, so I'm kind of glad Shawn and Abigail broke up. I don't need Shawn and Juliet to get together anytime soon, though. I'd be happy if it happened in the series finale.
kl;asjf CHUCK AND SARAH ALMOST KISSED! I know I saw it in the promo from last week, but still! Oh man.
I loved Chuck giving Casey the gun, and Casey saying "It was a thoughtful felony."
It was obvious the dinner was not a real dinner but the test. BUT OMG CASEY!!! I was expecting maybe Sarah would shoot him. And I wish Sarah knew that it wasn't Chuck (although I'm sure at some point she'll find out). I am enjoying her concern over how much Chuck's changed, too.
Sarah's confession of her test at the end and her distress over Chuck was so heartbreaking. I adore Sarah so much.
AND OH MAN CHUCK'S A REAL SPY NOW. HOLY CRAP. I have no idea what's going to happen next! I love how much the show is changing things up. (Although I'm pretty much done with Shaw now.) Anyways, at this point, I'm really thrilled that the show is getting 19 episodes instead of the originally ordered 13. And it better be renewed again, because omg it's so good.
I'm a million percent with Lily and Marshall on the argument with Ted. I would personally be super pissed if I was planning on having a party with my super close friends, and one of them brought someone they barely knew without even asking. That's just horribly rude. And who cares if the pictures are staged? I don't know about anyone else, but I would want a happy staged picture of me and all my friends rather than 2 of them looking angry because they had had a stupid fight. I'd want to remember the happy parts rather than the stupid fights and any part when I was unhappy. But maybe that's just me.
um but I actually mostly enjoyed the episode. It was pretty amusing, and I liked all the flashbacks and characters brought back, like Karen and all.
Rusty was never my favorite character, but I've really been disliking him the past season or so. The whole thing with Jordan was kind of crappy, and how he treated Dana before, and now being with both Dana and Catherine? meh. The only time I like him is when he's having nice sibling moments with Casey or in the first season whenever he'd be rude to Evan because Evan was an ass back then (and now too, kind of. I mean, he'll always be somewhat of an ass). I mean, even if he was planning on choosing one, stringing both along when neither know about each other is a shitty thing to do. Also, taking girl advice from Beaver? I love Beaver, but not who you should go to for relationship advice. And seriously, Rusty was just as big a jackass (maybe even more so) as Evan before Evan punched him.
I also was annoyed with Rusty when he was judging Cappie for being friends with Evan temporarily. He didn't know any of the circumstances, but he was being an ass anyways. Plus, he ruined a Cappie/Evan scene! There haven't been any between them for awhile.
My heart is breaking about all this Cappie/Casey stuff. I was very happy when she told him she would stop trying to change him, but then there was the scene with Ashley and the second it started I knew what she was going to say. ugh. l;kajsf I can't take it if they don't end up together. I mean, Cappie can't really stay at CRU forever. It's just not possible. ugh. They used to bring me such joy! And now it's all sadness. :( I don't care if it's realistic that they wouldn't work out. If they don't end the series together, I think when I rewatch it I'll have to stop at 3.10, when everything's nice and happy.
I loved the scene between Rebecca and Casey at the pageant. I've always loved the slow development of their friendship, so I love that Rebecca confided in Casey and that Casey supported her and tried to help.
I'm glad Calvin and Grant broke up because he's always been a bit of a douche (he's been better since they came out, but still, that doesn't erase everything he's done in the past). Plus, I've secretly been hoping since like the start of the show that Calvin and Heath would get back together, and their small little scene near the end of the episode gives me the smallest hope that maybe they will.
I'm somehow already at 52 movies this year. This has never happened before for me. Even last year when I got super obsessed with watching movies in February, in March I only watched 3, so I barely got to 50 by the end of June. And of course I didn't even come close to getting 100 by the end of that year. At this rate, I'll be to 100 by the end of June, meaning that I will have reached my goal in half the time I expected. This is mostly due to getting Netflix, because before when I didn't feel like watching movies, I just wouldn't watch any for a month because it's not like it was costing me anything. But since I'm paying money every month for Netflix, I feel like I have to watch stuff (with instant watch, I'm at about 27 cents a movie, which I think is pretty good). Plus, they physically send me movies, so it's not like I have to go to any trouble to see something that I'm interested in. I'm still surprised I've managed to get so many in, though. In April and May it'll probably die down a little, though, since I have a lot of various projects and assignments this month, and in May I'll have finals and then I'll probably be driving from St. Paul to Orange County with my parents like we normally do which takes a week and a half and I'll have spotty internet connection and no permanent location to receive DVDs.
Anyways, on my last day at home I watched 12 Angry Men and Stalag 17 with my mom on TCM (both of which were very good, although neither are going to vault into my favorite films of all time or anything), and now I'm desperately wishing I had cable TV here if only so I could watch TCM whenever I wanted. (Not that I didn't know how much awesome stuff TCM played before, but when I was checking to see what they had to watch, I looked past Saturday afternoon and saw a bunch of other stuff they were showing, and I wished I was staying at home longer just so I could watch them.) Having Netflix does help, of course, but there are a good number of films that look really good that I want to watch that aren't on Netflix. I already looked at the schedule for late May (when I'll be back home for sure) and I have a list of stuff I want to watch that's airing on TCM.
I want to rec some more movies, like I did with Memento, sometime this week, but I'm debating whether I should do mini-picspams of them. I want to, but I don't know that I have the time. I mean... I probably could fit it in, and I've mentioned I don't have a lot this week, but I have so much next week and the week after that I should start now (although I do have a 3-day weekend starting April 2nd, so that'll help), and it might be hard to find caps of some of the films I want to talk about. But we'll see.
I finally watched the Psych finale, and lakjsf;lkj omg Hitchcock! They even included Frenzy, which while one of my least favorites of Hitchcock is one of his lesser known, so I liked that they didn't just stick to the major obvious ones. And Lifeboat! That's one of his I haven't seen (I've actually only seen half of all his films, but I have seen all his major ones and many of his minor ones). I suspected Mary of being Yin from the start and I was disappointed when it looked like it was heading that way, but I was super glad that that's not how it turned out. It just seemed too obvious and seemed like too much of a retcon (I mean, it was still a bit of a retcon as it was that Yang had a partner, but still, I can accept that because it brought me a Hitchcock-themed episode!).
Also, Juliet crying during that montage, omg I had such a hard time not crying myself at that. I love Juliet. Also, Shawn crying whenever he did (either at Juliet being taken or at Abigail or maybe both) also destroyed me, because Shawn is always so in control and even when he's scared, he's always making jokes or whatever to lighten up the situation. Actually, that's similar to Juliet; while she doesn't joke around like he does, she usually doesn't show herself to be horribly affected by whatever goes on, so her breaking down like that got to me for the same reason. Also, I hated the idea of Shawn and Juliet together when I first started watching season 1, but by the end of season 3, I found myself randomly suddenly shipping them, so I'm kind of glad Shawn and Abigail broke up. I don't need Shawn and Juliet to get together anytime soon, though. I'd be happy if it happened in the series finale.
kl;asjf CHUCK AND SARAH ALMOST KISSED! I know I saw it in the promo from last week, but still! Oh man.
I loved Chuck giving Casey the gun, and Casey saying "It was a thoughtful felony."
It was obvious the dinner was not a real dinner but the test. BUT OMG CASEY!!! I was expecting maybe Sarah would shoot him. And I wish Sarah knew that it wasn't Chuck (although I'm sure at some point she'll find out). I am enjoying her concern over how much Chuck's changed, too.
Sarah's confession of her test at the end and her distress over Chuck was so heartbreaking. I adore Sarah so much.
AND OH MAN CHUCK'S A REAL SPY NOW. HOLY CRAP. I have no idea what's going to happen next! I love how much the show is changing things up. (Although I'm pretty much done with Shaw now.) Anyways, at this point, I'm really thrilled that the show is getting 19 episodes instead of the originally ordered 13. And it better be renewed again, because omg it's so good.
I'm a million percent with Lily and Marshall on the argument with Ted. I would personally be super pissed if I was planning on having a party with my super close friends, and one of them brought someone they barely knew without even asking. That's just horribly rude. And who cares if the pictures are staged? I don't know about anyone else, but I would want a happy staged picture of me and all my friends rather than 2 of them looking angry because they had had a stupid fight. I'd want to remember the happy parts rather than the stupid fights and any part when I was unhappy. But maybe that's just me.
um but I actually mostly enjoyed the episode. It was pretty amusing, and I liked all the flashbacks and characters brought back, like Karen and all.
Rusty was never my favorite character, but I've really been disliking him the past season or so. The whole thing with Jordan was kind of crappy, and how he treated Dana before, and now being with both Dana and Catherine? meh. The only time I like him is when he's having nice sibling moments with Casey or in the first season whenever he'd be rude to Evan because Evan was an ass back then (and now too, kind of. I mean, he'll always be somewhat of an ass). I mean, even if he was planning on choosing one, stringing both along when neither know about each other is a shitty thing to do. Also, taking girl advice from Beaver? I love Beaver, but not who you should go to for relationship advice. And seriously, Rusty was just as big a jackass (maybe even more so) as Evan before Evan punched him.
I also was annoyed with Rusty when he was judging Cappie for being friends with Evan temporarily. He didn't know any of the circumstances, but he was being an ass anyways. Plus, he ruined a Cappie/Evan scene! There haven't been any between them for awhile.
My heart is breaking about all this Cappie/Casey stuff. I was very happy when she told him she would stop trying to change him, but then there was the scene with Ashley and the second it started I knew what she was going to say. ugh. l;kajsf I can't take it if they don't end up together. I mean, Cappie can't really stay at CRU forever. It's just not possible. ugh. They used to bring me such joy! And now it's all sadness. :( I don't care if it's realistic that they wouldn't work out. If they don't end the series together, I think when I rewatch it I'll have to stop at 3.10, when everything's nice and happy.
I loved the scene between Rebecca and Casey at the pageant. I've always loved the slow development of their friendship, so I love that Rebecca confided in Casey and that Casey supported her and tried to help.
I'm glad Calvin and Grant broke up because he's always been a bit of a douche (he's been better since they came out, but still, that doesn't erase everything he's done in the past). Plus, I've secretly been hoping since like the start of the show that Calvin and Heath would get back together, and their small little scene near the end of the episode gives me the smallest hope that maybe they will.
I'm somehow already at 52 movies this year. This has never happened before for me. Even last year when I got super obsessed with watching movies in February, in March I only watched 3, so I barely got to 50 by the end of June. And of course I didn't even come close to getting 100 by the end of that year. At this rate, I'll be to 100 by the end of June, meaning that I will have reached my goal in half the time I expected. This is mostly due to getting Netflix, because before when I didn't feel like watching movies, I just wouldn't watch any for a month because it's not like it was costing me anything. But since I'm paying money every month for Netflix, I feel like I have to watch stuff (with instant watch, I'm at about 27 cents a movie, which I think is pretty good). Plus, they physically send me movies, so it's not like I have to go to any trouble to see something that I'm interested in. I'm still surprised I've managed to get so many in, though. In April and May it'll probably die down a little, though, since I have a lot of various projects and assignments this month, and in May I'll have finals and then I'll probably be driving from St. Paul to Orange County with my parents like we normally do which takes a week and a half and I'll have spotty internet connection and no permanent location to receive DVDs.
Anyways, on my last day at home I watched 12 Angry Men and Stalag 17 with my mom on TCM (both of which were very good, although neither are going to vault into my favorite films of all time or anything), and now I'm desperately wishing I had cable TV here if only so I could watch TCM whenever I wanted. (Not that I didn't know how much awesome stuff TCM played before, but when I was checking to see what they had to watch, I looked past Saturday afternoon and saw a bunch of other stuff they were showing, and I wished I was staying at home longer just so I could watch them.) Having Netflix does help, of course, but there are a good number of films that look really good that I want to watch that aren't on Netflix. I already looked at the schedule for late May (when I'll be back home for sure) and I have a list of stuff I want to watch that's airing on TCM.
I want to rec some more movies, like I did with Memento, sometime this week, but I'm debating whether I should do mini-picspams of them. I want to, but I don't know that I have the time. I mean... I probably could fit it in, and I've mentioned I don't have a lot this week, but I have so much next week and the week after that I should start now (although I do have a 3-day weekend starting April 2nd, so that'll help), and it might be hard to find caps of some of the films I want to talk about. But we'll see.
