Monday night TV
Sep. 23rd, 2008 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosChuck's pastel purple suit for the motherfucking WIN. (He popped into the frame in that suit and I squealed.) Although Chuck hiring Dan a fake girlfriend comes in a very, VERY close second.
Dan and Serena ... I don't know. I don't really like them together anyway, and I kind of just wish they'd both go off and be jerks, because Serena's a hell of a lot more interesting when she's a bitch and Dan's a lot more interesting when he's not that artsy scholarship kid who's earnest and smart and didn't grow up with money but, hey, that's okay! When they're all nice and dating, it's almost as if their IQs plumment and their ability to properly communicate with other people just goes the hell away. Although I still wish Dan would shut up about Serena being in this other world and stop being all, "You're stupid because you're rich!" when the rich part is not actually something she can help.
In other news, I still hate Vanessa with the passion of a thousand fiery suns, because seriously, the homeschooling thing is just a bullshit excuse for her to be able to show up whenever and wherever and it just feels like a plot excuse so she can continue to be obtrusive and omnipresent. On the other hand, I may have laughed a little too hard when Blair tore into her for going to the Duke. HA. Serves her right, even though as far as she knows she really doesn't have any reason to trust Blair. Of course, she's the moron who decided to make assumptions based on one pre-reveal hand gesture so hey, she asked for it.
I feel sorry for Nate. I guess I really didn't get excited by him last season, but I did know he managed not to profoundly piss me off like some characters (UGH JENNY HAAATE) or even get on my nerves a little like others (Dan and Serena). I don't think I really figured out until the end of the season that I actually liked the guy, and then this season he's really growing on me. I mean, he's an idiot. A sweet handsome idiot but ... yes, this. And I adore his relationship with Chuck (although I adore Chuck's relationships with pretty much everyone). It's just so blatantly obvious how much Chuck craves a real family, not his mom who's not in the picture, not his dad who's always off on business, but someone who stays home and actually gives a damn about him. That's why he'd do anything for Nate, and why he's grown attached to Eric, and why he made sure Serena and Dan were totally broken up, because he thinks she deserves better. (Granted, he went about it in his usual charmingly horrible way, but still. I don't like Dan much, and I agree with Chuck.)
Sadly, I also agree with Rufus. I really believe Lily needed to hear that about Bart, that they can't do this, that she chose Bart and they can't keep seeing each other like her marriage to Bart means nothing. It's not fair to Bart, or really either one of them. You know what I'm a little afraid of, though? I'm a little afraid they're going to whip a pregnancy out of nowhere, considering how Rufus and Lily ended things last season. And Lily won't know who the father is, and things will just get really messy. (I want them to end up together myself, but ... yick.)
As for Blair ... oh, man, I wanted to hug her so hard for most of the episode. Catherine sleeping with Lord Marcus was bad enough, but the inner circle turning her away was harsh. (Even if I seriously can't stand those catty wenches.)
Now, somebody get me an icon of Chuck in that suit. It's always Easter in Chuck's world. Heh.
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Okay, at random:
-- I want somebody to ask Kring at a convention if the rumor is true that in season seven, the big disaster will be that every character on the show will turn out to be a Petrelli.
-- That is not to say that I believe what she told Sylar. I believe what she told Sylar like I believe Jensen Ackles is going to show up at my door with an armored truck full of money and an offer to father my children. (Which is clearly not the case, as fandom has taught me that he's moved in with Jared and taken his last name. This means the assbabies are imminent.)
-- I think Mohinder would have realized a lot quicker that something was wrong with him if he'd looked down during that second hour and noticed his shirt had been eaten away.
-- I'm going to pretend that Molly is off with Micah, Monica and Grandma Uhuru. Of course, this puts me in the awkward position of there being a version of this show I'd rather watch even if it meant Molly and Micah spent most of the time running their internet business where they find lost people and Monica spends all of her free time rerunning McGuyver episodes. Grandma Uhuru could make cookies! Oh, man, can I go to their house?!
-- Nathan completely fails at That Invisible Man Only I Can See 101. But he gets an A for Accidentally Joining The Religious Right 101. And he didn't even have to take the class!
-- It's hilarious that Hiro is so goddamn inept that even his dad thought he was too curious not to open the safe. It does make me wonder because, really, Peter's been taking one step after another towards Future!Peter forever and Hiro keeps regressing away from Future!Hiro. Or something. I don't know. I mostly think Daphne could use some shampoo and a comb. Does Johnson and Johnson make detangler for adults? You know, when my Himalayan's fur got like that, we had to shave him. Just sayin'.
-- The African guy is pretty much awesome, and therefore should be dead in ... um, I give him four episodes. Especially if they don't throw a woman at him. (Well, they DID throw Matt at him. He's not a woman, but I may have to raise my guesstimate up to five.)
-- Claire's mom is back? Oh, great. Boy, I hope she doesn't set fire to Lyle. Then again, I doubt anybody would notice. Maybe it would be like when I moved out of my parents's house, and my brother moved into my room because it was bigger, and the cats got my brother's room. So Mr. Muggles can have Lyle's empty bedroom, and Lyle can have the writing team's continued apathy, and Claire's firebug biological mother can have Mr. Muggles' old bed, which -- given the major issues with the show's writing -- is possibly the next step in the plot. Right before Mohinder discovers that the way to take away a person's abilities or keep someone from getting them is a raging case of the gay.
-- Okay, okay. I told myself I'm not going to think too deeply about the show this season. I'm really trying not to. God, I don't even know why I ever started in the first place. It's a horrible show. I mean, I like watching it, but I also like watching documentaries about plane crashes and the kind of badly made movies they used to show on Up! All Night. (Remember that show? Gilbert Gottfried and that annoying blond chick showing you really awful movies at like midnight on Fridays or Saturdays on USA Network? That was the BEST.) It's crappy when it comes to women and minorities, but I'll be the first to admit that I would watch a basic cable show religiously if I knew they were going to have superpowers and blow up major cities. This show has two of my major kinks, for God's sake. All they need to do is bring on a gay couple in schmoopy love and just seeing the opening might be enough to make me orgasm.
I'm just ... I'm not even thinking about it. I plan to be completely braindead (but happy) every Monday night for the rest of the season.
Dan and Serena ... I don't know. I don't really like them together anyway, and I kind of just wish they'd both go off and be jerks, because Serena's a hell of a lot more interesting when she's a bitch and Dan's a lot more interesting when he's not that artsy scholarship kid who's earnest and smart and didn't grow up with money but, hey, that's okay! When they're all nice and dating, it's almost as if their IQs plumment and their ability to properly communicate with other people just goes the hell away. Although I still wish Dan would shut up about Serena being in this other world and stop being all, "You're stupid because you're rich!" when the rich part is not actually something she can help.
In other news, I still hate Vanessa with the passion of a thousand fiery suns, because seriously, the homeschooling thing is just a bullshit excuse for her to be able to show up whenever and wherever and it just feels like a plot excuse so she can continue to be obtrusive and omnipresent. On the other hand, I may have laughed a little too hard when Blair tore into her for going to the Duke. HA. Serves her right, even though as far as she knows she really doesn't have any reason to trust Blair. Of course, she's the moron who decided to make assumptions based on one pre-reveal hand gesture so hey, she asked for it.
I feel sorry for Nate. I guess I really didn't get excited by him last season, but I did know he managed not to profoundly piss me off like some characters (UGH JENNY HAAATE) or even get on my nerves a little like others (Dan and Serena). I don't think I really figured out until the end of the season that I actually liked the guy, and then this season he's really growing on me. I mean, he's an idiot. A sweet handsome idiot but ... yes, this. And I adore his relationship with Chuck (although I adore Chuck's relationships with pretty much everyone). It's just so blatantly obvious how much Chuck craves a real family, not his mom who's not in the picture, not his dad who's always off on business, but someone who stays home and actually gives a damn about him. That's why he'd do anything for Nate, and why he's grown attached to Eric, and why he made sure Serena and Dan were totally broken up, because he thinks she deserves better. (Granted, he went about it in his usual charmingly horrible way, but still. I don't like Dan much, and I agree with Chuck.)
Sadly, I also agree with Rufus. I really believe Lily needed to hear that about Bart, that they can't do this, that she chose Bart and they can't keep seeing each other like her marriage to Bart means nothing. It's not fair to Bart, or really either one of them. You know what I'm a little afraid of, though? I'm a little afraid they're going to whip a pregnancy out of nowhere, considering how Rufus and Lily ended things last season. And Lily won't know who the father is, and things will just get really messy. (I want them to end up together myself, but ... yick.)
As for Blair ... oh, man, I wanted to hug her so hard for most of the episode. Catherine sleeping with Lord Marcus was bad enough, but the inner circle turning her away was harsh. (Even if I seriously can't stand those catty wenches.)
Now, somebody get me an icon of Chuck in that suit. It's always Easter in Chuck's world. Heh.
*
Okay, at random:
-- I want somebody to ask Kring at a convention if the rumor is true that in season seven, the big disaster will be that every character on the show will turn out to be a Petrelli.
-- That is not to say that I believe what she told Sylar. I believe what she told Sylar like I believe Jensen Ackles is going to show up at my door with an armored truck full of money and an offer to father my children. (Which is clearly not the case, as fandom has taught me that he's moved in with Jared and taken his last name. This means the assbabies are imminent.)
-- I think Mohinder would have realized a lot quicker that something was wrong with him if he'd looked down during that second hour and noticed his shirt had been eaten away.
-- I'm going to pretend that Molly is off with Micah, Monica and Grandma Uhuru. Of course, this puts me in the awkward position of there being a version of this show I'd rather watch even if it meant Molly and Micah spent most of the time running their internet business where they find lost people and Monica spends all of her free time rerunning McGuyver episodes. Grandma Uhuru could make cookies! Oh, man, can I go to their house?!
-- Nathan completely fails at That Invisible Man Only I Can See 101. But he gets an A for Accidentally Joining The Religious Right 101. And he didn't even have to take the class!
-- It's hilarious that Hiro is so goddamn inept that even his dad thought he was too curious not to open the safe. It does make me wonder because, really, Peter's been taking one step after another towards Future!Peter forever and Hiro keeps regressing away from Future!Hiro. Or something. I don't know. I mostly think Daphne could use some shampoo and a comb. Does Johnson and Johnson make detangler for adults? You know, when my Himalayan's fur got like that, we had to shave him. Just sayin'.
-- The African guy is pretty much awesome, and therefore should be dead in ... um, I give him four episodes. Especially if they don't throw a woman at him. (Well, they DID throw Matt at him. He's not a woman, but I may have to raise my guesstimate up to five.)
-- Claire's mom is back? Oh, great. Boy, I hope she doesn't set fire to Lyle. Then again, I doubt anybody would notice. Maybe it would be like when I moved out of my parents's house, and my brother moved into my room because it was bigger, and the cats got my brother's room. So Mr. Muggles can have Lyle's empty bedroom, and Lyle can have the writing team's continued apathy, and Claire's firebug biological mother can have Mr. Muggles' old bed, which -- given the major issues with the show's writing -- is possibly the next step in the plot. Right before Mohinder discovers that the way to take away a person's abilities or keep someone from getting them is a raging case of the gay.
-- Okay, okay. I told myself I'm not going to think too deeply about the show this season. I'm really trying not to. God, I don't even know why I ever started in the first place. It's a horrible show. I mean, I like watching it, but I also like watching documentaries about plane crashes and the kind of badly made movies they used to show on Up! All Night. (Remember that show? Gilbert Gottfried and that annoying blond chick showing you really awful movies at like midnight on Fridays or Saturdays on USA Network? That was the BEST.) It's crappy when it comes to women and minorities, but I'll be the first to admit that I would watch a basic cable show religiously if I knew they were going to have superpowers and blow up major cities. This show has two of my major kinks, for God's sake. All they need to do is bring on a gay couple in schmoopy love and just seeing the opening might be enough to make me orgasm.
I'm just ... I'm not even thinking about it. I plan to be completely braindead (but happy) every Monday night for the rest of the season.
