True Blood, Season 4
Posted by Sarah in geek toys, miscellany, reviews, tv on Jun 28, 2011 | 0 commentsw00t!
So glad the show is back on, so glad Lafayette and Tara are chock full of awesome. Sookie was… Sookie-like. Most importantly, Pam kicks ass. The long ‘previously last season’ was warranted as GD it felt like it was a long time ago and it made for a great segue into Sookie’s fairyland adventure. As an HBOGo person, I also watched episode 2 last night and will probably watch it again next week. I saw a tweet that said Season 4 didn’t start with a bang. True. All the banging is in episode 2, fo sho.
I stopped reading the Southern Vampire series quite a while ago, mostly as the books began to be repetitive and mediocre. What I love about the HBO series is that they’ve deviated enough from the books to keep me hooked on where they’re going to go and made the characters interesting enough that I care.
Unrelated, except that it’s TV we got our Xbox hooked back up to Netflix and I watched the first episode of Sports Night again. I miss really good network TV. The basic cable networks are all doing things I love but I found Network disappointing pretty much all last season. Totally related: the interface for Netflix on the Xbox is so much better than on my Panasonic Blu-Ray player that I’m largely embarrassed for Panasonic.
Dogshit Tuesday
Posted by Sarah in geek toys, miscellany, tv on Jun 21, 2011 | 0 commentsNo really, that’s how I started the morning. We’re sitting for our friend’s dog who apparently had some intestinal distress. This morning, in the dark, I went to the basement and was going into the laundry room when I felt the unmistakable (even at 4:30am) squish of a relatively fresh pile under the ball of my right foot. It threw a bit of a wrench into my morning.
On the bright side, I laughed out loud with the Doug Loves Movies and Nerdist podcasts this morning to help me regain my cheer. I also left work an hour early in order to compensate for hour fuckery which will almost inevitably occur on Friday. When I arrived home, I found a smaller pile of dogshit on the rug in front of my kitchen sink. Awesome.
At any rate, I’m not in love with any single app for corralling my podcasts. Currently I’m using DoggCatcher, Isyncr and today I added Stitcher. My issue is that I haven’t found a single app capable of pulling up all the podcasts I want with the most recent eps. DoggCatcher refuses to pull The Bugle. Stitcher doesn’t pick up the most recent Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe or Hardcore History. Isyncr is currently pulling what I want but I have to sync it with iTunes. Thus far it’s not cumbersome but it doesn’t have the benefit of updating the 404 while I’m at work for my drive home.
I suppose I’ll test run them all this week and see which are worth keeping or whether or not I can get a single one to jump through all my hoops.
In unrelated news, Tuesday is one of my favorite summer TV nights thanks to White Collar and Covert Affairs.
What I say about WeinerGate
Posted by Sarah in media, miscellany, tv on Jun 15, 2011 | 0 commentsI promised Shane I’d post this.
1. He didn’t fuck a little kid. (Special nod to you, Catholic Church!)
2. He didn’t fuck a guy. (Or get blown by one in an airport)
3. He didn’t even fuck a woman.
This already makes him better than the entire Republican Party.
And for the Democrats who are all aghast about some bad texts?
4. He didn’t get blown by an intern in the White House. Take your smelling salts. Calm down.
How are we even still talking about this?
Bottom line: if his constituents want him to stay, he should stay. *I* certainly hope he does because at the very least, he’s one of the few elected officials who uses logical arguments in session.
Dear Dems-
When someone asks you about this guy’s underwear shots, how about you mention the refusal of Republicans to negotiate in good faith on goddamn near ANYTHING – including the debt ceiling and paying millionaires to be millionaires – and talk about what we’re paying you to do?
No love,
Sarah
And while I’m at it- Hey Weiner, good looking out with your manscaping! Way to be considerate of the spouse!
THAT was unexpected
Posted by Sarah in geek toys, miscellany, tv on May 25, 2011 | 0 commentsToday at work was shittier than usual, mostly due to a large number of incompetent people whose shortcomings all bumped up against each other TODAY and caused ME to do more work. When I came home I checked the mail, as per usual, and found a couple of envelopes. One was complete junk and the other was a check from a class action suit that I was opted into.
WHAT?!
I know, right? When you get those pieces of mail you always think they’re bullshit but apparently the system occasionally works. It’s not a huge payday but there is a very sweet, incredibly inexpensive little netbook in my future thanks to the check and the clearance shelves at Target. w00t!
Thanks to the boys at the 404 podcast, I’m re-evaluating my mistrust of Chrome. The latest release didn’t wow me as it didn’t have a lot of the extensions I’ve grown to love in Firefox but the speed is gradually winning me over. In addition, they HAVE added some more extensions that increase the functionality for me. If only I could get the GD import and sync features to work…
In unrelated news, I thought the Glee finale was maybe the worst episode of the season. Am I the only one?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Posted by Sarah in books, recommendations, tv on Apr 5, 2011 | 0 commentsI started watching Battlestar Galactica streaming on Netflix a week or so ago. It’s eaten at least two full Saturdays. It’s been years now since the miniseries launched the reboot but the show is still incredibly timely and deftly told. The character portrayals are complex and the plotlines still politically subversive (though they were definitely moreso during the contrast of the Bush years). I miss TV that good – miss having a show that I couldn’t WAIT to see and didn’t want to DVR, sitting impatiently through the commercials because I wanted to know what happens next RIGHT NOW.
I’m just into Season 3 and now I’m thinking we should buy the series on BluRay because hot DAMN the special effects are still fantastic.
This week is going well at work – the last two weeks have been a fairly light workload and I’m not complaining. I’m hoping to coast gently into my vacation on Friday afternoon and enjoy warmer climes next week.
In reading, The Weird Sisters as well as a mishmash of things I’ve started and stopped. I did see a bunch of things that grabbed my interest today but I’d rather not buy anything until I get caught up on the current Kindleload.
Books, TV
Posted by Sarah in books, reviews, tv on Jan 23, 2011 | 2 commentsI’m trying to clean up my “reading” folder on the Kindle – books I’ve paid for but haven’t gotten to yet or, in several cases, books I started but haven’t finished for a bunch of reasons. This is separate, by the way, from the “to read” folder which is chock full of books I’ve gotten for free (107, to be exact) that I’m planning to read or will languish indefinitely because, yanno, FREE.
Yesterday I finished Laura Anne Gilman’s Hard Magic. I’ve had a hard time getting into Gilman’s other series books and this wasn’t much different. I’d started it on a couple of other occasions and then went away from it before I’d gotten more than a third through it (twice).
It was a metric asston of worldbuilding and some character work (at least on the main character) and the explanation of method and practice of magic was painstaking to the point of near-painful. Alas, that’s pretty much all it felt like. In comparison, the plot which was supposedly the jumpstarter for the book felt stalled through much of it and then was seemingly resolved in a couple of pages which left me ultimately unsatisfied. 3/5 stars
I actually waited a day to write the review on this because I thought maybe I was harshing the story unnecessarily. To me it just felt unfinished. Maybe that’s the goal of writing a series? For me, it doesn’t work (which is maybe why I’ve had trouble with her other books). This was thrown into sharp relief by the book I read next.
Spider’s Bite by Jennifer Estep. To preface, I read the third book in the series first. Venom was a Kindle freebie and sounded up my alley, and I could have SWORN I actually reviewed it somewhere but I can’t find evidence to support that hypothesis. Venom was great – a solid introduction to a world the author clearly inhabited, nice worldbuilding, great characters, great story. It was a full and satisfying read and I didn’t feel like I was missing anything by not having read the first two books. How often can you say THAT?
This week I decided to correct the timeline and go back to read the first book. THIS is what solidified my opinion about the Gilman book. It’s the same thing as the third book: full and satisfying read. It’s a fantastic introduction to the narrative – though after reading the third book without context, it was just as good – and the characters all have serious motivations, real problems and consequences for their actions. On top of that, it was a fantastic plot. It’s more than that, though – just like the third book, it felt like the author stretched out, pushed the plot to all the edges, so that even though it’s part of a series it’s a worthwhile standalone read. 4/5 stars to both books
If you’re looking for a new series that’s got plenty of action and lots of convoluted intrigue, Estep’s Elemental Assassin series is what you’re looking for. I’ve got the second book on deck already.
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Unrelated, this week marked the series finale of Medium.
Spouse hates the show – hated the show – so I recorded it and watched it while he was doing other things. First of all, I can’t believe it was 7 seasons already. While I wouldn’t claim the writing was stellar or especially groundbreaking, it was consistently entertaining. Even the more preposterous episodes did SOMETHING to redeem them (not the least, Maria Lark as Bridgette DuBois). It was a mishmash of urban fantasy, mystery and crime procedural but it managed to make every episode heartfelt and enjoyable. While some of the plotlines were predictable, they frequently employed very convincing herrings and kept each episode a fun puzzle to watch. The finale was no different and I’m not going to lie, I cried like a baby. I’ll miss that show. Well done, writers.
Sick day
Posted by Sarah in books, movies, music, tv on Jan 4, 2011 | 0 commentsI woke up feeling like crap more severe than the fending-off -cold kind that I’ve been battling. Since everyone and their cousin at work has strep throat (who gets strep when they’re an ADULT for cripes sake?) I’m going to go to the doctor today.
The lousy thing about sick days is crap tv. I mean, there are other things I’ll do besides crap tv, but then when you stumble across something good – as I just did – you’re halfway through it before you found it and there’s no way you’ll find a repeat precisely because you’re home for the day. I Capture The Castle is on, a lovely and tremendous film with a fantastic story and terrible decisions and brilliant acting. Alas, it’s halfway over already and I don’t own it on DVD. Probably I should read the book but given I’ve 20 books on the Kindle that I’ve actually bought but HAVEN’T read yet, that’s not in the works.It’s kind of surprising, actually, that I haven’t read the book.
When I enjoy a film based on a book and haven’t read it (rarity), I usually pick it up. I think maybe because I enjoy this film so much I don’t want another version of it in my head. Ditto The Princess Bride. Hrm. That’s probably a pretty short list if I put any more thought into it.
I did get to watch last night’s Castle which, as per usual, was great. Funny and sharp, plus a surprise with the actress playing Nikki Heat – not who’s playing her but the direction the episode took. The finale (finale? mid-season finale? when the F is it on regularly now anyhow?) of The Closer was good as well. I’m always impressed by Kyra Sedgwick and Jon Tenney. I was less impressed with Tenney (through no fault of his own) in Legion, which was dreadful.
Yesterday’s drive time was consumed by The Metropolis Symphony. I love it. It’s simultaneously engaging and comic- in the graphic sense, not humor – and energetic storytelling though music where lyrics are rendered obsolete. Fantastic. That’s another great find thanks to NPR.
Added a tumblr feed to the blog (in the right column) so there may be bits and snatches that appear there and nowhere else (of late, quotes).
For now, I think a nap is necessary before a call to the doc.
Post-holiday weekend ennui
Posted by Sarah in books, geek toys, movies, tv on Dec 28, 2010 | 0 commentsI suspect it will lead to a series of top 10 posts.
I’m thinking Top 10 books I read this year, Top 10 albums I listened to, Top 10 films I watched, Top 10 gadgets Top 10 TV shows. I know. Scintillating.
In the meantime, Dave’s dog is howling in my face which makes me think I should go to bed.
Mom has probably landed safely in Detroit (my phone is upstairs) and tomorrow is Hump Day. Saturday begins a new year! Isn’t there something about a year that starts on a weekend being lucky?
No? Fuck it. I say it will be.
Random and Miscellany
Posted by Sarah in music, random, tv on Dec 11, 2010 | 0 commentsYesterday on NPR I heard an interview about Metropolis Symphony, recorded by the Nashville Symphony orchestra. There is no part of it that wasn’t awesome. It’s on my h$liday list.
Weird: in Denver, saw a super cute coat at Target by Mossimo but cannot find it anywhere online. Otherwise that would be on my list too.
Speaking of Target, at the end of next week part of Justin Timberlake’s fashion line will be showing up in stores. I’m more enthusiastic about this than I should be. By a lot.
I feel there’s a good likelihood of renting Inception in my immediate future.
Potentially also a re-coloring of the hair. I cut it shorter again this week which makes it look even more red than it did before. I’d been hoping for more brown, but go figure – chestnut on me is not ‘chestnut’ so much as ‘auburn’.
Now is also the time that I need to figure out if we’re sending a h$liday card. Crap.
Today is also coney dog day at my house. I am VERY EXCITED. I bought an epic package of Hebrew National for this express purpose.
The house project is essentially done. There’s a single canister light that needs wiring and then I’ll be able to stain the new woodwork. Our house seems much larger and it created an excellent place for the h$liday tree.
In TV news, I’m not sure what’s going on that USA is running Burn Notice right now. I guess it’s one of those shows I’ve got pigeonholed at summertime and maybe that’s why I’m not nearly as into it right now. Grey’s Anatomy is maybe turning the corner on this season. I’ll admit that the reruns on Lifetime are helping keep me hooked in. They’ve just gotten to where Izzy’s sick and Hunt is wicked PTSD man.
Castle made a triumphant return this week. It’s one of the shows I’m enjoying most (along with The Mentalist, Medium and Human Target).
Modern Family, if you’re not watching it, is the funniest thing on TV. By far.
Not much in the way of reading, of late, what with the writing. I’m almost done with my webcourse this semester which should make my schedule a lot more fun very soon.
Robot Dreams
Posted by Sarah in random, tv on Oct 28, 2010 | 0 commentsEveryone at work was highly amused that I was super-stoked to find the first season of The Bionic Woman on DVD this week. I’m not sure why it was so hilarious, but I had mad love for Jaime Sommers. I’m a little too young to have seen it in its original run, but I loved it on repeats. Jaime was (from my recollection) kind of a normal girl who had a crazy accident and then got the best skillz ever.
What I remembered most was that she was SO normal. She had a regular job and was like a super hero on the side. She could run incredibly fast and was always knocking people around with her wicked strong bionic arm. She’s the first female super hero I remember besides Wonder Woman but, unlike Wonder Woman, Jaime Sommers wasn’t a princess. She was kind of a jock who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Could’ve been anyone.
Looking back on it now, she’s kind of the original Sydney Bristow or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. No one saw a good looking girl and thought ‘she’s tough’ or ‘she’s a spy’. She had a handler and a seekrit identity, but she also had a LIFE. She had a sense of humor and was laid back. Her clothes were (by 70s standards) the shit.
I accidentally started livetweeting the first disc of the set – mostly because I was so stoked about watching it AND my husband was out of town so I had no one to mock my epic nerdery -which was all the Six Million Dollar Man crossovers. Jaime got introduced as Steve Austin’s childhood friend and love of his life. I’m not gonna lie, I was a little shocked by all the terrible Lee Majors emo songs which were clearly penned specifically for the episodes. They were just AWFUL. I was also surprised by the amount of unshed tears in the episodes! Maybe they created the Jaime storyline just so Steve could show his softer side but it was a pretty impressive display of emotion from my 80s TV recollections.
I think the best part about the episodes (aside from the clothes and the decor) was that Jaime was just as cool as I remember. She had a successful career before the accident and she wasn’t okay with coasting – she wanted to pay her own way. She wasn’t having any of this ‘protect the girl’ nonsense and was insistent that she could be just as helpful as Steve in making the world a safer place. So yeah. The Bionic Woman kicks ass. Because of her, I’m maybe the only kid who was hoping for a horrific car accident so I could get robot limbs.
Weirdest fact of the accidental live-tweet: A random dude who’s into a Bionic Woman porno following and retweeting me. Ick?
Let it Snow
Posted by Sarah in books, geek toys, home project, movies, tv on Oct 26, 2010 | 0 commentsFirst real snowfall has hit and like most mountain-dwelling Coloradans, I’m happy to see it. I’ve been looking forward to winter – something unique for me and definitely a result of our new locale. While I haven’t missed all the folk who can’t drive well in snow and the Nervous Nellies who make it more dangerous for all of us, during the drive home I got to see the wind shoving clouds over some mountain peaks at close range. It made it look like the mountains were shaving off bits of cloud with each gust and it was just generally excellent. Immediately I was less annoyed about the painfully slow drivers in front of me and enjoyed the slow cruise home.
The last couple of posts were of the home improvement progress. With any luck this weekend will see us nearing completion on the project.
I’ve got new Kindle skin love rocking right now, too. Since I’m contemplating a NaNoWriMo stab next month I’m trying to wrap up Dreadnaught and not get sucked into any of the ridiculous number of books in my Unread folder.
Random TV notes: I’m still really enjoying The Mentalist, Medium, Castle, Criminal Minds, The Big C, Modern Family, Community and Gray’s Anatomy. I find myself fast-forwarding through Chuck more than I’d like and I’m still utterly on the fence with this season’s Supernatural. To be honest I’m rather wishing they’d actually ended it last season, as this is feeling a bit like Buffy season 7. Related, Lifetime has been replaying old Gray’s eps (I discovered this as my DVR has its own brain and recorded them) and I had forgotten how much awesome used to be jammed into every episode. This season is feeling like that. I also have to credit the Spouse for making me watch Modern Family. Without fail it is laugh out loud funny in EVERY episode and will invariably leave me chuckling long after. I feel like an idiot for missing it so long.
In film updates, Splice. What a fucked up, creepy and skeevy film. It was engrossing, however, unlike – say – IRON MAN 2. What the hell happened with that? It’s like they decided in lieu of a plot to insert Mickey Rourke and 10x more guns than the first one. Oh, and a whiny nagging Pepper. Ugh. Spouse says: I guess we won’t have to worry about seeing the 3rd one. It’s the second major film disappointment in recent memory (up there with Robin Hood) but made me feel good about not having shelled out cash to see it in the theater. I am, however, still wanting to see RED on the big screen.
Because atheism is SO CRAZY
Posted by Sarah in tv on Oct 7, 2010 | 0 commentsThis week’s Glee narrowly avoided getting it banned. By all means, all the characters should mock or try to dissuade the folk who don’t agree with them. Because it’s SO CHRISTIAN to be intolerant.
I was actually excited when Kurt said he didn’t believe in god because I thought “Whoa! We’re going to have THIS conversation!” Despite Glee fumbling some other storylines (or at least choking a bit) I was pretty hopeful that it might turn out to be good or even great. Sigh.
I’m glad Kurt got to stick to his guns, it’s just too bad it took a full episode of all his peers telling him that he couldn’t possibly be right and that life is too hard not to have god. Also, the only person who agrees with him is THE BAD GUY. Fuck you, Glee writers.
Luckily Kurt can look forward to many, many, many more years of the same treatment since the only religion REALLY tolerated in the US is Christianity. Not that I’m bitter.
Cocaine use =/= a woman’s right to choose
Posted by Sarah in entertainment, internet, media, television on Mar 30, 2009 | 0 commentsI don’t watch The View very often, but I enjoy their hot topics shows because I think they do a good job of covering the gamut of reasonably expected responses (considered/intellectual: Whoopi, Barbara; ignorant/emotional: Sherri, Elizabeth; going for the punchline: Joy). Today they were talking about the rumor of Joe Biden’s daughter having snorted cocaine and one of her dirtbag ‘friends’ shopping it around to tabloids. They were saying that you can’t tie the actions of a child to the parent, with which I absolutely agree.
Kids come into this world with their own personality and ability to make their own decisions. Ideally, the way that they are raised will influence some of their decisionmaking processes but ultimately they are their own person.
That shook round to the political spectrum and how it’s potentialy MORE unfair to hold these kids up because the press implies their parents aren’t good at their JOBS rather than at parenting (which is the more logical conclusion). This, of course, brought up the issue of Bristol Palin. I think there’s a difference in that particular case.
If Sarah Palin had refused to comment about the pregnancy (Biden has yet to comment on the drug allegation), or simply requested privacy, that would have been just fine. Instead she started crowing about how proud she was of her daughter’s “choice” and turned it into a pro-life wictory. This would also be fine, if Sarah Palin wasn’t actively campaigning to take that exact same “choice” away from everyone else. She SHOULD have been talking about how there wasn’t a choice, of course Bristol was having that kid because it was the only right thing to do – because that’s what she believes.. Instead, she MADE it a political issue by discussing it in those terms, precisely because she’s AGAINST a woman’s right to control her own bodily functions, and that is why it became okay to talk about it. You’ll notice that Bristol’s “choice” was a topic of conversation but her decision to drop out of high school was barely a blip.
Being a politician doesn’t hold you to a higher standard of being a parent. It doesn’t hold your kids to a higher standard, because your kids are entitled to make their own mistakes and learn from them. It DOES require that you occasionally shut your mouth and put your kids before your own political agenda.
The View was also hilarious today talking about Twitter. The whole ‘not getting it’ is easy to see. It’s sort of a mindless occupation, though it can be entertaining.
I was kind of interested to see Bill O’Reilly on the show and see if Joy Behar or Whoopi were going to call him out. O’Reilly *did* make a good point about shopping with your dollars – if you disagree with something, use your money to make your impact. It was also hilarious that Bill suddenly wanted to “move on” when they began discussing WHY we were in Iraq. Oddly, he rarely wants to “move on” on his own show. Speaking of which, I wanted to link this particularly heinous story. It’s especially nice because he has frequently spoken out on the rights of ‘celebrities’ to not be stalked. I guess famous people get more rights than everyone else.
Last political note: when the economists say you’ve got to keep spending money in order to fix the problem, people like Bill O’Reilly and Sherri Shepard should STFU. We’ve already spent into what most average people would consider to be imaginary numbers (as in, we can’t IMAGINE how much money it is) so if the people who study this FOR A LIVING think it’s the right path, I’m okay with it.
In unrelated news, I’m finally posting my CO snowpocalypse photos!
The trees outside my house, when I left.
Merging onto I-70, believe it or not.
If you haven’t seen the BSG finale, don’t read this post.
Posted by Sarah in entertainment, media, television on Mar 22, 2009 | 0 commentsUnless, that is, you have no idea what I mean by BSG and in that case you probably won’t WANT to read this post. 
I think the gut reaction for a lot of fans was that I WANT MY KARA/LEE 4EVAH. I’ll admit it – I totally felt it for about 15 seconds. And then I started thinking about the Kara/Lee dynamic and why that ending for them totally worked (because it did).
From the start, Kara and Lee were on separate courses destined for a collision. It starts with drunken flirting and Kara’s admission that she fears “being forgotten” most, while she’s dating/engaged to his BROTHER of all things. Kara is the absolute arbiter of self-destruction. On the other hand, all of her self-destructive behaviors and crazy widespread fallout ensure that she WON’T in fact be forgotten.
Their sexual tension doesn’t ever dissipate because they never REALLY consummate what they both clearly want. She’s afraid it will mean actual happiness and a descent into ‘comfortable,’ ‘normal’ – forgettable. She’s also afraid of disappointing Lee, of screwing it up. When they finally have sex, she takes off and marries Sam – ensuring that Lee will always wonder WTF – both about her and what it means about HIM, what he did wrong.
She’s never really serious with Sam and begins pushing him away almost immediately and guaranteeing that his life will also be halfway ruined by her. He can’t ever quite let her go because he never really had her to start with.
Meanwhile, she Starbucks for all she’s worth. Does the crazy things no one else does, has no fear of her death in these ridiculous exploits because even if she bites it – people will KNOW. She doesn’t mind being talked about, being badmouthed. She has clearly defined her role and never deviates – not for a moment. She’s a trainwreck. She takes a lot of prisoners, tortures them, and makes no apologies. She doesn’t apologize when Leoben takes HER prisoner. And when she’s told she has a destiny (over and over) she isn’t upset about THAT – she’s upset that she can’t SEE it, can’t touch it, can’t CONTROL it. She’s been so busy making herself memorable that she’s afraid to let go of the icon she’s created and is afraid her destiny might take it.
Lee, meanwhile, is always half a person. He’s always responsible for someone or TO someone. His brother, his father, Kara, Dee. He can’t be who he wants to be because it will hurt his brother (and his brother’s memory) if he really pursues Kara. He’s the guy who has to try and keep Kara put together since she’s so determined to flame out spectacularly and in public view. He can’t walk away from the military (or roles of responsibility) because his father’s gravitational pull is impossible to overcome. The only way he can defend himself is to try and create his own roles and ultimately falls short. His relationship with Dee was far less well defined but it becomes clear that Dee sees herself as the rebound girl. Lee is responsible again, for not making her feel valued or important. He’s still not able to be himself. He doesn’t have any idea who he is but he has a thousand ideas about who he COULD be if his life was just different.
And in the end, Kara has become something EVERYONE will remember. She’s remembered because NO ONE knows what she really was. An oracle, an angel, a savior? The contradiction – that someone so flawed could become something so mysteriously benefiical – has guaranteed her the one thing she wanted most. She is the enigma that allows them to keep living, keep believing. And when she leaves, she’s the perfect example for how you don’t REALLY get a second chance. You don’t get to have a second life where you can do everything right – even if you’ve learned from all your mistakes – or get to rewrite history. The second chance is a great idea but you have to live your life like you only get the one you’ve got.
I wish Lee had chosen his own destiny, but it makes perfect sense that he can’t. Dee leaves him – twice – and the first time was an attempt to make him choose his own path. The second time she left, she was so far past him that he couldn’t even see her. His father leaves him as well, and I’m willing to wank that it’s because he knows Lee will never become his own man with the Admiral around. And Kara winks out in the moment before he can ask her to stay. He can see the thousand paths he might take but now he HAS to take one, and the only one he’s repsonsible to is himself. There is no one to live up to, no one to take care of, no accounting to be made. He gets to finally become Lee.
There are a few things I would quibble about with the finale, but this is the one thing the writers got perfectly and absolutely right.
TV roundup
Posted by Sarah in entertainment, television on Mar 10, 2009 | 1 commentHouse, M.D. I love that the writers always stay true to his cantankerousness. I love that last night’s episode was all about Monster Trucks and, simultaneously, not about Monster Trucks at all. I consistently just enjoy watching this show.
Castle. I thought the premiere was okay. I’m not a fan of crime shows where the lady cop is hot, lonely, and always in four inch heels. For “How to do this right” see The Mentalist. Nathan Fillion is kind of great, though, and I loved the end of the show. We’ll see how long they can draw this out without making the female lead seem like an utter nincompoop.
Heroes continues to be really good at what it does. Spouse missed a couple of episodes and is off of it, but I’m still liking how they put things together.
I was so glad for Medium to get back on the air! I love the way they depict the married couple, as well as the kids. They have some of the only kids on TV I find to be charming. I pretty much just love the show.
BSG continues to kick ass.
Burn Notice had a solid season. I was getting a bit annoyed with the whole ‘who framed me’ storyline but I really like the Michael/Fiona dynamic. I also LOVE Sam (Bruce Campbell).
Chuck is also continuously awesome.
Almost everything else is returning from their break next week.
I watched my first episode of Dancing With the Stars last night at work and I’ve got to say, I don’t get it. I don’t get why people love it so much.
