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Hi, still alive.
Have a backlog of stuff to d/l eps watch because I've been super busy with work, but at some point I'll post about TV reaction stuff. The short version is, of returning shows, I'm really happy with Modern Family, Castle, Chuck, and the Good Wife. Of the new shows, I see potential for No Ordinary Family and Undercovers. Still on the fence for Boardwalk Empire (period stuff I can usually only take in small doses). Shows to have in the background while writing are Nikita, Hawaii 5-0 and Bones at this point. I still haven't seen Fringe yet, because it's my reward at the end of the tunnel and the anticipation of watching it is helping get to the finish line for these drafts and outlines. Fun times.
Oh and Glee gets its own special category of "cracky guilty pleasure/I really shouldn't like this as much as I do/why am I watching this again?" See, the show is chock full of things that normally are dealbreakers for me (see: non-existent plots, soapbox afternoon special PSAs and the fact that the Continuity fairy died of Auto-tune overexposure). And yet, I cannot take my eyes off the cast, I am in awe of their talent and I love their takes on the music, studio mandated auto-tune aside.
The most recent episode is a prime example of that. The Britney/Brittany episode was a hot mess, even by Glee standards, and anyone who knows my taste in music knows that I have never liked Britney music, unless it's used for ironic purposes or karaoke. But damn if Heather Morris isn't mesmerizing when she dances. Holy crap, guys. I don't even know how she managed to do those moves she did, wearing the heels she was wearing.
Normally I think that if you're gonna do a video recreation/parody, it should be mostly shot-for-shot, and to a certain degree they did that, since Naya was doing all of Madonna's ridiculous rolling on the ground moves etc from the original video of Me Against the Music. But the choreography for Brittany/Britney of the Glee edition is just so much better than the original and Heather just KILLS it. I keep replaying this video from 0:49 when she throws the hat to Puck to 1:23 when they do the group slide over and over again, because the moves are so sharp and again, I don't know how she's outdancing everyone in those heels while everyone else is in more comfortable sneakers. Usually the SYTYCD alums stand out immediately. It took me about 3 rewatches of this to realize that one of the dancers right next to Brittany was Mark Kanemura - and Mark is one of my all time favorites. Girl is that fierce.
(Travis' cover of Baby One More Time remains the best Britney cover ever though.)
In other news, my electronics all seem to be failing me. The computer is making weird whurring sounds again (so I'm backing everything up again like whoa) and I need a new iPod because my old one has been declared dead and beyond repair. FUN. Between the ticket back here in January that I just bought and all those repairs/replacements, it's turning into a really expensive week. Ah well.
In conclusion: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake recap the History of Rap, remain awesome while doing so.
Oh and Glee gets its own special category of "cracky guilty pleasure/I really shouldn't like this as much as I do/why am I watching this again?" See, the show is chock full of things that normally are dealbreakers for me (see: non-existent plots, soapbox afternoon special PSAs and the fact that the Continuity fairy died of Auto-tune overexposure). And yet, I cannot take my eyes off the cast, I am in awe of their talent and I love their takes on the music, studio mandated auto-tune aside.
The most recent episode is a prime example of that. The Britney/Brittany episode was a hot mess, even by Glee standards, and anyone who knows my taste in music knows that I have never liked Britney music, unless it's used for ironic purposes or karaoke. But damn if Heather Morris isn't mesmerizing when she dances. Holy crap, guys. I don't even know how she managed to do those moves she did, wearing the heels she was wearing.
Normally I think that if you're gonna do a video recreation/parody, it should be mostly shot-for-shot, and to a certain degree they did that, since Naya was doing all of Madonna's ridiculous rolling on the ground moves etc from the original video of Me Against the Music. But the choreography for Brittany/Britney of the Glee edition is just so much better than the original and Heather just KILLS it. I keep replaying this video from 0:49 when she throws the hat to Puck to 1:23 when they do the group slide over and over again, because the moves are so sharp and again, I don't know how she's outdancing everyone in those heels while everyone else is in more comfortable sneakers. Usually the SYTYCD alums stand out immediately. It took me about 3 rewatches of this to realize that one of the dancers right next to Brittany was Mark Kanemura - and Mark is one of my all time favorites. Girl is that fierce.
(Travis' cover of Baby One More Time remains the best Britney cover ever though.)
In other news, my electronics all seem to be failing me. The computer is making weird whurring sounds again (so I'm backing everything up again like whoa) and I need a new iPod because my old one has been declared dead and beyond repair. FUN. Between the ticket back here in January that I just bought and all those repairs/replacements, it's turning into a really expensive week. Ah well.
In conclusion: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake recap the History of Rap, remain awesome while doing so.
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Fringe: So you're gonna catch the premier AND tonight's ep, eh?
Ipod - have an off-brand MP3 player I bought off Ebay for like 35 bucks and it works great. Apple can suck it.
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However! The Jimmy Fallon/Justin Timberlake is going in my favorites. You win. I'm still laughing. That's amazing.
I'm crossing my fingers for your computer. As for iPods, I put M's through the wash last week because he stuck it in some really obscure pocket. It kinda . . . worked for a while and then stopped. Meh.
This icon has no relevance to anything in this post, but I'm using it on you because it made me laugh so hard and reminded me of the Renee as Mary Sue conversation:)
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Haven't watched Glee yet this season, but it is on my DVR. I thought I'd recorded the premiere of Fringe as well, but it's not there. Argh. I think it's available to stream from the local station, or it is on iTunes if worst comes to worst.
I watched Big Bang Theory for the first time last night, although it was an old episode. It's been so long since I've watched something with a laugh track it really threw me. Who are all these people, and why are they laughing? Yuck. I don't know if I can get past that.
Love Modern Family, even if it does remind me of the Littlest Cancer Patient with it's rather obvious tugging of the heart strings, my heart strings fall for it every time. I rather enjoyed the premiere of Nikita, but I forgot to watch it last week. I thought Undercovers seemed kinda lame, but I only watched the last five minutes. The Bones reboot... well. How many times can they reboot only to have things exactly the way they were? And now a baby? And why doesn't this bother me on Chuck? I do adore the chemistry between Angela and Hodges. They have the eye sex DOWN, baby.
Castle is too self-consciously witty for me. There, I said it. I've only seen two eps, but it would not be my first choice if there was something else on.
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