TV: Worth Watching?

Here’s the dealio. After Veronica Mars was canceled, I gave up television for awhile. I even stopped watching shows I used to like. You’d think I would find my productivity go up, but alas, I discovered THE INTERNETS.

Yes, I am ashamed.

Confession: I watch One Tree Hill.
- This stems from my obsessions with SoapNet and teen dramas, but morphed into a regular habit because of the new season
Suggestion: You should check it out.

I know, I know, it’s been awhile…

I’m back. Half heartedly, but back nonetheless. I went through a lot of stress over the summer, and my creativity took a major hit. I stopped sewing, I stopped creating things on Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign, I stopped modding my computer. I stopped wanting to do anything fun. I didn’t, of course, have time for fun, what with stage managing two shows, working full time, and dealing with living back with my parents for awhile. But whining isn’t going to solve anything.

Like that fact would stop me!

Season Finales

Grey’s Anatomy – The worst. Awful. Unbelievably so. Ugh. What’s to keep me coming back next season? NOTHING.

Veronica Mars – Pretty good (the first hour was excellent), but depressing. Not only because the show might be axed, but also because everything fell apart at the end, and nothing good happened. NO HOPE.

The Office - The best. The show was depressing as a whole, but the ending… oh, the ending. For the entire episode I was completely worried it would end on an awful note like last season, but No! It was beautiful. I cried tears of joy.

More after the jump…

Awful.

Hidden Palms – 1×1 “Pilot”

This show belongs on abcfamily (look at that hip lowercase! wow!). It’s awful. Oh dear, a boy saw his father commit suicide, went to rehab, then moved to a rich neighborhood. The seperates-it-from-the-OC-twist? Things aren’t as they appear (according to the pilot, also seen in the casting of Leslie Jordan as a woman).

I honestly did have (stupidly) high hopes for this, as the boy from Phantom of the Megaplex stars.  I was disappointed from the beginning, although the chemist-towel girl character intrigues me.  The scene in which Johnny analyzes Greta is ridiculously cliche, something I don’t mind in TV. Then, in a crazy twist, she does the same thing to him, except this time she’s soaking wet! Cliches can be entertaining.

I think it’s hysterical, by the way, that Zach from the OC is on this show as the (evil?) Seth character. He looks remarkably different with short hair.

And GASP! A rich-people party on the first night? In the first episode? This does not remind me of any show ever. Especially not one featuring a damaged new kid and his snarky sidekick.

In Denial

So tonight I finally watched the “series finale” (according to the CW) of Veronica Mars. I can’t handle writing much about it, but “Weevils Wobble” was absolutely amazing, but “The Bitch Is Back” was pretty terrible. If that was the series finale, I’m fucking pissed the hell off. Three motherfucking years of LoVe, and they’re not together in the end? Yeah, I know it wasn’t written to be the series finale, but they need to do more. Give us actual closure, ’cause right now, I feel like I’m going to puke. Oh, and thanks for using “It Never Rains in Southern California” for the end scene. That song is absolutely ruined for me. From now on, I’ll just cry when it’s played.  And really, couldn’t you have at least thrown ONE JOKE into the last five minutes of the episode?

“the f-word” attacks “Jezebel,” and I reply.

 I wrote about a new blog, Jezebel, a couple of posts ago, and after I read this attack on Jezebel on the f-word (via Jezebel) today, I wanted to reply. Finding where to comment was ridiculously difficult, but I did. They receive comments through an email system, and they post all comments on one page, if they deem them “interesting.” I was in a writing mood at the time, so it got a little lengthy. The entry from the f-word and my reply are after the jump.

LOLPresident

Today at work I went a little blog crazy. Through a series of blogs (about 10) I came to LOLPresident. I’m pretty tired of LOL(blank)’s, as most of them r teh suxxorz. Occasionally, however, I come across a great one (an especially cute kitten, an exceptionally well-captioned image), such as this or, to the point of this entry, this one:

Kickass new blog, from the parent company of lifehacker!

I’ve found a new hometab!

Jezebel: Celebrity. Sex. Fashion. Without Airbrushing.

It’s fucking awesome.

“To put it simply, Jezebel is a blog for women that will attempt to take all the essentially meaningless but sweet stuff directed our way and give it a little more meaning, while taking more the serious stuff and making it more fun, or more personal, or at the very least the subject of our highly sophisticated brand of sex joke. Basically, we wanted to make the sort of women’s magazine we’d want to read, a magazine that would never actually see glossy paper because big-name advertisers and the publishers who kowtow to them don’t much like it when you point out the vulgarity of a $2000 handbag. Women deserve some of the blame here: if men ever bought $2000 handbags, Esquire and GQ might be as bad — and profitable — as Glamour and Vogue.“

It’s celebrity gossip, feminist articles, and sassy reporting all rolled into a pretty interface!

The Joker!

I’m obsessed with Batman. I even have a tattoo of the Bat-Symbol on my hip. I’m really excited about the next movie, The Dark Knight. I’ve been reading blogs, searching forums, and surin’ the webernets in earnest to find out anything I can. Today I found out about the first released picture of The Joker, played by Heath Ledger. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this casting, but after his performances in recent movies, I’m looking forward to it.

How awesome does that look? Pretty motherfucking awesome. I’m so ridiculously pumped.