Showing posts with label TV thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV thoughts. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Tv Thoughts: HIMYM 2/19
Ok, another note to sa about this season oh HIMYM. As i believe i have said before, this season has made a turn for the better. The past few seasons in this show slumped bc we were so far away from meeting the mother. but now that we r there the episodes are starting to really have skill put into making them.
This episode had something, that i believe is a great comment on a perfect marriage. We know that Marshall erioand Lily stand for the for-everlasting, perfect couple. Meet first in college, and stick it through all the way. But i want to make a serious mention of what showed that in this weeks. At the moment Marshall comments that they have had that expensive ash tray in their house he knows hes about to say something that will start a fight. In this perfect of all perfect marriages they know that they will hav fights, no they will be fine through it, and that its part of life. He doesnt have to be scared, he just says "guys leave, we are about to have a fight". He knows its necessary and that there will be no issues in end, but that he is secure that thye need to fight.
Monday, December 17, 2012
TV Thoughts: Elementary (American Sherlock)
I started watching Elementary tonight after debating what to start. I have all ways enjoyed and slightly connected with Sherlock Holmes videography. I say videography and not stories because Ive never read the books. The reasons for my connection are obvious knowing my personality.
So, I had posted a status saying how I had started it and was enjoying it. A few people commented and i commented back in that conversation, and the matter it covered is unnecessary for my analysis of the show. I continued to watch the show for a few more episodes and then went back to past the following as another comment on the same status, to act as a 'update', if you will, to those who might read my status in the morning.
im enjoying it much more...heis s a bit more human and hes a bit more disturbed, i guess is the correct word, then other sherlocks that ive seen. Its taken a darker twist on his drug usage and having that and this past mysterious lover be the drive to show his emotional side rather than the girl (forgot her name) he usually has his little rivalry with. im liking it that he also does talk to joan (who ive really warmed up to in certain ways even tho sometimes she can get preachy) in backward hidden messages about the description of his psychy like in the 4th episode at the end when he says about how "being able to see the puzzle in everyone" and how its a lonely methodology to live ones life by. I very much like this for a slightly relate to it, obviously. It has given me a good source to quote and a better look at an aspect of myself.
After coming back to this a month later, i must retract my previous statement that i liked it more. After a bit more indepth thought and discussion, the BBC Sherlock is a much more unique and, to be frank, awesome show. That does not mean anythign else i said i dont not hold by, Elementary is still a great show, just not as awesome as Sherlock.
So, I had posted a status saying how I had started it and was enjoying it. A few people commented and i commented back in that conversation, and the matter it covered is unnecessary for my analysis of the show. I continued to watch the show for a few more episodes and then went back to past the following as another comment on the same status, to act as a 'update', if you will, to those who might read my status in the morning.
im enjoying it much more...heis s a bit more human and hes a bit more disturbed, i guess is the correct word, then other sherlocks that ive seen. Its taken a darker twist on his drug usage and having that and this past mysterious lover be the drive to show his emotional side rather than the girl (forgot her name) he usually has his little rivalry with. im liking it that he also does talk to joan (who ive really warmed up to in certain ways even tho sometimes she can get preachy) in backward hidden messages about the description of his psychy like in the 4th episode at the end when he says about how "being able to see the puzzle in everyone" and how its a lonely methodology to live ones life by. I very much like this for a slightly relate to it, obviously. It has given me a good source to quote and a better look at an aspect of myself.
After coming back to this a month later, i must retract my previous statement that i liked it more. After a bit more indepth thought and discussion, the BBC Sherlock is a much more unique and, to be frank, awesome show. That does not mean anythign else i said i dont not hold by, Elementary is still a great show, just not as awesome as Sherlock.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
TV Thoughts: HIMYM: Single Lives
Single lives as portrayed by HIMYM do not exist. They just dont. Forget Barney's life. Ted even...THIS IS WHERE I MOVED FROM A FACEBOOK STATUS TO A BLOG POST...especially the first few seasons of the show, the amount of tail he was getting was uncanny. I cannot believe people like this even exist. For two reasons:
One: its wrong and i think that people are behaving like animals if they act like this. Not because having hook-ups here and there are a bad thing for a single non-religious persons. But I do not think it shows a healthy state of mind to be bouncing between so many women so quickly as if they are nothing. Like i dont think it should be possible to hav more than 6 gf a year. It just shouldnt be. The amount of emotional energy that need be given, not even by my standards, in order for something to be a relationship is substantial enough to cause enough emotional damper after a break up that it should inhibit you for a long enough time that you must wait to start another relationship far enough down the line that with the timing set in the best possible way, the maximum possible gfs you could have in a year shouldnt be more than 5 or 6. And thats still alot in my book. Ted is going thru 9 or 10 a year. I just dont believe people SHOULD go thru more than 2 or 3. You SHOULD care about ppl u get in a relationship with.
And Two: Theres just no way...like come on. How can those girls go for him? If they go for him then what the hell is wrong with me? (not turning this into a rant about myself) Theres just no way. Like if thats the image we are trying to tell America is the "American Dream" then we are setting the stakes way to high. To get that much tail, with that hotness level of girls, would be too awesome to ever actually be attainable.
This very much displayed dual-reasoning thinking.
I could have gone so much deeper into these topics and analyzed them more but I got bored.
One: its wrong and i think that people are behaving like animals if they act like this. Not because having hook-ups here and there are a bad thing for a single non-religious persons. But I do not think it shows a healthy state of mind to be bouncing between so many women so quickly as if they are nothing. Like i dont think it should be possible to hav more than 6 gf a year. It just shouldnt be. The amount of emotional energy that need be given, not even by my standards, in order for something to be a relationship is substantial enough to cause enough emotional damper after a break up that it should inhibit you for a long enough time that you must wait to start another relationship far enough down the line that with the timing set in the best possible way, the maximum possible gfs you could have in a year shouldnt be more than 5 or 6. And thats still alot in my book. Ted is going thru 9 or 10 a year. I just dont believe people SHOULD go thru more than 2 or 3. You SHOULD care about ppl u get in a relationship with.
And Two: Theres just no way...like come on. How can those girls go for him? If they go for him then what the hell is wrong with me? (not turning this into a rant about myself) Theres just no way. Like if thats the image we are trying to tell America is the "American Dream" then we are setting the stakes way to high. To get that much tail, with that hotness level of girls, would be too awesome to ever actually be attainable.
This very much displayed dual-reasoning thinking.
I could have gone so much deeper into these topics and analyzed them more but I got bored.
Friday, November 30, 2012
TV Thoughts: S04 Glee up until E08
So this is how this is gonna go. Im starting this obviously late so im just gonna sum up and then post something about 8.
So basically this season has been this bad. I like the sexy changes to Rachel and now that the spotlight isnt being shined on kurt from the "LOOK OMG IM GAY" field and rather just a "im human, but awesome" field, im enjoying seeing him in the new environment. So yes i do like the duality of the base locations. To point a finger to episode 8, i liked how they finally had it said out to Rachel that "she wasnt in high school anymore" and that ppl make adult decisions and you cant whine about everything.
Its showing the next level of character development that couldnt have happened if they hadnt decided to move her to a new realm. Not obviously you can ask, why not just the character? Well, i think its going to try to a teach as far as it can into the young adult life that is quite extended nowadays.
It used to be you were a kid, then a quick teenager, and then an adult. done. Ppl had to learn to give up on "dreams" earlier and start being a responsible adult. The whole getting married thing, getting out of school into a job, etc. Now people take gap years after high school. Spend years in undergrad. Go abroad again. Explore a dream like art, that they know wont lead anywhere. Or even try for something like that and spend years in art school. Because now people can do that. We are a wealthy enough place that ppl can just go to art school and do that as a profession and be successful enough to survive. But anyway im getting off point.
Point is young adult is the age in mid teens where ppl attempt to give you responsibility like an adult, but yet the feel of being a full blown adult, and actually responsible for yourself, doesnt come for years.
Which was my actual point i was TRYING to make before. That people can live off mommy and daddy so much more now and can just go to art school and do nothing to help support themselves for years.
(In the middle of my thought before i thought i was trying to say something nice, but then i remembered no, i actually do believe the dark thing, not even being high can make me not forget that the world is full of idiots.)
SOOO....now that this extended young adult period exists, there has not been a show, like this one, that has spanned this set of years, thru this lens. Yes, weve had shows where they start in high school and the show lasts thru college. So its similar. But never has it been done from this modern perspective. Following kids, that are able to live out these outlandish dreams, of which are actually done and attainable nowadays! Quite often!
They want to keep a story following certain older kids, in order to show a new part of human life.
Wow....ok....so back to the review. Ive liked the story line, and the new characters. They are each still unique and i dont feel like they are redoing exact characters that hav alrdy been done. The show, with its giant star-actor list, has alrdy ventured thru the trials and tribulations of several vary characteristically different characters. To continue to have new and unique faces is not an easy fete. So doing this is a 'brava'.
The songs this season have also been keeping me quite happy. The finale songs have been awesome enough to keep me happy in and of themselves.
HOWEVER....
Episode 8:
i knew it couldnt go on forever, while the plot actually is keeping me "okishly" interested, while still being overly dramatic in areas that didnt need it and still being more of a facepalming joke of a storyline, the songs in this weeks glee episode did not match up to par with the level of awesome that the other songs from this season have set so far.
(btw yes i had made this facebook status first and this is actually what led to the entire creation of this blog bc i wanted a place to put all my crazy thoughts when high.)
So after re-reading my episode 8 review i need to say 2 things.
One, i need to stop lying to myself about how i see things and my opinions of them based off what i kno other ppl like. It doesnt matter if i sound stupid, if i like it then i like it. No this is not me coming out you idiot. Im not gay. But if i like glee, which according to others is a crappy show, then i need to not hide that and maybe formulate actually logical statements about how the things others say bad about the show are actually false, or maybe a logical precession of its good parts. OR...i could just accept the fact that i dont care if it has bad parts, i still enjoy it.
TWO, I agree still that this episode sucked...THATS RIGHT HERE IS AN ACTUAL REVIEW! It has crappy music numbers besides the Warblers, which i still wasnt even that big of a fan of. Doing a choir version of "Gangnam style" was an awful choice and it sounded horrid. The over-dramatized thing with Blane and Kurt annoyed me, but the sexiness of Rachel did not. Im starting to get pissed at the fact that no one sees this evil blonde girl is the menace here.
And ok, heres something that i can actually agree with everyone else about the show. The people are so pathetic! I kno TV shows are supposed to take extremes and dramatized things to blow them up, but if there are people at all like that that go "omg i need to fit in my dress, im gonna listen to my friend who says i should make myself barf" then my low lvl of faith in humanity is verified. And yes, i kno bulimia is a disease. But i guess a) i still dont fully get how, and b) i dont think new rachel has it, i think shes just dumb as shit.
THAT ALL BEING SAID. The fact that the episode just ended with her passing out, made me hold my breathe till it hurt. Im still itching to know what happens next.
so, theres my review and thoughts so far, maybe more posts like this one will appear later on, chow.
So basically this season has been this bad. I like the sexy changes to Rachel and now that the spotlight isnt being shined on kurt from the "LOOK OMG IM GAY" field and rather just a "im human, but awesome" field, im enjoying seeing him in the new environment. So yes i do like the duality of the base locations. To point a finger to episode 8, i liked how they finally had it said out to Rachel that "she wasnt in high school anymore" and that ppl make adult decisions and you cant whine about everything.
Its showing the next level of character development that couldnt have happened if they hadnt decided to move her to a new realm. Not obviously you can ask, why not just the character? Well, i think its going to try to a teach as far as it can into the young adult life that is quite extended nowadays.
It used to be you were a kid, then a quick teenager, and then an adult. done. Ppl had to learn to give up on "dreams" earlier and start being a responsible adult. The whole getting married thing, getting out of school into a job, etc. Now people take gap years after high school. Spend years in undergrad. Go abroad again. Explore a dream like art, that they know wont lead anywhere. Or even try for something like that and spend years in art school. Because now people can do that. We are a wealthy enough place that ppl can just go to art school and do that as a profession and be successful enough to survive. But anyway im getting off point.
Point is young adult is the age in mid teens where ppl attempt to give you responsibility like an adult, but yet the feel of being a full blown adult, and actually responsible for yourself, doesnt come for years.
Which was my actual point i was TRYING to make before. That people can live off mommy and daddy so much more now and can just go to art school and do nothing to help support themselves for years.
(In the middle of my thought before i thought i was trying to say something nice, but then i remembered no, i actually do believe the dark thing, not even being high can make me not forget that the world is full of idiots.)
SOOO....now that this extended young adult period exists, there has not been a show, like this one, that has spanned this set of years, thru this lens. Yes, weve had shows where they start in high school and the show lasts thru college. So its similar. But never has it been done from this modern perspective. Following kids, that are able to live out these outlandish dreams, of which are actually done and attainable nowadays! Quite often!
They want to keep a story following certain older kids, in order to show a new part of human life.
Wow....ok....so back to the review. Ive liked the story line, and the new characters. They are each still unique and i dont feel like they are redoing exact characters that hav alrdy been done. The show, with its giant star-actor list, has alrdy ventured thru the trials and tribulations of several vary characteristically different characters. To continue to have new and unique faces is not an easy fete. So doing this is a 'brava'.
The songs this season have also been keeping me quite happy. The finale songs have been awesome enough to keep me happy in and of themselves.
HOWEVER....
Episode 8:
i knew it couldnt go on forever, while the plot actually is keeping me "okishly" interested, while still being overly dramatic in areas that didnt need it and still being more of a facepalming joke of a storyline, the songs in this weeks glee episode did not match up to par with the level of awesome that the other songs from this season have set so far.
(btw yes i had made this facebook status first and this is actually what led to the entire creation of this blog bc i wanted a place to put all my crazy thoughts when high.)
So after re-reading my episode 8 review i need to say 2 things.
One, i need to stop lying to myself about how i see things and my opinions of them based off what i kno other ppl like. It doesnt matter if i sound stupid, if i like it then i like it. No this is not me coming out you idiot. Im not gay. But if i like glee, which according to others is a crappy show, then i need to not hide that and maybe formulate actually logical statements about how the things others say bad about the show are actually false, or maybe a logical precession of its good parts. OR...i could just accept the fact that i dont care if it has bad parts, i still enjoy it.
TWO, I agree still that this episode sucked...THATS RIGHT HERE IS AN ACTUAL REVIEW! It has crappy music numbers besides the Warblers, which i still wasnt even that big of a fan of. Doing a choir version of "Gangnam style" was an awful choice and it sounded horrid. The over-dramatized thing with Blane and Kurt annoyed me, but the sexiness of Rachel did not. Im starting to get pissed at the fact that no one sees this evil blonde girl is the menace here.
And ok, heres something that i can actually agree with everyone else about the show. The people are so pathetic! I kno TV shows are supposed to take extremes and dramatized things to blow them up, but if there are people at all like that that go "omg i need to fit in my dress, im gonna listen to my friend who says i should make myself barf" then my low lvl of faith in humanity is verified. And yes, i kno bulimia is a disease. But i guess a) i still dont fully get how, and b) i dont think new rachel has it, i think shes just dumb as shit.
THAT ALL BEING SAID. The fact that the episode just ended with her passing out, made me hold my breathe till it hurt. Im still itching to know what happens next.
so, theres my review and thoughts so far, maybe more posts like this one will appear later on, chow.
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