Doctor Who Xmas Special – End of Time pt 1

WTF? Seriously….WTF? Besides the amount of lvve I have for Bernard and Donna (and is it sad I’m more concerned about Donna’s fate than the human raceeriously…the whole montage with the “master” race just made me laugh…but I’m actually scared for Donna….she’s the best companion and one of he best people on this show! Screw the human race, save Donna!) but that was the most random thing I’ve seen. Like, very disjointed and…..you know, all these specials have felt that way. They’ve felt rushed, and out of place….this is definitely a show which needs a season’s worth of build-up, laughs and shadowy overtones of DOOM.

AND RTD really needs to stop writing episodes! Let him create shows, but stop writing them! CANNOT WAIT FOR MOFFAT TO TAKE OVER!!!!!!!

what are we watching today?

playing catch-up with true blood and flash forward – can i just say both shows are getting very interesting?

 

true blood has improved vastly on the first couple of episodes – i’m happy i struggled my way through, because honestly, i gave up halfway through the second episode. but i was told to stick with it – and admittedly, it got better.

 

So i played catch up today, with eps 4,5 and 6 – yeah, i got suckered into it!

It amuses me the Stackhouse siblings are played by an Aussie and a Kiwi, with relatively decent accents. I’m still not fussed on Bill at all, and in actual fact, the “vampire” apect of the story does not entice me in the slightest. I think I left vamps behind with my emo days.  It’s the underlying story of people trying to live alongisde each other in equality which sparks my attention. Mixing up vamps with people of different colour and orientation in a southern town is a brilliant portrayal of human culture and fear, and that’s what intrigues me here. Not the copious amounts of sex, deaths or bloody images.

 

Flashforward started off well, lagged a little…and then starting bringing home the bacon. Wow. I also caught up with 3 episodes today – and they have been flying think and fast. I’d caught up to the ep wherewe find out Janice is a lesbian and then gets shot (not for that), the guys in DC are shot at, and Olivia finds out about her husband’s flash forward. Going straight into thestoryline of the blue hand, bringing back characters who’d fallen into the shadows as more prominent storylines played out, killing off a character who wsn’t supposed to die, and also allowing Dominic Monaghan to become a little creepy.

It ahs misses, but when the show gets it right, it really gets it right.

 

Also caught up with TAR – Phil, I knew it was a non-elimination leg, based solely on how you greeted everyone at the mat! Gah – the brothers are starting to grate on me as well – geez, yes they’re bickering brothers, but do they really have to be so mean to each other? And then taking the taxi – yes, it’s a race…..but ouch Game on, peeps!

 

 

 

Glee

Have I mebtioned how much I love this show?

 

at first it seemed to be nothing but put crack!…but they’ve been weaving storylines, giving plots to minor characters (with the exception of the wonderful mercedes…come on, peep, recognise!) and just blowing me awy with its storylines – stories which don’t just sweep everything nicely with sparkles.

 

I fucking love this show so much it hurts.

 

And Kurt. I LOVE him. Gah. Chris Colfer is amazing. They all are.

I need more Glee. Hell, we all need some Gee in our lives.

what are we watching today?

House s06, ep02 – Epic Fail. Well, now I see how they’ve mnaged to get rid of the new ducklings and bring the old duckings back into the fold. Meh. I’m kind of over this show…but the draw of Chase keeps pulling me back in, dammit! Really wish 13 had stayed a lesbian..she’s pretty hot.

Gossip Girl – s03, ep03 – meh. The sparkle is gone. There’s something about this show that’s…missing. And I don’t know what it is, but this season has so far been rather lacklustre. I think it may be seeing Blair at the bottom of the pile, and not triumphing like the Queen she is. We don’t want this to see Serena fall into pieces yet again or to see Blair torn to shreds…we watch it to see Blair tear everyone else into shreds! Can she please move out of the college dorms, get Dorota back on our screens and go find the bloody people she should be reigning over instead?

Glee – last week’s episode. Dammit. I’ve had Beyonce’s Single Ladies in my head ever since. I LOVE THIS SHOW. Had to rewatch Kurt’s dance yet again. I LOVE KURT SO MUCH. I’m flailing. I’m fangirl flailing. I haven’t done this since I discovered Torchwood canon. I HEART GLEE SO MUCH, PEEPS.

Supernatural Season 4 – as long as we have Cas…..

You know I loved this show from the get-go. 2 hot brothers traipsing around the US in a kick-ass metallicar, hunting down demons and ghosts? Seriously, what isn’t there to like?

But this season…it blew me away. I have episodes in every season which I won’t watch again, out of boredom or sheer annoyance (racist killer truck, anyone?)

And yet season 4 was phenomenal all the way through, if a little myth-arc heavy.

Of course, it would start off with a bang, sending off one of the leads to hell at the end of season 3. It was the awesomeness of the first 3 seasons which led me of course to do a Supernatural marathon in the lead-up to season 4 (an event which will never occur again, let me tell you). So there was a lot of anticipation going into the premiere…

And they delivered.

Ripping Dean out of hell, having 10 minutes of pure silence and just seeing the bewilderment on the poor boy’s face, leading up to the joyful reunions, discovering exactly what a bad, bad boy Sammy has been in the 4 months since Dean died and then learning that it was an angel (a very gorgeous angel with bedroom eyes) who pulled Dean out of hell.

And the show got better, bringing back some of our favourite dead characters for a special episode, where we also learn the myth-arc for the season: Lilith is breaking seals in order to release Lucifer.

Then Dean takes a little trip in time and meets daddy with blue eyes, and his sexy mama – and learns his mother was a hunter as well as why she died by ol’ yellow eyes -and how brilliant of them to keep stringing him through the show, even though he died 2 seasons ago? It’s amazing to see a show capable of picking up plot points and continuing to thread them through in such a way. Oh, how I love this show.

There was an homage to old-school horror films in black and white, Halloween (it took them 4 seasons to get to Halloween?), an after school special, a brilliant out-take to the theme Eye of the Tiger, a very meta episode (now with slash!), prophets, and an overdose of angels. It was a very tongue-in-cheek season, but underneath it all, there was beautiful symbolism, as we gradually learn why Dean is so tortured – he started torturing souls himself – and what this meant for the season – this act broke the very first seal to release Lucifer – and why the angels pulled him out – the first man to start it is the only man who can stop Lucifer. EEP!

Meanwhile, Sam gradually fell to the dark side, indulging deeper in demon blood, provided by New Ruby who sucked. Seriously. I was actually a fan of Ruby – she was portrayed brilliantly and you never knew whether you could trust her or not, and begrudgingly started to trust her towards the end of season 3 – but this one just sucked. I did not want to trust her because I hated her so much.

So, we came down to the wire – Sam is not only sleeping with a demon possessing a dead body (ewwww) and gaining in strength, but Dean is yet again in turmoil and carrying the entire world on his shoulders, attempting to save Sammy from his fate. (And attempting to deny his attraction to the lush angel Castiel – come on, we all saw the eyefuckage going on there!)

And then they fight and break up. Dean tends to his wounds with Bobby until the angels put him into a little green room, awaiting the apocalypse, while Sammy makes his own demon road trip to the church where Lilith awaits him.

And here, it all comes full circle. For you see, this has been Ol’ Yellow Eyes goal all along. This was his game plan. The reason he made those kids special, killed several mothers and then got them to pick one another off, was to find the strongest one of them all – the one who would be able to kill the first demon. This is the final seal, and this was Ol Yellow Eye’s game plan all along.

How freaking cool is that???????

Now, Dean discovers the angels want the apocalypse because they want to swipe the slate clean. Luckily, Catsiel breaks him out but he’s too late – Sammy kills Lilith and releases Lucifer.

And now, Ruby reveals she’s also been playing them all along and has secretly been working with both Yellow Eyes and Lilith to lure Sammy to the dark side so this very event can occur.

And then Dean kills her! And I scream ecstatically and dance singing, ding dong, the bitch is dead……

And end season, on the boys grasping each other (together again!), watching the ground break up as Lucifer makes his long-awaited comeback…and leaves wanting more.

This season was pure brilliance, and also improved in the ratings – although that may have something to do with the angels finally coming into play. For a show about the supernatural, they stuck it out with hell and demons for long enough, and I always knew they’d have to bring the other side into it. Of course, I’m not a big fan of the mythology, as I’m not actually a believer, but considering how ridiculous the show is overall, I can overlook it as fiction. After all, I think the Bible is fiction, so it’s not much of a stretch.

I don’t know where to begin with a high point – In the Beginning was the best episode, coming very close to the best episode of the entire show (and yet it still can’t trump Devil’s Trap…I don’t think anything can!). There’s so much that went right this year – Sammy’s descent into darkness, Dean discovering what he really did, breaking out of hell…it’s hard to choose just one.

The weak pint – well besides the overbearing mythology – would have to be Dean’s mopiness. Come on, he spent the entire season crying woe is me! Where’s the tough as nails hunter we first met? Then again, where’s the brainiac normal Sam? He lost the plot too – but at least we can blame his behaviour on losing his brother!

It’s a critical point now for the show – where do they go after this? I hope it can only continue to improve, although it seems we’re moving into the final season. So I’ll be enjoying every single moment there is left and waiting impatiently for the DVD.

watch this space

ooh i’ve neglected you. i apologise! what with holidays and work taking over, life…just moved on.

i’ll be doing overall reviews of each of the seasons in the coming weeks, try and finish a few shows, decide what to watch in the coming season (trust me, the list has narrowed) and go back to the beginning of torchwood (because i need to remind myself why i loved it in the first place and forget the depression of season 3).

so stick around – i’m back!

Eurovision 2009

And here we are! Good evening and welcome….and it’s Graham Norton commenting… Gah, already this show sucks. I miss Terry Wogan!

Ok, he’s not too bad.

We’re starting with an act from Cirque Du Soleil, who are apparently launching their very first season in Russia – any opportunity to plug your show! But it is a very good show.

And now last year’s Dima decides to use a running treadmill thing before starting the winning song from last year….which I wasn’t all that impressed with the first time around – eastern bloc voting for sure!

My money is on Azerbajain – Putin was photographed with this entry and this entry only – a very subtle hint for which country to vote for!

Right – new voting system this year – public vote is 50/50 with a jury of profesional musicians who have already voted. Hmm…We’re in Russia with half the vote already counted…oh yeah, this is rigged.

And we’re jumping straight in -

Lithuania
Sasha Son, Love

guy with a piano , bit ballad-y but actualu music talent. i want his trilby.
Look, it’s a nice song, but nothing special. It sounds like anything you might hear on the radio – ooh, he has a flame in his hand!

Israel
Noa & Mira Awad, There Must be another way

Nice, political song about peace and hope, sung in arabic, hebrew and english. A jew and an arab singing together – not likely to win, but again, nice song about hope. (Although it would be nice if Israel would actually consider it). and they’re on the drums again.

France
Patricia Kaas, El S’Il laffail la fait or something like that

how surprising, the french singing in french. and it’s ballady.
Kat’s response – it’s french. not that there’s anything wrong with that, but…well, can we stereotype much? *I’m agreeing with Kat, by the way.
meh.

Sweden
La voix – Malena Ernman

it’s discopera. and the dress cost EUR 36,000. In a recession? Nice, though. typical blonde girl – verses are slow pop, chorus is operatic. it’s not bad, i quite like it – might make a good music vid. and man, she’s really, really excited about being there – or maybe just happy she made the notes? love the glittery masks.

Croatia
Igor and Andrea, Lepja Tena

oh god the song starts and i’m back in my childhood – mama, what did you do to me? what are the back-up dancers doing? and he has knee-high boots? WTF?
It’s a little too Iglesias-y for me…and now there’s a blonde singer, wailing nicely.
Croatia always has…interesting entries * last year’s was better.

Portugal
Flor-de-lis, todas as ruas do amor

MY FAVOURITE! VOTE FOR PORTUGAL!
it’s oh so bright and happy with flowers, and bright colours and it’s…just happy, folksy, simple and simply beautiful. I think, best way to explain it is…very now. eh i can’t explain it. just vote for it! aww i think she cried again.

Iceland
Yohanna, Is it true?
Another favourite. she’s 18, and looks icelandic. like the top half of the dress, kat likes the satin.
it’s a gorgeous song – you can imagine it on the radio, on a soundtrack, having a cry to it, it’s just beautiful, melodic, very non-eurovision like.
Unfortunately, Iceland can’t win – they can’t afford it.
Graham pointed out no one has ever won wering only blue.

Greece
Sakis Rouvas, this is our night

Gah. I know too many greek people. one of the favourites to win. Greec econtinuing their trend of eurodance. And he’s thrusting. and body popping. upturned collar. this is a favourite to win? It’s…meh. not special. the treadmill is going again.he ripped his top. Um. And there’s a greek flag on stage now. Meh. Graham thinks it’ll do well, Kat mutters, not if there;s any justice in the world.

Armenia
Inga & Janush, Jan Jan
Ooh, I quite like this one, if it weird. Has a brilliant track to it, with a very eastern flavour to it, before adding a basic beat. and they actually have traditional outfits, keeping a bit ot of euro *er, eastern* flavour. I’m not sure why, but I really like this *Kat says that’s because it’s actually a good song*.

Russia
Anastacia Prikhodko, Mamo
ah, the host country. Kat – she looks like a demon. Black eyes, you know!*
she’s aging on the screens…..weird effect.
Kat – what is she singing? Looks like she’s singing for her mummy. and now she’s having a tanty!!!

I’m…yeah. no way they’ll win.it sucked.

Azerbaijan
Aysel & Arash ,Always
if this is rigged, they’ll win.
eastern influence again. very euro-poppy.
not too bad, catchy. i can ehar it playing in the clubs – and on Oxygen. ooh, we have a ukelele!
she’s trying to dance, and well, beyond swinging hips, she ain’t that good. like her dress.
ooh..sparklies!
Apparently biggest cheer so far. see? Putin’s influence

Bosnia & Herzegovina
Regina, Bistra Voda
ah, the weird guy, with the drumming singers! And the awesome group stance towards the end. he’s the guy i wouldn’t kick out of bed, but he has to change his hair first. Cos, ick.
it’s got a bit of balkan folk flavour, which I really like, but overall the song is a little strange. i still like it. And here comes the group stand, in the face of danger! Or wind fans….

Moldova
Nelly Ciobanu, Hora di Moldova
very interesting outfit. it looks like something a girl hidden in the alps would wear.It’s the strange dancing and yelling and…

I like it. So does Kat. Although “looks like the dancers are having spasms”.
it of Irish dancing, Morris dancing, hill dancing….and back to the fun chorus with scremaing and yelping. I like it. lot. Eeep.
Still think her outfit looks wacked out.

You know…Graham isn’t half bad. Terry Wogan, your rep is in trouble.

Malta
Chiara, What if we
To me, this song is very 90’s movie soundtrack ballad. it’s nice, I do like it…but not to win. Although it would be brilliant for music vids. I already have ideas in my head. Like the glittery blue lights. so purdy.

Estonia
Urban Sympony, Radajan
what is she wearing?
there’s a mini-orchestra on stage, it’s nice and melodic but I just….i can’t get my head around their outfits. they’re weird.
the song is alright. Estonia always has such strange songs!

Denmark
Brinck, Believe Again
The Ronan Keating. sounds and looks like him. he wrote it too. has potential?
I’ve never been the biggest Ronan fan, so not sure. Very pop-tastic.
Mmm. I like the guitarist.
Song is very Ronan-esque, so yeah, has strong potential to win if it captures the teenie vote. I like it, but it’s radio stuff.
Can I have the guitarist? The long-haired one? Please?

Germany
Alex Swings Oscar Swing, Miss Kiss Kiss Bang
Dita von Teese is appearing. Well, it worked for Russia.
he really overplucks his eyebrows.
But I like the song.
Hmm, barely seen Dita. I’m sure once she starts stripping, they’ll show her more.
and now there’s tapdancing.
and DITA IS IN A ITY-BITTY CORSET, AND LOOKING HOT. SHE HAS A WHIP, PEOPLE.
I really liked the song, but the performance was not that great and badly taken care of.

Turkey
Hadise, Dum Tek Tek
well, it’s turkish so immediate eastern feel and music, and the belly-dancing. well, kind of belly dancing. as kat says, the ones with the back-up dancers doing the beter singing.
so eurovision. well, recent eurovision-y.
and now we have the acrobat leaping onto stage wearing only silky harem pants.
he’s too skinny.

Albania
Kejsi Tola, Carry me in your dreams
why are there mimes on stage?
and…a man…in a full on green condom body suit? WTF?
and she’s in a tutu.
I like her hair.
another typical europop track. it’s alright, she has a good voice at least. and the eastern bit, with the teensy belly dance bit…and the wind machine on gale force.
That was weird.

Norway
Alexander Rybak, Fairytale
The favourite to win. The one to beat. We have a fiddler on the stage!!
He’s cute.
i don’t know how to describe the dancers.  and now we have girls in pretty dresses.
It’s a different song…not poppy, not really folky *Alexander composed it himself*
I like it…but…i had high hopes and I just can’t see why it’s favourite to win. Until he starts fiddling, that’s pretty good actually! i don’t want it to win. If he fiddled the entire way through…

i like the song, but not as much as i love others.

Ukraine
Svetlana Loboda, Be My Valentine
the one with the hamster wheels!
Th outfit, the stage…I’m seeing Lady Gaga in my head. And the dancers are gladiators!
all I have to say is the Ukraine must have an amazing clubbing scene, considering what they bring to Eurovision each year.
gladiators dancing, thrusting and headbanging. Hee. and she’s probably dizzy from all the twirling.
Did she just say he has a sexy bum? Ooh and drumming! And she broke the stick!
In kat’s words, I’m voting for her…she’s fucking nuts!

Romania
Elena, The Balkan Girls
this one starts off really well, lots of drums…and then flatlines. i like the outfits. I had really high hopes initially but i’m not a big fan of it, it’s too iffy.
hmm graham seems to say the back up singer is the main singer. I don’t know.

UK
Jade Ewen, It’s my time
Ok, can we get over the fact Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote this? His stuff isn’t that great, you know.
she has a sparkly mic.
and violinsts.
At least she can sing. and sing well.
Oh look, the man himself is on stage performing – now I see! He’s using this as his opportunity to perform at eurovision!
Ooh near miss – Jade was nearly taken out by a violin…but recovered.
It’s alright – it’s very…Idol winner-y to me, which are the type of songs I’ve never liked.
But she can belt it out.

Finland
Waldo’s People, Lose Control
Oh, I like this song! I can so see this in the clubs. It’s the rapper, with the girls in gold..and FIRE! Fire twirlers! Anyone with fire twirlers gets my vote. Such a far cry from Lordi.
as Kat says, bit fucking odd, but I quite like this one.
mmm…fire twirlers are hot.
Gah. I really like this.

Spain
Soraya Arnelas, El Noche es para mi
The spaniards have decided to go eastern? Or south american?
what is she wearing? Short and sparkly!
it’s eurodancy.
she’s disappeared. how will she re-appear? somewhere else, apparently. i was expecting more from that. you disappointed me, espana!
It’s a nice song..not good enough to vote for.

And that’s it – we have all 25 songs…and now it’s time to choose!!
It will take some time for the results to come through. Hmm..who will win?  Where will I attempt to go see the final next?

ppst…hopefully Portugal!!!!!

Ack…they’re opening the voting…via space station.
I don’t think Russia has moved on from the cold war.

Europe, start voting! *grabs phone*

Good luck to all the entrants!

Supernatural s04-ep16 – On the head of a Pin

Oh boy. This one is a doozy. It’s one of those episodes which make you turn around and go back, way back, and re-watch specific moments. Now this scene makes sense, now you know why this has happened. And ack, it broke my freaking heart!

The opening montage is beautifully done: a car accident, or so it seems, a woman, and then Castiel lights up the screen, staring gravely at the poor woman…and as the camera zooms out we see the outline of her wings on the bitumen…nice!

Our boys have just buried Pamela, who devastatingly died in the previous episode. I will most definitely miss her; she was the epitome of all the fans. And that would be why they killed her off, as every female character we like on this show never survives for very long. So they get into their hotel room and find Castiel and Uriel waiting for them. They’ve caught Alistair (What? He’s not dead?) And are trying to extract information from him, and for that, they need a torturer. Which is why they’ve come to Dean, the best torturer they know, seeing as he spent 40 years in hell. Sam is not having any of it, because he doesn’t believe Dean can break Alistair, as he sees his brother as weak. And damn Sammy, what has that Ruby girl done to you? Although I guess this is the result of 4 months of learning to stand on your own 2 feet out of your brother’s shadow….err…can you crawl back into it now? I preferred the optimistic, naïve and cute Sammy. Of course, being angels, Castiel and Uriel merely vanish…and take Dean along with them. Hmm. Now, Sammy sees his weak brother as being kidnapped by the angels. You know, I never thought I’d be writing that sentence.

Dean has a little chat with Castiel, who convinces to bring out his bad side and torture Alistair for information on who’s killing angels, and how. So he goes in and tyhey have annoying little moments of chit-chat, with Dean preparing his instruments of torture as Alistair tries to break him. Of course, he’d be the one person who knows how to.

He even drags out old Daddy Dearest yet again, claiming how Daddy dearest never broke, but Dean did after only 30 measly years. Dean calmly and quietly continues preparing his torture devices, which are nasty. Of course, the reason Alistair is baiting him is because he realises there is a leaking pump, resolutely breaking the devil’s trap holding him. He’s keeping Dean pre-occupied so he doesn’t notice.

In the meantime, Anna visits Castiel to tell him to think for himself and be all pale and ghost-like. Sam also has a visit from Ruby, and she helps him find Dean with a really cool trick…and then we find out exactly what Sammy has been getting up all these months, besides exorcising demons and sleeping with one. He’s been sucking demon blood from Ruby. Which…..I don’t think I even have words for. Just. Ick. Dammit Sammy…you are so screwed up right now! He gathers extra-strength from the demon blood, so he sucks some more up in order to go and break Dean free, because he’s so sure Dean is incapable of doing anything himself. Oh, this does so not bode well for our intrepid heroes’ futures. He goes racing off after Dean.

In the meantime…oh, I don’t know if I have the words for it. This bit…

Alistair pulls out his drawcard. He reveals to Dean exactly why he was in hell, exactly what the plan was. Apparently, once Lilith had the contract in her hand, she set the whole plan of releasing Lucifer into motion. Because the first seal had to be broken by a righteous man in hell, torturing others. Do you realise what this means?
It means Dean broke the first seal, he set it all into motion when he picked up that scythe and started slicing and dicing. All of this, all the seals, the deaths, Lucifer…it’s all HIS FAULT.

The close-up on Jensen here is beautiful, you know can see him holding resolutely, but in his eyes, you see him breaking. Gah.

And this is of course when Alistair breaks free and grabs Dean and slams him into the wall.

We come back into it a little later to find Dean practically pulverised and Castiel finally comes dashing into the room to take Alistair on, except, yet again, he is overtaken, plucked onto a meat-hook and nearly killed…when Sam comes in and kills Alistair once and for all. Of course, Castiel is really unhappy now, having seen Sam use his power…to rescue him. Oh the moral dilemmas!

Our next scene is Dean lying in a hospital bed. (SQUEE!) Sam is next to him, all terrified, begging Castiel to help him, but he can’t. I think Sam is also starting to come to some of his own realisations, and he ain’t happy with the angels.

Castiel goes back to the factory and realises the trap was broken, which was how Dean was so badly injured. And then Uriel comes back in..and it’s revealed Uriel is the one whose been killing the angels, because only an angel can kill another angel. He has decided Lucifer had the right idea and has joined a secret underground movement helping Lucifer’s escape, setting the trap to get rid of one his problems, ie Dean. And then we have an angelic showdown, which, inevitably, the gorgeous tousle-headed Castiel wins. Thank the heavens.

We come to our last scene, with Dean waking up in hospital and seeing his guardian angel by his bedside. They have a small chat, as Castiel tells Dean to be more careful, because some of the angels are bad and probably gunning for him. And then Dean asks if it’s true. If it’s true about him breaking the first seal. Castiel can’t lie. And Dean is so heartbreakingly destroyed right here….sniffle. Catsiel reveals ocne they figured out Lilith’s plan they battled their way into hell to try and stop it from happening, to save Dean. But they were too late. Dean wants to know why he rescued him.

Castiel looks at him and reveals, the one who started it, is the one who will end it.

Fudge. Hell. So…my god…..Dean…Dean actually has his own arc? He…has his own little path that is in absolutely no way tied to Sam? Are you people serious? I was terrified it was all tied to Sam, but….it’s all about DEAN! (Cue exuberant squeeing here).

Ahem.

Dean, in typical Dean-esque fashion, tells Castiel where he can stuff it. No, not there, sadly. He tells Castiel to find someone else, because he isn’t strong enough and he can’t do it.

Sounds to me like someone’s been listening to baby brother a little bit too much.

Never fear, 2 crazy ass episodes ahead before another hiatus and then the last 4 in a big bang!!

Supernatural – s04ep15 – Death takes a holiday

Pamela! Tessa! Reapers! Alistair! God, I love this episode.

We’re introduced to a town where people miraculously recover from fatal wounds and diseases, while Sam and Dean continue sniping away at each other. Dean is thoroughly sick and tired of all the crap thrown his way lately and you know, I kind of understand it. After all, this is the same guy who’s been brought up like a soldier by the father who then gave his life for him, thus totally screwing with the poor man’s head, and then given up his own life for his brother and gone to hell. He also understands it won’t end. Sam has his innocence filter on again, believing that once they get rid of Lilith all the bad stuff will go away and he can have a normal life again. Which is absolutely ridiculous, because let’s face it, this is life. You have the good and the bad to balance each other out. And after they took out ol’ yellow eyes (oh how we miss you) the bad stuff didn’t go away, it simply increased. Even stopping Lucifer form rising won’t keep the darkness at bay, and I think Dean knows this, which is why he’s sick of it.; He knows the only escape from this life is death, and come one, the poor guy’s been on death’s door at least twice and has actually died (although that wasn’t so pleasant either), so I totally see where he’s coming from. Meanwhile, Sam in his unbridled optimism truly believes he cans top the upcoming apocalypse and life can be hunky-dory again. Oh, ye of so little knowledge. I thought you’re meant to be the smart one, Sammy?

At any rate, the pleasantries of the last episode with the seductive siren are still eating away at Dean, who also realises Sam believes he doesn’t need him anymore, which is really nice Sam, considering your brother went to hell for you and wow…they’re really trying to make Sammy unlikeable, aren’t they? (Or at least painting Dean as a total martyr). Anyhoo, they make the drive up to the town and discover that no one has in a few days, not since a 12 year old was killed. And why? They boys surmise the town’s reaper is a no-show. So, they drag out the awesome Pamela who helps them leave their physical bodies behind and became part of the spiritual realm so they can communicate with the dead boy who’s been creating a bit of havoc at his mum’s place.

And here we start with some cute jokes as they plunge their fists into each other (depending on what level of slash you read determines how much squeeing occurred on your behalf) and they go find the little dead boy, who tells them about the reaper coming to visit and then being taken away…by a demon. Well, our boys figure that out. And then the wind picks up…and it’s Tessa! OH! The most kick-ass reaper ever makes a return visit to take over reaping duties in this town. Dean knows she looks familiar, and so she taps him on the head and his memory from nearly dying comes back, which just had me squeeing all over, because I absolutely adore In My Time of Dying and if she wasn’t a dead reaper, they’d be an awesome couple.

Anyway, she’s all pragmatic about carrying on with her duties and reaping the poor boy, but our boys convince her to leave him until they’ve rescued with the other reaper. At which point the wind blows up and Tessa is kidnapped.

So, now Dean and Sam need to learn how to move physical objects as our dead boy teaches them (it’s very cute) and they wander off to find where the reapers are being kept…in a house surrounded by charms to keep out angels. Huh. I didn’t think about that.

In the meantime, demons are trying to into the room where the boys spirit-less bodies lie with a blind woman…oh this isn’t going to end well. Pamela starts calling Sam back, but is stabbed in the process. Of course…there aren’t any reapers around, so she’s safe…for the time being. So they get in and try getting rid of one of the demons which they do but then end up caught and the original reaper is murdered and blood spilled…because of course this is all another seal, the blood of 2 reapers will break another seal. Alistair is also hanging around like a bad smell…man really wants his whipping boy back downstairs. (Mmmm…Dean as a whipping boy….sorry where was I again?) and just as he’s about to get Tessa….the boys have been concentrating very hard on pulling the chandelier off the ceiling and it smashes onto the ground, breaking the circle, allowing Tessa to escape and then release the boys (Who’ve been held back by an iron chain. Cute.)

Sam has vanished in the meantime, having been called back by Pamela and he fights off the demon with his super duper evil powers and tries to save Pamela…Dean is still stuck on the spiritual plane. He has a run-in with Alistair and it’s not looking good…and then zap! Alistair’s hit by lightning and vanishes, extra crispy. Heh.

Dean also has a chat with Tessa, who reveals she knows more than Dean does about this whole escapade and I don’t want her to leave my screen. I love her. She tells Dean not to trust the angels, because inevitably, he doesn’t know what their endgame is. And neither do we. After it’s all over and he saves the world, does he go back to hell? How does this all work? They go back to the house and Tessa reaps the little boy, allowing his mother to finally have peace.

And then Dean gets pulled back, just in time for Pamela to die. Oh. Oh no. Really? Oh show! Why do you keep killing off the awesome female characters and keep around the nasty ones? How you make me want to cry…until next episode, that is…

90210 – s01ep10 – Games People Play

I fear this will be the last recap of this show from me, as I really can’t see myself taking the time to actually watch it, let alone try and process it anymore. I’ve been analysing my viewing habits lately and realised while 90210 is highly entertaining, I can’t connect with any of these characters. None of these characters truly entice me in a way to keep me interested, and the acting is too over the top in order to actually allow the viewer to see the character properly. They all constantly look like they’re acting and I can’t lose myself in the show. Even the old-skool crew no longer entice me, what with Kelly’s squeaky whiny voice and Brenda’s chipmunk facelift.

So, in order to preserve my sanity and free time, I’m purging myself of GG’s weak younger west coast sibling.

So, let’s celebrate this final recap with a quick rundown of who’s doing who. Dixon and Silver are both happily floating along in their budding relationship, merely prompting other storylines and exposition at this moment, unaware that this is TV La La land, so something big and nasty (and stupid) will inevitably be heading their way shortly. As the only couple I currently approve of, I’m pleased I will never know what terrible event breaks them.

Adriana and Navid have a weird pseudo relationship where she’s being all touchy-feely and he’s kind of pushing her away and it’s slightly weird, because his character keeps changing practically every week. First he’s the gallant friend, then the gallant gentleman who paid for rehab and made out with her but stopped it going too far, and now he doesn’t want intimacy. Unless this is the whole male virgin storyline I don’t really know what’s going on. And why do they make such a huge deal out of virginity on this show, anyway? Ah right. It’s set in America. Of course. Anyway, Adriana pops by his house and he’s embarrassed by her being there and meeting his family but she loves meeting his family and why am I writing this drivel? My god…how does this stuff make dramatic television? So we leave them being all cutesy together and WHATEVER.

Teacher Mr Matthews is on probation and slumming around at home feeling sorry for himself and angry with the world because he got caught with a student who isn’t actually a student. And of course, they got caught by another student who wanted her for himself. How Shakespearean. Kelly can’t believe he’d do that because of course he was so into her and slam! We’re back into the world of Kelly’s make believe, where everything revolves around her and of course everyone is in love with her. Ooh how it must have burned, knowing he’d moved on with someone younger. And prettier. And sassier. Heh. So the girl whose name I’ve forgotten, not that it matters as she’ll probably never resurface here again anyway, gets her pusher and arrests him and it all finally comes to a close, except he’s not ready to go back to teaching just yet, even though it’s out in the open now. And…stupid. Just because she’s an undercover cop doesn’t make it alright. She’s pretending to be a student and in order to keep up that pretense, he would have to be punished somehow. Unless they want to set up a precedent down the track. Would have been way better if she actually was a student, but sadly, the only thing she was proving was how often adults play teenagers on these shows. Although most of this cast actually seem to be teenagers. Maybe that explains why it’s all so….bad?

Annie and Ethan are continuing to hide their relationship from everyone except Silver knows, which means Dixon knows. They’re trying to figure out how to tell Naomi, except she saw them kissing and has now decided to bring them down, LA style. Inevitably, this means her budding stability with Ozzy has been pushed to the sidelines this episode, which sucks, because I liked his character too.

So as this episode revolves around Annie’s 16^th birthday, Naomi decides to invite her old boyfriend to LA in order to cause some chaos. He admits he still loves her and wants to move to LA to be with her, while Ethan sits on the sidelines getting pissed off. Not like Annie tells him she’s with Ethan, either. And then they have their first argument, over whose idea it was not to tell Naomi. And I find myself putting laundry away, re-organising my cupboards, darning my socks…..this whole relationship here is so damn dull. Ethan deserves better. Gah, the best thing about no longer watching this show will be never having to deal with Annie. She irritates me beyond belief.

So it all comes to a head as Naomi makes out with Annie’s ex and she gets pissed off and then they have a little showdown outside and that’s when their half-brother, the adopted son of their mother and father, pops up on the doorstep. Obviously.

Sigh.

Goodbye 90210. It was an interesting ride, but it’s making me nauseous and it’s time for me to step off.