Friday, November 14, 2003
'Cha.
Much to say.
I haven't posted in a while because instead I've been working on the new Mandy Moore layout. But I must post my thoughts on TV & movies... because well, there's much to say.
Joan. Before tonight, the last two episodes were special. They left you with this warm feeling. "The Devil Made Me Do It"
did not. And I'm not saying it was poor writing... I think it was somewhat meant to leave you with that ill feeling. In every episode you expect Joan to do the right thing, and that in the end, God's plan will always work out. I didn't expect that Joan wouldn't fulfill God's wishes, or that she when she did, it was the wrong way to go about it. I always believed that if Joan was headed in the wrong direction, God would lead her toward the right one. When Joan started smashing Adam's artwork, I didn't expect, what happened... to happen. It was disconcerting to see Adam walk away from Joan, just leaving her there... and the writers just leaving us there along with her! Especially when The Powers That Be have been giving us those moments between A&J, i.e., "Bringeth It On" (Where Joan realizes that Adam cares for her no matter how crazy she may act) and "Death Be Not Whatever" (Joan realizes what a bad friend she's been to Adam when she discovers his mother passed away 3 years ago). But I can't help but relate. Humans make mistakes. Sometimes we don't think, and we do stupid, stupid things. I usually over analyze every action I do, and usually regret it. It seems as if they won't be dealing with A&J in the next episode, but I trust in TPTB. They know what the fans want. Or at least they should know... some of them probably read the message boards. I remember Garrett Lerner saying that they do that sometimes. But I'm just so sad. Cute Boy God (I'm sorry, but he is!) would tell me that it means that it's because I've become attached to these characters. I don't know if that was in the "plan", but I guess it means that TPTB are doing their job's right.
Angel. Joss Whedon has disappointed me so much. I guess I can never expect "Angel" to be a "Buffy." Maybe the reason that I find this show to be so utterly boring is in it's lack of strong protagonistic female characters. But that's what BtVS was about... so I can't expect "Angel" to be that way. The next episode does appear to be promising though. I always enjoy those episodes of
back in the day... Haha. It's strong character development. Especially for Spike! Wow... to finally have that revelation in Season 7 of BtVS about how he murdered his mother! The last episode was a little better than those of this season. It was bearable. But the episode where it was "viewer discretion". All I could say was, "Morbid much?" There was nothing to that episode! The only thing "special" was the uh, special effects. Also, dissapointing to hear is that Sarah won't be guest starring on the show any time soon. She was supposed to appear on the show's 100th, but plans panned out so instead we're getting Charisma, who, from what I've heard personally chose to stay away from this season, so umm why is she coming back? Hm... does she want to get killed off the show for good now? Yet, when you die on a Whedon show, your role is never really dead. Half the people on the show are dead!
Let's see you could: 1) Come back from the dead as a vampire 2)Be resurrected like Ms. Summers herself 3) Appear in dreams 4) Appear as the First 5) Appear in psychotic illusions 6) Appear in a memory (like Drusilla in the next episode!)
BELOW IS SPOILERISH OF THE MATRIX!
Matrix. What the hell happened in this movie?! I swear, I had no clue. I probably should have rewatched "The Matrix Reloaded" because I was confused! From the first scene, I was like "Who are these people talking?" And Morpheus was in the back. What the hell happened to him in this movie? In the first one, he was the highly esteemed, all-powerful, cool dude and now he's become Niobe's co-pilot? The whole fighting sequence between the machines and the people was, oh-so-boring. I was falling asleep! I also started daydreaming about the BtVS "The Gift" episode. All it was special FX, and you knew it. It wasn't, "Oh cool! That's awesome!" It was more, "Oh, my! That it is so fake." One of the main things about the Matrix that made everyone so awestruck was it's direction for bleeding reality and unreality during it's fighting scenes. No cared for those big explosions of fake special FX. It was about the art of fighting, good guy/girl to bad guy. But this time, it seemed as if it just all about the hoopla of the special FX and they just forgot about the story. And why did Trinity have to die? Just because it's the end? Just because they want to buy some cheap tears? Just because she's a woman? Of course, you could say that Neo died and he's an er, man. But still. Was the only way Neo could move on, and save the world, if his lover was dead? The whole second installment of the Matrix trilogy was about saving Trinity's life! That was Neo's mission. He spent all that time trying to figure out how to save her life, and then like 10 hours later when she gets injured he just gives up, and let's her die?! What?! The only thing I enjoyed was the final battle, which by the way, was way too long! It just kept going and going, burning out the suspense! And I still have no clue what the hell happend?! How the hell did Neo save the world? And is he dead? I still don't know! They just showed his body, motionless. Except my brother said that since he was in the Matrix when he died, they could revive him. I don't know if that's even true. The final scene with the colorful sun was so cheesy! Ooh, we saved the world, now let's just admire the pretty sun! Oh, my! How stupid! "Everything that has a beginning, has an end." Could that be any more unoriginal?
I have to go... it's late and I'm going to Mexico tomorrow but I do need to review one last thing.
Saving Jessica Lynch. I would have to this movie was in quite poor taste. Jessica Lynch herself says this movie is false. She said that! She also says she's not a hero, but the U.S. Government doesn't want you to believe that. "She's the American Heroine." I bet Bush himself told NBC to make this movie, to um, shall I say, save his arse? I'm sorry, but this movie was made simply to shut the mouths of Americans and tell them, look: What we did over there in Iraq was good. We were heroes. Them. Bad guys. But the most disturbing thing out of all of this was the images. How could these people make this movie, when there are American soldiers still over there? Over 300 have already lost their lives, and the people who knew them most likely have no idea how it happened. Are these the images they want to be left with?
Hope you enjoyed my 2 cents. I leave you with w/ two funny convos (well to me they are!):
On Thursday:
Me: Oh, my gawd! I didn't know they took affirmative action out of the UCs.
Bebi: Yeah! I know. I'm going to miss Mr. Spears.
Me: What?
Bebi: You know. Because he helped out.
Me: What are you talking about?
Bebi: Yeah, because he helped keep our school clean.
Me: What does that have to do with affirmative action?
Bebi: What?!
Me:What?!
On Wednesday:
Davey: Come on. Let me watch your Saturday Night Live tape with Andy Roddick.
Me: No, you won't understand the jokes. You don't know about the history of tennis.
Davey: Yes, I do.
Me: You don't know who Billie Jean King is.
Davey: Uh, yeah... he's
that guy.
Me: Billie Jean King is a woman!
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Sunday, November 09, 2003
Right now I have my right leg elevated on the open drawer of the desk. I fell yesterday while running the 15K. It wasn't so bad, I mean it really didn't affect my running. Except now I'm limping. Yay! I
only have to go to school tomorrow and climb up to the 5th floor. What fun! But seriously, it's so gross. My knee is all bloody red and there's some places where the cut is deeper than other areas... ew! I can't even stand on my feet for long because then all the blood rushes to my knee. Ooh, but do you want to hear how it happened? I was running on the street, but the part where I was at was slanted, so I wanted to move the sidewalk, where it was nice, smooth pavement. So I was moving, but at the same time I saw the pretty ship moving, so of course, obviously, I went "Ooh, pretty ship," and bam! I fell, and my knees skidded on the pavement. Yay for me! At least I finished the race though. I mean after the 3rd mile I was ready to quit. I was, er, walking. But then I think by the 4th mile, I found this lady who was training these two kids and they were doing 5:1 and that motivated me, so I simply stuck with them. But at the same time, trying to conceal the fact that I was following them. Otherwise I think my time would have been 20 minutes worse.
When I got home, I was starved. My mom took me to Burger King. After I ate, I sat down and relaxed in front of the tv, flipping through channels when I came across tennis! I don't even know what was on... I was confused. But it was the only the womens so I wasn't worried of missing Andy. Except for that the game was at the Staples Center! I could have gone, but sadly no.
Silly, silly tennis man... stop looking at your cue card!
Andy hosted SNL yesterday! Okay, I have to admit that the tennis boy cannot act but it was still great fun. Especially when John McEnroe showed up, I'm sorry but he's funnier than Andy.
John: I've been No. 1 for four years and you've been number one, for like four days!
Haha.
Roddick stars in reality TV show Oh, my! Andy's going to be in a reality show on ESPN. What fun. I can't wait. Plus, I heard he's slated to be in a Got Milk? ad.
I finally was able to watch, "Bringeth It On" and "Death Be Not Whatever." They were both brilliant episodes, as per usual. I got spoiled watching two
Joan of Arcadia's back-to-back. I wanted more. I can't believe next week is already the 8th episode.
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