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Grey’s Anatomy marathon

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On February 4, 2007

In Television

Okay, Grey’s Anatomy has hit my top-five most addictive shows ever. I finished S2 on DVD last week, and started watching the S3 eps I’ve been taping all year on Friday. Now I’m caught up. That’s basically fourteen episodes in three days. I COULD NOT TURN IT OFF. And now I’m caught up, and I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THURSDAY. I love TV marathons. :) And I can finally talk about Grey’s now that I’m caught up, which is very exciting to me. I know some of y’all watch it. So come on, talk to me. I will use bullet points.

  • Meredith – I like Meredith. I don’t love Meredith. I think I’ve picked up from various fandom areas that she’s not a terribly popular character, but then, a lot of main characters aren’t for some reason (e.g., Buffy Summers was rarely people’s favorite Buffy character). She shouldn’t have given Finn the boot, though. On the other hand, if she doesn’t want him, I’ll take him. I do really like the name Meredith, though, for some reason.
  • Derek – Meh. He’s sort of an arrogant jerk. At least he seems somewhat less of an arrogant jerk since Mark showed up, by pure virtue of comparison. But I’m not a huge fan of Derek’s. He’s not even really THAT hot. I mean, he’s a’ight.
  • Cristina – Cristina rocks. She’s so very direct, and while I don’t always particularly like that in real people, I love it in TV characters. So while I don’t LOVE Cristina, I love her interactions with everyone else.
  • Izzie – Now, I LOVE Izzie. She’s probably my favorite character. When Denny died, I cried for like half an hour. She’s like Willow…when she cries, the world falls apart. Except in the scene where she deposits the check. That was pretty fake.
  • George – I love George. I can’t imagine not loving George. He’s just so…George.
  • Addison – I also love Addison. Honestly, I like Meredith, as I have said, but I can’t really imagine choosing Meredith over Addison. But then, Derek and I are clearly not on the same wavelength, so. On the other hand, I want to hit her right now, because she’s apparently still dabbling with Mark. But, see, if I didn’t care about her so much, I wouldn’t care so much about her continuing to engage in self-destructive behavior, now would I?
  • Mark – Grr. He’s probably the best-looking person on the show, I’ll definitely grant you that. McSteamy indeed. But he’s a TOTAL JERK. I really, intensely dislike him. But I think I’m supposed to. Yep, I’m definitely playing right into the showrunner’s hands. Oh, well.
  • Burke – Like, not love.
  • Alex – Eh, I go back and forth. Sometimes he’s a jerk, but sometimes he’s surprisingly nice. I definitely don’t want any of my girls hooking up with him anymore, though. Not Izzie, not Addison (!), not anyone.
  • Bailey – LOVE Bailey. She’s the awesomest Nazi ever. (Um, if you don’t watch the show, I don’t mean she’s an actual Nazi–that’s her nickname, because she’s strict. But she’s also amazingly empathetic at times.)
  • Callie – I don’t really know her well enough yet to say. I sort of like her, but I’m not particularly happy about her being with George. And now she’s REALLY with George. Yeah. Anyway. I think the thing that really bothers me about her is the way she was introduced…like, we never saw her in the first season and a half, and then all of a sudden they need an ortho surgeon all the time? Just a little convenient.

What am I gonna do until Thursday when I get more doctor!crack? Oh, right. Study. Darn.

Golden Globes

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On January 16, 2007

In Film, Television

Okay, when Clint Eastwood wins the Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Film (a category in which Mel Gibson was also nominated, along with actual foreign directors like Guillermo del Toro and Pedro Almodóvar), it might be time to rethink the purpose and effectiveness of the category. The Foreign Language category has always been a sort of afterthought, an “oh yeah, other countries make pictures too” sort of thing. At the Oscars, anyway, they’re rarely considered for the Best Picture award, since they have a whole category of their own! But doesn’t that highlight an undercurrent of feeling that a non-English Language film isn’t really worthy of a Best Picture award? Which is so silly. SO SILLY. I’m the first to admit that there’s a difference in sensibility between American films and foreign films, but that doesn’t mean one is better than the other. They should be judged equally against each other. Especially when both Letters from Iwo Jima and Apocalypto are AMERICAN films, and they’re only getting put in the Foreign Language category because Eastwood and Gibson chose to use Japanese and Mayan rather than English. Independent, limited release films are finally starting to get their due (all five Oscar-nominated films last year were limited releases), and it’s time foreign films do as well.

BTW, Meryl Streep is awesome. She pointed out that everybody had seen her film (The Devil Wears Prada) because it was a wide release, playing everywhere, and encouraged everyone who didn’t have the chance to see the other nominated actresses’ films (Sherrybaby, Volver, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, The Queen, Running With Scissors, Little Miss Sunshine, Miss Potter, Dreamgirls, all limited releases, though some more limited than others) because it wasn’t playing near them to go speak up about it to their theatre managers. I’m sure this wouldn’t have any immediate effect, because a lot of the release schedules are determined by the studios, but if enough people made a fuss about not being able to see independent, foreign, and limited release films, maybe it would filter up.

Warren Beatty, dude, your wife is a way better actor than you are. But she’s not a director, so I guess you still have an edge.

Wow, this year Helen Mirren was the first person to ever play both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II, and last night she won Best Actress awards for both of them. Incredible. I haven’t seen Elizabeth I, but she totally deserved it for The Queen (Even if I was chanting “Maggie…Maggie…Maggie” at the screen, just because I love Maggie Gyllenhaal that much.)

Guess I’m going to have to start watching “Ugly Betty,” huh. Can you imagine being America Ferrera and winning a Golden Globe over all those other people? Especially Felicity Huffman. My gosh. I watched half of the first episode on ABC’s website, but then the site choked on me. ABC, you might want to have that looked after. NBC’s site works better, I was able to watch the last several episodes of “30 Rock” with noooo problems. Except that at Christmastime they had the whole series up, and this week, they only had the past five or six eps. I wanted to watch them all! Networks are so annoying sometimes. But that’s by the by. Also, Hugh Laurie’s real voice sounds totally different from House’s voice. Not only the accent, I knew about that, but it’s deeper. Threw me a loop, because I don’t remember his voice being that deep on Blackadder.

A little surprised by Babel‘s win. I haven’t seen it, so I can’t honestly say whether it was appropriate or not, but I figured The Departed had a lock on it. Guess I should’ve seen Babel in St. Louis when I had the chance, instead of talking myself out of it.

Greased Lightning!

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On January 7, 2007

In Television

Okay, so what I need right now is another show to watch. Much less another reality show. Much less another singing contest reality show. So what am I watching right now? Grease: You’re the One That I Want, a reality competition in which the winners will play Danny and Sandy in a Broadway production of Grease. I had just started this blog (or actually, the Blogspot forerunner of this blog) during American Idol last year, so I may not have mentioned it here, but what I wanted more than anything else was a Broadway night. So when I heard that there was going to be a show that’s ALL Broadway nights, basically? I couldn’t help myself.

Watching the first episode now (timeshifted from 7). We’ll see how it goes. edit: Of course, it’s going to get really boring if all the girls sing “Hopelessly Devoted”…

In other news, my blonde moment of the day was watching Grey’s Anatomy 2×17 today (an episode from last season where Meredith had her hand in a guy’s chest holding an unexploded bazooka rocket steady). After the crisis, Izzy and Christina were helping Meredith into the shower to wash blood and cuts off her face (at risk of spoiling people who are an entire season behind, like me, I’ll go ahead and say the bomb exploded later, after it was handed off to the bomb squad, but she was standing in the hall and got minorly knocked down), and I thought, hey, don’t you think they should have a doctor look at her injuries first? Cue *facepalm* as I immediately realize, duh, they’re both doctors, and they’ve obviously looked at her.

Best of 2006

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On January 2, 2007

In Books and Reading, Film, Television

I’m not quite finished with the December reading/watching recap, but since publishing “best of” lists is the thing to do at the end of the year, I figured I could go ahead and do that. And by “best of 2006” I mean “best that I saw or read in 2006,” because, as usual, I was not proactive enough at theatres and new release bookshelves to give any sort of a best movies or books released in 2006 list.

Top Ten Films I Watched in 2006 (none of the lists are in any particular order…most are chronological of when I saw them, because that’s the order of the records I started from)

Honorable Mentions

Ten Films You Probably Haven’t Seen But Ought To

Some Films I Really Had Gotten to St. Louis Before I Had to Go Back to Waco:

Top Ten Books I Read This Year

Top Five TV Shows (network only; I can’t keep track of cable)

Top Five Guilty Pleasure TV Shows (by this I mean either that they aren’t really GOOD, but I like them, or merely that I enjoy them, but not in a substantial, fannish way)

On the subject of TV shows, 24 will probably be joining the first set of TV shows this spring, and American Idol will certainly be joining the “guilty pleasure” set in LIKE TWO WEEKS! Just so you know, this blog will likely be taken over by American Idol fever after the premiere on January 16th.

I pwn The Rich List

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On November 3, 2006

In Television

I’m eating lunch, hence I can’t really study (multitasking only goes so far), so I’m watching The Rich List that I taped last week, because I *heart* lists, so I thought, here’s a game show with lists, let’s check it out. And I could so totally pwn this show. Basically, two teams are given a list topic, and they each bid to see how many entries on the list they can come up with. If the team that bids highest gets the number of entries they thought they could, they win a point; if not, the other team wins a point. (Personally, I think the other team should have to finish out the list to get the point, but oh well.)

The first list? Tom Cruise movies. The one team bid 18 and barely got it. I listed out twenty myself before they started, including three or four they didn’t get. The next list would’ve been harder for me, Stephen King books or short stories, but they only got four and I could’ve gotten more than that. But the list they’re playing now? Best Picture Oscar Winners. Yes, I’d like to bid 76, please. Heh. They also flashed up James Bond movies, and I can get all of those as well. I need to go on this show. For once all my stupid trivial knowledge could be useful.

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