This episode may have been the cutest thing I have seen on TV, and it completely sustains my opinion that the addition of Mayim Bialik to the main cast was the best decision TBBT producers ever made.
Mark Hamill was super funny, and it was great to see him on TV, but I laughed the most at Kripke singing at the end, John Ross Bowie is just so hilarious! He had about 20 seconds of screen time, and still he managed to be unforgettable!
Aw, Chi Chi. I felt my insides freezing when I noticed her name plate, I cannot imagine what she felt when the mistake was pointed out to her.
I was so relieved they chose the same person. I was TERRIFIED there.
The bitches plotting to get Manila. YOU NEVER WILL!
Is anyone else watching on just for the sake of conclusion and cannot really wait for it to end...?
Well, this would have been a great episode for Ru to not send anyone home. I'm forever team Latrila, but Monet didn't deserve the chop either. I hate how people are seeing Manila, though. First they judge her for considering to choose with her brain, but then they judge her for choosing with her heart.
I really do like every contestant that is there right now, though. I think these people are absolutely fabulous, and all have chances to win, the season is absolutely impredictable to me.
I didn't think any of the performances were particularly great.. I just didn't think the stories were funny. The highlights of the episode for me were:
-Manila describing her character as Farrah Moan from Jersey;
-Naomi's look in the challenge;
-Latrice's hair in the challenge (LOOOOVED IT, it suited her so much!)
-Trinity and Valentina in the workroom: it's hilarious that the loyalty does not go both ways. I love Trinity, but she should know better than thinking Valentina does anything but look out for herself, everyone knows she's a highly functioning sociopath;
-Trinity's hair on the runway;
-Elton John's video message, ahaha.
Anyway. This season is going kill us all. I know it.
This is listed as 43 minutes long, but the second half is actually the pilot episode of a new series?
Asia is a wonderful queen with a huge kind heart, but running after Vixen is not anybody's job. I thought that was terrible. It was annoying during the season, and it is still annoying now that it is over.
I am sorry to see that Blair talked so little, I like her so much!
AND NOBODY PICKED KAMERON
The only reason I watch this show is for Sheldon and Amy, and pure habit by now, but I am kind of glad they addressed Howard's behavior as being that of a jerk rather than just being "funny". And Raj with natural hair could totally be a Bollywood lead!
A lot of shade, a lot of drama, some very beautiful looks, and finding out Valentina is a sociopath - not an insult, just a fact.
This is a very gross movie. Really, really gross. Just remembering makes me shudder.
Visually striking as always, but lacking in many ways. While the pacing was actually good and you never feel bored, there was essentially no story to follow at all. The armies meet and fight - that's all there is to it.
There's no build up to the fight, no preparation, and the main characters have power beyond reason - see Legolas jumping the falling rocks when he was fighting the orc that had Tauriel. He's an elf, but he's not gravity proof as far as I remember.
Thorin was a such a powerful character and he went underdeveloped, as honestly did Bilbo and Galadriel at least. I like the attention Thranduil, Kili, Legolas and Tauriel got, but Thorin's epiphany was an important moment and it was actually kinda hurried.
It was a fun watch for sure, but I have a hard time accepting this as a stand-alone film. It was more like a very long battle shot that could have been put as an extra in a deluxe edition of the DVD.
I must definitely say I enjoyed The Hobbit as a trilogy, but I wish they had edited it somewhat differently. I think it still has a lot of potential if someone decided to make a different cut out of it.
Vanjie seems to get prettier and prettier by the day!
And I believe Alexis side of the story. She has been upfront about her votes even when it was uncomfortable. Why lie now?
"My cousin Susan didn't realize she could sing until her 40s!" I don't know I thought this was so funny, but I did, ahahaha.
That lip sync was the best entertainment I've had in a year, and I completely disagree with Silky placing above Nina for Snatch Game. Nina] was so much better! She was funnier, better planned, and far more interesting to watch.
We all suspected that the wallpaper was hiding the door to Stiles' room, but I cannot accept that it really was that. I mean, had the Sheriff never, ever walked around his house and wondered "Oh, what is this batted window over here?" Or even looked at the plant to his house? It does not make any sense.
Who cares about Allison? Ugh, so annoying.
Definetely the most vulgar adaptation of the three. The cast is actually not bad; but they did change the way characters were played. Carrie is way darker here, and her original sweetness is never shown at all. Sue is bolder, and she seems to have a righteous goal rather a mindset split between guilt and kindness. Even Chris, while still super mean, is more bitter than the book and the other adaptations made her out. I think these changes were fitting considering high school culture of the early 2000's, but the boys were a complete disappointment. Tommy Ross, who is supposed to be so nice and likable, came out as Sue's toy and nothing more. Billy Nolan, such a questionable character in the book, appears totally uninteresting as well.
What made the movie vulgar was just how strong they made every "strange" aspect about Carrie. Everything felt forced about her life, it was all even bigger and louder than the book, even her early displays of power. Even without two other movies for comparison, this would still be a questionable piece... specially if you add the soundtrack for consideration.
The episodes are very long, and I am finding it hard to keep going through it. I do not understand why Clay decides that what Tyler did deserves revenge when he let the others be - did he just assume the natural bullying posture of targeting the weakest member, the one that is easier to fight? By hearing Hannah's tapes, did he not understand what that sort of humiliation can do to people? It is very frustrating to have an emotion-driven protagonist with no real moral compass.
I know the drama is funny, but Vixen is way too belligerent. I find it very difficult to like her, or even be amused by her picking up fights and blowing things out of proportion.
Blair is my chosen queen. I just love her Golden Age of Broadway vibe, and I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS ALREADY, OK, I WILL STILL CHEER FOR HER.
My favorite runway look was Kameron's, even if she did fall flat in the challenge. It just gave me such a Kaori Yuki vibe! Had she wings, it could have been an Angel Sanctuary costume, hahaha.
Also, did anyone think this victory was ridiculous? I could totally get past that runway, but all she did on the challenge was a funny face. I really do not think that that is very impressive. I for sure thought it would be Blair, or maybe Eureka. But never Asia or anyone in her team.
I thought the winners deserved it. And I love Ben, but I am ok with her being safe. This was not a great week for her. I honestly thought this was Trixie's best performance so far, and I am glad about her being a top 2! I was just not sure that Bebe did as well as Trixie, but I think she was at least better than everybody else.
Aja was gorgeous. I LOVED HER OUTFIT. And they could really read her for her lack of history and mispronunciation, but oh, that was gorgeous. It was really not very disco, it was more I Dream of Jeannie, rather than Bardot, Cher or Frances Joli (in fact, I saw nothing of Frances Joli at all). I am terribly sad to see her go, but I would not be happy to see Shangela go either.
Honestly, Kennedy was the one I least liked. Not because she failed, she did not... but I just did not like what she did with her can, I thought it was boring, and I did not love her outfit either, though it really was better than Ben's... Ben's look was, to me, worst than even Shangela's bizarre improvisation.
Overall - I have no idea what to feel! Hahaha.
If they have the concept of hours and minutes, why were they counting time by fingers against the sun a few episodes ago?
I thought this was the best episode in the season so far.
This comment is about season 1, which I have just finished. I should say that although I have read the book, I do not like it, it is the one thing Gaiman wrote that I did not care for. The fact that the TV series was suddenly not following the book precisely was a plus for me, but now I am wondering if they somehow managed to make it worse.
The cast is great - I think every actor involved did a fantastic job in their characters, and the characters came out much more interesting and likable than in the book. I particularly enjoyed how much screen time Laura is getting, and I loved how Browning also played Essie. The "Coming to America" sequences were my favorite parts in the book, and I am not surprised to have enjoyed them in the series also.
However, in 8 episodes, I mostly got the feeling that nothing happened.
They added a lot of new things, specially with Laura and Mad Sweeney, and Wednesday and Shadow felt more like secondary characters than main ones, as their storyline is basically empty while everything happens to everyone else. In 8 episodes, Wednesday has had barely any advancement in his cause, and while the congregation at the House on the Rock is one of the first things to happen in the book, the entire season ended before old man Mr. Nancy could ride the carousel, and that was a sight I was looking forward to!
With the current positioning of the gods, I feel like the series is aiming for a far more complicated plot than the one in the book, but the creative team is, unfortunately, failing at writing it to work with an 8 episode season. They have set what looks like a very big stage, but the plot does not feel yet big enough to fill it.
I am quite disappointed, as individually the episodes are ok, but they just fail to be cohesive together and convey a good story. I will probably check out the second season premiere, but unless they fix this awful writing, I will just look for better things to waste my time on.
Although I remember clearly how full games would fit into a single floppy disc (my at the time favorite, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, for instance!), I kinda have to wonder if yearbooks with pictures and captions would really take only one disc when my school projects needed a lot of editing not to get bigger than 1.44mb when pictures where included.
Funny nostalgia there, which is definitely what I enjoy the most about this show :) I do wish Rowan Blanchard had more screen time though, I think she's great.
I love doing long, in-depth comments, but I just don't have a lot to say about this episode. Snatch Game was just ok - Trinity and Sasha looked good just because the others were so overwhelmingly bland. I mean, they weren't even so bad it was funny, it was just awkward bad. And the runway was the same, nobody was awesome. NOT A SINGLE PERSON GOT THE RIGHT SHADE OF BLONDE FOR MADONNA. 2 people attempted Material Girl and looked like Marilyn Monroe, which means they totally missed the basic 80'sness of the video. I was mostly unimpressed and I'm not even a hardcore Madonna fan.
However... however... that lipsync was good entertainment. Congrats, queen, for slaying it!
I felt some scenes were excessively humiliating - the motorcycle scene, and then the drunk rant at the game, for example - and therefore kinda hard to watch (I hate seeing people being humiliated). But after all the idiotic manly competition, the story did have a nice conclusion during the dance, and that moment made the movie worth it. I appreciate the more sensitive side of this comedy a lot.
I fall more and more in love with Kim Chi at every episode, but I had to say I really could have slapped Acid Betty at some point there. Thorgy was great and I'm surprised she didn't win, because I loved her performance and look both! I really disliked Laila, not impressed with Dax, looooooved Naomi's runway, and I don't think Acid Betty's nice looks can make up for her awful personality at all, but at least she tries. Gigi is an amazing dancer, but her runway was sooo boring... a little sad, really. The others. eh, just disappeared to the background.
As for the elimination: truly, is anyone even surprised? If you can't lipsync I Will Survive, your gay/drag subscription needs to be revoked ASAP.
When pop singers turn actors, it's often hard to see any character beyond their stage persona, but I'm so pleased by Lady Gaga's performance in the show. The Countess is definitely growing on me.
I'm ok with where the show is going and all, but Jenna's excessive make-up keeps distracting me. It's... just not good.
The plot is driven by sheer dumbness. Nothing that happens is initially out of the dumb people's control, they are just initially dumb. It's annoying,
