The Thing That Goes Doink

( Well, your dream was telling you that you are secretly in love with Luke and you wanna marry him and have his twins.  )

What I love about the aforementioned scene is that not only was it copious amounts of Ship Tease in the beginning of season three, but it sets the tone for Luke and Lorelai's relationship for the season. Lorelai has the somewhat startling realization that she might be in love with Luke (even though she said as much to her mother in Season One, though that might have been to spite Emily), and explains her increasing jealousy towards Nicole as the season progresses.

( The remaining 21 days )

Strangely enough, my least favorite episode is also my favorite episode. While "Raincoats and Recipes" is great because Luke and Lorelai finally get together after four seasons of Ship Tease, it also made me really angry.

At this point Rory makes some sort of Face Heel Turn where she goes from being smart and witty to being dumb and whiney. The whole sleeping with Dean even though he's married? Uh, what? I feel like this is something that Rory, even after being at college for a year, would never do. First of all, despite being somewhat desperate for a boyfriend at the end of season four (probably not helped by Tanna pointing out that Rory was boyfriendless the whole school year and everyone else trying to set her up), Rory generally had enough common sense to avoid such a situation. And her jumping all over Lorelai for sleeping with Christopher back in season two?

First of all, Christopher and Sherry were over. Sherry was in the process of moving out. Then she found out that she was pregnant. So they got engaged (and do we ever know for sure that they even got married?) and started to raise Gigi until Sherry bolted. The the point IS that Lorelai didn't set a crappy example - Rory merely lashed out at her mother with an illogical assumption that wasn't even correct.

And sadly, for me, the rest of the seasons showed Rory Got Worse. I don't think she even remotely returned to the Rory we all grew to love until midway through season seven, where, even without direction from ASP, she was a more grown up version of the original Rory. Seriously, I never thought that Rory could annoy me until this episode, and she spends most of seasons five and six getting worse. Ugh.

( The remaining 23 days )

I do believe that they would fall under trashy reality television. So...Survivor, Big Brother, Real Housewives, Jersey Shore...I can't even watch them to mock them, that's how much I dislike them. Not all reality TV is bad - I've quite enjoyed the likes of Dancing with the Stars and Project Runway - but most of it is trash that is quite frankly, appalling.

( The remaining 25 days )

I'm gonna bump this back to the 09-10 season as opposed to the summer season, as most summer seasons are just getting underway.

My favorite new show (actually, the ONLY new show) this TV season was The Forgotten on ABC. It was a new twist on crime drama, as it didn't focus on the forensics or even the cops/lawyers, but instead on a group of volunteers belonging to The Forgotten Network who work hard to identify the remains of "cold cases" so that family can be reached and renew the efforts to solve the crimes in the first place. Each member had their reasons for being part of the network (an ex-cop whose daughter had been kidnapped, the wife of a prominent figure who had been embroiled in scandal, a woman who was unsatisfied with her job, a man who wanted to good, and a troubled artist there on orders from a judge) and brought unique perspectives, resources and skills to the team. Further more, the victim narrated the story, reflecting on how the ended up dead as more clues about their identity and their murder came to light. The idea was to highlight that victim was a real person - a wife, a father, a daughter, a husband, a mother - who had family wanting to know what happened to them. Based on a real group of volunteers who work with police departments across the country, the show had a lot of promise.

Sadly, it wasn't much in the ratings, as the show was canceled after only 17 episodes. Let's see if we get something just as interesting next fall.

( The remaining 27 days )

Meme!! Because I'm bored, and I really have nothing substantial to say. So there.



Farscape comes to mind. The writing was brilliant and the characters were excellent. It was Sci-Fi with a broad appeal, and there were Muppets. How can you dislike anything with Muppets? But I digress. It was a series that was brilliant but canceled, as most of the good shows on SciFi were back in the day. The worst part was that I had just started getting into the show when it was canceled. I had heard about it from various friends, but when my sister borrowed the first season from a friend and plunked me down in front of the TV to watch it, I was hooked. AND MUPPETS. Guh. You suck, SciFi.

( The other 29 days  )

Hopefully I'll remember to do this every single day. ^^ An exercising in writing, this is what it's become.