Raylan's GF and her husband have taken Raylan's $20k and gone to the backyard fights. They're looking to get into cock-fighter management. Seriously. Raylan and Rachel work to hunt them down, including finding a store clerk that the asshole beats the shit out of.
So the Jurassic Park Preacher is dead from the snakebite!? Already? That seems unceremonious. That means Ellen May tries to come crawling back to the Crowders. Ava thinks she's more trouble than she's worth so Boyd has Ava ship her off to his cousin in Alabama, a preacher who owns a motel and can put Ellen May to honest work.
Rachel had to go to work so eventually it's just Raylan who catches up to GF and Asshole. They fight a bit and then GF tells Raylan his money's in the van, and she leaves while Raylan has Asshole arrested. But his money's not literally in the van -- the chickens are.
Ava still doesn't trust Ellen May, and so when Boyd's War Buddy is driving her to the bus station and he gets a phone call, I know right away it's a call from Boyd telling him to kill Ellen May. War Buddy is getting an attack of conscience though, and in his hesitation (getting himself straight in a bathroom with a little bump), Ellen May disappears.
Man, so far NOTHING is happening this season, right? What the actual hell?
31 January 2013
23 January 2013
Justified
Boyd stops by the Tent Church to talk to Jurassic Park Preacher's sister and offer her money to get her brother out of Harlan. She says it'll cost a lot more, like a new church built somewhere. So he sends his old war buddy after them along with another guy, who is attacked by the snakes. He brings the guy - with the head (and only the head) of the snake still attached to his face - to Boyd's bar. Jesus Christ. Gross.
Raylan's GF used to be a thief/con-artist with her (ex-)husband. Because all of his romantic entanglements must be hella complicated and laden with criminality. He also gives the ex the "get out of town by 6PM" bit.
Johnny's going behind Boyd's back to meet with Wynn Duffy. Says he'll help Wynn kill Boyd. Oh hell no. Ass.
Raylan and Tim go to visit the ex-wife of the guy-who-didn't-fall-from-the-sky, who happens to be a (real) psychic. The guy was a witness in some sealed case. An FBI dude shows up and distracts our guys, and while she tries to sneak away she's actually kidnapped by someone. A someone who is blackmailing the FBI guy somehow. But who knows how, because the FBI dude kills himself in front of Raylan after telling him where they can find the woman. She tells them that the not-dead-guy saw Theo Tonin, the big time Dee-troit gangster, murder a government informant.
Over at Boyd's, the doctor comes and removes the snake from the guy's face. They figure out that there's no venom there. So Boyd comes to the Tent Church bearing the gift of a rattlesnake. The preacher's sister confesses that she's been milking the snakes of venom, unbeknownst to Jurassic Park Preacher. JPP doesn't care and handles the snake anyway, and is bitten.
Raylan comes back home to the bar to find his GF missing and his place ransacked, stashed money and all. Oh lordy, here with go with Raylan chasing some crazy GF. Also, this 30-year-old mystery thing better get somewhere quick because I don't see the point. I'm enjoying all the random character bits, but I don't know what the plot's getting at.
Raylan's GF used to be a thief/con-artist with her (ex-)husband. Because all of his romantic entanglements must be hella complicated and laden with criminality. He also gives the ex the "get out of town by 6PM" bit.
Johnny's going behind Boyd's back to meet with Wynn Duffy. Says he'll help Wynn kill Boyd. Oh hell no. Ass.
Raylan and Tim go to visit the ex-wife of the guy-who-didn't-fall-from-the-sky, who happens to be a (real) psychic. The guy was a witness in some sealed case. An FBI dude shows up and distracts our guys, and while she tries to sneak away she's actually kidnapped by someone. A someone who is blackmailing the FBI guy somehow. But who knows how, because the FBI dude kills himself in front of Raylan after telling him where they can find the woman. She tells them that the not-dead-guy saw Theo Tonin, the big time Dee-troit gangster, murder a government informant.
Over at Boyd's, the doctor comes and removes the snake from the guy's face. They figure out that there's no venom there. So Boyd comes to the Tent Church bearing the gift of a rattlesnake. The preacher's sister confesses that she's been milking the snakes of venom, unbeknownst to Jurassic Park Preacher. JPP doesn't care and handles the snake anyway, and is bitten.
Raylan comes back home to the bar to find his GF missing and his place ransacked, stashed money and all. Oh lordy, here with go with Raylan chasing some crazy GF. Also, this 30-year-old mystery thing better get somewhere quick because I don't see the point. I'm enjoying all the random character bits, but I don't know what the plot's getting at.
18 January 2013
Fringe
Farewell, Fringe, my love. I still feel like this season has been meh. But the previous seasons were amazing. So it all evens out. I'm going to miss my show either way.
I still don't get the whole Plan to Reset Time. Baby Observer goes into the future at just the right time so someone's all, "Let's not create Observers????" Whatever. I don't buy it. But OK. He's important. I get it.
Time to get Old!Broyles in on this. He finds out where Baby Observer is being held, beneath the ruined Statue of Liberty. Windmark's interrogating him but getting nowhere, just developing a bloody nose and a popped blood vessel in his eye for the trouble. So it's time to bring out the tech to really get at this kid.
The only way into the facility on Liberty Island? Use the Other Universe. Good thing Walter has some old Cortexiphan lying around to reactivate Olivia's ability. Plus they use the Other Universe Window to take a peek first and make sure the Observers haven't invaded there too. All looks clear, so they go for it. Time for a bunch of shots of Cortexiphan to the ol' brain stem for poor Olivia.
OTHER UNIVERSE TIME!!!!! My favorite place. Chelsea Clinton leads in the Presidential race. And Lincoln Lee is BACK! He and Fauxlivia are married and have a grown-ass son. And Fauxlivia is rocking some fabulous gray in her hair. God, I love Fauxlivia. I guess that's what the show was missing this season. No crazy Freaks of the Week, no Awesome Dual Universes, no funny Walter food things. Observers (and dystopian futures) were better in small doses.
Olivia crosses over into the room where they were holding Baby Observer. Only they've moved him because they're going to disassemble him. Now that doesn't sound good. And Olivia's starting to kind of phase in between both universes, her Cortexiphan wearing off. She gets to the kid just as they're about to strip him for parts, and they make it back to the Other Universe. But an Observer follows. Good thing Lincoln and Fauxlivia Lee take care of the situation. Olivia makes it back over with Baby Observer.
Windmark finds out Broyles was behind the exposure of Baby Observer's location. So he's pissed, as usual. He figures out Broyles is going to meet our Team, so he has someone follow him. Too bad Broyles is too smart for that and notices them following. Broyles is captured. Uh-oh.
Donald/September built a machine in the lab whilst everyone was off gallivanting across universes. He pays a visit to an old Observer pal to get a piece he needs. Time to open a wormhole to the year 2167, and Walter has to accompany the kid. Walter and Peter say a Sad Bishop Goodbye.
Oh but they can't get that piece they need from the Observer because the Bad Observers have caught up to him, killed him, and taken the tech. Windmark knows they are trying to reset time. Astrid comes up with an idea to use one of the Observer's "shipping lanes" as a wormhole.
Donald/September says he should be the one to escort the kid into the future. Yeah, DUH, you should be! Walter doesn't need to do this shit. Take your bald kid and get into the future!!!
There is some great grossness, and Olivia and Peter unleash all the different contaminants, poisons, and foreign bodies from the past 5 years into the ventilation system at Observer HQ. Observers dropping left and right from various Freaks of the Weeks Greatest Hits. Our Team gets whatever tech they need from Observer HQ to take over the shipping lane.
Windmark finds them and starts beating the crap out of Peter and Olivia. Til Olivia summons her electrical powers and has him pwned by a car. R.I.P. Windmark you bastard.
Donald/September is killed in a shootout running toward the wormhole. So now it really is up to Walter to take the kid over. Bye bye, Walter.
We're back to the point where Olivia, Peter, and little Etta are in the park. But this time, no Observer invasion. Happy ending, but what happened to my Walterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
This Week's Final Code: *sob* LOVED and CLOSE *I'll miss you*
I still don't get the whole Plan to Reset Time. Baby Observer goes into the future at just the right time so someone's all, "Let's not create Observers????" Whatever. I don't buy it. But OK. He's important. I get it.
Time to get Old!Broyles in on this. He finds out where Baby Observer is being held, beneath the ruined Statue of Liberty. Windmark's interrogating him but getting nowhere, just developing a bloody nose and a popped blood vessel in his eye for the trouble. So it's time to bring out the tech to really get at this kid.
The only way into the facility on Liberty Island? Use the Other Universe. Good thing Walter has some old Cortexiphan lying around to reactivate Olivia's ability. Plus they use the Other Universe Window to take a peek first and make sure the Observers haven't invaded there too. All looks clear, so they go for it. Time for a bunch of shots of Cortexiphan to the ol' brain stem for poor Olivia.
OTHER UNIVERSE TIME!!!!! My favorite place. Chelsea Clinton leads in the Presidential race. And Lincoln Lee is BACK! He and Fauxlivia are married and have a grown-ass son. And Fauxlivia is rocking some fabulous gray in her hair. God, I love Fauxlivia. I guess that's what the show was missing this season. No crazy Freaks of the Week, no Awesome Dual Universes, no funny Walter food things. Observers (and dystopian futures) were better in small doses.
Olivia crosses over into the room where they were holding Baby Observer. Only they've moved him because they're going to disassemble him. Now that doesn't sound good. And Olivia's starting to kind of phase in between both universes, her Cortexiphan wearing off. She gets to the kid just as they're about to strip him for parts, and they make it back to the Other Universe. But an Observer follows. Good thing Lincoln and Fauxlivia Lee take care of the situation. Olivia makes it back over with Baby Observer.
Windmark finds out Broyles was behind the exposure of Baby Observer's location. So he's pissed, as usual. He figures out Broyles is going to meet our Team, so he has someone follow him. Too bad Broyles is too smart for that and notices them following. Broyles is captured. Uh-oh.
Donald/September built a machine in the lab whilst everyone was off gallivanting across universes. He pays a visit to an old Observer pal to get a piece he needs. Time to open a wormhole to the year 2167, and Walter has to accompany the kid. Walter and Peter say a Sad Bishop Goodbye.
Oh but they can't get that piece they need from the Observer because the Bad Observers have caught up to him, killed him, and taken the tech. Windmark knows they are trying to reset time. Astrid comes up with an idea to use one of the Observer's "shipping lanes" as a wormhole.
Donald/September says he should be the one to escort the kid into the future. Yeah, DUH, you should be! Walter doesn't need to do this shit. Take your bald kid and get into the future!!!
There is some great grossness, and Olivia and Peter unleash all the different contaminants, poisons, and foreign bodies from the past 5 years into the ventilation system at Observer HQ. Observers dropping left and right from various Freaks of the Weeks Greatest Hits. Our Team gets whatever tech they need from Observer HQ to take over the shipping lane.
Windmark finds them and starts beating the crap out of Peter and Olivia. Til Olivia summons her electrical powers and has him pwned by a car. R.I.P. Windmark you bastard.
Donald/September is killed in a shootout running toward the wormhole. So now it really is up to Walter to take the kid over. Bye bye, Walter.
We're back to the point where Olivia, Peter, and little Etta are in the park. But this time, no Observer invasion. Happy ending, but what happened to my Walterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
This Week's Final Code: *sob* LOVED and CLOSE *I'll miss you*
16 January 2013
Justified
Art breaks the news to Raylan that Arlo killed a fellow prisoner, and Raylan fills Art in on the Panamanian diplomatic bag found in the wall. Art, Raylan, and Tim head out to track down Waldo Truth and his family, which turns out to be a family full of criminals. The family is just the ultimate in white trash. Waldo's been missing for 30 years since a pilot came and said he had a job for him. Art remembers the pilot's name - he always thought he was the one who was pancaked in the driveway, but instead it was Waldo. So where's the pilot and why did he fake his own death?
Preacher Billy appears to be actively trying to convert people in Boyd's inner circle - first the dealer, now Ellen May. He ends up sending a bunch of creepy, singing children into Ava's whorehouse to try to recruit members. So Boyd and crew show up to the Tent Church. IT'S A MOTHERLOVIN' PREACH OFF!!!! Boyd wins because he's way hotter.
And poor Boyd has another problem - a crew trying to sell heroin in his town. The crew is part of Wynn Duffy's organization, so Boyd reaches out to become his heroin distributor in Harlan. And Duffy's curious why Arlo killed his boy up in prison. Jesus, everyone in Kentucky is tied to everyone else.
We've also got some random dude looking for fights, being randomly pushy with Raylan at the bar and then winning a backyard fraternity MMA fight. Dude turns out to be married to Raylan's GF. Oops.
Preacher Billy appears to be actively trying to convert people in Boyd's inner circle - first the dealer, now Ellen May. He ends up sending a bunch of creepy, singing children into Ava's whorehouse to try to recruit members. So Boyd and crew show up to the Tent Church. IT'S A MOTHERLOVIN' PREACH OFF!!!! Boyd wins because he's way hotter.
And poor Boyd has another problem - a crew trying to sell heroin in his town. The crew is part of Wynn Duffy's organization, so Boyd reaches out to become his heroin distributor in Harlan. And Duffy's curious why Arlo killed his boy up in prison. Jesus, everyone in Kentucky is tied to everyone else.
We've also got some random dude looking for fights, being randomly pushy with Raylan at the bar and then winning a backyard fraternity MMA fight. Dude turns out to be married to Raylan's GF. Oops.
14 January 2013
Fringe
It took me this long to catch up on Fringe, which clearly means I'm ready to let go. Guess I'm just trying to make the separation easier, you know?
Tank Time! In order to pull out the memory of September that Baby Observer planted in his brain, Walter decides to go into the Deprivation Tank. Sans trunks, of course. He figures out where September used to live (when he had hair) and the team goes to see if he's still there. Along the way, we get a really touching Walter/Peter moment where Walter remembers things from the old timeline and says he loves Peter and they hug and get teary. So what - someone's gonna die, right?
Windmark heads into the future to meet "The Commander" and there is much general Observer creepiness. Windmark really has a hard-on for killing Our Team, which is odd because Observers don't get hard-ons for anything.
Donald (September, a bit older now and still with hair), is indeed still in his apartment. Must be rent controlled. So Donald used to be the Observer September and then as "punishment" for helping the Team, he had his device removed and named himself Donald. He tells us that hundreds of years from now, Observers just create themselves in labs - humans decided to sacrifice human emotion for increased intelligence. And Baby Observer is September's kid, who was deemed an anomaly because of his brain development, so September hid him in the past. Oh lord, now my eyes have gone crossed.
So Donald/September says they have to send Baby Observer into the future, to the point where humans made that decision to grow Observers, to prevent them from doing so, thereby never creating Observers. They're going to reset time. What Walter hasn't told the others is that, in order for the plan to reset time to work, he has to sacrifice himself. Baby Observer showed him that. See - told you someone was dying.
As the team tries to get wherever the team is going, Baby Observer is caught by Windmark. Or maybe turns himself in.
This Week's Code: GRACE
Well, the show is nearly over - and the preview showed Lincoln Lee and Fauxlivia, so I'm kind of excited. Can we get some Charlie before it's all over? Maybe reset the timeline and then open like we did in the pilot?
Tank Time! In order to pull out the memory of September that Baby Observer planted in his brain, Walter decides to go into the Deprivation Tank. Sans trunks, of course. He figures out where September used to live (when he had hair) and the team goes to see if he's still there. Along the way, we get a really touching Walter/Peter moment where Walter remembers things from the old timeline and says he loves Peter and they hug and get teary. So what - someone's gonna die, right?
Windmark heads into the future to meet "The Commander" and there is much general Observer creepiness. Windmark really has a hard-on for killing Our Team, which is odd because Observers don't get hard-ons for anything.
Donald (September, a bit older now and still with hair), is indeed still in his apartment. Must be rent controlled. So Donald used to be the Observer September and then as "punishment" for helping the Team, he had his device removed and named himself Donald. He tells us that hundreds of years from now, Observers just create themselves in labs - humans decided to sacrifice human emotion for increased intelligence. And Baby Observer is September's kid, who was deemed an anomaly because of his brain development, so September hid him in the past. Oh lord, now my eyes have gone crossed.
So Donald/September says they have to send Baby Observer into the future, to the point where humans made that decision to grow Observers, to prevent them from doing so, thereby never creating Observers. They're going to reset time. What Walter hasn't told the others is that, in order for the plan to reset time to work, he has to sacrifice himself. Baby Observer showed him that. See - told you someone was dying.
As the team tries to get wherever the team is going, Baby Observer is caught by Windmark. Or maybe turns himself in.
This Week's Code: GRACE
Well, the show is nearly over - and the preview showed Lincoln Lee and Fauxlivia, so I'm kind of excited. Can we get some Charlie before it's all over? Maybe reset the timeline and then open like we did in the pilot?
10 January 2013
The Oscar Nominations
I made sure to have the Oscar nominations loaded up live the second I got in to work. They were announced at like 8:35 AM, and by 8:45, my Facebook status update read, "FU Oscars, back to work - no Kathryn Bigelow? Suck my left nut." I didn't even have time to process the lack of Quentin Tarantino and Ben Affleck directing nominations as well. What the hell?
Lincoln got the most nominations. It was a great, historical biopic, but not the Best Picture of the Year.
Best Picture:
In Best Director news, apparently Django Unchained, Argo, and Zero Dark Thirty - the three best movies I saw this year - directed themselves. Cool.
Other Nominations I'm Happy About
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables." But Sally Field, "Lincoln"??? No.
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty" and Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook" (no, I haven't seen the second one yet, but I love her so YAY)
Lincoln got the most nominations. It was a great, historical biopic, but not the Best Picture of the Year.
Best Picture:
- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" - it's next up in my Netflix queue, mostly because the 9-year-old girl (who was nominated for Best Actress!) is supposed to be amazing in it.
- "Silver Linings Playbook" - I've been pushing Mike to see this for weeks; we've GOT to see it this weekend. If there's time, with all the football.
- "Zero Dark Thirty" - winner winner chicken dinner
- "Lincoln" - what I said
- "Les Miserables" - really more about the acting than the film as a whole, but makes sense
- "Life of Pi" - I will never watch a movie about a kid stranded in an ocean with a tiger, I just won't.
- "Amour" - supposed to be good, but it's French. So, you know, no.
- "Django Unchained" - OF COURSE
- "Argo" - OF COURSE
In Best Director news, apparently Django Unchained, Argo, and Zero Dark Thirty - the three best movies I saw this year - directed themselves. Cool.
Other Nominations I'm Happy About
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables." But Sally Field, "Lincoln"??? No.
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty" and Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook" (no, I haven't seen the second one yet, but I love her so YAY)
09 January 2013
Justified
Finally time to get back to Kentucky. We binged on all of the Season 3 Blu-rays since New Year's -- Justified is such a marathon-worthy show. But I'm ready for some new episodes. All I've heard about this season is that it focuses on some old mystery rather than one Big Bad.
Flashback to 1983. Old mystery confirmed. A dude falls out of the sky and slams into the street outside what I'm assuming is Arlo's house, bricks of cocaine or heroin splattered on the ground along with his brains.
In present day, Raylan gets a call from a bail bondslady he used to bang, who wants some help tracking down a guy. Since it means 3 grand, he'll be a bounty hunter, no problem.
Now we've got Patton Oswalt calling Raylan because a couple teenagers broke into Arlo's house. The thieves had ripped open some holes in the drywall and Raylan and Patton find an old bag containing an old driver's license with the name of Waldo Truth. Raylan figures out that Arlo hired the kids to steal whatever was in the old bag, but Arlo won't admit as much when Raylan visits him in prison.
Meanwhile, Boyd gets wind of a new church in town - Last Chance Holiness Church - that's getting people off drugs and hooked on Jesus. Well, that's not good for Boyd's oxy business. An old war buddy of Boyd's shows up looking for him, and Boyd offers him a job cuz he needs some outside enforcer help. And the Jurassic Park Kid is one of those preachers with the snakes that heals people.
Meanwhile, Arlo's a badass, slitting a dude's throat in prison when the guy asks him too many questions about that old bag. So it's Justified: the Year of the Old Bag then. Good to have you back; let's move on from the setup!
Flashback to 1983. Old mystery confirmed. A dude falls out of the sky and slams into the street outside what I'm assuming is Arlo's house, bricks of cocaine or heroin splattered on the ground along with his brains.
In present day, Raylan gets a call from a bail bondslady he used to bang, who wants some help tracking down a guy. Since it means 3 grand, he'll be a bounty hunter, no problem.
Now we've got Patton Oswalt calling Raylan because a couple teenagers broke into Arlo's house. The thieves had ripped open some holes in the drywall and Raylan and Patton find an old bag containing an old driver's license with the name of Waldo Truth. Raylan figures out that Arlo hired the kids to steal whatever was in the old bag, but Arlo won't admit as much when Raylan visits him in prison.
Meanwhile, Boyd gets wind of a new church in town - Last Chance Holiness Church - that's getting people off drugs and hooked on Jesus. Well, that's not good for Boyd's oxy business. An old war buddy of Boyd's shows up looking for him, and Boyd offers him a job cuz he needs some outside enforcer help. And the Jurassic Park Kid is one of those preachers with the snakes that heals people.
Meanwhile, Arlo's a badass, slitting a dude's throat in prison when the guy asks him too many questions about that old bag. So it's Justified: the Year of the Old Bag then. Good to have you back; let's move on from the setup!
29 December 2012
Les Misérables
Now, the way it was filmed - with the live singing - was actually interesting and I loved it. I didn't really realize until the end that there weren't any of your typical big musical-movie numbers. The performances weren't big and grand, there wasn't singing and dancing -- they were much more intimate. The way it's staged is more like you're there with the actors, not watching them. It was cool to see the movie that way. But I think it means the soundtrack itself wouldn't be any good to listen to. The music didn't stand out to me, it was more about watching the performances in addition to listening to them. For just listening, I'll stick with a stage cast recording.
The performances were great. However, the movie doesn't get better than Anne Hathaway singing "I Dreamed a Dream." It totally lives up to the hype and is this amazing uninterrupted take (or at least it seemed that way) and is absolutely the pinnacle of the movie. Not that the rest is bad, it's just not that good. Everyone keeps slamming Russell Crowe, but I thought he was really good! He fit this particular style of filmed musical, which is quieter and more "real" and less over-the-top. Hugh Jackman has the bigger, booming voice.
It was just what I wanted in a movie adaption of Les Misérables. By the end, the tears were streaming down into my cleavage. Now that's a movie.
27 December 2012
Fringe
Our team can't get Observer Baby to talk. They bring him to Nina, who takes everyone to a convenient secret lab where the Resistance has been experimenting on Observers. They've got a device that can basically read Observers' minds, but it doesn't work with the kid so they decide to try linking one of their mind's with the kid's.
In the midst of tracking down all these secret labs and tech, the Observers find out Nina is working with our team, and locate her in the lab. Soon it's R.I.P. Nina, who kills herself rather than have her brain probed by these assholes. Luckily, she had stashed away Observer Baby so the team finds him after the Observers vacate the premises.
The team takes the tech and Observer Baby back to the amber lab and hook up OB and Walter's brains. Walter asks OB why he's important and he gets answered in a bunch of memory flashes, culminating in the revelation that September is Donald. Man, I can't even remember what happened to September. Didn't he die? This show was complicated enough without rebooting this year. Oy.
This Week's Code: SENSE
In the midst of tracking down all these secret labs and tech, the Observers find out Nina is working with our team, and locate her in the lab. Soon it's R.I.P. Nina, who kills herself rather than have her brain probed by these assholes. Luckily, she had stashed away Observer Baby so the team finds him after the Observers vacate the premises.
The team takes the tech and Observer Baby back to the amber lab and hook up OB and Walter's brains. Walter asks OB why he's important and he gets answered in a bunch of memory flashes, culminating in the revelation that September is Donald. Man, I can't even remember what happened to September. Didn't he die? This show was complicated enough without rebooting this year. Oy.
This Week's Code: SENSE
25 December 2012
The Best Movies Are Out Now
I don't blog anymore. That much is obvious. To wit, I've seen a bunch of movies since September, and haven't said a thing about them. And now I have to try to remember what they were, but I can't think of anything other than Lincoln.
So Lincoln was good. It was great actually, especially for what could be a boring historical drama. I actually think Sally Field is way over the top and annoying, but I loved Daniel Day-Lewis. No shocker there, he's always good. But I just wanted to hug Lincoln by the time it was over. He seemed like a really cool guy, all chill and casual while also doing historically-important things. We could be besties.
I was in New York this past weekend, and seized the opportunity to see Zero Dark Thirty. It doesn't come out nationwide til January 11th and I was way too excited to have to wait that long. It was amazing. Like, A. May. Zing. I love how it felt like you followed the whole story -- from interrogations to investigation to the raid on bid Laden's compound. It was wonderful. Kathryn Bigelow is such a great director - she excels at this war stuff so much, just making it feel real and tense and exciting. Loved loved loved it. Might be my Movie of the Year. Also... god, I love Jessica Chastain.
Finally, Santa brought me just what I wanted this year -- a new Quentin Tarantino movie, Django Unchained. I am the World's Biggest QT Fangirl, so of course I'm going to love whatever he does. Even if it stars Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio....
It was a quintessential Tarantino movie, naturally. Just this time set in the slave-era South. I love Christoph Waltz and he was wonderful in it. I could listen to him speak all day. I loved the first part of the movie best, with him teaming up with Django. The dialogue was great, the music was great, the violence was over the top - everything you'd expect. I feel like I might love Inglourious Basterds more, but who knows - it's early. I've only seen Django once. But I think my disdain for Foxx may keep me from full-on loving this as much. He kind of plays Jamie Foxx all the time.... Then again, one could argue Christoph Waltz is the same all the time too. Difference: Waltz is awesome. Anyway, loved Django Unchained as much as I figured I would, and eagerly await Tarantino's next one. You know what he hasn't done and should do? Sci-fi.
But I digress. There are still lots of year-end movies to see, like Silver Linings Playbook and Les Miserables. They will all be Oscar contenders -- it'll be a tight race! At least I'll be a fan of whatever wins.
So Lincoln was good. It was great actually, especially for what could be a boring historical drama. I actually think Sally Field is way over the top and annoying, but I loved Daniel Day-Lewis. No shocker there, he's always good. But I just wanted to hug Lincoln by the time it was over. He seemed like a really cool guy, all chill and casual while also doing historically-important things. We could be besties.
I was in New York this past weekend, and seized the opportunity to see Zero Dark Thirty. It doesn't come out nationwide til January 11th and I was way too excited to have to wait that long. It was amazing. Like, A. May. Zing. I love how it felt like you followed the whole story -- from interrogations to investigation to the raid on bid Laden's compound. It was wonderful. Kathryn Bigelow is such a great director - she excels at this war stuff so much, just making it feel real and tense and exciting. Loved loved loved it. Might be my Movie of the Year. Also... god, I love Jessica Chastain.
It was a quintessential Tarantino movie, naturally. Just this time set in the slave-era South. I love Christoph Waltz and he was wonderful in it. I could listen to him speak all day. I loved the first part of the movie best, with him teaming up with Django. The dialogue was great, the music was great, the violence was over the top - everything you'd expect. I feel like I might love Inglourious Basterds more, but who knows - it's early. I've only seen Django once. But I think my disdain for Foxx may keep me from full-on loving this as much. He kind of plays Jamie Foxx all the time.... Then again, one could argue Christoph Waltz is the same all the time too. Difference: Waltz is awesome. Anyway, loved Django Unchained as much as I figured I would, and eagerly await Tarantino's next one. You know what he hasn't done and should do? Sci-fi.
But I digress. There are still lots of year-end movies to see, like Silver Linings Playbook and Les Miserables. They will all be Oscar contenders -- it'll be a tight race! At least I'll be a fan of whatever wins.
16 December 2012
Fringe
Damn you, DVR, for screwing up and not recording Fringe on Friday. Thank you, internet, for offering me other options....
The radio from the Pocket Universe is picking up a signal. And Walter dropped acid. This might be a good episode. Walter has visions of a Tinkerbell type of girl as well as the chick who was burned to death in his lab. The team uses Convenient Resistance Tech to determine the source of the signal -- a skeleton in the woods.
There's a bunch of skeletons in the woods, and one of them is Sam Weiss, the awesome bowling alley dude from back in the day. In their hunt for the source of the signal, they come across a couple in a house with a Child Observer. The same one from the Pocket Universe, and the one they all encountered in the other timeline. Donald left the kid with the couple 20 years ago. All they know is that he's somehow important to defeating the Observers, and he hasn't aged or spoken since. They turn the kid over to our team, because that's what Donald instructed.
Then we get Walter reliving the past, with him crossing over to get Peter, etc., etc. He's becoming the Asshole Walter he never wanted to be again.
This Week's Code: GUILT.
The radio from the Pocket Universe is picking up a signal. And Walter dropped acid. This might be a good episode. Walter has visions of a Tinkerbell type of girl as well as the chick who was burned to death in his lab. The team uses Convenient Resistance Tech to determine the source of the signal -- a skeleton in the woods.
There's a bunch of skeletons in the woods, and one of them is Sam Weiss, the awesome bowling alley dude from back in the day. In their hunt for the source of the signal, they come across a couple in a house with a Child Observer. The same one from the Pocket Universe, and the one they all encountered in the other timeline. Donald left the kid with the couple 20 years ago. All they know is that he's somehow important to defeating the Observers, and he hasn't aged or spoken since. They turn the kid over to our team, because that's what Donald instructed.
Then we get Walter reliving the past, with him crossing over to get Peter, etc., etc. He's becoming the Asshole Walter he never wanted to be again.
This Week's Code: GUILT.
07 December 2012
Fringe
Observer Peter is in full effect, with his transparent Wall of Crazy. Windmark's out to get him and finds the Wall, realizing it means Peter can "run futures." Peter does a lot of anticipating-everyone's-next-move tricks to outsmart Windmark, and fights him with all that blinking-out-of-existence stuff.
Olivia gets ahold of the tech/needle-thing that Peter used from their Resistance pal whose name I can't remember or understand. She tells Astrid and Walter what Peter has done and wants Walter to take that tech and try to figure out a way out.
Goddammit, more of the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. The next one tells them to retrieve an industrial magnet. Olivia goes to do it so that Walter can check out the Observer tech. Walter's tests on the tech confirm that the brain gets, like, super-smart, and has no more emotions.
Olivia finds the people with the magnet - they've been holding it for years, waiting for Walter's return. Now Olivia has to transport this giant magnet back -- she's not gonna get stopped? The Observers don't check for random big trucks on the roads? The Observers don't find her, but some random thugs on the road ambush her - and they figure out she's got a bounty on her head. The thugs call it in to the Reward Wire, saying they'll only meet the Observers in a "Truth Church" - a place they can't be read, I guess?
Peter shows up in the lab after his fight with Windmark to get his shoulder stitched up. He feels no pain. Walter says the changes will "soon be permanent" -- so I suppose there's hope for Peter to change back?
Olivia escapes the thugs, because she is Olivia and is awesome and rigs up a super awesome gun thing out of steam and Etta's bullet. She is sure to retrieve the bullet.
Everyone on this show goes from Boston to NYC in 2.4 seconds. It gets annoying. Because suddenly Olivia meets up with Peter where he's watching Windmark to make sure he ends up on a trajectory that will lead to his death at Peter's hand. But she convinces him to remove the tech from his brain so she doesn't lose him. OK.... So does that mean Peter's whole transformation was totally pointless? It's gotta have more repercussions down the road....
This Week's Code: PLEAD
Olivia gets ahold of the tech/needle-thing that Peter used from their Resistance pal whose name I can't remember or understand. She tells Astrid and Walter what Peter has done and wants Walter to take that tech and try to figure out a way out.
Goddammit, more of the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. The next one tells them to retrieve an industrial magnet. Olivia goes to do it so that Walter can check out the Observer tech. Walter's tests on the tech confirm that the brain gets, like, super-smart, and has no more emotions.
Olivia finds the people with the magnet - they've been holding it for years, waiting for Walter's return. Now Olivia has to transport this giant magnet back -- she's not gonna get stopped? The Observers don't check for random big trucks on the roads? The Observers don't find her, but some random thugs on the road ambush her - and they figure out she's got a bounty on her head. The thugs call it in to the Reward Wire, saying they'll only meet the Observers in a "Truth Church" - a place they can't be read, I guess?
Peter shows up in the lab after his fight with Windmark to get his shoulder stitched up. He feels no pain. Walter says the changes will "soon be permanent" -- so I suppose there's hope for Peter to change back?
Olivia escapes the thugs, because she is Olivia and is awesome and rigs up a super awesome gun thing out of steam and Etta's bullet. She is sure to retrieve the bullet.
Everyone on this show goes from Boston to NYC in 2.4 seconds. It gets annoying. Because suddenly Olivia meets up with Peter where he's watching Windmark to make sure he ends up on a trajectory that will lead to his death at Peter's hand. But she convinces him to remove the tech from his brain so she doesn't lose him. OK.... So does that mean Peter's whole transformation was totally pointless? It's gotta have more repercussions down the road....
This Week's Code: PLEAD
27 November 2012
Revolution
Our Gang of Idiots is in Philly, so Gus Fring thinks Monroe should beat cheeks to Boston for a while. Fool, Monroe don't run.
Gus Fring finds the crew hiding out in a friendly house. Bella's Dad has gone to do whatever it is he needs to do, so he's not there. Charlie is thrown into a cell with her mom, who recognizes her instantly by her voice. And appearance. A daughter who was, like, 10 last time they saw each other. I guess a mother always knows. Then they get reunited with Boring Danny too. It's boring. Monroe's all, "Hey, Charlie's Mom, are you enjoying the family reunion? Make me some power, bitch, or choose which one of your kids dies."
Bella's Dad, meanwhile, is in Gus Fring's house with a sword to his wife's neck. Nice. He wants his family back. If that was really Gus Fring, he'd be all, "Cut that bitch's head off." But it's not, so instead he says hold on a second, I'll get your friends. And then he tells them where to find Charlie and Boring Danny.
Our flashbacks are meant to show us how much Monroe and Bella's Dad are in love, and make us feel sympathy for Monroe, whose family was killed in a car accident. We're also hammered over the head with Johnny Crowder being creepy. We get it. He's a cartoon psychopath. Charlie's Mom kills him.
Danny and Charlie escape from their cell, because it's what they do. And Bella's Dad and his Hot Latina GF are breaking in to find them at the same time. Bella's Dad's sword saves the day again. So at last they've found Danny... but now they have to get Mom! At least that happens quicker than the 8-year ordeal to find Danny.
Time for the Miles and Monroe faceoff!!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN! Monroe's all, We were BFFs, man, what the eff? Monroe won't kill him, he wants him back. Aw, how sweet. I should be getting a strong gay vibe off this show, but unfortunately it's not good enough for me to. I just don't care. Make out, then maybe I will. Or shoot him in the face, then things can get interesting.
Bella's Dad is all, You're nothing to me; I should have killed you the first time. FISTFIGHT!!!!!! Then - shocker - SWORDFIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's decent too, until it ends when Bella's Dad runs away. Everyone gets out alive -- and then a helicopter takes off. Charlie's Mom really should have sabotaged that power device after killing that dude....
Gus Fring finds the crew hiding out in a friendly house. Bella's Dad has gone to do whatever it is he needs to do, so he's not there. Charlie is thrown into a cell with her mom, who recognizes her instantly by her voice. And appearance. A daughter who was, like, 10 last time they saw each other. I guess a mother always knows. Then they get reunited with Boring Danny too. It's boring. Monroe's all, "Hey, Charlie's Mom, are you enjoying the family reunion? Make me some power, bitch, or choose which one of your kids dies."
Bella's Dad, meanwhile, is in Gus Fring's house with a sword to his wife's neck. Nice. He wants his family back. If that was really Gus Fring, he'd be all, "Cut that bitch's head off." But it's not, so instead he says hold on a second, I'll get your friends. And then he tells them where to find Charlie and Boring Danny.
Our flashbacks are meant to show us how much Monroe and Bella's Dad are in love, and make us feel sympathy for Monroe, whose family was killed in a car accident. We're also hammered over the head with Johnny Crowder being creepy. We get it. He's a cartoon psychopath. Charlie's Mom kills him.
Danny and Charlie escape from their cell, because it's what they do. And Bella's Dad and his Hot Latina GF are breaking in to find them at the same time. Bella's Dad's sword saves the day again. So at last they've found Danny... but now they have to get Mom! At least that happens quicker than the 8-year ordeal to find Danny.
Time for the Miles and Monroe faceoff!!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN! Monroe's all, We were BFFs, man, what the eff? Monroe won't kill him, he wants him back. Aw, how sweet. I should be getting a strong gay vibe off this show, but unfortunately it's not good enough for me to. I just don't care. Make out, then maybe I will. Or shoot him in the face, then things can get interesting.
Bella's Dad is all, You're nothing to me; I should have killed you the first time. FISTFIGHT!!!!!! Then - shocker - SWORDFIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's decent too, until it ends when Bella's Dad runs away. Everyone gets out alive -- and then a helicopter takes off. Charlie's Mom really should have sabotaged that power device after killing that dude....
20 November 2012
Revolution
Bella's Dad is the shit, with his sword and his rugged leather coat. He is the ONLY thing tolerable about this damn show.
Our Gang of Idiots have teamed up with some Rebels and are walking through the train tunnels to Philly. Charlie steps on a landmine. YAY!!! Blow up, Charlie!! Shocker, Charlie tells them all to leave and, shocker, they won't. Tragically, they all escape the explosion, but now there is literally no turning back, as the tunnel behind them is blocked.
Charlie's Mom is building some machine and explains to a new Militia guy (and therefore the audience) that the Mystical Flash Drive Pendant is like a wireless battery that powers small appliances, like CD players featuring plugs for Led Zeppelin albums, and works only within a short range. Her machine will be an amplifier so it can work up to 1/2 a mile and power larger things... like missiles. But Gus Fring is suspicious of her and sends in a guy for a second opinion. She's not making an amplifier -- she's making a bomb. Now that's clever. She also kills the second-opinion guy so that they need her to build the amplifier for real now. Are you sure you're related to Charlie? (And do you think you're Walter White?)
Our Gang of Idiots are slowly suffocating because the rubble from the explosion also cut off their air supply. And we know this because they are starting to hallucinate. But just for a little while, and then they conveniently stop. They can breathe fine though. I need a doctor to tell me if this is possible, thank you. There also seems to be a lot of air in those great big tunnels. But whatever.
Bella's Dad's hallucination features the music of Led Zeppelin and a visit from Monroe. Have you heard they have some greatest hits album out or something? That's the rumor. Why does Monroe look like he wants to bang Bella's Dad? I'd totally watch that show. Please.
Nerdy Hipster Guy sees his wife, who is the boring nag she always was. Good thing they find a door and get some air, but then a Rebel guy they're traveling with is suddenly actually Militia and kills everyone who isn't in the main cast (dagger!) and takes Bella's Dad. Then Charlie shoots the Militia guy and he gets a shot off at her as he goes down. YAAAYYYY! We're then treated to Charlie dreaming about her Dad being alive and Miles trying to wake her up, mostly by yelling, "Wake up!" Go to the light, Charlie!!! Ugh this show slows down so much when it's about Charlie, especially when she utters the word, "Danny." She wakes up. The bullet just grazed her head. Shit.
I'm pretty sure after next week we don't get another episode of Revolution for 4 months. This is going to be the Greatest 4 Months of My Life.
Our Gang of Idiots have teamed up with some Rebels and are walking through the train tunnels to Philly. Charlie steps on a landmine. YAY!!! Blow up, Charlie!! Shocker, Charlie tells them all to leave and, shocker, they won't. Tragically, they all escape the explosion, but now there is literally no turning back, as the tunnel behind them is blocked.
Charlie's Mom is building some machine and explains to a new Militia guy (and therefore the audience) that the Mystical Flash Drive Pendant is like a wireless battery that powers small appliances, like CD players featuring plugs for Led Zeppelin albums, and works only within a short range. Her machine will be an amplifier so it can work up to 1/2 a mile and power larger things... like missiles. But Gus Fring is suspicious of her and sends in a guy for a second opinion. She's not making an amplifier -- she's making a bomb. Now that's clever. She also kills the second-opinion guy so that they need her to build the amplifier for real now. Are you sure you're related to Charlie? (And do you think you're Walter White?)
Our Gang of Idiots are slowly suffocating because the rubble from the explosion also cut off their air supply. And we know this because they are starting to hallucinate. But just for a little while, and then they conveniently stop. They can breathe fine though. I need a doctor to tell me if this is possible, thank you. There also seems to be a lot of air in those great big tunnels. But whatever.
Bella's Dad's hallucination features the music of Led Zeppelin and a visit from Monroe. Have you heard they have some greatest hits album out or something? That's the rumor. Why does Monroe look like he wants to bang Bella's Dad? I'd totally watch that show. Please.
Nerdy Hipster Guy sees his wife, who is the boring nag she always was. Good thing they find a door and get some air, but then a Rebel guy they're traveling with is suddenly actually Militia and kills everyone who isn't in the main cast (dagger!) and takes Bella's Dad. Then Charlie shoots the Militia guy and he gets a shot off at her as he goes down. YAAAYYYY! We're then treated to Charlie dreaming about her Dad being alive and Miles trying to wake her up, mostly by yelling, "Wake up!" Go to the light, Charlie!!! Ugh this show slows down so much when it's about Charlie, especially when she utters the word, "Danny." She wakes up. The bullet just grazed her head. Shit.
I'm pretty sure after next week we don't get another episode of Revolution for 4 months. This is going to be the Greatest 4 Months of My Life.
This Is What Maturity Looks Like?
When you have 4 episodes of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge backed up on your DVR, you give up and delete them. That's too many hours of my life to waste all at once. Plus, you know, I barely knew anyone who was left anyway. Let me know if something happens.
16 November 2012
Fringe
Pacey's got the Observer power to see a series of events that will happen. And he uses that power to make sure one misses a meeting. Careful now, let's not go abusing this wondrous gift!
Time for another video tape! They have to use William Bell's handprint to access his storage facility and retrieve 2 of those cylindrical beacon things the Observers use. Good thing they have Bell's hand that they cut out of the amber when the team was first found. Too bad the storage facility is part of a bombed-out building.
The team goes to find Old Nina, who will have access to some technology that can help them clear away the rubble without damaging the storage facility. Nina's hair is silver and fierce; she and Olivia appear to have that same connection they did in that one universe, the one where Nina raised her.
Meanwhile, Peter's gone off on his own and tries to do the trick again to anticipate the Observer's behavior and get their Rebel friend to switch briefcases with him. But there's a variable he didn't anticipate so the Rebel can't make the switch. Peter's also getting some major hot flashes.
Peter tries again and it works, resulting in the Rebel exploding something inside the briefcase all over a group of Observers - something that makes their skin look burned up and their jaws fall off of their faces. Kickass effects, zombie style! I like it.
Olivia's not falling for Peter's shitty excuses for disappearing from time to time. He's also becoming a little more robotic in the way he speaks. She knows something's up. Meanwhile, the team gets access to the rubble and enters the storage room. They find a device, which Peter activates, and the beacons rise from the ground.
Olivia discovers Peter's crazy drawings of timelines - he's tracking the Observer lieutenants, anticipating their actions, and is totes a robot! He tells her that he has the tech in his head. He's totally speaking like an Observer; it's freaky!! The toxin he used on the Observers was the very first Fringe event toxin that killed all the people on that plane. Now he's ready to attack the leader. And just when I say, "I hope he doesn't go bald," some hair falls out into his hand. Nooooooooo!
This Week's Code: TRUST
Time for another video tape! They have to use William Bell's handprint to access his storage facility and retrieve 2 of those cylindrical beacon things the Observers use. Good thing they have Bell's hand that they cut out of the amber when the team was first found. Too bad the storage facility is part of a bombed-out building.
The team goes to find Old Nina, who will have access to some technology that can help them clear away the rubble without damaging the storage facility. Nina's hair is silver and fierce; she and Olivia appear to have that same connection they did in that one universe, the one where Nina raised her.
Meanwhile, Peter's gone off on his own and tries to do the trick again to anticipate the Observer's behavior and get their Rebel friend to switch briefcases with him. But there's a variable he didn't anticipate so the Rebel can't make the switch. Peter's also getting some major hot flashes.
Peter tries again and it works, resulting in the Rebel exploding something inside the briefcase all over a group of Observers - something that makes their skin look burned up and their jaws fall off of their faces. Kickass effects, zombie style! I like it.
Olivia's not falling for Peter's shitty excuses for disappearing from time to time. He's also becoming a little more robotic in the way he speaks. She knows something's up. Meanwhile, the team gets access to the rubble and enters the storage room. They find a device, which Peter activates, and the beacons rise from the ground.
Olivia discovers Peter's crazy drawings of timelines - he's tracking the Observer lieutenants, anticipating their actions, and is totes a robot! He tells her that he has the tech in his head. He's totally speaking like an Observer; it's freaky!! The toxin he used on the Observers was the very first Fringe event toxin that killed all the people on that plane. Now he's ready to attack the leader. And just when I say, "I hope he doesn't go bald," some hair falls out into his hand. Nooooooooo!
This Week's Code: TRUST
14 November 2012
Revolution
Our band of idiots buys their way across a Militia bridge near Philly and right into Johnny Crowder's trap. They run and escape, because it's what they do. Then Johnny brings out Nora's sister to try to get them to surrender. I don't care about Nora, I care even less about her sister. It takes a matter of moments for the band of idiots to mix up some explosives and free her sister. Well, that was easy. Then the sister is going to split, because Nora would rather stay with these idiots than go with her sister to see their father. Nora is dumb. Charlie releases Nora of her "contract" and the sisters walk off together, to Texas. Bye, dummies.
AHAHAHAHAHA Nora's sister played her -- she was working for Johnny Crowder and stole the Mystical Flash Drive Pendant for him and led the band of idiots into a(nother) trap. She even lied about finding their father. AHAHAHA this bitch is awesome.
Well of course Nora goes back to rescue the idiots and of course there is swordfighting. But they don't rescue the Mystical Flash Drive Pendant, and now Monroe has it.
Also over in Militia-land, Monroe plans to banish Gus Fring's son to California. Gus won't let that happen -- he gets some convenient dirt on another officer's son who is a rebel. He tells Monroe, and in exchange for the favor, his son gets to stick around. In other news, Gus Fring's wife wants his ass to be in charge.
Our cliffhanger involves some people in some giant crappy bluescreen tracking Flash Drive Pendants all over the country. OK whatever. This show. Stinks.
AHAHAHAHAHA Nora's sister played her -- she was working for Johnny Crowder and stole the Mystical Flash Drive Pendant for him and led the band of idiots into a(nother) trap. She even lied about finding their father. AHAHAHA this bitch is awesome.
Well of course Nora goes back to rescue the idiots and of course there is swordfighting. But they don't rescue the Mystical Flash Drive Pendant, and now Monroe has it.
Also over in Militia-land, Monroe plans to banish Gus Fring's son to California. Gus won't let that happen -- he gets some convenient dirt on another officer's son who is a rebel. He tells Monroe, and in exchange for the favor, his son gets to stick around. In other news, Gus Fring's wife wants his ass to be in charge.
Our cliffhanger involves some people in some giant crappy bluescreen tracking Flash Drive Pendants all over the country. OK whatever. This show. Stinks.
10 November 2012
Fringe
Back to the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. Olivia and Pacey are busy grieving (helllla depressing) so Walter goes off on his own to an apartment listed in the latest videotape. Where's Astrid? Isn't she supposed to have a leash on him? She must have been in the crapper cuz then she comes into the lab looking for him.
The apartment building is abandoned and has been through some kind of universe-ripping event. And when Walter crosses one of the rooms in a certain way, he disappears into another universe. It's like a trippy haunted house maze apartment with upside-down rooms and stuff.
The team comes to the apartment to find Walter and then follow Videotaped-Walter into and through the "pocket universe." On the videotape, Walter is walking around with an Observer Baby, or at least a kid like that little bald kid from Season 1 or 2. Observer Baby isn't in the room where Video-taped Walter left him. They figure that Donald took him, Donald being the guy Walter was working with back in the day when he was recording his tapes. They find an olde timey radio that's sure to be important at some point, but nothing else.
Meanwhile, they left Astrid in the real universe, because Astrid always gets left behind. She sees Observers coming to the apartment (they caught Walter on camera walking in the neighborhood). The team escapes, but first Peter gets to do some hand-to-hand combat with an Observer -- and Peter is as fast and strong as they are, snapping the Observer's neck. Badass. And now Peter's seeing in blue like Observers do.
This Week's Code: SPLIT
The apartment building is abandoned and has been through some kind of universe-ripping event. And when Walter crosses one of the rooms in a certain way, he disappears into another universe. It's like a trippy haunted house maze apartment with upside-down rooms and stuff.
The team comes to the apartment to find Walter and then follow Videotaped-Walter into and through the "pocket universe." On the videotape, Walter is walking around with an Observer Baby, or at least a kid like that little bald kid from Season 1 or 2. Observer Baby isn't in the room where Video-taped Walter left him. They figure that Donald took him, Donald being the guy Walter was working with back in the day when he was recording his tapes. They find an olde timey radio that's sure to be important at some point, but nothing else.
Meanwhile, they left Astrid in the real universe, because Astrid always gets left behind. She sees Observers coming to the apartment (they caught Walter on camera walking in the neighborhood). The team escapes, but first Peter gets to do some hand-to-hand combat with an Observer -- and Peter is as fast and strong as they are, snapping the Observer's neck. Badass. And now Peter's seeing in blue like Observers do.
This Week's Code: SPLIT
06 November 2012
Revolution
We open with Charlie getting branded with the Monroe insignia. Nice. Two days earlier....
The crew is ambushed by a ragtag group of kids not seen since Children of the Corn. They're looking for a kid who was taken by the Militia. Blah blah kids making a society blah blah no parents blah blah find brothers blah blah. Everyone bands together to rescue the kid, who is being forced, along with other kids, to train for the Militia.
Monroe has been torturing someone Charlie's Mom knows for one of those Mystical Flash Drive Pendants. Charlie's Mom tries to get the guy to tell her where it is, but she sucks at it, so the guy knows she's a spy. When he still won't talk, Gus Fring brings in the guy's daughter.
Flashback to Charlie's parents -- they had a company that developed a way to inhibit electricity. Last time I checked, it's called A POWER BUTTON. Maybe a lightswitch. The Department of Defense is interested in it. In the same way they're interested in $900 toilets. Also, we find out Danny had some kind of condition while his mom was carrying him, and he was all weakened and stuff, which explains his dishrag-ness. And the DoD offered to help the baby in exchange for their cooperation.
So Charlie gets captured because that's just what she does. And she's brought into the training, or at least the orientation, wherein they are beaten to death if they try to leave. And also where you get branded.
Bella's Dad comes to rescue Charlie because that's just what he does. And there is swordfighting. Naturally. Also, in the midst of things, Nerdy Hipster Guy's Mystical Flash Drive Pendant goes off and gets electricity going for minute again.
The end. This show stinks.....
The crew is ambushed by a ragtag group of kids not seen since Children of the Corn. They're looking for a kid who was taken by the Militia. Blah blah kids making a society blah blah no parents blah blah find brothers blah blah. Everyone bands together to rescue the kid, who is being forced, along with other kids, to train for the Militia.
Monroe has been torturing someone Charlie's Mom knows for one of those Mystical Flash Drive Pendants. Charlie's Mom tries to get the guy to tell her where it is, but she sucks at it, so the guy knows she's a spy. When he still won't talk, Gus Fring brings in the guy's daughter.
Flashback to Charlie's parents -- they had a company that developed a way to inhibit electricity. Last time I checked, it's called A POWER BUTTON. Maybe a lightswitch. The Department of Defense is interested in it. In the same way they're interested in $900 toilets. Also, we find out Danny had some kind of condition while his mom was carrying him, and he was all weakened and stuff, which explains his dishrag-ness. And the DoD offered to help the baby in exchange for their cooperation.
So Charlie gets captured because that's just what she does. And she's brought into the training, or at least the orientation, wherein they are beaten to death if they try to leave. And also where you get branded.
Bella's Dad comes to rescue Charlie because that's just what he does. And there is swordfighting. Naturally. Also, in the midst of things, Nerdy Hipster Guy's Mystical Flash Drive Pendant goes off and gets electricity going for minute again.
The end. This show stinks.....
04 November 2012
Fringe
Papa Pacey is bitter because his baby's dead. Elsewhere, The Observers are closing down a street for a portal-between-two-universes event in which 3 large boxes are "shipped" over.
Astrid's still working on that damn Great Hunt for the Video Tapes, but has hit a stumbling block because propane and ethanol that were going to be used in a bratwurst cook are precariously close to where the laser needs to go. Seriously. That's the stumbling block. This show is turning into a parody with this blasted Great Hunt for the Video Tapes.
They meet up with a Resistance buddy of Etta's who tells the team that the Observers are shipping back parts and escalating their plan to degrade the air to the point where it shortens human lifespans. Peter wants to get some Observer tech, open up the portal, and destroy the Future -- hard. Luckily, the Resistance has captured an Observer with said tech! Now Peter just has to figure it out.
Peter uses some pupil-response-device to get the Observer to clue him in on the proper way to assemble the tech. Commence sabotage!!!! It doesn't go as planned though. It does at first, and they think they've created a black hole on the other side, but then another shipment comes through so they obviously weren't destroyed.
Commence plastic bag suffocation torture!!!! Turns out, Peter's reading of the Observer's dilated pupils wasn't accurate because, well, Observers are emotionless, reactionless effs. So the device didn't work. Peter wants to "put the Observers' tech" in his head. Which involves him strapping the Observer down and pulling something out of the base of his neck. R.I.P. Asshole! And now Peter inserts that tech into his head. Oh this'll go well...........
As if one hunt for video tapes wasn't enough, now Walter's finding tapes of Etta's birthdays in his desk. Olivia watches it and remembers the good old days and calls Peter to tell him she wants him back and wants them to be together like they used to. Well, too late, sweetie, cuz now he's got some metal wormy thing in his head!!!!!!!!!
Man, every episode ENDS awesomely lately.
This Week's Code: FIGHT
Astrid's still working on that damn Great Hunt for the Video Tapes, but has hit a stumbling block because propane and ethanol that were going to be used in a bratwurst cook are precariously close to where the laser needs to go. Seriously. That's the stumbling block. This show is turning into a parody with this blasted Great Hunt for the Video Tapes.
They meet up with a Resistance buddy of Etta's who tells the team that the Observers are shipping back parts and escalating their plan to degrade the air to the point where it shortens human lifespans. Peter wants to get some Observer tech, open up the portal, and destroy the Future -- hard. Luckily, the Resistance has captured an Observer with said tech! Now Peter just has to figure it out.
Peter uses some pupil-response-device to get the Observer to clue him in on the proper way to assemble the tech. Commence sabotage!!!! It doesn't go as planned though. It does at first, and they think they've created a black hole on the other side, but then another shipment comes through so they obviously weren't destroyed.
Commence plastic bag suffocation torture!!!! Turns out, Peter's reading of the Observer's dilated pupils wasn't accurate because, well, Observers are emotionless, reactionless effs. So the device didn't work. Peter wants to "put the Observers' tech" in his head. Which involves him strapping the Observer down and pulling something out of the base of his neck. R.I.P. Asshole! And now Peter inserts that tech into his head. Oh this'll go well...........
As if one hunt for video tapes wasn't enough, now Walter's finding tapes of Etta's birthdays in his desk. Olivia watches it and remembers the good old days and calls Peter to tell him she wants him back and wants them to be together like they used to. Well, too late, sweetie, cuz now he's got some metal wormy thing in his head!!!!!!!!!
Man, every episode ENDS awesomely lately.
This Week's Code: FIGHT
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