Bates Motel 1x10 Midnight

Well, at least this episode made me rather firm in my total not caring of Bradley now. Here's the problem she's screwing with Norman Bates, but even if you ignore that Norman Bates is Norman Bates. Well, first she uses a virgin (one who's also clearly in love with her) for a one night stand and while that wasn't actually horrible the rest kinda is. Because now she's pretty much openly going for his brother in front of him. DAYUM! I don't care that this is Norman Bates she's doing it to, because it's just shitty behavior I don't care who she's doing it to. Somehow I think I just don't like that Norma is proving to be pretty much right about her assessment of Bradley. I guess I just wanted Bradley to actually be a good person - one I wanted to root for and feel bad when Norman finally does his business, but now I'll be cheering Norman.
(Oh, and if that's not bad enough now she's lying about it all - you see, she's still with the dude she was dating when the show began, and that dude confronts Norman in this episode, and reveals that Bradley has lied her ass off - she's told him that Norman took advantage of her. UGH! If anything she's the one who took advantage of Norman.)

But even Dylan somewhat pisses me off in this, because while he does seem to be holding back a bit - I personally think he should outright be trying to push her away, especially knowing more about Norman and the whole situation than Bradley. At the very least he freakin' knows his brother is having dreams about drowning Bradley. So, I think if he cared about her at all he'd be trying to run her off instead of half-ass encouraging her, because while he doesn't know that drowning Bradley took Norman to a happy place he does know that idea is in his head.

I guess it is mildly interesting that this show has taken me from loving Bradley to pretty much extremely hating her and wishing the show would have Norman get on with...

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Well, I'm obviously a wee-bit late in getting this posted, but probably not for the reasons you think. Earlier this year I ordered some seeds so I could early start, but then even with brand new seeds I had the same problem as last year - they (on the tomatoes) got about an inch high and then simply started dying - cucs, peppers, and sunflower seeds are coming along fine, but not the tomatoes. And last year it was a mix of saved seeds and mail-ordered. Well, this year I had no saved seeds, because even though I did finally get some plants going last year was just a bad (hot and dry) year. So, back early I ordered seeds and was stunned that the same damn thing happened again this year with totally different (and all fresh) seeds. However, because of real life (mostly work) I wasn't able to try and restart and then suddenly I realized it was the end of April and that's just too damn late for me to get food from seeds before the fall frost.

So I looked around local stores, but they didn't have all the stuff I wanted, so basically I ended up buying only four tomato plants locally, and turned online for the rest. And that's where my delay in getting this review up comes from is because those big beautiful tomoto plants arrived today. Seriously, I've ordered mail order tomato plants before and no other company has come close to sending me plants as wonderful and healthy looking as the ones I got from Tomato Baby Company - to give an example these tomato plants are three times bigger than the ones I got a couple weeks ago (and planted) locally. And her prices are so very reasonable - downside is she doesn't take credit cards, but will take checks/money order and/or PayPal - well, I don't have PayPal. Seriously, though I've never gotten mail order tomato plants this big or healthy looking. So, you need toms you need to check out Tomato Baby Company.
(Sorry don't mean for this to seem like an advertisement - I've just never had a mail order company send me plant...

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So, in an interesting twist I was reading the "epic" reactions to the last Sookie Stackhouse book before watching this episode. And to be perfectly honest I figured I'd probably have much the same reaction to this episode as the Sookie fans had to the last book. Instead I actually liked it - not the last Sookie book (I haven't actually read ANY of the Sookie books) but the season eight Supernatural finale. However, I went into this episode expecting not to love, so I reviewed as I watched mainly because if I liked something I didn't want it to get lost in the sea of hate, but rather the reverse is true some things I didn't like might've actually got caught in the sea of love if I hadn't done this the way I did.

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So because I'm having some not feeling good issues I basically just wrote down a few thoughts as the episode aired and while it does make a review it's a pretty short one. Certainly a short one from me, but at least it's more than a paragraph.

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So apparently the data is inconclusive (whether I'm feeling BLAH about shows because I feel crappy or if the shows have been crappy), because while I didn't hate this episode I didn't really love/enjoy it either. Though up until the very end I was enjoying it quite a bit more than this weeks Supernatural.

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Honestly I have no idea why I even made this cut, because I literally have nothing to say about this episode. SO even hard-core SPOILER-PHOBES could click on the cut and not be spoiled by anything at all.

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Okay, yes, oops I forgot to do a review of The Vampire Diaries this week. Partly because while I enjoyed the episode I wanted to watch it again before reviewing, but then forgot to watch it again (because my DVR was getting full so I decided to watch the back-log of Revolution and Once Upon A Time episodes), and now I've decided I don't care to watch the episode again so this isn't going to be a long review, and basically just covering only a couple things one of which struck me as strange.

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Supernatural 8x21 The Great Escapist

Yes, there was some annoying continuity things, but despite those I actually loved this episode. Seriously, this is probably the first episode I've honestly outright enjoyed with little or no reservations since Everybody Hates Hitler. Anyway, you remember last week when there was some indoor shooting a couple of idiots (including Charlie) did not wear ear plugs - well, I admit that I thought maybe Sam's ear problems might've been from that. Okay, not really, because this is the same show where Dean impacted a car hard enough to shatter windows and didn't turn to a pile of Dean mush, but also if we're being realistic Dean would be having more ear problems, but either way it was a cute little "ah-ha I make my own fun" moment for me.

ANYWAY, moving on, as you know I've never been the biggest fan of Kevin Tran but damned if I didn't actually enjoy him in this episode. So he's problem doomed. That's about how it works with this show I don't like a character and they hang around forever, but if I start liking one then they die, and Bobby doesn't count, because no I never warmed up to him, but even now a season after his death he's still hanging around.

I was disappointed with one thing - really felt that Cass should've kept Ion alive just for the simple fact that he seemed to have some real information that might've solved a great many mysteries. On the other hand, maybe that's why the angel tablet is (or could be) important. Perhaps it's not about the closing of heaven so much as simply restoring the remaining Angel's memories to what perhaps might actually be their true mission. After all this episode confirmed (though not that it was necessary) that many of the higher ups that didn't switch to Luci's team still went rogue.

I also like (but not sure if I should get my hopes up) the hints that perhaps closing the gates of hell will not be all that Dean Winchester bel...

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Out of all the Harry Potter icons/avatars I have and not ONE of Quirrel! *sigh*

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The Vampire Diaries 4x20 The Originals
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The Originals 1x00 Pilot

So I'm kinda sad to say that I didn't hate it, but I didn't really love it either. I mean it wasn't bad, but they took something that should have been quickly forgotten (Klaus/Hayley) and have decided to build a series around it (she's pregnant).

Okay not entirely it's mainly just the hook to get Klaus and family to New Orleans, because to be fair there's a vampire being naughty and keeping witches from being witches - and boy could I wander off on how this really makes the people behind the show look even more racist than making every witch black (which wasn't all that terrible in and of itself I guess maybe). You see, the naughty vampire is black and the witches that are set to rise against him are white. This is funny in a sad way because while on The Vampire Diaries all the witches so far (except at least one) has been black (and been ordered about by the white vampires) now on the new show the witches are white and the vampire is black.

But again my biggest problem is the fact that they do seem to be setting this up using Klaus and Hayley. UGH! Why couldn't they just have Caroline and Tyler break up and have Tyler start getting with Hayley and have Caroline just decide with her best friend all wrong and her relationship ended that she'd just take off and of course then somehow end up in New Orleans. Plus again this episode just made me really really sad that Katherine can't be a part of The Originals because the actress playing her is stuck in the role of Elena meaning that Katherine can't get a regular role on another series.

Seriously, though I don't think you understand how sad it makes me that I didn't outright love this, because I wanted to outright love this what with The Vampire Diaries having gone pretty much to shit this season (and it was pretty much only the originals that s...

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In a weird way this episode being this good kinda pissed me off. Seriously, every time I think I'm ready to just walk away from this show for good (it's happened more than a few times this season and at least once in seven) an episode like this comes along and grabs me again, which would be good, but based on the way things played out after the return from winter hiatus (and if you'll recall my winter hiatus was about three episodes longer than everyone else's) there might be a couple good episodes and then it'll go bad again. On the other hand, they've only got what three more episodes left this season it might be hard for it to get rotten again before the end of the season, though obviously not impossible.

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Okay, so I've had this review ready to post since about mid-night on Monday, but either LJ or my PC was being a cranky cranky baby and I couldn't get LJ to load - everytime I tried I'd get a "can't find" message. Wednesday (today) was the first day I was able to even see my own LJ since Saturday, but then I couldn't get the post an entry page to load so clearly there's still some issues between me, my PC, and LJ.
(But maybe finally around seven thirty Wednesday night this might actually get posted!)

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So, I didn't hate it. Though I am kinda pissed about something, and probably not what you think.

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Good news - for those who care - I'm going to live! No, seriously, the peeps at work did get the air fixed before I had to work any this week, and today I got the air at home fixed. Well, at least fixed for the short term, because probably sooner rather than later I'm a-gonna have to get a new one, but I can has sweet blessed coolness for the moment!

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Yes, this is a few days late, but don't hate me - I have reasons - one was that I didn't really like this episode on first watch and wanted to watch it again before reviewing. More importantly I'd just spent two days in hell - the air at work was not working so after the second day I came home expecting to be dead before morning. Then discovered that the air at home isn't worth shit either, so now I'm figuring heart attack or heat stroke I'm beating on heat stroke.

Anyway, on with the review:

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Supernatural 8x19 Taxi Driver

Well, I don't know, I guess first I must laugh - I did say when Meg was killed that this show would bring Bobby back before they even thought of bringing Meg back and surprise surprise I was right, and yet strangely I'm not annoyed or pissed over this. I don't know I guess I just feel in the context of the story it worked, AND this doesn't bring Bobby back for good just for a nice one-off. Also, I suppose the blow was softened by the fact that Benny was killed in this episode, though admittedly I don't like that. It's like I said when the show killed Meg this show keeps killing off the good characters and keeping the ones that are past their sell by date. Though even then I suppose Benny's death was at least chilling unlike Meg's - who again it feels like they killed just because she might get her evil va-jay-jay on Cass and thus offend the Dean/Cass shippers. On the other hand, I guess I'm not one to talk because this episode killed off Mrs. Tran and I could only feel gladness in my heart over that, though not because she was about to get her va-jay-jay on some male character, but because I found her to be a terrible character in her own right. I also find myself hoping (but doubtful) that Kevin Tran is also dead, but somehow I doubt Crowley would simply kill him at this point.
(The biggest problem with Benny was actually Sam's out of character reaction to him - otherwise the character was not bad, could've been interesting maybe if the show had painted him in more shades of gray, though. Of course, for the first half of the season Sam was just entirely out of character period, and to be fair there's still shades of that now. The biggest problem with Mrs. Tran was that they tried to make her sassy and that just ended up coming off as her looking like a trying too hard to be kwel dumbass.)

Otherwise I think the truth is that this episode sucked in just about every way, BUT I think I kinda ...

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Bates Motel 1x03 What's Wrong With Norman

WHOA!

Really I could stop there because that pretty much sums up this episode. Turns out Momma Bates may in fact not be insane, and it's all Norman, because this episode revealed that even though right now Norma Bates is still alive sometimes the Mother who speaks to Norman isn't actually there. Already! Then there's a bit from last week where Norman pretty much tried to kill his half-brother and it seems Norman doesn't seem to remember that - just like perhaps he doesn't remember killing his father. So again WHOA Norma Bates may be entirely normal and Norman is just flat crazy-cakes.
(Dylan gives Norman the hair-eyeball there, but I'm not sure he believes Norman doesn't know/remember. Still there's a nice moment in all of this where Dylan tries to make Norman see sense when it comes to Norma, except now we know Norma may not be the problem here.)

This calls into question something Norman sees in this episode. So, WAY back in the first episode Norma kills her rapist with Norman as witness. But Norman kept something from him, and it's found by the nice cop in the current episode, yet he seems willing to protect Norma - possibly because he thinks Norman did it and she's protecting her son, or possibly because he's evil. Who the hell even knows right now? I mean, I'll grant the abrasive asshole cop (Officer Guy-liner) is all asshole-ish, but I admit I've been suspicious of the "nice" cop from the beginning. Anyway, the "nice" cop has the something hidden at his home - Norma feels safe enough with that, but then later "Norma" tells Norman that he needs to get it back (so "nice" cop can't make "them" do things like Norman's father did - interesting, very interesting), well, in the process of that Norman thinks he's found the slave-girl from China that Emma (our sick girl) is obsessed with in the "nice" cops basement.

But from the previews (for next week) it ...

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Okay, yes, I'm late with this my The Vampire Diaries review - I'm sorry, I meant to note in my previous entry that this would be late, because this was another hell-week for me, basically. I worked just over 21 hours in two days, so I knew that I wouldn't be able to slip online to do a review during that. However, for those of you that are interested in such things this weekend may in fact be the last one that puts me through hell - I may have finally found my sweet work salvation. It seems likely that this very weekend may be the last time I will be asked to pull the insanely long hours. The new people (did I mention on here that the people who owned the place where I work sold it at the end of last month and new people came in?) have finally taken over making the schedule and boy have they done me good (some of my-coworkers probably won't be happy, especially one who found themselves cut by about 11 hours) they've shortened the shifts! YAY! For example this week the longest shift I'll work will be eight (count 'em - sweet blessed EIGHT hours) and most of them will be seven. Whoo-Ho! But while they cut two people a few hours with their new scheduling they actually increased (if only slightly) the number of hours I'll get this week. Love me the new bosses, yes I do, and apparently they like me.

Anyway, even still this review would've been posted sooner than this, but LJ decided to be all screwy about loading the posting page and I sure as hell hope that ain't a new version they're going to go with, because I couldn't figure that mess out at all! But at least tonight (finally) it was back to normal so I could get this (finally) posted. Though it's still being a little screwy because I can't choose my avatar still.

However, for this day I admit I'm not really in a proper reviewing state of mind today, because last night I had to medicate (rather heavily) myself, and the effects of medicating are heavy with me today. Seriously last night was al...

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Supernatural 8x18 Freaks and Geeks

Well, the only part of this episode that was great was the stuff just after the title card and was pretty much over after about two and a half minutes. The teaser could've been greatly improved if all the annoying ones had been killed, but it still would've been a little better if even one of them had been killed. But of course not because this is Supernatural and the people behind Supernatural don't actually have balls big enough to actually off a kid, so I'm resigned to this boring piece of shit that I can pretty much guess what happens right now.

Nope, you know what? I'm not so resigned - I ended up only watching about 20-25 minutes of this episode and then only the parts where Dean and Sam was both on screen together.

However, I will say this in the end since they didn't kill Krissy or one of her stupid stupid pals they could've at least balled up and allowed Krissy to actually kill that human piece of shit. Instead she was only allowed to click an empty gun at him and then the asswipe helpfully offed himself since our dainty dainty characters obviously couldn't sully themselves by killing someone. Why I mean, seriously, killing someone - why I just couldn't. Oh my, the vapors - the vapors - help me, kind sir, because even the mere thought gives me the vapors.

Remember when this show was kinda bad ass? Yeah, neither can I, though I have some really strong memories of it being such at some point in history.

I could say more, but honestly at this point I'm even tired of bitching about this show, so instead I think I'd rather talk about a wonderful new show I've recently discovered - that I think perhaps when the time comes (i.e. the end of the current season) will help me ultimately break away from Supernatural. I'm talking, of course, of the intensely wonderful (so far) Bates Motel.

Though I find that before I can jump to ...

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So, last night I admit that I delayed watching this episode of The Vampire Diaries, because recently this show just hasn't been doing it for me. And while last night didn't really bring it I have to admit that it wasn't as bad as other episodes this season. So, this week I guess I had it backwards Supernatural is the episode I should've delayed watching (possibly forever) and I should've just went ahead and watched The Vampire Diaries ASAP thought admittedly even without The Big Bang Theory I couldn't have watched it on time (one of my BB teams was playing), but I could've watched it a lot earlier than I did.

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So, um, apparently I cannot review this episode without insulting everybody (writers/Carver/Singer/etc.) and their mothers while doing so. *sigh* I guess it wasn't a bad episode, but clearly I hated it. Sad because I didn't think I was hating this episode that much while watching (though I knew I wasn't loving it) but so far I've tried three reviews and all three of them have been of such nasty that even I'm too lady-like to post them.

Trying again now.

Hour and a half later:

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The Vampire Diaries 4x16 Bring It On

I honestly don't know exactly what to say about this episode, except apparently Elena still sucks. I don't even hate her, but I was just as annoyed with this version of Elena as I have been with every version of Elena this season that show has tossed against the wall.

I mean other than that it wasn't a bad episode, though I don't really understand if Hayley really wants a shot with Tyler or if she's honestly just trying to help. But then Hayley as a character has pretty much always confused me. Well, maybe confused is the wrong word, mostly it's just that I've never cared about her as a character and I'm confused because she's honestly the type of character I should like. On the other hand, I don't wish Hayley dead like I'm starting to wish on Elena. Seriously, when Caroline started to attack I found myself hoping Caroline would lose control and kill Elena and then finally this show and this shows audience would be free of Elena.
(Still I hope they aren't planning to bring this bland Sam/Amelia-like Klaus/Hayley onto The Originals. Talk about ruining a show before it even gets started. Okay, one difference, I guess - at least Klaus/Hayley doesn't piss me off because of dis-continuity, but the two are as bland together as Sam and Amelia. But still talk about ruining a show before it even gets started.)

I honestly don't like how I've turned on Elena, though it's entirely the shows fault. Granted I dislike book Elena, but back in season one and two I loved show Elena. Now granted in season three she started I don't know getting stupid, and in season four I'm sorry but she just needs to die or at least experience some honest consequence(s) in some way.

You know on second thought I'm not sure this wasn't a bad episode. Apparently the sire bond is broken, but doesn't matter because Elena is still an idiot - she thinks she can run around doing whatever she ...

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Hello, friends! I know I usually post a review the day after the episode airs - problem is The Vampire Diaries did not air for me last night. It won't air until tomorrow night, so it'll at least be Sunday before I get a review up.

The good news is that it looks like next week everything (on the CW for me) will air on the night it is supposed to.

Peace out!

Supernatural 8x16 Remember the Titans

Okay, I am now officially paranoid. *looks around* No, I kinda mean that seriously - most of the time I can write things off as just me seeing things that ain't there, but... Well, did you watch the episode? A South Park reference, which by itself could be written off as a co-inky-dink, but that wasn't the only thing in this episode now was it. What really got me was the cop explaining (as I've done in the past) on how to deal with zombies, but again almost everyone knows that. No, what really got me was the Dawn of the Dead mention, because me and a friend was recently having a Supernatural conversation on a message board where Dawn of the Dead was mentioned (I've already warned said friend to be paranoid).

And, yes, okay, fine, maybe that could just be because zombies are big deals right now, but I'm suspicious anyway.

Anyway, I'll move on from my maybe (but probably not) insane ramblings to reviewing the episode. Though at the moment I'm tempted to just sit here listing things I really think the show should do (and I'm seriously I wouldn't just sit here suggesting Dean and Sam naked, or almost naked washing the car, though obviously I'd clearly toss that in somewhere - oh, and could I finally get that pic of Cass naked and covered in bees now, thank you!).

Okay, clearly I'm having trouble moving on.

I think I wouldn't mind seeing Artemis as long as they didn't turn her into a love interest - what I mean is keep her all very serious and badass and this would be a good character. And I'm a little sad that we won't be seeing Prometheus again, because he was also a good character. On the other hand, I can't begrudge his ending here because it was good and oddly fitting all things considered.

But it's more than that... Back in season five the most disappointing thing (to me) about Hammer of the Gods was the fac...

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Cult (no cut for this one cause no SPOILERS and not that long!)

So, I watched this and I liked it. Some early reviews talked about how ~confusing~ the episode was, but it really wasn't. For example, it wasn't any more confusing than the average episode of Pretty Little Liars, but certainly more "confusing" then the average episode of a CBS procedural.

I will admit that it was more creepy than I expected. However, I'm not sure what I was actually expecting, but it was kinda interesting if you've ever saw a fan or group of fans on the internets and thought "this goes beyond amusing and straight into 'holy shit! it's a fan - get in the car and lock the doors!'

Of course, while I liked it the premiere ratings make it pretty much DOA (dead on arrival). Still I'll keep watching it as long as the CW airs it even though that probably means no real closure before it goes "poof."

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