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The Tempest by William Shakespeare, as performed by the students of Connecticut College on Sunday, 25 October, 2009.
This is a blatant copy and paste of an assignment I did for my acting class, which has also been copied and pasted to 4:12.
The Tempest was great. The effects were striking, the acting was fantastic, serious parts were serious, funny parts were funny, and everything ran smoothly and added up to create a great performance. And the set was beautiful, functional, and fitting for the play. One or two little pieces of clear green fabric created an entirely new setting. Everything was so intricate and well made, and created stunning levels for the actors to physically be on. The lights were good, too, especially the lightning. The sound was the only thing I didn’t love. In some scenes, the drumming drowned out the voices (and I was only in the second row!) so I think a better, or at least a quieter, approach might have been taken. But I liked the effect of the drumming, rain sticks, flutes, and singing. As far as the adaptation, I think it was wonderful, but personally, I’m a huge fan of the magic.
I think all the performers were successful. I especially liked the scenes with Caliban, Stefano, and Trinculo. They all knew exactly what they were fighting for (to kill Prospero, to drunkenly become Queen of the island, to get through this alive) and stuck to those goals; they were not only believable, but they made strong choices, like quivering in fear under a broken umbrella, and not being afraid to find themselves in actions or positions that, outside the theatre, might seem very odd. The three connected very well, too, which is what drew me to them the most. They were always with each other and never seemed to break focus, always listening and reacting, almost like they were hearing and saying the words for the first time.
Photo from production ©ConnColl 2009
Heroes - Season 4, Episode 6: "Strange Attractors". Original Air Date: 26 Oct 09.
This was a fun, sad, and scary episode. It starts with sex - Sylar and Mrs. Parkman? Oh wait. That's Matt. Or.... What? Apparently Sylar has been taking over Matt's body little by little and it's driving Matt insane. His storyline quickly heats up, and eventually, he realises that the only way to protect his family from Sylar's control is to leave, and he tries to explain this to Janice. She insists that he stays in the house and she'll go. After she leaves, Matt starts drinking and he realises it's making Sylar hurt. He drinks and drinks until Sylar disappears, but then he blacks out. Janice comes back with the policeman who'd been helping Matt through therapy, and they wait until he wakes up. But now it's Sylar in control of the body and Matt is just the premonition; he has no control whatsoever. Scary!
There's also a Claire and Gretchen storyline. They get kidnapped and taken to some faraway location, which turns out to be a slaughterhouse, to do some initiation thing for the sorority. During the scavenger hunt there, Invisibitch tries to kill Gretchen twice; eventually there's a fight, and Claire ends up slightly impaled. Of course, that's no problem for her or Gretchen, but for the other two pledges, well let's just say they were more than a little freaked out. And this might mean uprooting Claire all over again. Sad!
And then there's Jeremy. He's being kept in the town jail and Noah can't get him out. He calls in a favour with Tracy Strauss, and he forges some paper work that makes her Jeremy's 'aunt' so that she can sign him out of jail. A brief meeting between Tracy and Samuel leaves Tracy wondering whether she should bring Jeremy to the carnival where he'll be at "home" or give him a new life where he can be invisible. When they finally get him out, half the town is lined up outside in protestation, and one man breaks through the police line and starts threatening him. Jeremy uses his power and kills the man and walks back into the jail. That night, a few cops decide to take the law into their own hands; they chain him to a pick-up truck and they drive away, leaving him dead. Noah is, of course, very upset, knowing that he failed him, and Tracy is equally as upset. Then Samuel comes in and destroys the police station with his brainnn.
And some little comments: I don't like the way they shoot Matt in close-ups, and Gretchen has the same IKEA comforter as I have at home! ♥ A fun quote from Gretchen: "Sounds like some crazy-ass conspiracy theory. Which... pretty much describes your entire life."
It was a good episode. It was gripping, to use the traditional review language. I wanted to keep watching, and I was genuinely upset when it was over because I wanted to keep watching. I'm a little tired and way behind on watching, so that's about all the opinion you'll get. Have fun watching this one!
So I have some exciting news about this new show. Sure, it looked good, but I've been busy [lol] and hadn't watched it. I've heard good things about it, too.
But now for the exciting part. Mum called me the other day, and she said that... DOMINIC MONAGHAN WILL BE JOINING THE CAST OF FLASH FORWARD!!!
Told you it was exciting. A quick trip to IMDb validates Mum's story. We also notice that, besides the X-Men movie, he hasn't done anything since last year's Chuck episode. So I'm excited. It's a new show, perhaps I can catch up, or I could always watch the season during the off-season.
Glee - Season 1, Episode 8: "Mash-Up". Original Air Date: 21 October, 2009.
The great slushy war has begun!
Apparently, Finn and Quinn have dropped down to the bottom of the high school 'food chain' when news of their baby went public.
Emma and Ken decided they need to have their first dance, but the problem is, Emma wants My Fair Lady's "I Could Have Danced All Night" but Ken wants "The Thong Song". Yeah. So they approach will and ask him if he'd be able to work on some sort of mash-up for the two... and for dance lessons. So later, Emma shows up in Will's classroom after school for her first lesson, and they dance, but then he trips and pulls her down on top of him. It's awkward. And Ken sees.
In another story arch, Quinn and Finn visit Emma for advice on how to be cool. She says 'sunglasses' but then quickly changes her answer to something along the lines of 'the most important part is being yourselves'. In the next scene, Finn and Quinn don sunglasses and they think it's working for them, until the entire football team surrounds them and bombards them with slushies.
Apparently Noah is hot for Rachel. He had a dream that he was with her, and so they hooked up once. "Rachel was a hot Jew, and the Good Lord wanted me to get into her pants." The next day, he sings a song for Rachel - "Sweet Caroline", and it was great - but Quinn seems to think it's for her. Heh. Eventually, they start dating. It's pretty weird, really. But because of this, someone slushies him, and Rachel is stuck cleaning him up. He shows her a sensitive side that the audience didn't really know existed.
Finn's getting hate from all sides. A fight breaks out on the football field when other players openly question his leadership ability, and his masculinity. Because of what Glee Club seems to be doing to the team, Ken adds a mandatory practise at the same time as Glee rehearsal, and the boys who do both will have to make a choice. Will goes to talk to Ken about the practises, but Ken says he's sick of being 'settled for'. Ken knows that Emma is only settling for him, but he loves her enough that he doesn't care. But when it comes to football, he says they'll just have to see who's being settled for.
Noah tells Rachel he's going to choose football practise over Glee "I feel like such a bad Jew." When it came to that dreaded rehearsal, the two football players that aren't Noah and Finn showed up. And then Noah did too! But Finn never showed up, so everyone was sort of mad at him. Oh, the things we'll they'll do for masculinity. *Sigh*
Will goes to talk to him, and he tells him that he's making the wrong choice, and he plays the 'you remind me of how I used to be' card. Good play. It worked. So Finn goes to Ken and after a little persuading, Ken cancels the mandatory practises so they four can do both.
Another dance rehearsal takes place in a bridal shop. Emma needs to make sure she can dance in her dress, so Will pops in the Karaoke version of "I Could Have Danced All Night" and tells her to sing along. Do you know how excited I got when he said that?!
A cool thing in this episode is that Sue gets a storyline, and it's really something. A man at the news station asked her out on a date, and she thinks she's in love. She even gets Will to teach her to swing dance to impress him. But just days later, she catches him making out with another woman. The jerk says, "You didn't think that we were... exclusive... did you?" So now happy-Sue is back to mean-Sue. She yells at Quinn, calling her a disgrace and forcing her off the squad. So no, that part wasn't cool.
Will goes to talk to Emma: he can't get the songs to go together, no matter how he tries. She knows. It's symbolic, obviously.
And Finn comes back! Of course. He buys everyone slushies. Quinn's in normal clothes. Wow. She says she'll have to start every day with a slushie facial, and Will says that's okay because she's got eleven friends to wash it off for her. Then they all slushie Mr. Shu.
So some other stuff!
- I feel so bad for Emma! *cry* And for Ken, too, but to a certain extent, he's getting... a little bit of what he wanted...
- Will performs "Bust A Move", and wow, can he dance!! That was really impressive. I didn't like when he made Kurt stand up and he started singing to him about some girl, but I did like how Kurt rolled his eyes and mouthed 'Oh my God' and walked away. Good for you.
- BUT! I'm pretty sick of Will singing these pop songs. They're offensive songs, and I get that it's funny for plot, but... ugh.
- GLEE WORK ON YORU LIP SYNC ITS NOT BELIEVABLE
- By the way, Sue thinks you should marry your dog.
- JAYMA MAYS HAS AN INCREDIBLE VOICE ♥♥♥ I figured she wouldn't, since she's portraying a non-Glee Club role, but... wow. :D
- Will, stop falling in love with Emma. It will make everything awkward.
- Oh the things we do for masculinity. Sigh.
- Oh the seven-11 product placement.
- KURT! He took one [a slushie] for the team. It's a good thing he's in love with Finn.
Overall, a very good show, but they need to play down the heteronormativity and the offensive pop songs, as usual.
I'm skipping Castle this week. I watched it, and it was good, but my roommate came in and talked to me for like fifteen minutes and I was very distracted. I'd like to watch it again, but that seems like an even bigger waste of my time than the way I already waste my time, and I'm just a little too stressed out for that. So I will simply post the notes I took while watching, typos and all, and leave it at that.
Castle - Season 2, Episode 5: "When the Bough Breaks". Original Air Date: 19 Oct 09
He's late so they tease him.
He's pretty distracted thinking about his upcoming launch party.
Candy wrapper.
"Mmm, kinda tastes like soap. I like it."
postcards in home
Alexis is excited to go.
Certain British spy. WHOO? I've probably never heard of him.
My roommate came in and distracted me for ten-ish minutes. Oops. Something about the kid she babysat or something.
They arrest a Czech man, the victim's ex-husband, but he thinks they were chasing him as immigration cops.
There's a woman that they didn't get to interview on their first go-around, and she says that the night of the victim's murder, she recalls seeing the victim arguing with a man; the artists' rendering looks an awful lot like someone they already know.
So they talk to this doctor - he's the husband of the woman they interviewed, the father of the kid the victim was giving candy to. Apparently, they were having an affair. But what else?
Launch party! Did you read the dedication? "To the extraordinary KB and all my friends at the 12th."
"You are extraordinary."
"can I close the deal, already?"
"What if the wife got onto the affair?"
They fight. British secret agent or new Nicky Heat novel? Hmmm...
WHAT AN AMAZING PLOT TWIST
not enough alexis in this ep.
"That was Esposito. There's been a murder. Are you coming or not?"
Oh, yeah, and guess what?? Some good news about the show!
Tomorrow? Last night's Glee. And Fringe is taking a break until 5 Nov. Yay -.-
House - Season 4, Episode 5: "Tabula Rasa". Original Air Date: 19 Oct 09.
This episode was called "Tabula Rasa" - because every show out there needs an episode called "Tabula Rasa". If you don't know, it means "Clean Slate", so it's symbolic.
So we left off with Hiro and Peter: Hiro appears in Peter's apartment and passes out. In the beginning of this installment, we see Hiro lying in a hospital bed with Peter at his side. Hiro thinks he's there to save Peter, but Peter thinks it's up to him to save Hiro. Oh you boys and your silly Jesus complexes... Peter takes Hiro's ability and uses it to go save Hiro's life, but not before telling Emma [the deaf woman] to talk to Hiro about her ability. She does, but all she wants is an 'off switch', even though Hiro's all for the embracing yourself as you are point of view.
Okay, now it's time for my interjection: HIRO IS SO CUTE!! ♥ :3 Yup.
Hiro's trying to prove to Emma that her powers are good, and he does a magic show for some hospital patients and staff, including making Emma 'disappear'. I think it worked :D
After the show, Hiro's back in bed and Emma tells him he needs to stay there. He tells her about his friend, Charlie, and how you have to stay strong and happy in the face of death. But then he realised he left Charlie off of his list [of wrongs to right and people to save]!!
By the end of the episode, Hiro spontaneously disappears again, which freaks Emma and Peter out, a lot.
So Peter ends up in Noah's bathroom because he hasn't teleported in a while. He explains his predicament to HRG, and Claire says that she should just give Hiro some of her blood; Noah negates this solution, saying that a brain tumour is living tissue, and Claire's regenerative power would only make the tumour grow. But he does remember a boy they 'bagged and tagged' a few years ago, named Jeremy, who had healing power [like Linderman!], so he and Peter go to pay him a visit.
They find the house that Jeremy lives in, but all the plants in the yard and the bird on the porch are dead, and the place reeks of death. When they go inside, they find the parents, dead, in their armchairs [it's pretty disturbing, lol]. Noah explains that the kid possesses not only the power to give life, but also to take it away. A very frightened Jeremy starts shooting at them with a shotgun: he wants to scare them away. When Noah finally gets close enough to talk to him, Jeremy makes a terribly conffesion: "Everything I touch... dies."
As Noah tries to convince Jeremy that this can't be true, Peter appears beside them and Jeremy shoots him from an extremely close range! NOOOO PETER WTF NOOOOO!!! Noah pleads with Jeremy to save Peter's life, and after much convincing, he finally does. Yay! :D
In the end, Peter absorbs Jeremy's power so he can bring it back to heal Hiro. Noah is very sweet with Jeremy because he feels he let him down way back when, so he fixes the house to make it look like the parents died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning.
But, when Peter gets back, Hiro's already vanished!
While all of this is happening, Nathlar is still in the hands of the carnies. Samuel Sullivan, the guy I've been calling King Carnie [at least to myself, lol], calls Nathlar 'Sylar', but he doesn't respond. He says that according to the police, his name is Gabriel. When Samuel asks him to take a deep breath and tell him the first name that comes to mind, Nathlar says, "Call me Nathan." Samuel is confused. But, for all his niceness, Samuel obviously has plans for Nathlar, and he's using Lydia to pull him in to the community.
But here's a question: if we really do get the 'real' Sylar back, won't the whole carnival be screwed?
Samuel Sullivan wants Sylar's memories to come back to him; memories are coming back to Nathlar, but they're not his. They're Nathan's. He remembers flying planes, shaking a lot of hands, and things like that. So a carnie named Damien takes Nathlar into the house of mirrors to 'show him who he really is' or something. Tripppyyyyy. I love mirror house scenes [in anything] because they're so... weird.. haha. Well, Damien's eyes do that Isaac Mendez painting thing and he passes it on to Nathlar... And now, all his horrible memories are being played out before him in the mirrors. He sort of flips out. I would too. I mean, can you imagine? Watching yourself kill your mother and then several other innocent people? So Nathlar's still flipping out, and we get to remember all the worst, and it's not fun. Charlie is the last one we see before he runs out of the house and vomits in a trash can - foreshadowing for the Hiro story arch?
So Samuel is a jerk: he invited the cop who was chasing Nathlar to the carnival with a pair of free tickets, and when he talks to the cop, he says no he's never seen that man before. But then he finds Nathlar and tells him that something must be done. So Nathlar goes back in to the house of mirrors to 'take care of' the cop; the cop pulls his gun on him, but Nathlar doesn't want to hurt him, he just can't control his Sith Lightning! He zaps him, but he wasn't going to kill him [didn't look like it, any way; he might have], so Edgar, the knives guy, comes in and ...saves the day? Well he kills the cop, anyway. That night, everyone welcomes Nathlar into the carnie family with hugs and dinner.
For the last bit, we see Hiro, in his hospital robe, peering into the diner window at Charlie! [I was a big fan of that character, and now I'm super excited!]
I liked how we understand the relationship between Edgar and Lydia. They are frequently in the same shot, and sometimes Edgar's face frames a shot of Lydia flirting with Sylar.
I did not like Samuel's line "Boys will be boys". UGH. Nathlar and Edgar spar, and Lydia asks Samuel if he's going to stop this, and that's his reply. And it's a stupid, sexist reply. Sorry. But it is.
Hiro The Magnificent!
House - Season 6, Episode 6: "Brave Heart". Original Air Date: 19 Oct 09.
This episode was intense. The intro was crazy, with a police chase, some parkour, and some guy jumping off a roof. Turns out, that guy is convinced that he's going to die, since he's just turned forty and all his ancestors died of heart complications shortly after they reached that milestone. House is convinced there's nothing to find, and they look at the heart in every light possible, yet still find nothing, even when examining his son for genetic problems. So, House lets him go with some placebos.
Hours later, there's a knocking on Wilson and House's door: it's Foreman. Apparently, their guy collapsed, dead, hours after his discharge.
So they bring the body to Princeton Plainsboro's morgue and prepare to do an autopsy. In a cute, ironic twist, House picks up a saw and prepares to cut into the man's chest, but Foreman says, "You can't perform an autopsy without a license," and takes the saw. He does it himself, and they notice the way blood is coming out of the gash in the chest - it looks like the man is bleeding. But that would mean..... AND THEN THE MAN OPENS HIS EYES AND STARTS SCREAMING IN PAIN!!!
Yeah, crazy.
So the pressure's on to find out what's wrong with him. They put him on steroids for a genetic auto-immune [and lots of painkiller, btw], but nothing works. His new pain in his jaw is only getting worse, so bad that he pulls his own tooth out.
Meanwhile, Chase is struggling so hard with his decision regarding James Earl Jones. It's really hard to watch him, because he's a mess [naturally] and has no one to really turn to. At least when we see House like that, we know, oh, he's just a crazy dummie, he's always like that. It's different for Chase. You can also see how this plays itself out in his marriage. Which is crappy. And the priest at confession doesn't help.
House thinks he's going crazy again. He thinks he's hearing voices when he sleeps in Wilson's study [which used to be the bedroom]. He's not; it's really Wilson whispering to Amber at night. It's pretty sad, really. Like, boo hoo sad, not pathetic.
Finally, House figures it all out. The man has something of an aneurysm in his brain somewhere that's been growing and it causes pain and his heart to stop. They remove it and the one in the kid's head, and that story line is resolved, too.
All in all, a fun episode. It was shocking, which made it really fun to watch.
Sorry, my House stories are always smaller because I watch them live in the common room with a group of people; I watch the other shows either live on my own tv or on my computer the day after, so I take better notes.
Fringe - Season 2, Episode 5: "Dream Logic". Original Air Date: 15 Oct 09.
This is a long summary lol.
The episode starts with Olivia visiting Sam Weiss in the bowling alley and saying "Thank you". It's obvious that she's still very sad about Charlie. I remember a line that Peter said in the first season, and it's true: Olivia doesn't let anyone help her :(
But Sam says he wants to help her: "Hope you like red."
In Seattle, a man is heading to work, but he's freaking out because he sees everybody as zombies! Or something equally as scary. He gets to a meeting room [which reminds me of a meeting room in the first season, with the killer butterflies] to talk to his boss, who is apparently really angry. His eyes are moving super fast after he beats his boss's head in with his briefcase: REM.
Peter and Walter finally move into their own place, and Walter starts setting up his bed in the middle of the living room, which Peter thinks is weird. "Don't worry son, I know what you're thinking. I promise to wear my shorts to bed so that if you bring any young ladies home there won't be any embarrassing moments." LOL! Astrid comes over with some food for Walter, and also a case file for Peter. "Pack a bag, Walter, we're going to Seattle."
The team gets to the hospital where they're keeping the guy, Greg Leder, and the man who met them there informs them that they've "only just managed to wake him up," and that he's been sleeping heavily for several hours, "as if he was drugged." Walter informs Peter that he doesn't want to go in there. Olivia starts to question Greg: apparently he doesn't remember anything between parking his car after lunch and being restrained by coworkers on the meeting room floor. But he did think the office was infiltrated with demons. Suddenly, he starts seizing, or, what looks like seizing, and his heart rate is going through the roof; his hair starts turning silver, but he doesn't look old, and then he dies. What?
Walter starts to examine the body, but he notices that it's still warm - it should be considerably cooler by now. Walter tells a doctor that it appears the man died of acute exhaustion, which pretty much makes no sense, because, as far as we're aware, human beings can't die of that ["But it has been documented in rats," says Walter]. He fears that they've left the oven on at home, which Peter says is nonsense because they never even turned it on in the first place. Apparently this weird behaviour's been happening all day. The hospital and the city remind Walter of St. Clair's, so he wants to go home ASAP. Peter arranges it for him.
"No, at any given time there's a good chance that there's about a half a dozen psychotrophic drugs in his system, so drinking? It's not a good idea."
As they're sending Walter off, Olivia asks the doctor for a business card, which isn't weird, but she also asked a cab driver for one, too.
"The turbulence over Ohio was like being in the belly of a seizing whale. I screamed like a little girl!"
Back in the lab in Boston, it's nearly midnight, but Walter wants to get to work right away. Apparently they had no trouble bringing the body bag home, but their luggage was detained. Walter discovers nine surgical stitches on the back of the neck, right by the brain stem, which there should really be no reason for. "That's okay. In fact, you can assist us in removing his scalp!"
Olivia questions the wife of the dead man, and aside from being a little more tired than usual, nothing unusual was going on. But Peter thinks differently: he found a bunch of books about sleep in their living room, and the wife admits that Greg used to sleep walk, sometimes he even cooked entire meals in his sleep, but he was never violent, and he had been cured, having not had an episode in at least six months. Peter asks to see his sleep journal.
Peter brings the sleep journal over to Olivia's hotel room. Apparently the dead man had been averaging eight to ten hours of sleep [so how did he die of exhaustion?]. At least once a week, he dreamed of demons, but a couple of months ago, they stopped. At this point, we learn a little more of Peter's backstory, that he used to suffer from terrible nightmares as a child and that it was one of the only times Walter's presence was ever positive, but then Olivia gets a text, and apparently there's been another incident.
A woman died driving home, on the phone with her husband to let him know she'd be home soon, but she had said that she saw a monster! Walter's looking through Greg's brain and he finds what looks like a computer chip in the thalamus, and calls Peter, who finds the same sort of stitches on the woman's neck!
Nina Sharpe at Massive Dynamic sheds some light on the subject: it's a bio-chip, a BCI, a brain-computer interface, which works a lot like a pace-maker, regulating sleep cycles. Apparently a researcher back in Seattle has been working on similar projects, and he's a 'genius' named Laxmeesh Nayak.
Peter's hypothesis is that someone would want to target Nayak's work for purposes of mind control. Of course, we knew that from the beginning of the episode, and have been waiting patiently for the team to figure it out on their own. Walter says that it's possible, but modifying the chips would take a lot of trial and error - if only he had a live specimen, but he promised Peter no students... oh if only you could have seen the way he eyed that federal agent... As the federal agent is heading out, and Walter gets him to sniff something, and then he passes out. Heh.
Walter doesn't implant the chip into the agent's head, but he's figured out a different way to try the mind control process. He hooks himself up to the agent and starts making silly noises [*ahem*], and says "Either green unicorns just raced across the lab, or I accidentally took some LSD." But then he concludes it's not drugs, it's something else entirely.
Olivia finds Dr. Nayak and tells him about the two dead people. He confirms that they were patients of his and that they were implanted with these chips as part of a clinical trial, along with eighty other people. They head to his office for the names, only to find it ransacked. The main computer server is gone, and that's got all the data on it. Olivia takes his business card, too, by the way.
Nayak could only remember twenty-six patients, and he's going to remove all of their chips, but that still leaves fifty plus people still at risk.
Olivia's still upset about Charlie's death. Peter tells her that it's okay, not her fault, but she gets really upset and starts crying [and then runs away before she can be vulnerable in front of Peter].
We see a guy at a computer, and he looks a lot like Nayak's research assistant. He's working with another person - we don't see this one, but he's sitting in a chair, apparently drugged, and connected to machines. A woman in a restaurant starts hallucinating that a fellow cook is roasting severed limbs. She wields a knife and approaches him, but that is all we see.
Back at the clinic, Nayak is removing chips from many patients' brains, and Olivia gets a call from Sam Weiss. He's the one who asked her to collect business cards of everyone she saw wearing red. He has her circle one letter in every name [first and last], and then write down all those letters on a piece of paper, and unscramble them.
Broyles calls and he says the back-up server's been wiped, but it doesn't look like a hack. It would appear to be someone in the clinic.... hmm... But Nayak is sure that none of his employees would do something like that.
Apparently, there's been another attack: it's the woman in the restaurant. Peter and Olivia decide it's time to put in a public service announcement. That's when Nayak mentions that Zack Miller, the lab assistant, skipped work today and hasn't been answering his phone. The duo goes to his home and finds Zack, dead and seated inside a television cabinet. Dr. Nayak finds a letter at his work that says stop talking to the feds, or the same thing's going to happen to him as to Zack.
Nayak gives the note to Peter and Olivia, and they say they'll set him up with a protective detail. But after they leave, he dials a mysterious phone number and says "I told them" and asks to just be left alone.
Walter thinks the chips aren't mind control, they're transmitting data. They're "stealing dreams" - they're being sent before they can processed by the brain, which explains why the first victim stopped having dreams altogether, and then the brain never gets an opportunity to recharge. And these chips can also turn on a dream-like state in the wearer. But why? Well apparently it's quite the rush, so they must be dealing with an addict, or slave, or just general dream junkie.
Olivia's step-father was a drunk and she remembered there were two different personalities within him, like Jekyl & Hyde. She thinks that Nayak is both characters in this case. And it sort of looks like she'd be right. His druggie personality is what's causing all this trouble, and his sober personality seems to be innocent. We seem him lock into a pilot's consciousness at take-off, and the pilot starts freaking out, and prepares to fly them into a boat. The feds show up at Nayak's home, and Peter tries to shut down the programme, but to no avail. Finally, Olivia shoots the computer, and the pilot wakes up, saving the small plane and all its passengers. But when they look at Nayak, he's dead.
Peter thinks Nayak's final move here was his own way of putting a stop to things, because perhaps he wasn't aware of what his 'evil' self was doing, until now.
Olivia visits Charlie's grave and leaves flowers, and then gets back to her little word puzzle. It spells out "You're gonna be fine," the first thing Charlie ever told her. Spooky~
Peter has a dream: he's little, he sees his father and says, "Dad, what's wrong?" and then screams, but wakes up. There was a poster in his room that said "Challenger Mission 11 / June 28, 1984". Enjoy figuring that one out ;D [Hint: alternate universe Peter.]
Why do ALL Indian characters have to have Indian accents? >>;;
This episode had very little to do with the plot of the rest of the show, concering the ZFT and the soldiers and stuff. It was sort of refreshing, and very fun.
And the glyphs spell out: BETRAY
Glee - Season 1, Episode 7: "Throwdown". Original air date: 14 Oct 09.
In this episode, Sue is still on a war path to destroy Glee Club from the inside out. She separates the group and takes all the minorities under her wing, leaving Shu with the well-adjusted white kids. They're at war. Sue gives her group an R&B song, and, oh yay, Mercedes has a song! She never gets to sing, but she has a great voice.
For retribution, Will flunks Sue's Cheerios. He says that "Most of your Cheerios are functionally illiterate!" [To which she replies "So what?!"]. With them failing Spanish, they can't be on the cheer team. Uh-ohh... Sue's going mad, but the principal shuts her down. He says that he doesn't care about her bribe and that she's being crazy and it's time to stop.
Meanwhile, at home, Teri's baby is *gasp* still not there. Except one little problem: Quinn's baby is a girl, but Teri promised Will a boy. Furthermore, Will really wants to go to Teri's next doctor appointment; he wants to be involved in his kid's life from the start, so he schedules an appointment. What will Teri do? Well, she bribes the doctor to fake an ultrasound and say that he made a mistake in the initial reading, and that the kid is a girl. That scene in the office was funny, and at the end, it was very touching, when Will started crying with joy.
The dorky boy who runs a gossip blog is threatening to run a story about Quinn, Finn, and Rachel, unless Rachel gives him a pair of her panties. To save herself and them, she complies. But, thanks to Sue, he runs it any way. The end was really touching, though. There was a scene in which Rachel told Quinn that, even though they're 'enemies' she's there for her. Then, there was a group number, and it was very sweet.
Gripe? They shouldn't use auto-tune on songs that are supposed to be "live". It makes the lip-sync even more unconvincing. And a cappella and glee groups are supposed to be about the natural, fresh sound. And I hate the way that in a show about high school, if you're a cheerleader, you wear your uniform 24/7. Seriously?
Some fun quotes:
"This meeting doesn't end until I see bodies touching."
"Let me break it down for youuu: NOBODY CARES!"
"...but that's no excuse for treating you like some half-priced hooker in Amsterdam's red light district."
Oh, and hey! You might notice that this doesn't have the "I should be Studying" tag! That's because I actually finished all my homework before dinner and have absolutely nothing to do, yay!
Coming Soon: Two episodes of Fringe, House, Castle, and Heroes!
Castle - Season 2, Episode 4: "Fool Me Once". Original air date: 12 Oct 09.
The episode starts with a bang, as usual, when a man on his way to the North Pole broadcasting to a class of children is murdered on camera. Turns out the man was running his "North Pole expedition" from his apartment in NYC, after conning a few private schools out of a lot of money.
Beckett is pushing Castle's buttons, and he says he won't let it get to him... but oh it gets to him. She says she has 'plans,' which Castle assumes to mean 'date,' but we see her hop into a relaxing looking bubble bath with a glass of wine and Castle's new book. Next day in the office, she's playing games with him.
Alexis has a hot, new violin teacher, who has her father quite nervous, but his mother is perfectly okay with it. Always the voice of reason, that woman. Well, Castle starts freaking out about Dillon, which leads him to an epiphany about the victim's fiancée's father, which leads them down that investigative path.
But when they approach the father, he reveals that he knew all about Fletcher's con business because he'd hired a P.I. to follow him for a week or so. The team goes to the P.I. to see the photos, and they find one with the elementary school teacher from the beginning of the episode, so they go back to him. The teacher says Fletcher has a partner and he points her out in the photo, and it's Elise, Fletcher's fiancée who was quite insistent that her betrothed was not a con artist. So now we've come full circle, and Castle asks, with good grammar, "Who's conning whom?"
Well apparently Elise thinks that Fletcher was a CIA agent. But - is her lead legit or is it just another lie he told her? Castle knows a guy, and they check out this lead - he was not in the CIA.
Meanwhile, Alexis is freaking out because of her father freaking out. She yells at him for checking up on Dillon - it's always interesting to see how his cases take shape in his family life - and she tells him that she's a good girl and she's in high school, which is "the Wild West of hormones." Well played, Alexis.
They go back to Elise, to tell her that her fiancé was not in the CIA, but she has even more shocking news for them: Fletcher's alive.
"But if Fletcher's alive, who's the dead guy in our morgue?"
"I hate this case!" "I know, isn't it great?"
They find the engagement albums for Elise and Steve, and they figure out that Susan was Fletcher's con partner, naming her as suspect because she stood to lose a lot of money if Fletcher really was changing his ways. They shout, "The con is still on!" and rush to stop Susan.
They apprehend Susan, and all is well. Except for Elise, because her fiancé is really still dead.
Beckett turns to secrecy to read Castle's book, hiding in the bathroom, but he surprises her in there [hahaha], and he resolves things with his daughter.
Some quotes I enjoyed:
"That man could sell sand to a camel."
"Oh now who's the sucker .... [awkward silence]... Sir."
"Shut the front door."
Heroes - Season 4, Episode 4: "Hysterical Blindness". Original air date: 12 Oct 09.
The focus of this episode is mostly on Claire, Peter, the carnies, and Sylar.
Sylar can't remember anything at all, and he was picked up by the police. Eventually, he was ID'd as a murderer and he has to escape, which is when he discovers his powers. Claire has to deal with a stalkerish roommate, but Invisibitch, as Vigg calls sorority girl Rebecca, is making it seem a lot worse than it really is. Gretchen, on the other hand, isn't trying to kill any one who gets close to Claire, she's just crushing real hard. Turns out Rebecca is with the carnies, and she's trying to 'push' Claire to join them, but Sylar gets there first.
And then there's Peter and his deaf friend who sees music. Poor Peter: he's been feeling so estranged from everybody lately, and he's finally acting on some advice to reconnect with his family, but all his mother can think about is Nathlar [makes sense, since he's been missing and all, but still, poor Peter :( ]. He saves the deaf woman from being hit by a bus and absorbs her power, and that's when he can start to forge a connexion with her. I liked that story-line. It's cute, and I feel bad for the deaf woman, and I can't wait to see where that goes. The episode ends with Hiro showing up and then passing out in Peter's apartment! ><;; Claire said, "I have been chasing normal life forever" lol something tells me it won't be so normal for long [and by the end of the episode, I'm pretty much proven right].
I'm really excited for the Sylar story arch, and, well, all of them. I can't wait to see what happens to everybody, to meet new characters, and to see Invisibitch get hers [something tells me that will take a while]. This is the season we've been waiting for. No joke. Start watching.
**I'm naming the episode numbers by the "Chapter __" in the beginning of each episode. That two-hour season premiere screws it all up.
House - Season 6, Episode 4: "Instant Karma". Original air date: 12 Oct 09.
In this episode, Foreman and Chase have to own up to the death of James Earl Jones in the previous episode, while treating a young boy who seems to have no hope. The father of the boy is distraught, fearing that his financial success has lead to his son's immenent death: karma. In one fell swish of the pen, he signs away his entire life, every dollar, and then House miraculously has his trademark epiphany [while making a Grinch reference!], and the day is saved.
There was a scene with Thirteen in the cab, and the cabbie gets upset with her for not trusting him. I liked that part. It's true: you never know who the other person is, and sometimes, maybe you should give them the benefit of the doubt. It really sucks how Chase has to keep lying to Cameron [I say Cameron because it really bothered me in the previous episode how he kept calling her his 'wife'. Okay, sure, they're married, but really, everyone knows who 'Cameron' is, so you don't need to say 'wife']. It was also funny when she called him Robert.
House is still the same old biting character, but not as biting, which is mildly annoying... But he has good depth and he's still as interesting as ever... if that makes sense.
Watching Chase trying to own up to his crime was so sad!
Something I've noticed: WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE FIRST NAMES FOR LAST NAMES? It's not like I'm just figuring this out now, but, Chase, Cameron, Wilson, okay, that's really it, but it's still very annoying. It makes hearing their first names even more awkward.
All in all, a nice episode, but I wasn't as connected as I was last week.
I've been doing a lot of review-style entries on the other blog, and I figured that people wouldn't necessarily want to read about them. Plus trying to keep up with them and post about... well... life?... would be hard, and would include multiple posts a day. For that reason, any 'review' [I am in no way a critic, nor should I really be listened to, this is all opinion] -style posts will be here.
I've only posted two TV review posts on four-12 so far. The first one can be found here and the second, here.
From now on, you can expect individual posts per show, and posts about books, movies, CDs, and other things of that sort. Yay! I'm excited [heh -.-"].
Coming soon: House, Heroes, Castle, Glee, Fringe, Brave New World, and Forget And Not Slow Down.Even though I should be studying.
