Our Shows are Coming Back!

Okay people, I'm back and I promise never to leave you again, unless something REALLY important comes up. So from now on I will be covering the old faves:

Heroes
Gossip Girl
90210

A new show:
Chuck (! HURRAY!)

and I will try to keep up on Fringe, but I make no promises.

Also I'm thinking about watching of Lost from the beginning and covering that experience, but that will be a good project for the future, maybe starting in the summer or something. If anyone has any requests, comment away and let me know.

So since Saturday we had a picture of Chuck Bass, and I will leave you a pic of another awesome Chuck, Chuck Bartowski. He's adorbs. He's also with the awesome Casey and Sarah.


Do yourself a favor and watch Chuck tonight! Here's a quick primer just in case you've never seen it. In a moment of extreme danger Chuck's former best friend (Bryce Larkin), a CIA agent, sent him a message that contained The Intersect, which is basically all of the CIA's info and secrets. Because of the awesomeness of Chuck's brain, just seeing the message makes his brain become the Intersect. So, now, he is being guarded the by the awesome Sarah and Casey. He helps them solve many spy-type cases. He and Sarah are totally in love with each other, but the whole spy thing keeps getting in the way. He doesn't even know her real name! (He thinks he does though) Umm, what else. He works at the Buy More (like Best Buy) as a part of the Nerd Herd (like the Geek Squad), and many hijinks go on there. He has a nerdy BFFF, a pretty sister and a hot brother in law to be. (He is so good at everything Chuck calls him Captain Awesome.) That's all you need to know, so watch it tonight, and if you happen to go to the grocery store, pick up some 3D glasses for tonight's 3D episode. Just do it people, I am doing you a favor here!

Fringe- Episode 2: I don't want to love a freak!

I am definitely still into this show! I liked the plot-of-the-week and all of the creepy, disgusting things that went with it (instant pregnancy, old man baby, eyeball out of socket, horrid serial killing while the victim is still awake, etc.) However the story of the week/police procedural is kind of boring to write about (and read about I'm sure) So I'm just going to stick to larger plot points/character arcs for this show. Also, don't expect too many pictures, because the Fringe site is really terrible.

So here's the big question for me, is Peter/Pacey some kind of lab rat freak?! I really hope that Walter did not grow him in a lab. For one, Peter is going to be pissed if his dad did that and two, the idea really creeps me out for some reason. I think that I may be prejudiced against people who were grown by their dads in a lab. Just a little though. I mean I would still date him/marry him and have his little freak babies (were I single of course!).

Question two is, will Olivia start to grow a personality anytime soon? She did make a pretty funny joke at the end ("I told her you were going to give me a raise.") But beyond that she has no sense of humor about the fact that she is running around with a crazy man who mutters and does insane things that work and a hot genius who is not very good with a gun. I mean a more interesting person totally would have made fun of Peter for his terrible gun-handling skills. I know I would have, and I am very interesting.

The big questions for the show (as opposed to me) are... What is the deal with Massive Dynamics? ("What do we do? What don't we do." Great slogan.) Is that lady evil, or are we just supposed to think that? Is Broyles evil? Is the government evil? (Probably.) I know Abrams is really good at building these huge back stories and mythologies, but I also know that they are trying to make Fringe more "drop in friendly" so you don't have to see every episode to get it. So maybe we will find things out a bit quicker with this one than on other Abrams shows.

Another back story that is intriguing me is "Who was Walter Bishop? Because now he is an awesome and kind of weirdly sweet crazy person. But I have a feeling that he wasn't always working on the side of good, and he might have known it. The whole manslaughter thing could easily be something that someone from Massive Dynamics/the Government/and evil Shadow Government/The Others railroaded him into, but it could just as easily be true. He is definitely living with some heavy burdens.

I thought the end was really powerful, with Peter singing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' to help his dad sleep. Right now I am pretty sure they are going to get all close and Peter will start to feel loving and forgiving and calling him "Dad" and all that, and then BOOM "You are a freak from a lab with no mother who would not exist if it weren't for my crimes against nature!" is going to come out. Also what was the deal with that last image? Were those just other "soldiers" that had been created in a lab by Bishop and that other crazy scientist guy? Did they look like the "son" who aged and died? Did they look like Peter?

Fringe- Pilot: Blinded by the Pacey?

Apparently, people are feeling a little underwhelmed by the "Fringe" pilot, but I definitely enjoyed it, so what do other people know? Just because someone actually gets paid to write about television does not mean they are smarter than me! Does it?
Coming to this having never watched a J.J. Abrams show (I know! What? Who am I?!), I had zero expectations beyond a desire to look at Joshua Jackson for an hour and a half. So that expectation was met, and he was cute and funny and sweet (which seems unfair to other human males, but whatever) throughout the entire show.




Also, Pacey (I mean Peter, sorry) and his dad are totally awesome together! The Mad Scientist dad is actually insane, which is fun, and his son's reactions to him are great. Also, cute. (I don't like this show for all the wrong reasons, really!)

Besides all of that, there was also genuine suspense, an interesting mystery, and an fairly unexpected twist! Also, it is set in Boston and it looks like at least some it was actually filmed there! I mean what do these people want anyway? However, there were a few things that, in hindsight, I can admit were kind of lame:


-The moment, I mean the very moment that Olivia told John "I'm not very good at this. At least I wasn't. Before you. I wanted to say I love you back.", I was thinking "Oh, okay this guy is dead. No way is he making it to the end of the episode. Of course, I was right on that.


-I didn't love the main lady (Olivia). Especially when people were supposed to be annoying her (Peter/Pacey, her jerky boss, her incredulous FBI friend, etc.) and they were just far more interesting and sympathetic.

-The moment, I mean the very moment the bad guy told Olivia "Someone from your office threatened me!" I knew that it wasn't Incredulous Friend or Jerky Boss and that it was definitely John. Which made me feel better because I thought I had been wrong about him dying when they saved him from the skin eating disease, but I wasn't, because obviously Olivia was going to kill his ass in a horrible car crash.

So, in the end I am interested in seeing how the whole larger mystery (evil overlord corporations with way more technology than the U.S. government!) plays out and I am also interested in keeping Joshua Jackson on my television, so I would definitely urge others to watch. It didn't blow me away, but I liked it. It's kind of X-Files + Numbers + Alias + Lost = pretty damn good actually!


Also, just look... and he's a genius people! A genius!!