thursday nights will never be the same without the oc to fill my 9pm timeslots. ok, sure, so now i can watch grey's anatomy at that time now but then i'm going to have to wait two hours until i can watch csi on time shifting. it just worked out so perfectly the way it was before. alas, it was a thursday night with a series finale and a conclusion to a thee episode arch.
au revoir, o.c.
i think the oc ended a little prematurely. my opinion. it's not that the finale wasn't satisfying (which it was, for myself at least) but it seems like they could've done so much more with it. it was this generations 90210 (which lasted for like a decade, i think it was...?). but it's done; last nail hammered, etc. for a 16 episode cap for the 4th and final season, they did a really good job. not going to lie, taylor townsend's probably the primary reason why i watched this season. she's effin hilarious. not only did she save ryan (as he so eloquently quoted himself in the show), but she saved the show. the other reason was ryan. i dont know what he did...it might've been the haircut...but he just looked so much better this season. especially after watching the flashbacks of him first season (with the atrocious bangs), there was just no comparison. as for the actual series finale, considering their time/resource crunch, they did an exceptional job wrapping up the series. from julie's almost shotgun (no pun intended) wedding, to kirsten giving birth, to seth/summer and ryan/taylor antics, everything just fit. ok, so the first 15-20 minutes were kinda meh, but it picked up tha pace relatively quickly. i won't talk too much about the episode other than it was cyclical, and with good reason. like the great sandy cohen once said: "every good thing must come to an end". likely going to get the dvd set. definitely the best season, redeeming itself from the train wreck that it once was.
as for grey's...not so impressed. probably the worst episode for the series, which is disappointing. the arch started out so strong with the ferry explosion to the flatlining of meredeth, but i guess it's hard to conclude something like that without it being cheesy, overtly cliche and sappy. but i still had high hopes. this was supposed to be epic. and suddenly, i was very happy that i watched the oc at the 9pm timeslot instead. my heart actually hurt watching this episode. grey's is a show that constantly catches me by surprise, but this episode was so cliched and predicable and extremely unrealistic. i mean, trying to resuscitate a dead body for over 2 hours is just reaching! i might not be a medical expert, but i'm pretty sure if your heart isn't pumping by itself after 20 minutes or so, you're pretty much brain dead. most physicians usually call it after 20 minutes anyways. ok, so they started out the narrative talking about how miracles happen but you might as well have had Jesus come down walking the halls healing people and it would've been more believable than this. anyways, again, not going to go into details with the show. if you saw it, chances are you're feelings are relatively mutual.
csi: not going to lie, fell asleep in intervals in between scenes. didn't find out who the killer was so if you know, please share. what's crazy is that after it finished and i went to bed, i had a dream about it. it was pretty creepy now that i think about it in retrospect because i think in my dream, i was supposed to figure out who the killer was and they were hiding out in the crime lab which, in my dream, was inside my aunt's house (which is where i was sleeping that night). i think if they continued with the miniature killer i wouldn't have fallen asleep. but i'm thinking they're going to save that for either a major story arch or the finale. funny how i'm crazy addicted to this damn show, along with its miami counterpart (holler to my homeboy, delco and homegirl, alex).
well, that was my thursday night, tv night recap.
as for my reading week, spent most of it in the cinema using up my free cereal passes. good times.
movies watched: pan's labyrinth, hannibal rising, letters from iwo jima.
movies endorsed: pan's labyrinth, letters from iwo jima.
hannibal rising was ok. if you're a fan of silence of the lambs, you might be disappointed. however, this movie made me empathize with hannibal. i probably would've done the same thing if i found out they killed and ate my younger sibling and fed her to me without telling me. i'd hunt down those sons of bitches too and spill their guts all over town. am i also twisted to think that the young hannibal was hot? hahaha! because he was!
pan's labyrinth - amazing. go watch it. it's so fucked up it's brilliant! fucked up in the sense that it's nothing you've ever seen. great story, strong cast and incredibly haunting.
letters - good. not great. a little slow. but good. worth the time and money.
i've got 5 more movie passes :)
cheerio.
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