IDOL - Soul Patrol it is...

Well, as we waded around in 2 hours of stalling to get to probably the most anti-climatic conclusion in Idol history...it just served as a reminder that everything happened exactly as it should have this season on American Idol. Kat was the star of the show even though she didn't win, and after hearing about her other offers already coming in, winning might have just held her back...When coming up with medleys for the girls, you know the producers were cursing Randy, Paula and Simon for even putting Melissa in the top 24...mediocrity at its best...and making me sit through Ace, Bucky, and Kevin again was just mean. And did anyone notice that during the judges montage, they had to do a lot of editing to make Simon look stupid, but Randy and Paula pretty much took care of it on their own? Yeah...

As we started off, I liked Carrie Underwood's part in this shindig, not overpowering, but not underplayed, and she is awesome. Comparing Carrie to Kat though, I do think Kat is better. You can tell that Carrie is more polished...she's been singing for a living for a year since her win, but Kat has way more potential. The opening number was mildly enjoyable, mostly because it was Carrie/Kat/Taylor-centric and the other 10 idols may as well have been wearing choir robes for the role they played.

So obviously, of the duets, Kat and Meatloaf was my fav, followed by Chris/Live, Taylor/Toni Braxton, Paris/Al Jarreau, and Elliot/Mary J. Blige. Paris was a little dull, and Elliot basically just stood there while Mary J. Blige sang, but the real toss up was Chris and Taylor. Taylor would have been better if Toni's mike was working (was that the issue?) because I love Taylor's rendition of 'In The Ghetto', but Chris ending up winning, why? Because no matter how much I kept thinking "man Chris, get your own style", I was also thinking "alright if you're gonna try and be someone else it might as well be him" because DAMN that Ed Kowalczyk is hot. Sorry, I'm just a girl. with eyes.

So yeah, I got about five seconds into "Puck 'n' Pickler" before I started fast forwarding this shameless stall tactic so I have no comment. Same goes for the the "Golden Idol Awards"...I'm sorry...I just can't do it. Its embarrassing, and I don't do embarrassing well. Do not waste my time with this crap. I'm more than a little annoyed...can you tell?

Speaking of embarrassing...If you know me at all you know I have this thing were I get really embarrassed really easily for people who do stupid crap on TV...even if they're not real. And when they are real...well...its bad. I bring this up because, well, I had one of these episodes during the guy's medley. Holy crap it was bad...like Summer's head was buried in a pillow bad. Poor Taylor and his harmonica were carrying it and I actually felt bad for them. Of course Elliot was back with his Eminem style, but why was he squinting? Is that a new 8 Mile move I don't know about?

I'm gonna skip right over the frightening Clay impersonator (and you already know how I feel about the awards) and go straight the the real Clay...now to be real honest...the guy creeps me out. I don't like him and I voted for Ruben...there I said it. However, regardless of my personal opinions, there is no denying that the boy can sing...seriously. Watch carefully Kat...its your runner-up future personified. Ruben who?

So if my reaction to the guy's medley was as bad as it gets...the girls was just the opposite. I LOVED it. Katharine carried it beautifully (as she did the entire night) and Mandisa, Paris, and Lisa were on point as well. I just about lost it when Kat started singing "Natural Woman" and suddenly wondered why she hadn't done that this season. I have this overwhelming need to hear her do that song solo now. That being said...that Kat/Paris/Lisa trio gave me chills. I guess it was a no-brainer to end with Mandisa doing "I'm Every Woman" since they knew how it would go...I wonder if Randy thought it was anti-climatic.

I have an enormous amount of respect for Burt Bacharach, I think that comes from my dad, but the first two bars of this medley just gave Kat one more chance to outshine Taylor, something I felt she did the whole night. I feel like if they had a voting night and just told Kat it was an exhibition or something, thats all she'd need to win. She does so much better when the pressure's off. Thank goodness for her she can have a career without competing on American Idol.

Blowing right past brokeback cowboys or whatever, we come to Kat and Taylor's last performance, which I thoroughly enjoyed, being the Dirty Dancing fan that I am, but...can you guess what I'm gonna say? That's right! Kat was better. That dress was over the top, but she was fantastic. Overall, it was a fabulous duet, but there were subtle parts throughout where she had to match him to save his ass, which takes serious skill, although its not surprising thinking back to the impromptu duet she did with Andrea Bocelli. Its the difference between her training and Taylor's...not training. I'm so eloquent, right?

As this season and finale comes to a conclusion I can't help but wonder...they just had stars like Mary J. Blige, Meatloaf, Burt Bacharach and Prince (PRINCE for gosh sakes) on the stage, and stars like Ben Stiller, David Hasslehoff, and Heather Locklear in the audience. Carrie Underwood is winning CMA's and Kelly Clarkson is winning Grammys and....they are STILL presenting this show like some bad afterschool special concert with badly written songs and waving hands and lighters. Come on people...rise above it. If I was Kelly Clarkson I wouldn't want anything to do with you either.

Well, this was definitely a monster of an entry, so thanks to anyone that read it...but I thought, why not, its the last one for a long time. See ya next year!

ALIAS - All The Time In The World

Sark: does it have to be so filthy? if Rambaldi can prophesie the future, he might have advised me not to wear $500 shoes...


Yep. It doesn't get any better in the second half, folks.

Alright, so its flashback episode...great. A mix of emotions hits me as I'm immediately: relieved that Merrin Dungey's probably playing real not fake Francie, annoyed that their using valuable time for flashback, and pissed off that that freakin' cute kid that played little Sydney in S2 and S3 is not here, instead its some other little kid. Not that this one isn't cute, but come on, that girl WAS little Sydney! And when the teacher says "you can't get started?" I also think of Ella Fitzgerald, because that song is depressing as hell, as is this episode, for multiple reasons.

So amidst the flashbacking, Vaughn is trying to revive Sydney, counting aloud as he does chestbeats, because apparently not only is this the series finale of Alias, but a CPR refresher course as well. 1...2...3...got it? Seriously dude, can you not count in your head? You sound ridiculous. Looking not so ridiculous is Sark, in a black turtleneck and brown leather. In fact, he looks down right edible. For some reason in this scene I'm flashing back to the moment they talked in Tokyo and Sloane was pissed to be having to work with him and Lauren. I guess the word bygones comes in pretty handy when the end of the world is here. I'd want to be on the winning side too. (Wait, I think he says that later.)

So we have, what I think is a pretty pointless flashback to when Irina "died". I guess the point of these flashbacks is to give us some inside into how Sydney became a spy, you know all the psycho-analytical crap. You might also view it as a completely usless and repetitve recap of the emotional side of the last 4 years. I'm going with the latter. Hold on, there's a flashback of little Sydney putting together the crazy Project Christmas puzzle. Didn't we see that in the Indicator in season two? I'm just sayin...

So Sark and Sloane go to yet another Rambaldi cave. Who knew this was "the one"? And...here comes Nadia. "You're talking to your dead daughter. This is an odd time to question your sanity." And I'm with her, the dude has LOST IT. So people are dying outside just like every other Alias scene. Whoo...fucking...hoo. And here comes Nadia again with her enlightening comment in response to the 7th red ball. 8th? 7th? Oh who cares. "So that's it? All this time this is what you've wanted?" And again, I'm with her. Let's travel back to a little scene in season four between Sloane and some weirdo who worked for the Sloane Clone:

Sloane: Do you understand what you’re dealing with here, and for what?
Carter: He told me- he told me that I can live forever.
Sloane: No! Is that what you think this is all about?! Immortality?! You bought the rumor, you simple-minded dilettante!

I'm sorry, was I the only one who heard that? WHAT A FREAKING COP OUT. All that. Five seasons of build up from a tiny red ball...to this. I can't even talk about it. It's just...I can't do it.

So we'll skip to the next horrific end. Irina Derevko: All consuming evil bitch. Again, everything that has ever been established in five years, down the drain. After everything she went through to save Sydney countless times, she's going to kill her. Awesome. Again, I just...can't.

The only good thing to come out of this is Sloane being trapped in his own personal hell for eternity. I mean, it totally doesn't make the immortality crap worth it, but its close I guess. Wait, no its not. Jack dies. Someone tell me when pointless bloodbaths became a regular part of series finales. Tom, who cares. Jack? JACK?? Screw this crap.

The one good part? It seems that Sark's character remains in tact, he's set up to be sympathic for maybe a...spin off?? Other than that, pure shit.

Thanks for nothing Alias. Seriously.

IDOL - The Final Two

I don't really have much to say on these songs, since two out of the three they have both already done, and you really don't want to know what I have to say about the third for either one. Tonight was sort of a big disappointment for me. My favorite part was 'Journey' playing at the beginning...

Katharine: "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" was as great as it was the first time...which is really great. This to me, is the type of music that Kat should make. She's so comfortable with it, and she looked so classy and in her element...didn't miss a note. 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' was, in my opinion, not as good as it was the first time, but that just proves how great she is, because it was still fabulous. And what the hell is Randy talking about "I wasn't sure about this because you've done it before"? You idiot...they're both doing songs again! So about this "My Destiny" crap...what the hell was that??? That was probably the worst song I've ever heard, not to mention it was so far out of anything she would actually do it was unreal. You could tell the whole time how uncomfortable she was, I cringed the whole time. I don't have anything else to say about that. She was far superior on BOTH the first two, but she didn't have a chance on the third. The song sucked.

Taylor: Alright, maybe its just me, but I did not like "Living For the City"...everytime Simon makes his comparisons to drunk wedding singers, I just want to slap him, but ironically, tonight, that's actually where I would have gone. Taylor did not have his usual presence for me tonight. He was just shouting in the first one, and that jacket was all kinds of hideous. This performance in NO way 'slaughtered' Katharine... "Levon" was a problem for me as well...it started out pretty rough, and Randy was right, it was pitchy. I would have definitely chosen 'Trouble' or 'In The Ghetto', and Paula, what the hell are you talking about??? "Do I Make You Proud?" Not so much...they basically handed him the final with this song. It was so much more in his element, but he still missed notes! He pulled it together in the end, and that will give him the competition, but come on...how much better was this song? I'm just speechless at how ridiculous these last two were. If they had switched these two songs and given this one to Kat, she would have been ahead. You can say what you want, Randy, he would have choked with Kat's song, just like she did. And did you see Elliot chanting Soul Patrol? Nice.

Tonight was so obviously fixed in Taylor's favor. With Paula saying that Taylor "opened" the show...umm actually he choose not to open the show, and Ryan taking him up to the middle of the crowd, to him just getting a far superior song for the third choice...Katharine doesn't stand a chance and I'll be absolutely shocked if she wins.
I got through about 10 or 15 times and I never know how to feel about that. If I get through it means it wasn't busy the whole time, but if I don't get through, I worry that I didn't vote, so I don't know. But I called for the whole four hours, so I did my part. So I'll bitch all I want when she gets shafted, which is inevitable.

American Idol: Taylor Hicks

ALIAS - No Hard Feelings

Sark: And what was that one for?
Sydney: I'll get back to you.


So apparently, I completely forgot to enter a blog space for this episode, so I went back to cover it, that's why its so late, coming in right before the finale...anyway...

Okay...so this episode was a sarkney fan's wet dream...come on. Even if she was pretending to be Sydpinosa. Two and three were the best seasons because they had Michael and Sark, and tonight encompassed both! But speaking of pretending to be...I'd never been particularly fond of JG, but if I thought I was impressed with her bad girl last week...how impressed was I to watch her (let me try to get this right) good, pretending to be bad turned good. Is that right? Sydney pretending to be Anna turned Sydney. Yeah thats it. I can't even imagine how difficult that must be for an actress, and she did that extraordinarily. And because of that, we got to see Sydney and Sark working together and she had to like it, even if she was pretending, at least she wasn't a double. I can only imagine the fanfiction this will spawn...
(Speaking of good acting, I'll never understand how David Anders does that awesome accent, but to hear him pull of speaking Italian while doing the sexy british accent is even awesomer...that's right...I just said awesomer.)

I was disturbed/heartened...or just plain creeped out by the fact that Sloane was so greived by Sydney's apparent death...but I wasn't surprised. Where was that grief over your own child you freak? He has always possessed that freakshow fatherly gene over Sydney, and whats even more creepy is that I'm pretty sure its more of a Rambaldi "chosen one" thing than the fact that he's known her forever. He's just generally a creepy guy.

So its all nice and good that Tom's good and everything and he found and killed the man that killed his wife, but for the last time...who the hell cares??? Alias got eight episodes to tie up five years of storyline. Why on earth would they waste time on someone no one cares about?

Back to Sark...everyone else is as happy as I am to have that guy back right? I really don't get why he ever left? Come on...I'm not seeing David Anders anywhere else on my TV, and I'm just not okay with that. Really, what else is he doing? The kid needs to be on my screen people. And I say kid because he's my age, and I like it.

Okay, problems with the mythology of the episode. Apparently, Sloane's had this page since Sydney found it in Argentina and he jacked it from the CIA after they got it back from K-Directorate. (That'll take you back) But so yeah, if Sloane had the ability to decrypt it, why is he just now getting around to it? He didn't give up Rambaldi until season four, so that timeline doesn't make any sense. As much as I hate to admit it...more and more its lookin' like I'm right about the writers just throwing this crap together because of the cancellation.

And that Rose guy was just creepy.

ALIAS - Reprisal

Yeah, I split it up...deal with it.

So the beginning of the last episodes of Alias...ever...starts with the heartwarming reminiscent scenes taking you back through the life of Sydney Bristow asking, "don't you want to see how it ends?" After seeing it, I can firmly say...nope. Didn't really want to. Thanks JJ...taking a moment to be completely serious...I respect you and your amazing abilities, but this bastardization of a great show was unforgivable. So...

We start with a Sydney monologue with a backdrop of Prophet 5. This is my first issue. Am I really supposed to get all emotional over Prophet 5, a storyline shoved down my throat only nine months ago?? Nope. And they could have even done some deep metaphorical comparison to how P5 represents the entire world of organized crime, but they don't even go that far. All we get is some stupid "I've lived with secrets" crap. Do you really? YOU'RE A SPY for cryin' out loud. And that's even made ridiculous by the fact that she doesn't even give up the spy trade at the end.

I did enjoy the missions across the world, particularly Sydney in Sydney...clever. And I love when Marshall goes on missions. What I also love is that months after JG had the baby, in a world of personal trainers and chefs where celebrities drop weight at unGodly rates, she's still chubby. Nice to see that some of them are human. I digress...real quick about world missions, how stupid is Sydney? Sure it made for a real cool stunt, but like Sydney Bristow would have really left the chick she just knocked out naked in the kitchen for someone to find.

As much as Irina's character went completely off the map at the end (I've talked about it before and I will again later), after much thought, I'm gonna go ahead and say that I think Sark stayed alright. I assume some actual thought went into that because if there's a spinoff it will most likely be Sark-centric. I want to talk about this more in the second half, but I bring it up here because of one thing he said, and that was, "you're like me, you have excellent self-preservational instincts." And I think, as a whole, that pretty much wraps Sark up. He says a couple more things later on, but I'll get there in 'All The Time In The World."

So remember that time when Tom died and Rachel was sad?? Was anyone else? Nope. I sure wasn't. Again, who the hell cares about Tom. No one. And he didn't even die heroically. He could have gotten out, he just chose to sit there. So he committed suicide and we closed the book on the most pointless storyline on Alias. You could have killed him the second Vartan signed on again and we would have all been just fine.

I absolutely loved that Marshall stood his ground with Sloane when he was captured. It was lovely seeing Marshall talk about something other than techie crap, and gave KW a chance to act his ass off. (Which he did) He and Sloane played so well off each other and, as usual, RR used it to unveil layers in his character too. Not that he ever had any trouble with that. Nadia's useless appearance put a damper on things though. I always wonder how those conversations go in the writing room. Like, 'hey, lets have Nadia be Sloane's conscience! Great idea! So...lunch??'

As far as mythology goes...I'm conflicted about this Mt. Subasio thing. I always appreciate a good callback, but is hinging the entire basis of the show's mythology on it a good thing or a bad thing? The whole reason Sydney and the entire US Government, namely the DSR, doesn't or didn't, think that she was the Chosen One, was because she went to Mt. Subasio. Now, it turns out that she didn't actually go to where Rambaldi meant by "behind". So what I'm taking from this is that all thoughts that she might not be the Chosen One are gone...but with the Covenant Rambaldi baby and the Sloane obsession and the giant red ball and the fight in Savogda...is there really anyone who hasn't been assuming since season two that yeah, she's the damn Chosen One? Stop beating us over the head with it already.

So I'll end Part I backing up to what I can safely call the asshole statement of the century, solidified not only by what was said, but by WHO said it. Jack Bristow, you've got to be kidding me. "Part of me wanted to believe that he was still the friend I trusted with my daughter all those years ago. Clearly I was wrong." YA THINK?

IDOL - McPheever & Soul Patrol!!

"So, it is down to you, and it is down to me."
~The Princess Bride

I could have done, once again, without the hour long results show, but I feel good about this. Of course I think Kat should be there...I've thought that since she sang 'God Bless This Child', but I'm good with Taylor too. I think his gimmick is actually better than his voice, but his voice is still very good. The thing is, at this point, we all know they're both safe...just ask Clay Aiken and Bo Bice. I think Kat will have a bigger career than Taylor no matter what the outcome, but I'm a Kat lover in a major, major way. I just think that Kat's style is more "in" right now, so she'll probably be better off in the 'real world', as Simon likes to call it.

If I didn't think Chris was better off without Idol, I'd say it should be him and Kat, but he is, so I'm gonna say good for Taylor. (Not to mention his extremely hubristic tvguide.com interview I just read that laid the 'nice guy image to rest for me for good...no more feeling bad for Chris!)

Did anyone else notice the extreme improvement between Kat's 'Think' from the first time she did it to tonight? It was so great. Her stage presence has improved so much and the quality was just so much better. She deserves to be in the finals more than anyone. I hope Elliot's votes go to her. Either way, the finale will be awesome!

IDOL - One, Two, Three

Note: I know I'm posting this after the fact, but I did write it before the results, I've just been out of town, so yeah...

Tonight was full of surprises. Randy insulted Clive Davis...Paula dropped it like it was hot, or something...Ryan and Simon agreed on something...and Kat finally said her piece to the judges, and that was a long time coming. If she goes home tomorrow, at least she got it in.

Elliot: 'Open Arms'...first of all...this to me just proved how obvious of a favorite Elliot is. How is it possible that Randy didn't compare him to anyone? He was IN Journey and MARIAH covered the song! It was way too big for him and its just painful to hear him hit up against the top of his range over and over. DO NOT mess with Journey. 'What You Won't Do For Love' brought back the white boy rap moves and the stupid ass vibrato, so I'm out. Third song, sucked, and Randy and Paula were making excuses, but it was nice of Simon to wish him well.
Rank: 3

Katharine: Couldn't you tell how thrilled she was with Clive's pick for her? Yeah, not so much. I wasn't that thrilled with 'I Believe I Can Fly' either, but she pulled it off. It was about time she stood up to the judges though. Randy was so disrespectful...it doesn't matter if you like the song; Clive said it was good for HER and you said he was wrong...good call. I was THRILLED when I heard that Simon picked her song, not one of the other two, and she did SO well. Before Simon said it, I said that I wished that she had done 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' last. It was absolutely perfect. 'I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues' was sweet. Sure, it wasn't as good as the second song, but it was still up to Kat par, whick is pretty freakin' awesome. It was pretty stupid of her to pick something 'uncomparable' and then do something Ella did, but still. She was great.
Rank: 1


Taylor: I was bored by Taylor's first, until Paula started dancing, but he still did it well. I'm pretty sure he's gonna win. He just sings well. I'm sorry, but the entire time I was listening to 'You Are So Beautiful', all I could hear was Alfalfa singing to Darla. Again, so glad that Simon picked for Kat. He did sing it really well, very soulful, although I would argue that it was his best vocal, since I'm still obsessed with 'Trouble'. But either way, he's still a finale shoo in. 'Try a Little Tenderness' was Taylor classic, I thought, and it was a good way to end the night. Over anything, I've got to applaud Taylor's marketing skills. He was pushing himself more than he was singing tonight and I think it worked... he's gonna win. The second spot's between Elliot and Kat.
Rank: 2

FINALE: Taylor, Katharine!!

GREYS ANATOMY - Fight or Flight/Losing my Religion

Adele: When your Uncle Richard finds out you were cashin' in your V card, none of us will be fine.


I thought about separating these two hours, but there are actually some comparisons that I want to make, so I lumped them together.
The first hour of this seemed really slow to me...it seems almost in real time. I looked over at my sister and actually asked her if she was bored and she said yeah...I agreed. And like I said, the entire thing is Izzy/Denny, so I don't really care about it anyway. I just look back and like I said before, how the hell did we get here? There is no way in hell that a doctor would be able to get far enough off their rocker to almost kill a patient like this...its absolutely ludicris...I don't even want to talk about it. There is no redemption for Izzy and it pisses me off that she's on the show still. That to me, indicates that at some point, she might be a doctor again, and that's just pathetic. Stepping out of the zone of reality, which wouldn't so much bother me if they didn't go on and on about how real the show was, moving on to continuity. I'll give the Izzy thing a pass because she's been going off the deep end for quite sometime, but George, Meredith, and Cristina would never do something like this...especially Cristina. Their reaction when she told them that she told a lie was more appropriate and you don't just put the patient's needs aside for friendship. George just stood there while she cut the wire...yeah right.

I love it when Adele comes around to the hospital, and I loved even more that we finally got to know if she knew about the affair. That's nice. I really don't like Richard that much, but compared to Izzy, Burke and George, he's alright.

I didn't really understand the whole Cristina/Burke thing...why all of a sudden has Cristina lost her edge? We've never seen that about her and it just made the prominence of it in the finale so strange and confusing to me. Yeah, I can see her struggling to stand by him and that was emotional and whatnot, but Cristina has edge without being heartless, which is why I love her, and there's no reason to all of a sudden have her freak out and call it a storyline. Yeah, in the real world, she crossed a line, but in Shondaland, she can apparently date a attending with no consequences, so whatever, don't act like its an issue all of a sudden.

The second hour was a little more upbeat, it had some funny moments. Apparently white and silver POP and Alex did do anything, he's completely innocent. I loved the whole prom thing though, as stupid and contrived as it was. It was nice to see them all dressed up, and any way you'd do that would be contrived right? I don't know, hospital benefit, anniversary party, any other kind of cocktail party...nah, had to go with the prom. I guess they wanted to go with the whole teenage thing though. Meredith and Cristina and Addison talking about who they were in high school, everyone asking each other to prom, Meredith and Derek sneaking off to have sex, very high school. I guess that was the point, but still, very contrived.

So Denny died...shocking. Wait, not really. I don't understand why everyone is so shocked and upset by this...this character was so obviously written to die, so no, I was not surprised, nor was I sad, I guess I'm the only one. I'm also probably the only one who absolutely LOVES Alex...he was so perfect in this episode, in every episode. The truth, when it comes down to it, is the best. Not lies, and not a sugar coating version...just the truth. I love him.

On to the best part of the episode, and quite possibly the best part of the whole season, Meredith and Derek having sex in an exam room. Man that crap was hot. I don't even care that he was cheating on his wife for the first actual time and that she was cheating on Finn, because I don't care about Addison and I really don't care about Finn, who by the way, stole my TV boyfriend's name. He is SO not Finn...Finn is a hot Australian. Not a vet. Sorry. And the best part? Oh yeah, Callie walking in...well, the best part was when he just grabbed her and kissed her, but the second best part was Callie walking in and giving 'McDreamy' that look. It does concerm me that COD is a regular next season, at least that's what I hear. That's not good at all. If she picks the vet, man, I'll be pissed and quite possibly done with the show. But here's the thing. She's looking at Finn and looking at Derek as the show ends for the year, and its not like she looks torn, she looks defeated. She looks like she wants to look from Finn to Derek and then put a pistol in her mouth because she's just done and she can't go on...with this horribly drawn out storyline. And how are they gonna start next season? So she chooses Derek...he's still married, what happens there? So she chooses Finn, she still had sex with Derek, so what happens there? Neither story is happy, so who the hell cares?

GREYS ANATOMY - 17 Seconds

Deborah (Mrs. Dent): Love means never having to use your girlfriend as a human shield!


Yeah, so after all the finales, I took a little blogger break, cause my brain needed a rest. But here I am, and here we go!

Well, I find it comical that every show goes after fabulous VM actors. Mrs. Dent the journalism teacher and Vinnie VanLowe were in this Ep and Jackie is in the next one...whoo hoo...keep promoting MARS! And Vinnie basically plays the exact same character that he does on the show...typecasting comes to mind...hmm...
So I loved Meredith's monologue about anger because I think its so true, and watching her and Derek interact in the bar was awesome. "after all, it did make the top seven."

The first thing that pissed me off in this episode was Burke leaving Christina and taking Alex instead...come on now. Yeah, alright Burke, you're a person first, whatever, but choosing one intern thats less qualified over another for personal reasons that asked first. Stupid. Burke lets his judgement cloud almost as much as Izzy, and he has way more power, so its way more dangerous.

I don't know if we're supposed to feel sorry for Addison now, or what, but it just doesn't translate to me that this intelligent sophisicated woman would be so incredibly dense and blind when it comes to her husband. Why does she want to settle. Its not like this is the first time there's been something between Derek and Meredith, but now's the first time she loses it? Yeah right. You've got someone else waiting for you in NY...go home. I'm a little confused with the metaphor about the dead girl and the baby though. I saw it as Addison is trying to hold onto Derek even though he's gone, just like the parents are trying to hold onto the girl even though she's gone, but it seemed like they wanted to make it something else. Like Derek holding onto Addison isn't about love its about fulfilling a need or something. I guess I can see that, but Derek isn't the one that came back to Seattle and asked for his spouse back. Derek isn't the one that refuses to see that his spouse is still in love with someone else. Derek isn't the one that is still lying about the relationship he had in NY. I love that the chief gave her what she deserved...you're not the only one with problems lady.

I loved the interaction between Meredith and Callie...they took a real step towards a friendship and after what Callie did for Meredith, I can actually see myself liking Callie eventually. When Callie helped her find out what was wrong with Doc because George talked to her, it was actually the first time I didn't hate George, so that's something.

So now to the thing that I can't even talk about without getting so angry I can't even see straight...I/D. "If I was gonna pick someone who was gonna go psycho and shoot up the place, its Izzy. Totally." Yeah...I mean seriously? They even almost got me on board with Izzy doing this psycho crap because she's clearly lost it. But you know what, Meredith and George and Cristina HAVEN'T lost it...so yeah, more on that later. I think the whole reason that I didn't like these episodes much is because they were so I/D-centric...and the fact that Burke isn't an idiot and he knew about what she was doing, makes me sick.

ALIAS - I See Dead People

Vaughn: And just for the record, you're a terrible kisser.


Hold on, hold on....MICHAEL VARTAN!

See, open casket. Its the difference between people being dead for real on Alias and only pretending to be dead. I guarantee that if this wasn't the last season that that casket would have been closet. Nope, she's really gone. So, apparently, is Renee. Closed casket, toe tag, same thing.
Question about the chip inside her and Vaughn though...it only makes sense that someone would find one of them after one of them died, which they did, so if they ever wanted anyone to bring Prophet Five down, their parents were banking on their kids getting killed?? That doesn't make much sense.

Nadia coming back to haunt Sloane was a nice touch, although I don't really understand why, if she was going to continue to be on the show, did they kill her? It wasn't a huge shocker that Sloane would do that, and it seems like she could have been cooler used in another storyline. If I was Mia Maestro I'd be pissed I came back as a ghost. Sloane's conscience? That's a joke right?

I have to say though, getting to see JG be bad is truly awesome. Yeah, for 5 years she put on alias', but she was only pretending to be bad. When's she's acting as Anna Espinosa, she's freaking amazing. I could watch that interaction between her and Sloane over and over again. It was great. Ahh...

Now Sloane using Prophet Five just serves them right...come on, you're trusting him? You're gonna get what's coming to you. The smartest brain trust in the world that's been able to avoid and infiltrate all manner of government for how many years is going to fall to Arvin Sloane. Maybe the man deserves more credit. "The sheer audacity of your alleged turn around would be laughable, if you weren't so dangerous" ~Jack, season 3

And...Michael being back, of course felt like old times...he just slipped right back in to the mix. I sort of felt gypped that his first kiss wasn't with the real Syd, but his line at the end was pretty sweet, I guess it made up for it. Question though, why was he limping? Didn't he get shot in the chest?

For five seconds this week...and next week...SARK!

IDOL - What Mystique wants, Mystique gets

Whoa...so many people are pissed off right now. I was shocked when I watched it but that was three hours ago and I'm over it now. I'm still a little sad, but what can you do. Everyone who's so pissed and calling Idol rigged should turn that finger around. Did you vote like "yameant" it? Then you contributed to the substandard remaining three we now have before us. Taylor, Kat, and CHRIS should be on that stage next week, Elliot should have gone home. Chris was robbed tonight, but not by the Idol producers, or by the loyal McPheever or Soul Patrol fans. Kat and Taylor should be here. They have talent and have consistently shown that through the competition. If you're a Chris fan, be mad at yourself and other Chris fans who didn't vote enough...also get mad at Elliot fans just for being Elliot fans who can't see that, while I'm sure he's a nice guy, when it comes to singing and performing, he is out of his league. The bottom line is, Chris should still be here and Elliot shouldn't, so people who didn't vote for Chris and people who voted for Elliot have no right to complain. I fall into the first category, so while I feel a little queasy that I have to watch Elliot next week, I wasn't willing to give Chris any votes to prevent such an outcome, so whatever, Kat's here, I'm happy.

GILMORE GIRLS - Partings

Lynny: Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were.


Call me crazy, but I think it says something that the only time I cried my eyes out, not only in this episode, but this entire finale season, was when Logan left Rory for the airport. And I watched this multiple times people. There were tears every single time. To be fair, I did well up when Veronica graduated and at the flashback to her as a child when we still thought Keith was dead, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING compared to the waterworks that came when Logan walked out that door. (My face was powder dry during the entire three hours of Grey's, thank you very much) But I'll leave my rants and raves on other shows for other posts...the comparison I'm actually getting to here is between Logan/Rory and Luke/Lorelai. I've tried to debate this rationally, seeing as so many people are up in arms about ASP's metaphorical 'middle finger' to the fans in this episode...and part of me wants to agree, but part of me doesn't. The truth is, I don't know that I'm such a Lorelai/Chris fan, because its not like I jumped up and down when she got in bed with him, I just didn't give the ass of a rat (to quote Logan Echolls) when she walked away from Luke. Honestly, I think it was probably part of ASP's grand design to have Luke and Lorelai end up together, but none of that matters now. Either way, I'm thinking with all the backlash going on, the newbie wouldn't dare take Lorelai in a different direction, and they'll still probably end up together. But the bottom line is, WHO CARES. I'm so over Luke. His character to me is detestable and always has been. I was cool with him and Lor for a while because he was nice to her and its what she wanted, but if she's unhappy, then screw that crap. Like she said, we figure out how April fits into our lives, not the other way around. She needs to move on and be happy, and Luke's got her in a holding pattern. I'm happy she's finally not putting up with it.

Now, about that middle finger...if I'm going to say anything negative about ASP, its definitely not going to be in regards to what she did with L/L because I'm kosher with that, but the episode didn't seem completely up to par for me, like maybe she just didn't try as hard because she knew she was done. That's totally spec on my part and I could be way off base, but just the whole troubadour thing...how annoying was that? Not that I didn't occasionally love the crazy lyrics, but come on. It reminded me a lot of the bike race of last year's finale, but at least that played the role of filler appropriately. This mess just took the whole show over, and it meant absolutely nothing. These crazy town happenings are supposed to give comic relief, and while, yeah we were in serious need of that this episode, it felt like the singer catastrophe got more airtime than the actual plot. Why wasn't Paris in the finale? Something light with her and Doyle could have made up that time. Emily's comic relief even played nicely. The bombarding troubadours was way overdone and seemed like a cheap way to fill time when ASP didn't want to bother coming up with something else.

Okay, so like I said about Logan and Rory...its continually bugged me this last portion of the season that the only remaining happy thing on this show is continually downplayed. They get almost no airtime, yet they are the couple that I'm caring about. More Logan and Rory! His deal next year mirrors the one he has this season, but whether he'll appear in 12 0r 20 eps, I have no idea...I just really need more Logan and Rory. Going into the final season, you would think that the guy Rory is going to end up with would be a full time regular. I guess that's too much to hope for. What I didn't completely agree with was the conversation that Mitchum and Rory had in the elevator. Not that I think he wasn't partially right, she did need to hear that it was time for Logan to grow up, I just don't think Rory would be super excited about the idea of Logan getting shipped off to become his father. If his dad did it with him and now he's doing it, well great. I'm sure one more arrogant Huntzberger jackass is exactly who Rory wants coming back to her.

On a final note, it was nice to see the opening parallel between Lorelai waking up at Sookie's and then waking up at Christopher's while everyone tiptoed around this poor woman, but I think out of the whole situation it just made me wonder if I've ever really liked Sookie or Jackson. I'm thinkin' no.

Chris: I thought 'restroom' was code for 'follow me and we'll figure out a way to get you out of this'.
Lorelai: What the hell kind of spy school did you go to?

VERONICA MARS - Not Pictured

Dick: Put on your dancin' shoes Mars, cause tonight we're gonna up chuck to the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie to beat.
Veronica: Up...chuck??
Dick: You heard me.


We're gonna take a moment and CELEBRATE the renewal of my favorite PI! Okay, onto the show.

Busy Beaver always working...nobody likes an eager Beaver...so many quotes this season for that crazy killer. Poor Beaver. Never underestimate the power of neglected child syndrome. Seriously. He went from cute Beaver last week to psyscho Beaver this week and he played it so well...and how could you not feel sorry for him given those last words?? My name is CASSIDY! Yes, yes it is.

I liked the flashback at the beginning and it looks like the writers are finally giving into the epic romance with the Logan/Veronica pairing in the "way things would have been". More on that later. But yeah, when Veronica graduated and Keith stood up and cheered, I definitely welled up. Didn't see that coming. 'You were expecting some other reaction?' It was written so perfectly, and the scene was well rounded out by Dick slapping Veronica's ass. I'm really starting to like that kid. I was a little upset that Weevil got arrested. Geez...just let the poor guy graduate.

It's nice and everything that they found a decent way to wrap up the Jackie storyline, especially since she won't be back, but I could really care less about that. So she lied about being rich and famous...at least Wallace can get back to normal now. I really hope he and V have more good stuff together next year, sort of a season one feel again.

Woody getting captured was sort of a forgone conclusion, and was somewhat underplayed, but it did set up the gutwrenching Keith-death fake out, which, if I was thinking rationally, I would have probably seen the whole time, but I wasn't, and I didn't. I cried then too, especially at that other mini-flashback scene with the puppets. Who knew puppets were sad?

So yeah, when 'CW' walked back in and blew Aaron's brains out, it almost made me less pissed off about the scene in the elevator when he confessed again to killing Lily, just in case we weren't sure. Man, Clarence Weidman is a badass...I've liked him since Rat Saw God. It doesn't, however, take away from the sorry excuse for a murder trial. "Its noir" my ass. Its my first genuine Mars complaint is what it is. There was so much crap wrong with that not guilty verdict its unreal. The first, most obvious, and probably only thing I'll point out is that, yes, Aaron is a rich guy charged of a serious crime, but Jake is also a rich guy who's real pissed off about that other rich guy killing his daughter, so it kind of evens the playing field. Where were Jake and Celeste to testify and make sure everything was being done that needed to be done to put him away? It would have been just as noir to have him get a lesser sentence and still have CW get into the prison somehow and kill him, or time served, or even have him get off, but write it better. It was just the first storyline on the show that just wasn't well written, bottom line. I hope I never have to say that again.

Back to my favorite part...the LoVely epic romance that the season ended on! Obviously I loved that Logan was the one to save V...epic romance at its best! And the callback to the pilot with Logan on Veronica's lap except in reverse was a tearjerker too...Ahh...the whole thing was great. Of course, I didn't expect for them to go all out and be together at the end of the episode, but hey, I'm not complaining...they're the best couple on TV. Okay, maybe their tied with the other Logan and Rory...but still, pretty great!

So cliffhanger...the suitcase. No clue really, but its fun that it has something to do with the mystery instead of V's personal life. At this point I think it has something to do with Aaron or something they did together because she was sort of left after CW killed Aaron and he had something to do with stealing the suitcase from Cliff...so I don't know

IDOL - Three Men and a Little Lady

Well...we're down to the best and it definitely shows...I don't think anyone was bad tonight...except the judges. Does anyone else notice how every other week Paula changes her tune? One week "staying true to yourself" is what gets it done, and the next its "showing a different side". So basically whatever you do is good. But that's old news I guess. And Simon...don't get me wrong, he's definitely the most sane of the judges, but...a good while ago now, he said that Taylor, Kellie, and Chris were his top three. Well, one of those has panned out nicely...yeah, not so much. But two of the choices seemed solid; when he said it, I actually would have replaced Kellie with Kat and completely agreed, but it seems like he rarely has anything nice to say about Taylor. Taylor more than anyone has had continuity and still lived up to each theme, and for someone he picked as one of the best, each week is "a mess". He liked one of his tonight, but anytime he dances, Simon hates it. He doesn't even bother to judge the singing. I'm not even going to Randy...its not worth it. Elvis...

For the record...I love the times I was born into, but if one thing makes me wish I was born 50 years earlier, its Elvis. I'm as obsessed as someone who wasn't alive when he was can be.

Taylor: From the moment we heard the theme, I knew Taylor would rock, and that he did. Both he and Kat did a good job of choosing an upbeat song and a ballad, and Taylor rocked both. 'Jailhouse Rock' was his, no matter what Simon says. No one is ever going to be Elvis, but he wasn't trying to be...he was just having fun, and its what he's good at, and he didn't miss a note.
'In the Ghetto' was very much like current song week for Taylor when he did 'Trouble' (Ray LaMontagne)...also a great choice. It seemed like he didn't struggle with the high notes, which was something he had been having problems with...it was a good balance between the two songs. Rank: 1 (tie)


Chris: If anyone did an embarrassing Elvis impersonation, it was Chris with those stupidass glasses and turned-up collar. The song however, was very good. I love 'Suspicious Minds' and it was a good choice for him. Like Simon said...it worked. UNlike Paula said...you DON'T forget how good that song is. Did she really just say that it took Chris Daughtry singing that song to know how good it is? Seriously?
'A Little Less Conversation'...I loved how he kept it low at the start, and in the white shirt was even a little sexy...which is definitely a 180 from the first song, but the antics he pulled in the last few seconds just killed it for me. I guess that's a matter of opinion but I didn't like it. It was alright. Rank: 2

Elliot: STOP IT. Everytime Elliot starts singing, thats what I start yelling at the TV. Come on! Does that vibrato REALLY not bother anyone else?? We've eliminated bad vocals at this point. You can't call anyone left in this competition not good, so now it has to be about so much more than that and he puts me to sleep.
This night proved how much I really don't like Elliot...like really a lot. This performance was disturbing for me. I don't believe Elliot has a wild side and hearing him singing about one was icky. He was trying to be like sassy or something and it didn't work for me. He was singing about being evil and again, I wanted to go to sleep. I realize this critique will probably not go over well. Rank: 3

Katharine: I love this chick. Its a man's world now and its man songs this week and yeah she faltered for a sec in 'Hound Dog', but she saved it and the rest was great. The thing about Katharine that you can't say about the rest is that when you watch her, she doesn't seem like she's an Idol contestant. Everyone else seems like an amateur and her voice seems like one you would hear on the radio tomorrow. She got the highest praise from Tommy Mottola, who is someone who could start her career right now...and he loved her. She's fantastic.
Okay, here's the deal. 'Can't Help Falling In Love With You'...I didn't like the arrangement. Cream, apple pie, whatever. But that had nothing to do with the way she sang it. I thought the arrangement was over the top, but she sang the arrangement perfectly, and she performed really well. But she did come in at a disadvantage, and she did great despite that. She's the best, its that simple. Rank: 1 (tie)

This week is so so tough and its all about America, but I'm sticking to what I said and sending Elliot home. Even if something else happens, he is just so far below the level of the other three. I would have tied Chris at one with Kat and Taylor except for that one rocker tail he put at the last second of 'Conversation'.

How does Ryan get around that auditorium so fast?

VERONICA MARS - Just the Facts...trois

In Plan B
-Weevil brings up graduating for his grandma for the 80th time
-Weevil got an anonymous call saying Curly sent the bus off the cliff because of Cervando
-Curly knows who did it- there's someone in that car in the flashback and its real freakin relevant
-Father Fitzpatrick is pissed about incorporation
-Woody is hellbent on Keith clearing Terrance
-Woody perves on Logan
-Beaver acts really shady and angsty with Mac at the dance
-V and Logan are perfect
-duct-tape...is there anything it isn't good for? quote by Liam Fitzpatrick
-Keith starts to suspect Woody
-Beaver freaks out that Mac talked to Veronica about him

In I Am God...
-a guy named Lucky is in emails from Meg and is a janitor at Neptune High
-Lucky hung out with Dick and Logan last summer
-Betina let Dick ride bareback
-Betina wanted to get pregnant with Dick's kid
-Dick gave the memorabilia gift bag to Betina
-Meg says she has important info
-Ronda's family won a lawsuit with a 2 million dollar lawsuit because the mom found a finger in her ribwich
-VERONICA MARS appears on V's hand just as it was written on Curly Moran's
-Peter says that the relevant question is why was he at the stadium in the first place
-Cervando and Beaver have a run in at summer school
-Cervando clarifies that whoever crashed the bus had to be right there and accuses Weevil
-Veronica assumes that Marcos drew the picture because of the song "I Am God"
-Dick and Beaver are worth more dead than alive
-Marcos mentions art school
-the backpack sitting by V has baseballs and C-4 in it
-Marcos hands V a ringing phone

In Nevermind the Buttocks
-the beneficiary of the policy on Dick and Beaver is Kendall
-V clarifies that whoever crashed the bus would need a visual and accuses Weevil
-Liam's car passed by the bus a few minutes before it crashed and mooned the limo and I'm assuming the bus
-Woody called Gia right before the crash
-someone claimed the reward for identifiying the Baracuda...anonymously
-the sticker Gia talked about was gone
-Kendall and Liam are...friendly
-Duncan's hair is on the newly discovered Oscar statue aka "murder weapon" in the Lily Kane murder case

In Look Who's Stalking
-V has chlamydia
-Logan is way hung up on V
-V totally still has it for Logan
-their story was epic
-no one writes songs about the ones that come easy
-Lucky's tight with the Mannings
-Lucky's stalking Gia and he's real messed up
-Woody knows about it and is obviously worried because he hired security
-Woody is disgusting and drugged some chick at the Camelot and then blames it on Keith
-Terrance claims he didn't crash the bus but he needed to save his career and thats why he broke into the house...and the blown game gets out anyway
-Keith goes public with the lies that Woody was telling
-incorporation DOESN'T pass
-Gia gets pissed at V when she hears what Keith did
-Logan recognizes the sketch of the man who stole Cliff's files as the guy who shared a cell with Aaron....great.
-Lamb is extremely interested in keeping Keith away from Woody
-Why the HELL is Logan wearing a white tux??
-Lucky wouldn't talk about Woody in front of Lamb
-Logan is sorry about last summer and if he could do it over...

Well, that last line about Logan freaks me out...despite everything I can think of, I have this awful feeling that Logan crashed the bus. There's no logic to it...there's no reason I can possibly think that he would have done it, but then there was no reason until the finale that Aaron would have killed Lily...but from what I'm hearing, did Aaron really kill Lily? I'm starting to think that this finale is gonna be out of control.
So, here's my thing...Cervando's whole point in 'I Am God' is to clarify that whoever crashed the bus had to be RIGHT there...and we've been focusing on Liam, and Weevil and whoever else may have driven by, so why haven't I been focusing on the obvious choice?? The limo??? So now I'm convinced that whoever crashed the bus was in the limo. I checked back to the crash and the people we know in the limo are Duncan, Dick, Beaver, and Gia...While I would love nothing more than for Duncan to have crashed the bus so he can be gone forever, I don't think RT would make it someone who hasn't been around for half the season, that just wouldn't be interesting. So the options are Gia, Dick, and Beaver. Gia and Dick are kind of in the same boat because they would both be shockers because they're both clueless idiots who, at first glance, you'd think wouldn't have the know how to crash a bus, and they both have hidden motive. Dick has Betina and I'm sure something I'm not thinking of, and Gia could have done it to protect her dad. Then there's Beaver, who, has been looking shadier and shadier all season, but maybe I'm not supposed to be picking up on that like I have. The thing that gets me about Beav is the incorporation thing, and him totally freaking out when Mac told him she talked to V about him. That's my Beaver red flag. And he's got a gay vibe too, so you know. I did love the Beaver and Mac interaction this week though, so I hope its not him, but he's where I'm leaning.

GREY'S ANATOMY - Damage Case

So apparently in the land of no continuity, otherwise known as Grey's Anatomy, Derek has turned into a jackass. No matter what Meredith has done, Derek has never treated her this way, and now all of a sudden, I can only assume for storyline, he freaks out on her. He didn't freak out when she slept with a million guys and he didn't freak out when she slept with George, he was actually there for her and they became friends, and now all of a sudden, because he sees her with a vet, what?, he just snaps? What's the trigger in this situation that we're supossed to buy? Nothing happened to make his marriage worse. He just constantly goes back and forth with Addie, so what's the deal? Why all of a sudden is she a whore? They haven't been together for a really long time now and she's been sleeping around for all of that time, so why now? Give me something I can work with. As painful as it was, I did love that Meredith stood up for herself and didn't feel the need to tell him that she actually wasn't sleeping with Finn. There weren't any scenes with Derek and Addison tonight though...not one. Does that clue anyone else in to how we're supposed to be feeling about this triangle? There are always ALWAYS scenes with Derek and Meredith and now there are scenes with Meredith and Finn, but there are rarely if any scenes with Derek/Addison...if that's the route their going, they need to get to it, because its tiresome. They spend so much time investing people in Burke/Cristina, Alex/Izzy/Denny, and now even Callie/George, but Addison/Derek have never felt like a real relationship and they are never going to. The sooner the writers deal with that, the better for everyone. All Addison is is a road-block for Derek/Meredith, and that's all this Finn guy is going to be too. Viewers will never be able to see or root for them with anyone else because that's not how the writers initiated the characters. Its just absolutely ridiculous how out of hand this story's gotten.

Speaking of out of hand...Izzy/Denny anyone? Yeah...no further comment needed there I don't think. And now there's the little issue of Burke being added. Izzy called him Preston? Is this whole case like a personal matter now? Do we have to worry about Burke crossing the line too? This whole thing better explode or it'll be one less show I have to worry about on my TiVo next season.

That whole family case and pregnant woman broke my heart, and I was so proud of Alex for the way he handled the baby and how he took charge and did the C-section. I realize I may be the only one, but like Alex. His snarky remark about 'oh are we still pretending you aren't dating a patient' or something to that effect, was hilarious.

VERONICA MARS - Just the Facts...deux

Okay, here's the random information gathering post two...again, go with the previouslies thing, you never know why they're choosing to put certain scenes before certain episodes.

In Versatile Toppings...
-Terrance Cook is tied to Ms. Dumas and has a gambling problem
-the people that he has a gambling problem with are tied to the Fitzpatricks
-Dick's unfortunate man encounter that Beaver sets up
-Dick and Veronica have an unusual amount of contact and Dick mentions that V is like rich dude kryptonite
-The actual time of the bus crash is missing from the surveillance footage of Terrance Cook at the casino, but...
-they jam all cell phone signals within a 100 yard radius of said casino
-Ryan asked Mac to beef up security because some "assface" got onto their website and posted some awful stuff
-Peter, the bus crash victim, went on about the outing of all outings
-there's an anonymous blackmail victim who Ryan doubts will come to V for help
-Terrance and Keith take evidence to clear Terrance to Lamb and we remember that Lamb blackmailed Terrrance to give money to the charity ball
-Lamb is obviously trying to pin the murder on Terrance with insufficient evidence (lazy sheriff or something else?)
-Veronica finds C-4 in Terrances cabinet in the hanger where he keeps his cars...its Woody's hanger

In The Quick and the Wed...
-Logan stole the Aaron/Lily sex tapes and burned them
-refresher: Logan and Kendall were sleeping together
-Woody talked about coaching bus crash victims in little league at the stadium (before the bus crash, obviously)
-Big Dick is the one that sent the limo for the rich kids
-David Curly Moran washed up on the beach, beaten to death, with V's name on his hand...
-Curly worked with Aaron, saw V at the candlelight ceremony, and was a biker
-WOODY TOLD GIA NOT TO TAKE THE BUS HOME
-Weevil knows that Thumper killed Felix, but...
-Thumper has video of Weevil beating up Curly
-Beaver wants to start a company with Kendall as the face, he's buying cheap property and doesn't want her to buy the Kane house
-Beaver mentions that her name is on the all the legal documents for the company
-Lamb is way more on the ball when Keith tells him about the explosives than when he tells him about the casino security tapes
-Keith finds out that the explosives were put in place for someone (specifically V?) to find because Detail Mike would have seen them a month ago and they were found the day before he was supposed to detail Terrances cars' again
-Terrance was caught breaking into his girlfriend, Ms. Dumas' house
-Neptune is on the road to incorporation that will make land outside the incorporation worthless and land inside skyrocket...
-Beaver looks SUPER nervous
-Kendall goes and gets a hair out of Duncan's shower

In The Rapes of Graff...
-Cliff gets his briefcase stolen with Logan's murder files in it
-Lamb is dating Madison Sinclair
-An unknown man paid the hooker to steal the briefcase from Cliff
-Danny Boyd, a Fitzpatrick works at the demolition site at Shark field where there are tons of explosives, C-4 specifically, the exact same kind that V found in the hanger

Oh wow...well, my biggest piece of information from these episodes that didn't actually happen in these episodes was that Woody told Gia not to take the bus home...that was huge red flag to me before it was ever even an issue for anyone else...but now that Woody is primo suspect in the bus crash, it pretty much can't be him, so I don't know what to do with it. Maybe he just knew that the bus was gonna crash or he was afraid it might...I don't know. So Versatile Toppings continues the GAY theme, and the Quick and the Wed has pretty much the longest previouslies in the history of the world. The Rapes of Graff don't really any bus crash clues at all, but since I've now seen 'Happy Go Lucky' I'm tending to the since it does have the thing about Logan's trial files, that could be relevant. If Logan crashed the bus, I'll be heartbroken. Absolutely beside myself.

ALIAS - 30 Seconds

Sydney: Leiu de Pasion?
Marshall: You think it's too tacky?
Sydney: I'll work with it.


I can't handle this crap. Alright I can. But did Renee really have to die? And Nadia? I'm more upset about Renee. I really loved her. Not that I didn't love Nadia...I just got used to her not being there. But Renee, she was a badass. She was the only new character that I actually cared about. Why couldn't they have knocked off Rachel or Tom? I wouldn't have cared about them. I guess that's the point...but still.

I have this issue that I can't just watch the show and enjoy it for what it is...I always have to analyze the behind the scenes crap. Its mostly with stuff that goes way back...like the Michael investigating Prophet Five thing and this episode has it too. Like, did Abrams always intend for Sloane to have kept the real Page 47? And is that even possible? Because lets focus for a second and remember that Page 47 was originally written in invisible ink...that the CIA uncovered first in season one, so is the manuscript one of the artifacts that Sloane stole in colusion with Irina in season two and then turned back over and that's when he forged it? I just wonder about things like that. Especially on a show like this. Do the writers just pretend like thats how it was all along or did they really have that plan the whole time? Either way, it was ******* messed up for Sloane to kill Nadia after all that.

I loved all the french speaking in this episode though. Michael's supposed to be in all the episodes from here on out, and if he even gets one french line I'll be happy. That wall incenerating paint was freaking cool too. All of Renee's stuff was awesome, especially her scene with Sydney in the beginning and it was a cheap was for her to die after her being such a badass. Shannon's sad that she'll always think Sydney killed her. I don't think she thought that.

You can say what you want about JG, but it takes balls to make an idiot of yourself on national TV with that ridiculous accent/outfit at the beginning...not that she doesn't more than get to make up for it the rest of the time, but that crap was hilarious. I still, however, don't understand the significance of doubing Anna. Is it just so there is a double Sydney or is there some reason its Anna? Them meeting will be priceless considering that's only happened before in a dream. All I can say is that next week Michael better know right away that thats not Sydney.

Again...did Renee really have to die?

IDOL - Forget Paris

Heh. I think I'm funny sometimes...okay maybe not so much, and if you're under the age of 25 you won't even get that, but I guess I'm just showing how exhausting the end of the semester is and its lucky (or not?) that I'm even blogging at this point. Anyway...Paris is gone, and while it was more emotional than say, Ace or Kellie, it was still just as predictable. At this point, the only person I won't be at least a little sad to see go will be Elliot. I'm sorry!...there's just something about him. I'm not in any way denying that he's a fantastic singer...he is...but I just don't like him. I think its the vibrato. And maybe the fact that he really does have no personality. Singing isn't all you need. There are tons of people in this world that can sing...not all of them make it. You need the whole package and he doesn't have it.

IDOL - Rush Rush

That was quick....but seriously, I don't like it so much when they have to herd contestants on and off the stage to fit them all in in an hour. Since they were quick...I will be too.

Elliot: The first song was crap, the second song was great. I still think he's not winning material. Rank: 5

Paris: I actually think the first song was better than the second. I'm sticking to what I said before, when she's low, she's pitchy. Still not winning Idol Material. Rank: 4

Chris: The first song was pretty good, and the second one was not great. Neither one was his strongest, but they weren't bad. He was stretching his voice at the end, but should still be in the final two. Rank: 3

Katharine: I'm not gonna lie, the first one was a little rough, but the second was absolutely fabulous...Kat at her best. That song was amazing, and very "her element". In your face, Paula. Rank: 2

Taylor: I liked both of them. I thought the first one was so cute and he did the second one very well. Rank: 1

Short and sweet, but I've had a long day. I would actually tie Taylor and Kat for first tonight, because her second song was so fantastic, but since both of his were strong and her first was not, Taylor won out. I'd also tie Elliot and Paris for last, but again, since both of Paris' were decent and Elliot's first was awful, she edged out in front. Chris was in the middle with two good but not memorable performances. I guess I'll go with last week and do bottom two, which, in my opinion is clear at this point, but I guess you never know.

I voted for: Kat, as always
my bottom 2: Paris, Elliot
going home: Paris

GILMORE GIRLS - Driving Miss Gilmore

Lorelai: What's that smell?
Sookie: Sixty-eight pounds of marijuana.

So apparently severe weather is situating itself in the "big country" during the entire months of April and May and we've got watches and warnings pretty much every night. Does it make me a bad person that my biggest concern here is said weather warnings constantly interrupting my TiVo recordings? Yeah, so I missed half of the GG intro tonight...not happy. It also interrupted Veronica, but lucky for them it was just a commercial. On to the show...

I absolutely loved this...classic Gilmore. Classic ASP. I miss her already. Ahh...so Sookie and Jackson are growing pot, Michelle is getting fat, and Paris and Doyle love the penguins. Its these silly side plots that make the show hilarious and worth watching. Its slightly bothersome to me that Rory and Logan have sort of taken a backseat to Luke and Lorelai. They were only in two scenes together in this ep. Not that those scenes weren't great, just underplayed a bit. As sad as it is, since ASP's plan is irrelevant at this point, I hope they choose to stop messing with Logan and Rory and have them face couple issues together rather than play them against one another next year. Its clear that they both have battles with Mitchum so there's a lot to work with there. There is just something about them as a couple that ranks them No. 1 in my TV book.

I couldn't get enough of Lorelai driving Emily around in the giant Excursion and her damsel in distress routine. Normally when I watch Grey's or VM there are a few funny lines that jump out at me as super-quoteworthy; more VM than GA but like that isn't obvious, I mean come on. But with GG, it feels like every other line could be a potential post-starting quote...and that is writing genius. Not only does ASP keep me engrossed with stories that make me laugh, make me smile, piss me off, and make me cry, but she has managed six years of one liners that, no matter what's going on, keep the comedy coming. Love it, love it...LOVE IT. And it all ends with Emily doing a potential great thing, and while I don't necessarily buy that Lorelai would accept this gift with open arms, it does make sense that she would be open to anyone reaching out at this point, since Luke so clearly isn't, even if its arms that usually extend a bit too far. And Emily chose just the right moment to be their for her daughter, which she usually does.

And I've saved the best ranting for last, of course. Oh Luke. I do hate you. At this point, I want to make it clear that I am ranting about Luke...NOT ASP. I have no issue whatsoever with this storyline. Yeah, it sucks, but to me, this is an example of character growth and story continuity at its best, and this may be shocking, but I KNOW I'm not the only one who doesn't want Luke with Lorelai. I haven't fully decided that I want her with Chris, but I have never been fully onboard the Luke/Lorelai bandwagon. Sorry, just haven't. I think Luke is a baby. Prime example...well everything this season, but tonight specifically. How embarrassing and revealing to see that he is perfectly capable of pointing out everyone else's mistakes and not seeing his own. I was gawking at the screen when he sat there and said every single word that HE needed to hear, directly to TJ. What an idiot. And I'm not a huge fan of the irony, thanks. Luke has so much growing up to do before he even comes close to deserving Lorelai. My sister tries to disagree with this point, saying that his behavior is strictly recent and they deserve to be happy together, but this is categorically untrue and here's why. This ridiculously immature behavior has been going on way longer than just this season or even when they started dating. Is Luke a sweet guy? Yes. Does he do his best to do right by people? Sure. Does that mean he's ready for this relationship? No way. Way back when Lorelai was dating other people he would go postal and treat people like crap in the diner and claim that he wasn't and then when she broke off the engagement it was 'coffee for everyone!'. Childish. He beat up a car when he found his 'wife' was cheating on him. Stupid. When Emily came between them at her vow renewal, Luke didn't even give Lorelai a chance to explain, immature, and he can say this isn't true all he wants to, but he ran back to Lorelai when Emily told him to. Are you her puppet? Can you not think for yourself?

I just don't understand the people who think that, okay, Luke and Lorelai finally got together now they can skip off into the sunset together and never have another problem again...when they're forgetting that there has to be some reason that it took them this long to get where they are in the first place. They both have a lot of baggage and thats gonna cause some rocky stuff to happen. Deal with it.

VERONICA MARS - Happy Go Lucky

Weevil: If this is your idea of terms I'll understand, I'm going to kill you...or myself. It's a toss up. Screw it man, I'll just cheat.


So, so much happened in this episode, not the least of which was Aaron Echolls getting off for killing Lily Kane. What the mess. I wanted to wring that lawyer's neck too...go Keith! So other than that, we have...
-Lucky dying
-my Marcos Oliveras theory getting proved right
-the little kids turning in Weevil just as he passes Algebra to graduate
-Woody molestes kids, probably his own
-Mr. Lobo gets Terrance out of trouble and demands him to be his indentured servant. He doesn't want Jackie to know, so he sends her to Paris early
-Someone keys Beaver's car with "Amber's a bitch" and Hart is right there too. Interesting timing there, don't you think?
-Jackie's going to Paris and people on the video are speaking french...coincidence?
-V's chlamydia is made real public and we get a shot of LAMB twice
-Beaver and Mac are super cute...I hope it stays that way
-VMVO comments that epic love is grand before talking to Logan for the first time since the nightmare of a run in after alternaprom
-Lucky thinks he had gangrene while wearing a catcher's mask
-Marcos Oliveras and Peter Ferrere are now linked to Woody
-V and Keith finally accuse Woody of crashing the bus, which means he didn't do it.
-Lamb says that the same kind of bomb was used on Woody's car as on the bus...
-he definitely didn't crash the bus because he was in a padded cellt that day

So Woody is a big fat child molester and threatens Keith but Keith doesn't bend so Woody takes off. He is one creepy dude. I hope he kicks in the finale. I have a serious issue with Aaron getting off, but alright. whatever. I don't have much to say about this. But as usual, Logan and Veronica are perfect and have perfect scenes and it now seems like the writers are describing their LoVe as EPIC...at least they're admitting it now!

Last but not least...if Lucky was in Iraq, he would have known a lot about bombs, and he talked about them a lot...and if he put the one under Woody's car and it was the same one as on the bus, well we know he didn't crash the bus, he was in a padded cell...so he hung out with Dick and Logan the past summer. Dick still has the obvious motive and access, but I'm so freaking afraid that Logan crashed that bus.

VERONICA MARS - Just the Facts...un

Okie Dokie...I'm having a bad day. What do I do when I'm having a bad day? Watch Veronica Mars of course. I'm actually having two bad days because its 8:45 in the morning and I haven't been to sleep and I'm still prepping my presentation for later in the day which, at this point I'm probably going to give on no sleep, so yeah, thats great. Anyway, I digress. Back to Veronica. So far I've watched three random season two eps (Rat Saw God, Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner, & Ahoy Mateys) and I believe I've stumbled upon some potentially vital info that's slowly forming into a theory. Oh who am I kidding...its forming like 8 theories. Whatever, here's what I've got so far.
(ps - some of this info is from previouslies so just go with it)

In Rat Saw God...
-Lamb presents evidence that pins partial blame for the crash on Keith
-Lamb intentionally puts Aaron and Logan in a cell together...
-Aaron denies killing Lily, but does not deny sleeping with her
-Keith finds the rat duct taped to the seat on the bus
-Lamb utters six words that will eventually become my blog title!
-Curly Moran washes up with V's name on his hand

In Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner...
-they talk about Chlamydia in sex ed
-Kendall gets naked in Duncan's room and Duncan never tells anyone what happened in there
-the lawyer tells Kendall way after the bus crash that Dick Sr. left her broke
-Mrs. Goodman is a psycho

In Ahoy Mateys...
-Veronica finds out Marcos Oliveras, a bus crash victim, didn't have many friends and states that, in the yearbook, he is NOT PICTURED. (season finale title)
-MO is/was gay and his parents didn't like it
-Ryan the 100% gay pizza boy was in love with him, his sister is Roxy, who MO ragged on in the radio show
-he ragged on Logan mainly and everyone else in his...
-Pirate radio show, Ahoy Mateys, who he did with Vincent "Butters" Clemens, the principals son

Okay, so holy crap, I will sell you my right arm if this Not Pictured thing is wrong...Marcos Oliveras died in the bus crash, and Veronica specifically describes him way back when with the title of the season finale. That is soooo not a coincidence. Its also proof that I have way too much time on my hands, but also, beside the point. So, to be clear, I don't think Marcos crashed the bus, but think of it in terms of how the season finale of last season was called "Leave it to Beaver"...Beaver didn't kill Lily, but he started the chain of events that eventually led Veronica to Aaron by telling her about Logan leaving Mexico. So I'm pretty sure solving the crash will center around him. In light of that, I started thinking about all the possible connections to MO that I possibly could and there are a lot. And the weird thing was...the first thing I came across was how blind I'd been to the overwhelming homosexual theme in season two. At first I thought it was coincidence that I noticed this and that I happened to have episodes with such relevant info, but then I remembered that the early eps I have are the ones that they chose to air as repeats, so...coincidence?? Maybe not. The first new episode after the repeats was Versatile Toppings, which is when the gayness started overwhelming me...so here are my MO connections.

-Marcos Oliveras died in the bus crash, so he's obviously tied to Peter, Ronda, Meg, Cervando, Betina, Ed, and Ms. Dumas. Those five are most immediately tied to "the outing...", Woody/settlement, Duncan/baby/Lucky, Fitzpatricks/Weevil/Beaver, Dick, his affair, Terrance Cook...respectively
-Lamb is investigating the crash and in prime position to point the blame anywhere
-apparently no one knew him, but we find out he's the "Howard Stern" of Neptune High...there could have been a lot of people who wanted to shut him up
-he did the radio show, Ahoy Mateys with Vincent "Butters" Clemens
-Butters is Mr. Clemens son
-Butters has something going with Mac
-Mac's got something with Beaver
-Mac is also the one who told V about Ahoy Mateys
-he's gay, at least for all intents and purposes, and since he's gay here's who else has had gay associated with them this season...
-The Pirate's Ship people: Peter, another bus crash victim; Kylie, cheerleader; Marlena, her girlfriend; Ryan, in love with MO and tortured MO's parents; Kelly Kuzzio, the baseball player; mysterious unknown poster who Ryan "wouldn't hold his breath on"
-the two most obvious gay links are Ryan who was in love with him, and...
-Peter who was also gay, also died in the bus crash, and also would have had no reason to go to a baseball stadium that day. I don't say that because I'm stereotyping all gay guys as not liking baseball...but because in Ahoy Mateys Ryan gripes about Marcos being made to do "normal" things, suggesting that he wouldn't have normally gone to a baseball game, and then Dick tells Veronica that Peter won the baseball raffle and then threw it away, suggesting that he too had no interest in baseball. Peter also talked about the "outing of all outings".
-The less obvious gay links are Beaver who gives off a strong vibe, Dick, who had an unfortunate experience, and Woody, who perved on Logan while working out. There may be more, but suffice it to say, there some gay things happening in Neptune and with Marcos at the center, I'm thinking gay = solving the bus crash.

So, to sum up, the people that Marcos could possibly lead to are these, and I'm only listing major characters here because RT said he would never make it some random guest star...
Woody, Lamb, Duncan, Fitzpatricks, Logan, Weevil, Beaver, Dick, Terrance Cook, Butters, Mr. Clemens, Mac...
Now of those, the ones that V/Keith haven't accused yet are Duncan, Lamb, Logan, Beaver, Dick, Butters, Mr. Clemens, and Mac.
Now of course two things are true...first, I'm way to huge of a VM fan to possibly think I could ever guess this right, and second, this is a list of eight people so there is an off chance I do but for really broad reasons. So yeah, this is after watching 3 1/2 randoms...more later but definitely before Tuesday!

GREYS ANATOMY - Blues For Sister Someone

Okay, maybe I'm the only one who isn't all gaga over McVet, so sue me. I honestly don't know what it is...maybe I'm just too far gone with too much of a bad taste in my mouth after George/Meredith and Izzy/Denny but there is so little about this show that doesn't piss me off anymore. The only thing that didn't completely annoy me about this episode was the divorce attorney because she was hilarious. But even that was a little tainted because Izzy and George were there. I go back and forth about which one of those storylines I hate the most, and I think I've settled on Izzy. I was talking to my sister about this and I think its because with George I'm just grossed out and pissed off at the storyline...but the Izzy/Denny thing is just ridiculously unrealistic, bad, bad writing. Nothing like this would ever happen in a hospital, especially to this extent and the fact that the writers want us to accept it for dramatic purposes is stupid and insulting.

Chris O'Donnell is cute, and that's fine, but he's not Derek. You started out with this Derek and Meredith thing, and if you can't sustain a relationship and have it be interesting without keeping them apart, then you're not very good writers.

Burktina - I don't like Burke and I never have, but there were some sweet moments to this and I liked seeing his vunerability. His character, of course, will not grow from this at all, and he'll be right back to being an ass next week...and unless Burke/George is your big gay storyline in the works, what the hell is going on there?

And don't even start with Addie/Derek. This is the hazard of the writer's blog. When I watched the episode, I thought Addie telling Mer about the bad sex was so freakin' funny and Derek using Addison for sex when he was jealous of Meredith was not so bad either, but then when I read the writer's motivations behind that, it ruined the whole thing. Apparently...

"[Addison] put herself out there emotionally when she flew across the country to get Derek back and she’s taken a lot of hits and eaten a lot of crow since she walked into Seattle Grace. This particular day has been complete crap for her. A patient got her into big, big trouble. Why would our Addison – world renowned surgeon – put herself in a position where a patient can get her into trouble? Because, Rose is isolated from her husband and Addison saw a way to help them reconnect. Since, Addy so desperately wants to reconnect with Derek, she tried to help Rose.
I didn’t really understand just how lonesome Addison was until she gave that heartfelt, “Thank you” when Derek asked her if she wanted to have hot sex. This gorgeous woman is profoundly lonely and it breaks my heart a little and I think she deserves a few moments of shower bliss with her dreamy hubbie."

REALLY???? So let me get this straight...she cheats on her husband, decides she wants him back, she comes back and interrupts a happy life that he's trying to build, and because its not exactly a walk in the park, she deserves hot sex??? WHAT THE HELL??? She doesn't deserve a damn thing. She is an adulterer, and the fact is, no one asked her to come back, the other fact is, SHE'S STILL LYING TO HER HUSBAND. You can write this ridiculous crap however you want to for the drama, and how you wrote it wasn't all that bad, but don't feed me, an educated, experienced adult, this crap about a lying, cheating woman not deserving to be lonely. You reap what you sow.

And if you make me watch George/Callie sex again I'm done I swear.

MARS - what????????

Okay, so here's the deal...thinking back over the last few weeks and the insane amount of information we've gotten...I'm wanting to go back over the episodes I've got saved on my TiVo (which is roughly 10, I know its only 1/2 but its better than none) and blog an entry that just sums up the parts that I think are important that I might have missed. Some of the episodes I have go back to like 2.04/05 so it could be pretty useful assuming RT was dropping clues that far back. Either way, I think it will help me get my head straight for what is sure to be a whammie of a finale...not too sure Tuesday's ep is gonna be any less intense either, so I'm gonna try to get the post started before this week, but it probably won't be done...

In other news, my Stars are officially DOA, and my Stros have fallen so far out of first place in one weekend its not even funny. Choking against the Reds'll do that.