Cute!

30 09 2009

I love checking my blog stats everyday, not only to see how many overall hits I get, but also to see what keyword searches return stuff from UberFanGirl’s Blog. Some of the more interesting searches have included “samus hell hawt” (no idea what that person would’ve been looking for!) and “dean sex sam” (except Dean and Sam are BROTHERS, guys! And that’s gross!).

I have noticed over the past little while a dramatic increase in Halloween costume-related searches that are returning my photos form Comic-Con. From the number of hits I’m getting, it looks like there will be a lot of Silk Spectre II’s out there this Halloween. And, actually, tonnes of Marty McFly’s and Doc Brown’s, too.

But my favourite has to be one of today’s search engine results: “Sheldon Doppler Shift”. I can only presume someone out there is looking for a pic of Sheldon in his Doppler Shift costume because they are thinking about doing that for Halloween, and I LOVE IT! I must insist, dear person whose search found my blog, if you come back, and you did in fact end up dressing in that costume, please, please, PLEASE post a link or pic to you in your costume! Pretty please!





A Liquor Day to Remember

28 09 2009

I remember Liquor Day like it was yesterday. Probably because it was yesterday. Actually, I suppose officially, Liquor Day was Friday, but I wasn’t able to celebrate until last night.

So what’s Liquor Day? It’s a new Canadian holiday (says me), in celebration of the Trailer Park Boys, the date marking the occasion of their last return to Sunnyvale in Countdown to Liquor Day. For 10 years, Ricky, Bubbles, and Sexian.. err… Julian, made me and the rest of Canada laugh while they smoked dope, got drunk as fuck, and ate chicken fingers. A national holiday is the least we can give them in return.

Ok, for some ungodly reason, a lot of people I know (the less cool ones) don’t actually watch Trailer Park Boys. That should be a crime in itself, but at least they are just ignorant to what they’re missing out on. Worse than their stupidity – much worse – is all the people I don’t know who are online, on tv, and in newspapers, giving the second film by the Boys lame reviews. What is up with that?!

Allow me to say, for the record, right now, that Trailer Park Boys 2: Countdown to Liquor Day fucking kicked ass. Yes, the film followed a similar formula to the tv show. Yes, the jokes are all about getting stoned and drunk and being stupid. However, Mr Jay Stone of the Canwest News Service (that’s right, I’m naming names of lame reviewers, and I’m calling you out, Jay), this does NOT get old or tiresome. At all. In fact, it’s funnier than ever.

I guess I can accept that Jay just has no sense of humour. Certainly, he is not now, nor ever was, a fan of the show. If he was, he’d have said what I am about to. This film encapsulated everything I loved and will miss about the show: Bubbles’ kitties, Julian’s sexy black t-shirt, Ricky’s -isms, Bo-Bandy’s gut, and Lahey’s ability to single-handedly fuck everything up. Then we were given some new twists and treats, like Bubbles getting a date, J-Roc actually making it (you gotta wait for the credits for that one), and Julian working for Ricky for once.

Besides fanhearting all over my Boys, which I could do for ages, let’s get a little technical for a quick second or two. Dialogue, sound, photography.. all wins, as far as I’m concerned. Ok, I’m not a master of the craft, but I actually noticed the music and thought to myself how well it fit with the scenes (srsly!), and then I have always loved how they cut between the different kinds of cameras they use, integrating security footage or pretend hap-hazard running-with-the-camera shots. And dialogue, well, it’s a large amount of improv, and I doubt anyone could deny how good these guys are at it. Yeah, Jay doesn’t even mention any of those things in his review! Probably because he was too busy coming up with big, fancy, book-learning words like “unspoken and rather endearing piece of cultural anthropology”. It’s actually just a fucking rum and coke, buddy!

Would I have changed anything? Yes. I would have liked a little more face time with Lucy and Sarah because they kill me, and I still really miss Cory and Trevor! Real Trinity was there though (she wasn’t in the first film), and we get to see a bunch of other recurring characters, like Cyrus and former-officer George Green, in jail.

Bottom line: If you love the Boys, you will love this movie. Also, the last weekend in September shall henceforth be for celebrating Liquor Day in Canada, pass it on.

-uberfangirl

p.s. Sorry for picking on Jay Stone. Kind of.





Big Bang is Back!

23 09 2009

I finally got a chance to see the season 3 premier. It’s a goodie! Penny is super glad Leonard’s back. And I mean SUPER glad. I guess that’s meant to be the highlight of the episode, but I rather enjoyed seeing Sheldon’s mom again. She’s so great, and an amazing insight into Sheldon’s childhood and present character. Plus, it’s Aunt Jackie :)

Otherwise, the writers were on fire with the dialogue, the actors had impeccable delivery, and makeup did a spectacular job with the guys’ north pole hair growth.

And, obviously, Sheldon = <3

Check it out. Right now!





Congrats!

21 09 2009

To everyone involved in Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, way to go on the Emmy win!

Now give me more already!!

And in honour of Dr Horrible killing television, enjoy Nathan Fillion sans shirt:

The hammer is his penis

The hammer is his penis, and he's feeling pretty smug about it.

Photo found on Moderate in the Middle, and actually from Nathan’s Firefly days, but it’s still hot, and therefore it stays.

I have a weekly reading blog (an actual 4th year university assignment, actually referred to as  “reading blog” by the prof) due in a few hours, so this is all I can manage for now. Catch up with me in a few days. Fingers crossed.





SPOILER ALERT!

16 09 2009

Sooooo, it’s been a while, eh. Why? I had good reasons. I can’t remember them now. Something about working, and moving, annndd… I dunno. Life outside of school always seems a little hazy. But I’m back, and the good news is, so is Supernatural! Just in time to fill the void True Blood should have left. Normally I’d say, “Sad face”, right about now, in reference to the True Blood season ending. However, I’m not so sure I can manage a sad face right now, and please let me tell you why.

Oh, sorry. First, in case you haven`t guessed already: SPOILER ALERT!!!

Sigh. Let me start by saying that, until three weeks ago, True Blood was quickly becoming one of my favouritest shows evar! Between Eric and Godric, I was surrounded by hot. Jessica and Hoyt were simply the cutest couple of life (or, um, half life, half undead). Maryann was mysteriously charming, but deceptively evil, and strikingly gorgeous – the perfect villain. Then came the clusterfuck that was episode 11. Excuse my language, but seriously, wtf was that?! And the finale was even worse! Why? Why are you doing this to me, True Blood writers?! I feel like somebody stole my puppy and sent me his cute little puppy extremity in a package made out of confusing and stupid tv. Yeah, I said it.

Dramatics aside, let me back it up a minute, or several episodes actually, to episode 9. I think it was such a poor decision to kill off Godric. Although it was done very, very well – Eric made me cry! – they just could have done so much more with Godric’s character and with the subplot of the show in general. I really loved his comment on vampires having not evolved in the all the time he’s been one, and he could have interacted well with Bill’s “good vampire” image, which I’ve always thought lacked real explanation. Like, why is Bill good anyway, while no other vampires seem to be? It’s not like he has a soul or anything else that sets him apart from the rest of his kind. Godric’s own reformed goodness would have definitely lent depth to the idea that vampires don’t always have to be the Big Bad.

Ugh, Godric’s super sad death aside, things just went downhill all around after that. Well, except Jessica and Hoyt. They were the one thing I continued to look forward in the last few episodes, and Jessica in the truck with that old dude in the finale is the one story line I am interested to see how it pans out. But Maryanne got boring and kinda lame. She ended up barely even qualifying as evil, just, you know, deluded and creepy and immortal. Yes, the heart eating and giant meat-covered gift to her god were pretty gross, but I guess I was just hoping for more there.

Now Eric. Gah. Don’t even get me started. I am very, very disappointed in him. Not because it would appear he’s about to kill Bill (*giggles*), but because he’s in looooove with bloody Sookie Stackhouse! Sure, he claims he does not love humans, but I think we all know different. And that’s gross. I’m sorry, but Sookie is the most annoying person on the show. In fact, if it wasn’t for such a tremendous group of secondary characters, I don’t think I could put up with her at all. Eric could, and should, do so much better.

Which brings me to the worst part of the season finale. After the unnecessarily extended denouement (like, over half the episode), the last 3 minutes involved Bill pro… zzzzzzz……. what? Oh sorry, I fell asleep for a second there, it was so boring just thinking about it. Where was I? Right, right, so Bill proposes to Sookie, she’s unsure of everything (yawn), then while she’s in the bathroom composing herself, and deciding to say yes (shocker), Bill is abducted by a masked man or two – honestly I was only semi-paying attention. The fact of the matter is, I just don’t care! Sookie and Bill are the two least entertaining characters on the show. Get married, don’t get married. Bill dies, Bill doesn’t die. It’s all the same to me. And to try to cliff hang me using the least interesting hook ever.. well, FAIL. I am barely even wondering what will happen next.

You know, I can handle one or two less than stellar episodes, especially from a show that had me dieing week after week like True Blood did. But I need more from a season finale, especially from a show that had me dieing week after week like True Blood did. I suppose I will watch season three when it comes back, but only because I invested myself in two seasons already, and maybe because we might get to see Eric all naked again at some point. I sincerely hope they pick up the pace again though, otherwise I can see this going the way of Heroes. That is, I will completely lose interest and just stop watching.
In better tv news, the season premiere of Supernatural was PHENOMENAL! The end of season 4 made it apparent that these guys and gals know how to write a cliff hanger. Though, I guess you can’t get much of a better hook than Lucifer being raised from Hell. Either way, the wait for season 5 to start felt like forever, and I was not disappointed. Seeing Sam and Dean together again warmed my heart, in the same way Buffy used to, like old friends will. It was nice, followed by intense, followed by more intense. Then, for good measure, more intense.  This is going to be a good season for Supernatural, I can feel it. Definitely looking forward to the next episode. Oh! That is tomorrow!! Yay :)

- UberFanGirl