television, new religion (THAT SONG IS AMAZING)
It's been awhile. I have comments/posts to catch up on. But...fandom is taking precedence. as usual.
How I Met Your Mother
- SHOW YOU'RE BACK ON TRACK. I don't know about anybody else, but this episode felt more like HIMYM than it has in a long time, amirite?
- I'm having a hard time remembering what happened in the episode other than BARNEY. SUITING IN A DECIDEDLY DOWNWARD DIRECTION. Jeans! T-shirts! Mauling Marshall in his suit (lol forever, basically)! I got so much enjoyment of just seeing NPH in his jeans that I think a rewatch is in order.
- Frank, Lloyd, and Wright. Ted not being awesome? YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID.
- So, Rachel Bilson's not the mother, and I'm coming to terms with this. While I think she's delightful and it would've been awesome just in general to have MET the mother for chrissake's already, I'm kind of okay with her not being the mom. I liked all the little insights we got to The Roommate Who Will Eventually Be The Mother and for what it's worth, I hope the writers show Ted dating The Mother. Craig & Carter have both given interviews where they've said they're not sure whether they going to show that aspect of Ted/Mother's relationship and after hearing older!Ted Mosby talk about how fantastic the mother is, I want to SEE it. I want to fall in love with The Mother, just like Ted does.
- I can't remember anything else super specific from the show, but the end shot with Barney scoring with the Hot Bartender? HOT. Like...the hottest thing the show has done in awhile :D
- Oh, the musical number! Adorable, basically. NPH could sing the phone book, you know it's true.
Bones
First, the angry stuff:
- Angela and Wendall. No. Nooooooooooo. When the show first introduced it, I was a little intrigued only because Wendall is just so gosh darn cute. But after this episode, the pairing just left a bad taste in my mouth and I have to say that most of it was due to Angela. Hooking up in the Egyptian Room, really? I feel like there's still a very vocal minority that loves Angela/Hodgins (and like me, pray every time I watch Bones that they will make their way back to each other) and to have Angela hooking up with someone else in the Egyptian Room is like, fandom sacrilege. However, when they hooked up in the hotel room, did anybody else notice how the hotel bed kind of resembled the Egyptian bed? I don't have any pictorial evidence of it, but when the camera panned on the room, I was like....wait a minute.
And now, the good stuff:
- Sweets, proving just how awesomely sane he is. And also, I'm just going to direct you to cashewdani's recap of Bones and basically what she says, I agree with. Gah, what a depressing shot of Hodgins on the couch with Sweets. (although, how kick ass is it that they're shedding light on the Hodgins/Sweets friendship? Approve.)
- Oh yeah, and then there's Bones and Booth, looking all GQMF in their trenches and then BOOTH IN PLAID AND HIS HOCKEY TSHIRT, MORE PLZ.
- LOL forever Bones screaming and Booth whipping out his gun, only to be pwned by the MRI machine.
- 10 Awesome points to the local sheriff who actually helped our lead characters and wasn't a cockblock.
- Aliens are really nice anthropologists who get a little zealous with their probing! Booth pokes Bones and there's no makeout scene to follow (boo!). It was a nice end to a cute episode :D
- Really, I'm only excited for AI to be back because of the Idolatry webshow on EW.com. Michael Slezak is BOSS. Also, how do you top the amazement of last season? I thought season 6 couldn't be topped, but Season 8 gave us the magic of Kradison and no one can take that away from us now.
- ...I didn't really miss Paula, at all. Mary J Blige > Posh Spice, but Posh Spice wasn't terrible. Randy is the worst of all of them and I can't believe he's the only original judge to be on the show next year (he's like, the cockroach of reality show judges).
- I don't have any clear favorites, although I liked Justin Williams (i think is his name...Cancer Guy and also, Guy who Performed in White Chocolate with Matt Giraud and Kris Allen last year at Hollywood Week) and thought he was super gorgeous. I also liked that guy who looked like he came from 1975 - he had a cool vibe and an original look. And if his arms heal, how BAD ASS would it be to see an idol rock out on some drums? I kind of hope he becomes the dark horse of the competition.
How I Met Your Mother
- SHOW YOU'RE BACK ON TRACK. I don't know about anybody else, but this episode felt more like HIMYM than it has in a long time, amirite?
- I'm having a hard time remembering what happened in the episode other than BARNEY. SUITING IN A DECIDEDLY DOWNWARD DIRECTION. Jeans! T-shirts! Mauling Marshall in his suit (lol forever, basically)! I got so much enjoyment of just seeing NPH in his jeans that I think a rewatch is in order.
- Frank, Lloyd, and Wright. Ted not being awesome? YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID.
- So, Rachel Bilson's not the mother, and I'm coming to terms with this. While I think she's delightful and it would've been awesome just in general to have MET the mother for chrissake's already, I'm kind of okay with her not being the mom. I liked all the little insights we got to The Roommate Who Will Eventually Be The Mother and for what it's worth, I hope the writers show Ted dating The Mother. Craig & Carter have both given interviews where they've said they're not sure whether they going to show that aspect of Ted/Mother's relationship and after hearing older!Ted Mosby talk about how fantastic the mother is, I want to SEE it. I want to fall in love with The Mother, just like Ted does.
- I can't remember anything else super specific from the show, but the end shot with Barney scoring with the Hot Bartender? HOT. Like...the hottest thing the show has done in awhile :D
- Oh, the musical number! Adorable, basically. NPH could sing the phone book, you know it's true.
Bones
First, the angry stuff:
- Angela and Wendall. No. Nooooooooooo. When the show first introduced it, I was a little intrigued only because Wendall is just so gosh darn cute. But after this episode, the pairing just left a bad taste in my mouth and I have to say that most of it was due to Angela. Hooking up in the Egyptian Room, really? I feel like there's still a very vocal minority that loves Angela/Hodgins (and like me, pray every time I watch Bones that they will make their way back to each other) and to have Angela hooking up with someone else in the Egyptian Room is like, fandom sacrilege. However, when they hooked up in the hotel room, did anybody else notice how the hotel bed kind of resembled the Egyptian bed? I don't have any pictorial evidence of it, but when the camera panned on the room, I was like....wait a minute.
And now, the good stuff:
- Sweets, proving just how awesomely sane he is. And also, I'm just going to direct you to cashewdani's recap of Bones and basically what she says, I agree with. Gah, what a depressing shot of Hodgins on the couch with Sweets. (although, how kick ass is it that they're shedding light on the Hodgins/Sweets friendship? Approve.)
- Oh yeah, and then there's Bones and Booth, looking all GQMF in their trenches and then BOOTH IN PLAID AND HIS HOCKEY TSHIRT, MORE PLZ.
- LOL forever Bones screaming and Booth whipping out his gun, only to be pwned by the MRI machine.
- 10 Awesome points to the local sheriff who actually helped our lead characters and wasn't a cockblock.
- Aliens are really nice anthropologists who get a little zealous with their probing! Booth pokes Bones and there's no makeout scene to follow (boo!). It was a nice end to a cute episode :D
- Really, I'm only excited for AI to be back because of the Idolatry webshow on EW.com. Michael Slezak is BOSS. Also, how do you top the amazement of last season? I thought season 6 couldn't be topped, but Season 8 gave us the magic of Kradison and no one can take that away from us now.
- ...I didn't really miss Paula, at all. Mary J Blige > Posh Spice, but Posh Spice wasn't terrible. Randy is the worst of all of them and I can't believe he's the only original judge to be on the show next year (he's like, the cockroach of reality show judges).
- I don't have any clear favorites, although I liked Justin Williams (i think is his name...Cancer Guy and also, Guy who Performed in White Chocolate with Matt Giraud and Kris Allen last year at Hollywood Week) and thought he was super gorgeous. I also liked that guy who looked like he came from 1975 - he had a cool vibe and an original look. And if his arms heal, how BAD ASS would it be to see an idol rock out on some drums? I kind of hope he becomes the dark horse of the competition.