MIA

I'm just coming off almost 2 days without internet access, and I'm a little crazy....but I just came across this pic of Janel Moloney, and I'm not sure if its just me, that I've been watching too much Grey's (plus Night at the Museum, or truth, but in this pic of Janel Moloney, she looks like Kim Raver!

It's odd, and annoying....and possibly a sign that I need to stop watching tv!

In other news, I found this really adorable site listing reasons why seasons 5-7 of The West Wing are awesome!
http://community.livejournal.com/hymnformysoul/3765.html

But I must say I am slightly dissapointed in their choices for The Cold...cause as much as I love Kate and Will, we all know that ep is really ALL about Josh and Donna!....ok I spoke too soon...
-Definate points for Freedonia...and including Annabeth!
Sooo good. I really need to watch some more soon....

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Carlie

The Challenge

So I've been saying I'm going to get around to doing a fave episode list for 10 of my top shows. I've finally decided to try and do it week by week, or however long it takes me to decide show by show.

I'm going to start with Friends, or Dawson's Creek...maybe I will be able to do both over the weekend.

The criteria for the select episode will be as follows:

1. The episode cannot be a big special event episode, eg. muscial, series finale, Christmas/Holiday episode (or similar style), part of a 2 or more part arch, season finale. (however exceptions may apply to some shows)
2. The episode must be likeable overall, and not just for select scenes. -However I do not have to like every minute of the ep.
3. The episodes will be chosen for MY own personal love of the ep, not for critic/fan popularity.
4. The chosen episode must have a good rewatchable quality, not just a really awesome ep artistically, but one that I can't get enough of.

I think that is all my criterion for now, but I may update it later on.

Watch this space to see which ep of Friends I love the most...this week :P

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Carlie

Not As Bad As I Seem!

Eveyday, or at least everytime I go to look up something or someone relating to my numerous obsessions...I find comfort in that for everything I'm looking up, there is someone else out there who has looked up, AND commented about it.

For any lengths that I go to find out what I want to know, there is someone MUCH worse out there. And by worse I don't mean crazy as all looneytoons....but someone who is perhaps slightly more dedicated, or involved than I....however that said....there are plenty of looneytoons out there.

I think I'd consider myself a moderately obsessive fan overall...because while I consider the idea of going to places I know certain people have gone to, in hopes that I just happen to run into them....It's relatively harmless. Additionally, while I feel the need to find out about personal lives of people, and stuff....it really just comes down to a simple google search, and all I really want to know is if something is true or not.

I'd definately say I was obsessive about certain people, following on twitter, googleing, youtubing any interview I can get my hand on, reading any article I can get my hands (well eyes really) on.

But I'm not out there writing fanfic, where the line between reality and fiction (actors/characters) seems to be blurred...I also don't include myself in these senarios....its kinda weird. I also don't publish my comments on the things I look up/find out about the people I like...

So there is delusional, extremely obsessive,...and then there is me. :P


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Carlie

LOST...and others

So I told you it would happen, and it finally did, I'm hooked again. Ep 4 definately had me going OOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! And like other's said would happen, I am starting to get sad at the beginning and the end of each ep, cause it's getting closer to the end.
-Wow I just thought about it and its been a long time since an long-running show (more than 2 seasons) of mine has ended. Not counting DVD shows ofcourse. The last one was ER last year...which has similarities to LOST in that it feels like time to end it, and it has been coming, however, unlike ER, LOST has planed out the storyline for year now! So excited to see how it all ends, but yet dredding it like hell!

In other news, I finished season 11 of ER. Which marks the turning point in ER, with Carter being the last original (never leaving) character to leave. I imagine I would have been really sad and emotional the first time I watched his last ep...and I was pretty emotional this time too. I miss Carter already!
However season 11 really lost some big characters, and never really replaced them. They kicked off Corday...then they lost Chen, and then Carter....huh funny, I never noticed they were the 'C' characters! They never really replaced the lost women on that show, and after Carter left there weren't many REALLY GOOD characters anyways...sad.
The problem now is that I don't have season 12 on dvd, and I'm fighting myself from going back and watching season 15 all over again! I'm weak!

Episode 14 of The Good Wife is my fave so far...mainly because Cary got high! But it made for great scenes...and the rest of the story was actually really interesting. I'm so bummed that I have to wait till March for new eps. Damm Olympics are really messing up the TV schedule!
Also this is problematic because a lot of new shows are starting in March, or are coming back in March, so there will be more shows to fit into my download schedule/limit. But it'll all work out.

I'm caught up on Cougar Town. I don't care what people think, I still like it a lot.
I'm slowly catching up on Parks and Recreation. I just watched Megan Mullally's ep...which was odd seeing as I'm watching a lot of Will & Grace these days. I also can't believe I keep forgetting she was even in that show. It keeps happening to me. Oh well. I've seen it now...I had to redownload it cause the first one was a dud file :( Boo. So that's 8 eps of s2 down, so not too bad.

I think that's all for now....I don't have the energy to get into Brothers & Sisters or Greys or PP right now...Maybe I'll save that for the weekend.


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Carlie

TV Time

Wow...long time without posting!!
Well after the awards shows, I went back to my regularly scheduled programs.

I finished season 10 of ER, and am on my way though season 11. I finally gave in and started season 5 of Will and Grace. I still don't have season 6 though, so I'm gonna try and find that on special somewhere soon hopefully.

I felt so bad that not been able to remember the name of one of my fave eps of Pushing Daisies, that I think I will have to watch it when I finish ER.
I'm not quite ready to watch my new seasons of Grey's Anatomy on dvd. I think I'll wait a while. I would like to get Private Practice s1 before I start season 5 of Grey's.

In terms of downloaded shows....Lost came back last week, so I'll be watching that each week now. I enjoyed the first ep, but sadly it might take a few eps to get completely re-hooked, hopefully not too long cause there are not many eps left!
A lot of shows were on break, so I was downloading season 2 of Parks and Recreation, which I'm enjoying. But it will now have to wait till I have space after my other shows. I'm loving The Good Wife - and have now got my mum hooked. I only just watched a new ep, and can't wait for another one next week! Looking forward to new Modern Family too!

In othe news - I'm on a mission to pick 10 shows and try and pick my fave from each. More criteria to come, but it will mostly be based on which ep I love, and can/have watched over and over or something like that.
So far I have narrowed down the shows....I think. lol

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Carlie

Two Sides of the Same Story

So since we've had a major heat wave these past few days, I've been watching a lot of Dawson's Creek lately. My sister and I are almost at the end of season 3, thanks to a few days of temperatures in the late 30's. For the past few days it has been way too hot to do anything, but sit in front of the TV under the airconditioner, with a few Super Mario or swimming breaks.

This whole Dawson's Creek thing started after my sister wanted to watch an ep after learning that Joshua Jackson, one of the stars of the 3 Mighty Ducks movies we had just completed watching in full, was in it. Now Dawson's Creek, herefore to be refered to as DC, starting in the US in 1998, I'm asuming we got it in 1999, but I can't be sure. I myself did not start watching it until very late into season 2, about 4 or 5 episodes before the finale. I hate to admit it, but I was one of those people who had never seen it, and since thought it was awful....how quickly that changed. So I myself spent my mid to late teen years loving it to death. I remember taping the season 5 finale that aired the day I left for the US in 2003....and watching it in fuzzing black and white when I got back (this was the result of a crappy TV aerial). And then finding season 6 by accident being played during the day in summer 2004...and taping the last 3 episodes when my family went to Canberra, and watching them in one go when I got back....and bawling my eyes out (even though I had been spoiled about Jen's death due to the internet and channel 10 taking forever to air the eps).

So here we are years and years later...It's been 6 years since DC ended for me, and I'm watching it from the start for at least the 3rd time on dvd, (although it has probably been more time than that), all because my sister wanted to.
It only just occured to me today, that this is totally new to her. I mean it isn't TOO dated, there are the odd references I have to explain to her, but for the most part she gets it. But what I'm really enjoying is watching her follow the character's stories. I mean, I've seen everything many times, and remember pretty much most of what happens. Things just don't affect me the same way anymore. I mean sure there are things to come that I'm pretty sure will draw a tear, but the little things don't do much to me anymore. Today my sister was getting teary over a really sweet slightly sad episode in which Principal Green gets forced to quit...even after Joey and the gang rally around him...

What I've also come to realise, with a lot of things, not just DC, that you can never get back that first time you watch something. There is nothing like being excited about what is going to happen next....I miss that with The West Wing...I LOVED not knowing....and even when I knew things, I didn't know details. While I am enjoying other things about rewatching DC (and other shows) there is something special about watching something for the first time. I mean...I'm already depressed about Jen and her fate....and it's only season 3.

So next time you watch something new, something for the first time, enjoy it!


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-Carlie

A New Year, A New Kind of Crazy!

So my intention, post Christmas, was to watch 30Rock and finish off season  3 of Grey's Anatomy. I have finished off 30Rock. However I have a few discs left of Grey's. -Which is okay cause I just ordered seasons 4 and 5 from Amazon, so I'll be done by the time they get here.

Now the part that is crazy, is that after watching all 3 Might Ducks movies in the last week, my sister decided she wanted to watch Dawson's Creek. I thought she was kidding! lol. I'd been considering going back and re-watching a few times in the last 2 years, but never got to it. So I thought we'd watch the first ep, and she'd be weirded out, A) cause its old, and B) cause its not like any other teen show....especially the ones on TV these days.
But she kept asking to watch more. So I gave it a few more eps, and somehow it has managed to keep her interest right into halfway of season 2. I'm enjoying watching it, while not paying full attention some of the time.
Its hard for me to watch and keep my mouth shut about some of the bigger events. I don't want to give her spoilers, cause I'm interested to see how she feels in the end RE: Joey choosing between Pacey and Dawson. I think part of me is more excited to see her reactions, than the actual bits themselves...which makes sense cause I've seen all the eps at least 3 times each.

In other TV news, our computer died over the weekend, meaning I haven't been able to download anything. Which totally sucks! I do have a couple of eps sitting on the laptop that I can watch, but I'm just not feeling motivated! Plus my laptop currently lives on the computer desk in the kitchen, connected to the net, so I am not going absolutely CRAZY!
Before it died, I had downloaded the first 2 episodes of Parks and Recreation, which I'm enjoying so far. I've also watched the first episode of Modern Family. It's okay. I'm not sure if I like it or not yet. I'll give it a few more eps, its a strage sort of show in terms of format...or something.


I'm sure I'll be branching out soon. Now that I'm done with 30Rock, I'll be able to start one of the many other shows waiting in the wings...aka my dvd shelf :P
Plus JB has Will & Grace really cheap, so I might have to buy up the last 3 seasons. Maybe ER, 2 seasons of that shouldn't take too long.....I hope :P


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Carlie