The Emmy's!

What would an obsessive tv blog be without an Emmy roundup review?!



So here are my thoughts. -There are TONES of people who should have one...there are even more people who really DESERVED to be nominated. -And from what I have read on various websites a lot of people argree with me. (on the particular people specifically)

These people include,

• Lauren Graham - I mean come on already! Although I must admit season 7 was not the best season...Lauren did a great job as usual!
• Maura Tierney - I'd forgotten about her myself till I was reading other people's comments. She has been really great through the last few seasons of ER. -Everyone has forgotten ER even exists. Pitty.
• Matthew Perry - I don't even know what to say about Matty. He just rocks!
• Ellen Pompeo - okay she was in the top 10...but thats still not top 5. Thoughout season 3 I was able to not HATE Meredith anymore..infact now I like her a lot! Ellen was great in this season.
• Kate Walsh - okay I'm not saying she has to WIN, but maybe next year now that she has her own show she might stand a chance.
• Dave Annabele - He was great in the first season of B&S!
• I would say Jill Hennessy..but I don't know if season 6 was as good as the others.

-There are probably a million more people who I will think of later...


anyways....

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okay onto the actual happenings at the Emmy's.

I was extremely disapointed with the Red Carpet interviews done by Lisa Rinna and Joey Fatone. Terrible commentary. -They also somehow managed to not talk to a single cast member from Grey's Anatomy! And the questions they asked were just horrible! ...plus Lisa Rinna did seem to be on crack..like Joey suggested. I really hope those two don't make it back next year. ick! I could do a WAY better job.
I watched the E! red carpet coverage later on, and they talked to almost all of my favourite people, and had actual conversations and did not turn 'wacky'.

As for the awards shows,
I was very happy that Katherine won. But I was disapointed that that was only emmy for Grey's! I am not a fan of the Sopranos...and have never actually seen an episode. So as far as I know it could be the best show in the whole world...but it could be a terrible show. It seemed a little Sopranos centered to me.
Now I somewhat expected Heroes to not win. Sure it would have been nice if they had. :)

The set was horrific! It's a TERRIBLE idea to put so many people behind the stage. They would have spent the whole show looking at peoples backs! It's not like they were even little known actors or fans or something...they were winning people! Stupid.

I liked the opening number, not as good as Conan's song about NBC, but still entertaining. Ryan Seacrest was okay. Not great, but not overly terrible. -But the whole stupid costume thing...was stupid. And a waste of time really. The Sing-off thing was entertaining..sort of. Steve Colbert and John Stewart were entertaining. I thought when Kira Sedgewick, Mary-Louise Parker and Glenn Close came out they looked like Charlie's Angels. And I was glad to see a varied group of presenters from all my favourite shows...that were invited.

Also..whoever is doing the announcements...learn to pronounce peoples names! Especially those who are NOMINATED!


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Best Dressed

I didn't think any of the dresses I saw were terrible. But maybe they weren't showing those. I loved all the ones that were brightly colored. -Except Minnie Driver's yellow one...but that might be bias, because I just don't like her.

I thought Katherine Heigl looked gorgeous! I liked Kate Walsh and Ali Larter in the red. -Ali Larter has this look like she's made to be there all glammed up. I didn't like Ellen Pompeo's hair..it was a bit odd. At first I thought she'd cut it really short.
I also was not a fan of Terry O'Quinn's bright metallic pink shirt...it just didn't work for me.

I sit on the fence regarding Vanessa Williams' feather dress. I liked the color, just not so sure about the feathers.


I might do a more extensive review of the fashions, when the magazines come out next week.

Kate Walsh - The Sitcom...SERIOUSLY

So in the last month..and a bit, I've been obsessed with youtubeing interviews with the Grey's Anatomy cast, mainly Kate Walsh.

Now I though Lauren Graham's interviews were weird and bizzare....okay they still ARE...

But in every interview Kate Walsh ends up talking about some weird thing that she did or happened to her, rather than about the show. (Which personally I find a little more interesting) Each time I hear something else that she's done, it gets me thinking of a sitcom. I've made a list (I was bored in a lecture), and I will post the list later of all the things that I feel could play out in an actual sitcom. So perhaps something to include on the Fall 2008 lineup. The Kate Walsh Show.

Seriously!

A Random Dream...Don't Get Me Started!

This is copied from an email I sent to my friend Ness...(with minor editing)

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Last night I had this majorly weird Gilmore Girls dream. It was like a full blown ep or something. (I'm going through serious withdrawels....plus watching Awww-worthy eps on foxtel sometimes doesn't help). Anyways...so in my dream, Lorelai (and Rory) moves to the country to get away from Stars Hollow...and Luke - this was set somewhere between when they broke up and when they got back together...-now I know you're probably saying to yourself, Stars Hollow isn't exactly city...but the was way way out middle of nowhere country...with horse and cart type stuff...so Rory is still going off to college, and comes to visit sometimes...I forget exactly what happened in the middle, but near the end..which has been at least a year or something I think, this guy comes in this horse and carriage, and gives them these tins (think those eclipse mint tins), they are black and have writing on them...saying Christopher's death date or whatever...like an obituary...and there reaction was sad...but not overly dramatic..which was a little strange...I think they didn't like Christopher for something...even Rory. SO anyhoo...I woke up around then...so I don't know what happened after that.... Possibly Luke tracked them down and came to visit...maybe. lol Oh and there was a fire and some weird guests too.


.....The problem was I woke up early (for a weekend) in the morning, like 7am or something, and then sat in bed for a while before I went back to sleep, thinking how much I want them to make a Gilmore Girls tv movie. -and also just how much I hated...okay hated is a strong word, anyways..the last season (7) just wasn't up to scratch really in some ways. They really dragged out the Christopher thing...and I REALLY hate Christopher, and then didn't get Lorelai and Luke back together till the very end of the finale. ...just wasn't satisfactory as an ending at all!
...plus there's the whole loose end that is Sookie's 3rd child...okay even if it was a real life thing written into the show...it should still be dealt with!

I think this whole, having no new eps of anything is really messing with me! I've got too much time to overthink things. -But you know what, I'm not the same way about the Crossing Jordan finale...I knew that CJ never stood a chance of ending in a good way...with Jordan and Woody have actually had a chance to TRY and have a relationship..rather than random one time deals...
Gilmore Girls always seemed tie up the loose ends they had, and had a very rounded out season...but season 7 felt too dragged out, and then they only had a short amount of time left for polishing it off.

Okay I will TRY and let it go....I said TRY!

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Carlie

More Quotes

Here are some more Sam-centric LV quotes, care of Ness. :)

Sam- Ed's the master mind behind this whole thing and Nessa and Delinda are his evil little minions. See, I never trusted those supermodel bitches, they've been planning this for weeks! Months!

Sam- I never trusted her and that English accent. That's not her accent!

Sam- We have a problem, we are completely overbooked and then your boy Danny just gave away our last two suites to the relatively hot cop and the bitchy mortician from Boston.

Sam- Wha's happening to you? I say trashy and this is the best you can do?
Mary-Sorry they cancelled my Whores R Us card.

Delinda- Why is she so freaked out about a billionaire husband who is smokin hot, sexy and sweet?
Nessa- He's the one guy alive who can do to her what she does to everyone else.
Delinda- You mean manipulate, scam, scheme and seduce?

Dvds

Oh I forgot to mention, I ordered seasons 2 and 3 of Grey's Anatomy and Heroes season 1 on dvd from Amazon yesterday. They dropped in price, so I thought I better order them while they are so low! I've decided it's probably worth paying more money in one go to get dvds from the US, than waiting for them to go on sale here. One reason is that I have less reason (hopefully) to bitch about a lack of some special features. They should arrive near the end of September. I can't wait!

The next lot will be Studio 60 and Brothers and Sisters, which will arrive in October/early Nov.

and then NCIS and 90210 in December. -Just in time for chrissy!

Quotes

I blame Vanessa. She's watching Las Vegas dvds at the moment, and so quotes are stuck in her head...and then once repeated are stuck in mine. So here are some of the quotes I took from season 2.

Michael Buble: "Mary you don't have to yell! Mimes can hear, they just can't talk."

Ed: "Are they on drugs?"

Ed: "Would you believe she has a genius IQ?"
Sam: "No"

Nessa: "I know it won't be the same without Mary!"
Sam: "No it won’t!"
Nessa: "I'm sorry did you just get misty-eyed?!"
Sam: "NO!"

Delinda: "I mean I have a great....everything! I could be the new face! New Face!"

Sam: "I would not like to be in your brain."
Delinda: "It does kinda give me a headache sometimes."

Ed: "Well why can't you jog during the day?"
Delinda: "Cause it's 115 during the day! I think I think I have a better chance of surviving someone trying to pick me up, than jogging in the heat of the Vegas day!"

Delinda: "But he was definitely creepy!"
Ed: "Creepy how?"
Delinda: "Creepy creepy creepy!"

Nessa: "Your spouse's name is blacked out!"


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oh I'm going to be speaking them in my sleep I think!

Toodles. -Carlie :)

Can there be too much tv?

After the revelation that I could unlock my expensive dvd/vcr/dvd recorder to play any region dvds I wished it too, I was faced with the problem of having too many choices about my dvd purchases. So I have tried to be sensible. I have plotted out in an excell spreadsheet, the prices both US and Australian, as well as the release dates. In many cases the US ones are prefereable as they have more special features than the Aussie ones. Also the prices includ the exchange rate, and in some cases probably the shipping charge as well. There are also some that are not avaliable here anyways...which means I HAVE to get them from the US, if I want to get them at all. So now the hard part is trying to decide which I want to get first. -should I got by release date, or by place in my overal list of favorite shows? Then of course there is the whole limited funds thing..and the fact that there are many dvds coming out here that I want to get as well.

I think I'll see how my work goes, if I get shifts next week and the week after, I might consider ordering 3 dvd sets instead of just 2...or 4 instead of 3 etc. I really want to start with Grey's Anatomy season's 2 and 3...but I should also work out whether NCIS comes out around the same time, and also Studio 60... buying them at the same time will save on postage...or maybe breaking it up into smaller groups, so I don't have to wait as long. -This is something that is going to bug me for a little while...
Damm options! It was so much easier when I had less to choose from!