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I’m not not enjoying this season. But I don’t give a flying frack about the people of Sanctum. I find the immortal murderers who have defined themselves as gods boring. I understand it’s advancing a story line but it’s one that doesn’t hold my attention. The only saving grace for me right now is Murphy and his attitude. I’m also interested in meeting the new Grounders and hearing their story. I don’t understand Octavia’s hand changing. All of her was in the crystallized quicksand so why was only her hand impacted? I’d rather focus on the weird stuff with a new planet than another saving Clarke story. Final thought: Abby is the worst. She is so completely self-absorbed that it’s completely unenjoyable to watch. I really wish she would’ve died in one of the 3,246 catastrophic, world-burning, disasters that have occurred.

The Day After Tomorrow - Yes! Anytime it’s on and I happen upon it I watch. Really most disaster movies will stop me as I click through channels. San Andreas, World War Z, Armageddon or Deep Impact, Dante’s Peak or Volcano, Geostorm, Contagion, Twister, 2012, The 5th Wave, Red Dawn, Independence Day 1 & 2, War of the Worlds (even with Tom Cruise), Pacific Rim 1 & 2, the Jurassic Park/World movies, Godzilla, the Planet of the Apes movies Olympus/London Has Fallen, and the Maze Runner movies. I don’t know what it says about me that I enjoy catastrophic and end of the world movies. I’m choosing not to analyze that too closely.

The Jared/Ashley, Jade/Tanner, etc. show has the first two episodes up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pjvdpr8f3qA I’m slightly ashamed that I watched. I was folding laundry so at least one thing of worth was happening. It’s fluff and drivel. Ashley’s sister was in it. Two I sisters are too much - there is an incredible amount of highlighter on display, and talk of dog semen. Nick the Vile was on hawking his essential oil line that changed his life. I didn’t know that was a thing for him. A positive? Emmy is cute.

Farscape. YES! Sorry to yell. I’m doing a rewatch (again) and last night watched “Crackers Don’t Matter.” When John dressed up to go fight I laughed so hard I was crying. I miss this show. I liked Limitless the tv show much more than the movie and thought it had potential. I also thought The Finder had promise, but sadly it was not to be.

Yes. Yes! The tv entertainment and talk shows, the magazines, the radio hosts blithering on incessantly, it’s all so annoying. I find the love affair with royalty silly. I find it odder still that their lifestyle is being paid for by their “subjects.” I have no use for royalty except for make believe stories, cheesy Hallmark movies, and history lessons.

I finally watched this. I waited because Batman has always been my favorite and I loved yet sometimes hated this show. The finale? Less love but not really hate. The villains worked for me. However, as soon as an older Selina appeared I was completely taken out of the show. I found it jarring. I have no doubt special effects makeup could have worked its magic but they chose not to go that route and it spoiled a lot of the ending for me. I also hated that Bruce got relegated to some light narration and shadow shots. I understand why but I hated it. I think this show ended at the right time but for me personally I only enjoyed about half of the wrap-up.

Psalm - a scared song or hymn. Really, Kim and Kanye, really? No matter what kind of tax evading church they make up or how many times they record North dancing in her all black ensemble as a paid choir harmonizes I’ll never be sold on the idea that this name is anything other than publicity hungry dren. I think all the kids names are, even with the stories they make up to support/justify them Years ago I had an ex-sil who, when considering names for her soon to be born child, said she imagined the name being called over the loud speaker at a high school football game. For a boy, as though he just scored a touchdown, or for a girl, being announced as homecoming queen. I asked why she stopped at high school. Why not imagine a doctor being paged at a hospital or a senator being announced before a speech? She looked at me with genuine confusion. It seemed her dreams for her children peaked in high school. Sigh. I don’t think Kim and Kanye think of their child (ren) in any way beyond themselves do they? Set aside your own thirsty attention seeking or navel gazing faux deep thinking and consider your child and his life as it unfolds before him you egocentric nincompoops. Since I’m complaining let me yell about the need to withhold the name for a dramatic announcement anyway. Just share the name and focus on the child, or, in this case, let the nanny focus on him. And while I’m yelling I’ll add that I wish the social media inspired over the top gender reveal party trash would die a quick death. Not every thing needs to be treated like a media event for your friends and family. Yet another reason why, though I may look through social media at times, I won’t join or participate. And get off my lawn ya hooligans!

I’ve made up my mind - I’m all in for Octavia. I know she’s a bit crazy and kind of blood lusty but I understand her motivation. I also like that since Lincoln’s death she’s been on this downward spiral of dark death, while also becoming a leader, to varying degrees of success. It’s more interesting to me than the Clarke redemption tour, or is it re-redemption, I lose track. I hope Octavia makes friends with the new Grounders and tells her brother to suck it. Other than that, so far, kind of meh. I like Murphy. I’m looking forward to seeing Diyoza’s character develop. I wish Abby was still in cryo. I liked see Papa Argent from Teen Wolf playing Russell, the prime/nightblood king.

And let me add that I wish K Stew all the best in fixing her sinus problems. Her need to keep her mouth open in order to breathe must be frustrating to live with.

This, completely this. He has such an easy charm. I have this feeling in person he would be like a flame and I’d be a willing moth diving in.

In thinking about Rick today and why I’m perfectly fine with the thought of him winning I realized (1) I need a life and (2) the good humor I have regarding him grew exponentially when he and his wife were so remarkably understated during the snot filled bawl fest that is the family visit. Neither one sobbed like the other has been at war for months and they seemed to have a good time at the challenge in an enjoyable, easy way. I liked his banter in talking heads before but the family visit was a tipping point for me. Well that, and I find everyone else almost incredibly forgettable.

Odd woman out here - I don’t mind Rick. I find everyone else boring and in this boring season I’m looking for something that keeps me from dozing off. His running around and hiding made me laugh as the little clique of four tried to keep tabs on him. The loser letters were like a poorly drawn up SNL skit. How much navel gazing are they doing on Jury Island? I miss Ponderosa.

The best moments for me were the Bobby as confidante and counselor and Chim’s moments with Hen. And, oddly enough, the lottery ticket lady at the beginning. Something about her really drew me in quickly. Good work extra actress person. I didn’t care about the wife dying. I can’t remember her name because she never worked for me. If I were Eddie I would have never wanted her back around anyway. Her excuses for not being able to be a mom were just that excuses and the fact she had already decided to bail again made her death have absolutely no impact for me. I like JLH just fine, like the perspective of having a 911 operator, and Maddie works well enough for me but the diner praise-a-thon did not work. Didn’t House do something similar, but it was fake, or am I remembering wrong? Regardless I had a hard time buying that her coworkers set all this up to keep a super special 911 operator. Like someone mentioned above, I imagine such a high stress job involving shift work has a high turnover. Do they do that for everyone that talks of quitting? I have no problem with singing the praises of the often forgotten 911 operators. However this felt like something I would have written in junior high thinking it was wildly emotional and incredibly moving. My grown up self found it manipulative and overwrought.

I finally had a chance to look through more Met pics. Oh my. There were some really interesting, over the top looks, which is expected, but there was also so much unfortunate mess. I know fashion is subjective and I found a lot of this junk simply butt ugly. Gwyneth Paltrow wore her nightgown from the 70s and strangely, in comparison to many, she didn’t look too bad. While I often find the Ks, and particularly Kim, excessively try hard I think Katy Perry and Lady Gaga won that department. However, Kim’s after party look was back to her try so hard to stand out ways I feel like she has a constant internal voice screaming,”Look at me!” The second pic is of Kylie and it seems she tied her two looks together. It worked better in my opinion.

Kim continues to look more plastic each day. She’s like an old Barbie stored in the garage that the heat has effected in a bad, bad way. And her boobs seem to be growing upward in some weird crawl to get away. They almost touch her collar bones. Eventually they’ll be shoulder pads Someone forgot to tell Kanye they were going out and he still had on his work clothes. Dickies jacket and work boots for the Met gala? Okay then. Now that I’ve read the comment about Kris as Donna Martin I can’t unsee it. Kris’ man accessory sure had on the man jewelry. Kylie and Kendall look good for what they’re doing. Travis looks like he’s trying. That’s all I got.

I imagine most jobs every day minutia would make for uninteresting tv. I think too much realism could bog a show like this down. While I like the characters I love the crazy calls. And if they treated the crazier calls with realism there would be far too much death, dismemberment and permanent damage. I don’t mind some sad stories but I’d tune out if it continuous. I was nice to see Eddie McClintock on the show. He played the restaurant owner who set the fire. He was Pete on Warehouse 13. Endless wonder!

I didn’t love it or hate it. It was good. It was fine. I got tired of fat, drunk Thor. It was funny for awhile but it ran on too long. Same with Professor Hulk. Too much of him in that form and his hands seemed out of proportion to his head which seriously distracted me. I love me some Cap and Peggy however that ending fell flat for me. I did not like Bucky barely interacting with Cap. I’m not a Stucky fan girl in the sense I want them to be a couple but Bucky has been Steve’s best friend for years. They should have had a couple of moments. Tony and Peter had nice moments. Little Morgan was adorable. I have always liked Hawkeye but I really loved him in this. He worked for me and his final scene with Nat was well done if infuriating. We getting a Black Widow movie now but she’s dead? Ugh. Her death was the one that surprised me. The chyron of Five (dramatic pause) Years (another dramatic pause) Later felt a little weird to me. I realized I’d really like to see a movie about those five years. Probably not what I was supposed to be thinking of in that moment. Maybe when I watch it at home eventually it will have a different impact. I saw it with a dud of an audience. No reaction when Steve picked up Thor’s hammer or really any shared reaction. Avengers Assemble got nothing! And someone brought a two year old to the theater who of course cried with all the noise and stimulation. The mom could be heard saying “c’mon just cuddle and take a nap” several times until someone asked her to leave. I enjoyed the portals opening and everyone showing up. But why the crap couldn’t Bucky have spoken to Cap first? I get the “on your left” reference but it still frustrated me. I do look forward to being able to pause and pay attention to everyone who showed up for the fight. It was too much to take in during that scene. I liked Wanda’s attack on Thanos. It felt right. The girl team up felt a bit forced to me. I enjoyed seeing it but it felt put together rather than naturally formed and the three women I saw the movie with (who liked it a whole lot more than me) all pointed that out as well. I know the big end scene had emotional impact but, oddly, I knew that logically more than I felt it. I expected Tony to die, and honestly Steve as well, so maybe that’s why it didn’t have the same punch. When Clint saw his wife calling his phone that hit me harder. Idk. I read reviews of people loving it, I read here about loving it, my friends loved it... Maybe I’m am just a silly old bear.

I agree! He often seems to have an unwashed/oily look to him. As does Johnny Depp, who I actively avoid in any movie.

I’m grateful to Dichen Lachman for not being in any show I’m currently watching.

People’s Article Ashley, Jared, Jade, Tanner, Nick the Vile, Dean (who?) and baby Emmy will be “starring” in a new reality show this May. I think I read somewhere that it’s by the folks that bring us Married at First Sight. Ha. Hahahaha.

One of the pics in the above linked article shows a woman holding a huge certificate that reads “Super Power.” Here is the caption: This stuff never fails to make me laugh out loud at the sheer lunacy if I get a big certificate with a gold seal that says “Magic Money” will money suddenly start appearing in my purse? Superhuman powers guys! We could have it all. Who has gold foil for the label maker?

I’m so glad Kim shared these pictures of Bali. I especially love the pics depicting the culture and the Bali vibe, as well as all the shots showing us how amazingly beautiful it is. Wait, so by “pics from my trip” she meant even more pictures of herself? Gee that’s new...

I don’t like Leonardo DiCaprio. In anything. Something about him gives me a yucky kind of feeling and I find him the opposite of attractive. A coworker was asking me about a movie of his and I told her I don’t watch his movies. She was surprised and asked if I had at least seen Titanic. Color her shocked that not only have I not but I mentioned I’d rather sit outside and watch grass grow than see it. I always find it amusing that there are certain movies a lot of people assume everyone has seen. She’s not the first person who assumed I must have Titanic. Nope. Not going to. Don’t care. I’ve watched documentaries and read books about the Titanic. I have confidence I enjoyed them all more than I would have enjoyed the faux love story death boat take on it.

Tom Cruise has a nice first name. I know several nice Toms.