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Holy shit, we won! Me and my friends thought that Russia were gonna win for sure and that Sweden would get a bit lost in the pretty great second half line-up and place like 4th or 5th. We also thought Spain would be top 5, but we were way off on that one. Belgium, Russia, Australia, Spain, the big girl with the insane dress and the uptempo song, and the lady in the 90's version of a futuristic bondage outfit singing about all the women working and being poor were my favorites.

What is hipster racism? Serious question, in case this is something that is common knowledge.

Top 5 sitcoms is nigh impossible. Here's five that would be in my top 20 at the very least. Black Books Pulling Arrested Development French & Saunders Smack The Pony Can you tell I'm a fan of British comedy? ETA: Oh, 5-10. Then I'll add (some more britcoms) Absolutely Fabulous The Thick of It (seasons 3 and 4) Burning Love Peep Show Gimme Gimme Gimme

Emily and Mona. That would be hilarious. Mony.

For what it's worth, AntiBeeSpray, I never really got HD either. I haven't watched The X-Files in it or anything but when I see something old in HD I usually don't notice the difference, and frankly when I do it's not always a good thing. I don't know, "bad" quality in old movies/TV-shows is sometimes part of it's charm for me, I guess. But usually I just don't see the difference. I'm sure there are exceptions, though, and maybe I'm just a bit HD blind.

I do! But it ain't gonna happen. We might take the contest (too) seriously but we still send a lot of duds to Eurovision. We're usually about a decade between wins so winning this close to Loreen would be quite a feat for us. The song this year is alright but it's mostly show and a pretty face (but why the hell is Måns wearing that boring sweater?). But at least it's up tempo. This is gonna be one boring Eurovision this year.

I've only read The Witches series (except Equal Rites, so Wyrd Sisters through Carpe Jugulum) along with Mort years and years ago, all of which I loved, but for some reason I didn't continue with any of his other work. I have Guards! Guards! (which I believe I started but never finished for some reason) and The Colour of Magic on my bookshelf. I got into a real rut with reading and have only finished a few books in the last five-six years (and about a decade since my last Pratchett), but maybe Pratchett is the way to go to get into it again. Difficult to choose which ones based on your comments, you're all preferring different stuff! Heh. And no one hardly mentioned the witches, whom I adored. And in regards to Mark Watches/Reads, I followed him for a while with Buffy and Angel but his total and utter shock and amazement and caps lock and exclamation points over absolutely everything drove me bonkers. But it's fun that he's out there doing it with such a passion, can't blame him for that.

Robert Pattinson might be my new favorite person.

Just watched it. It was okay and I'll give it a couple of episodes because I'm a sucker for mysteries, but these kinds of shows really need to start to hire more directors, composers and editors with a more distinct, unique vision. The shots and sounds are all dime a dozen, I feel. The music is your usual dramatic, bombastic, cliche mysterious and "Listen to how thrilling this scene is!! She's walking up the stairs reading a mysterious text!! Bom bom bom!!" It just draws me out more than it draws me in. The directing is your usual network dramathriller feel. There's no time and effort made to make it feel disturbing or really interesting or fresh, or even evocative of great shows like The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The X-Files and Carnivale. Or even recent shows like Hannibal and Utopia. Please be more original, shows.

I just think they're both hilarious in regards to this whole thing. I can practically see them backstage, planning it all and laughing their asses off.

Loved Miranda (as always), Rubert was pretty obnoxious and the song was hilariously awful, just like Eurovision acts should be.

I like that Matt is very natural and it seems like it's the real him sitting there (which is almost always the case with the British guests but not at all as often with the American), but it's been kind of the same interview with him the last few times (about Episodes, which I love, but that doesn't mean the same interview is gonna be fun to watch), so I can't really blame him for phoning it in a bit. Still a good sport about the Friends songs. I like Rebel but she seems more like a character than a person on these things a lot of the time. Kit's hot. That is all.

Carnivale, This Life, Pulling and most recently Utopia (the vivid British and totally bonkers conspiracy thriller, not the US reality show about people on a farm) are the only ones I'm still sad about (that I can remember right now). The Inside, Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls were also gone too soon.

I want to stay optimistic but when I read Gillian being nervous because she wants it to be really good I just get these apocalyptic visions (not to be dramatic or anything) of her curled up like a ball, crumpled script on the floor, rocking back and forth going "Oh, no, Chris what have you written?! No!"

Always thought that was dumb too. Um, no, she took him because his mother up and left and what the hell else was she supposed to do? So in my mind that was more about Cassidy herself projecting her feelings about Sawyer and his magical powers over women, wether the writers intended it that way or not.

I love Andrew and never really cared that he killed Jonathan.

I didn't mind the baby butchering at all. Call me crazy! I'm just loving all the freaky stuff. And that baby looked so fake I forgot for a moment what Madame Kali was actually doing. Those dolls were deliciously creepy. The Frankenstein stuff is the only thing that doesn't do it for me. At least Bronagh's accent would've forced me to pay attention because it can't be ignored, but then they did away with that. Loved Vanessa with Caliban, though. They could have chatted away for another ten minutes and I wouldn't have been bored. Also loved the stuff with Dorian and the prostitute. They had me at Queer Stuff.

Aaahahahaha, I'm never watching Alpha again, I'm just gonna pretend that's what actually happens in the episode.

Agreed. I like the on island action with The Tempest too, even if it was never mentioned before or after, probably because of the characters involved. Hurley's "yo dude" and Desmond's "brotha!" are nails on a chalkboard for me.

The Playing House duo. Jessica St. Clair and blanking on her partner.

I think it's saying something though that these episodes and comedy scenes have broken out only in the last few years. Amy is the latest in a line of, what, four-five other women (and I'm being generous because I can only think of the three mentioned above) with their own shows who's got the opportunity to continually raise these issues in a big forum. And if Amy (and Mindy and Lena) aren't justified in keeping these conversations going (about themselves as well as the general standard of female beauty on television) then who are gonna raise these issues and do sketches about them? These women are lucky enough to have great talent and be hot "enough" (just) to be on television. Imagine how it is for other majorly talented women who aren't even in Amy's league (and light years away from standard Hollywood beauty). The women who might have even bigger reasons to make "12 Angry Men Inside..." aren't getting that half hour. And let's be honest, there are plenty of people who would call Amy a fat cow even in your normal average society situation outside of television, so I can only imagine how much she had to endure to get to where she is today. If she wants to do a whole season about it then I'm all for it, personally.

Always a good thing! I have no idea what's going on with the sphere grid thing, but I must've thought the same with the previous games. I'll get there (probably, heh). I didn't think I would be I'm really into the voice acting so far.

Got my mits on FFX remastered and started playing today! Tidus is such a dork, I kind of love it. I don't read much fanfic but I'm kinda feeling a Tidus/Wakka slash search coming in my near future...

Also true. Which might be why I seem to like Claire more than most. I just find Emilie de Ravin so likeable. When the show originally aired I was always happy when she was in a scene because I was always hoping she would get something interesting to do. And when she almost never did I always thought, "Hopefully next time!!?!" Even more so during her crazy period. What I would have given for a proper Claire flashback in season 6 that gave us insight into what she went through while she was MIA. Alas. I will say that her three flashback episodes were really strong and I'm very happy about that. Good question. I wholly agree with you about Sawyer and mostly Jack. I'd say both season 5 and 6 for him. In season 5 pretty much everyone is likeable which is why the season is so great. Jack's worst is 2 and 3. Kate's best is also the latter seasons and most of season 1. That damn love triangle, I swear. It ruined everyone involved. Ben was always pretty great. It's hard to give him a worst season. With Sayid I'd say season 6 was his worst, because, weird zombie not!zombie? It never made any sense. Other than that he was probably best in the first three seasons but I can't remember individual moments well enough to name one of them. Season 2, maybe? I need to rewatch that season, it's been forever. Claire was all over the place, scattered with good to great moments mixed with bad or just plain boring. Claire had good episodes, not good seasons. Althought maybe her worst is season 3 because oh my god did she ever get to leave that beach?! At least in season 2 she got a trip to a Dharma station. Hurley. Hmm. He kind of just stayed the same all the way through, so it's difficult to say. Sun. Easily season 5. Other than that she was also a character filled with either good moments/episodes or simply repetitiveness in storylines. I liked her, but the writing was frustrating. Same with Jin. Locke. Oh, poor Locke. Never a dull moment. Though I'd say his worst was season 2 and his best season 1 and 3. Juliet had three seasons where I thought she was solid throughout. Probably most interesting in season 3 and 5, but I hesitate to say 4 was her "worst". Anyone left that had more than 2 seasons? Miles and Frank. Frank was always good. Miles became better and better in my eyes, so I'll say his worst is 4 and leave it at that.

I think where both Libby and Charlotte is concerned, you either got an instant connection or you didn't, since they weren't around for very long. I didn't get that with Libby and felt like they never really tried to do anything with her much at all. I did think her death was painful to watch and I was sad about that, but mostly about the missed opportunity that was her character. I didn't miss her when she was gone. I did miss Charlotte. I think she was more developed from the get go than Libby too.