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firthgalSo, I watched the Ugly Betty premiere tonight since 1) baseball was on instead of Dollhouse, and 2) The Monk/Sharona episode is NEXT week, not this week (just pretend my squeeage happened next week instead of today). And guess what? The premiere was GOOD. I am still lacking the attachment that I had to Betty in the first season, but at least I loved everyone else, and once Daniel showed up, I got all gooey inside at all the Daniel/Betty sweetness happening, and for a brief moment I remembered why I used to love this show so freaking much. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and I had a damn good time watching it. WHY CAN'T IT BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME? But I didn't quite enjoy the Daniel/Betty scenes as much as I used to with the knowledge that it will amount to nothing in the end, but then I got on the internet a few minutes ago and what do I find? DANIEL/BETTY IS BACK ON. SORT OF. OMG, PLEASE DO NOT BE PLAYING WITH MY HEART, SILVIO! DO NOT DO THIS TO ME! I'VE FINALLY MOVED ON, DAMN IT! STOP TEXTING ME! Auuuuugh, I no longer know what the heck to believe. And Eric Mabius has gone from wanting Daniel and Betty together in the end, to just wanting Daniel to be unrequitedly in love with her forever, to giving his stupid Moonlighting spiel, to outright saying he believes nothing romantic will happen between them. So clearly the actors are just as clueless about the ending as the audience is. But the fact that Mabius has come to that last conclusion seems to be making him play Daniel's interactions with Betty a little differently. I don't know, maybe I am just being too much of a gloomy gus when I watch the Daniel/Betty scenes now, but his looks just aren't as intense as they used to be. I don't know. But anyway, the second half of this episode had tons and tons of awesome Daniel/Betty, but I have gotten myself so fully into this "they're completely and forever platonic" mindset that I think I've stopped seeing them in a shippery way. THIS IS TERRIBLE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? I still think they're totally married, but... bah, I just don't see them in the same light that I used to. And I can't even bother to get my hopes up that Daniel is part of the rumored love triangle later in the season, especially since there were spoilers earlier about yet another man falling for Betty. So... yeah, I'm not putting my eggs in that basket, but I think I will try to fall back in love with Daniel/Betty. I miss the intense devotion that I used to have for them. You know my devotion to Uther/Morgana right now? Imagine that times ten, that's how much I used to love Daniel/Betty. But anyway, aside from all that, Justin was amazing in this episode, and I find myself wishing that Marc, Amanda, and Justin could get their own spin-off where they're all living together in Manhattan and they're just this weird, dysfunctional makeshift family. I'm pretty certain it would be 20 times greater than Ugly Betty (Marc and Amanda as parents! It would be epic! Although it is more likely that Justin would be taking care of them than the other way around).
PSYCH! Psych was pretty damn awesome. Shawn was actually badass! Shawn! And Gus was pure adorableness. And Lassiter and Shawn's dad are the makings of a buddy cop film, definitely. And, no matter how much Shawn/Juliet is injected into this show, I cannot stop believing that Juliet and Lassiter are doing it on the side. I just can't. They are so married that it's not even funny. But they're all quiet and cool about it, so no one knows. Except for me. And Juliet is busy harboring all these foolish feelings for Shawn while Lassiter is just falling deeper and deeper in love with Juliet but she is completely oblivious to this, and Lassiter is cool with his thing with Juliet being casual because it's what she wants, but once he finds out about her feelings for Shawn he will step up his game and start wooing her for real and eventually get his heart broken when she realizes what he's doing and breaks it off with him, and then Juliet will eventually realize that it's Lassiter that she wants and not Shawn but it'll be too late because she'll think that Lassiter has already moved on (and Juliet is sort of terrified of his new girlfriend), and then she'll confess her feelings to him in an epically dramatic fashion when Lassiter tells her that he's going to propose to Terrifying Girlfriend, and Lassiter will be all "Bwah?" and then she'll yank him into a kiss and they'll get married and have babies, and YES, I AM HAPPY HERE IN DENIAL LAND, THANKS FOR ASKING. Oh, and it turns out that Terrifying Girlfriend is actually a lesbian, she just didn't realize it until she dated Lassiter. Clearly I should be writing this show. Clearly.
Also, the preview for next week's Monk has me reliving the epicness of Monk/Sharona. I probably saw the preview 10 times tonight, and I keep noticing how even though they've been separated now for 5 years his interaction with her is so much warmer than it is with Natalie. I mean, he gets along with Natalie much better than he does Sharona, but he's always kept a part of himself closed off to her, whereas with Sharona he is just... she gets his whole heart, always and forever, but in a completely different capacity than he gave his whole heart to Trudy. He is so attached to her in every way, would do absolutely anything she asked of him (after much arguing of course). His love is always there, as is hers, but it's complicated and messy and one of the most difficult things in Monk's life, but also one of his most treasured aspects of his life, same for Sharona. Or, I should say, was, but all that came back in full force just in that little clip in the commercial, and, GAH, I so want to marathon all the Sharona episodes again and relive my eternal love for that ship. They were so beautifully dysfunctionally functional! I miss them something fierce. And, technically speaking, his relationship with Natalie is way healthier than his relationship with Sharona had been, but, gosh darn it, Monk and Sharona were epic together. They were Monk and Sharona. But then Sharona left him, and his world stopped, and she took a piece of him with her when she left, which is probably why he's never let himself get as attached to Natalie as he was to Sharona. He loves Natalie, for sure, but not with that intensity that he did Sharona. OH GOD, I MISS MONK/SHARONA. Do not be surprised if I do something crazy like write a freaking ship manifesto for this long dead ship. (Please, don't let me do that. I have too many things on my plate already, I cannot be distracted with past obsessions that left a big old scar on my heart)
On a random note, I really, really want to see Where the Wild Things Are. Oddly, I never read it as a child, but I fell in love with the book during my Children's Literature course a few years ago. The commercials are making the movie look amazing.
PSYCH! Psych was pretty damn awesome. Shawn was actually badass! Shawn! And Gus was pure adorableness. And Lassiter and Shawn's dad are the makings of a buddy cop film, definitely. And, no matter how much Shawn/Juliet is injected into this show, I cannot stop believing that Juliet and Lassiter are doing it on the side. I just can't. They are so married that it's not even funny. But they're all quiet and cool about it, so no one knows. Except for me. And Juliet is busy harboring all these foolish feelings for Shawn while Lassiter is just falling deeper and deeper in love with Juliet but she is completely oblivious to this, and Lassiter is cool with his thing with Juliet being casual because it's what she wants, but once he finds out about her feelings for Shawn he will step up his game and start wooing her for real and eventually get his heart broken when she realizes what he's doing and breaks it off with him, and then Juliet will eventually realize that it's Lassiter that she wants and not Shawn but it'll be too late because she'll think that Lassiter has already moved on (and Juliet is sort of terrified of his new girlfriend), and then she'll confess her feelings to him in an epically dramatic fashion when Lassiter tells her that he's going to propose to Terrifying Girlfriend, and Lassiter will be all "Bwah?" and then she'll yank him into a kiss and they'll get married and have babies, and YES, I AM HAPPY HERE IN DENIAL LAND, THANKS FOR ASKING. Oh, and it turns out that Terrifying Girlfriend is actually a lesbian, she just didn't realize it until she dated Lassiter. Clearly I should be writing this show. Clearly.
Also, the preview for next week's Monk has me reliving the epicness of Monk/Sharona. I probably saw the preview 10 times tonight, and I keep noticing how even though they've been separated now for 5 years his interaction with her is so much warmer than it is with Natalie. I mean, he gets along with Natalie much better than he does Sharona, but he's always kept a part of himself closed off to her, whereas with Sharona he is just... she gets his whole heart, always and forever, but in a completely different capacity than he gave his whole heart to Trudy. He is so attached to her in every way, would do absolutely anything she asked of him (after much arguing of course). His love is always there, as is hers, but it's complicated and messy and one of the most difficult things in Monk's life, but also one of his most treasured aspects of his life, same for Sharona. Or, I should say, was, but all that came back in full force just in that little clip in the commercial, and, GAH, I so want to marathon all the Sharona episodes again and relive my eternal love for that ship. They were so beautifully dysfunctionally functional! I miss them something fierce. And, technically speaking, his relationship with Natalie is way healthier than his relationship with Sharona had been, but, gosh darn it, Monk and Sharona were epic together. They were Monk and Sharona. But then Sharona left him, and his world stopped, and she took a piece of him with her when she left, which is probably why he's never let himself get as attached to Natalie as he was to Sharona. He loves Natalie, for sure, but not with that intensity that he did Sharona. OH GOD, I MISS MONK/SHARONA. Do not be surprised if I do something crazy like write a freaking ship manifesto for this long dead ship. (Please, don't let me do that. I have too many things on my plate already, I cannot be distracted with past obsessions that left a big old scar on my heart)
On a random note, I really, really want to see Where the Wild Things Are. Oddly, I never read it as a child, but I fell in love with the book during my Children's Literature course a few years ago. The commercials are making the movie look amazing.
