What is shame, anyway?
Nov. 1st, 2011 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firthgalDear New Girl,
WHY do you insist on being so delightful? Why has your absence completely made my already fond heart grow even fonder? Why is Schmidt so awesome? Why is Jess so adorable? Why is Nick's face so irresistible? Why do I always deeply yearn for Jess and Nick to just smush their faces together already? WHEN DID YOU BECOME SO GOOD? Please never stop making me giddy.
With much unashamed love,
Firthy
Seriously dudes, for all my f-listers who gave up after the pilot, watch eps 3 and 4 and try to not love this show. I DARE YOU. Nick and Jess and Wintson and SCHMIDT are just too wonderful to resist. SCHMIDT'S FLASHBACK. EIA. PIIIIIIIIIIIANIST. NICK'S NAKEDNESS. OMG, I love it. I am so damn happy that this show is back in my life.
Glee was as boring as ever. WHY am I still watching this show? I just can't quit it.
In other news, I am in love with Once Upon a Time, but it feels like a novelty show where my love will wear off pretty quickly, so, we'll see how that goes. I keep thinking about how it would be so much better as a mini-series (or a one season show. I wish American TV would allow that for shows like this). But anyway, so far the show completely dazzles me. The eeeeeeevil stepmother killing the thing she loves most particularly got me. And Snow White/Prince Charming = OTP for life. I clearly need to brush up on my fairy tales, though, because I seriously have NO CLUE what the heck the stepmother was going on about when she said that Snow White is the reason that her love died. Is she talking about Snow White's dad? And if so, how was his death Snow White's fault? Or, wait, is she even Snow White's stepmother? Am I getting my fairy tales all mixed up? WHAT IS THE BACKSTORY? WHY AM I SO CLUELESS? This is stuff I'm supposed to know. Unfortunately, the Disney movies made before the late 80s tend to bore the crap out of me, so, er... I've only seen bits and pieces of Snow White. Cinderella and Lady and the Tramp were the only classics that I liked. Which is irrelevant to the discussion in this paragraph, but there you go.
Grimm, which I was actually looking forward to more than Once Upon a Time, was kind of meh. I like the idea, it just didn't manage to engage me all that much. I think it's got potential, though.
So, I've been watching this Japanese show called Mitsu No Aji, which is about this girl who is obsessed with/in love with her uncle, but then later we find out he's not actually her uncle but that's how she's always known him and he's always treated her as his niece, but then she grows up and feels UNRESOLVED SEXUAL TENSION when he pulls her to him to shield her from a passing bus, and it's raining and the cinematography is all dramatic and artsy every time it shows that moment, and... the female characters in this are so messed up. SO MESSED UP. The uncle's girlfriend doesn't give a lick about him until the niece shows up and she (the girlfriend) senses their ~connection~ and decides that she can't lose her man to some young thing making eyes at him who has an advantage over her considering the niece has known him her entire life. And the show manages to be suspenseful and baffling and creepy and it's PURELY about the push and pull between the two women. Well, it's also about their love for the uncle, but he's clearly an obsession for the both of them and he's torn between them and totally freaked out by both of them, but now he's kind of macking on his niece and I'm loving it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? I adore these twisted, pseudo-incest romances so damn much and I have no idea why.
Speaking of pseudo-incest romances where the dude totally knew the girl when she was literally a young girl, I got a yearning to rewatch The Thornbirds (or at least the happy bit where she is young and everything is all innocent but kind of creepy but kind of beautiful and then she becomes a ~woman~ and he gets all hot under the collar). I bet tomorrow I'll end up watching Memoirs of a Geisha, just to complete my "pseudo-incest romances where the dude totally knew the girl when she was literally a young girl" marathon. If anyone knows of any other such stories, hit me with them! Because apparently it's my thing this week.
WHY do you insist on being so delightful? Why has your absence completely made my already fond heart grow even fonder? Why is Schmidt so awesome? Why is Jess so adorable? Why is Nick's face so irresistible? Why do I always deeply yearn for Jess and Nick to just smush their faces together already? WHEN DID YOU BECOME SO GOOD? Please never stop making me giddy.
With much unashamed love,
Firthy
Seriously dudes, for all my f-listers who gave up after the pilot, watch eps 3 and 4 and try to not love this show. I DARE YOU. Nick and Jess and Wintson and SCHMIDT are just too wonderful to resist. SCHMIDT'S FLASHBACK. EIA. PIIIIIIIIIIIANIST. NICK'S NAKEDNESS. OMG, I love it. I am so damn happy that this show is back in my life.
Glee was as boring as ever. WHY am I still watching this show? I just can't quit it.
In other news, I am in love with Once Upon a Time, but it feels like a novelty show where my love will wear off pretty quickly, so, we'll see how that goes. I keep thinking about how it would be so much better as a mini-series (or a one season show. I wish American TV would allow that for shows like this). But anyway, so far the show completely dazzles me. The eeeeeeevil stepmother killing the thing she loves most particularly got me. And Snow White/Prince Charming = OTP for life. I clearly need to brush up on my fairy tales, though, because I seriously have NO CLUE what the heck the stepmother was going on about when she said that Snow White is the reason that her love died. Is she talking about Snow White's dad? And if so, how was his death Snow White's fault? Or, wait, is she even Snow White's stepmother? Am I getting my fairy tales all mixed up? WHAT IS THE BACKSTORY? WHY AM I SO CLUELESS? This is stuff I'm supposed to know. Unfortunately, the Disney movies made before the late 80s tend to bore the crap out of me, so, er... I've only seen bits and pieces of Snow White. Cinderella and Lady and the Tramp were the only classics that I liked. Which is irrelevant to the discussion in this paragraph, but there you go.
Grimm, which I was actually looking forward to more than Once Upon a Time, was kind of meh. I like the idea, it just didn't manage to engage me all that much. I think it's got potential, though.
So, I've been watching this Japanese show called Mitsu No Aji, which is about this girl who is obsessed with/in love with her uncle, but then later we find out he's not actually her uncle but that's how she's always known him and he's always treated her as his niece, but then she grows up and feels UNRESOLVED SEXUAL TENSION when he pulls her to him to shield her from a passing bus, and it's raining and the cinematography is all dramatic and artsy every time it shows that moment, and... the female characters in this are so messed up. SO MESSED UP. The uncle's girlfriend doesn't give a lick about him until the niece shows up and she (the girlfriend) senses their ~connection~ and decides that she can't lose her man to some young thing making eyes at him who has an advantage over her considering the niece has known him her entire life. And the show manages to be suspenseful and baffling and creepy and it's PURELY about the push and pull between the two women. Well, it's also about their love for the uncle, but he's clearly an obsession for the both of them and he's torn between them and totally freaked out by both of them, but now he's kind of macking on his niece and I'm loving it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? I adore these twisted, pseudo-incest romances so damn much and I have no idea why.
Speaking of pseudo-incest romances where the dude totally knew the girl when she was literally a young girl, I got a yearning to rewatch The Thornbirds (or at least the happy bit where she is young and everything is all innocent but kind of creepy but kind of beautiful and then she becomes a ~woman~ and he gets all hot under the collar). I bet tomorrow I'll end up watching Memoirs of a Geisha, just to complete my "pseudo-incest romances where the dude totally knew the girl when she was literally a young girl" marathon. If anyone knows of any other such stories, hit me with them! Because apparently it's my thing this week.
