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The Boat That Rocked well... ROCKED.

Stunning cast (I knew about Chris O'Dowd but I had no idea that Katherine Parkinson was also on the crew ! As the adorable lesbian <3 IT Crowd actors FTW), especially Bill Nighy who's just fabulous and Jack Davenport for making Twatt somewhat cute as hell. Rhys Darby was complete love and Nick Frost was also awesome even if I still have issues whenever he or Simon aren't in a film together, irrational I know.
The film also had some very nice moments of eyecandy and a decent level of slash, which didn't hurt !

The characters were all endearing and the film made me grin from ear to ear (and die of laughing the rest of the time) the whole way through (shortest 2h15 evar, could have stayed longer). The soundtrack was obviously made of 57 flavours of win. We clapped at the end along with the rest of the theater.

Definitely one of the top films of the year.

Richard Curtis ILU.


In other news, I just saw the finale of Dollhouse and all I have to say is ASKDMALDJAMLSDJASDLAJDAMDJASMLDJADMSLSDJA.

I am very sad to see this one go after such an AMAZING last episode.
Alan Tudick will remain in my top 3 teevee psychos as Alpha, OF ALL TIME. I ADORE HIM EVEN MORE NOW THAN I DID AS WASH IN FIREFLY OR AS THE STONED DUDE IN DEATH AT A FUNERAL. HE IS MINDBLOWING AND MIGHTY.
Also they totally redeemed the character of Tahmoh with the last couple of scenes of the episode. PAUL WAS MADE OF COMPLETE WIN AT THE END, there, I said it.
I hope we'll be able to see ep 113 someday and that it won't leave things as open as this one did.

I can't believe how good that show had become. I will miss you, show <3

WOW.

WOW.

It pains me so very much that there's little chance that the show will see a second season BECAUSE THAT EPISODE WAS SO INCREDIBLY INTENSE AND SPECTACULAR !

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I'm obviously dying for next week and am completely sorry for myself to have become so much invested in a show that is supposedly soon to be dead, bleh. It will once again be completely unfair and upsetting.

First of all let me express my Epic Love for dresden_doll_01, for taking my suggestion and making this :

AWESOMELY PRETTY PICSPAM OF TEH ELEVATOR SCENE.

Favourite. Gratuitous!hilarious!random scene. Ever.

I am obviously still completely obsessed and devoted to the hardcore drug that is Criminal Minds and am currently watching the first half of season 4 (precisely up to Memoriam which was... I CANNOT EXPRESS MY GLEE LOUD ENOUGH OVER REID'S DADDY ISSUES, TO BE HONEST.)

I *adored* season 3, I think it was the most steadily good season and it had so many memorable scenes and episodes in it.
I loved the way Gideon's departure was handled and I loved having to slowly warm up to Rossi because they made him so unlikeable in the first couple of episodes. It was also a good idea to wait a few episodes in between and see the team working by themselves.
Scared to Death was incredibly creepy and Seven Seconds deliciously fucked up <3
Lucky/Penelope made me fangirl Garcia harder and would have converted me to Morgan/Garcia if I wasn't already OTPing all over their sweet asses since season 1 (BUT I also do love Garcia/Kevin because Nicholas Brendon is rocking the sweet geeky look like nobody's business and they make the cutest couple of hackers evar <3).
True Night was mesmerising and Frankie Muniz surprised THE HELL OUT OF ME in that one. I loved the comic book style of the photo, it was all very Sin City-like.
I will not gush too much over Elephant's Memory because it was yet another 'let's make Reid connect with the unsub, put himself in danger and make the rest of the team worried about and/or mad at him (for getting them so worried)' so it made me squee into oblivion for obvious reasons.
I also loved the case in the finale and the following Hotch angst in 401/402. I do love myself some woobie!Hotch and there was plenty in season 3 with his family issues.
Memorable scenes included the aforementioned elevator scene, Reid traumatized by his fail at the end of 3rd Life, Reid and Hotch stuck with the unsub about to be executed in Damaged (OMFG to how they both reacted to the situation <33333) and Morgan and Hotch's fight in the finale (there was so much UST that they were about to jump each other and roll on the floor :D).
I am probably forgetting many more things but really, a big thumb up for season 3.

Season 4 is so far excellent : Bloody!fainting!Hotch, Reid taken hostage *again*, Emily mostly pwning and being awesome and win and I LOVE HER and almost 2 Reid centric episodes already(with lots of sleepy!Reid which is a sight to behold. Even when he's distraught by nightmares. Weeeell especially when he's distraught by nightmares and calling Morgan in sheer terror. *DIES*).

CM related ETA (I know right, like I haven't babbled enough already) : I totally forgot to say that early!s3 Reid's hair was the best ever for me. It was the perfect length and had those beautiful curls things at the ends and YUM PRETTEY. I know I shouldn't anymore because he does this every season but I was SO SHOCKED when he cut his hair so short in the beginning of season 4, probably because it was so long by the end of season 3. Yet I was sold because you know, Morgan got to be all adorable about it and play with it ♥


ANYWAY.

Tomorrow will be remembered has SCI-FI SUNDAY because I am attending THIS and THIS.

\o/

I cannot get my head around teh AWESOMENESS of seeing DS Matt Devlin and HIS INGLORIOUS BASTARDOUS AWESOMELY MAGNIFICENT GAIUS BALTAR in da flesh. Hum... I mean Jamie Bamber and the probably very-nice-and-not-dodgy-at-all James Callis.

And WOOOHOOO STAR TREK ! Hope it's as slashy as we're hoping for (Wolverine-level of slashy would be nice) and that Simon Pegg has more than 5 minutes of screentime.

I was dangerously close to have no squee left for House (I know, so sad !) but then this week's episode happened and I LOVED IT TO DEATH <333


WILSON was here the whole way through, CHECK. (and killing me with cuteness)

House and Wilson having several scenes together, CHECK.

( And by that I mean... )

Conclusion : House/Wilson forever and ever, amen.


Next episode's case looks very promising, too bad we'll have to wait two weeks for it now.

Being Human 102 ? STILL AWESOME.

( I am definitely falling in love ! )

Is it next monday sunday yet ?


Tonight there's also the awesomeness of Matt Smith and Shaun Parkes pairing up to fight crime in the new series Moses Jones, on BBC2.


The story, told over three 60-minute episodes, begins when a wave of violence hits London following the discovery of the bizarrely mutilated body of a man in the Thames.
First appearances suggest a witchcraft killing. But the dark reality is more complicated – and even more frightening.
Assigned to the case is young, hopeful DS Dan Twentyman (Matt Smith) and his senior partner DI Moses Jones (Shaun Parkes), seconded from Scotland Yard due to cultural links with the local community.
But, confronted by a wall of silence, Jones and Twentyman become increasingly confused as they grapple with the various complexities.

*knowing smirk*

I am definitely watching that.


Shaun Parkes sure loves a bit of Tiemcock.

I didn't have much time for updates this week, mostly due to dull school work and awesome japanese restaurant night yesterday with a bunch school buddies.

I fell down some stairs for the second time in three weeks earlier today. I don't know what it means for me and 2009 but I can't say we're getting off to good start. Oh and I just can feel that my back and leg will have giant bruises and I'm leaving on sunday for a week long school trip of skiing and mock exams (in the middle of nowhere, the coldest part of France and with like, dorms and 3 showers for 40 people. But we should be grateful that the showers have doors, apparently. Joy.) Perfect timing. It would be so hilarious if I was on a roll and break a leg after one day, or something. /sarcasm

My week was fortunately saved by good telly watching.


( How I met your mother 4x13 - Three Days of Snow )

( House 5x12 - Painless )

I've also watched the Sunday Night Project with Catherine Tate, SO FUNNEY. I highly recommend it (there's DW jokes and hilarious camp sketches, as usual). I'm so smitten with that wonderful redhead ! I do not know how she can alway be so amazing, but she is.
I'm also currently in an Alan Carr kick since I read his highly entertaining autobiography (and spending hours on youtube watching some bits of his stand ups over and over) so it was twice as great.

Oh and fairy_bliss, I finally watched IT, and am officially BLOWN. AWAY. BY HIS SKILLS. His take on South Park and the Fresh Prince are incredible

*Grobanite*

ETA : jedicathy, I have seen the first 2 episodes of Junjou Romantica and just... XD That's completely what I was expecting. (expect maybe the impressive level of funny!disturbing of Usami which is amusing me to no end XD)

Oh god I think it was even BETTER the second time.

( All hail the christmassy dramatic cracklulz of this episode )

All in all I cannot tell for sure if this beat the Christmas Invasion in my heart yet but it's definitely a tie.

Oh and kuddos to the Confidential to have focused the Blackpool bits on the Tennant/Morrissey tango (hehehe). How I loved DT's smugness about it XD

Merlin was superb last night.

They are fantastic at crack but I really have a thing for the darker episodes.

I'm reviewing this from memory so I may forget a ton of stuff.

( Merlin 112 - To Kill A King )

I knew the title of the finale so I wasn't completely surprised by what the trailer shown us but OMFG DOES IT LOOK EPIC AND AWESOME. AND AZPSADJPOASDJA EPIC & AWESOME.

Btw, am I the only one who find that Merlin saying 'friend' when speaking of Arthur sounds completely weird ?

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THE IT CROW 303 OMFG !!!!!!!!!!

I had never laughed this hard since the series 2 opener !

( especially the bit when )


XD

TWAS SO AWESOME \o/

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Am still completely obsessed with IAMX and incapable of listening to anything else at the moment.

I must have watched their President video around 15 times now ♥♥♥

Just got a fix of Tennant and Simm and can I just say OMGYUSPLZ. I tend to forget how bloody *amazing* they both are.

Einstein and Eddington exceeded my expectations, everything about it was so awesome ! David is such a talented actor that he never fails to blow me away with each new role.

The story was wonderful and fascinating. Two men struggling to change everybody's worldview despite the war raging on was indeed very interesting. It was even better since both characters were given tremendous performances by the two actors involved.

Eddington was so effing loveable ! What with all the cuteness, the nerdiness, the shyness and the incredible intelligence. Of course he broke my wee little heart because of ( minor unexpected plot point about the character )

Serkis was also magnificent as Einstein and I loved how he played him.
The scene where they finally met was very powerful and almost made me tear up again.

th_esaurus made a pretty picspam of one of my favourite scene here.



I watched the first episode of the Devil's Whore next and OMFG GORGEOUSNESS ALL AROUND. The photography, for one, is breathtaking and John OWNS the 17th century look hard.

Now, Sexby was ugly only if ugly means HOT LIKE BURNING. I don't know what they tried to achieve with the costume and makeup but it is the *opposite* of ugly in my book.

Also................ Did he work out ?? Because I can't remember him looking this good shirtless in... Ever. Guh.

I know very little about that historical period of England so it was a bit confusing sometimes. I will have to watch it again with subs.
But I loved what I saw and next week looks especially good !

I bring you a picspam of the epic gorgeousness that was the first ep.

( Prettiness all around )



I just recieved the series 4 boxset of DW and I take back my disappointment about the lack of originality of the design because it is FTW !
You have Ten&Donna on one side, Davros on the other, and then it comes off and you have Ten, Donna and Jack on one side, and Sarah Jane, Rose and Martha on the other !
The series 4 guide inside has some pretty pics and drawings that I never saw before.
It makes me want to rewatch some episodes very hard, despite the fact that I have 6176387 shows to catch up with already. I will watch the bonus tonight, at least.

Wheeee.




Oh and everything has been said about last night's Merlin (which I had the chance to watch have a synchronized stroke with my lovely tya_rc) but I must declare that the mutual dressing scene may be my all time favourite scene since the beginning because THEY ARE SO EQUALS.
Of course, I can't seem to get over Arthur's foot in Merlin's face either so it's a tough one.

No I am not Merlin squeeing 24/7 I had some things I totally forgot to write about because no, I am not Merlin squeeing 24/7 *coughs*

So first of all, let's talk about Alias season 3 ! I had stopped my Alias marathon 4 episodes in because I had a sudden urge to rewatch Kaamelott from the beginning, which is so not related to That Obsession in any way.
Right, so I've started Alias again and despite the obligatory suspension of belief that is necessary to go through the show starting with this season and my burning hatred of pre!evil!Lauren (which I didn't know I still had) IT IS TEH GREAT !

And speaking of the awesome list of classy guest stars the show had, I totally remembered the earlier ones like Quentin Tarantino, Roger Moore, Faye Dunaway, Ethan Hawke, Rutger Hauer and Christian Slater but I had completely forgotten about David Cronenberg and Isabella Rosselini in season 3 ! Of course by this season I was WTFing so often that I didn't remember much of the plot either. I also completely blanked out Quentin Tarantino's comeback but then I remembered him going on and on about the prettiness of Sark's hair and I was all "OMG HOW COULD I FORGET THAT SCENE WHERE HE COMPLIMENTS HIM ABOUT HIS HAIR. THIS IS SO AWESOME". And of course Lauren stopped being annoying the second she started killing people and making out with Sark.
All of this to say that Alias season 3, compared to monstrosities commited by other shows is 200% superior to the memory of fail I had of it.
It's a bit ironic really, since this season's theme is about memory loss, lulz.


So apart from the lastest episode of Merlin WHICH WAS MADE OF 57 FLAVOURS OF WIN, saturday has been a mighty fine fanturday indeed for the highly entertaining values of Quantum of Solace and the ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE that was the end of Dead Set.

Quantum was admitedly less good than Casino Royale but Daniel Craig is definitely the Hottest Bond of Them All simply because his version is all kind of fucked up. There's nothing more appealing to my eyes than a character with huge psychological and emotional issues and he was the main interest of the film ( cut for mild spoilers )


I watched the finale episode of Dead Set with jedicathy and angeliksmall and I must say that as a whole, this series left me impressed ! I was expecting a vaguely cracky but average zombie story when I first started watching it but I was surprised by how great the writing and acting ended up to be. It even got a great review from zombie expert Simon Pegg (apart from the nitpick which I found very cute ♥) !!!1!!11
I also did not expect them to go there for the ending and I was immensely pleased by it. Bonus points for the Doctor Who mention in the penultimate episode <3


Speaking of I am in love with the Doctor Who series 4 soundtrack ! All the songs from Turn Left are particulary brilliant, especially A Dazzling End which reminds me vividly of Donna's finest moment everytime I listen to it (OH DONNA.)and I also adore Song for Captivity and Freedom because it never fails to give me chills.
I also love the VOTD suite which is a bit lulzy since I despise the actual episode.

It really brings back nice series 4 memories and makes me want to see some episodes again.



Now to make my post title not accurate in the least, I should also thank tya_rc for pointing us to the failed pilot of Dis/Connected which we also ended up watching on saturday night.Why ? Well not for the fact that the pilot in itself is complete rubbish, but for the only reedeeming quality which is ( THIS )


That's right, IT HAS BRADLEY JAMES PLAYING A HUGE MANWHORE WHO SHOULD REALLY BE UNLIKABLE BUT IS BOTH HILARIOUS AND HOT AS HELL INSTEAD. ILHIM SO HARD. Thank god it was never picked up though, THANK GOD FOR ARTHUR.

Oh and it also has Clyde from sja as an obnoxious chav who turns out to be A GAY INNA CLOSET. THIS WAS A BIT WIN AS WELL.
But the rest sucked and there was not enough of the both of them. Incidently, I seem to have kept it anyway. x______x


I've also capped the hell out of 107 but AM TOO DISTRACTED TO GET ON WITH THE ICONING PART ALREADY.

And this fanturday, we're going to the Pierrefonds Castle with ephyse and tya_rc. TEEHEE FRENCH!CAMELOT. I cannot wait for our first taste of Merlin's Excellent Adventures (you have no idea how lost Pierrefonds is XD At least we consider ourselves lucky that we don't have to spend much on a fannish trip for a change. Not that we already have plans to go there and have a look at the series 2 shooting when they come back next year, AT ALL.)

(btw I am not especially bored but this mood theme has Colin Morgan in it, therefore my non obsessive self was compelled to use it \o/)