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I am slowly surfacing from my Clint/Natasha coma, by which I mean I am able to once again do things and be interested in stuff that doesn't involve them. I still mostly want to spend all my time with them, but at least it's not an exclusive relationship anymore. *snicker*
I did watch GoT 2x8 'The Prince of Winterfell,' but I barely remember anything about it, other than that it's probably the last time I'll see one of my favorite characters. :/ My lack of memory is partly due to the BlackHawk haze, and partly due to the fact that I had a really bad tummy ache when I watched it. That, my friends, is the price of gluttony. I seriously thought I might have to go to the emergency room. The only thing that stopped me was the idea of telling people that I had done it to myself by eating too much. ><
See, Sunday was K's birthday celebration and I was supposed to go over there in the late afternoon. I watched The Avengers again in the morning, and on a whim decided to sneak in to see it again after the first showing (hence the ".75" times, since it was already like 30 minutes in). I hadn't eaten anything, and it was like 3pm by the time I got out of the theater and was SO HUNGRY. I stopped by a Jack in the Box and got a 5-piece chicken nuggets (they were tiny) and a Jr. Jack (also small) to tide me over until dinner.
Since I was a little early, I decided to stop in at Bakery Nouveau to get some pastries. The almond croissant (one of the best things they make there, and they make almost everything excellently) was still warm because it hadn't been that long out of the oven. I couldn't resist and ate half of it.
While D went to go get dinner, he had me heat up some frozen edamame, which I did, and I ate some. Apparently, I was full at this point and should have just stopped eating. But in my mind, I hadn't REALLY eaten, I'd just snacked here and there. And D had gotten fried chicken from Ma'ono (formerly Spring Hill) and tons of Chinese food. I made a plate for myself -- a fairly conservative plate, for me -- but the second I started eating I wanted to stop. I felt so full I wasn't even enjoying what I was putting in my mouth! Yet I didn't feel like I could stop, because then everyone would ask why, and I'd have to explain that I'd eaten all this food before even getting there, and I didn't want to get into it. So I forced it down. I finished almost all of it, and felt like I was going to pop. I felt so ridiculously full. (Oh and I also had an orange San Pellegrino soda.)
I should have stopped THEN, but still I didn't. D had gotten the Bakery Nouveau chocolate cake, and that is like, the best cake on the planet. I couldn't NOT have any, so I ate a thin slice of that... then cut myself another thin slice!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, I have a problem. What is wrong with me. But anyway, after THAT, I was really, really hurting. The only other time I've eaten that much and gotten THAT full was the timejade_okelani, ropo and I were in Vegas and the same thing happened where we hadn't eaten for a long time beforehand, so we ended up gorging like crazy at the Mirage buffet... and feeling so horrible afterward that we all had to go throw up.
This was EVEN WORSE than that time, though. My stomach hurt ALL NIGHT. I threw up twice. I could barely fall asleep or concentrate on GoT. It was so painful I wondered if there was something seriously wrong with me. But I knew for sure it wasn't food poisoning. I've had food poisoning many times and it was a different kind of pain. I was just TOO FULL. I eventually fell asleep, then woke up in the middle of the night, feeling relieved that the pain had gone. But then, because I was awake, it came back, and it was awhile before I fell asleep again. In the morning it was better, but then on the bus my stomach started to hurt and I wondered if it was more serious than I'd thought and should really go to the hospital. But I toughed it out and now I'm back to mostly fine, though (and this may just be my imagination) my stomach still feels very tender and delicate sometimes, so I've been fairly good about what I've been eating.
The lesson here is that I should always have something on me to eat, so that my body doesn't get into this "I'M STARVING OMG" mode and make me feel like I need to eat everything in sight. >< Also the obvious one, which is to stop eating when I'm full, omg.
I also finished The Good Wife, season 3. TGW is one of those shows that I shouldn't like. It's on CBS, which is like, the most boring network ever, it's a procedural, and it stars Julianna Margulies, who I don't particularly care for (and never have, even on ER). And yet. It is a REALLY good show. The case-of-the-week plots of the weekly eps are almost always interesting and well written, while advancing the non-case-based plots, and it's well acted. It helps that I love both Josh Charles and Matt Czuchry, but they're honestly not the defining reason why I like the show. The only other person I know who watches TGW iscorianderstem, which is weird considering it has like 10 million viewers (if only so many people could have been cool enough to watch Community). Anyway... my thoughts on The Good Wife S3:
- I really liked it. I have the luxury, on this show, of just being able to enjoy the story they want to tell me, rather than freaking out every time they go against one of my preferences. For instance, I really liked Will/Alicia in the first two seasons and wanted them to be together, but now that they've fizzled out I don't much mind it either.
- Though I am a little confused by WHY they had them fizzle out -- and seemingly so permanently, with Alicia having that conversation with her brother about how she never really loved Will, just loved the idea of it. I guess it was so they could potentially have her get back together with Peter? Which doesn't interest me at all, frankly, as much as I do grudgingly like him (I liked Chris Noth much better as Big, though). I just feel like Alicia has come a really long way, and for her to have gone through all this, just to stay with the husband who'd cheated on her, living in the same damn house they used to live in is just... really? That's the message the show wants to send?
- I guess that's why they got Chris Noth instead of some other actor, because I would have thought he'd be out of the picture by now. I still don't get why Noth has been a "special guest star" for 3 seasons. Is it more lucrative for him? Because it otherwise makes no sense.
- I really love Matt Czuchry and am so happy that he's back at Lockhart/Gardner. He's always shown himself to be super smart and just DECENT. The only times he's been painted in a negative light was when he was going 1:1 against Alicia, and of course she was the one who had to come out on top, GRRR. Seriously -- he was kind of an ass at the beginning when they were fighting for that one spot, and then last year or whatever it was when he almost came back, but then wanted (ridiculously) to be equal with Alicia or her boss or something and it was just stupid, cutting of his nose to spite his face. Just didn't seem like the Cary that we see almost every other time that we see him. He's just evil/stupid when he goes up against Alicia, I guess. Sigh. Anyway, I'm really eager to see him back in the L/G mix. I used to also really want him and Kalinda to get together, but apparently that's never going to happen... she's not interested in him (though of course, if this were fanfic, I would say that she cares about him too MUCH to ruin their relationship that way), and seems more often to be interested in women than not, even though she's told Alicia she's not strictly gay.
- I like that they're building up the Alicia/Kalinda relationship again, even though, like in so many things, I feel like Alicia can be so unfair and self righteous. It wasn't until Elizabeth Reaser pointed out that Alicia had basically done the same thing to Elizabeth/Will that she started to thaw a bit. And you know, I even totally understand not wanting to be friends with a woman who had slept with your husband (though given what we now know about Kalinda, it's really hard to imagine her being attracted to Peter, honestly)... it's just that Alicia's on such good terms with PETER that it pisses me off that she's still being such a bitch to Kalinda. If you can fucking forgive your cheating asshole husband, who was REALLY the one who betrayed you and your trust, then forgiving the woman who slept with him, who didn't even know you at the time, shouldn't be THAT much harder. Honestly.
- I really fucking hate Jackie.
- I also kind of hate Alicia's kids. They're so fucking annoying. And stupid.
- I'm glad the show addressed L/G's win rate because yeah, it seems like they come out on top pretty much every time. What bothers me is less that they're good lawyers so they win more -- I can buy that -- but that it's often painted that they're the morally superior ones, going up against morally bankrupt people and corporations. I understand that that makes it more satisfying for me as a viewer, because I can honestly root for them, but it's pretty unrealistic.
- I have a new fondness for David Lee/Zach Grenier. I even liked his niece, and was surprised that they decided to cut that storyline short. Maybe because they had decided to bring Cary back?
- I'm interested but not dying to know wtf is up with the thing re: Kalinda's husband and the uncashed check. Obviously he's a dangerous guy and is probably the reason she turned into what she is, but I hope it'll be more interesting than that.
- In fact, the finale in general left me pretty meh. Other than Cary's return, I really couldn't care less about the rest of it. ESPECIALLY Alicia's decision of whether or not to rejoin her family or drive away -- but I covered that early on. I have no interest in watching her fall back into the life that she had before the events that took her to L/G in the first place. That's not an interesting character arc, and it's not an interesting plotline, period. I really hope they don't plan to torture us with it all of next season. If Alicia and Peter get back together it'll make things so boring I might have to stop watching the show.
- Also? If I were her, I would NEVER WANT TO LIVE IN THAT HOUSE AGAIN. I cannot relate to her nostalgia for it at all. But then I can't believe that she's on such good terms with Peter now. I have a cold and unyielding heart, and bear grudges.
- Also, I love Christine Baranski.
Oh, and of course the Other TV Thing I had to shoulder this past week... Dan Harmon being fired as showrunner of Community. The first thing I did was scream and rage and call both NBC and Sony a bunch of frickin idiots. The second thing I did was very similar to the first thing. The third thing I did was feel glad that there's at least going to be a final 12 episodes at all. Here's the thing. I feel strongly that when you take a smart, funny show that appeals to a small, select group of people because they all share in and appreciate that kind of humor, to then remove the guy who brought that vision to life, in order to make it more "broadly appealing," all you're going to do is ruin what it is, alienate existing fans, and not succeed ANYway, especially if you also combine it with moving the show to Friday evenings. But whatever. They have their reasoning, and Vulture has been able to lay some of those reasons out objectively in these two articles. Because I am a reasonable person, and because it seems they're trying to retain some of the writers (like Megan Ganz), I can now see where the other side is coming from, and I will give S4 a chance. I want it to succeed. But I pretty much think that by getting rid of Dan they're changing what the show is, and I just don't know if I would enjoy Community-lite. I do hope they prove me wrong -- but again, even if the show maintains its quality and awesomeness, they're not helping it with its current slot, so in that way they're dooming it ANYway. In which case, they might as well have either canceled the show outright or brought Dan back to run the final 12 eps.
And because this would not be my LJ if I didn't include some Clint/Natasha prettiness, here we go:
From here.
I did watch GoT 2x8 'The Prince of Winterfell,' but I barely remember anything about it, other than that it's probably the last time I'll see one of my favorite characters. :/ My lack of memory is partly due to the BlackHawk haze, and partly due to the fact that I had a really bad tummy ache when I watched it. That, my friends, is the price of gluttony. I seriously thought I might have to go to the emergency room. The only thing that stopped me was the idea of telling people that I had done it to myself by eating too much. ><
See, Sunday was K's birthday celebration and I was supposed to go over there in the late afternoon. I watched The Avengers again in the morning, and on a whim decided to sneak in to see it again after the first showing (hence the ".75" times, since it was already like 30 minutes in). I hadn't eaten anything, and it was like 3pm by the time I got out of the theater and was SO HUNGRY. I stopped by a Jack in the Box and got a 5-piece chicken nuggets (they were tiny) and a Jr. Jack (also small) to tide me over until dinner.
Since I was a little early, I decided to stop in at Bakery Nouveau to get some pastries. The almond croissant (one of the best things they make there, and they make almost everything excellently) was still warm because it hadn't been that long out of the oven. I couldn't resist and ate half of it.
While D went to go get dinner, he had me heat up some frozen edamame, which I did, and I ate some. Apparently, I was full at this point and should have just stopped eating. But in my mind, I hadn't REALLY eaten, I'd just snacked here and there. And D had gotten fried chicken from Ma'ono (formerly Spring Hill) and tons of Chinese food. I made a plate for myself -- a fairly conservative plate, for me -- but the second I started eating I wanted to stop. I felt so full I wasn't even enjoying what I was putting in my mouth! Yet I didn't feel like I could stop, because then everyone would ask why, and I'd have to explain that I'd eaten all this food before even getting there, and I didn't want to get into it. So I forced it down. I finished almost all of it, and felt like I was going to pop. I felt so ridiculously full. (Oh and I also had an orange San Pellegrino soda.)
I should have stopped THEN, but still I didn't. D had gotten the Bakery Nouveau chocolate cake, and that is like, the best cake on the planet. I couldn't NOT have any, so I ate a thin slice of that... then cut myself another thin slice!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, I have a problem. What is wrong with me. But anyway, after THAT, I was really, really hurting. The only other time I've eaten that much and gotten THAT full was the time
jade_okelani, ropo and I were in Vegas and the same thing happened where we hadn't eaten for a long time beforehand, so we ended up gorging like crazy at the Mirage buffet... and feeling so horrible afterward that we all had to go throw up.This was EVEN WORSE than that time, though. My stomach hurt ALL NIGHT. I threw up twice. I could barely fall asleep or concentrate on GoT. It was so painful I wondered if there was something seriously wrong with me. But I knew for sure it wasn't food poisoning. I've had food poisoning many times and it was a different kind of pain. I was just TOO FULL. I eventually fell asleep, then woke up in the middle of the night, feeling relieved that the pain had gone. But then, because I was awake, it came back, and it was awhile before I fell asleep again. In the morning it was better, but then on the bus my stomach started to hurt and I wondered if it was more serious than I'd thought and should really go to the hospital. But I toughed it out and now I'm back to mostly fine, though (and this may just be my imagination) my stomach still feels very tender and delicate sometimes, so I've been fairly good about what I've been eating.
The lesson here is that I should always have something on me to eat, so that my body doesn't get into this "I'M STARVING OMG" mode and make me feel like I need to eat everything in sight. >< Also the obvious one, which is to stop eating when I'm full, omg.
I also finished The Good Wife, season 3. TGW is one of those shows that I shouldn't like. It's on CBS, which is like, the most boring network ever, it's a procedural, and it stars Julianna Margulies, who I don't particularly care for (and never have, even on ER). And yet. It is a REALLY good show. The case-of-the-week plots of the weekly eps are almost always interesting and well written, while advancing the non-case-based plots, and it's well acted. It helps that I love both Josh Charles and Matt Czuchry, but they're honestly not the defining reason why I like the show. The only other person I know who watches TGW is
corianderstem, which is weird considering it has like 10 million viewers (if only so many people could have been cool enough to watch Community). Anyway... my thoughts on The Good Wife S3:- I really liked it. I have the luxury, on this show, of just being able to enjoy the story they want to tell me, rather than freaking out every time they go against one of my preferences. For instance, I really liked Will/Alicia in the first two seasons and wanted them to be together, but now that they've fizzled out I don't much mind it either.
- Though I am a little confused by WHY they had them fizzle out -- and seemingly so permanently, with Alicia having that conversation with her brother about how she never really loved Will, just loved the idea of it. I guess it was so they could potentially have her get back together with Peter? Which doesn't interest me at all, frankly, as much as I do grudgingly like him (I liked Chris Noth much better as Big, though). I just feel like Alicia has come a really long way, and for her to have gone through all this, just to stay with the husband who'd cheated on her, living in the same damn house they used to live in is just... really? That's the message the show wants to send?
- I guess that's why they got Chris Noth instead of some other actor, because I would have thought he'd be out of the picture by now. I still don't get why Noth has been a "special guest star" for 3 seasons. Is it more lucrative for him? Because it otherwise makes no sense.
- I really love Matt Czuchry and am so happy that he's back at Lockhart/Gardner. He's always shown himself to be super smart and just DECENT. The only times he's been painted in a negative light was when he was going 1:1 against Alicia, and of course she was the one who had to come out on top, GRRR. Seriously -- he was kind of an ass at the beginning when they were fighting for that one spot, and then last year or whatever it was when he almost came back, but then wanted (ridiculously) to be equal with Alicia or her boss or something and it was just stupid, cutting of his nose to spite his face. Just didn't seem like the Cary that we see almost every other time that we see him. He's just evil/stupid when he goes up against Alicia, I guess. Sigh. Anyway, I'm really eager to see him back in the L/G mix. I used to also really want him and Kalinda to get together, but apparently that's never going to happen... she's not interested in him (though of course, if this were fanfic, I would say that she cares about him too MUCH to ruin their relationship that way), and seems more often to be interested in women than not, even though she's told Alicia she's not strictly gay.
- I like that they're building up the Alicia/Kalinda relationship again, even though, like in so many things, I feel like Alicia can be so unfair and self righteous. It wasn't until Elizabeth Reaser pointed out that Alicia had basically done the same thing to Elizabeth/Will that she started to thaw a bit. And you know, I even totally understand not wanting to be friends with a woman who had slept with your husband (though given what we now know about Kalinda, it's really hard to imagine her being attracted to Peter, honestly)... it's just that Alicia's on such good terms with PETER that it pisses me off that she's still being such a bitch to Kalinda. If you can fucking forgive your cheating asshole husband, who was REALLY the one who betrayed you and your trust, then forgiving the woman who slept with him, who didn't even know you at the time, shouldn't be THAT much harder. Honestly.
- I really fucking hate Jackie.
- I also kind of hate Alicia's kids. They're so fucking annoying. And stupid.
- I'm glad the show addressed L/G's win rate because yeah, it seems like they come out on top pretty much every time. What bothers me is less that they're good lawyers so they win more -- I can buy that -- but that it's often painted that they're the morally superior ones, going up against morally bankrupt people and corporations. I understand that that makes it more satisfying for me as a viewer, because I can honestly root for them, but it's pretty unrealistic.
- I have a new fondness for David Lee/Zach Grenier. I even liked his niece, and was surprised that they decided to cut that storyline short. Maybe because they had decided to bring Cary back?
- I'm interested but not dying to know wtf is up with the thing re: Kalinda's husband and the uncashed check. Obviously he's a dangerous guy and is probably the reason she turned into what she is, but I hope it'll be more interesting than that.
- In fact, the finale in general left me pretty meh. Other than Cary's return, I really couldn't care less about the rest of it. ESPECIALLY Alicia's decision of whether or not to rejoin her family or drive away -- but I covered that early on. I have no interest in watching her fall back into the life that she had before the events that took her to L/G in the first place. That's not an interesting character arc, and it's not an interesting plotline, period. I really hope they don't plan to torture us with it all of next season. If Alicia and Peter get back together it'll make things so boring I might have to stop watching the show.
- Also? If I were her, I would NEVER WANT TO LIVE IN THAT HOUSE AGAIN. I cannot relate to her nostalgia for it at all. But then I can't believe that she's on such good terms with Peter now. I have a cold and unyielding heart, and bear grudges.
- Also, I love Christine Baranski.
Oh, and of course the Other TV Thing I had to shoulder this past week... Dan Harmon being fired as showrunner of Community. The first thing I did was scream and rage and call both NBC and Sony a bunch of frickin idiots. The second thing I did was very similar to the first thing. The third thing I did was feel glad that there's at least going to be a final 12 episodes at all. Here's the thing. I feel strongly that when you take a smart, funny show that appeals to a small, select group of people because they all share in and appreciate that kind of humor, to then remove the guy who brought that vision to life, in order to make it more "broadly appealing," all you're going to do is ruin what it is, alienate existing fans, and not succeed ANYway, especially if you also combine it with moving the show to Friday evenings. But whatever. They have their reasoning, and Vulture has been able to lay some of those reasons out objectively in these two articles. Because I am a reasonable person, and because it seems they're trying to retain some of the writers (like Megan Ganz), I can now see where the other side is coming from, and I will give S4 a chance. I want it to succeed. But I pretty much think that by getting rid of Dan they're changing what the show is, and I just don't know if I would enjoy Community-lite. I do hope they prove me wrong -- but again, even if the show maintains its quality and awesomeness, they're not helping it with its current slot, so in that way they're dooming it ANYway. In which case, they might as well have either canceled the show outright or brought Dan back to run the final 12 eps.
And because this would not be my LJ if I didn't include some Clint/Natasha prettiness, here we go:
From here.
