Ehhhh, I have no feeling about this. My choice is The OC pilot, because I've watched it about a billion times and I never tire of it. I also think it really works on its own. It tells you everything you need to know about the series in 42 minutes. That's a well-done pilot.
Here are two reasons I like this pilot so much-- Ryan meets Sandy, and Ryan meets Seth. I love The Cohens.
Also, Pushing Daisies because it's called "Pie-lette." It's also really good in that same way of telling you everything you need to know about the series. The whole struggle is right there. I love the 2nd episode of Pushing Daisies more than the Pie-lette, though. Olive sings in the second episode. It's kind of brilliant. It was the exact moment when I know this show would always be in my heart. She did it again in the second season with "Eternal Flame," and I loved it just as much.
I'm going to fall down a rabbithole of Pushing Daisies videos now.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
[Fantastic Five Friday] Five Favorite TV Kisses
Blanket spoiler warning, although every kiss I'm about to mention aired in 2007 or earlier.
I love TV. I love kissing. I love blogging lists. I love The Weekly Enthusiast for starting this blog meme. This one's a no-brainer, people.
Pushing Daisies, S1E3 Aired 10.17.2007, "The Fun in Funeral"
also known as The Cellophane Kiss
Ned and Chuck's relationship is one of my favorites, because it's so damn sweet and so damn heart-breaking. He cannot touch her because if he does, SHE WILL DIE. They must find creative ways to show their affection that do not involve actual skin-to-skin contact or else Chuck becomes The Lonely Tourist Dead Charlotte Charles once more. And, since this is a Bryan Fuller show, it's gotta be quirky as can be.
Veronica Mars, S1E18 Aired 4.12.2005, "Weapons of Class Destruction"
also known as First LoVe
Logan and Veronica had been doing this strange and crazy dance around one another for a few episodes before this, building up the tension as all the best shows will do. She had been helping him out on a case, and he dropped many of the bitter feelings he had in the past for her. It all culminates in this awesome sweeping kiss that you don't see coming just as much as you do. None of the videos would let me embed the actual kiss, so here's what I've found. THIS VIDEO is the lead-up to the kiss, which you should watch because it includes a mulleted JTT (YES!) and Logan calls him "Jump Street" and it's just good to have back story. THIS VIDEO is the kiss itself. It looks like the picture below, but... you know... moving and stuff.
Friends, S2E7 Aired 11.9.1995, "The One Where Ross Finds Out"
also known as That Scene That Always Plays Whenever Anyone Talks About Ross & Rachel
Before they became a veritable punchline, Ross and Rachel's will-they-or-won't-they carried quite the punch. I'm a big ole Friends fan, still to this day. I remember watching the build-up to this for weeks (yes, when it aired back in 1995 when I was just barely 14 years old) and my baby-teenage heart was FIT to BURST. And then, it happened. Oh my, did it happen. Watching the video of the kiss still gave me chills, even this many years later. Again, unable to embed so entire scene can be viewed RIGHT HERE.
The Office, S2E22 Aired 5.11.2006, "Casino Night"
also known as The Night I Yelled at My Boyfriend For Making Me Love This Show
Y'all. In doing my research for this entry, I just fell down a serious Jim and Pam rabbithole, and THE FEELS. THEY ARE OF THE KILLING KIND. I'm such a Jim and Pam fangirl. This is another that I remember so SO well. I remember watching their relationship unfold, breaking my heart piece and piece as it went, because I never thought Jim would be able to get the girl. They were too tentative, too shy, too good at their little dance that they couldn't see around it. So it's Casino Night, and something in Jim sees that this is his moment and... Pam says no. And I cried like a little girl, hands pressed to my mouth, tears streaming down my cheeks. But fear not, True Believers! It wasn't over yet! Actions speak louder than words! THIS VIDEO is a poor quality version of the kiss itself, but the below video is so so sweet, and it's rocking the Ingrid, and you can see the kiss again starting at about 2:36.
Gilmore Girls, S4E22 Aired 5.18.2004, "Raincoats and Recipes"
also known as That Time I Squeed So Loud I Terrified My Neighbors
No TV list of mine is complete without one GG reference. And you know it had to be Lorelai. What I adore about Luke and Lorelai as a pair is that it wasn't so hit-you-over-the-head obvious as TV couples usually are. Yes, it was established in the pilot that Luke was a dude that gave Lorelai The Feelings, and yes it gets pretty properly hinted at over the course of these 4 seasons, but it didn't take over the plot as a whole. Not until the end of Season 4, and suddenly Luke Can See Her Face, and that surly, hat-wearing diner owner is DONE. Love it.
I love TV. I love kissing. I love blogging lists. I love The Weekly Enthusiast for starting this blog meme. This one's a no-brainer, people.
Pushing Daisies, S1E3 Aired 10.17.2007, "The Fun in Funeral"
also known as The Cellophane Kiss
Ned and Chuck's relationship is one of my favorites, because it's so damn sweet and so damn heart-breaking. He cannot touch her because if he does, SHE WILL DIE. They must find creative ways to show their affection that do not involve actual skin-to-skin contact or else Chuck becomes The Lonely Tourist Dead Charlotte Charles once more. And, since this is a Bryan Fuller show, it's gotta be quirky as can be.
Veronica Mars, S1E18 Aired 4.12.2005, "Weapons of Class Destruction"
also known as First LoVe
Logan and Veronica had been doing this strange and crazy dance around one another for a few episodes before this, building up the tension as all the best shows will do. She had been helping him out on a case, and he dropped many of the bitter feelings he had in the past for her. It all culminates in this awesome sweeping kiss that you don't see coming just as much as you do. None of the videos would let me embed the actual kiss, so here's what I've found. THIS VIDEO is the lead-up to the kiss, which you should watch because it includes a mulleted JTT (YES!) and Logan calls him "Jump Street" and it's just good to have back story. THIS VIDEO is the kiss itself. It looks like the picture below, but... you know... moving and stuff.
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| Like this, but with more kissing. |
also known as That Scene That Always Plays Whenever Anyone Talks About Ross & Rachel
Before they became a veritable punchline, Ross and Rachel's will-they-or-won't-they carried quite the punch. I'm a big ole Friends fan, still to this day. I remember watching the build-up to this for weeks (yes, when it aired back in 1995 when I was just barely 14 years old) and my baby-teenage heart was FIT to BURST. And then, it happened. Oh my, did it happen. Watching the video of the kiss still gave me chills, even this many years later. Again, unable to embed so entire scene can be viewed RIGHT HERE.
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| Well, hello there, Dr. Geller. |
also known as The Night I Yelled at My Boyfriend For Making Me Love This Show
Y'all. In doing my research for this entry, I just fell down a serious Jim and Pam rabbithole, and THE FEELS. THEY ARE OF THE KILLING KIND. I'm such a Jim and Pam fangirl. This is another that I remember so SO well. I remember watching their relationship unfold, breaking my heart piece and piece as it went, because I never thought Jim would be able to get the girl. They were too tentative, too shy, too good at their little dance that they couldn't see around it. So it's Casino Night, and something in Jim sees that this is his moment and... Pam says no. And I cried like a little girl, hands pressed to my mouth, tears streaming down my cheeks. But fear not, True Believers! It wasn't over yet! Actions speak louder than words! THIS VIDEO is a poor quality version of the kiss itself, but the below video is so so sweet, and it's rocking the Ingrid, and you can see the kiss again starting at about 2:36.
Gilmore Girls, S4E22 Aired 5.18.2004, "Raincoats and Recipes"
also known as That Time I Squeed So Loud I Terrified My Neighbors
No TV list of mine is complete without one GG reference. And you know it had to be Lorelai. What I adore about Luke and Lorelai as a pair is that it wasn't so hit-you-over-the-head obvious as TV couples usually are. Yes, it was established in the pilot that Luke was a dude that gave Lorelai The Feelings, and yes it gets pretty properly hinted at over the course of these 4 seasons, but it didn't take over the plot as a whole. Not until the end of Season 4, and suddenly Luke Can See Her Face, and that surly, hat-wearing diner owner is DONE. Love it.
Friday, April 13, 2012
[Fantastic Five Friday] Five Characters To Which I’ve Become Too Attached (TV edition)
In looking through my blog reader today, I saw a post that intrigued me about five tv/movie characters to which the author was too attached. Then I found out it's a weekly blog meme started by The Weekly Enthusiast. Then I remembered my blog and thought, "Didn't I used to write about TV shows and stuff back in the day? I should do that again!"
AND SO, without further ado, here are "five" characters from television shows that I wish were real people so we could be super BFFs for all time. I wanted to get all random and oddball on all of you (which I kind of do as far as show choice) but sadly, the majority of these are main characters instead of side characters. DEAL WITH IT.
5. The Piemaker aka Ned, Pushing Daisies
There were 2 reasons I was dying to watch Pushing Daisies before it aired- Bryan Fuller and Lee Pace. These two had worked together on a fun, quirky, supa random show I (of course) adored called Wonderfalls. I didn't like Lee's character that much at first, but he slowly grows on you, and I give all the credit to that to Lee's awesomely awesome acting talents. The more research I did on him, the more he impressed me. Pushing Daisies was no exception; it only made my love grow stronger. If I'm awake, I'm missing this show. It's always in my brain. In fact, it's affected me so much that I unconsciously wrote one of the boys in a story to look like Ned without realizing it and then I saw these and was like, "YEP. WHOOPS." #sorrynotsorry
Favorite Ned quote:
"Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or sidestreets, kiss her or keep her. We make choices, and we live with consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way, we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do."
4. Seth Cohen, The O.C.
I had such an addiction to this show when it first aired, like... serious. It made my week. I would tell people not to call me, bother me, make plans with me while this was on. Because of Seth Mother-f-ing Cohen. He was the nerdy dream boy for a whole generation of girls just like me. Sweet and sensitive and did I mention SO NERDY? Big ole swoons from me. Then, the whole show went downhill too fast, and I broke up with it and it wasn't pleasant and I still haven't see the last 2 seasons. I'm waiting for the Seth Cohen comeback because I know it's coming.
Favorite Seth/Ryan conversation:
Ryan: Sometimes I think you talk just to make sounds.
Seth: Well, sometimes, I do.
3. Cory & Topanga, Boy Meets World
I love Boy Meets World more than anyone should, really. I know it's cheesy and predictable and very, VERY 90's. But I don't even care. I'd like more cheesy, predictable sitcoms if they were written with so much sweetness and honesty and inside jokes and if William Daniels was in them. Life doesn't have to be all art films and emo things and THIS IS MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE EVER SEEN.
Cory and Topanga are the OG OTP, IMO. They were endgame back in the sandbox. And they knew it, and they weren't afraid to show it. I never doubted that their love was true, or that what they felt didn't feel supremely real to them. It's the embodiment of first love, and more power to you if you can find something like that. I also believe all bromances on TV today owe a lot to Cory and Shawn.
Be careful what you wish for, Cornelius Matthews.
"That's just what I want - to be Topanga's boyfriend. And then we can name our children Chewbacca and Plankton."
2. Veronica Mars, Veronica Mars
I already knew who I wanted in the #1 spot, but this one was tough. I ended up benching Buffy (I KNOW!) for V. Mars, but I'm not going to apologize. While I do adore Ms. Summers, I always felt an attachment to Veronica because she's just a normal girl trying to do right by her and her people. She was a normal goody-two-shoes who managed to bag a bestie like Lilly Kane, score a date with Lilly's brother Duncan... and then her whole life fell apart slowly but surely due to nothing she did. Instead of falling to Earth in pieces, she picked herself up, dusted herself off, and made sure that crap didn't happen to her again.
What I most love about Veronica is how vulnerable she really is, because she certainly presents herself as ten pounds of badass in a five pound bag, and how terrified she becomes when that vulnerability brings itself to the surface. She'll let little glimmers of her true self shoot through that intense armor, and it's like magic. Sadly, that's the reason she and Logan have SUCH A HARD TIME being together. He wants to protect her; she's not going to stop doing what she does best. Fight angst fight- them's the breaks when your love story is epic.
"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything. Creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild."
1. Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
Oy with the poodles, I have such a crush on Lorelai Gilmore (and also on Lauren Graham too). Lorelai is completely and totally cah-razy, but she wears it so well. More than any other character I've ever known, I wish Lorelai was real so I could be friends with her. I think we'd really understand each other. We could drink coffee and hide out indoors and watch/mock tons of movies and laugh at the same jokes and tease Luke while he fixes things. I'm legitimately sad that can't be my reality. OH, TELEVISION. How you've ruined me.
Much like V.Mars, Lorelai uses her wit and her charm as her mask because she's so very, very vulnerable. She's been so burned in the past by Christopher, by her parents, by nearly everyone, that she basically trusts no one but Rory. When she is happy, I cheer with her. When she is broken, my heart breaks too. There are certain episodes of Gilmore Girls that are beyond difficult for me to get through because a- Lauren Graham constantly and consistently knocks performances out of the park and b- I identify with Lorelai very very much. She makes mistakes. She has flaws. She knows it, and she knows when she's making a bad choice but she doesn't always stop herself. She's so complex, I friggin' love it. I started watching Parenthood because she'd be on it (and Peter Krause too!!), and I'm thankful for her casting all the time.
So... those are mine!
AND SO, without further ado, here are "five" characters from television shows that I wish were real people so we could be super BFFs for all time. I wanted to get all random and oddball on all of you (which I kind of do as far as show choice) but sadly, the majority of these are main characters instead of side characters. DEAL WITH IT.
5. The Piemaker aka Ned, Pushing Daisies
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| Print by Nan Lawson, which you can buy here! |
Favorite Ned quote:
"Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or sidestreets, kiss her or keep her. We make choices, and we live with consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way, we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do."
4. Seth Cohen, The O.C.
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| gif found on tumblr, duh |
Favorite Seth/Ryan conversation:
Ryan: Sometimes I think you talk just to make sounds.
Seth: Well, sometimes, I do.
3. Cory & Topanga, Boy Meets World
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| LITTLE BABIES!! |
Cory and Topanga are the OG OTP, IMO. They were endgame back in the sandbox. And they knew it, and they weren't afraid to show it. I never doubted that their love was true, or that what they felt didn't feel supremely real to them. It's the embodiment of first love, and more power to you if you can find something like that. I also believe all bromances on TV today owe a lot to Cory and Shawn.
Be careful what you wish for, Cornelius Matthews.
"That's just what I want - to be Topanga's boyfriend. And then we can name our children Chewbacca and Plankton."
2. Veronica Mars, Veronica Mars
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| again, thanks tumblr |
What I most love about Veronica is how vulnerable she really is, because she certainly presents herself as ten pounds of badass in a five pound bag, and how terrified she becomes when that vulnerability brings itself to the surface. She'll let little glimmers of her true self shoot through that intense armor, and it's like magic. Sadly, that's the reason she and Logan have SUCH A HARD TIME being together. He wants to protect her; she's not going to stop doing what she does best. Fight angst fight- them's the breaks when your love story is epic.
"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything. Creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild."
1. Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
Much like V.Mars, Lorelai uses her wit and her charm as her mask because she's so very, very vulnerable. She's been so burned in the past by Christopher, by her parents, by nearly everyone, that she basically trusts no one but Rory. When she is happy, I cheer with her. When she is broken, my heart breaks too. There are certain episodes of Gilmore Girls that are beyond difficult for me to get through because a- Lauren Graham constantly and consistently knocks performances out of the park and b- I identify with Lorelai very very much. She makes mistakes. She has flaws. She knows it, and she knows when she's making a bad choice but she doesn't always stop herself. She's so complex, I friggin' love it. I started watching Parenthood because she'd be on it (and Peter Krause too!!), and I'm thankful for her casting all the time.
So... those are mine!
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