WAH, i dont like this new site design! wheres my comfy old familiar tv.com? and why have i been at level 10 100% for like months and still havent been bumped up to 11? DO THESE THINGS GO TO ELEVEN??

lol just popping on here a minute to check something, and i happened to read over my last blog post. specifically the part about "no, they can't end without jommy together. it simply wont happen."

HA! how naiive we can be. god, im still so freaking pissed about that.

quick life update: in florida, working for disney. getting really tan, having inappropriate crushes, dealing with 6 females in one apartment. its an adventure.

quick fandom update: even more immersed in 'how i met your mother'. just bought s3 of jag (yes, i know, im WAY behind, but dvds are expensive!). just saw s1 of life and i'd rate it about a 6.5/10. ill tune in to s2, though, with hopes high. saw the new xfiles movie, with a fan that i hooked up w/ via livejournal. it was so ridiculous and LULZY, but great to watch with someone else who knows all of the history behind it, was actually a fan and involved in the fandom. and just started watching that german soap opera with olli/christian today and am IN LOVE. with all of the characters surrounding their storyline, actually. why aren't american soaps this interesting and logical?

ok, back to what i was doing. peace out, y'all!

new season of instant star, YAYYYYY!! i have to say that im disappointed that they're back @ gmajor - ive really liked the progression of jude's music career in previous seasons, and having her join jamie and pagan's new independent label would have been a great step in a new direction. it just seems like a cheap way to explain away the move to a new lobby set. but who the hell cares because JUDE AND TOMMY ARE TOGETHER AND THEY ARE CLEARLY THE MOST ADORABLE THING ON THE PLANET!! judging from some of the music later on in the season (actually, pretty soon now - like in 2 episodes), theres going to be a fight and/or breakup of some sort, but you know that they cant end the series without them together. its just not going to happen.

also? i suddenly like karma and speid. i was never expecting to, but hes so sweet with her, he really seems to balance her out, and i love those little moments when he kind of coaxes her into being a true human. its really cute. im kind of half in love with tyler kyte now.

HAVE I MENTIONED THAT JUDE AND TOMMY ARE ADORABLE??

and ill totally deal with a breakup/fight if it produces songs like 'i just wanted your love'. AWESOME. im not in love with 'live like music', nor the synth trumpets during 'perfect' (synth trumpets? SERIOUSLY??), but the rest of it is pretty awesome. i also like 'ultraviolett' alot. WHY MUST THIS SHOW END???

ps~not having decent internet due to a flaky immature roommate is ANNOYING. just fyi.

putting the 'bones' and the 'house' finales on the same night? seriously? are you TRYING to kill me?!?!

bones was.....well, im still conflicted as to how i feel about it. it was intense, but at the same time some of it didnt, characteristically, make alot of sense. the opening sequence, while interesting and funny, was a complete letdown from the dramatic cliffhanger of the previous episode. HOWEVER, it did lead to that ridiculously awesome scene in booth's bathroom, so i guess i really shouldnt complain. i mean honestly, how is it possible for seeley booth to be anymore perfect? and then, of course, there's the ending.....*sigh*. i mean on some level, i buy it, but at the same time i still don't. i dont know. i havent gotten a chance to re-watch it yet, maybe i'll have some concrete opinions after i do. i think that i MIGHT be able to forgive it if they follow through next season, and show the anguish that the team is going through. i mean after caroline's awesome 'you all have to work together' speech, and cam's 'you take away one of us and we would have all been buried live', if they don't give it the emotional impact that it deserves i am going to be PISSED. every single one of those characters loved him - he was like a little brother to angela, hodgins was his best friend and roommate, and he obviously meant so much to brennan. oh my god, the scene where she leans her forehead against his just broke me in two.

but oh no, they couldnt leave well enough alone right there. because then came the house finale, during which i basically sobbed my eyes out for a solid hour. OH MY GOD. i initially had reservations about the general theme of both 'houses head' and 'wilsons heart', simply because we've already had a season finale that relied heavily on house's hallucinations. but this one? oh WOW. just WOW. AMBERRRRRRR, i will miss you so much!! its funny, i really disliked her at first. but now i LOVE her, and it just kills me that we wont get to see her anymore. and poor WILSON! she was absolutely perfect for him in every way. when he comes home and finds the note on the bed? GUH. color me broken.

i am SO glad that i decided to wait and download the how i met your mother finale, because it was EXACTLY what i needed after that emotional overhaul. BARNEY STINSON IS IN LOVE WITH ROBIN SCHERBATSKY, IT'S OFFICIAL. carter bays, im sorry i ever began to doubt you. never again! i look forward to oodles of awesome fic this summer - its kind of ridiculous how 99% of all barney/robin fic is of such high quality. but i cant wait to see more of it!

lol and SPEAKING of ripping my heart out.....i'm re-downloading doctor who, from the beginning. oh, ROSE. oh, NINE! i havent seen the final few torchwood episodes either, and ive heard their quite a doozy as well. so i'll have something to keep me occupied on the plane ride to florida - i just bought a laptop, because there would be NO way to transport my desktop on a plane without it getting destroyed. so YAY, ability to surf the internet while waiting to board, watch my downloads on the plane, and write fic when i get to the hotel! so very very cool. ive never had one of these before! its even got a bigger hard drive than my computer, so no more worrying about disk space w/ my video files! its just that transferring them is a pain in the ass.

OK, i should REALLY be packing. i can feel my mother glaring at me even from downstairs.

how i met your mother. WOW.

i just love this show more and more with every episode that i watch. i LOVE the schizophrenic storytelling style, not only because it makes it more interesting than the average linearally-plotted show, but also because i think it really mirrors real people's storytelling styles. it makes me laugh and think of my parents - my dad tells stories completely out of order, and my mom prefaces with like fifteen years worth of unneccesary backstory. i like that it's romantic, and all about destiny and fate and finding THE ONE. because i very much believe that that concept exists. and then i get my SUPER AWESOME BARNEY/ROBIN SIDE COUPLE, because seriously? YES.

um, 'sandcastles in the sand'? if you haven't seen it yet, stop reading here.

only three words to say: OH MY GOD. i am still in absolute shock that IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!!! i am SO excited to see where it goes, because i feel like they have ALOT of potential.

my two cents on the matter:

i think they're going to stay together. it wont be easy, because theyre both so stubborn and headstrong, and i know they're definitely not going to get married and do the whole white-picket-fences thing (i can't even imagine them LIVING TOGETHER). but i think they are such a perfect match. just the ease of their interaction, how robin often laughs at his jokes even when the others shake their heads in disgust.

i think that its ROBIN that's truly commitment-phobic. i think barney talks a big game, but at the end of the day i think that if he found the right woman, he'd be willing to make it work. i mean look at the evidence. he flew all the way to san francisco to convince lily that marshall needed her. he MARRIED THEM HIMSELF, and got teared up. he has spoken several times about how they belong together. and throughout the robin/ted relationship, he kept trying to get them to see the light. he KNEW that they wouldn't work, just like they knew it deep down, too - they just had different views on all of the most important issues. i think that barney might initially freak out if love found him, but i think he'd be open to the idea.