Lost : The Series Finale

The time has finally arrived, the answers to ALL our ques­tions, right?

Wrong. I com­pletely read­ied myself to be heav­ily dis­ap­pointed after watch­ing the series finale, due to the sim­ple fact that Sea­son 6 was giv­ing me noth­ing to really hang hope on.  From when they had that episode about Jacob and his brother as young bucks and their ‘mom’ show­ing Jacob that light tun­nel, things were get­ting wack.  And that being the rea­son why the Black Smoke Mon­ster came to be was even more disappointing.

So every­body was dead, no real sur­prise there.  Even as I watched the Jimmy Kim­mel spe­cial where they were fur­ther try­ing to fig­ure out exactly what the show meant, I just didn’t get a sense of con­crete con­fi­dence in the outcome.

Over­all, it was a great show and like the few other shows in which I hold at high regard in their pro­duc­tion qual­ity, def­i­nitely has raised the bar in how TV should be.  I just think this series could have got­ten their point across by Sea­son 3 or 4, because Sea­son 6 was a big waste of time.  And the end­ing didn’t pro­vide the kind of ‘con­clu­sion’ one needs

It was like a past rela­tion­ship with no clo­sure. And that’s how I’ll leave it

With Lost com­ing to a close and The Office the only other active show I even bother watch­ing these days, I took the advice from sev­eral dif­fer­ent peo­ple and decided to give Break­ing Bad a go

Sea­son 1, Episodes 1–7
It’s a good thing that each episode is a good hour, because shows that are half that are becom­ing less and less appeal­ing (I’ll give the excep­tion to How To Make It In Amer­ica).  Break­ing Bad stars Bryan Cranston who plays Wal­ter White (remem­ber the father from Mal­com in the Mid­dle? SAME GUY), a high-school sci­ence teacher who learns that he has lung can­cer.  Of course there had to be more prob­lems, one mainly being of the finan­cial mat­ter, which inad­ver­tently pushes Wal­ter into enter­ing the world of crys­tal meth.  Nooo, he doesn’t start tak­ing it.. but he sure does cook it!  And not only does he cook it, but he makes some of the purest form of crys­tal meth ever seen.  Parterned up with one of his for­mer stu­dents, Jesse Pinkman, they embark on some of the most cra­zi­est of adven­tures.. most of which are surely unplanned and uninvited.

Did I men­tion Walter’s brother-in-law is a DEA agent?  Yeah, throw that in the mix.  So now you have a lit­tle pinch of Dexter-esque added, except Wal­ter isn’t secretly killing bad guys.

Episode 7 didn’t end in any epic way, but almost ended just as the pre­vi­ous episodes before it did.. which didn’t leave much room for sus­pense.  Don’t get me wrong, it has me hooked and already into Sea­son Two, it’s just that I would have expected Sea­son One to end off with more of a siz­zle (get it?  chem­istry — siz­zle? corrrrn)

On with the show

I was told to watch this show awhile back when it first pre­miered, but I didn’t bother to lis­ten at that time.  And then recently, I saw more peo­ple talk­ing about it and peo­ple kept say­ing.. you’ll really like it, trust me.  So I finally grabbed all 8 episodes that have aired for Sea­son 1 so far and spent a good cou­ple hours today get­ting all caught up.

How To Make It In Amer­ica — Sea­son 1, Ep 1–8

My take on it?  The voices were right.  Has its lit­tle Entourage (prob­a­bly because it’s the same peo­ple that made Entourage, made this) aroma stenched all over it, but is a bit more real­is­tic as it’s just about the every day hus­tle, which I’m sure most peo­ple can relate to.  But just like Entourage, the show is mad short.. and when you’re used to watch­ing hour long shows (Lost, Dex­ter, Weeds), 22 min­utes of show­time, just doesn’t seem suf­fi­cient enough. But despite that, I have now jumped on the wagon and look for­ward to see­ing where the show goes

I haven’t really sat down and watched the Oscars in a long time really, because I never find the jokes funny and it usu­ally drags on to the point of sheer bore­dom.  Tonight’s Oscars really wasn’t any dif­fer­ent from what I just described, yet I was inter­ested to see if Pre­cious would win some awards and if Avatar would com­pletely clean house.

As usual, the put all the not-so-anticipated awards at the begin­ning of the show so that you’re forced to either sit there for the full length of it to see what you really tuned in to see, or come back around 11:30pm and catch those awards you really wanted to see.  I was glad to see Steve Car­rell present an award, because he has become my mod­ern day Jim Carey (who I used to admire much as a teen grow­ing up)..

The Intro : Much is made of who hosts the Oscars, and then how they per­formed after all the lights die down.  Steve Mar­tin (whose last movie escapes me, CAUSE ITS BEEN THAT LONG) and Alec Bald­win (guess­ing from 30Rock fame) got the green light to enter­tain the masses.  They did alright, noth­ing too mem­o­rable really.. some­body hit me up when they choose Steve Car­rell and who­ever else they want, cause that would be a treat in itself.

The Awards : I was sur­prised on more than one occa­sion dur­ing the show, more-so at the fact that movies I never thought twice about, got so much praise tonight.  I remem­ber when I watched The Hurt Locker, I thought it was a good movie and I do remem­ber rec­om­mend­ing it to a few peo­ple but I hon­estly never looked at it as Oscar mate­r­ial.  When I think Oscar, I think Glad­i­a­tor. Even the Blind Side, a movie I also didn’t think much of, pro­duced some golden man totin’ win­ners.  So when San­dra Bul­lock beat out Meryl Streep and that chick from Pre­cious, I was very sur­prised.  And when Hurt Locker beat out Avatar for both best direc­tor and best pic­ture.. let’s just say, wow!  Did you see how fast Tom Hanks came in and announced the win­ner for Best Pic­ture at the end?  So quick I thought it was fake.. ha, I was wait­ing for him to be like, “just kid­ding… AVATAR!”

** side­bar — that was James Cameron’s ex-wife right? (that won best direc­tor) Ooooh, that must really suck

But that didn’t hap­pen.  Clearly.  Over­all, very ho-hum and makes me wish I did some­thing else for the time spent watch­ing it, cause I could have had the same reac­tion either read­ing about it tomor­row or on my twitter.

“The Deliv­ery”

You just got to love when a new episode of The Office pre­mieres, and it’s 1 hour on top of that!  Only true Office fans can really con­nect and enjoy the on-screen chem­istry between Jim & Pam (or is that Pam & Jim?), because every­time they go through a spe­cial moment (ie. their wed­ding day) it’s a huge episode.

So this time?  Pam is ready to have her baby and the whole office is prepar­ing for this moment.  But what’s the catch?  Some­thing about how Jim & Pam’s insur­ance com­pany only cov­ers 2 days, so they don’t want to waste a day going in early and spend a major­ity of the episode try­ing to avoid going to the hos­pi­tal at all costs.

Fun­ni­est moments?  Aww man, too many.. you can’t have an hour of Office mania and not have a gazil­lion clas­sic moments.  Dwight and Angela reunit­ing with their ‘Let’s bang it out’ con­tract, Erin and Andy FINALLY hook­ing up and of course Pam hav­ing a.…

Baby girl. Amaz­ing episode, which I will most likely watch again tomor­row when I get home from work

Been a pretty long week and there were actu­ally some shows/programs that I wanted to catch live, but due to work that was a no-go.  So I came home this morn­ing and instead of knock­ing right out like I prob­a­bly should, I decided to squeeze in atleast 2 of ‘em..

Of course I had to start the morn­ing off right with a brand new episode of The Office!  Been awhile since I had a good laugh, and of course my favourite Scran­ton crew didn’t dissapoint.

“Sabre”

So Dun­der Mif­flin was saved by this out­side com­pany named Sabre (pro­nounced SAY-BURR) hah, which is half the joke!  Of course Andy had to get his song on, he kills me with the tunes, too bad he didn’t bust out the banjo.  Of course I’m antic­i­pat­ing the new sto­ry­line with him and Aaron.  Mean­while, some new changes are brought into effect and Michael Scott ain’t feel­ing them one bit, so what does he do?  Seeks advice of course, and makes a unin­vited trip to David Wallace’s home.  I think I died laugh­ing when he was leav­ing and said “That was not the David Wal­lace I know, that was some scary crea­ture” or some­thing to that extent, but it killed me

How could I for­get the sub-plot of Jim and Pam try­ing to get in with one of the pre­miere day­cares in the area?  Pureeeeee jokes, right from when he catches dude in the kids bath­room with the door unlocked.  “Well did you ever think that you guys aren’t as super nice as you think you are?” to which Jim replies “Why would you leave the door unlocked?  Any­body could have just walked in” and gives the cam­era ‘the look’.  Kill me again.

And the song!  “Suck It” by David Wal­lace and son.. haha­haha, I don’t even know what to say about that, that is just classic.

After the Office, I had Lost all ready to go even though I knew it was going be a nice 2 hours of my morn­ing (well, 1hr and 21minutes with­out com­mer­cials).. but I fig­ured, might as well while I’m still awake right?  So here we go, the first episode of the last sea­son and we BETTER be get­ting some damn answers!

“L A X”

The show started off with errr’body back on the plane, but this time it was switch­ing back and forth with a few of them back on the island.  So I was once again con­fused.  This time on the plane though, they had a few bumps but still man­aged to land safely which again had me con­fused.  I was only con­fused because it kept jump­ing back to them on the island in some predica­ments and in a time after the explo­sion.  I have almost come to the point where I am just going to watch this show with­out expect­ing any con­crete answers.  Because even the part where Jon Locke is alive inside the big ass foot and dead out­side on the beach, I’m like huh?  And then buddy turns into the black smoke (spoiler! oops) and goes on with these crazy stares.  Juliet who was sucked into the hole last sea­son fol­lowed by mounds and mounds of metal some­how man­aged to SURVIVE, and sur­vive juu­u­u­u­ust enough to tell Sawyer “I have some­thing very impor­tant to tell you.….” dead.  Seri­ously, who stays alive just enough to utter those words with­out reveal­ing it?  But wait!  We have tal­ented peo­ple on the island who can see dead peo­ple and who can talk to dead peo­ple, how lucky we are.  And what was the miss­ing infor­ma­tion?  “It worked.”  And so the episode goes on with some tem­ple mis­sion, a dead Syed, some peo­ple who don’t speak Eng­lish but under­stand it, and Syed wak­ing up from the dead and .… episode done.

Shake my damn head, more ques­tions and less answers.  Not a good start

8pm on ABC

It was a sloooooow night in terms of any­thing inter­est­ing hap­pen­ing, but over­all the night went quick still as the job I was assigned to do was cheese.  How­ever, I do have to intro­duce this char­ac­ter at work on my shift, who at first I thought was a bit what­ever but this just tipped the boat right over.

His head is humon­gous.  Seri­ously though, he must get lost in thought every time he starts to think!  He’s like a real life chara­ca­ture, an extra in one of those Ludacris videos where everybody’s heads are big­ger than their bod­ies.  Do you remem­ber that 90’s car­toon show on MTV called The Head? Hahah, obvi­ously not THAT extreme but I mean, I’ve heard the ref­er­ence ‘five-head’ (because a for­head, for = four.. get it?  old) to some­one like a Tyra Banks (who def­i­nitely does fit the bill) but dude could run her for her money any day of the week.  He’s atleast dou­ble in size, his head just may be the size of my thigh.

Maybe if he was a cool guy, I wouldn’t busi­ness so much.. but every time I see him, he gives off this weird vibe and all I could see is his head.  Go figure

The leg­end is real peo­ple, and I have proof!  Now if I could just fit all of it on my cam­era phone…

I first got into Parks & Recre­ation based on the sole fact that it was cre­ated by the same peo­ple who cre­ated my favorite show The Office.  I had mixed feel­ings about the show, it was some­thing you kind of forced your­self to like and try to get used to because you love The Office so much, but some­times it’s just not ‘all there’ just yet.  But one thing was for sure, the ‘brown guy’ on the show was def­i­nitely the most entertaining.

Aziz Ansari aka The Brown Guy (I call him), always makes me laugh, so when I caught wind of the fact that he had an uncut standup float­ing around.. I was sure to get my hands on it.  So tonight I decided to watch it before head­ing to work and it was pure jokes still!

Every­thing from gay rights, to Kanye West, to Craigslist and Face­book.. he had the most ran­dom rants but made you laugh same ways.  I must admit, he has a lot of energy, A LOT.  I guess I was wait­ing for him to use the ‘Awe­some’ line he usu­ally uses in Parks & Recre­ation, but I’m guess­ing that’s more his char­ac­ter on the show as oppose to any­thing else.  Although he did use it once when he did the joke about meet­ing M.I.A. (the singer) and try­ing to impress her with some Tamil  by telling her that “You, right here, is awe­some”.  But you’ll have to watch it (or lis­ten) to the whole standup to under­stand the whole joke.

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Aziz Ansari — Are White Peo­ple Psy­ched All the Time?

My oh my.  So I get this email that makes me just grin from ear to ear.. the uni­fy­ing of The Office and the clas­sic board game Monop­oly? It’s like an unmade prayer has been answered!

Right now they’re tak­ing votes as to what the pieces should be.  You KNOW I had to pick the Dwight bob­ble­head, cause I have that bad­boy!  (cour­tesy of my sister)

http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/games/monopoly/