Special Announcement!

Hey non existent readers! I have some awesome and potentially dangerous news.

Next Thursday (Australia/future time), I am holding a Lord of the Rings marathon at my place with a bunch of friends in honour of The Hobbit coming out!

I've calculated and see that it is 9 hours and 18 minutes....not including extended scenes and footage that my friends have and we are going to watch. So this will be taxing day, whether it be on my health or emotional state or my mental state.

I'll try to figure out how to record my reactions in one form or another in order to do a full out review afterwards.

So here is my knowledge of Lord of the Rings (which is mainly made up of singular words and pronouns):

• Elijah Wood = Frodo
• His friend's name is Sam? Which is a weirdly normal name for this universe. I mean...his best friend's name is Frodo...
• There are two other guys and one of them plays Charlie from Lost
• They're hobbits which are different from dwarfs
• Middle Earth
• New Zealand
• Gandalf
• Sauron?
• Ring that has weird writing inside and does stuff and is significant
• Evil Dobby named Golem
• "My precious....."
• Orlando Bloom
• There's a lot of walking and journeying through New Zealand  Middle Earth
• Btw is Middle Earth the name of the whole universe or just the name of one specific section in the universe? See, I have the same problem with Game of Thrones. Is Winterfell the whole universe or just one region? DON'T ANSWER THAT

This looks like I know a lot (to me it does) but I'm just saying words that I've heard around everywhere. Because...you know...I live under a well informed rock. So here are predictions:

• People die
• The ring gets destroyed at the very end. It has to be right? That's the whole point of the whole franchise?
• There's an evil force that want's the ring for evil purposes? Because they're evil?

Yeah that's all. I don't know. 

Community

Sorry I haven't posted much lately. I've been busy with personal matters and being lazy. I'll be honest, I spent most of the past couple of days playing Pokemon Gold while watching three whole seasons of Community for the first time. If I wasn't reviewing each episode and each chapter like I do here, I'd probably be done with most of the series because that's how much of a life I don't have and how much I love good television. I watch in bulk.

Maybe I'm just going to do that from now on. If I want to watch another episode, I'll do it. I'll probably get into it and watch at least 8 per day. I'd upload one at a time or something and video record each one but not upload every vidblog.

Anyways. The real purpose behind this post (before I got ramble-y up there) was to discuss Community. My God I am so ashamed I did not get into this sooner. It's brilliant on all levels! It's like a pop culture candy land which I have devoured all of. By the end of the first episode of season 1, I realised I was a mild version of Abed.

I probably should do this in dot point form to get it all out:

• THE BEAUTY OF META AND GLORIOUS WRITING AND DIRECTION AND POP CULTURE REFERENCES. 
• Top episodes:
• Every single paintball episode. I want those guns. Are they available (or even legal) in Australia? If so, it's high on my Christmas list next to nerf guns (please)
• Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas was a mix between ridiculous, hilarious, heartbreaking and amazing. Just the animation was priceless along with the songs. P.S. PIERCE IS A TEDDY BEAR
• Epidemiology. Look guys, I just love comedic zombies. Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead are some of my favourite movies. So this episode was Halloween crack for me. Especially since we don't celebrate Halloween as much as I like in Australia. 
• Cirriculum Unavailable. I solely liked this episode because I almost fell for the fact that they were all in a mental institution because it is such a LOGICAL EXPLANATION. But thank god it wasn't. 
• The First Chang Dynasty was just so ridiculous. I loved it from beginning to end. The classic looking like they got caught but that was part of the plan. Chang's growing insanity. The group working together to complete something so ridiculous. 
• Digital Estate Planning. Good lord bless these writers. Everytime they spoof or homage something through the layout of the episode, I cry of happiness and the birth of puppies peak. Taking on video games, making Abed find his true love in an avatar and WHY IS GIANCARLO ESPOSITO EVIL IN EVERY TELEVISION SERIES HE IS IN?
• Basic Lupine Urology. BEST SPOOF EVER. Troy and Abed just make me wish I had two bromantic friends. 
• Remedial Chaos Theory is probably one of my most favourite episodes in general television. I am in love with infinite parallel/alternate universe theories. The fact that it was this show that pulled it off so well...it just makes me happy.

• General:
• Abed + Troy = One of the top bromances
• Pierce is always giving me conflicting emotions. One moment he's obliviously offensive, then he's a sad old man and then I want to strangle him for being so....JIFNVJSIDNGJENG. 
• Jeff. I sort of don't ship him with anyone. I really don't like the idea of him and Annie because it just seems.....nyehhh. No likey. I used to go for Britta but then I just got tired of that thought and went along with their awesome childish banter.
• OH Britta and Troy. I'm all for it. They're both adorably stupid in their own way.
• There's a lot of continuity in the show but if you jumped into the series mid-season, you wouldn't be left out. 
• Abed and Troy's handshake and catchphrase/morning show thing
• I equate their Dreamatorium with Spongebob and Patrick's Idiot box
• It's like a combination of some of my favourite sitcoms: Seinfeld, Happy Endings, How I Met Your Mother and some other ones I can't think of right now.

Game of Thrones Chapter 2: Catelyn

We continue meeting the Stark family as the mother of the clan (is that the right word?) is introduced and talks to Ned, who I finally figured out was the father/leader and not Eddard. Right? Are Eddard and Ned the same person? Am I making myself sound really stupid??

So this chapter brought on a plethora of words and names I don't know how to pronounce. That should be fun for future readings. The thing I like about the author's style of writing is that it doesn't chuck a J.K Rowling. As much as I love the Harry Potter series, the descriptions tended to run a couple pages too long when just describing how a table fell over or something like that. This gave enough description for you to conjure in your mind but not too much so that it overwhelmed you.

A friend of Ned (who is also his brother in law because his friend's wife is Ned's wife's sister. Yeah.) died, which was momentarily sad. I find it great how we get a little backstory to insignificant characters or characters you're not going to actually meet. We also get a couple more of the children's names and Bran is not the youngest. My apologies.

Then we get news that King Robert is going to visit with pretty much half his court. Then there's some obvious tension when regarding the King's wife and her brothers. The Lannister's came in a little late to help the Stark's out and so they never really got buddy buddy with each other. I guess it's more tolerance.

There was a lot of talk about forests, and trees, and carvings in a special tree. That was all a little confusing and weird. But ok. I must be important? Jebus help me understand.

Supernatural S01E02 Wendigo

I fell for the first scene. It was cliche and I considered the fact that it might be a dream. But I got sucked in anyway.

So this episode the search continues for the brothers' father and ends up just saving a family who were in a similar situation. They lost their brother when he went camping and always kept in touch in some way. Until one day he just stops and they want to find him. Dean empathises with this and he wants to help them. That and the fact that he was accustomed to defeating evil on a daily basis to save others.

Sam however, wants to move on once he realises that their father wasn't there. He didn't care about the family or the wendigo. He never let himself really mourn Jess's death and so his little revenge vendetta thing is overtaking his mind, instincts and morals. First off he wants to go straight into the forest rather than investigate unusual happenings which confuses Dean. Then he wants to abandon an obvious dangerous situation for his own sake. 

It was only until Dean convinced Sam that it was wrong and what happened was unfair. He promises Sam that they'll find their father and the demon who killed Jess and their mother. On the way they'll just continue to bring down as much evil as they can. Which lightens the moment.

• FINN FROM GLEE IS A GRUNGY OUTDOOR BOY WHO IS EATEN
• M&M's are a staple in life and obviously saves lives
• Not much to say about this episode....

Doctor Who #9 S01E03 The Unquiet Dead

I didn't sign up for this when I wanted to get into Doctor Who. I didn't know exactly what I was signing up for, per say, BUT IT WASN'T THIS. Within the first 5 minutes I was freaking out. Dead old people suddenly coming to life with white eyes? Yeah, no thank you. Ever.

I don't know what to take from this episode. It shows that Rose's morals, although understandable and is right to us, may have to change. She's now part of this bigger picture where that are hundreds of unknown races of alien beings. She want's to respect the dead yet she could help save an entire race of aliens. She wants to protect Gwyneth (who was on the first episode of Merlin and apparently was in Torchwood) who has the ability to save this race at the risk of her own life.

It's that question: would you kill one person you know in order to save hundreds of strangers?

She also needs to understand her views and morals are not just out of place when it comes to aliens, but to different time periods as well. They were in 1869 and Rose was appalled at Gwyneth's treatment when in fact, Gwyneth had to going pretty well for a female of her status. She had a paying job with a kind employer and even a form of education. But Rose just sees an underpaid, uneducated and poorly treated girl. So she needs to learn to adjust and empathise in a whole new way.

We also met Charles Dickens who is dissatisfied with life. He feels that he's grown to know and be certain about everything around him. He has no more motivation to write and doesn't believe in paranormal/supernatural. His adamant refusal to believe what obviously wasn't normal shows how he is afraid that the beliefs that he had lived his whole life by were wrong; that everything he said and did was pointless and completely wrong. But then this seemingly small gem pops up:

"Can it be that I have the world entirely wrong?

"You're not wrong. There's just more to learn."

I like that he doesn't shoot Dickens' down and say that he was wrong about everything but that he just simply didn't know everything. It would have been so easy for the Doctor to just tell his everything he thought and believed was wrong because the Doctor knows so much. How much does the Doctor know, exactly??

Anyways Doctor Who episode three was: scary, wtf, how?, why?, what?, scary, wait...., wth, DON'T DIE

So death count this episode: at least 3, not counting the already dead bodies that exploded at the end. 

• "Sorry I told you to shut up."
• "Who's your friend?"  "Charles Dickens."  "Okay."
• "First you drug me and then you kidnap me. And don't think I didn't feel your hands having a quick wandering, you dirty old man!" -Doctor just smiles harder-
• I don't understand this joke about it being Cardiff...
• HOLDING OF HANDS "I'm so glad I met you"...YOU GUYYYSSSSSSS

Game of Thrones Chapter 1: Bran

This is nice. I like where this is going. Well to be honest I have no idea where it's going. But I do like what has happened so far.

Introduced to the Stark's/ Snow. Everything so far is surprisingly pleasant. Except, of course, the beheading Gared from the prologue. The chapter leaves unanswered specifically why he was executed though. Or I completely missed it. Something about him being a wildling or a deserter? I'm also still very unclear about what a wildling is. They seem to rape, pillage and other piratey things. I'm guessing they're savage pirates or something like that? Why is Gared one of them? Wasn't he described as an honourable old knight who served for over 40 years or something? WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE WHITE PEOPLE KILLED ROYCE AND WILL? I think I'll never know....

Anyways the beheading is described from the perspective of Bran, a seven year old Stark. Apparently seven years old is the appropriate age to witness executions. Lovely. OH OH OH. I GOT A PREDICTION RIGHT! And I was joking and being desperate at that point too. So they said there were NINE summer's and Bran had experienced seven. So I'm taking that time does indeed work differently in WINTERFELL, the name of the land (I got a lot of questions answered in this chapter), and seasons go for years and years. Regardless of what season it is however, it seems that the weather and terrain is still harshly cold and dangerous. Which means that when Winter comes (whenever the hell that is) it is going to SUCK.

So the men of the Stark family and some of their entourage are introduced and I'm liking all of them. Robb and Jon seem to be opposites but get along really well. I find this really sweet, especially since Jon Snow is a bastard and isn't fully part of the family blood-wise. They seem to be are really close and good unit of people who are comfortable with each. This is a good thing which means only death or tragedy or sadness is going to befall them by next chapter right? IF JOSS WHEDON TAUGHT ME ANYTHING, IT'S TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF JOY AND HAPPINESS.

I admire Eddard so far. The leader is Eddard right? I'll call him lord king for now until I know I'm right because no one really calls the leader by his name. When he explains why the King executes rather than an actual executioner, I admire it. It's very respectful and honourable to take the full force of responsibility by making the one who sentences them to death to also actually do act of killing him. It shows what kind of tradition and family the Starks come from.

By the by I really like Jon Snow. I don't know why. He's just likable. He stood up for Bran and PLUS saved the pupsssssss. Anyone who saves pups is good in my book. That whole scene and section about the Direwolves was really interesting too. I have a feeling it's foreshadowing something because of the significance of the animal and how it "coincidentally" had the same number of females and males as the Stark children. There was even an albino one for Jon!

Guuuuuuuuyyyyyyys. UBER CAYOOOTEE. It felt weird typing that....

So yeah, digging the Stark's!

Supernatural S01E01 Pilot

I forgot how generally creepy this was. You can see me jump when that bird flew out of NO WHERE at the house.

I vividly remember the first half of the episode. And can I just say OMFG LOOK HOW YOUNG AND SMALL AND CUTE THEY ARE HERE. I mean I haven't actually seen any the later episodes in season 6 or 7 but I've seen gifs and images on Tumblr. And they're baaaaaaabieeeeeeeessssssssssssss  heeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeee.

So the whole purpose of this episode was to set up the premise of the show, the main conflict for this season and as a device to get the brothers to once again go hunting together. IN THE MOST TRAGIC WAY POSSIBLE.

Obviously the beginning is to show how Dean, Sam and their father got into the "business" of hunting demons: to find the one that murdered their mother. But when we fast forward we see that Sam has left that life behind in order to pursue a "safer" and more normal life. Going to law school, a stable relationship and scoring amazingly high on his SATs. The score is high right? I don't know, I'm Australian, I don't know how these scores work. So it's understandable why he's reluctant to go with Dean when he shows up in the middle of the night all cute and sarcastic and big brotherly.

Their whole process on how they investigate and destroy the demons is set out really nicely in here. They look for patterns in mysterious deaths/happenings, research folks and legends that would fit the criteria, pretend (and fail) to be fake cops to investigate the most recent occurrence of supernaturality (supernaturalness? supernaturalnesseanwovnjnvfvf) and kill whatever it is.

We also see Dean confront Sam about who Sam is. Does he really HAVE to be a demon hunter though? Why CAN'T he have a normal life? Just because he was raised to do something, doesn't mean he really has to go forward with it if he doesn't see a good future or happiness in it. But then his expression shifted when Dean mentions how many lives they saved and I think that's what hits home for Sam. Lawyer's save lives....sort of? Right?

Anyways the Woman in White wasn't creepy as much as annoying. You know what was creepy? HER KIDS ON THE STAIRS. I seem to have issues with scary horror kids. I don't know why.

And then we reach the end. Sam comes home ready to finally really start on his new, normal life only to find his girlfriend murdered on the ceiling in the same fashion as his mother. Of course he doesn't remember his mother's death but he got something from it. He understood. The reason why he left the hunting life was because he couldn't understand his father's obsession with finding the demon that killed Mary and felt that it was selfish of him to let it take over his life. When he realises it was the same thing that killed his mother, he understood what it felt like and what it meant to his father to find this thing: justice and revenge.

Any adventure or mission that is motivated only by those will never ever end well. Anyways, excited to rewatch more!