If you want something really, really bad...

Watched my "Easter Egg" today which was The Amazing Spiderman on DVD. I had not previously seen it because I hate going to the movies alone but usually can`t find someone who wants to go to "those kinds of movies" with me. If they are going to the movies at all instead of tending to house/family/garden. Sigh, back at Uni, I went with my roomate all the damn time. Miss those days.

Anyhow, I was uncertain about rebooting the franchise just a couple of years after the last movies but I enjoyed it (what do I know, though, I didn`t even hate-hate Spider-Man 3 :-p). The new Spidey was a bit snappier and snarkier which I liked. Of course parts of the origin story stay the same as they always do, like the whole thing with Uncle Ben, and they should. It`s, after all, the whole impetus for Spidey`s character. Just one moment of pettiness leading to such terrible consequences and that haunting him.

Also, since I`m a big softie, I enjoy those scenes when the people "give back", so to speak. Like the train scene in Spider-Man 2 and the crane scene in this new one. That was pretty awesome.

The suppporting roles were also well-drawn, for example Captain Stacy was a bit more than just the tunnel-visioned Police Chief out for the "vigilante" come hell or high water. And Gwen did defnitely get some better stuff to do than MJ did in the previous series.

Looking forward to the sequel for this one.

Which, speaking of, this movie year is just RIPE with upcoming sequels, isn`t it? Iron Man, Star Trek, Catching Fire, Thor... On the one hand, I`m majorly excited, on the other, apprehensive, too. I went into all the "originals" with little to no expectation. Now? Whole different ballgame. I mean, the trailers look good on IM3 and ST but heck, I thought the trailer for the Star Trek reboot looked atrocious and then the movie blew me away. Hopefully, all sequels keep those things alive that made me love the first parters.

Meanwhile, my "superhero movie" shelf keeps growing, I guess with great movies comes a great responsibility to provide room for them. *g*

Just took out my Christmas decoration and put on the Easter deco.

What? I like cutting it close. *g*

Considering the latest episode of Grimm, I`m starting a betting pool on what ( spoilers )

Okay, on the Vampire Diaires:

Caroline, Stefan, Rebekah, Damon, Elijah - those are the ONLY characters on the show who would IMO make valid, sensible ( spoilers for last ep )

Watching some of the bonus features from Grimm Season 1 here and I didn`t know they were shooting in Portland for real. How cool, the location really is gorgeous and very fitting for the fairytale theme. Also, I found it neat to see a more "exotic" place than your basic cities like NY, LA, even Vegas and Miami. Or the various "cities" that are really Vancouver. As beautiful as Vancouver is. Oregon isn`t the first place that comes to mind for a TV show setting.

And I`m so glad the show returns next Friday. Hopefully, the long hiatus didn`t hurt it. I don`t understand why that was done because it was one of the few shows doing well for NBC.

Not bad, TV-Friday (well, technically, that would be TV-Thursday but who cares). We had:

- Beauty and the Beast finally got back to the only thing that ever worked for it, I know my bar for this show is quite low but I`d probably watch it at this point just to be gobsmacked how likeable a TV character played by Kristin Kreuk can be. I never blamed the actress much for the bad Lanaville writing but this show has bad writing, too, and Cat is actually genuinely a likeable person

- a most EXCELLENT episode of Person of Interest, that seriously rocked and eps like this can go bad, if not done right. Here, I was disappointed that it wasn`t a backdoor Pilot.

- a powerful episode of Vampire Diaires, and what was probably the best bit of acting done by Nina Dobrev in the entire show so far (and by that I don`t mean to say she is usually bad because I have always found her to be good). Also: game, consider yourself thouroughly changed.

I have finally started to watch Teen Wolf. Four episodes in, I`m moderately entertained.

The main character is kinda whiny, though. And I don`t know why we always have to go through the "boohoo, I`m superpowered so I can`t get my ego validated being a big hero on the sports team, oh my life is so tragic" stuff. I realize it`s a trope from the Michael J. Fox movie but we did it with Clark on Smallville and even for an ep with Stefan on TVD. I will say the coach cracks me up, though.

For obvious reasons I like Derek the best right now. :) Stiles is fun but I need to see more of him to really get a handle on the character.

The romance? Eh. I like seeing Martouf as a hunter. But what I`m most interested in right now is: who is the alpha? I presume it is a character already established? Well, 8 more to go.

Hey, why did noone told me that Community came back on? I kinda lost track of the show.

Now I`m not in the fandom but even I know there was a big hoopla with the creator leaving and Chevy Chase and whatnot. But I honestly didn`t feel the show was all that different. I mean, those weren`t episodes I couldn`t have seen happening in Seasons 1-3, for example.

Were they the best ever? Nope. In the past what was different was that movie parodies were usually done more fully so I was first excited and then a bit disappointed by the Premiere. But it might have been too similar to the paintball palooza we had anyways.

Anyone watching? What did you think of the first two eps?

Arrow and The Vampire Diaires have both been renewed. \o/ No surprise there but am happy about it nonetheless. Even with some of TVDs recent wonkiness, I still like the show.

Samnatural has also been renewed. Whatever. I just hope afterwards Jensen Ackles (and Misha Collins, though he is barely on) can still get a decent project. I`d like to watch them in something where the writers actually, you know, write stuff for them.

As I`m decluttering my room, anyone interested in either:

- Farscape Season 2 DVD boxset, RC 2, languages: both English and German, lots of bonus features, top condition

- Pride and Prejudice DVD set, the TV version with Colin Firth, English version is the uncut one, the German version the one that aired on TV couple years back, also top condition


I`m pretty much just looking to cover the costs for shipping.

Give me holler if you want. First come, first serve.