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Saturday, June 23, 2012

REACTION POST: If you're not in on this, I don't want your life.

First season of Avatar: Legend of Korra is over...

MY TOP 3 REACTIONS:
1) Crying of anger, sadness, and happiness. Almost the whole way through from Tarrlok to everything. All my feels. Forreal tho.
2) Screaming. Legit screaming like SCREAM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS ON A MOUNTAIN PEAK screaming.
3) Laughing from pure, unadulterated joy and because I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT!
I'm still caught up in a flurry of emotions; I couldn't even text one of my besties properly 'cause I was shaking so much. If I had lady crushes on animated characters, Korra and Lin would most definitely be it. My man crushes would be Bolin and Tenzin. Among many other characters from this series and others...baaah...Good god, that was amazing. What is my life.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Let's Watch "The Playboy Club" - Episode 1: Pilot


EXPECTATIONS: I hate Hugh Hefner so, of course, my expectations are extremely low. I expect this will be another glamorization of women being emotionally and sexually harassed in the business as well as a white-washed revisionist history. Let's do this...

Let's Read "A Quick Bite (Argeneau Series, #1)" by Lynsay Sands



PROS:
→ A few solid ideas (like the anemia thing in the beginning).
→ Great opening.

CONS:
→ Cringe-worthy writing.
→ Hasn't been proofread/edited enough; too many grammatical errors.
→ Terrible at foreshadowing; Chekhov's gun much?
→ There were times when the thesaurus was abused and times when the thesaurus wasn't used enough.
→ Very little "showing" and too much "telling".
→ After page 13, the story dipped.
→ Poor character development; male protagonist is a moron.
→ Far too many useless minor characters.
→ Story was as bland as the characters.
→ Trying too hard at everything.
→ Was too obvious who the villain would be.
→ No chemistry between Greg and Lissianna.
→ Misogynistic, sexist, and objectifying.
→ Cringe-worthy dialogue.

COMMENTS (AKA WHY I HATED IT):

Let's Watch "Teen Wolf" - Episode 1: Pilot



EXPECTATIONS: I was pretty much against watching this because it's MTV and they're known for their trashy gimmicks and whatnot but, after reading about it in last week's issue of Entertainment Weekly, I decided to give it a try. Giving it a chance mostly because it's been a while since MTV has had a scripted show. Who knows? Maybe they've improved. Maybe they're not like The Jersey Shore or any of their other ridiculous "reality" television shows. We shall see...