Andy Gapin

What a great episode of Heroes. I don’t want to blog about every episode of every TV show I watch, I was just going to do the premieres, but last night was great. Almost everything that I was left confused on was explained (to a degree) this week and the story lines really took off.

This wasn’t the first time that we’ve seen Syler have some inner conflict, but I think it’s going to be really interesting to have them dive into that story a bit more. There were always hints of good in him and a struggle with that.

I’m not sure why we need another character that can paint the future, but I was kind of bored with Parkman’s story anyway, so I’m not too broken up about it.

Also, I think Zooey finally has some competition for the status of my number one celebrity crush. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything else with Brea Grant (the new character, Daphne) before,  but I might have to look into that. I want more of her character pretty much right now.

I feel like a complete schlep because I didn’t get around to reading the book before I went to see the movie. I meant to read it about six years ago, but instead it’s been sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust. So this review should be taken with a double dose of the normal grain of salt that you should be taking my reviews for stuff with anyway. 

I ended up watching this twice over the weekend since the girlfriend fell asleep about 20 minutes in the first time. It’s a decent flick if you like typical predictable and romantic comedies…which I’m a complete sucker for.

Being a big fan of Tina Fey–please tell me that you’ve seen her Sarah Palin on SNL–it was going to be hard for me to be let down. Her character was pretty much Liz Lemon from 30 Rock, but that didn’t really bother me too much. She’s good at that successful career, but hopeless and awkward personal life kind of thing. That and she’s pretty damn hot…especially in the black dress she wears in the club scene. Amy Poehler was…Amy Poehler. I don’t particularly love her, she sometimes annoys me, but I don’t dislike her either. She’s usually good for a few laughs.

I wanted to post about this yesterday, but I completely didn’t get around to it. Thursday night’s season premiere of The Office…incredible. There barely felt like any gap between this episode and the finale of season four. The story picked up right where it left off and everything that we were left hanging on for months got addressed. Sure, it took until the very end to get some Toby action in, but almost everything else was pretty much at the forefront. The only real complaint that I had was with the Jan being pregnant thing. It was sort of glossed over and we weren’t really given as much as I was hoping for. But I thought that the Dwight/Andy/Angela debacle more than made up for it. It was nice to see Jim finally propose to Pam and I thought that the way it worked out was a pretty cute way to do it, but during the entire episode I was kind of expecting something bad to happen between them. They really led you to believe that Pam was going to end up cheating on Jim while she was in NYC. And having been in a situation eerily similar to the one that Jim was put in with Pam going away, I can really relate to the feelings of being the one left at home while your other is off in the city for a few months. You want to be supportive and you are happy for them and the opportunity that they have, but fighting the jealousy can be hard. I thought those feelings came across pretty perfectly. Well done by both the writers and John Krasinski.

Here’s last night’s playlist for The Playlist. I’m starting to seriously feel the burden of trying to keep up with doing a show of entirely new music. I love how it forces me to stay in tune with new music, but it gets stressful sometimes. I never find it hard to fill the time up with new stuff that’s good, but at the same time, I think I overload myself with too much music to check out and because of that, I rarely get to give any once album the attention that I would like to.

Source: 90.3 The Core

Unlike Heroes, the How I Met Your Mother season premiere was a bit of a let down. I liked the story, but I thought that it just wasn’t as funny as most episodes of this show are, especially the ones in the second half of last season. Though, that still puts it in the top like ten percent of shows currently on the air.

Wow, just wow. After Season 2, I didn’t know what to expect. Tim Kring acknowledged that last season was lacking, but I wasn’t expecting them to hit us with this right off the bat! Very intense episode with a lot going on. It did feel a little long considering that it was two hours with short commercial breaks, but they really packed a lot in there. I’m officially pumped for the rest of this season!

It seems like they’ve got a good story line this time around with lots of twists and turns. I knew it would have been too good to be true, but I was really hoping that Ali Larter was written off the show when Niki died at the end of last season so I was really disappointed to see back. With the exception of Maya, I don’t think there is any character more useless to the story or more annoying than Niki/Tracy…that and I just don’t like Ali Larter.

I just made my first GrapJam submission. I hope they accept it!

And I’ve got more where this came from!

Good show last night with a lot of good music…

Source: 90.3 The Core