wednesday_10_00 | miscellany

1. Why didn't anyone warn me that last week was going to be Week of Women Dying in shows that I watch? I mean, 3 out of 5, seriously?

2. Hey, gay marriage is legal in Michigan! ...or was, for a day. (Why can't we have a good attorney general, like Virginia's?)

3. Went to see Wait Wait Don't Tell Me live last Thursday, which was amazing (even though we had pretty terrible seats). The show ran really long (almost two hours), so a lot of stuff was cut out of the broadcast. Interestingly, they cut out a couple cases of people fumbling around for answers--at least once for Amy Dickenson, and another time for one of the listener contestants. I've heard more than one broadcast where they left in Carl repeating the limerick and the player hemming and hawing, which just makes me wonder what they WERE cutting out of those shows. Was the panel not being very funny? Amy Dickenson fumbling for the answer "Flappy Bird" in the lightning round was one of my favorite moments of being there for the recording, because a bunch of audience members in the front started flapping their arms to help her out. (They cut out her saying "not Angry Birds..." so it was obvious she knew what the game was and just couldn't remember the name.)

Also left out of the broadcast: many local jokes ("Carlamazoo Promise," haha), mainly about Western having just lost to Syracuse in the NCAA tournament, and also Peter giving Bobcat Goldthwait a hard time about being mean to the audience, which then turned into a running gag ("Did I mention I'm from Syracuse?").

Brian Babylon was my favorite in this episode, for his comments during the panel questions about Obama's "mom jeans" and the peacock. I'm really happy those made it to air.

4. Our current staff book club books are The American Way of Eating and Farm City. The former was really interesting and informative (if depressing) and I was amused to find that one chapter took place in Kalamazoo. The latter was mostly enjoyable, until it turned into a lover letter to meat towards the end. I think people raising their own animals for food is awesome, but reading about a seemingly endless variety of pork products isn't super appealing to me. (Also, agh, the bunnies, please DON'T EAT THE BUNNIES.)

ETA: In non-productivity news, I seriously need an IP block from 2048. I don't see any other way to stop myself from playing. (I made it to 1024, though, OMG!)

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I have essentially stopped watching TV (except for Adventure Time). Not by choice, really, just...other things taking over. Were these main character/recurring character females or dead bodies of the week?

I made it to 1024, though, OMG!

Someone needs to edit! 'grats!

Were these main character/recurring character females or dead bodies of the week?

Main characters. I probably wouldn't call attention to a bunch of female dead bodies of the week (that would really only apply to one show I watch anyway--not super into procedurals). All three were big, shocking (or "shocking") cliffhangers at the ends of their respective episodes.

Someone needs to edit!

1024 is still the furthest I've gotten. Or am I misunderstanding what you mean?

...nobody died in Adventure Time.

I would SWEAR when I looked at that pic on my ipad it was 2048. Luna...lied to me. Still, awesome!

...nobody died in Adventure Time.

This is a good thing!

Bad Luna! Don't tell lies!

Okay, I'm curious which shows? I can guess one of them but...I'm wondering on the others (and trying to find them just spoiled me for a different show, as it's a male death people were talking about and OOPS did not see that coming!) so yeah figure I'll ask instead...^__-

And yes, 2048 is waaaay too addictive! And then there's the Doctor Who version which has been distracting me the last day or two after I managed the other version on my phone :--p

Heh, I don't watch that show, but I heard about the male death last night, too. (It was on NPR because TV plot twists are news now?) It made me laugh because gender aside, clearly this was the week for killing off popular characters. Anyway...I'll use spoiler tags for anyone who doesn't want to see this:

Teen Wolf, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, and Hannibal.

Teen Wolf - the AV Club comments have been so busy speculating about Dylan O'Brian leaving the show (nooooooo) that Alison dying wasn't even on my radar. Feel terrible for her poor dad.

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - I don't think this will stick (laws of magic laws of shmagic), but it was still really shocking and sad. Favorite AV Club comment: "Emma Rigby was probably at her best here (I don't even care about her lips anymore!)." Funny because it's true: I couldn't stand Anastasia early in the show mostly because her lips were so distracting, but she's really grown as a character and Emma Rigby has done a fantastic job.

Hannibal - Nooooooo, Beverlyyyyyyyy ;_; To be fair, this was hardly a surprise (is it a surprise if ANYBODY gets killed, other than the title character?), there's a reason fandom has been throwing #notforeating all over the place this season, but still super sad because she was just so dang awesome. Funny thing: I went in to this going, "Well, this is the week for killing, who's going to die, hope it's not Beverly (it's probably Beverly)" and then the show totally fooled me into thinking it was going to be Bella instead, and then Beverly goes to Hannibal's house and immediately everybody watching went nooooo but the scene was so awesome I kind of can't be mad about it. This fucking show.

Hehehe, the first show was the one I knew about already, the second one I had forgotten that we had not actually watched yet when I asked you and me and my sister and housemate were catching up a little after I wrote to you and about halfway thru the ep, neechan turned to me and was like "hmm, I wonder if

wednesday_10_00 watches this show" and then got to the end and we're like oh, YUP!! ^__-(But I agree concerning the whole laws thing)

And the last one is not actually a show I watch, but thinking back, I had heard other flister mentioning it.

I think the male death made news in part for how well a secret it was kept. Unlike most shows there was not a single "ONE CHARACTER WILL DIIIIIIIIEEE" DUN DUN DUN!! In any of the previews. In fact, apparently they've known the actor was leaving for over a year and kept a complete lid on it! So...kudos to them! ^__-

Oh, OH, you should watch the third show. (For some reason I thought you were watching it?) Like, seriously, I can't recommend it enough. It's really, really great, and the fandom is just hilarious. (If you do watch, please come back and let me know so I can link you to some fanart.)

Sheesh. Let's just stab everybody in Wonderland.

It was kind of a lame stab, honestly. I mean, that piece of glass really didn't look lethal to me.

Still, I'm going to be sad when Wonderland is over. I like it so much more than the parent show right now.

I didn't realize Wonderland was going to be a one-season show. I'm in shock.

Aww, I'm sorry you didn't know that! That would make the finale more shocking, yes.

It's so un-American! We don't know how to PLAN shows. We just run series until no-one is watching anymore.

(Speaking of, I was surprised by the whole ethnicity of the villain thing, even if he is based on a Disney character, 'cause in Aladdin, everyone is Arab, while in Wonderland, Cyrus is so WASPy. Okay, maybe Catholic, but not his brothers' brother.)

I'm not sure what to say. I mean, I agree that it's unusual for a US TV show, but it was announced as such from the very beginning.

Cyrus is so WASPy

I agree that it was unfortunately that he was so light-skinned, especially when Jafar was not, but I wouldn't go that far. I thought it was clear he was SUPPOSED to be Middle Eastern, even if he ended up an unfortunate Hollywood watered-down version.

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