Marathon Progress

Even before typing this I know that this list of episodes is either going to mae it look like I'm awesome, or like the really have no life (most likely the no life one).

The X-Files
4.06 "Sanguinarium" - SO, SOOOOOO GROSS!
4.07 "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" - I accidentally wathed most of the second half of this episode before the first half, but I totally loved it anyway. Cancer man is a very cool and complex character.
4.08 "Tunguska"
4.09 "Terma"
4.10 "Paper Hearts" - Great concept, really well done. One of my favorites.
4.11 "El Mundo Gira" - Very much like a telanovella and I don't like soap operas. Not a favorite of mine.
4.12 "Leonard Betts" - I loved this episode until he had to be the bad guy. It would have been so cool if he'd ended up just a guy who could regenerate (regrow parts of his body even his head) and could tell when someone had cancer, and not been a monster.
4.13 "Never Again" - Really cool concept. Loved it.
4.14 "Memento Mori"
4.15 "Kaddish" - I enjoyed this episode. One of David Duchovny's best performances that I've seen.
4.16 "Unrequited" - Very cool.
4.17 "Tempus Fugit" - Pretty great episode.
4.18 "Max" - Good conclusion to the episode before it.
4.19 "Synchrony" - Odd. The time travel in this is a bit of a reach.
4.20 "Small Potatoes" - Great episode. Another great performance by David Duchovny.
4.21 "Zero Sum" - I don't like bugs.
4.22 "Elegy" - Cool plot. Well done.
4.23 "Demons" - Loved it.
4.24 "Gethsemane"
5.01 "Redux"
5.02 "Redux II"
5.03 "Unusual Suspects" - Awesome! The Lone Gunmen are great.
5.04 "Detour" - This is the episode that got me into this show. Even watchng a second time with more backstory I loved it.
5.05 "The Post-Modern Prometheus" - Loved it.
5.06 "Christmas Carol"
5.07 "Emily"
5.08 "Kitsunegari" - Sequel to "Pusher." Very well done.
5.09 "Schizogeny" - Ava and Ash from Supernatural!! Not a favorite of mine, despite the guest stars.
5.10 "Chinga" - As much as I love Maine the only saving grace of this episode was the interaction between Scully and Mulder. The pencil gag at the end was priceless and woth rewatching. And as a side note: not all Mainers say "ayuh". It's a lie. We don't all fish, or die in fishing accidents either.
5.11 "Kill Switch" - Pretty cool.
5.12 "Bad Blood" - A lot like the episode "Tall Tales" from Supernatural, but this came first and was (it's hard to say this) even better than "Tall Tales". Great acting and Luke Wilson had a cool guest starring role.
5.13 "Patient X"
5.14 "The Red and the Black"
5.15 "Travelers" - I really liked this episode. Young Mulder is so cute, playing with his hair all the time. I like seeing Fredric Lane in things. I loved him on Supernatural as the demons and I loved him in this.
5.16 "Mind's Eye" - Great concept. I liked this episode a lot.
5.17 "All Souls" -I liked this episode a lot. The format and organization was really good.
5.18 "The Pine Bluff Variant" - Lots of twists and turns.
5.19 "Folie a Deux" - I liked this episode a lot.
5.20 "The End" - The kid in this is very cool.
6.01 "The Beginning" - I don't remember this episode at all.
I didn't rewatch 6.02 "Drive" because I'd watched it before and loved. I will rewatch it later, because it was very good.
6.03 "Triangle" - Loved it. I need to rewatch this episode and pay more attention because there was a lot of time stuff that I missed while I was watching the first time and playing WoW.
6.04 "Dreamland" - Love it!!
6.05 "Dreamland II" - Scully should know by now that if MUlder invites her over and attempts to seduce her, then it's not really him it's an imposter. I loved the end with Mulder checking that it was actually his apartment he'd walked into.
6.06 "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" - I love this episode. SRSLY!! Very well done.
6.07 "Terms of Endearment" - Very weird.
6.08 "The Rain King" - Kinda cool. Cool concept.
6.09 "S.R. 819"
6.10 "Tithonus"
6.11 "Two Fathers" - I wasn't really paying attention, so I should probably rewatch this episode.

Chuck - No notes on these episodes because they kind of run together in my head and I love them all.
1.01 "Pilot"
1.02 "Chuck Versus the Helicopter"
1.03 "Chuck Versus the Tango"
1.04 "Chuck Versus the Wookie"
1.05 "Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp"
1.06 "Chuck Versus the Sandworm"
1.07 "Chuck Versus the Alma Mater"
1.08 "Chuck Versus the Truth"
1.09 "Chuck Versus the Imported Hard Salami"
1.10 "Chuck Versus the Nemesis"
1.11 "Chuck Versus the Crown Vic"
1.12 "Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover"
1.13 "Chuck Versus the Marlin"
2.01 "Chuck Versus the First Date"
2.02 "Chuck Versus the Seduction"
2.03 "Chuck Versus the Break-Up"
2.04 "Chuck Versus the Cougars"
2.05 "Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer"
2.06 "Chuck Versus the Ex"
2.07 "Chuck Versus the Fat Lady"
2.08 "Chuck Versus the Gravitron"
2.09 "Chuck Versus the Sensei"
2.10 "Chuck Versus the DeLorean"
2.11 "Chuck Versus Santa Claus"

Stargate Atlantis
5.19 "Vegas" - I loved this episode. It took me a couple minutes to deal with the fact that we were ripping off CSI completely, but once I got over that I loved it. There were many reasons to love this episode: John Sheppard in civilian clothes, John Sheppard the civilian, the badass wraith dressing up as human, Shep whump. I loved it. I can even deal with the end.
5.20 "Enemy at the Gate" - I watched this episode last night and it got me several times. WAY TO GO SHOW!! This episode only worked as well as it did because it was the last episode of the series. Where I would usually be like "Oh but it's okay because Sheppard's gotta be back next week." This time I was freaked out. I yelled at the screen a few times that I would not be accepting heroic deaths.

Firefly - I wanted to continue the Adam Baldwin marathon.
"Serenity Parts 1 & 2"
"The Train Job"
"Bushwacked"
"Shindig"
"Safe"
"Our Mrs. Reynolds"
"Jaynestown"
"Out of Gas"
"Ariel"
"War Stories"
"Trash"

I also got my Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog DVD in the mail and watched both the commentaries and all the special features.

I also watched Mamma Mia and Hancock with mah Jennie. Mamma Mia was good, but I like Across the Universe better. Oh right! We watched that too.

When do I do anything but watch television and movies?? I did work though. Like 12 hours this week. And I've got a couple more than that next week. No work tomorrow though. I plan to sleep in.

Dr. Horrible, Roswell, 21, Stargate Atlantis & More

I haven't posted in a while and figured that now is the time to do it. I have a couple of things to blog about, so here goes.

Dr. Horrible. Love it! I just checked the play count on my iTunes copy of Dr. Horrible and I've watched Act I 4 times, Act II 2 times and Act III 1 time. I've watched it 3 or four times all the way through on my iPod too. It turns out that Dr. Horrible has the ability to make sweeping and mopping at Dunkin Donuts more fun. I like that I can listen to it on my iPod while mopping without watching it. I love Dr. Horrible in ways that I can't even describe. I'll compare my love for it to my love for Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural. That should give some idea at least. I love the cast. Neil Patrick Harris is amazing. I loved Nathan Fillion in Firefly, but I didn't know he could sing. I can't think of anyone who could play Captain Hammer better than Nathan Fillion. Felicia Day has a very pretty voice. I love the way Billy (Dr. Horrible) trips over his words (especially around Penny). I love that the last line of the first act is "Balls". I love Joss Whedon. I loved the fangirls and boy in the third act. As I write this I'm adding to the play count by watching it again. I'm going to share it with my friends on Saturday. Bring my laptop to the party we're finally having and making them watch it. Now I just have to get Erin to watch with me.

Found this clip from How I Met Your Mother: I think it's pee-your-pants funny, and I've watched it three times. EDIT (9/23/2010): I can no longer find the video on YouTube, but it's called "Don't Hit the Dog" and it's from the episode "Arrivederci, Fiero."


Roswell. I've been watching Early Edition (and older show that I watched as a kid, I'll more about it later in this post) and I was complaining to my Dad that I was having trouble getting the episodes. He told me to watch Roswell. He told me that I'd be caught in 12 minutes. God damn, I didn't even make it to the title before I was hooked. I'm a very shallow person and I love Jason Behr as Max Evans. I've seen the entire first season, it's online for free at http://hulu.com/. Now I have to get my hands on the second and third seasons. I'm thinking I'll buy a set of all three seasons.

Early Edition. Early Edition is a show from the 90s about a guy who gets tomorrow's paper every morning. It starred Kyle Chandler (now in Friday Night Lights). Every morning he wakes up at 6:30am to find tomorrow's Chicago Sun Times and a cat sitting outside his door. I remembered watching this when I was younger and bought it when I saw the first season DVD set at WalMart. It was fun to rewatch it. I'm in season four now, almost finished.

21. I just finished watching the movie 21. I liked it. And I think this comfirms my love for Jim Sturgess, as if Across the Universe hadn't already done that for me.

Stargate Atlantis. I watched "The Seed" on Saturday. I'll be getting the new episodes from iTunes until I get back to school and have the SciFi channel. I liked the episode. It wasn't as good as "Search & Rescue" (though, really, how can you beat that episode?). I think it was because the episode was the introduction of Woolsey to the regular cast. Because they were trying to introduce him the main plot got pushed to the side. However, it had whump and that's a trend starting for this season that I'm fine with (really, I am!). Erin and I joke that SGA has added a new writer to the cast: a fanfic writer. Convulsions, surgery, internal bleeding. All in the first two episodes. We approve. Can't wait for the next episode. I haven't even seen the commercial for it.

Okay, it's thundering and lightning here, and I'm almost through with watching Dr. Horrible again, so I guess I'll finish this up and shut down.

Charlie the Unicorn: Some People Just Have to Much Free Time

Almost everybody has seen the "Charlie the Unicorn" video on YouTube.com. And for those who haven't here's a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgO3NcG3IHM. It's a funny video, though a little annoying if watched too many times.

Once you've watched that there are so many remakes that people have made in their spare time. I found my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6DjeK2xIZc. That's right...someone put Supernatural clips to Charlie the Unicorn. And my friends think I'm obsessed. I just spend the time finding this stuff.

And I find alot of stuff. Especially on YouTube. Here is the link to my YouTube profile: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=OverExcitedGeek. As of posting this link I have 291 videos in my favorites list. I don't have any videos that I've made (because I've never made any) but I find some of the best stuff. Very diverse: Supernatural, Dark Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Drake Bell, Jensen Ackles, Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis), and more. Because...I really have no life.

On a completely unrelated topic. We bought season 2 of Stargate Atlantis yesterday. I'd seen most of the episodes, and have now watched the ones I hadn't seen, but I can't wait to watch commentaries and special features.

The Chronicling Of My Obsessions

I had something really deep and interesting to blog about, but I've forgotten it.

I want to put a list of my past and present obsessions on here. They are in order from a long time ago, to now.

Titanic

Smallville

Lord of the Rings

Stargate, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis (Mostly SG-1 in the beginning. Mostly Atlantis since Jack/RDA left SG-1.)

Supernatural (NOW)

Dark Angel (NOW)

Firefly/Serenity (NOW)

Titanic was my first obsession. I have a bunch of books about the ship, and the movie, etc. Smallville was next. My best friend and I watched it religiously in the eighth grade (I watch it now bcause it's on before Supernatural, and I watched season 4 because of Jensen). I got into Stargate SG-1 because one of my friends introduced it to me. Then my Girl Scout troop did an event based on the show (we're very talented). I still watch SG-1 and Atlantis when they air on the CW. I don't get to see new episodes on Sci-Fi because we don't have Sci-Fi. Supernatural is my current obsession (obviously). I got into this summer when they were playing repeats on the WB/CW. I was flipping channels and landed on it. Then watched it the next week and the week after. Then I read that the episodes were uploaded on youtube.com, and I caught up on all of them. Now I'm obsessed and I watch every episode when it airs. I read (and sometimes write) fanfics, read (and post to) message boards, etc. I am obsessed. I got into Dark Angel because Jensen is in it (in the second season). I waited patiently as CrystaLuv and EncartaQueen uploaded episodes. My new Firefly/Serenity obsession is my friend Ryan's fault. I let him borrow my Supernatural DVDs, and he let me borrow his Firefly DVDs, and I watched all of Firefly in a weekend. Then he let me borrow the movie Serenity. I've seen it three or four times now. It's a good show (and movie) and I'm really bummed that it's off the air.

What I really obsess over is certain actors, and they change as my obsession changes. With Titanic it was Leonardo DiCaprio. Smallville it was Tom Welling. My Lord of the Rings love intrest was Viggo Mortensen. Stargate SG-1 I liked Richard Dean Anderson. Stargate Atlantis I like Joe Flanigan. For Supernatural and Dark Angel it's Jensen Ackles (Jared Padalecki is good-looking too). And for Firefly and Serenity I like Nathan Fillion.

The point of this whole post is that I have obsession problems. I'm proud to say that I have never stalked anyone though. I will not stoop to that.

I'll be back on here after tonight's episode of Supernatural to give my review.

I Guess Jo's Not Soooo Bad & Firefly/Serenity

I rewatched "No Exit" a few times, and I like it more now. It had a good plot. After watching it more I was able to get past my dislike of Jo a little, but it helps that she probably won't be in many episodes until things settle down between her and Ellen, and Dean and Sam.

I can't wait for tomorrow's episode. I want to know what happens.

I watched Serenity last night. That is a good movie. I really enjoyed it, and the outtakes were pretty funny. A great follow-up to Firefly. I think Mal is my favorite character, then Kaylee (she's so cute), but I like the whole cast of Firefly/Serenity.

Creative Writing Group: The Fruits Of My Labor

Prompt: Combine at least two of the following fairy tales into an at least slightly serious story: Snow white, Sleeping Beauty, Thumbelina, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, Princess and the Pea, Pinocchio, and the Little Mermaid.

"I will have the best story!!"

"But sweetie, it's just--"

"I-Don't-Care!! Mine will be the best!"

This conversation sounded like many her and her daughter had had in the years past. Once a year actually, just weeks before the deadline for Write The Way's annual short story contest.

Since her daughter, Anna, had first heard about the contest 12 years ago she had wanted to win it. So every year Anna wrote out a new story, and every year it was better than she'd ever written before. And every year her story sounded something like "once upon a time there was a girl, who had a dog. They were best friends, and they played in the park and ran around together until the end of time. The end." And for the past 12 years Anna had been getting letters from Write The Right Way thanking her for her submission.

This year however, Anna was determined to win, even if it meant cheating to do it. Anna sat in the middle of her bedroom floor surrounded by letter laid on ripped open envelopes.

"What is this?!" Her mother questioned loudly.

These are all the stories that were going to be sent in. I'm using them for ideas to write my story." She wrote quickly in her notebook. "There. I'm done." She handed her mother the notebook. The story was like this:

Once upon a time there was a girl. She wore one glass slipper and one red sequined slipper. She had long hair and seven little people that followed her around. She was allergic to apples and peas and fell asleep alot. She liked to go into other peoples houses and eat the food and sleep in their beds. Her father was kidnapped by a mysterious beast that lived in a castle. She delivered baked goods to her grandmother and her sister was a mermaid. She lived happily ever after. The end.

"It's...lovely." Her mother told her.

"I'm going to send it in now."

"Okay. Honey."

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My friend got me into the show Firefly, which has about 14 episodes and was cancelled in 2002. I'm quite bummed because I actually like the show. I can't wait to get my hands on the movie Serenity. I hope it's good. I'd heard from a different friend that it is.

I have to go now. I want to get some writing done on a story I'm writing, and I had a great idea for it in the shower earlier (most of my great inspirations come in the shower).