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Years after it came out I fell on an episode of Skins. I do hope it's not representative of a large partion of the UK population because that is one awful show. If kids watch this, no wonder sometimes their behaviour is questionable.

Then again maybe that's how the world is and I've been lucky to live in a nice little bubble that does not involve smoking, drugs, heavy drinking and random sex. Heck, even my views on alcohol would probably be considered as scandalously prude by many because I really see no reason to drink besides a casual drink (and stuff worth drinking, not the cheap crap) with peeps once in a while, I certainly don't see any sense in getting drunk or drinking by yourself. Oh, I guess I must just be lucky to have found happiness elsewhere than at the bottom of a bottle of cheap wine, whatever floats your boat, as my 7th grade maths teacher would say... Hopefully my 70 year old self will be glad that my intoxication experimenting nights can be counted on my fingers (and perhaps toes), perhaps thanks to the stupid drunkies that plague a lot of écoles around here, especially on Thursday nights, they are such trainwrecks that after seeing one or two I decided not to follow their steps.

Do I sound like a total prude for a 25 year old? In the end, I'll just be really glad that I've found my way ~~in j/kpop and Marimekko bags~~.

And in terms of being happy, these photos make me happy. There is just that certain something that pleases me about them.

( +3 - quand on aime... )

I waited 24 hours before writing a review of the new Doctor Who and I still think that "omfg!" and "squeee" describe how I feel about that episode, so this is my review: squeeeeee! I can't wait till next week's episode to see if it was a one time deal or if it will continue.

"Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically... run!"

I really didn't think that Eleven would be up to the task but I suppose he kind of reminds me of the craziness of Five and the airheadness of Four and obviously some rudeness of other ones. And that is, you know, kind of brilliant.

Continuing yesterday's Japanese envy thing, one thing I will not buying in Japan is blueberry chocolate. I think Fazer's one isn't that bad and of course we cannot forget my drug of choice... this little beauty.

Finally, I think I fell in love with these little ones that randomly live in a pot on my parents' veranda. I love the fact that there are multiple colours for these clovers.

( and one more for the road )

Ah. Seeing Sheldon fail at Finnish made my day. Also the fact that he actually considers Finnish worthy made my day.

As you all know I also fail at Finnish which is rather sad because people always assume I am Finnish by my looks. I'm always the person who'll get asked on the street how to get somewhere and most of the time I do understand what they're asking me but attempting a reply is *gah*.

Warning: spoilers for IRIS. Duh. But not a lot of people on my flist are watching it so I'm not going to bother with an lj-cut. Just skip the entry if you care about spoilers.

Effing hell. IRIS just... I don't even know. I'm so not used to this kind of ending. I've been bathed in the goodie-shiny-all for the best kind of endings they have in American and UK series. Hell, even jdramas would never do that. Seriously, if you thought that Torchwood was bad because they killed off people, if you thought that Doctor Who was bad because they erased people's memories and killed off people... well that's nothing! Here not only did they kill people but they like to mentally torture people. Oh, so you love him, don't you? Look, you're almost going to have a happy ending but guess what? We're going to kill him off right in the last twenty seconds, so there! And you'll be left standing there, waiting for him and the screen just fades out and the viewers will be left wondering what the hell just happened. And showing all the happy memories while basically showing the last moments of a person's life... tear jerker.

Argh. From the start I should have seen it coming. Of course it couldn't have been a happy ending. Of course there will be fire and there will floods and there will be wrath of IRIS going on anyone who dares go against them. And yet I had hope. Those final thirty seconds... I'm not shocked or sad or anything like that. I just wanted something else.

Maybe it's because I was really disappointed by the way T.O.P (the guy in the photo above) was a whiny little bitch at the end. Sure he smirked really well, you gotta give the kid credit for that but his character was so badly written at the end. Honestly from the way they presented him he was good at three things: killing people, walking everywhere as if he were on a walkway and doing Neo-like moves when getting shot. He couldn't even pour wine properly! Bah.

But going back to the ending. I'll give it to them, the writers did a pretty good job. I'm definitely going to rewatch it in a month or two, once I've digested everything that happens in it.

This is nothing more than the ceiling lamp reflecting in my cup of tea.

If you squint you might see the seal of Rassilon. If you squint very, very hard. And Rassilon is still up to no good.

So I watched the second part of the End of Time and I enjoyed it quite a lot. It made me quite happy that his friends understood that it's not a time for drama and crying. He's had his time, he said goodbye, he got Jack a date. What more could we ask of him?

The only thing I'm afraid of is that so far Matt Smith has imitated David Tennant's Doctor and maybe he'll take his time creating his own Doctor. That's not how it should go. He should become Eleven right away, not spend days as Ten-point-five.

Last night I started watching the "20 ans des Guignols de l'info" DVD and let me tell you that, for me, one of the people who best represents France is Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (aka PPDA).

He's been the face of the 8pm news on TF1 for as long as I can remember and even though back in France I've always favoured the newscasts on Arte, I still sometimes watched his show. And well, he's always been a rather famous face. The thing is, last July he got fired from TF1 newscasting after 21 years on air, most likely because of Sarko.

Now, I heard about it because it was big news, you just don't fire someone like that and not have it heard but I didn't live it live though. Watching him being all like himself on that DVD, well it was great and he did all the things his puppet usually does like "on est en 2009 et vous regardez toujours trop la télévision" and "atchao bonsoir".

So there.

Current Mood: amused

14:50 Hum. Weird people are adding me on Facebook, not fun. #
14:51 twitpic.com/z8x8 - This is the cute dog I helped find his owners on the 31st. They adopted him from a shelted on Christmas and he ... #
14:54 twitpic.com/z8xw - Yes, our Christmas tree beats your Christmas tree by a million. #
14:59 twitpic.com/z8yn - Marseille: European cultural capital in 2013. Lots of people at the Van Gogh/Monticelli exposition on Friday.. ... #
15:04 twitpic.com/z8zn - This is me looking rough with the port and Notre Dame de La Garde in the background. Don't know why it looks l ... #
18:05 I'm fucking Matt Damon. And I made great beignets with my mum this afternoon. #
22:15 Right. Just by the looks, I like the new Doctor. Still really young for my old school taste though. #
22:50 Rocco Siffredi on the telly, my parents have no idea who he is. #
22:59 Can Peter Davison be back for a couple of episodes? That would be great. Also Matt Smith says "flabagastered" a lot, doesn't he? #
23:00 Hum... after "fantastic" and "brilliant", "flabagastered" could be the new Doctor word. That would be rather amusing, wouldn't it? #
23:18 How about they get David Mitchell for the next Doctor? He dreamt of it, make it come true Moffat! #

Current Mood: enthralled

Could we know who the new Doctor is already and could it please not be that guy from the Peep Show. That's all I ask. For some reason I've never liked him and well, he chose to star in a remake of Survivors, can't be good, can it?

That's pretty much it for today. Getting ready to head out back to Finland tomorrow, I have so much stuff to pack, don't think my suitcase will be big enough.

Current Mood: curious

11:49 Happy New Year and all of that! Hope everyone had lots of fun and not too much to drink. I had lots of tea and a great time with family. #
11:58 No resolutions for 2009 and no going back over 2008. Well, one resolution: take over the world. I think I'd be good Earth overlord. #
12:00 Just finishing up putting together all of my Doctor Who stuff to give to my sis and bf before they leave. Won't see them for quite a while. #
13:28 sadly enough I find this rather a simplist view of how Legos are made: tinyurl.com/4j7uf3 #
13:29 I blame my 6 months working for an industry like that for the previous point of view. #
16:58 Going to make my 18734th cup of tea. #
17:31 The new Shooting Stars tells me the average US female waist measures 38", that's over 10" over what mine is. But I have a pear shape. #
17:32 Yeah, I'm a totally pear shaped, my thighs are about 39" I think... that gives me a 0.68 ratio waist/thighs, no heart problems or something. #
17:34 Meant "hip" not "thigh"... duh. #
17:57 Shooting Stars, you're lying. An online search said so or something! It's 32" for 'young girls' and 34" for 'older women'. #
19:24 Watching the Russian "best song of the year 2008", some people have weird dresses. But overall it's fun to make mean comments. #
19:25 It's like the Oscars I think, you're expected to have an opinion on all the dresses. Not a good opinion most of the time. #

Current Mood: energetic

Oh gosh, can I have the new BBC Merlin episode already? I just watched the first one and it's awesome! I love Arthur, great snotty kid like I like them.

That made me happy. And evil!Gwen was kind of good too. I still don't really know if I like Merlin or not... In any case, I feel that this might be a tad easier for me to watch than BBC's Robin Hood, I liked that show too but the storylines were just getting out of hand.

Current Mood: good

( DW finale )

Conclusion: unimpressed. Rather I'd say I'm disappointed.

Current Mood: bored

I guess I should comment on the Doctor Who episode from last night. Although I did do a mojor WTF at the end and although I do highly dislike the Daleks (aka I might be still kind of scared of them, well not really when they're on the tell but I always fear audio-adventures with Daleks in them). Some parts were just overacted and that might have killed it for me.

Still, it was a nice episode but the "To be continued" was terrible! How could they do a TBC and no previews! Seriously!

Current Mood: energetic

I tried watching some Supernatural tonight and I just can't do it. I can't bring myself to watch more than five minutes of the third series. Maybe it's because I've never actually seen the last ten episodes of the second one but overall I don't see the appeal the show used to have for me. It all seems so complicated and so annoyingly dark.

I think I'm much better off with just rewatching the first couple of episodes, I quite like those. I guess it's another one of those shows where I just can't help but think "why won't they just kill it off"? Three series of 22 or 23 or however many episodes, that's just too long.

Current Mood: apathetic

I got a haircut today, I'm not sure if I like it. My hair is rather shorter than it has ever been in a while, about an inch under my ears.

We'll see tomorrow how it looks.

I took today off as I thought my parents would still be here, so since they left early this morning, I tried taking care of some bureaucratic stuff but that didn't work out. After the haircut, I came home and had a Sarah Jane Adventures marathon... thank god there are only ten episodes and they are short. K-9 <3

Current Mood: content

We now have the trailer for the US version of Life on Mars. Nope, still not buying it.

Who wants to bet that Sam won't jump off the building in order to go back to 1973? Who also wants to bet that they will never mention the fact that in Ashes to Ashes you learn that Sam died?

Yope, those were spoilers. Highlight to see and discuss. Hope that works.

Current Mood: calm

This DW fandom wins! And this is the last DW entry for today, I promise. Why does it win? Because 95% of the people in it are totally anti what I like. It seems most fandom related entries are "Didn't care for that episode, the only good part was when Martha started crying because the fish alien died." and guess which parts I fast-fowarded through? The Martha + fish alien guy = OTP scenes.

Do you also want to cry? A production picture from the US version of Life On Mars has been published:
( I warned you, it's going to hurt... )

That is so scary, it's incredible. Sam? He just looks fake, I've never seen 70's people like that. And Annie? Annie is my favourite from that show and look at her! I bet they'll make 15 seasons out the concept too... or at least five. It's like the Office, 14 episodes is enough, no need for more, no need to overkill it.

Then again, I'm partial to these things. It's like Ugly Betty, I can't stand it because we used to watch "Le Destin de Lisa" or "Verliebt in Berlin", as it's originally known. Of course, the German version isn't the original version but it's so much more entertaining that the US one. Now all I have to do is to wait til the US version of Spaced comes out.

And thus ends my boring weekend telly marathon. Kind of completes Saturday's half-marathon and this morning's bike ride.

Current Mood: high

I am probably projecting her father into her but right now, I am totally in love with Jenny. If only there were more characters like hers on the new Doctor Who.

Her last scene kind of killed me. My new motto is definitely "I've got the whole universe, planets to save, civilizations to rescue, creatures to defeat and an awful lot of running to do."

Georgia Moffett is definitely my new telly girlfriend. Like father like daughter for this family, I suppose. I want more Jenny on this show! I want a Jenny spin-off! I want Jenny to meet-up with the Master and Romana and I want her to have her own TARDIS because obviously a simple spaceship is not worthy of her.

Gosh, I never thought this would happen but back-to-back DW entries!

I think they're no need to say how much I love Peter Davison (aka the fifth Doctor) and that yes, I've had a crush on him for a very long time. Let me just say that his daughter is adorable and very pretty. Okie, that was pretty much the highlight from yesterday's Doctor Who episode, Jenny.

She auditioned to play Rose back in the day, in all honestly she wouldn't have been great for that role. But for her, the role of the Doctor's daughter seems very fitting.

Also, I'd like to point out that if I see one more fangirl/boy squeeing about finally seeing that the Doctor can reproduce, I will chop their head off and I will deny it til the end of time. Susan was introduced in the very first episode some 45 years ago...

For the lolz, the Master/Doctor scene from the 3rd series revisited:

Current Mood: excited

Too much coffee and sugar means I cannot sleep and therefore I work on my prototype plans while watching random stuff... like Bones. Why didn't anyone tell me that Stephen Fry was in that show? Why? I just kind of half watch through the episodes but when Stephen Fry is on, it's so time to pay attention.

They should replace Angel with Alan Davies. And the lady person with Jo Brand, she'd be perfect! I think my version of Bones would be much better, seriously, Jo Brand needs to be on the telly a hell a lot more, they don't make women like her anymore!

Current Mood: excited

Lovely run this morning and I met some interesting local wildlife:
- 4 wild bunnies (those things are huge)
- 2 seagulls (reminded me of home)
- 1 partridge looking birds
- lots of random birds

and most amazingly:
- 2 drunken blokes with immaculately classy clothes

Those guys were just amazing, seriously even a very sober Mark Ronson could not look as classy as these guys. And of course they might have had about three grams in their blood, they still spoke perfect English. We had a nice little chat and the last thing was one of the guys asking me "when did you wake up" and I said "ten minutes ago" and they went "so did we!" Hilarious! I'd love to meet more people like that at 6:40am on Sunday mornings! Please tell me how in the world of the all mighty lord can a guy drink himself into oblivion and wake up a couple of hours later and still be as perfectly dressed as he was the morning before. Finland, will ever stop surprising me?

Enough of that, the run in itself was quite uneventful and I am happy to say that I believe I will in tip top shape for the Helsinki City Run, yay!

After this awesome run, I decided to finally watch the new DW episode, you know the level of endorphin in my brain being increased, etc. it could only be good, right?

( DW 4th series comments )

A question about the preview for next week though, the Doctor has already been to Pompei! The Fires of Vulcan, it was called and UNIT were involved a bit too! And the lovely Mel was there.

Nothing much, but you know, just saying, for me those audios are part of the canon so they'd better take that into account. Just how horribly Whovian of me to go look for a link to the description of the story and be amused by the line in Wiki proving that someone else is as much a fan of the audios as me.

And seriously kids, sign the guestmap! I'm being a bitch, yes. It's Sunday morning so I get to be a bitch, yay!

Current Mood: happy

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Entries tagged with tv

"wow" as Cassie would say.

Oh Eleven, I'm sorry I doubted you and other adventures

Maybe he'll start using IRC next.

Oh right, this is why I shouldn't watch kdrama.

Why yes, you were fantastic. And so was I!

PPDA is kind of like a local jesus, or maybe not so much.

Rocco Siffredi, haven't seen you in a while

Nine does not approve.

New year, new eurovision soon!

TV talk, a tiny bit of it

All the kids are doing it.

Everyone is doing them.

Nothing to see... me complaining some more.

Randomness of the day

More on LoM!

TV marathon of the weekend.

For lack of Jenny icon...

I don't think this contains spoilers

Discovery made at almost midnight...

When did you get up my lovelies?