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Friday, 18 May 2007
Grey's Anatomy
Topic: R-Dead Television Report
It shouldn't have been that shocking that Christina and Burke didn't make it down the aisle. I'd hoped that when he went back he would have decided to walk with her down the aisle but alas, it wasn't to be. What was a little surprising at first was that she said, "I'm free!" and started to cry.

I'm free! ha ha! Isn't that just the ticket though sometimes with a certain type of man? They like that you're a different kind of woman. They like a strong woman that can be their equal but then slowly insidiously they start to restrain you, rein you in. They want you to be a certain type of woman and you try and you try and when everything falls apart, you're standing there crying because you're finally free from the female prison you've been placed in. I think Christina's story tells us that it's not easy trying to be everything as a woman for her man and still be everything she wants to be for herself.

He had some beautiful vows though.

We ended off with Izzie for another season feeling the devastation of thoughtless actions. She's so sweet and sensitive and really does get herself in a world of emotional trouble, doesn't she? All I can think is that same warning, "Don't fuck your friends."

And Meredith and Derek (Mer and Der). He pulled a little game playing on her with the whole, I met a woman last night, crap. Why bring that shit up if you are looking to stick a huge wrench in a relationship? I kept thinking as I watched the show, that there's no way for her to go back to him with that coziness that they were developing. I met a woman last night alludes to either you tow the line and slowly allow me to rein you in or you gots to go. When he gave her his 'I'm in" speech, it was damn sweet and doesn't every woman want to hear that from her man? And Meredith shocked me at least when she told him that she had to run off and get Christina down the aisle. Derek's timing does kinda suck. But let's look at the facts of their relationship:

Meredith lost Derek to a wife she didn't even know he had. She had a mother with Alzheimer's, who died when Mer drowned and died herself. She lost her almost mother that she was genuinely growing to care about. Her father slapped her and basically told her she wasn't welcome, cutting off any chance at a relationship ever again. And through all of this and Meredith's over all dark and twisty nature her friends have come through time and again. Derek did continue to pursue Meredith in subtle ways and make it next to impossible for her to get over her feelings for him and Derek was still married and apparently patching up his marriage to survive. And don't you just hate when guys do that? They hold you emotionally hostage so you can't move forward or get over them. And you're a walking, open, gaping wound. LET ME GO!

Meredith already gave her "I'm in" speech when she told Derek/ begged Derek, "Pick me." That was over his choice to go back to a wife who'd already betrayed him and betrayed him so soundly. She said I'm in. She said I love you. She said you are the love of my life and he chose his wife. I've been having a go at a little theory lately about women who have to run an obstacle course for a man. At some point, the obstacle course gets to be too long and the woman gets tired of it all. And there's a level of anger that creeps in (Why can't he just love me without all this bullshit) and it starts the downward spiral.

Seriously, after all they'd been through ,Mer and Der, you'd think that Meredith leaning on her friends is not that big of a deal, especially when Derek said he couldn't breathe for her. It's not like he ever had to worry about her jumping into bed with someone else. She is learning how to rely/lean on others and create her own version of a family with the other interns and Richard and Derek. She was right to say, "If you're going to dump me just do it already."

By the same token, she could have said, "If you're going to love me just love me already."

Derek gave Meredith his own obstacle course and she tried to run it, as best she could. But his big mistake was to push it to the point where it seemed like he was going to leave her again. She's done all the suffering she's going to do over losing Derek, I think.

And poor Bailey always thinking she's failed someone. sigh!
It was another good season.

EY

Posted by Shelley-Lynne Domingue at 9:15 AM EDT | Post Comment | Permalink | Share This Post
Saturday, 5 May 2007
And Then There is Heroes
Topic: R-Dead Television Report
It is ridiculous how good Heroes is! Five years in a possible future, DL is dead, Candace is dead, Sylar is Nathan and has Candace's and DL's powers and all the other people he's killed along the way, including Nathan and Claire!

The Heroes have chosen sides out of necessity. Mohinder is working for Sylar again and doesn't know it, AGAIN! Peter was the exploding man and had the lovely facial scar to prove it. And doesn't Peter get all the hottest girls? First Simone and in the possible future Nikki. And his powers rock! (And I just have to mention again, I'm stoked for Milo Ventimiglio for this awesome role, for waiting it out and not running back to Gilmore Girls when all the other roles he tried didn't pan out. Belief in your talent and powers! I'm working on it.)

And the war between Peter and Sylar. "Brother against brother, this is biblical." I screamed!

Hiro meeting Hiro. Bennett helping newer Heroes to go into hiding.

Crazy!

I think we have three more episodes before the season finishes. What the heck do we do until the next season starts? Lord only knows. Have a life maybe? And eat! I'm hungry.

EY

Posted by Shelley-Lynne Domingue at 11:03 AM EDT | Post Comment | Permalink | Share This Post
Updated: Sunday, 6 May 2007 10:29 AM EDT
Last Week's Grey's
Topic: R-Dead Television Report
Saturday 10:25am 5May07

Okay so I decided to post my little rant from last week's episode of Grey's Anatomy:

I was hoping that they weren't going to go down that route with McDreamy. He's always pushed the relationship with Meredith. When she pulled back from him after their one night stand because a) it was a one off and b) he was one of her bosses. He pushed it to continue. She never claimed to be easy to love. She's always known that she has intimacy issues.

But she went along with his coercion and started to fall for him. Then she gets the previously still married surprise. She fell apart in Meredith's way of falling apart and somehow got McDreamy back. Again she showed that level of distance. After their first real fight she showed that level of insecurity because she'd never done this before. She'd never stayed. And he promised her that no matter how many yelling matches they would endure he would still show up every night because this is what love is ... showing up, being present, committing.

Now that she's in it. Now that she's committing. Now that she's opening herself up, he's pulling back. He's worried about losing out on becoming chief. He feels like he's losing his edge and he's looking around for blame and blaming Meredith. Now isn't that exactly what some men do and don't they crush a woman's heart in the end?

If he's losing his edge it's not because of Meredith, it's because he never had the edge to begin with. Why can't he be a good surgeon and a great boyfriend at the same time? Why does it have to be an either or proposition?

I like how Grey's Anatomy pulls out these issues that feel like real life. The questions that make me look back at my male choices. The times that I was aloof out of fear and when I finally gave in , my heart got stomped flat by a steamroller. And all you can tell yourself when all goes really wrong is Why didn't I continue to hold myself back? Then I wouldn't be in this predicament, wishing him back or wishing myself forward into the healthy heart land where the emotions aren't a mess and the man is just a memory. But we can't hold ourselves back forever, can we? We have to give our hearts to someone sometime.

And doesn't mcDreamy pick a fine time to pull this shit? When Meredith has the big exam to prepare for? Not that you can ever time these things well but seriously? Seriously?

EY

Posted by Shelley-Lynne Domingue at 10:46 AM EDT | Post Comment | Permalink | Share This Post
Grey's Anatomy
Topic: R-Dead Television Report
Saturday 9:22am 5May07

I haven't had a good Grey's Anatomy rant in a long while. Well, not since they killed Meredith. I wrote up a long piece last week about Meredith and McDreamy and never posted it here. Maybe I still need to. It was in a nutshell about men that get women to let go and give in to a relationship and just when a woman gets comfy the guy goes and says, "I can't breathe for you."
He can't breathe for her. Dammit! Meredith was going along in her dark and twisty way and now that she has a near death experience and is finding a new way to look at her life, now he's going to bail? I love McDreamy, he was raised by women, he believes in love, why bail now? Why?

And now Meredith's almost step mother is dead and her father slaps her and McDreamy looks upset because Meredith said, "Not now." *sigh*
Isn't that just like life sometimes? You try to be a little less dark and twisty and things keep happening to drag you back! It's like drowning in your own life. You don't believe that the love thing is for you when you've had so much bad luck with it. You finally try to believe, hope, expect and does it really have to slap you down again? *Sigh* Ah what the fuck *Sigh* again!

I think I needed Meredith and Derek's relationship to be the one to develop forward. I need it to prove to me that despite being dark and twisty inside, you can slowly trust. I need the relationship to develop step by step by step. There's enough bad things that can happen to Meredith can't she just have the one love, finally?
Maybe Burke's and Christina's love is going to be the one to develop through the step by step by step process. Christina needs the love as much as Meredith does, for sure. And I love Christina but she doesn't have the soul crushing hurt that Meredith is so good at hiding or drinking away. Christina has the fear of giving and the expectations of a woman in a relationship. But Meredith needs the love that could help her to heal. How the hell is she going to find it now when almost step mother is dead and never been father has slapped her and Derek doesn't know whether he's coming or going or just breathing heavy?

The Addison show was kind of fun. I loved all the characters. I'm not a huge fan of Taye Diggs but I liked him in that role. "Don't talk about your penis when you are hugging a man."
The three women sitting in the waiting room for surfer board receptionist to come by chest exposed, made me weak. I need to find a place like that to sit for inspiration. ha ha! Love the Tim Daly character and the kiss he gave Addison. I'll follow her and see where it takes us. If I could up and leave, I'd do it. Start anew, blank slate, leaving behind the heartbreaks, forgetting about the disappointments. Maybe, sometimes running away is the only option.

And back to Seattle Grace and Izzie and George. I've never been in a position of accidentally drunkenly sleeping with my best friend. And my best friend is male!

I never got how a group that hangs out together ends up sleeping together over the years. You know like in high school when a group of guys and girls hang out together and Rick sleeps with Susan for about five months. Then Susan sleeps with Tommy for eight months, while Rick is sleeping with Wanda and they've all been hanging together since grade five or something. I don't get it but then I've never gone out with a girlfriends ex boyfriend, nor have I ever gone out with one brother then gone out with the other brother. I just believe there has to be some boundaries. Maybe I'm the dumb one, maybe I'd have more options, but it just seems dirty to me.

And there's something else that I can't seem to articulate. There has to be something that you stand for when you get into a relationship. And it has to be something more than just fucking. Way back years ago, my best friend and I had a discussion about being sexually attracted to each other. You have to face these things when you are best friends and are of the opposite sex because it's in the denial that the problems start. I had gone out with his brother three or so years earlier. My best friend and I discussed our sexual attraction and the what ifs. I said that I'd never consider sleeping with a brother of an ex unless we were talking marriage. We'd basically have to be engaged before I'd even consider the sexual act. "If we're going to possibly ruin our relationships with your brother and possibly ruin our own friendship, then we'd have to be serious (for the rest of our lives serious)"

So Izzie and George are reaping the rewards of drunken, thoughtless sex. He's guilt ridden and realizes that he loves Izzie and Callie and that he doesn't believe in divorce and that his marriage and his sexual tryst with Izzie wasn't thought out. And Izzie is still stinging from the death of Denny and realizes that the only man she could love now is George and she's had a taste and she can't have another one. And it's all fine when she thinks that Callie is the wrong person for George but it's not that easy when she has to face the fact that Callie is a real person, with feelings, who loves George as her McDreamy. You can't take that sex thing lightly, it'll fuck you right up.
But boy that kiss between George and Izzie in the elevator was the big triple *sigh*! It is the big good bye, this can't happen again. It was the last time you make love to each other when your relationship has come to an end and you know it's the end. It was the, "If things were different, things would be different," acknowledgment. It was admittedly heartbreaking and damn hot!

EY

Posted by Shelley-Lynne Domingue at 10:24 AM EDT | Post Comment | Permalink | Share This Post
Monday, 5 March 2007
Television
Topic: R-Dead Television Report
Nip/Tuck started last night. The first episode stunk to high heaven. (I'm a little bitter that CTV didn't forewarn their viewers that it would be starting.) Christian doing the mother and her daughter was interesting in a, "I might vomit in my mouth," way.
All I have to say is if they make Christian discover that he's gay, I'll be bitter. But truly, what's left for him? And JR getting testicular implants. Yikes. Who wants to think of Larry Hagman's testicles? I'm just saying. It's a good thing I didn't watch it this morning otherwise I might not have been able to eat breakfast.

And Heroes? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY PETER? Bastards! I thought Hiro saw Isaac's head cut off in the future? Can Peter survive Sylar? Does his mother also have a super power? What's with Linderman and Nathan's wife and the accident that left her wheelchair bound? Are they going to kill off all the characters?
But I'm loving that Eric Roberts is on it now! I love him when he's ruthless. And poor Mohinder, he barely got a chance to follow in his father's footsteps. Sucks all over.

And why is Grey's Anatomy in repeats two weeks in a row? I hate television scheduling...

EY

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