Pretty Little Letdown

Hey, stalkers! Welcome back to my blog. I guess I can confirm that I will not be doing that series that I talked about, because, frankly, I don't have time, and I've lost interest. I'm a teenager, I can do that. However, I am going to tell you about one of my all time favorite shows, Pretty Little Liars. Now, this show is really notorious for having insane finales. Last summer, the midseason finale ended with Hanna getting hit by a car. Last season ended with Ian getting pushed off of a bell tower and falling to his death after trying to murder Spencer, only to have his body disappear when the police arrive. This season wasn't intense. It wasn't scary. It was suspenseful at best, but the writers just had to make A ruin their lives. And then they got arrested for Ali's murder, because A planted the murder weapon on them. And then I'm pretty sure you discover that Garrett and Jenna killed Ali, and made sure that the only witness, Jason, had a total blackout, drugs or something, and never remembered.

Spencer had to break up with her boyfriend, Toby, the first guy who she really clicked with without complications. (By complications, I mean this was the first guy she didn't steal from her older sister.) And Toby loved her too. And then you had to throw in Wren (Spencer's almost brother-in-law, who Melissa dumped after catching him and Spencer making out). Seriously, what is his deal? He kisses her less than ten minutes after she dumps the love of her life, simply on impulse? What kind of person does that, if his intentions are really pure? He seems to really care for her, and then he just plants one on her when she's hurting? That's like kicking an unarmed man when he's down - you just don't do it. The only good scene in the entire episode was when Toby came to the police station to see Spencer. As the cops dragged him away he was screaming "I love you, Spencer! I love you! Spencer! Spencer!" I usually don't crush on actors who can't sing, but he might have to join Mr. DiCaprio as an exeption.

And Hanna had to break up her father's wedding. In front of everyone. She had to tell Isabelle that her dad and mom slept together one night when they were both tipsy. And then ruin her dad's life after their relationship finally worked itself out.

And Aria had to blackmail Jackie, her boyfriend's ex-fiance. Which totally turned around, because Jackie ends up blackmailing her instead, because - oh yeah, you forgot that your relationship with your English teacher is ILLEGAL. I don't care how much you love each other, you don't blackmail the one person who will call the cops without hesitation. I really loved Ezra and Ella's conversation, though. She confronted him about his relationship with Spencer, Ezra confessed his love for Ella's daughter, and they both had no friggin clue they were talking about two different girls. It amused me.

Emily had the weirdest storyline of all. A didn't give her a job to do. She and Myah agreed to just be friends, and then she got trapped in a barn and nearly died of methane intake from a running car. She had a vision of Ali before her friends found her.

And on top of all that Dr. Sullivan was let go at the end of the episode. A never buried her alive. Which is why the cops found the girls with the murder weapon, digging up a giant doll.

I have to say though, the back and forth storyline between the present and the past leading up to the present was interesting. It was kind of neat. Like you were given the beginning and the end and you were working your way to the middle. But aside from the presentation of the storyline, the story itself went in all kinds of crazy directions and misdirections and it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as I thought. It would have worked so much better as a season premire. So much better.

I think I'm gonna attach a video to this post instead of pictures, that way you can see the only two enjoyable scenes in the episode, plus when Spencer and Toby broke up, because the acting in that scene is insane.

So, watch these if you feel like it, and join me again next time at HOMPLOP, dearest stalkers!

Lots of Love,
~M~

Dream Guys - Glee and The Glee Project

We interrupt the scheduled evaluation to completely change it. I've decided that, for my "evaluation" of Glee, or who I was planning to evaluate, Santana, I'm going to do something a little bit different. So, dear stalkers, if you are reading this, be prepared to hear me gush and gush for about four or five paragraphs about my favorite actors, instead. Darren Criss, as I have said before, is one of my biggest celebrity crushes. He plays Blaine Anderson on Glee. Well, there is a new unobtainable man in my life, who will also be on Glee in the fall. His name is Damian McGinty. If you have not seen him on The Glee Project, here's what you need to know. He is Irish, he is an amazing singer, and he is absolutely gorgeous.

So why am I telling you this? I mean, why would you care? Honestly, I'm not really taking your interest into consideration. I want to gush, and that is exactly what I am going to do.

You see, at the beginning of this year, before Darren Criss was Darren Criss (back when he was simply "Harry Fricken Potter"), before Damian McGinty graced US television with his presence, I decided that I was going to decide exactly which qualities I was looking for in a dream guy. I knew right away that he needed to be funny and smart and be able to carry on a conversation with me, and other romantic stuff that people always say, and then I decided to get more specific. I decided that he needed to sing, play either drums or guitar, have an Irish accent, and have blue eyes So, much to my suprise, here are two guys who, when combined, they create my dream guy. They are both funny and nice (or at least from what I can gather on interviews and such), they both can sing, Darren can play guitar and drums.....and piano, Damian is Irish and has blue eyes. And so now I am in love with them both. And I assure you, they are both straight in real life. And when I say they can sing, I mean they can sing. My God. It's like nothing else. They have incredible voices. I am such a sucker for guys who can sing well. Ugh, make me like 19 so it's totally plausible for me to date them if i ever meet them!!!!

My mom thinks I'm crazy. My dad thinks Mr. Criss is actually gay. My sister and brother want me to shut up. But I mean seriously, look at them:

The second Damian pic was for emphasis.

DISCLAIMER: I am in love with these actors, yes, but I do understand that it is completely implausible (<-is that a word?) and I am not, under any circumstances, as completely rabid and obsessed a fan as those girls in the Glee 3D Concert movie that I saw today. There is a line between gawking/gushing and obsessing to the point of madness. I do not intend to cross it.

Until next time, feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments, and stare that the pictures for as long as you'd like.

Lots of Love,

~M~

Dollhouse's Adelle DeWitt - Evaluated

Sad news today. None of you commented! Well, I'm pretty sure this is barely a blog that people look at, but I've gotten 190 views. Seriously, at least one of you should have commented. I am disapointed in my stalkers.


Anyway, that's totally not the reason that I'm posting. Thanks to nobody bothering to comment on this little contest-y thing that I had going, I had to resort to choosing my first victim without the input of others.So the first character I'm going to evaluate is Adelle DeWitt, from the TV show Dollhouse. Beware, there are SPOILERS (which I have marked, kina).

If you recognise this woman from "somewhere," you might be thinking of the Oscar-nominated (winning?) movie, An Education. Her name is Olivia Williams.

Now, I am going to assume that none of you have seen this show, since it was cancelled after only two years due to poor ratings. (Any show that's called Dollhouse isn't going to attract a lot of viewers, in my opinion, simply because anyone who hears the name immediatley thinks of the child's toy.) In this show, there are people, beyond all hope, who promise to lend their bodies to the Dollhouse for three years, with the promise of their troubles being eradicated for them. Adelle runs the Dollhouse, or at least the branch in LA. There are Dollhouses all over the world at this point. These Dollhouses get clients who pay a lot of money to have different "dolls" to play with. The minds of these people are wiped completely blank, although their original personalities are stored for safe keeping until the three years are up. When a client requests a doll, he or she has his or her brain scientifically reprogrammed to meet the clients demands, whether they want a detective to solve a kidnapping, a wife to be a husband to, or even a backup singer with the insane urge to act as a bodyguard for a famous singer, the client will get this. Basically, it's brainwashing. And no, it's not legal. At all.

Now, you'd assume that anyone who runs a brainwashing company must be pure evil, right? Well, you're wrong. She's not evil, and, towards the end of the series, she proves it in spades. She honestly believed that the Dollhouses were helping people. She cared deeply about the wellbeing of the dolls. And she also really cared for Topher Brink, the programmer. Their relationship is shown more in the season finales, when it's ten years into the future, Topher has gone completely insane, and Adelle is the only one who can communicate with him. It seems really sort of mother-son-ish at some points, and more relationshippy at others, but which one is which and should they be together and all that isn't really my point. Because, (*SPOILER ALERT*) he sacrifices his life for the good of humanity in the very last moments of the series. My point that I'm going to make today is NOT that she and Topher had a connection before the Epitaph episodes, as I had originally planned, as you can probably tell from the majority of this paragraph. My point is that she knew exactly what she was doing. Which seems like a dumb point, unless you actually watched the series. Because 90 percent of the time I was sitting in my bedroom thinking "Is she insane?!" or "How could she be so cruel?" So come, ride my train of thought. Be unusually confused until we come to an end.

In the first season you see DeWitt taking orders from those above her (and no, I'm not talking about God. If she took orders from God she'd be a nun or a teacher, not running what essentially is a prostitution ring.) You never really see any character development in her, except for the reveal that she is a very lonely person, so much so that she orders one of the dolls, Victor, to be her lover on various occasions. This costs thousands of dollars, so either she's really desperate or she has a really nice paycheck. Based on the series, I'd say both. My biggest point that she knows exactly what she's doing is in the episodes where she makes the concious decision to send Echo to "The Attic," which is supposed to ultimatley comatose (comatize?) the dolls forever. She makes this huge speech in the episode where she makes the decision. You ultimatley think that she is evil and crazy for siding with her boss over humanity and what is right. Then, at the end of the next episode, you hear that same speech again, only this time she bends down and whispers extra information in Echo's ear. I like the director's decision on that, to mislead you and give you a nice suprise. Because you ultimatley feel sorry for this lost and lonely soul. But she comes up with the plan to discover the ultimate head of the dollhouse, and because of that consious decision, in the penultimate episode (*SPOILER ALERT - AGAIN*) they take him down.

I'm not sure if that really proved anything, or if it was just me gushing about the fact that I love the way the directors and writers chose to mislead you like that, but that was the first of my evaluations, since not one of you 190 stalkers bothered to comment! (hurt look) Anyhow, feel free to comment now.  Because it would kind of make my day.

I'll blog again soon!
Lot's of Love,
~M~

Explaining the Title of this Blog

So, I checked my stats again. One hundred and one people have seen this blog. Holy cow. You creepy stalkers just got way more cool. Although, now that I come to think of it, a lot of those pageviews were probably my own. Does that mean I'm stalking myself? I have no idea.Anyway, the main point of this post today was to point out something about the title of this blog. It's called Hanging on a Moment, Living on a Prayer. I would just like to say that I am perfectly aware that they are two songs, one by Lifehouse and the other by Bon Jovi. Unfortunatley, I messed up with the first song. It's actually called "Hanging BY a Moment." But, even though I recognize it, I will not change it. Because I call my blog HOMLOP, and HBMLOP just isn't as much fun to say. Now, once again, there is some more explaining to do. I made "on a" into one letter in my acronym on purpose. That purpose is a)it's shorter, and b)HOAMLOAP sounds kind or wrong, don't you think?

I haven't gotten any comments on which show I should evaluate first. So sound off in the comments area! Let my know what you think! It'll make me feel good. Like it wasn't an accident that you stumbled upon this page.

And now for a random picture, because I am in love with this man and he deserves some recognition. (In case you were wondering, in addition to Mr. DiCaprio, Avan Jogia and Darren Criss are also on the list of men I'm in love with.)

So, until next time, my dear stalkers!'

Lots of Love,

~M~

Dear Stalkers....

Dear Creepy Internet Stalker,

So, I suppose I'm obligated to write in this thing. Maybe I'm not. I really don't care. I just need something to do. In case you, my dear creepy stalker, are wondering what is going on with my life, I shall tell you. Absolutely nothing. It turns out that the seventh season of Charmed is really boring, so I'm stuck at like episode five. I wake up every morning with nothing to look foward to than living vicariously through TV shows. Victorious, iCarly, Pretty Little Liars, Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Bones, Glee, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Switched at Birth, and a new aquisition, Warehouse 13. Why am I telling you this? Because I have nothing better to do with my life, I have seen every episode of these shows, I am going to eventually be an actress, and would like to evaluate my favorite characters to the best of my ability and then ask your opinion. And better yet (*pause for dramatic effect and ensuing collective groan*)these evaluations are going to come in a series of different posts. Don't worry if you don't actually watch any of these shows, because in my evaluations I'm probably going to end up describing everything that happens to these characters, so you don't really need to know anything about them.

So why did I write this in letter form? Because you, my dear stalker, are going to choose which show I evaluate from first. I checked my stats today, and it turns out that 27 different people have seen this blog since I first started it. And not a one has ever commented. So I'm forcing you to comment. Well, not really. But it would be nice to know that someone cares. Even if no one comments to say which show they'd like to see evaluated first, I'm going to do this series anyway, just to spite the one person out there who reads this.
And now, because I was bored, here are pictures of every single show that I listed above.

 

Victorious 

iCarly

Pretty Little Liars

Dollhouse

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Charmed

Bones

Glee

The Nine Lives of Chloe King

Switched at Birth

Warehouse 13

And so that is what will be happening here at HOMLOP for the next week(s) or so. Remember to leave your ideas as to which show's character I should evaluate first (or next, depending on when you read this) in the comments! Because I would really like to hear some comments....

Lots of love to you, dear stalkers!

Love,
~M~