Open Mic Wednesday 3/31/10
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
It’s Open Mic Wednesday. What do you want to talk about today?
Do you ever yell at the TV?
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Here are a few things I yelled at (or merely said to) the TV last night:
During LOST (slight spoilers):
“What do you mean they’re not married???”
“He worked for Mr. Paik!”
“Kevin Durand is so cute.” (Okay, maybe I just thought that, vehemently)
“ROOM 23!!!!!”
“It’s Mikhail!”
“HE SHOT HIM IN THE EYE!!!! Bwahahahahaha!”
“IT’S DESMOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
(I have to admit, I was a little hoarse after LOST ended.)
Then, during V:
“Ew.”
“Look out!”
“Don’t eat the dead mouse. PLEASE don’t eat the dead mouse. Don’t do it!”
“She’s going to eat him after she has s*x with him. Yep, saw that coming.”
??? I missed the last 5-10 minutes of Lost last night – and the first 15 minutes.
I got tired and turned off the TV halfway through V – so I missed that part as well. Glad to know what is going on.
Yes, I sometimes yell at the TV – I can’t think of any instances right now.
You must, must, must watch last night’s episode of LOST. It’s one of the best episodes of the season! (Not as good as the Richard episode last week, which now bumps up against “The Constant” in my favorites list, but still, really good.)
And, simply because I’ve been collecting images of him because he’s being cast as a pirate in Ransome’s Quest, here’s an image of the very cute Kevin Durand:
http://tinyurl.com/ygf7m55
Yep, he’ll make a GREAT pirate!
I agree – a very good pirate. He plays bad really, really well.
Wow! Just checked IMDB – I had no idea he was Joshua in Dark Angel.
He also plays very, very good. I hope his exposure on Lost gets him many more roles.
I never said he was going to be a bad pirate.
Noticed under the Twitter feed your comment about Netflix and Sherlock Holmes…apparently Warner has some sort of agreement w/ Netflix that Warner DVDs will not be available until a month after the release: http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1952041,00.html
I figured it was something like that. It’s not going to work with me, though. I’ve waited this long to see it, I can wait four more weeks.
Will be curious to hear your thoughts! Apparently Warner also has this agreement with Redbox…several of my friends use that service and won’t be happy either, I’m sure!
ROTFLMAO!!!! Some time you’ll have to watch a Lady Vols basketball game or OU football game with me. The other thing what will make me yell at the TV is the most horrible phrase “To Be Continued.” GUUHHHH!!
Oh, hon, I’m dangerous during an LSU football game!
LOL! Then there’s Daniel during a Vols football game…
I’m seeing us spending a lot of time together during football season this year.
Yes, LOST has me lost again! But isn’t that the fun of it. I know you’ve been waiting a long time for the return of Desmond. And by the end of the episode I wanted to shout…”just let Widmore be the keeper of the Island and let the candidates go about their lives!” But then again, the show would be over too quickly and we can’t have that now can we?
One of the other things I said to the empty room was, “I guess Mikhail was always destined to lose that eye. Now, let’s see how he comes back from THAT.”
Okay, I think I missed the Mikhail thing. Who is the guy again, why is he significant? Enlighten me! And what’s the significant of Room 23. Psalm 23? Boy, you don’t miss much, do you!
Mikhail is also known as “Patchy.” He’s the one who was in the Flame station on the island whom John Locke pushed through the sonic fence when they first found the barracks in Season 3, and he “died.” He then showed up again and is the one who went down to the Looking Glass station where Desmond shot him and he “died.” And then he showed up out in the water and set off the grenade that killed Charlie (and Mikhail?). He was missing his right eye—the eye Jin shot him in last night.
Room 23 is where they were holding Karl when Alexandra was helping Sawyer and Kate escape from Hydra Island in Season 3—where they had him strapped to the chair and were brainwashing him with that running slide show and loud music that Jin turned on last night. It’s also where they held Walt when they had him (which was revealed in a Mobisode, not in the show as far as I know).
Oh yeah, Patchy. What was that? Season 1 or 2. How do you keep up with these things? Makes me wonder now if the present and flashsides are somehow interconnected. Mind boggling stuff!
I have a feeling the storylines are going to converge somehow. But they’d better bring Juliet back so she and Sawyer can have a happy ending.
Yep, I, too, yelled at the tv a little bit during Lost last night. Poor Sun…getting her head all banged up and now she can’t speak English anymore….I would’ve been screaming at everyone, too!
Most of my screaming lately is because it’s been NCAA season….poor hubby can hear me yelling all through the house!
I’m that way during football season, Christy. That’s why I’m so glad I don’t live in an apartment or duplex anymore. Now I don’t have to worry about scaring/annoying my neighbors when I’m yelling at/screaming for my Tigers.
Upon seeing Desmond, coming from both my daughter AND myself, my husband running into the room to see what was going on – “AAAAAAAA – It’s DESMOND!”
And then upon reflection – Is Widmore seeming to be good, but really BAD, or have we been wrong about DESMOND being good. Is HE really BAD, and WIDMORE good? UGH.
And I had totally forgotten in the Sayid-centric epi that he had come across Jin tied up in the restaurant . . . WHAT a relief . . . I think . . . but then we’ve got Sayid not “feeling” anything. THAT’S creepy.
Will the sideways reality and island reality somehow converge? Will their lives (as it seems now) actually be WORSE without the plane crash? Only six more episodes to find out. Sigh.
Desmond is the key to the whole thing. You just watch. After all, Ellie did tell him in “Flashes Before Your Eyes” that if he didn’t go to the island and do everything she said he was supposed to do, they were all dead. And she told him at the end of the fifth season that the island wasn’t through with him yet (echoed by, I believe, Widmore in the preview for next week).
Reading all these posts about Lost makes me glad I’ve never watched it. lol
Wait until this season’s over and then I’ll loan you my DVDs. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. But it’s a great study in storytelling and character development.
I was yelling at the TV during Castle on Monday: “THERE’S NO WAY CASTLE COULD HAVE MADE THAT SHOT! THAT’S RIDICULOUS!” I didn’t realize that Rick shooting the gun out of the guy’s hand was a setup for a Firefly reference: “I was aiming for his head!”
ANother Firefly reference? *giggles* I’m looking forward to catching up on the show on DVD – now that I don’t have satellite its just on too late. I’m usually tired of the TV being on at that point.
I laughed my head off as soon as he said that on Castle. Of course, it helps that I re-watched the entire Firefly series about a week or so ago . . . and that I adore Adam Baldwin and love him in the episode “The Train Job,” because he got to be funny.
Does anyone know what Dee Henderson is doing these days?
Such a great writer!
The last thing I know of is the book Kidnapped, which came out from Tyndale in Fall of 2008. http://tinyurl.com/yhyhats
Kidnapped is a new title and cover to one of her older books (sorry I don’t know the correct term or this). I drove about an hour buy the book when it came out ( I had a coupon to use) and had to drive back to return it later when I realized that I had the old book.
I don’t do lost. But I’m starting to get hooked on Castle.
Castle is just getting better and better each week!
Okay–I have a question.
Do y’all ever look at/use the discussion questions that come with Christian books (or are provided on sites like ChristianBook.com)?
Yep, I’m way behind on getting discussion questions for Ransome’s Crossing and Love Remains written.
I do glance at the discussion questions, but I’m not always sure they fulfill the purpose. But now that you mention it, I’d be interested to know the publisher’s stated purpose and the guidelines given to the authors!
I glance, too. Every time I see the questions at the end of a novel I’ve just read, I think, “Wow, how cool would it be to be involved in a book club that discusses MY kind of book!” Maybe someday I’ll just have to start one . . .
AND, if anyone’s been following the blog I’m with – http://www.inkspirationalmessages.com , you’ll see that this week and next we’re discussing what makes a hero “hunkilicious.” So yes, there ARE groups who would love to discuss a romance.
I look at the discussion questions, though I’ve not had the opportunity to participate in a group and go over the questions which would be quite fun. I never like a novel to end that it’s always fun to talk about it afterwards and soak it all in.
I always look at them.
However, I find it ridiculous that there are discussion questions in romance novels. I mean, come on. I love romance novels, but they are not book club books. Customers who are looking for a book club book are not the same customers who are just looking for something fun to read–which means that you risk customers giving a romance bad publicity just because it wasn’t what they were looking for, not because it was actually a bad book. When most people see book club questions, they think “This novel is going to be literary.” “Literary” and “thought-provoking” are not the same thing. Many romance novels, like yours, are quite thought-provoking, but few romances are really literary.
But I guess that’s changing, and pretty soon every book will have discussion questions, because it doesn’t cost anything to make the writer write them.
Reading as you discuss Lost, makes me think of something Ted Dekker would only be able to come up with…