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Monthly Archives: February 2014

GR Dailies: Community – Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality

28 Friday Feb 2014

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by Thom Yee

Community images courtesy of NBCUniversal Television Distribution

Community images courtesy of NBCUniversal Television Distribution

5×07:  “Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality”

This is an unusual episode.  This is an unusual episode of a show that’s already extremely weird and introverted.  Not only does it dispel some of the myths most of us take as fact in the Community-verse, but it almost actively goes against what we’ve held to be true all this time. It ends on a strong note of emotionality and sentiment, but it rings more and more hollow the more you think about it.  The whole thing’s still funny and clever, but some of the jokes don’t go anywhere, and it feels like some of the character potential is… starting to bottom out.  I’m getting worried, but I don’t know if that worry is me for the show’s quality or me not wanting the show to change.

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GR Dailies: How I Met Your Mother – Rally

25 Tuesday Feb 2014

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by Grace Crawford

Images courtesy of Bay & Thomas Productions and 20th Century Fox.

Images courtesy of Bay & Thomas Productions and 20th Century Fox.

9×18: “Rally”

So the mid-season/Winter Olympics break is over, and we’re in the home stretch now. Buckle up; it’s about to get crazy.

It’s the morning of Barney and Robin’s wedding, and Barney is lying comatose in front of their hotel room door, unable to move or even wake up. This, friends, is about to be a cautionary tale on the dangers of drinking… sort of.

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GR Dailies: The Walking Dead – Claimed

24 Monday Feb 2014

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by Thom Yee

Walking Dead s4-2

Images courtesy of AMC and Fox International Channels

4×11:  “Claimed”

So last time I neglected to mention the episode-closing debut of Abraham, Rosita and Eugene.  I guess it was because I was so down on “Inmates” overall, and the  misery of the episode so outweighed the trio’s arrival that I probably just forgot about them and the breath of fresh air that they were (and are this episode).  Regardless of how the newbies turn out over the course of their individual developments (and eventual demises), it’s nice to meet a new group of characters who don’t appear to duplicate any of our existing characters, who don’t care about what our heroes have been through, and who have their own sh*t to deal with.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (Seasons 1–3)

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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by Grace Crawford

All images courtesy of Nickelodeon.

All images courtesy of Nickelodeon.

When I was younger, I used to dream of having superpowers. I would pretend that I could shoot fireballs out of my hands, and I would dream of the day I would get to use my powers on anyone who was mean to me. I think I even got as far as giving myself a superhero name and considering costume design before it finally occurred to me that if my powers hadn’t manifested themselves by the tender age of fifteen (don’t judge), they probably never would.

Maybe that’s why I like watching movies and TV shows about people who can do things like that: X-Men, Heroes, Sky High, Frozen… I like watching people become more than the world around them. I like watching them discover who they are and who they were meant to be. And I really like watching people shoot fireballs out of their hands. So it makes sense that I enjoyed this show as much as I did.

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GR Dailies: The Walking Dead – Inmates

17 Monday Feb 2014

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by Thom Yee

Walking Dead s4-2

Images courtesy of AMC, Fox International Channels, and Image Comics

4×09:  “Inmates”

While this week’s episode is entitled “Inmates”, because that sounds dour and downtrodden and reflective of the state of this world (and ours?), it may as well have been called “Meanwhile” because it’s nothing more than whatever else was happening while the things we actually cared about happened last week.

Whereas last week’s “After” allowed itself to breathe some actual, real life into its characters by not focusing on too many storylines at once, this week’s episode really just serves to catch us up with everyone else.  Continue reading →

The Wolf of Wall Street

15 Saturday Feb 2014

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by Thom Yee

Wolf of Wall Street poster

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“Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn’t fucking have any.”  From Ben Affleck’s throat to your ears (in another film inspired by the exploits of Jordan Belfort).

To frame it another way, wealthy or poor, empowered or enfeebled, everybody’s the hero of their own story.  And evil will always exist so long as people reckon themselves heroes.

Money isn’t the root of all evil.  Because evil’s always going to be there, money or not.

Money didn’t make you do the strange things you did in pursuit of a poorly defined goal.  Money didn’t make you take the roads you’ve taken to get you where you are today.  Money didn’t make you step on your parents’s throat(s), betray your best friends’s trust(s), leave your first wife, or abandon your first children.

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GR Dailies: The Walking Dead – After

10 Monday Feb 2014

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by Thom Yee

Walking Dead s4-2

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4×08:  “After”

For me, after a more-than-two-month absence and a status-quo-shattering midseason finale, the thought of more Walking Dead elicits almost equal parts desire and dread.  No matter how you feel about the show, no matter which of its strengths and flaws you acknowledge or deny, you have to admit that The Walking Dead is an exhausting show.  When Robert Kirkman initially set out to write a continuing story about what happens after the horror movie, as compelling a premise as that may have been, I don’t know if he knew that the results could sometimes be so awful.  What this shows us is that, at the end of the day, as much as people’s instincts may lead to jealousy, rage, hatred and murder under the right circumstances  (and that may make for some interesting stories), most people aren’t any of those things so much as they are… just fundamentally awful to be around (at least in the long term).

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Frozen

09 Sunday Feb 2014

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by Grace Crawford

All images courtesy of Walt Disney Studios.

All images courtesy of Walt Disney Studios.

Warning: spoilers ahead. No, seriously. I told you so.

You knew this was coming. I mean, my favourite movie is Tangled, for crying out loud. I love Disney movies. Yes, I’m a girl who was born in the early ‘90s; of course I love Disney movies. And I’m not just talking the animated ones, either. I even liked those ridiculous straight-to-DVD movies like Hatching Pete and High School Musical (although really, who are we kidding; that thing’s a gem).

But here’s the weird thing: I’ve never liked the princesses.

Cinderella gets treated like crap by her family and puts up with it until a handsome prince whisks her away from her tragically awful life and into the lap of luxury. Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger and is stuck in a coma for like two days (it’s actually something like a hundred years in the story, FYI) until a handsome prince whisks her away from her tragically comatose life and into… well, I guess she’s still a princess. Anyway. Ariel is sick of her life and ditches her family to marry a prince (because princes everywhere) even though she is literally sixteen years old and that’s barely legal.

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