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Monthly Archives: March 2014

GR Dailies: The Walking Dead – A

31 Monday Mar 2014

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by Thom Yee

Walking Dead s4-2

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

4×16:  “A”

So the Jerks ended up being little more than that. Selfish, depraved, rapey jerks, with no long-term story implications and no impact beyond helping to drive home a point that, it turns out, may have actually been building this entire time even despite the seeming pointlessness of the individual season four episodes.

For all of season four’s faults in character, pacing, and truncated seasonal arcs, “A”, the sixteenth and final episode of the season, wound up being pretty good. There was no long-stirring threat that suddenly exploded, no prolonged action set pieces or main character deaths. Continue reading →

GR Dailies: How I Met Your Mother – The End of the Aisle

26 Wednesday Mar 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.

9×22: “The End of the Aisle”

Friggin’ finally, man. After an entire season and the longest weekend ever, Barney and Robin tie the knot–but not before Robin digs deep, pulls out her inner crazy, and decides she wants to marry Ted instead.

Barney’s still freaking out about his tie and the vows he still hasn’t written, and he’s only distracted by poking holes in Marshall and Lily’s wedding vows, which they’ve broken repeatedly over the six years.

So all of this makes me ask, “Why on earth would anyone ever want to get married?”

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GR Dailies: The Walking Dead – Us

24 Monday Mar 2014

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by Thom Yee

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4×15:  “Us”

So here we are at the penultimate episode of this long and dreary season, and I can’t help but ask, “… Is that it?”

“Us” is a slow episode where everyone catches up with everyone else and the story for the back half of the season finally takes shape. That’s all fine, it’s just not something we should’ve had to wait till the second last episode of the season for. We should’ve been here maybe two episodes in rather than two episodes out.  Basically, right now everyone’s on the way to Terminus at various speeds. Rick, Carl and Michonne are slowly sauntering their way over as they try to keep their balance on the train tracks while eating chocolate bars.  Glenn’s still insisting that his group of Tara, Abraham, Rosita and Eugene hurry up — especially now that he’s seen some of Maggie’s written-in-zombie-blood messages — even though nobody else in his group really cares about Maggie, and Tara’s still limping along on her perpetually sprained ankle. Daryl’s still stuck with the hunters, finding out that they may be a bunch of Jerks, but at least they’re Jerks with rules (like yelling “claimed” to lay claim to whatever it is they’re looking at, even though breaking that rule four episodes ago is what caused me to call the whole group a bunch of Jerks in the first place.  Jerks.). We’re left to assume that Carol and Tyrese are also still making their way to Terminus as they don’t appear in “Us”, a fair assumption considering that the only reason we saw a momentary glimpse of Rick’s group at all this episode was because we haven’t seen them in a while and we had to be reminded they exist before next episode.

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The Great Gatsby (2013)

22 Saturday Mar 2014

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by Grace Crawford

All images courtesy of Village Roadshow Pictures, Bazmark Productions, A&E Television, Red Wagon Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Pictures.

All images courtesy of Village Roadshow Pictures, Bazmark Productions, A&E Television, Red Wagon Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Pictures.

In my first year of university, my iPod disappeared. I’m not sure if it was stolen on the bus, if I lost it (losing stuff is kind of my thing), or if it slipped through a crack in space and time to be found by a 17th-century Puritan who declared it witchcraft and started an uproar over it. But even now, years later, I still find myself looking for it. Every so often, I’ll check my backpack and my purses and sweater pockets to see if I left it inside, even though I didn’t find it last time or the time before.

I could buy a new one, but I never have. I bought that iPod back in high school with my first paycheck from my first job. I liked the way it felt, the way it looked, the way all the settings and buttons were just so. It was perfect. It was mine. I don’t want a new one; I want that one. If I had to tear apart every bag or backpack or sweater I ever owned to find it, I probably would.

And this is about the time you’re wondering, “What on earth does this have to do with The Great Gatsby?”

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GR Dailies: Community – Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

21 Friday Mar 2014

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by Thom Yee

Community images courtesy of NBCUniversal Television Distribution

Community images courtesy of NBCUniversal Television Distribution

5×10:  “Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons”

“A satisfying sequel is difficult to pull off.  Many geniuses have defeated themselves through hubris, making this a chance to prove that I’m better than all of them.  I’m in!” ~ Abed Nadir, noted computer, referring to a past episode

The original “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” (the episode) came at a time when Community was undoubtedly at its creative zenith, a time where wildly inventive episodes were almost the norm, a time when anything was possible and life seemed worth living.  The second season of Community is when the series really became the show it was going to be, both the uproariously unpredictable half-hour of weekly genius its fans claim it to be, and the hollow, unfathomable, pop-culture-regurgitating trash its detractors would have you believe it is.  Regardless of where you stood at the time (if anywhere), Community was huge in season two, and even for people who didn’t care for the show, “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” is frequently cited as one of the best in the show’s history.

I don’t think it was, though.  But definitely top five.

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GR Dailies: How I Met Your Mother – Gary Blauman

19 Wednesday Mar 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.

9×21: “Gary Blauman”

As with all stories, HIMYM is winding down to a close. And as with many, many other stories, it’s taking its sweet time getting there.

This week’s episode was about Gary Blauman, some guy Barney and Marshall used to work with. He shows up at the wedding unannounced, ’cause his invite got lost in the mail or something, and Robin delegates the task of finding a seat for him to Marshall.

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GR Dailies: The Walking Dead – The Grove

17 Monday Mar 2014

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by Thom Yee

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4×14:  “The Grove”

One of the biggest problems with the way The Walking Dead show has developed over the last four years is that pretty much every major character death is going to be milked for everything it could possibly be worth.  <spoiler alert> The first thing that really got me hooked on the comicbook was when Carl killed Shane to keep him from killing Rick.  That got distorted on the show, where Carl shot a zombified Shane and, therefore, had little choice and no major remorse, but it’s a real growing moment for comic-book Carl who had to quickly choose between his biological father and Shane, the man who had acted as an uncle and surrogate father in Rick’s temporary absence.  And in the comicbook, it happened in the first story arc, showing readers a lot of what this world is about, whereas in the show, the “Shane is dangerous for the group” thing got way, way drawn out until near the end of season two.

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About Time

15 Saturday Mar 2014

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by Thom Yee

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Images courtesy of Universal Pictures and TriStar Pictures

There isn’t a day (and sometimes not even an hour) that goes by that I don’t wish I could go back and do things right.  That’s what makes time travel such a tantalizing thought and why I’m a firm believer that time travel can make any story better.  No matter how poorly rendered, no matter how inconsistently portrayed, no matter how broadly unnecessary, thematically disconnected or logically unfulfilling, time travel is just too compelling an idea to pass up.

Back to the Future is an exciting movie, but it’s propelled by and gains direct meaning from the ticking time bomb of getting Marty’s parents together before the lightning strikes the clock tower.  Superman the Movie makes less sense, but is still slightly more intriguing with the notion that Superman can reverse time by reversing the Earth’s rotation.  Even the Star Trek reboot would have been weaker without Spock Prime and the new timeline (though his presence in the sequel is perhaps the biggest symbol of what was wrong with that movie).

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