The Curse of the Fourth Season

Okay so you all know that I'm a huge fan of LOST so before I jump into my recaps of some of my other favorite shows, let me just say something about last night's episodes of LOST "Sundown"

Now don't let the name fool you, this was a Sayid centric episode and for some reason I had it in my mind that it could very well be his last episode on the show.. and in a sense I was right. Sayid is no longer the Iraqi torturer we all know and love.. He is now infected and badder than bad.

This episode for me started a little slow and I'm most def. not saying this in a bad way.. It's just hard to have last episode tease us so much about someone coming to the island (PLEASE LET IT BE DESMOND!)and then get no payoff in this episode.. I enjoyed watching Sayid in the ALT but now I'm at the point where I NEED to know how this all connects together (and I'm confident we'll be finding that out real soon)

Naveen Andrews acting was superb in this episode and he conveyed the fact that he was now claimed very well. The biggest part of the ALT storyline for me in this episode was the scene with Keamy that ends with Jin being discovered in the freezer.. interesting, very interesting.

Everyone knows that the last ten minutes of "Sundown" made the whole freaking episode.. It was mind blowing, dark, and fast-paced. One of my favorite things about this season is DEF. getting to see Smokey in action more and more after getting only glimpses of him in each of the other seasons. He is seriously BAD ASS!

All in all, awesome episode! The final teams are almost in place and once they are, the real answers will be coming by the second.

THE CURSE OF THE FOURTH SEASON

I don't know what it is but a lot of my favorite shows start getting really bad in the fourth season. Is it because they run out of material? Whatever it is, it's getting ridiculous.. I have FOUR shows to list here for you today that took a turn for the worst in the fourth season. Like I said in my last post, the fact that Dexter's fourth season blew me away was a massive sigh of relief. Keep in mind as I bash these shows, I am still a loyal fan to all of them.. Once i'm in, usually I stay through to the end. Let's start with..

Nip/Tuck

WOW has this show gone down hill! I started watching this show last year and blew through the first 4 seasons in a week (due to a horrible leg surgery that left me bedridden lol). By watching in total marathon mode 1 thing proved quite clear to me, WOW THIS FOURTH SEASON HAD THE MOST RIDICULOUS STORY LINES EVER.

Nip/Tuck has always been far fetched but it was also entertaining and I really did feel for all the characters (well most of them). By the fourth season, you have some crazy ass shrink, a little person (nanny) getting it on with Julia (while Sean and her are still together of course), some chick infiltrating the company with her old, rich husband, and Connor's (Julia and Sean's son) hand surgery.

It was so jam packed with crazy plot lines, I didn't know what to do with myself and on top of that, the patients that came in for plastic surgery had crazier and crazier reasons to do so. I can take crazy but damn this season ODed on it.

I hoped the next season would get better but sadly, it may have gotten worse. Worst decisions ever : moving to LA, Sean becoming a self-indulgent star of a ridiculous reality drama, Christian going bald,Rosie (O'Donnell) and Christian getting it on, Teddy that crazy bitch, Julia's new found lesbionism which of course introduces the most annoying character this show has seen, Eden, the sex-crazed teen who (of course) must lust after Sean. Julia almost dies, Sean almost dies.. Stupid.

This continues in the second part of season 5 with Christian being diagnosed with breast cancer and getting married to Liz (yes the lesbion) This may have been the worst storyline ever.. until I saw season 6.

I'm pretty sure season 6 is when Matt decides to become a.. wait for it.. MIME! LMAOOO really! But he's not ordinary mime, he likes to hold up shop owners with a fake gun and steal their money..wow

Mario Lopez becomes Kimbers new love interest for a short time before she of course goes back to Christian. Christian beats the cancer and of course has to ditch Liz because he was only with her as a last resort and for his son Wilbur (who we barely even see)

Julia's lesbion lover dies while going under the knife, Seans crazy girlfriend, Teddy, tries to kill him and his kids, and Liz is on a rampage for all of Christians shit.

Now we're on to the final season of Nip/Tuck.. Season 7. Now the big question is, Marissa if you hate this show so much and think it's so ridiculous why do you still watch it? Well it's simple, no matter how bad it gets I'm still somewhat entertained lol and it helps that I'm in love with Christian =)

But anyway in the final season, Kimber commits suicide (while married to Christian..What when did that happen? lmao you never know with this show)which was oddly fitting to her sad, damaged self. She couldn't get away from Christian any other way and she jumps off a bump a boat. I found this sad, I liked Kimber and Christian because their storylines, as ridiculous as they got, were extremely entertaining.

Season 7 is mainly about Christian and Seans relationship. Christian holds Sean back but Sean allows this because he loves Christian blah blah blah. We got a reprise of the role of Ava, the transexual that killed her own son, coming to McNamara/Troy for a surgery for her new baby (I know!! Who would let this psycho bitch adopt a baby) In the final episode, she abandons her baby because he'll never be perfect. Matt walks out on his wedding just so he can beg Ava to stay with him because he has the perfect kid, Jenna.

Let me go off track for a moment, I HATE MATT WITH A PASSION! Why is this kid sooo dumb. He's never thought anything through, ever. He just makes bad decison after another and never learns from his mistakes. They ended the show leaving him as pathetic as always which makes sense because honest to god this kid will never change!

Julia takes the kids to London to live with her fiance, a rich old man duh, and Christian decides to leave Sean because he knows that Sean will never do all the things he dreams of if their still friends/partners. Sean hops on a plane to retrieve the baby Ava abandoned and to permantely stay, in whatever country it was, to help sick babies.

Oh PLEASE like Sean's such a martyr! ehh but I was still kinda sad to see the two part ways and I think if the show went on Sean would go back to the US because he is so not gonna be able to live in a third world country for very long.

Oh I forgot to mention Liz was having Sean's baby (due to the sperm he just hands over to her) and she wanted nothing to do with him lol crazy, crazy show.

What made the finale episode so great for me was the last scene. It leaves us with Christian offering to buy a drink for a young blond girl (who's on her to being the next Kimber) and her refusing. Christian pulls out that old line that's worked for a him a million time.. I'm a plastic surgeon in true Christian form. I like how they left Christian as shallow as ever, that's who he is and that's who he'll always be.

I'm sad to this show go because it's def. my guilty please but it was def. time. All in all, Nip/Tuck is the most unrealistic, superficial show I've ever seen but I think that was the whole point =)

Check back later for my other 3 shows that went down hill from the "Curse of the Fourth Season."

Namaste and Good Luck,

Marissa

Ahh televison

Okay so I know I totally fell off of writing this blog but in the last few monthes I graduated broadcasting school, started working as a videographer, and started my internship at Sirius Radio (Listen to the B-Team on Mad Dog Radio 10am-2pm ;) lol)

But anyway I thought I should do a little recap about the shows I've been watching..

TRUE BLOOD

One of my last posts talked about how deeply I was anticipating True Blood's second season and now that the season has been over for awhile I can sum it up in one word : weak

Honestly, I expect a lot from Alan Ball and the second season of True Blood was such a disappointment.. I mean the whole season you craved to know how it would end. The build up for each episode was great. I thought it was all gonna reach a great climax and wrap up real well but noooo that's not what happened.

It's almost as if the writers gave up on the writing for the last few episodes because they just basically dragged out a story line that coulda been wrapped up midway through the season. I'm not saying that EVERYTHING was bad. I liked getting more of Sam this season and MaryAnn was a pretty good villian for awhile but eh it left a lot to be desired.

Another thing that bothered me was the way they tried to de-sexify ( not that that's a word lol) Bill this season. I mean in the first season he was this bad ass, smooth talkin vamp and they've made him into this almost weak seeming character who can't help Sookie all season because of some ridiculous chick vampire (this all convienantly allows Eric to swoop in and seem like the knight in shining armor ALL FREAKING SEASON!)

Speaking of Eric, how badly did they wanna make him a fan favorite this season? It was like Bill lost all the cool storylines because now they wanna force Eric into the main cast. Don't get me wrong I like Eric but I just don't like the way they went about bringing him into the main storyline.

And the cliffhanger just didn't do it for me.. There was no build up for it and it just seems like another reason Bill won't be around next season (presumably so Eric can continue to try to make advances on Sookie.. which she WILL totally accept this season lmao I'm calling it now)

I have not given up on True Blood.. I can let ONE bad season go but honestly, I really hope the 3rd season is an improvement.. Alan Ball is great so I know he'll bounce back but all in all, it was a let down of a season.

DEXTER

Another season of a show that has come and gone is Season 4 of Dexter AND WHAT A SEASON IT WAS!

I can not believe this show has not only kept the quality of the writing through 4 season but seems to actually be improving. I think the total amount of people I have recruited into watching this show has to be like 8 or 9 lol.

If you asked me what my favorite season of Dexter is I usually saw the one I've just watched like for instance right now it's season 4. But now I'm rewatching Season 1 and I'm sure when I'm done it'll again be my favorite.

After season 3, I couldn't imagine a better counterpart for Dexter then Miguel Prato but omg how I was wrong. The Trinity Killer was the most creepy, complex, bad ass killer the shows ever had and John Litgows portrayl of him was phenomenal. The season had constant action and Michael C. Hall as always was brilliant.

I do not wanna give away the ending so I won't spoil it for anyone but let me just say the ending was SHOCKING, sad and def. leads me to believe that the Dexter we'll being seeing in Season 5 is going to resort back to his old ways. I think he's gonna close right back into himself and we're all gonna side of him we've never seen before.

So all in all, Dexter never fails. My guess is season 5 will be just as great as its predecessors =)

Check back later for my thoughts on Nip/Tuck, the Office, Big Love, and many other

Namaste and Good Luck,

Marissa

Lost Podcast - "The Lighthouse"

Hey guys I know it's been awhile but me and my friend Ally just started a LOST podcast called UnLocke Lost.. We do indepth recaps and analysis of each other the episodes in this bittersweet final season.. We also talk some lost news, examine great quotes, lay down our top 5 moments, and end with a short promo talk.. Check it out! We're new to this so any feedback you have for us, we'd love to hear! You can email us at unlockelost@yahoo.com or go to our website unlockelost.podbean.com and leave us some feedback there.. Thanks and enjoy =)

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Spoilers start at 1:20:00-1:24:00 and only include the next episodes title, centricity, and a short promo talk

I'm in the mountains till thursday.. update soon =)

My Pure Bliss that True Blood is Almost Back!!

Okay, okay, okay now before I entered the world of Lost, I was rather addicted to an amazinggg show called True Blood.. Ever heard of it?? lol Well anyway, waiting each week for a new episode was the worst thing imaginable.. and it also suckeddd that there were only 12 episodes. But let me say that in just one season that show has me absolutely freakin hooked.

I read the first book, of which the series is based, by Charlaine Harris and I would notttt let myself read the second. I mean even though the show is loosely based on the books, I still feel committed to the show. I wanna see what's gonna happen from the eyes of Alan Ball, the creator, because the mans a friggin genious. Every head of a little show called Six Feet Under!? If you haven't it's def in my top 10 list of tv shows of all time. Ridicously good.

So thanks to True Blood, I watched Six Feet Under (thank god) which led me to Dexter (because Michael C. Hall plays David in SFU and he does such a wonderful job I had to see how he was in Dexter). And Dexter is another show I can promise won't disappoint.

But back to True Blood.. It returns this Sunday, June 14th at 9pm, on HBO. In preperation for this event I just about finished rewatching the first season. I swear I've been so consumed with Lost that I almost forgot how obsessed I am with True Blood. I mean Stephen Moyer as Bill is reason enough to watch it not that there isn't a million other reasons to watch. Now I'm just souped for the season premiere and the second season overall.

Ahh I suggest everyone youtube the promos because they look sickkk. Well, that's it just wanted to let some excitement out. Hope everyone tries to watch!

Namaste, Marissa

Lost Rewatch- Season 1 White Rabbit

Well as I said in my last post I'm participating in a lost rewatch with many other lost fans. Today while I was rewatching the first episode of the four for this week I decided to post a few things I noticed in the episode "White Rabbit"

THINGS I NOTICED IN WHITE RABBIT (JACK CENTRIC)

-Charlie say's he doesn't swim when clearly he does. He not only swam down to the looking glass station but also said he won some sort of award. One of his greatest moments in the episode "Greatest Hits" was his father teaching him to swim.

- The woman who drowned, Johanna, wasn't supposed to be on the plane (going by what Kate tells Jack) maybe the island disposed of her because it wasn't her destiny to be there.

- the scene where Hurley and Charlie are badgering Jack with questions about the water supply really made me love Charlie and Hurley's dynamic. I'm glad that as the show progressed we get to see how close Hurley and Charlie become.

- Sawyer is reading the book "Watership Down"

-Locke says he knows where to look for water. Is this foreshadowing the time travel or does it hint that Locke might not be who we think he is.. or is it nothing lol who knows! I originally thought it was because he was a trained hunter but with Lost anything can be interpreted differently.

- Jack sees Christian in the Jungle and on the opposite side of him there's a white smoke. I never noticed this before but instead of going towards the white smoke, Jack runs towards his father and almost falls off a cliff. Is this our first glimpse of Jacob versus his nemesis/ good vs. evil? Then Locke appears and helps Jack up. If Locke was already taken over by Jacob's nemesis then why would he lead Jack to the cliff as Christian and then save him? Idk but this was the thing that jumped out at me the most in this episode because I never really gave it much thought until this rewatch.

- When Sayid is questioning Sun about where she got the water he says, "She understands me" this foreshadows the fact that Sun actually does speak English.

- This episode marks the first bits of sexual tension between Kate and Sawyer.. YAY!

- First episode with a reference to Alice in Wonderland

- Locke first speaks the words "maybe this all happened for a reason" (or I think it's the first time he says that lol)

- "I looked in the eye of this island and what I saw was beautiful."

- Locke kind of guides Jack on his path of closure with his father. Locke always seems to be the voice of reason for some of the Losties in the first season. Could he be like Abbadon who's job was to get people where they have to go?

- What gave Christian a heart attack? Was it the drinking or something else entirely?

-Christian leads Jack to water and Jack finds a creepy doll in the water (did we ever find out who that belonged to? Was it one of the kids from the tail sections doll?) Jack then finds the empty coffin so was Christian really leading Jack to the water or to the realization that the body was missing from it's coffin?

- Jack delivers his amazingggggg Live together, Die alone speech.. which we all know is refrenced thoughtout the show. Jack is so strong in his conviction how could anyone not look to him as the leader.

Leave him alone. It's been six days and we're all still waiting. Waiting for someone to come. But what if they don't? We have to stop waiting. We need to start figuring things out. A woman died this morning just going for a swim and he tried to save her, and now you're about to crucify him? We can't do this. Everyman for himself is not going to work. It's time to start organizing. We need to figure out how we're going to survive here. Now, I found water. Fresh water, up in the valley. I'll take a group in at first light. If you don't want to go come then find another way to contribute. Last week most of us were strangers, but we're all here now. And god knows how long we're going to be here. But if we can't live together, we're going to die alone.

Well that's all for now.. that was fun lol Rewatching these episodes is like a whole new experience.. It's def keeping me going during this hiatus.

Namaste, Marissa

I'm actually shocked!

I know it's been awhile since I posted but I felt like no one would ever read but the 2 people who left comments on this page have inspired me to perservere! Thank you! As i just noticed this right now, this isn't technically a new post but I have a new found enthusiasm to write in this blog.

Ohh and if you're a Lost fan I strongly advise you got to Lostpedia.com immediatly and start taking place in the huge Lost rewatch the 9 (!!!) fan sites are participating in. They're only on week two so you have plenty of time to catch up. It's awesome though really. Each site is writing a new article about each and every episode with new insight and feedback. It's gonna be the only thing getting me through the hiatus (besides darkufo)

But anyway thanks again to the two people who read this blog and I hope you continue to.

Namaste, Marissa