Hello - In times where one is overwhelmed by devastating news as soon as one turns on the computer or the TV I find even more comfort in my tv shows… and swimming. Unfortunately most of the shows are on Hiatus and won’t start until the Fall which on the other hand is a season I am not anticipating since Fall means the farewell of Summer and the return of winter. Of course winter this year means “New Moon” which is the highlight of my year - and yes I know I have strange highlights but well. Speaking of “New Moon”. While I really liked the first official Trailer and am still watching it on regular basis followed by embarassing joyful gestures when no one can see me…I was quite taken by how much the Movie “The Golden Compass” sucked. It was one of the few movies I turned off after a while. But I guess it had to do with the storyline and not so much with the directing. Instead I rewatched the “Sex and the City “Movie after a Marathon session of rewatching (once again) all 6 seasons of the Show.
But now to “True Blood” - Monday’s episode called “Scratches” was awesome. Sookie almost died when she was attacked by a dragon-like creature who marked her with huge scratches. Bill brought her to Eric who called his funny but obviously competent dwarf docter who then saved Sookie. I find that Eric “Vampire sherif” kinda sexy and I think his scenes with Sookie are excellent. I loved how she slapped him in front of Bill who wasn’t really any help up to that point. In my opinion Sookie Stackhouse’s a.k.a Anna Paquin’s attitude especially when dealing with Bill and his vampire friends almost always borders on becoming annoying but up till now manages to stay on the side of beeing highly entertaining. Like when she finds out that Eric’s been keeping Lavayette in that dungeon and she confront’s Bill (who’s totally unaware) “You better not have anything to do with that” Loved how she glared at him there. I’m not sure why but the second time I watched this episode it was a little more spooky.
Why exactly is Sam leaving and where to? Well we’ll see if he’s going anywhere after Daphne with the Dragon scratch marks on her back joined him in that lake. Speaking of that lake - I would never ever jump into that lake. I don’t want to know what kind of animals live in it. But on the other hand it seems obvious that people in that town have a higher tolerance for unusual or scary stuff - with them cohabitating with Vampires, Dragon-like creatures and shapeshifters and all… So swimming in scary illuminated green lakes in secluded parts of the woods seems not to be that big of a deal…And don’t even get me started on Maryann’s party. How scary was it when the party guests’ eyes turned black. At least Tara is finally getting suspicious. No news on her moving together with Sookie though. But well Sookie was kinda busy fighting off dragon-like creatures and trying to survive their scratches and all…
And of course I have to mention Jessica. At first I had my doubts but she’s really grown on me. And now that she’s found herself a boyfriend maybe she’ll be less confused and anxious. She really is sort of funny and she’s got her heart at the right place and I loved how she said she would die of embarassement if she wasn’t already dead (when Hoyt kissed her and her fangs appeared).
All in all everyting about “True Blood” is excellent and I can’t wait until the next episode!!!
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Uncategorized, TV Shows, twilight, True Blood | July 2nd, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Finally Friday. A short week is coming to an end. I had the best dream. I was hanging out with my friends and there was this castle and we were all dancing somewhere inside of it when the sister of my friend just picked up this guy for me. He was totally perfect and we spent the whole day together and I’ve never seen his face before. It was sort of magical. But at least now I know how he looks like when I see him… And no I’ve not seen another episode of The Tudors and therefore am dreaming of castles and I also do not see any connection between my dream and the novels of The Black Dagger Brotherhood I am presently reading. This was purely coincidental and a premonition so to speak. I saw on the Specials part of the Twilight DVD that Stephenie Meyer had a dream of the characters that later turned out to be Edward and Bella lying on the meadow and that was what gave her the impulse to write Twilight. Quoting her on her homepage: ” I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire…” She began writing the chapter where they spend the day on the meadow and then wrote the first part about how they got there and then the second part about what happened then. And look how it turned out: Four successful books (with Midnight Sun hopefully five) and one Blockbuster Movie with New Moon on the way. This just to clarify what meanings a dream can have. I will now keep my eyes open especially in the proximity of castles or similar buildings which so numerously can be found in my city. Just kidding of course but it sure is incredible how real some dreams can seem.
Back to Twilight. With New Moon now fully in the works I checked out Chris Weitz’s profile on www.imdb.com. Check it out here. I must say I consider myself relatively open when it comes to new directors that direct one movie out of a series. I liked some of the Harry Potter movies more and some less. You could always clearly recognise the handprint of the director behind the movie. I liked the fifth movie the best by the way.I know there are a lot of people that criticize Catherine Hardwicke’s adaptation of the movie but then again criticizing is always easy. I think she did a great job and after having seen the extras on the DVD I must say that she seemed very committed to the story and wanted to get it right and also it didn’t seem as if she expected not to be doing New Moon afterwards. I hear and I am not certain that this was the real reason she’s not doing New Moon that she wanted more time for pre production i.e. adjusting the screenplay and for the challenges particularly connected to this second part of the saga for example the long absence of Edward. She said she did not want to jeopardise the balance of the movie since the story of Edward and Bella with all its chemistry was so vital to the movie’s success. Apparently she and the studio had different schedules and they wanted the movie to be released in November 2009 and she wouldn’t have been finished by then.
But what I was originally getting at was whether I liked Chris Weitz’s work so far and I don’t. “About a Boy” was one of the few movies I could hardly watch until the end and I do watch most movies until the end. Most recently the highly disturbing movie with Kim Basinger called “While she was Out”. But About a Boy I just didn’t like. “American Pie” was a funny movie and when we were teenagers definitely quite entertaining. But I think it takes a little bit more than that to transform the second Twilight book into a successful movie. But who am I to criticize his work before it’s even finished. From what I’ve heard they’re shooting scenes with Patterson where Edward will appear in Bella’s thoughts everytime she plans to do something dangerous. So that seems to be a good idea to avoid keeping Edward out of the picture for too long. We’ll just have to be patient until November. Such a long time… But since the date has been set for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince just this week for July 15th we have something to look forward to for this sommer and it’s been too long since The Order of the Phoenix so I really can’t wait. I don’t even remember how everybody looks like!
What I also wanted to talk about before I release myself into the weekend is how great House has become during the last weeks and not only because most of the other shows have yet again inexplicably disappeared into another hiatus and therefore left me with no other choice than to focus my whole anticipation towards House. No, the show has improved. I must say that I was getting a little tired of the repetitive storylines last season and even fell behind in watching the episodes which normally NEVER happens. But ever since that great episode House’s Head (or something like that) at the end of last season I was again totally into the happenings at Princeton - Plainsborough. So Kutner has committed suicide since Kal Penn got a job offer from D.C. he just couldn’t resist and therefore had to be written out of the show. The docters and especially House have to deal with the aftermath of Kutner’s death and some deal with it differently than others. House questions his mojo since he didn’t see Kutner’s death coming and he normally sees everything coming, Wilson starts over and puts Amber’s death behind him which suddenly makes her appear in House’s mind…but that’s another story and finally Chase proposes to Cameron. Oh and I almost forgot, we see Taub crying in the hall which was so heartbraking that I joined in and cryed as well. That’s what I do. The last episode ended with Amber appearing leaning on House’s piano while he’s playing and while most of us are certainly happy to have Anne Dudek back the Greys Anatomy viewers of us surely hope this won’t turn into a Denny/Izzie Ghost sex sequel. I must say I couldn’t take it. But according to the producers it won’t so let’s just stay tuned to what they have planned for us. And by the way it wouldn’t do any harm if the other shows came back right about now. Yes Greys, Housewives, Gossip Girl, Brothers & Sisters - It’s you I’m talking about 
C-ya
P.S. I just read on Twilighters.org that when asked on his homepage whether he will be making the music for New Moon Carter Burwell commented that Chris Weitz has hired somebody else to compose the music for the Twilight sequels. Without having listened to the previous works of this Alexandre Desplat I am quite disappointed. I love the Score by Carter Burwell and actually am presently listening to it.
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Uncategorized, Greys Anatomy, TV Shows, life, Movies, House, Brothers & Sisters, Books, Gossip Girl, twilight | April 17th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Hello, welcome to my blog. From now on this will be the place where you can read about and comment on my very important views and discussions on very important topics. I will not go into detail on what I consider very important topics since this will be clear to everyone rather quickly. Anyway I’m very excited about being able to share my views with anyone who cares. Btw the name towriteablog was the idea of my genius brother who made this suggestion after I had to realise that every website name with the words “pink” and “shoes” or “pony” was already occupied….
The Writer
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