you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well

Finished the new Kane Chronicles book on Wednesday, but I wanted to let it digest for a few days - plus, you know, I had finals to finish up.

Anyway, for those of you who read the first book in the series, The Red Pyramid, and weren't that impressed, you will be by the The Throne Fire. It was a definite improvement on the first book and I really enjoyed it.

( Spoilers under the cut )

Anyone else have some thoughts to share?

I'm finished now, so you can hit me all with your squee or RAEG or tears of despair, whatever. As always, spoilers under the cut.

( More like the future mugs me from time to time )

I finished Mockingjay yesterday afternoon, but I was roadtripping with some friends to Lincoln so you can only imagine how much of an anti-social grump I was to hang out with after that. All I wanted to do for the rest of the day was shake someone and scream, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST READ. I AM IN EMOTIONAL TURMOIL RIGHT NOW, HUG MEEEEE." Or, you know, just get online and capslock all over the place. Whatever's more socially acceptable.

There will be spoilers of the most spoilery kind under this cut. I have been holding it in for a day and I'm going to burst if I don't get these thoughts out somewhere. So if you don't want to know who survived, how the love triangle ended up, or basically anything about the book in general, don't click under the cut. Because I'm spoiling something big off the bat. Last warning!

( 'Real. Because that's what you and I do. Protect each other.' )


In addition to being finished with Mockingjay, I am now the proud owner of a THG T-shirt. So be jealous.

The writers of Merlin just love the freaking reset button, don't they? But that being said, this is probably my favorite episode of Merlin season two so far. Excellent acting, great story, a good guest star, etc., but the ending was so damn frustrating! Why, writers, whyyyy?

( Spoilers and all that under the cut )

Okay, so I did tune into Stargate Universe last night and it wasn't half-bad. I don't know if I'm interested enough to make it my new MUST-SEE Friday night show, but I'll probably watch it anyway. Mostly for Eli and Stone Scott.

( Spoilers and stuff under the cut )

And apparently being feverish makes me hear the wrong names of characters while watching. Who knew?

All right, so I know the f-list has probably been waiting for me to post this...

OH

MY

GAWD

TRANSFORMERS TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

( In which I continue to flail and capslock like the fangirl I am )

Why don't I have a Transformers tag? Ugh.

My pre-ordered birthday present of Breaking Dawn never came in the mail so I actually had to go out and buy it on Friday because I'd waited long enough. I finished it on Saturday, not from lack of trying but because I really didn't want to suffer through Bella's POV as a super sparkly vampire until the morning hours.

Overall, I didn't like the book. The thing about Stephenie Meyer is that she can never not let her characters have a non-happy ending. That's what pissed me off when I read The Host - she had the perfect ending for Wanderer right there and then she had to go tack on another twenty pages of because OMG IT WASN'T A SHINY HAPPY ENDING YET. Someone needs to let SMeyer know that there is a happy medium between the fairy tale ending and Greek tragedy ending, and that she should find it - fast. I would've liked Breaking Dawn a lot better if everything hadn't come wrapped up in a nice, shiny bow.

Also, I freak the fuck out over seeing normal women giving birth on TV. The birth scene in Breaking Dawn really didn't do me any favors in the "I maybe wanna reproduce someday!" department. I think my legs are going to be firmly crossed for the next decade or so, thanks to SMeyer and her spine breaking demon spawn.

Anyway, we'll cut to the short list of things I did like about the book.

( Things I Liked About Breaking Dawn )

Is it just me or does this season feel really ... different from the last couple? I don't know if it's the way they're shooting the episodes now or what, but S5 just feels a lot different. And I like it.

( So we get our Ronon episode for the season... )

I can't wait for Daedulus Variations next week. I freakin' love alternate universes.

FINALLY THE REAL THE OFFICE RETURNS. IT ONLY TOOK ALL SEASON NBC.



I can't even properly squee about the Jim/Pam awesome of this episode with everything else going on!