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mythosidhe. Huzzah!
I'm going to condense the PLL round-up this week, sort of. You get last week's rambling and the Holly pictures from Twitter, as those I think are the only new ones currently. For her. If there's someone else you want spammed in addition to Holly, lemme know.
Pretty Little Liars
Reality Bites Me
1x05
I know, the one week I could have watched it as it aired, or at least immediately afterward is the week it takes me until we're practically onto a new episode to get around to watching it. That's just how things work in my world, I suppose.
I didn't take notes (occasionally I scribble while I watch, usually quotes) but that just means less for you to pretend to read. Everybody wins!
Aria, Aria, Aria... On the one hand, each week I see more Aria and less "book!Hanna looks!", particularly with the scene at the beginning when she finds the lipstick and thinks nothing of scribbling on the back of her hand with it so that she can compare colors to what's on the mirror. I myself would have just held the tube up to the mirror or maybe scrawled something else on said mirror (particularly if we weren't going to be calling the cops for some dumbass reason), but I can buy that Aria doesn't use this Earth Logic.
Which is a bit of a problem. Aria's supposed to be mature enough to cancel out the slight ick factor in teacher/student relationship, yes? We'll ignore her childish behavior in the last episode because Ezra was just as childish. But I would think that if you were messing around with your teacher, you wouldn't want his neighbors to know. So while it would be incredibly suspicious of you to keep showing up at his door at all hours of the night, you could, in theory, play that off. Use the SVH Mr. Collins card (no, not the attempted rape because Suzy Devlin's a bitch. The "he's my adviser and mentor!" card. Duh.) or something. Thing is, no one's going to pretend to buy that if you're swapping spit in the hallway!
Idiots, Stimpy. Idiots.
Ella is actually defending Aria and the position Byron put her in, so that's a switcharoo from the books and one I prefer. I disliked Ella turning on her daughter because Aria hadn't told her that Byron was cheating. It just seemed like a way to get Aria out of that house for plot purposes and made very little sense otherwise. Ella and Byron are fighting like crazy... Well. Ella is fighting and Byron seems to be trying to figure out what he can do to keep his marriage intact. I really hope he's not seeing Meredith on the side. I could do without that plotline from the books as well. We see Mike, the littlest Montgomery for a few minutes, although you'd think he would have caught onto the "why" part of the equation. Why are his parents are fighting? Ella's only mentioning it every third word. Eavesdrop, young lacrosse jock. Eavesdrop.
Aria goes to a bar to hear Ezra read a short story he's written and while there they run into a college buddy of Ezra's. Said buddy points out that he understands the attraction to Aria, but is it really worth losing everything for? And Ezra begins to realize that it probably isn't. So he withdraws from Aria and Aria attempts to convince him that something that feels so right... You get the idea. They kiss and then she leaves, promising to return to make him "enhanced mac & cheese".
When she does return, she's worried that she left her phone at his place. She did, and A was burning up the wires trying to get a hold of A. Ezra reads the note and thinks Aria's been telling "A" about their hooking up. He throws her out and she goes home to make sure her brother gets fed. They worry about their family falling apart together in front of the TV.
Spencer!
Spencer takes another detour from the books when she tells her father that she stole her essay. Granted she's also won the Golden Orchid at this point, so that's still the same. She tells him after he asks her to throw a tennis match so that he can get a new client for work. She's pissed because she plays to win and she spent five hours the previous day working on her game. And flirting with Alex, the ball guy at the club. :P But still! Totally pissed.
Which I don't understand. Is it the guilt over the essay that's coloring her anger or is she really just that weird in her morality compass? She steals an essay and that's only seriously wrong because she's going to get caught. If the whole Golden Orchid thing hadn't come up, would she have worried about it or would she just decide to buckle down and work that much harder from then on? But throwing a tennis match for her father's job (it's not a tournament or anything, people) _that's_ really awful? Really, Spencer?
Also, didn't she just swap spit with Wren at the end of the last episode? So... she moves fast. Problems aside, she was adorable when she called her father "Daddy" when he brought her butter creams, thinking the Wren thing had finally been explained. Adorable.
Emily is growing closer to Toby and it's making me love Toby more. I love that he subtly seems to encourage her to be with Maya if that's what she wants and that ultimately she should be who she is. Without saying it like that. The way he does say it "this town has too much of the same" is really sweet and the look on his face when she picks the PLLs over him is awfully sad.
I do love the scene where Hanna is trying to be supportive of whoever Emily likes because A has sent her pictures of Emily and Maya kissing. Thing is, Emily is reading this as Hanna would be cool with Toby (friend? More than friend? Not clear.) and that... I'm not so sure Hanna could deal with. Still, cuteness abounds. :)
And finally we have Hanna. I love Hanna. She's my favorite almost every week and the way she reacts to Sean would be a big reason why. We begin with Hanna not thinking the whole, "I'll stay downstairs... alone, oh crap" thing through. Then she begins her whatever it is with Sean's mother, but of course she runs into Sean. She asks him about homecoming and he doesn't seem all that thrilled, but that might also be because he's being picked up by a blond cheerleader that Hanna immediately hates on sight.
At "work" Hanna runs into Jenna but when she checks the room Jenna came out of, it's just an empty storage space. When she returns later to further investigate, she finds that beyond that storage room is a new office for a therapist, and there's a "Martha? Is there someone else with us today?" scene and I giggle myself into a 3am coma. Good times.
Hanna and her mother discuss Mr. Marrin's impending nuptials and... I've got to say, I am loving LL as Hanna's mom. The way she switched from, "she seems cute" to "I hate her" because she thought cheerleader was honing in on Sean? Adorable. But the look on her face when she realized her ex had moved on? :/ ♥ Love, ya'll. Love.
And in case you wondered, I did watch Rizzoli and Isles and I like it. So various magazines that don't like it? Bite me.
mythosidhe. Huzzah!I'm going to condense the PLL round-up this week, sort of. You get last week's rambling and the Holly pictures from Twitter, as those I think are the only new ones currently. For her. If there's someone else you want spammed in addition to Holly, lemme know.
Pretty Little Liars
Reality Bites Me
1x05
I know, the one week I could have watched it as it aired, or at least immediately afterward is the week it takes me until we're practically onto a new episode to get around to watching it. That's just how things work in my world, I suppose.
I didn't take notes (occasionally I scribble while I watch, usually quotes) but that just means less for you to pretend to read. Everybody wins!
Aria, Aria, Aria... On the one hand, each week I see more Aria and less "book!Hanna looks!", particularly with the scene at the beginning when she finds the lipstick and thinks nothing of scribbling on the back of her hand with it so that she can compare colors to what's on the mirror. I myself would have just held the tube up to the mirror or maybe scrawled something else on said mirror (particularly if we weren't going to be calling the cops for some dumbass reason), but I can buy that Aria doesn't use this Earth Logic.
Which is a bit of a problem. Aria's supposed to be mature enough to cancel out the slight ick factor in teacher/student relationship, yes? We'll ignore her childish behavior in the last episode because Ezra was just as childish. But I would think that if you were messing around with your teacher, you wouldn't want his neighbors to know. So while it would be incredibly suspicious of you to keep showing up at his door at all hours of the night, you could, in theory, play that off. Use the SVH Mr. Collins card (no, not the attempted rape because Suzy Devlin's a bitch. The "he's my adviser and mentor!" card. Duh.) or something. Thing is, no one's going to pretend to buy that if you're swapping spit in the hallway!
Idiots, Stimpy. Idiots.
Ella is actually defending Aria and the position Byron put her in, so that's a switcharoo from the books and one I prefer. I disliked Ella turning on her daughter because Aria hadn't told her that Byron was cheating. It just seemed like a way to get Aria out of that house for plot purposes and made very little sense otherwise. Ella and Byron are fighting like crazy... Well. Ella is fighting and Byron seems to be trying to figure out what he can do to keep his marriage intact. I really hope he's not seeing Meredith on the side. I could do without that plotline from the books as well. We see Mike, the littlest Montgomery for a few minutes, although you'd think he would have caught onto the "why" part of the equation. Why are his parents are fighting? Ella's only mentioning it every third word. Eavesdrop, young lacrosse jock. Eavesdrop.
Aria goes to a bar to hear Ezra read a short story he's written and while there they run into a college buddy of Ezra's. Said buddy points out that he understands the attraction to Aria, but is it really worth losing everything for? And Ezra begins to realize that it probably isn't. So he withdraws from Aria and Aria attempts to convince him that something that feels so right... You get the idea. They kiss and then she leaves, promising to return to make him "enhanced mac & cheese".
When she does return, she's worried that she left her phone at his place. She did, and A was burning up the wires trying to get a hold of A. Ezra reads the note and thinks Aria's been telling "A" about their hooking up. He throws her out and she goes home to make sure her brother gets fed. They worry about their family falling apart together in front of the TV.
Spencer!
Spencer takes another detour from the books when she tells her father that she stole her essay. Granted she's also won the Golden Orchid at this point, so that's still the same. She tells him after he asks her to throw a tennis match so that he can get a new client for work. She's pissed because she plays to win and she spent five hours the previous day working on her game. And flirting with Alex, the ball guy at the club. :P But still! Totally pissed.
Which I don't understand. Is it the guilt over the essay that's coloring her anger or is she really just that weird in her morality compass? She steals an essay and that's only seriously wrong because she's going to get caught. If the whole Golden Orchid thing hadn't come up, would she have worried about it or would she just decide to buckle down and work that much harder from then on? But throwing a tennis match for her father's job (it's not a tournament or anything, people) _that's_ really awful? Really, Spencer?
Also, didn't she just swap spit with Wren at the end of the last episode? So... she moves fast. Problems aside, she was adorable when she called her father "Daddy" when he brought her butter creams, thinking the Wren thing had finally been explained. Adorable.
Emily is growing closer to Toby and it's making me love Toby more. I love that he subtly seems to encourage her to be with Maya if that's what she wants and that ultimately she should be who she is. Without saying it like that. The way he does say it "this town has too much of the same" is really sweet and the look on his face when she picks the PLLs over him is awfully sad.
I do love the scene where Hanna is trying to be supportive of whoever Emily likes because A has sent her pictures of Emily and Maya kissing. Thing is, Emily is reading this as Hanna would be cool with Toby (friend? More than friend? Not clear.) and that... I'm not so sure Hanna could deal with. Still, cuteness abounds. :)
And finally we have Hanna. I love Hanna. She's my favorite almost every week and the way she reacts to Sean would be a big reason why. We begin with Hanna not thinking the whole, "I'll stay downstairs... alone, oh crap" thing through. Then she begins her whatever it is with Sean's mother, but of course she runs into Sean. She asks him about homecoming and he doesn't seem all that thrilled, but that might also be because he's being picked up by a blond cheerleader that Hanna immediately hates on sight.
At "work" Hanna runs into Jenna but when she checks the room Jenna came out of, it's just an empty storage space. When she returns later to further investigate, she finds that beyond that storage room is a new office for a therapist, and there's a "Martha? Is there someone else with us today?" scene and I giggle myself into a 3am coma. Good times.
Hanna and her mother discuss Mr. Marrin's impending nuptials and... I've got to say, I am loving LL as Hanna's mom. The way she switched from, "she seems cute" to "I hate her" because she thought cheerleader was honing in on Sean? Adorable. But the look on her face when she realized her ex had moved on? :/ ♥ Love, ya'll. Love.
And in case you wondered, I did watch Rizzoli and Isles and I like it. So various magazines that don't like it? Bite me.
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