Emily's super-awesome Lost post (with spoilers!)

We see now, friends, the end of an era. After six seasons, the show that is destined to be oft imitated, but never successfully so, is now over.

I know, right? It's hard to believe, Jack. Never again will we hear Sawyer give everyone snarky nicknames. You will never again cry just as we're starting to like new, tougher Jack. We will never again smile quietly to ourselves at the sweetness of Jin and Sun. Those of us who have been fans from the beginning (okay, so I jumped on a little late. But I still started from the beginning and watched them in order!) now find ourselves in a period of mourning. This is one of the few shows that I have seen through to the end. (The other is Stargate SG-1, but I missed a lot of the last season, due to football games in high school. I was in marching band.)

The end of the episode was, to me, surprisingly satisfying. I found myself totally buying it, because it just reiterated what I've believed to be the point of the show all along--the characters. The mythology surrounding the island was amazing, and there are few alive that love time-travel, monsters, and crazy French people more than I do, but I knew from the beginning that the real story was the relationships between members of a group that would have never come together otherwise.

Some favorite moments:

• Jin and Sun waking up and being able to speak English. Also, their amusement at Cop Sawyer. (Not gonna lie, I find it amusing myself. Who votes for a Miles/Sawyer buddy-cop action flick?)
• Desmond in jail. The ridiculous grin he flashed Kate and Sayid was so priceless.
• The reunion of Juliet and Sawyer. Nearly lost it. They were great together, and it was quite gratifying after watching her die earlier in the season.
• Rose and Bernard. I love them so much, and I'm so so glad we got to see them again on the island. They're adorable.
• Claire and Charlie, together again at last. One of my favorite Lost couples since the pretend peanut butter jar scene in Confidence Man. Possibly because I'm a bit of a peanut butter fanatic myself.

• Vincent laying down with Jack. Cue ridiculous amounts of sobbing from THIS girl. It was a beautiful picture
• Hurley and Ben as the new big noise(s) on the island. Comics by nedroid have gotten me itching for an animated series entitled Ben 'N Hurley's Island Adventures, or something.

In conclusion, it was awesome. I couldn't have asked for a better end to an amazing series.

In other sci-fi TV news, FlashForward has been canceled (shocker) and V has been picked for another season (d'oh). This brings me to a new segment I like to call:

Open Letters to Television

Dear V,

I really, really wanted to like you. You had so much potential. You had so many amazing casting choices going for you. You had Elizabeth Mitchell as a cool renegade cop, Morena Baccarin as a hot but possibly evil alien, and even Alan Tudyk for a while. But I just couldn't. A story that could have been compelling just fell flat for me. I'm sorry, but I don't think this is going to work. I just...I can't.

Love,

Emily

In conclusion, my five favorite Belle & Sebastian songs, in no particular order.

I might have to amend that to "five of my favorite Belle & Sebastian songs".

1. Lazy Line Painter Jane
2. Piazza, New York Catcher
3. Waiting for the Moon to Rise
4. Legal Man
5. If You Find Yourself Caught in Love

I wear the cheese, it does not wear me.

Another school year has ended (somehow) and I wonder (yet again) how on earth I am going to make it through life with all of my marbles. It becomes increasingly more difficult to imagine a life wherein my mommy isn't helping me out with every detail of my life. However, things seem to be coming together, which is fantastic. An apartment is opening up and will be ready to move into VERY soon, and I start back to work for the summer tomorrow. The Lost series finale is coming soon, which kind of freaks me out. So much is happening. I just hope I can handle it.

So, in the tradition of my not finishing anything I start, I didn't finish my spec for Script Frenzy. April is too crazy for me as it is, that I soon found that it was just not worth it. I figure that I've at least started it, and I can finish it when I actually have time. All I need are two good scripts, and then maybe I'll actually make it. The ABC-Disney TV Writing Fellowship thing is accepting submissions, so I may try to finish my script in time to apply for that.

This is a mostly personal-update-here's-what-I-haven't-been-blogging-about-for-the-past-month post. Grades are coming out, which I'm semi-freaked about. I think if I can pass French, I can do anything, but we'll see.

Oh! I watched the first episode of Happy Town, with Amy Acker. Very, very cool. Can't wait to see more!

And, for good measure, Spike, being awesome:

Diving headfirst into adulthood.

It seems that the day shall soon be upon us, sooner than any of us could have imagined. The end as we know it may very well be nigh. An end that leaves me feeling alone. To quote Buffy Summers, "The things that I thought I understood were gone."
But, lo! A light shines up ahead, a beacon for all to see! A new day dawns with the promise of new life!
I'm speaking, of course, of my upcoming move from my college dorm to an apartment near campus. A new experience, but one I quite look forward to. I have this vision of my friends on the couch, queuing up a DVD, while I finish cooking dinner, which is a dish so divine that it would put Julia Child to shame. The savory scent of whatever I'm preparing wafts through the apartment, putting everyone who smells it into a state of euphoria.

Moving on.

I'm (unfortunately) not very far into my Castle spec for Script Frenzy. Real life keeps becoming slightly more important, somehow. At this point I don't know that I'll finish all 100 pages, but, even so, I'll have started a spec script, something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I haven't started on my Office spec yet, but I'm filing away the ideas for that episode for future use.

Right now I'm watching Criminal Minds, a pretty cool show about a bunch of criminal profilers in the FBI. I'm immersing myself in crime shows this evening. :D I've already seen two episodes of Bones tonight. I started writing a scene in my spec when I realized I know very little about autopsies. Thankfully, I did find an awesome website with info on autopsies for writers.
I'm sure Stan Brakhage's film The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes will have been helpful, too.

I'm not dead yet!

The past month or so, computer-wise, have been kind of like electronic purgatory. My laptop was finally pronounced dead, so I've reclaimed my ancient desktop from home and am finally reconnected to the internet. So that explains the utter lack of posts, if anyone was wondering.

Sadly, all of my fun pictures are still on my laptop's hard drive, so I'll see if I can find something cool on this one. :D

Television!

My Hulu queue is backed up again, with 21 items. They are as follows:

• Lost - 1
• SNL - 1
• Dead Like Me - 5
  
• Caprica - 4
• Psych - 4
• Merlin - 2
  
• V - 4

Merlin has actually already been through my queue once, but I didn't seem much of it again. I might give it another shot, though. I mean, Anthony Head plays Uther, so it's kind of worth it to see Giles, even if he's a very un-Giles-y jerk.
I'm really enjoying Caprica. I knew with Jane Espenson (have I talked about that time she replied to my tweet? It was amazing.) as showrunner it would be awesome, but I'm getting into the story more than I expected. Of course, I'm a little behind, but I should remedy that soon.
I'm a little disappointed with the way this season of The Office is going, but I think it has taken a turn for the better.

A friend of mine told me about a NaNoWriMo thing in April for scriptwriters called Script Frenzy that I've decided to do. For those of you unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo, it's an awesome program for writers in November. It stands for National Novel Writing Month, and the goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. Script Frenzy is kind of the same thing, but the goal is for a 100-page script.

I have an idea for a spec for The Office, so I might work on that for Script Frenzy. :)
Wish me luck!

Let the sun shine in!

Today was a glorious day, weather-wise, which is why I'm going to ignore all of the other crap, and tell you all about the sunshine and the blue sky and the birds and the sunshine. It was beautiful. Still chilly, but with enough sunshine that the cold doesn't bother you, and is just nice and brisk. I walked to class in the afternoon sans coat and it was wonderful. :)

Enough about the weather.

I finally got my computer to boot today, which also helped the day be better. It's been trying to off itself for a while now, and I thought today it had succeeded. Didn't think it could get worse than this, did you?:

I'm currently writing this blog with Gilmore Girls in the background. My roommate has the first two seasons on DVD and I am so thankful for that. :)

I also finally got a frame for my Hair poster, which I have temporarily placed next to my lovely begonias that I purchased:

It's signed by much of the cast, but is unfortunately lacking the signatures of Bryce Ryness and Gavin Creel, two of my favorites. But this makes up for it:

Yeah, that's us on the green room couches of the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Be extremely jealous.

I still need to watch this week's Lost, and get caught up on The Office.

Apparently this go-round of the ABC-Disney Television Writing Fellowship has started up, and has me thinking a lot about it. I really want to apply for it next time, which means I need to get writing. I've started thinking about shows to write spec scripts for, to have a few on hand. Any ideas?

Let the sapfest begin.

Happy Valentine's Day. To those of us who find ourselves alone this holiday, don't despair. A great way to pull oneself out of a slump is to ignore reality for a few hours. Immerse yourself in a world of fiction, and pretend that that world is the true reality.

Since I sort of like television, I thought I would whip up a nice list of some of my favorite love-themed episodes:

• "Lovers Walk" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3x08 - One of my favorite Buffy episodes. Spike returns to Sunnydale after Drusilla leaves him, and has decided to use magic to get her back. Meanwhile, Buffy and Angel set out to stop him together, and Xander and Willow have to deal with their own hormones.
• "Swarley" - How I Met Your Mother 2x07 - A HIMYM classic. Marshall goes on a date with another girl after he and Lily break up, and she's not as okay with it as she lets on.
• "Valentine's Day" -The Office 2x16- The title really says it all. It's Valentine's Day at Dunder-Mifflin. Flowers are being recieved, cards sent, secrets revealed, and some people in the office are just not happy. I'm worried this list is making me seem like a downer.
• "Crush" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x14 - With seven seasons, I couldn't help but include another episode. In this episode, Spike sets out to prove his love for Buffy by killing Drusilla. Great quote: "Honey, did you somehow lead him on in any way? Send him signals?" "Well, I do beat him up a lot...for Spike that's like third base."
• "St. Valentine's Day" - 30 Rock 3x11 - Liz has a strange first date with Drew, and Jack goes to church with Elisa. An awesome episode made even more awesome by Jon Hamm as Dr. Drew Baird.

EDIT: There are actually two more Buffy episodes that I thought of that belong in this list. They are:

• "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" - 2x16 - After Cordelia breaks up with him on Valentine's Day, Xander casts a love spell that causes all of the women in Sunnydale to fal in love with him, with disastrous results.
• "Him" -7x06 - Dawn falls head over heels over a boy at school, as does Buffy, Anya, and even Willow, as the result of some sort of spell.
  

This is by no means a definitive list. If I had all night, I would make it much longer and far more detailed. With a rating system. And possibly plot analyses.

(Other recommended viewing includes You've Got Mail, Notting Hill, Shakespeare in Love, Kate and Leopold, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, Moulin Rouge, and Paris, je t'aime)

I hope that can at least give you some ideas on how to make your Singles Awareness Day the best that it can be, given whatever circumstances may be involved. And to you couples, enjoy each other's company, and try to be respectful of those around you that are not walking on clouds.

Once again, Happy Valentine's Day!

Doctor, oh Doctor, I'm begging you please, to rid me of madness, and cure this disease

This is day one of "Emily's First Steps to Betterment Through A Healthy Routine".

Today I:

• Went to the gym on campus and worked out
• Did homework
• Had a Doctor Who marathon
• Got caught up on this season of NCIS

A good start to a better life. And now I'm blogging, which was also one of the things I planned to do today.
YAY.

I'm already a little nostalgic about David Tennant as the Doctor, so I needed a little of that in my life at the moment. I am, however, really freaking excited about NEW Who in MARCH. MARCH!! I'm still devastated that he's gone. Le sigh.

I DID find an article that confirms Neil Gaiman's plans to write an episode of Doctor Who that will air in 2011, which is just, to quote Nine, fantastic. :)

My mother will be disappointed to find out that I'm an episode (after tonight, two) episode(s) behind on Castle, one of my loves. I have so much television to catch up on right now, it's a little bit ridiculous. I have 15 items in my Hulu queue. If you're interested, they are:

• Caprica (1)
• Fringe (2)
• The Office (3)
• 30 Rock (1)
• Psych (2)
• Castle (1)
• V (4)

Did I just hear Mark Sheppard (Badger on Firefly) narrating a Man Vs. Wild commercial on Discovery Channel? Hmmmm. Interesting.