A Couple Arrows

So, looks like I'm back again. Possibly for the last time before New Years... depending on whether or not I get time off from my family, that is. So I have for you some reviews. If you have not seen the last two episodes of Arrow, please don't spoil yourself. Come back later. The reviews will still be here.

Arrow - "Vendetta" - Review

I... am not totally sure what I feel about this episode. The notes I took largely concern Helena and her new outfit so... yeah. I did quite enjoy the episode, though. Getting to see one of my favorite characters not looking totally ridiculous on screen was awesome. Getting to see her development, or rather, the boomeranging she did was... interesting to say the least.

I'm glad they didn't let sex totally derail the whole "justice vs revenge" conversation. I'm also glad we got to see the origin of Huntress' crossbow. Hope she keeps that around. Her outfit... mmm... yeah... that outfit's a little weird. It keeps very well to the feel of Olly's and the show's, but... I'm not sure if she's wearing a buttoned/zipped up coat or a weird top with a coat-like flare to the bottom of it. We also didn't get to see much of that purple she apparently loves, which is a downside. I always liked that Huntress had a more colorful costume.

I wasn't fond of Diggle in this episode. He was just all... mean. Like, what happened to actually giving council rather than being a jerk about every word that comes out of his mouth? Meh...

Arrow - "Year's End" - Review

Speaking of Diggle... he was pretty awesome in this episode. Back to being his old self. Though I thought he felt funky coming off the last episode....

But anyway... this episode was fun. We got more backstory. We got John Barrowman in a different outfit. We got Christmas. And it wasn't a hokey Christmas thing either, which I'm happy about. Christmas was just kind of there. I liked that the holiday thing was played just exactly right. More good sap than annoying sap... if that makes sense. Though they did get in the obligatory "But I'm Jewish" joke. Fail, writers, fail.

I totally called that a) there was a trap in the back story and b) it was Mr. Merlyn being the other archer. I guess I can tell Barrowman at a distance, even with his entire face covered. And of course there was a trap in the back story. Couldn't have ended there with not even close to a year covered. The setup screamed trap. Heh, setup, trap...

Housekeeping

Yeah... I'm planning on watching The Vampire Diaries at some point before CW takes it offline, I really am. I was going to today but then... there were two episodes of Arrow to watch. Gah!

Happy Holidays, by the way. Hope you guys have a good... whatever you celebrate.

Love ya, Jessie.

Citizen Fang

Oh my! A second blog post in two days? Unheard of for this month! Anyway... I have a review of last week's Supernatural. If you have not seen this episode, please do not spoil yourself by reading the review.

Supernatural - "Citizen Fang" - Review

Was expecting more werewolves. Got Benny. Close enough.

I'm not sure how I feel about this episode... getting Benny back-story was nice. Martin being back annoyed me. Martin getting dead was good.

Can't say I liked Martin at all in this episode. His tactics reminded me of serial killers... or something. I especially didn't like that he actually took Elizabeth hostage instead of just using her as bait. That and his manipulation had be very glad he got what was coming to him.

More Sam and Amelia was nice. It was quite interesting and I honestly can't wait to see what Amelia does about Sam showing up out of the blue. Speaking of Sam, he seemed to be a bit OOC about Benny... At least, I found it strange...

But anyway, I'm still enjoying this season a lot more than I did the previous batch. Can't wait for the next episode. Sammy needs to be slapped.

Love ya, Jessie.

Hunter Heroici

Okay my darlings, I'm back again for a random December blog post. I have a bit of news and a review of Supernatural for you. News first, I think, to give you time to vacate the blog if you've not seen Supernatural from two weeks ago...

I'm An Aunt!

December 11, 2012 at 5:45 PM, my nephew, Nazz, was born! He's the cutest little thing! And no, I'm not just saying that because I'm his very biased aunt. We've had some people tell us he looks like a C-section baby. See for yourself:

This is Nazz on day 2 of life outside his mommy. He's all bundled up in a bassinet he did not like at all... but he was sleeping when I took this so... yeah...

Needless to say, we've had quite the busy week and I haven't been motivated to watch any of the stuff I said I was going to... or write a proper blog post for that matter.

Supernatural - "Hunter Heroici" - Review

Gotta say, I like the concept of this episode. It's about time something super loony happened again. (See what I did there?) I was also convinced, until the boys found Fred, that they were dealing with a trickster. I did not, however, suspect the doctor guy of being the culprit. I think I suspected the tattooed guy, but it wasn't a strong suspicion so... yeah.

I also didn't really see how Sam's flashbacks were at all connected to Fred's psychosis (if that's even the right word for that) until the third or forth one. Like, okay, Amelia's dad does not like Sam at all. Sam tries to be all "I'm totally harmless." Amelia's dad doesn't buy it. Amelia's dad tells embarrassing story. BAM! Don is alive. Wha-huh? Ooooohhh.... the correlation makes sense now...

Also, Amanda Tapping had to waltz in at a weird moment and ruin Cas' plans... meh. Led to a cute ending, though...

Housekeeping

Uhm... yeah... not much to say here... Gaiaonline's Christmas Event has started off... slowly... and the MC was... interesting. My family's coming in next week to spend the holidays at our house... it's gonna be more nuts than usual...

Oh, and I do not like the YouTube and iTunes revamps. Thanks Google and Apple, I can now NOT be happy with you. Grrr...

Love ya, Jessie.

PS: I'm also a snowman.

It's a Magic Thing

It's been forever, I know. I've had lots of random stuff happening this week and I just now finished watching the Once Upon a Time Winter Finale. Last night, I watched The Vampire Diaries from last week... and now I'm about to review both of them for you. Some details about the coming weeks will be in the Houskeeping section. So, that makes this the SPOILER ALERT if you have not seen either of the two episodes I mentioned.

The Vampire Diaries - "My Brother's Keeper" - Review

Am I the only one who's sick and tired of Jeremy? First he had emo-kid issues. Then he had the ghost thing. Then he had the "I'm being compelled to go away from Mystic Falls for an episode" and worrying about ring corruption. Now, he's the the Hunter thing. Gah! I'm sorry, but him and his issues are seriously annoying me. That said, I quite like the aspects of the Hunter thing we're getting to see. It's like Slayers except a hell of a lot more intense. Oh, and there's five of them.

I really want to know what the Professor guy and Hayley are up to. My sister thinks it's just the "Klaus doesn't have an army" thing, but I'm not so sure. Something about the way Professor guy talked about breaking all the sire bonds has me worried it's something more drastic.

Speaking of sire bonds, Damon and Elena FINALLY hooked up. Yay. Frankly, I'm glad that's happening because I'm tired of mopey Stefan and Elena, even if it's solely because of the sire bond. This, also, did not come as a big surprise to me nor does it really bother me. In the context of the show, it should, but because of my reading of other vampire stuffage, it doesn't. Fledglings have always been loyal to their Sires. It's a thing. The mind control aspect is pretty much only in this universe, if I'm not mistaken.

Overall, I really liked this episode. Wasn't so keen on the Jeremy bits or Stefan being a giant ass, but the rest was good.

Once Upon a Time - "Queen of Hearts" - Review

Poor Regina. She's so conflicted and yet, when she does the right thing, no one remembers to include her in the after-party. I'm not sure what I think about her whole thing with being easily manipulated by Gold. Like, yes, your mother is a raging bitch who'll destroy everything, but you were doing the exact same thing so... what? I really don't want her to go all dark-side again, that would be annoying.

I really hope this isn't the last we see of Aurora and Mulan. I want to see whether or not they manage to find Phillip's soul and save him. However, I'll probably be angry if they actually do it. They're going to go from busom buddies to hating each other over him. That, I won't like. I do find it interesting that Hook gives Mulan Aurora's heart. Very interesting little thing there...

Hook is a clever bastard. I'm both sad he went dark-side and glad he did. I'm not sure how I'd actually react to a "good" Hook. It's interesting that he knows Regina, though. I thought it was quite nice how that was introduced. Of course he'd figure out about Belle and go to "rescue" her. Of course she'd be incredibly nonchalant about just going and talking to Rumple in order to stop him. Of course he'd be perfectly happy running off to go kill Cora. However, his loyalties seriously need some work. Why does anyone trust him at this point? Seriously?

Speaking of Cora... yes, everyone was right, she was the Queen of Hearts. Of course she was the Queen of Hearts! That was so obvious I'm disappointed they did it at all. I do find it interesting that she keeps her heart where no one can find it. That had to be painful getting it out herself...

That's all I have to say about the episode, really. I was really enjoying it and I can't wait till it comes back in January.

Housekeeping

My nephew is coming next week. We've been in crazy prep mode all week and that's part of the reason I haven't blogged. I needed some relaxing time after the crazy. So... yeah. I'm gonna try to watch Supernatural, Arrow, and The Vampire Diaries tonight... probably won't happen, but I'm hoping it will. I will definitely post reviews once I watch stuff so... look out for that.

I've posted some new stuff to my DeviantArt (My Art up in the navigation bar)... another reason I've been having crazy lately. Go look at that if you want.

Again, I'm sorry about the funky schedule, but... if I don't do it this way for now, I'm gonna go crazier than usual. Thank you so much for reading. Don't forget to leave me comments and follow me on Twitter. Link for that in the sidebar.

Love ya, Jessie.