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Hey guys, around eight hours after The Office airs, you may hear a (probably wailed) "NOOOOOOOOO!!" or 'WHYYYYYYYYY?!" piercing across the world. I am ready for the tears. I am ready to feel the need to ramble incoherently about how lonely he used to be and how difficult he found it to find someone who got him and liked him as he was. I am ready to cry during Michael-Pam scenes and Michael-Jim scenes and Michael-Dwight scenes.

I am also really not prepared.

I know I'm being irrational and overemotional but it's not my fault. I've talked about my attachment to this show. I've talked about it repeatedly. And now I hate everything. This entry is just a warning.

-- rachu

P.S.: Happy Endings is delightful in a frustrating kind of way - why am I enjoying this?! I don't understand! but you're making me cackle, show!!

P.P.S.: I haven't fallen for a book about love~ as hard as I fell for Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie in years. in years. The characters are charming and interesting and not-stereotypical, and the story and all the relationships keep going in different directions, and it moves quickly. The central conceit of the main 'ship barely lasts, and the main 'ship is ridiculously 'shippable - they're not "all wrong for each other, so why does he feel so right?!", there aren't lame "big secrets", and they're smart and sweet and charming and charmed, and they're normal and they like eating food and hanging out with their friends, who are also awesome. I loved it.

I am a sap, and Christmas episodes make me intolerably mushy, so here, have some flail with regards to Thursday night TV.

1. ( community )


2. ( the office )


3. ( 30 rock )


4. ( parks and recreation (quickly) )


5. ( fringe )
   
   
   I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH. SO MUCH. Can you tell? CAN YOU TELL? Favourite thing on TV.

-- rachu

1. OK, Community is brilliant, but this week's episode reminded me that sometimes this show gets a little too caught up with that brilliance and fails to let me connect with it in any other way.
   
   ( community thoughts and unnecessary feelings )


2. 30 Rock, on the other hand, proved that it can get sweeter storylines pretty well when it wants to. ( 30 rock love )


3. This week's The Office was weird because I should dislike it - it's absurd, unbelievable, and therefore mostly unlike the subtle, softer, sweeter nature of the humour that I loved this show for - but it's also ridiculously funny. ( the office, quickly )


4. Modern Family this week probably had one of its funniest episodes. Loved it! ( modern family, quickly )


5. Oh, Cougar Town, you are delightful and funny and also kind of heartbreaking. Thank you. ( cougar town, quickly )


6. Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert's Everybody's Talking 'Bout Sully is both hilarious and ridiculously catchy. I love them a lot.


7. I feel like I had non-TV things to talk about, but they're mostly along the lines of "studying a lot. am bored and tired and annoyed."


8. I totally watched Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in YouTube clips for around an hour this afternoon - so talented, so classy (and god, the moves she pulls off in heels?!). I love black and white movies because their beauty and enjoyability is almost completely reliant on their stars' talents and charms. It's simple, unpretentious, and gorgeous.
   
   Also, I find Cheek to Cheek intensely romantic (and that's not a word I like to use) - the way the notes climb at and my heart beats so that i can hardly speak, oh my heart. I can't be the only one who gets a little heartclutchy at these things, right?

This entry is so chatty, but I just feel like blabbering on a little bit. Sorry?

-- rachu

I want to be super detailed or at least partly organised when I talk about Fringe, but I don't know how to do it! I couldn't even rearrange these points after I'd written the whole thing. I'm sorry for this, I guess? It's not my fault, though.

( fringe - 'olivia' )

(I'm writing the rest of this entry four hours after I was done with Fringe.)

1. ( community )


2. The Office was adorable and really funny and maybe it's because I didn't think about it much, or because I haven't had expectations for it for a while, but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I love everyone!


3. 30 Rock was good, too, and I'm glad that I feel like that about this show. I love Matt Damon. I also loved that Jack booked a "JackFest", and Liz did that thing with the Victorian wallpaper - that's a level of high interference into each other's lives that we haven't seen in ages, and I kind of love when we get to see them influencing each other more, because I love their friendship. Last season, we got so many scenes where they just walked into each other's rooms, talked about everything that had happened to them, made some weird joke, and then walked right out. It got annoying.
   
   The Pete/his wife joke was gross, though. I disapprove.

I feel like it's relevant to mention that Community briefly mentioned Toy Story 3, and The Office briefly mentioned Inception. Clearly Community is the cooler show.

I am ridiculous.

-- rachu

ETA: The Office - when Toby and Gabe told Michael he needed to go through a HR course, I started hoping with all my heart that it would be with Holly. It's not just me, right? Or am I that pathetic about Michael/Holly?

I am sick again! And just generally feeling sorry for myself. I couldn't concentrate on important things this morning, so I rewatched a little bit of Spaced and His Girl Friday. I have also probably killed five thousand trees with my tissue usage today, and I'm sorry, planet!

30 Day TV Meme: Day #7 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show

( Dunder Mifflin Infinity )

I’m more annoyed with 30R than I am with The Office right now, though, but that’s a completely different story.

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Everything sucks! Hate you, universe.

-- rachu

( 30 day meme - full list )

Short replies, because I'm exhausted, and I blabber about everything else on this meme anyway, so I'll just cross these off quickly -

Day 04 - Your favorite show ever


( The Office )

Runners-up - Firefly (actually if I didn't call comedies my favourite genre of television, this may have won) and Parks and Recreation (OUT OF NOWHERE; I'm honestly having massive amounts of crazy!love for it right now; we can talk about it later in the meme).

Day 05 - A show you hate

( Two and a Half Men )

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I am really so tired - all we do these days are essays, essays, essays; I have papers for both history and Knowledge & Inquiry (on historical epistemology), so doing all these history-based things is almost getting on my last nerve, except not really because I kind of love it? But still.

I was going to go to bed, by the way, but cereal just posted Leslie/Ben fic, and a) Parks fic!!!1! and b) it's cereal!!!1! What am I supposed to do? (I'm going to read it, and then I'll hate myself tomorrow, until I remember I can nap during one of the stupider lectures.)

I got back an answer I wrote evaluating a passage, and at the end my smart-ass teacher had written schizophrenic, which is kind of what I feel like a lot these days, so maybe that's not too bad. This entry is a mess. I should probably go sleep.

-- rachu

( 30 day meme - full list )

( a quick ramble about my love for Leslie Knope )

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Other TV shows -

1. ( 'psych' - love and a rant )


2. Parenthood is still kind of nice and way better than Life Unexpected, for me. I haven't watched Glmore Girls other than a lot of the more famous clips on YouTube and the pilot, but I have a lot of love for Lauren Graham and how she's playing things right now. The whole family's so interesting, though, which is great! I love the big group scenes.


3. Chuck was fantastic, though with a fair share of clunky bits. ( quick details )


4. ( castle )


5. ( how i met your mother )


6. ( the office )


7. ( parks and recreation )


8. ( community )


9. ( modern family )

I think it's been such a great year for comedy in general that I'm excited about Emmy noms this year - I may be too optimistic about this, but I think there'll be new shows and actors in the running, mixing things up, and I hope so much that it happens. If Amy Poehler isn't nominated for Parks this year, I will lose it. Just like Danny Pudi as Abed in Community, because as much as I think everyone in the show is well-cast and spectacular, Abed is special.

I think I got it all.

I've just started Sports Night and I finished all of the first season within the last day. ( more on the first sorkin project )

As you can see, I'm pretty much having a mess of feelings about SN, because I am enjoying it a lot and am interested enough to keep watching it, back to back to back to back to back, but there are things about it that are annoying me. The overwhelming feeling here is to stop SN and take out TWW again and watch the first two seasons straight through, but I'm probably not going to do that. I'm probably going to finish SN now. And then I'm probably going to watch Black Books, because I have one week to do whatever I want without feeling guilty about it, and that's the most freedom I'm going to have for the next eight months. So.

I'm sorry this entry is so full of TV rubbish. This is my first day of eight days that I have off, and I'm going to spend it wasting my time a little bit, because it's basically the only time I can do this for the next eight months or so.

-- rachu

ETA: Maybe I'll watch Firefly now instead. I feel like watching amazing writing right now.

ETA again: JOE/DEMI ARE OFFICIALLY DATING?!! KJASLDAJDKASJDALS I HAVE BEEN AKLSJDKALSJDAKSJDAING ABOUT THIS SINCE I FOUND OUT!! ASKLDJA!!! SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS i'll stop now i'm done aksdajksdlasd.

There was a four-hour break between our morning assembly and the time I have to go set up for the open house at college (and the open house ends at 9 at night), and I actually came home to watch The Office.

Worth it. :D That was a lot of fun. I'm probably going to stay off the flist and message boards and all because I don't really want the inevitable negativity to be cramping my love for it (because even the flist is pretty regularly negative now, and I usually like reading all of it), but - yeah. Just know that I'm happy with it. And I'm smiling still now. I only ever cry at depressing things, so now I'm just grinning stupidly, because that wasn't depressing! And I am totally satisfied. Thank you, show. :)

I should have left three minutes ago to get back on time, but I don't even care.

-- rachu

P.S. That Jim/Pam proposal .gif has been posted three times in my flist, and I'm just going to add to that joy.


ETA (SO LATE.) Please tell me you've seen the 58 second video blog of adorable here. Hey, you guys, that is so tiny and fleeting but they will be that casually in love forever now!

ETA AGAIN The little thing about driving stick made me pause the episode so I could let out a sigh. Oh, these obstacles.

BECAUSE I'LL NEVER GET THERE ON TIME Oh hi, Robert Pine, Chris Pine's father/Jim Halpert's father.

but i got a good feeling from holly." ♥

I was apprehensive about Baby Shower after I watched the promo for it, because it was pretty over-the-top, but everything toned down considerably after the cold open, which I was happy about. A lot of this week's episode struck me as totally right somehow - though not all of it - and I enjoyed it. :D

Michael/Holly is kind of the most adorable thing in the world - the way he hugged her and the way she kind of teared made me want to hug both of them, too. GAH, why so cute, people?! HAVE BABIESSSS. Please? For Michael? :D

Michael with babies is adorable and I really want to see Steve with Angela's baby now because of the stories she said about how he holds out her finger to Isabelle and she grasps it and he goes "AAHHHH YOU'RE HURTING IT" all fakely and fun and she keeps staring at him because he likes making faces at her egh so cute and how about Isabelle making yakky noises to John all the time like they're best friends or something and EGH SO CUTE I'm turning into KELLY.

The Jim/Pam tag was wonderful, too. I was expecting angst after the various depressing comments I found, but this was perfect - sweet in a sad sort of way, except not really, because even when they're out-of-sync they're too in-sync. Three reasons (of many) why people should not be worrying about them -

• "Is it just me, or are we off today?" No miscommunication problems there, my friends.
• The 'incident' at the laundry - Pam remembers it as the time "that crazy guy pushed (Jim)", and Jim remembers it as the time "that crazy guy yelled at (Pam)". Aw.
• "I miss you." Pam wants to be "home". Aw.
• (bonus!) THE ENGAGEMENT RING THAT SHONE WHEN SHE WAS FOLDING LAUNDRY. IT'S ON HER FINGER.

You worriers are crazy. And, you know, there are people who are just searching for reasons to say they'll break up, which is just sick and wrong and mean and I hate you. I hate you all.

Is it just me or are Andy/Angela getting a little cuter? Damn it.

I'll be missing next week's episode and won't watch it for another four or five days. Because I'll be in INDIA. OMGYAY.

-- rachu