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Dear London,

I did not move here for 35 °C weather. I moved here so that I could wear awesome coats and pretty scarves and woollen hats and knee high boots.

No love,

Ben

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Shows I am no longer watching: The Secret Circle. Boooooooring.

Shows that have one more episode to get their act together: The Vampire Diaries. Aimless. Muddled. Unexciting. It's sad to see Paul Wesley step up to the plate when it's in service of a terrible story.

Shows that offer brief moments of joy, but largely disappoint me: Community. ( Spoilers )

In conclusion, the show that is the best ever: Parks and Recreation.

Current Mood: blah

So all my Thursday night TV shows were pretty great this week.

Parks and Recreation was glorious. ( Spoilers )

I find Community so much better when it isn't being meta so this episode really worked for me. ( Spoilers )

This episode of The Office was so much more enjoyable than last week's. ( Spoilers )

And The Vampire Diaries continues to offer a masterclass in well-paced WTF moments. ( Spoilers )

Current Mood: apathetic

( Spoilers )

If you haven't seen this already, you must: some guy made his own Muppet Theatre Playset from scratch and it is so freakin' cool! I love it and I want it but I have neither the talent nor the patience to do it myself.

This is a series of pictures depicting historical costumes entirely made out of paper. It's amazing work.

This is really only good for a laugh. It's the trailer for Anonymous, which takes the theory that Shakespeare wrote none of his plays and turns it into a big budget, conspiracy laden epic from the director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day.

The tag line: We've all been played.

Snerk.

Wow, The Vampire Diaries just does not let up, does it? I think it's having the best second season of all the returning shows at the moment - it's even got the edge over The Good Wife which has seen Eli hold the idiot ball when he's supposed to be some kind of Xanatos Speed Chess Master (apologies for linking to TVTropes) and has been trying too hard to make ~~fetch~~Blake happen.

But The Vampire Diaries is consistently excellent across the board in terms of story telling, pacing, characterisation, and acting. Who'd a thunk it from the CW?

( Spoilers )

And Fridays just got even more awesome (because, due to the time difference, I get these shows after lunch on Friday) with the return in the UK of Misfits, also firing on all cylinders. For those not familiar with this show, it's about a group of juvenile delinquents who get superpowers and it's awesome! But not for the faint of heart. It's gritty, realistic, crude, rude, and profane.

( Spoilers )

I loved the first episode back of Community but since then it hasn't quite been gelling for me - perhaps too many high concept parodies too soon after Modern Warfare. But this episode I really liked.

( Spoilers )

I'm still watching The Office but more out of loyalty than enjoyment at this point. I've loved this show for so long that I'm having a hard time letting go but if it doesn't improve soon I might be out.

Current Mood: hungry

There is a quote from Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms that perfectly explains why Stefan is ten times more dangerous than Damon, despite by the good guy.

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.

So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

We saw a bit of that in the season two premiere which was, by the by, completely freaking awesome.

( Spoilers )

Current Mood: contemplative

I finished/handed in my thesis a couple of weeks ago and since then I have been decompressing. This has involved sleeping in late, taking the time to cook elaborate meals, reading books with no other purpose than enjoyment, re-establishing contact with friends and family, and watching a lot of TV that I missed out on.

Here are my thoughts on various shows.

( 10 Things I Hate About You )

( Chuck )

( Community )

( Dance Academy )

( Doctor Who )

( The Good Wife )

( How I Met Your Mother )

( Modern Family )

( The Office )

( Parks and Recreation )

( The Vampire Diaries )

So El-Jay, what's up?

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: Nocturnes - Chopin

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