Oh man I was so diggin' this episode. Even though an earthquake happened in the middle of it and it's the first earthquake I'd ever experienced where I actually got scared. It was just really long. I'm used to them being super short, but it was like.. I was on my bed watching P.Hood on my lap top and all of a sudden the bed starts moving and I see the mirror moving, and I freak out and pull my headphones out and jump out of bed and just stand in the middle of my room like Omigosh I don't actually know what to do during an earthquake. And it just kept going, like I just felt like I was swaying, and swaying, and swaying and I mean it was small but it was long and I actually thought it might start to make me sick. Then I ran out to the living room to check on the dogs. They were totally chill, just laying there like always. I'm like, "Did you feel the earthquake?" (They didn't answer.)
But anyways, back to Parenthood.
Mark Cyr came back but what a TEASE. You GUYS (Parenthood writers). I'm a little annoyed at you for that. I got SO excited at that first scene with him and Amber. Actually I got so excited when they showed Jason Ritter in the beginning part where they show what happened last week (and what happened a billion years ago, apparently). Serious tease. And RUDE. Mark Cyr, Mr. Cyr, that was rude. And deceptive. I don't like you anymore. (No I'm just kidding I still do, come back to us! Come back to Sarah and be on the show again I miss you!) Whatever. Over it.
Everybody's walking in on everybody having sex.
Okay so something I don't like is how they show a preview for next week's episode before this week's one is even OVER. What is that? It's rude. You guys are all rude, you writers / marketing people.
Omigosh there was something really funny in the beginning of this episode and I can't remember what it was now. Kristina was really funny in the meeting when she's like, "You guys are useless. You, and you, are useless." And then she turns to Adam and is like, "Don't laugh at me." That wasn't it though. Oh man I think I need to watch the beginning again so I can remember what made me laugh so hard ugghhhhhhhh. I knew I was going to forget it even right after it happened I was thinking, I need to remember this part. Was it something with Drew and Amber? Speaking of, though, how is Drew still not at school? Is nobody knowing about this? I would imagine some big thing is going to happen with this soon when people find out.
Ugh! I have to watch it again now. Hold on.
Oh maybe it was the part where Amber shows up at her mom's apartment to tell her she ran into Mark but then Hank was there, so Sarah cuts her off so she'll stop talking but then when she walks her back out the door, she's like, "Text me from the car." That was funny, but I still don't think that was it. UGH. Stupid earthquake.
And really, is everyone going to start having affairs now? (And by "everyone," you know who I mean.) Dear Joel, what do you see in Pete? Dear Julia, go, have your affair. I give you permission at this point.
I need to go walk the dogs.
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Okay I just remembered! (It's the next day by the way.) The part I thought was really funny was when Drew doesn't want to babysit and he's like, "I don't want to do it. They hate me.. We have no common interests.." And Amber goes, "No common interests? This isn't E-Harmony Drew, they're children." AHHHHH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Huh-larious.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Jason Katims, I love you.
Oh, this was a good one. I don't even know where to begin.
The scene with Sydney screaming at the table at Victor about how mom and dad didn't fight until he came. Gut. Wrenching.
Amber and Drew in the first half of the episode when Drew smokes weed in the morning. I actually can't remember exactly what happened that made me laugh through that whole thing but it was just funny.
Amber is so sappy though! I love Mae Whitman, but she's just getting so sappy right now. Whatever happened to her "purpose" she found at the recording studio and finally doing what she "loved" and "is good at?" Isn't that what started to break her and Army Guy up in the first place? But then he leaves and now she just spends her life sad about it? People are strange.
Max. MAXXXXXXXXXX. I love you. We all love you. You are not a freak. Go start your own school. Whatever happened to that? Is that still happening? (Just a side note though, I had to rewind and play back, "Trevor peed in my canteen" like four times before I could understand what he said.) Kids are mean though. Especially junior high. Is he in junior high? Kids in junior high are so mean, whether you have asperger's or not, for real.
Didn't we make progress with Joel last week? Are we still? I'm not sure, but Julia was phenomenal at the door with him, like, "Okay Sweetie just text me later to say goodnight." That made me want to cry. (That's weird though. I'm crying about everything today so this whole blog might be a little warped.)
Hmm.. what else. Oh, Camille and Zeek! Yay! Scene at the fire pit, yay! You guys do love each other and can share nice moments, woohoo!
Oh, and Everybody Loves Raymond. I love Hank. Sarah will love him soon too. He's getting bold, and thoughtful, and girls can't say no to that stuff. I'm guessing Sarah got good feedback on her project, but I sort of wanted to know why he did call her in and see exactly what happened with it. Maybe they'll mention in it next week, or do a flashback! (J/k. Parenthood doesn't do flashbacks.)
Okay well I want to watch About a Boy now. Jason Katims, why is everything you create so awesome? Can I please act for you sometime, PLEASE??!!
The scene with Sydney screaming at the table at Victor about how mom and dad didn't fight until he came. Gut. Wrenching.
Amber and Drew in the first half of the episode when Drew smokes weed in the morning. I actually can't remember exactly what happened that made me laugh through that whole thing but it was just funny.
Amber is so sappy though! I love Mae Whitman, but she's just getting so sappy right now. Whatever happened to her "purpose" she found at the recording studio and finally doing what she "loved" and "is good at?" Isn't that what started to break her and Army Guy up in the first place? But then he leaves and now she just spends her life sad about it? People are strange.
Max. MAXXXXXXXXXX. I love you. We all love you. You are not a freak. Go start your own school. Whatever happened to that? Is that still happening? (Just a side note though, I had to rewind and play back, "Trevor peed in my canteen" like four times before I could understand what he said.) Kids are mean though. Especially junior high. Is he in junior high? Kids in junior high are so mean, whether you have asperger's or not, for real.
Didn't we make progress with Joel last week? Are we still? I'm not sure, but Julia was phenomenal at the door with him, like, "Okay Sweetie just text me later to say goodnight." That made me want to cry. (That's weird though. I'm crying about everything today so this whole blog might be a little warped.)
Hmm.. what else. Oh, Camille and Zeek! Yay! Scene at the fire pit, yay! You guys do love each other and can share nice moments, woohoo!
Oh, and Everybody Loves Raymond. I love Hank. Sarah will love him soon too. He's getting bold, and thoughtful, and girls can't say no to that stuff. I'm guessing Sarah got good feedback on her project, but I sort of wanted to know why he did call her in and see exactly what happened with it. Maybe they'll mention in it next week, or do a flashback! (J/k. Parenthood doesn't do flashbacks.)
Okay well I want to watch About a Boy now. Jason Katims, why is everything you create so awesome? Can I please act for you sometime, PLEASE??!!
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Family as Religion
Sometimes I think that "family" is the Parenthood family's religion, and that's a nice idea and whatever, but it doesn't really answer the question about why we're here and what's going to happen after we die, and shouldn't it be sort of normal even for people that "aren't religious" to ask those questions?
You sort of have to believe something, even if you're not religious. Family isn't a replacement for religion. They're two totally different things. The former was created by something, and the latter is the creator, so whatever you want to believe, but worshiping anything that was created by something else doesn't really make sense.
Also I like Christianity because it doesn't glorify your birth family. It allows you to be reborn into the family of Christ, and that is a huge source of hope, especially to those of us that didn't come from perfect, Parenthood-style families.
Jesus said it: "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother" (Matthew 12:50).
I guess I'm going off on a tangent here, but I'm sort of bored of just regular blogging. It's nice that Joel came to the church, but I want to know WHY fighting for his marriage is so hard for him, that's what I think the show should explore. We get his brooding facial expressions, but I want to see what's behind that. Also Amber and Drew's relationship is sort of funny, but I want Drew to stay at school because his roommate is hilarious, and I want the Natalie thing to play out anyway. I do think Sarah was more in the right than Max. Maybe she could have handled the situation better, but her brother and sister-in-law should have had more grace with her, though it was nice for her to take the higher road in the end to establish peace.
Anddd those are my thoughts.
You sort of have to believe something, even if you're not religious. Family isn't a replacement for religion. They're two totally different things. The former was created by something, and the latter is the creator, so whatever you want to believe, but worshiping anything that was created by something else doesn't really make sense.
Also I like Christianity because it doesn't glorify your birth family. It allows you to be reborn into the family of Christ, and that is a huge source of hope, especially to those of us that didn't come from perfect, Parenthood-style families.
Jesus said it: "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother" (Matthew 12:50).
I guess I'm going off on a tangent here, but I'm sort of bored of just regular blogging. It's nice that Joel came to the church, but I want to know WHY fighting for his marriage is so hard for him, that's what I think the show should explore. We get his brooding facial expressions, but I want to see what's behind that. Also Amber and Drew's relationship is sort of funny, but I want Drew to stay at school because his roommate is hilarious, and I want the Natalie thing to play out anyway. I do think Sarah was more in the right than Max. Maybe she could have handled the situation better, but her brother and sister-in-law should have had more grace with her, though it was nice for her to take the higher road in the end to establish peace.
Anddd those are my thoughts.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Digging Deeper
JULIA. What are you doing. I thought you were gonna "dig deeper," I thought that was the point of "Ed" being in this episode again. I want you to dig deeper. Someone needs to dig deeper because I have no idea what's going on with Joel. I'm pretty sure that a bunch of episodes ago he was about to cheat first but then you accidentally did, and now he hates you and wants to be separated forever and is giving you no chance of hope. DIG DEEPER. Why is this happening? Find out. Or Joel give us something more than angry stares, or something!
Did Drew ever accomplish his mission? Did that plotline just end with Natalie leaving, I can't remember. Best part about that whole thing though was when Amber was told the party starts at 10:30, and she's like, "The party starts at 10:30? Okay, so we'll take a nap first." Omigosh Amber is getting old, and that is totally me. I don't even like things that start at 8.
Crosby calling his mom selfish is classic, though I feel it was sort of unfair of her to play the "I've been a mom forever" card when she really has been selfish for quite a few episodes now (not in relation to Crosby but in relation to her husband, who's been pretty supportive of all her crazy endeavors as of late).
I like the troll teacher, though I personally would not want to stand up the whole time during class.
Oh, and I like Hank and his honesty and boldness and YAY, I'm glad Sarah didn't go. I knew she wouldn't after that, but then it was weird that Carl immediately inferred they were probably breaking up, and she was like, "yeah." Why? He's just going for a week, and things were going well before that, right? And he usually supports her in her career endeavors. So he was having a weak moment of wanting her with him, that doesn't seem so bad. (I don't know why I'm sticking up for him. I want her to be with RR, but just as far as story is concerned, it seems weird they're trying to axe him so quickly.)
Anyways I didn't cry about anything tonight. I'm annoyed about Ed being back (if you didn't get that). And really I think the writers need to dig deeper and figure out what they think happened between Joel and Julia so we can move somewhere interesting instead of random points on the surface forever and ever. (I wish I could send this to them instead of the anonymous internet world. Hmm.......)
Did Drew ever accomplish his mission? Did that plotline just end with Natalie leaving, I can't remember. Best part about that whole thing though was when Amber was told the party starts at 10:30, and she's like, "The party starts at 10:30? Okay, so we'll take a nap first." Omigosh Amber is getting old, and that is totally me. I don't even like things that start at 8.
Crosby calling his mom selfish is classic, though I feel it was sort of unfair of her to play the "I've been a mom forever" card when she really has been selfish for quite a few episodes now (not in relation to Crosby but in relation to her husband, who's been pretty supportive of all her crazy endeavors as of late).
I like the troll teacher, though I personally would not want to stand up the whole time during class.
Oh, and I like Hank and his honesty and boldness and YAY, I'm glad Sarah didn't go. I knew she wouldn't after that, but then it was weird that Carl immediately inferred they were probably breaking up, and she was like, "yeah." Why? He's just going for a week, and things were going well before that, right? And he usually supports her in her career endeavors. So he was having a weak moment of wanting her with him, that doesn't seem so bad. (I don't know why I'm sticking up for him. I want her to be with RR, but just as far as story is concerned, it seems weird they're trying to axe him so quickly.)
Anyways I didn't cry about anything tonight. I'm annoyed about Ed being back (if you didn't get that). And really I think the writers need to dig deeper and figure out what they think happened between Joel and Julia so we can move somewhere interesting instead of random points on the surface forever and ever. (I wish I could send this to them instead of the anonymous internet world. Hmm.......)
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