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333ffervscent · 1 year
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what i’m watching rn:
reality tv addition: 
Love Island UK (season 9)
Are You The One? (season 9)
Ex on the Beach (season 6)
Outlast (Netflix) 
Big Brother Canada (season 11)
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The newest season of Big Brother Canada is happening in 2 days and there is almost no hype surrounding this season at all. The Digital Dailies are back instead of feeds, the cast feels like afterthought, and the gimmick of bring back 2 returning players is only reason to be invested.
If Canada didn't have a tax incentives for Canadian made tv. This show would have been done after 11 or 10.
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laresearchette · 1 year
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Thursday, April 13, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)
WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: FROM BLACK (Shudder) ROUGH CUT (Topic)
WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT TITANS (TBD)
NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:
AMAZON PRIME CANADA SOLTOS (Season 3)
NETFLIX CANADA THE BOSS BABY: BACK IN THE CRIB (Season 2) FLORIDA MAN (Season 1) OBSESSION
IIHF WOMEN’S HOCKEY (TSN) 10:00am: Quarterfinal (TSN) 1:30pm: Quarterfinal (TSN) 5:00pm: Quarterfinal (TSN) 8:30pm: Quarterfinal
GRAND SLAM OF CURLING (SN) 11:30am: Players' Championship - Draw #9 (SN) 3:30Players' Championship - Draw #10 (SNPacific) 7:00pm: Players' Championship - Draw #11
MLB BASEBALL (SN1) 1:00pm: Red Sox vs. Rays (SN/SN1) 7:00pm: Tigers vs. Jays (SN Now) 9:30pm: Brewers vs. Padres
NHL HOCKEY (TSN2) 7:00pm: Bruins vs. Habs (TSN4) 7:00pm: Leafs vs. Rangers (TSN5) 7:00pm: Sens vs. Sabres (TSN3) 8:00pm: Jets vs. Avalanche (SN360/SNWest) 9:00pm: Sharks vs. Oilers (SNPacific) 10:00pm: Canucks vs. Coyotes
BIG BROTHER CANADA (Global) 7:00pm
DRAGONS’ DEN (CBC) 8:00pm: A racer sets the pace for virtual events; a husband and wife team hopes the Dragons can get on their level; a biochemist looks to make a fair trade in the Den; a couple hopes the Dragons will help them ride a wave to success.
EVOLVING VEGAN (CTV Life) 8:00pm: Mena explores his Canadian backyard, discovering delicious plant-based sushi, pistachio cannolis, and pizza; he gets hands-on at a vegan cheese factory with comedian Bassem Youssef and catches a floatplane to forage for sea- asparagus.
JUST FOR LAUGHS (CBC) 9:00pm: Gala: Hannah Gadsby: Dry: Hannah Gadsby returns to Montreal to host a "Just for Laughs" gala featuring Ryan Hamilton, DeAnne Smith, Hisham Kelati, Sheng Wang and Maria Bamford.
THE GREAT POTTERY THROW DOWN (Makeful) 9:00pm (SEASON FINALE): The potters make a garden totem sculpture that tells their life story, followed by a regal devil's work challenge set by Rich Miller.
DR. OAKLEY, YUKON VET (Nat Geo Canada) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Dr. Oakley treats a cat that swallowed a string and a pregnant reindeer with cancer.
CANADIAN REFLECTIONS (CBC) 11:30pm: Used Furniture; The Tragic Fall of Valerie Mallory Finkerstein
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we-eternal-rp · 2 years
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☼  𝟭𝟵.𝟭𝟯𝟴𝟱° 𝗦,  𝟭𝟰𝟲.𝟴𝟯𝟯𝟵° 𝗘   →   𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐈𝐈.                                      𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 !
     📍 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗜𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗, 𝗤𝗟𝗗, 𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗔
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in celebration of pride month, we’re throwing a very special drag night at 𝐎𝐋𝐘𝐌𝐏𝐔𝐒 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁 !     featuring local & international drag queens, with meet & greet tickets available, and also performances from olympus nightclub & club bacchae dancers.  you can purchase meet and greet tickets for a VIP experience, or just come for the shows — door entry on the night is $30...  but if you come in glitter, rhinestones, sequins or sparkles, it’s half-price !
     make sure you stop by to celebrate yourself, or your friends, or family — but, be warned, you may continue to find glitter in your hair weeks after this event is over !!                   𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐇  🏳️‍🌈
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WITH PERFORMANCES BY LOCAL DRAG STARS: 
— 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐀𝐂𝐓 ( 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐄𝐄 ), australian genderfluid drag singer and tv personality ! 
live finalist of the first season of australian idol, the first openly LGBTI+ reality tv star in australia, top three of rupauls drag race season 6, and the first australian competitor in the franchise, winner of celebrity big brother and runner up in the 16th season of australia’s dancing with the stars.          performance 🎭 : here
— 𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐀 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍, a new zealand-born drag performer, club owner and tv personality !
a judge on the new zealand reality show house of drag, co-host of the podcast kita and anita's happy hour, winner of the first season of rupauls drag race down under !!           performance 🎭 : here
& INTERNATIONAL DRAG STARS: 
— 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐘𝐍𝐍 𝐇𝐘𝐓𝐄𝐒,  a canadian drag queen, ballet dancer, singer, performer, and television personality !
the first canadian competitor of rupauls drag race: coming second on season 11, a main judge and host on canada's drag race, 2014 winner of the miss continental pageant, winner of the 2019 people's choice award for "most hypeworthy canadian".          performance 🎭 : here
— 𝐁𝐎𝐁 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍, an american non-binary drag queen, comedian, actor, activist, musician, songwriter, and reality television personality !
winner of rupauls drag race season 8, ranked as new york magazine’s eighth most powerful drag queens in america, co-host of HBO’s we’re here, co-founder of black queer town hall.         performance 🎭 : here
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𝐎𝐎𝐂 𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐒.
this event will start at 1 PM EST / 6 pm GMT on FRIDAY, june 10th
this event will end on 4 pm EST / 9 pm GMT on WEDNESDAY, 15th.
event starters may be posted within this time under the hashtag #eternal! eventstarter and all event threads should be tagged with #eternal! glitterball
we will post a reminder in the starter blog when event starters are allowed to be posted, and another again on wednesday, when event starters will not be allowed anymore. 
you may continue with your event threads as long as you’d like !
have fun and make sure you plot for the event !
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bbupdoots · 1 year
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Hey, Listen!
Gonna do this in case Twitter goes tits-up, but honestly I enjoy blogging enough that I might commit to this. I'm a big nerd so nerdier content will probably be posted here now and again about Big Brother and Survivor. Since we're in the middle of Survivor 43 might do some edgic posts/random posts here for shits and giggles.
Big Brother Canada 11 will be the first season I'll be covering with my shiny new tumblr page. Expect the following kind of posts here:
Alliance charts
Important Updates (major game convos/moments, longer updates about busy/important days in the BB house)
Game status updates (idk how I'll do this yet...been a long time since I've used tumblr but I'll figure it out)
Longer opinion pieces no one has time for on twitter
memes/gifs/whatever (but probably less of that here than on my twitter page)
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kisjuhaszeliza97 · 9 months
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Upcoming confirmations of Big Brother reality franchise
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- Big Brother VIP Albania Season 3 Confirmed 
- Big Brother Argentina Season 11 Confirmed
- Big Brother Australia Season 15 Confirmed
- Big Brother Brazil Season 24 Confirmed
- Big Brother Season 10 Confirming Soon (Including Netherlands and Belgium)
- Big Brother Canada season 12 confirmed
- Big Brother VIP Canada (in French) season 4 confirmed
- Big Brother Czech Republic season 2 confirmed
- Big Brother Hungary season 3 coming soon with a new eye logo on TV2 (which is using this title in the Netherlands and Belgium since 2021 [with whisper sound], again with the popular title 'Big Brother - Nagy Testvér' and the new season will be more kid-friendly again)
- Big Brother VIP Kosovo season 2 confirmed
- Big Brother Portugal season 9 confirmed
- Big Brother Slovakia Season 2 Confirmed 
- Big Brother UK Season 21 Confirmed 
Celebrity Big Brother UK Season 23 confirmed
- Big Brother USA Season 26 Confirming soon
- Big Brother Japan Coming Soon on FujiTV
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atlanticcanada · 11 months
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Big Brother Canada runner-up happy to be home on P.E.I.
Claudia Campbell may have come second in Big Brother Canada season 11, but the Kensington, P.E.I. woman said she has no regrets about her time in a house with 16 other Canadians.
from CBC | Prince Edward Island News https://ift.tt/SzecP57
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parkerbombshell · 1 year
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interstate40 · 1 year
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have not kept up with Big Brother Canada 11 at all bc I'm still mad about them ditching 24/7 live feeds (you know...the thing the whole show pivots on??)
but it doesn't look like the season is off to a great/entertaining start from what I'm seeing online lmao
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BULLDOGS SQUIRT MINOR
What do you get when you merge the runner up of the second Mite division and the last place team in the second Mite division and have them play in the squirt division where last years first division mites are all playing, play unequal players equally regardless of situation and coach almost exclusively skating/skills rather than game situations:
A lot of touches for defensemen
A lot of 3 on 5s with or without penalties
A 3-31-1 record
We went in eyes wide open expecting a losing season and time will tell if we made a good long-term bet on program. Henry was generally successful at doing his job and not worrying about the record. Had best plus/minus of full season defensemen (despite late season Trent pairing) and third best of the eight players with a decent sample size. 1-1 with him on ice in 11-1 blowout loss vs Falcons and 1-0 with him on ice in 11-0 blowout loss to Vikings—he proved he can hang with the best teams.
Emotionally he didn’t get himself down much. In heartbreaking playoff loss where he successfully killed three power plays and was +1 he looked around the locker room incredulously and asked ‘why are so many people crying?’ (he gets his tact from his mom).
Next year Bulldogs his team will get back 1 or 2 solid players who played up on older team, import 2 kids (or more if AAA castoff or stud 2014) and cut the bottom 2-5 players. Simultaneously the three AAA teams without feeders will need 45 skaters from his division and this talent attrition is more likely to hit other teams harder than Bulldogs but you can never be certain. Additional meaningful impacts possible from Central States selection and teammates potentially leaving for other AA programs. If things break Bulldog way, could have a much enhanced roster versus somewhat weakened opponents. If not, some of the talented kids could be left scrambling in August to take very limited import spots at other AA programs. Key recent announcement is founder of program and its best coach with multiple State Championship banners is taking over Bulldog 2013s next year. Russ Naumenko’s dad coached CYA during its heyday and both his brothers played in NHL. Reputedly a great coach and a total hardass.
Big picture there is some uncertainty in navigating programs etc but Henry loves it and he is good. If his birthday was 7 weeks later he would have played again with two former teammates (one he was equal one he was better than) as a second year mite and those two were selected among the 15 All Stars representing all of metro Chicago in the Brick Tournament in Canada. He competed against fourth graders all year and they competed against third graders all year so it stands to reason the competition forced him to improve on a relative basis. When it becomes school year hockey rather than birth year hockey, that’s who he will play with and that’s where he currently stacks up. He will be six feet tall and most of them won’t be. And according to Henry: “it matters more when you’re older because babes”.
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Jordan Burtchett Quinn McGregor Heartland
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6 Facts & FAQs About Jordan Burchett, Quinn McGregor from Heartland
If you are just starting out on your Heartland journey, you may not have come into contact with Quinn yet. This is because his character is a relatively new addition to the Heartland universe. That being said, he has quickly become a fan favorite– maybe he is one of your favorite characters as well! His storyline largely follows his burgeoning relationship with Georgie and the possibility of what their future together will hold– hopefully, lots of happiness, of course. It is largely thought to be one of the most promising and inspiring storylines of the show. Quinn is played by Jordan Burtchett, who puts on a heartwarming performance. 
Jordan Burtchett is the actor that plays the role of Quinn McGregor on the hit TV show Heartland. Jordan Burtchett is an actor of British and Irish heritage, and he hails from Canada. He was born in 1994 in Vancouver, Washington, in the United States.
He came to acting in his late teenage years, and found fairly recent success in the film industry. Some of the other shows that he has been a part of– besides Heartland– include Supernatural, 2 Hearts, and The Killing. As Quinn, Jordan Burtchett first joined Heartland in Season 13. At first, his English riding style and polished looks didn’t fit in, but he quickly learned to adjust to the Western lifestyle as the show goes on.
Below, we go over some more fun facts about Jordan Burtchett, as well as the character he plays, that you may not know. Beware that some of these may contain spoilers if you are not caught up on all of Heartland!
Also Read – Do You Know Where Heartland is Filmed? Find out HERE
Jordan Burtchett’s acting career started in musical theater
First things first, were you aware of how Jordan Burtchett’s career in the performing arts started off? It started in musical theater! His family moved to Canada, where he grew up, when he was just a toddler. As a child, he would make his own movies with his brother– showing that his interest in film and tv was fostered from a young age. 
Once he entered high school, Jordan’s priorities shifted to other things, like sports and church, but he did not lose that interest in the performing arts completely. That spark within him was ignited again when he got a role in a school musical in grade 11. This can be attributed to jump-starting his acting career, as he also got an agent not long afterwards! 
He still went on to go to college and study Environmental Science to give himself a bit of a backup plan and safety net from acting. Once he graduated from the University of Columbia with a degree, in 2017, he began to work in a restaurant. As he worked at the restaurant, he was also seriously pursuing acting by going on auditions on the side, for various roles in films and television. 
His role on 2 Hearts was Jordan Burtchett’s big break
While the school musical was his first role ever, he was not getting paid for this and it is not exactly the same as his big break. Instead, Jordan Burtchett got a role in 2 Hearts, which is largely considered to be his big break into the industry! Before this role, he had already begun to accumulate an impressive resume of acting credits. 
Some of these included his first paid acting gig in Cult, as a young Stuart. He also worked on the Netflix original show The Killing. In this role, Jordan had the amazing opportunity of working opposite the actress Joan Allen and with the director Jonathan Demme. He then went on to nab a recurring role on 2 Hearts!
Another time you may have seen Jordan oncreen is in the Netflix movie To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. This movie was incredibly popular when it came out. Jordan was only in the movie for a few minutes, playing a character called John Ambrose McClaren in a brief scene. Unfortunately, he was not chosen to play this character in the sequel movie, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, which was very frustrating for him.
Jordan Burtchett’s newest project
These days, Jordan Burtchett is kept plenty busy by his recurring role as Quinn McGregor on Heartland! However, like many actors, he is still pursuing other roles and projects that he can work on in conjunction with his role on Heartland. Most recently, he can be found in the comedy movie Drinkwater, which came out in 2021. It was also previously named Change of Pace.
The movie is set in and centers on a small town in British Columbia, Canada– the town is called Penticton. The movie follows the life of a character called Mike Freshwater. He is a high school student who is shy and keeps to himself. He is also a target of bullies– his main bully is a character named Luke Ryan. Unfortunately for Mike, his life at home is not much better. This is because his father is too focused on the government and handling his own personal rival to pay attention to what Mike is currently going through. It isn’t until a new girl arrives on the scene that Mike’s life begins to look up.
Jordan Burtchett is actually playing the role of the bully, Luke Ryan, in this movie! It is a great example of his range as an actor and is worth a watch.
What episode does Quinn come to Heartland?
As we mentioned above, Quinn McGregor is the character that Jordan Burtchett plays on Heartland. He is a fan favorite, but did not get his start on the show until much later seasons. His relationship with Georgie is one of his main storylines, but he did not come onto the scene until several seasons after she and Phoenix arrived at the ranch. Quinn is introduced in Season 13, Episode 6, “A Time to Remember”. This is much later than Georgie and Phoenix, who was introduced back in Season 6!
When Quinn is introduced on the show, he is introduced as one of Georgie’s old friends from her Europe trip. His character first appears at her high school graduation. Quinn comes from a family that owns a major show jumping operation in Florida– he is originally only on a short visit to Hudson. However, things don’t turn out this way for him– instead, at the end of Season 13, he is offered a great opportunity. Quinn is offered a position as a coach at Hillhurst Stables, where Prince Ahmed and Olivia kept their horses, so he decides to stay.
Do Quinn and Georgie get together?
Many fans follow the storyline of Quinn and Georgie’s friendship with bated breath, hoping for the sparks to fly and for it to grow into something more. Part of this can be attributed to Jordan Burtchett’s looks and charm, as well as how he plays the role convincingly and puts on a heartwarming show. Plus, Quinn and Georgie have chemistry!
Luckily for fans, the two characters do get together and are still going strong in recent seasons and episodes. The episode where the two lovebirds do finally get together is Season 13, Episode 10, “The Passing of the Torch”. They are together and watching and waiting for Lou’s election results at Maggie’s. Quinn tells Georgie about his job offer to coach at Hillhurst Stables and asks her for a reason to stay. In response, Georgie finally kisses him!
Earlier in that same episode, Georgie also confesses her feelings and pours her heart out to Quinn while at the Kelowna show jumping competition. She even confesses her love, and yet, Quinn walks off to collect his ribbon without a response! How crushing. Of course, that worried Georgie, and she assumed that he did not feel the same way about her. 
Does Quinn propose to Georgie in Heartland?
Later on in the series, as Quinn and Georgie grow and learn together, it makes sense that they would want to take the next step in their relationship and get married. Many fans are at the edge of their seats, wondering how and when Quinn will propose to Georgie. While it has not happened yet, Heartland teased us with this possibility in a recent episode of the show. 
In Season 14, Episode 7, “Courage”, many viewers thought that this was when Quinn would finally pop the question! Even the title of the episode seemed to be a clue. Many of the clues dropped in the episode seem to be leading up to a big reveal or a dramatic moment. First, Lou notices a jewelry box in Quinn’s luggage, and then at breakfast, Quinn says that he has an exciting announcement to make. 
Instead of a proposal, though, Quinn wanted to tell everyone at breakfast about how close Georgie is to securing a spot in the North American Youth Championships. There, she would be able to compete against future Olympic athletes! However, the existence of the jewelry box may be a clue that a proposal isn’t too far in the future. 
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laresearchette · 1 year
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Thursday, March 16, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)
WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: ZATIMA (BET +) BUTCHERS OF THE BAYOU (A&E Canada) 9:00pm/10:00pm GOOD TROUBLE (ABC Spark) 10:00pm
WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT SPRING BREAK NIGHTMARE (Premiering on March 19 on Super Channel Fuse at 9:00pm)
NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:
AMAZON PRIME CANADA ANGEL FLIGHT CLASS OF ’07
NETFLIX CANADA THE GLORY INTERSTELLAR SHADOW AND BONE (Season 2) STILL TIME
WBC BASEBALL (SN) 6:00am: Quarter-Final #2
NCAA BASKETBALL (TSN/TSN4/TSN5) 12:00pm: March Madness: First Round (TSN/TSN4)  6:00pm: March Madness: First Round (TSN5) 10:00pm: March Madness: First Round
TENNIS (TSN2) 2:00pm: WTA 1000 Tennis: Indian Wells - Quarterfinals (TSN2) 7:00pm: WTA 1000 Tennis: Indian Wells - Quarterfinals
NHL HOCKEY (SN/SN360) 7:00pm: Penguins vs. Rangers (TSN2) 7:00pm: Habs vs. Panthers (TSN5) 7:00pm: Avalanche vs. Sens (TSN3) 8:00pm: Bruins vs. Jets (SNWest) 9:00pm: Stars vs. Oilers (SNPacific) 10:00pm: Canucks vs. Coyotes (SN1/SNEast/SNOntario) 10:00pm: Flames vs. Knights
BIG BROTHER CANADA (Global) 7:00pm
NBA BASKETBALL  (SN1) 7:30pm: Thunder vs. Raptors
CANADA'S ULTIMATE CHALLENGE (CBC) 8:00pm:  Before the competition gets underway in the Thousand Islands ON, teams react to surprising coaching changes; players compete in three challenges in, on, and over the water, and a second team goes home.
TRIGGER POINT (CBC) 9:00pm: Lana battles her inner demons as she blames herself for the devastating loss; when the counterterrorism team identifies the bomber, Lana is determined to track him down.
THE GREAT POTTERY THROW DOWN (Makeful) 9:00pm: It's back to the Swinging Sixties, as the potters create a psychedelic pair of highly decorative glazed vessels, before guest judge Orla Kiely tests their repeating-pattern skills
THE BEST MAN: THE FINAL CHAPTERS (W Network) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE):  Harper is a best man yet again when his friends reunite in paradise for Quentin's impending nuptials; Jordan, Lance, Murch, Robyn, Candace and Shelby each react differently to Harper's chance to turn "Unfinished Business" into a movie.
CANADIAN REFLECTIONS (CBC) 11:30pm: Millie Did It/ Try to Fly
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StackedNatural Day 11: 7x02
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September 30, 2021
7x02: Hello, Cruel World
Written by: Ben Edlund
Directed by: Guy Bee
Original air date: September 30, 2011
Plot Synopsis:
The leviathans destroy Castiel's body and break loose. Now Sam, Dean, and Bobby have to track them all down. Meanwhile, Sam is beginning to struggle with what is real and what is a hallucination.
Features:
Cas walks into the reservoir, Dean holding the trenchcoat like a war widow, more Lucifer hallucinations, finally an episode for the Samgirls, Bobby is a good dad and also capable of performing an autopsy, the indestructibility of leviathans.
My Thoughts:
Half of the effects in this episode are really cool and the other half are incredibly, atrociously bad. I love the black goo dripping off Cas’ fingers and down his face, it is so gross and so ominous and so good. The reveal of the Leviathan mouths though….. Just the worst cgi I’ve ever seen on this show, and there’s a fair amount of bad cgi on Supernatural.
The disappointing thing is that even without enough lead up on the leviathans as a monster (see my thoughts on what would happen this season in the secret good supernatural here), they’re a really cool monster until you see the bad mouths. The ability to infect people via dark clouds in the local water supply (hello, Dead in the Water parallel) and to blend in based on the knowledge of their host body (vessel?) is really cool! The blood splatter was a bit overdone, but it was in a fun way and definitely showed how lethal they are. And then the mouths appear and I completely lose the ability to take them seriously. Also, what a bummer that the one leviathan didn’t stay in the little girl. I love when the monsters are creepy little kids.
This episode gets a bump in my rating because I love watching Dean pick Cas’ coat out of the water and fold it up like a war widow with a flag while he says “dumb son of a bitch” in the shakiest little voice. Makes me sad in a way that is also somehow over the moon.
The Lucifer hallucinations ramp up in this episode and I love them, personally. Unreality plot lines are so fun and I think this one is really well done, even though I wish it ramped up a bit slower. This is my complaint for basically this entire season, can you tell that I love a slow burn? Anyways, I think the scene where Sam is talking to Dean and Bobby about his hallucinations and Lucifer is chiming in rules. It’s just good storytelling! Also very much enjoyed one of the later Lucifer hallucination scenes when Sam is in the kitchen and Lucifer is in the living room, and has red rim lighting along one side of his body the same way Sam does in the season 4 premiere. Good shit.
Do we ever get an explanation about what happens to the original hosts of the leviathans? Like once they’re in a human body they can shapeshift (but NOT in a cool way by ripping off their skin like the original shifters), so when does the soul of the host leave the body? This will never be answered.
If anyone else was curious, I looked up what “5150’d” means (Sam says, “Look, Bobby’s running the hub, I’m – I’m 5150’d, which leaves you to follow this thing up”), and it’s the number of the section of the Welfare and Institutions Code, which allows a person with a mental illness to be involuntarily detained for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalization.
I do like that Sam and Dean get a chance to talk about their respective Hell-trauma finally, but if I’m remembering right it doesn’t really go much deeper than what we see in this episode, which does bum me out in a big way. Unpack your mental issues! Try and get better! These boys need a therapist (and medication probably wouldn’t hurt, Sam).
Notable/Kickass Lines:
“You think this fruit-bat fever dream is reality? You come back, I'm sorry, with no soul like some peppy American Psycho, till Saint Dean glues you back together again by buying you some magic amnesia. You’re real. I’m very real. Everything between is what we call set dressing.”
“It had to be a mess, Sam, or you wouldn’t believe it was your life.”
“You just lost one of the best friends you ever had, your brother’s in the bell jar, and Purgatory’s most wanted are surfing the sewer lines, but yeah, yeah, I get it. You’re – you're fine.”
“Now we’re getting there. Pinocchio’s seeing his strings.”
“Hey, so maybe I’m not real. Nobody’s perfect. And I’m not going anywhere, Sam.”
Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 7.5
IMdB rating: 8.5
In Conclusion: Tomorrow is The End, one of my all-time favourite episodes! Get excited!
Also, if you’re in Canada, happy first ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. My trash province won’t recognize it but my not-trash employer thankfully will.
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Listed: His Name Is Alive
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While Warren Defever’s name is perhaps less recognizable than that of his band His Name Is Alive, he’s also been connected with a seemingly endless array of other projects: Princess Dragon-Mom, Elvis Hitler, ESP Beetles, Control Panel, and far more. This doesn’t get into his recording and production credits for the likes of Michael Hurley, Iggy and the Stooges, and Mdou Moctar. Forever associated with Michigan’s weirdo-underground music scene, Defever has recently been issuing a series of long-buried recordings as His Name Is Alive. In February, the Disciples label released Hope Is a Candle, the third and final volume in the "Home Recordings" trilogy exploring Defever's teenage tape experimentation as well as A Silver Thread (Home Recordings 1979 - 1990), a four-volume collection of many of Defever’s solo home recordings prior to His Name Is Alive releasing their debut album Livonia on 4AD in 1990. In his review of A Silver Thread, Tim Clarke writes “For a collection of home recordings, what’s most striking about this music is how fully realized and carefully executed it sounds, comparable at times to contemporary artists such as Grouper, Benoît Pioulard and Tim Hecker. This is not the 1980s that I remember.”
Defever gives us his “What Else Is New” list, a set of personal snapshots, memories of a life spent in music, warning the reader that “the descriptions don’t always have an obvious correlation to the video, but welcome to my nightmare brain.”
In The Line of Fire
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I started performing when I was five. My grandfather was a self-taught musician from Saskatchewan in Western Canada and he showed me and my brothers how to play banjo, guitar and fiddle. One of my earliest memories is having a full size 127 lb. accordion placed onto my lap and my grandmother voicing her disappointment when I refused to play. I did learn slide guitar from her later though. I have many, often terrible, memories of performing at square dances with his band and we would play old timey country music, folk songs, polkas and waltzes. There were also gigs at the trailer park, old folks homes and a convent. Although my grandfather believed that popular music died with Hank Williams in 1953, he still found room in his heart for Lawrence Welk and Slim Whitman.
Meet Me By The Water
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By age ten I had a tape recorder and was using it to capture the sounds of nearby lakes, thunderstorms, and my older brothers LP collection played at the wrong speeds. I recently found the cassette, Echo Lake (1983) which features waves crashing onto the beach on the Canadian side of Lake St. Clair but it was recorded right after I got an echo pedal so it’s got a heavy dose of dreamy delay. Tape loops of the next door neighbor raking leaves and shoveling the driveway would be repurposed a few years later as rhythm tracks on the first His Name Is Alive LP, Livonia (4AD, 1990). Detroit in the late 70s and early 80s had totally insane radio and one of the highlights was Met-Ezzthetics, a late night show on WDET hosted by Faruq Z. Bey who also played saxophone in Griot Galaxy. Shortly before his death he played with His Name is Alive and we had a chance to formalize our student-teacher relationship.
Search For Higher Energies
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In high school I was studying Bach Chorale harmonization and counterpoint during the day but recording and touring with the band Elvis Hitler at night. The other guys in band were older but at 16 I was a familiar sight at shitty Detroit punk clubs and Hamtramck dive bars, the nerdy teenager reading a book or doing homework sitting at the bar waiting ’til midnight or 1am for our slot to play our hellbilly hits, “It’s A Long Way From Berlin To Memphis,” and “Hot Rod To Hell.” I was still trying to make sense of the post 1953 music scene and when I met the guy with a giant afro and shiny super hero outfit complete with shiny cape I had no idea he was Rob Tyner of the MC5. We released three records before I was twenty one and played shows and toured with Devo, the Dwarves, the Dead Milkmen, Reverend Horton Heat, the Beat Farmers, Helios Creed, Babes In Toyland, the Cro-Mags, Corrosion of Conformity, the Frogs, the Gories, Pussy Galore, the Unsane and way more I can’t remember I was just a kid. It was some kind of education.
You Don’t Have To Go Home But You Can’t Stay Here
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When I signed with 4AD I thought I was a composer and they let me write my own bio, so I called His Name Is Alive the work of a “fucked up, irresponsible teenage composer.” I had only been writing music for three years. When I heard “Tom Violence” by Sonic Youth I thought for the first time in my life, “I think I could do that.” In 1988 I made a mixtape with Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, Leadbelly and some of Big Star’s third album and I tried to arrange it like it was an album, then I made my own album in that same shape, it was called I Had Sex With God and I sent it to 4AD. Our first album contained three of the first five pieces of music I had ever written. Within a few years I was playing festivals for contemporary classical composers and new age artists who were thirty or forty years older than me. His Name Is Alive played the Musicas Visuales Festival in Mexico with Harold Budd, Paul Horn and Jorge Reyes. The mayor of the city presented me with a guitar but then dramatically walked out of the theater during our performance realizing he had made a terrible mistake. I remember the surreal moment when from across the room Harold Budd walked in and greeted me as “Mr. Defever.” He had a cold and was sniffling during his set, the audience thought he was crying. I recorded his show and when I got back home to Livonia I added my own guitar to some of his songs and then edited the tapes, looping my favorite parts and editing out the parts I didn’t like, also adding additional layers of reverb and echo. More recently I did a concert in a five hundred year old temple in Japan where the unamplified meditation music never rose above a whisper and the monk had to turn off the furnace because the heat molecules were too loud. The show was recorded and released under the name Mountain Ocean Sun and features Ian Masters and Hitoko Sakai.
Energy Dealer
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Both my parents were born in Canada, my mother in Saskatchewan, my father in Ontario. I have dual citizenship as my father was American and my mother had Canadian citizenship. I spent summers, holidays and weekends in a tiny cottage on Lake St. Clair that did not have a telephone and had curtains instead of doors separating the two rooms. Myrt Fortin who lived next door would receive phone calls for my mom, walk over to our place and yell into the window, “Hey wake up your ma, your dad’s on the phone.” My mom took a lot of naps, so she was always asleep when something important was happening. I remember always getting cut on broken glass while swimming in the lake or getting stabbed by one of the neighbors and having to go wake up my mom to take me to the hospital.
Lord I Don’t Believe You Exist
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When I was ten my parents sat me down and told me it was time that I got a summer job. There were only two businesses in town, a gas station and a hardware store so I walked up to the hardware store and asked the owner for a job and immediately fell to the ground crying. Completely fell apart. He asked me why I wanted to work in hardware. I didn’t know what to say, I was only ten but I knew not to tell the owner that his store was stupid and I didn’t think he could handle the truth. It turned out he also owned the gas station so that didn’t really work out. Later that summer, I began working for the Pickseed Corporation as corn de-tasseling season was just beginning. All the moms would drop off their kids in the church parking lot in Tecumseh, just outside of Windsor, around 4:30am where an unmarked windowless cargo van was waiting that had cinderblocks and 2'x4' boards instead of benches so they could squeeze in the maximum amount of children. There were three job requirements to work in a cornfield, the child (it was only children, no adults) needed to show up with a baseball hat, a thermos with water and a large black plastic garbage bag. I think this was before sunglasses were invented. Upon arriving at the cornfield, we were separated into pickers and checkers, younger kids each taking a row of corn (a row could extend a mile or more) and a slightly older kid would organize and manage several of the younger kids. In the morning we were instructed to poke two arm holes and a head hole into our garbage bags and put it on like a raincoat because the corn was covered in dew and kids wearing wet clothes would walk slower than dry kids. So almost every day there was a point, usually around 11am when the dew would dry and we would be roasted alive from the summer sun coming down on our ridiculous shiny black plastic outfits. We worked from sun up until sun down. I received three dollars and thirty five cents an hour. For all you city folks, corn is planted in alternating rows of types of corn so that when the top part of the plant is removed, or “de-tasseled,” it can seed or cross-pollinate easily. It’s a terrible job with a high turnover rate and every day I would hear the sound of kids in nearby rows that had given up hope, sat down in the middle of the field and crying for hours. The following year, at age 11, I was promoted from picker to checker, and was put in charge of a group of about ten sixteen year old’s.
Sleep It Off
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Mostly I like to record – His Name is Alive has over a hundred releases and I’ve done another fifty records under various names, Control Panel, Warren Michael Defever, ESP BEETLES, ESP SUMMER, Forest People, Infinity People, Jeepers Creepers, Layla al-Akhyaliyya, Mirror Dream, Princess Dragon-Mom, the Dirt Eaters, the Fishcats, the Whales, plus way more I can’t remember probably because the names were so dumb. I’ve recorded about four hundred records for other bands at my house or other studios. I’ve worked on records with Danny Kroha, Ida, Fred Thomas, Elizabeth Mitchell, Wild Belle, Michael Hurley, and when I was a teenager I helped record the first Gories album which was especially unique as I was the junior assistant engineer who helped move their equipment into the dirt floor garage next to the studio where it was decided the acoustics would be way worse. Also, I helped collage about a hundred Destroy All Monsters tapes from the 70s for a couple of their releases which led to remastering a bunch of tapes from the John Sinclair White Panther Party archives. I’ve done remixes for Thurston Moore and Yoko Ono and when Iggy and The Stooges started touring again I got a phone call from Ron Asheton seeing if I would help them record demos for their reunion album with Mike Watt on bass. They wrote the songs together while they were recording in Niagara’s basement sort of simultaneously. Iggy didn’t have a notebook with all his lyric ideas, instead he just sang about whatever happened that day – one song was about the airline losing his luggage, one about ATM machines and another was about reading in a newspaper that Ray Davies of the Kinks had been shot in New Orleans. In the end they weren’t terribly excited by my suggested song titles including “No Shirt” (you know because it’s like “No Fun” plus you know Iggy never wears a shirt) and they didn’t seem to love the mixes that I did that sounded kind of like those crappy Raw Power bootlegs.
Cost Of Living
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Two summers ago I recorded an incredible concert by Mdou Moctar live at Third Man Records in Detroit. They’re wild hypnotic Hendrix style jammers who live in the desert. The band didn’t speak much english but I think I was able to communicate to them how excited I was about their amazing fingerpicking and hot guitar solos after the show by screaming and replaying the best solos over and over again and then screaming the word fuzz and pointing at their fingers. It’s insane and having seen them a few times since then with a different drummer and the addition of a bass player, I’m convinced it’s their best album. It’s wild but it’s still not Tchin-tabaraden wedding wild.
Licked By Lions
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Jonathan Richman walks into Ethan and Gretchen's studio and asks if I can remove all the rugs, take the acoustic treatments off the walls and strike the baffles which normally separate the instruments, drums and amps, so the room will have the most echo possible, he has also invited about ten friends including Johnny Bee Badanjek the drummer from Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and Mary Cobra from the Detroit Cobras to dance, sing and play percussion in the studio while he records. He has two vocal microphones set up at either end of the room and has brought his own microphones for the drums along with his own desired placement for them. He notices a tamboura near the control room and asks if I know how to play it or if I know how to tune it. Within seconds he’s tuned it and proceeds to sing Indian classical music accompanying himself on tamboura drone for about thirty five minutes. It’s beautiful and very surprising. He asks me if I recorded it, I lie and say no. Later he asks me not to play it for anyone. We record for hours. Some songs are quite long – ten and fifteen minutes, some are medleys of oldies or soft rock hits from the seventies segueing into new songs of his. It’s a confusing session as it’s not clear when songs are starting and ending and he often plays guitar and sings nowhere near a microphone. The distance between him and the microphone seems to have some meaning, there’s some formula to when he chooses to walk away in the middle of a verse but I am unable to determine the secret code. At the end of the session three or four songs are deemed usable, edited and mixed, although, sadly, an attempt at a completely insane and unexpected fuzz guitar solo is left unreleased. (The Harold Budd piece is at the opposite end of this spectrum.)
Calling All Believers
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Shortly after Tecuciztecatl was released, I received an email from Dr. James Beacham at CERN inviting us to perform at a series of concerts that would combine experimental music with experimental science at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. He didn’t contact our booking agent, which would be how we generally receive offers for gigs, instead he sent an email to me, which would be how we generally receive crazy messages from our completely insane fans (murderous, delusional, poetic, threatening messages usually). I assumed the invitation was fake or a prank and replied that we would prefer to wait until they had successfully opened a pathway to interspatial dimensions and we’d play on the other side or that if that was unlikely to happen at a convenient time then perhaps we could set up our equipment right on the edge of a mini-black hole and perform as the Earth is being destroyed so we could release the concert film “Live At The End Of The World.” After a few messages back and forth, it was clear that he was legit and I apologized for being such a jerk. Soon I discovered poetry within the language of particle physics as well as a certain beauty in the idea that these scientists have devoted their lives to dreaming, searching and discovering basic principles that connect all things in existence. The song “Calling All Believers” refers to this devotion. “Energy Acceleration” compares the scientists to monastic life in medieval times and mystics trying to find and define the line between this world and the next and at the same time invoking the incredible amounts of energy needed to create the collisions experiments. The Patterns of Light LP was released in 2016 on London London Records and is about interpreting visions of light, trying to find universal truth with whatever tools available, it’s about the search for how everything works, why it works and how it got that way but also about being inspired on a basic level by the way a thing looks and how all your senses take in a thing. A thousand years ago Hildegard Von Bingen was writing about this same thing in letters, songs, medical texts, and had even developed her own language to use in her mystical writings, similar to Magma drummer Christian Vander using his own language for their concept albums or French black metalists Brenoritvrezorkre and Moëvöt.
The Light Inside You
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We get a lot of letters from fans, mostly weirdos though. I think it started when we released Song of Schizophrenia, that sort of connected us to a certain demographic I suspect. Here’s a recent typical message we received. “Growing up in Panama City, Mouth By Mouth and Livonia were like passages to other realms. I drank a ton of cough syrup at the time but those albums helped make life more livable. I was about to go to art school for sculpture and graphic design and the textures I heard on those records had actual shapes to them. Most music I knew at that time was flat or linear. I got them on cassette via mail-order from an ad placed in a bmx magazine. Mouth By Mouth arrived just before going to work at the amusement park and I was able to listen to it twice on the way thanks to the never-ending beach traffic. As luck would have it, I worked on “The Abominable Snowman” ride, basically a tilt-a-whirl inside a dome with lots of fog machine action, blue lights, mirrors, and lots of air conditioning. It took about 10 listens that day before it wasn’t as weird as when I first put it on. Maybe it was my bubblegum flavor/robitussin combo slushie on top of no-doz that pulled it all together, but it was probably a weird ride for a lot of vacationing beach tourists and townies when all they really wanted to hear was “Naughty by Nature” by O.P.P. I had no business running those rides at the age of 17 but I really loved how disorienting that ride could be with all the mirrors, the fog, the cold and for the final 90 seconds the ride would go in reverse. I had a buddy named Kevin that did acid at work and would repeatedly run the mini-train off the tracks and all the riders had to walk back through the woods for about a half mile that summer.”
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Loud House Season 5 Catchup (Blinded by Science, Band Together, Season’s Cheatings, A Flipmas Carol) or Of Mutants, Medicority, Merryment and Money
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Merry Christmas everybody! And it’s Christmas Week so expect christmas out the jingle jangle for the next few days. And starting us off is something long overdue as coverage of the Loud House FINALLY resumes just in time for christmas. Yes it’s been over a month since the last episode and while i’ve covered two holiday episodes since then, I haven’t gotten back to season 4 despite, like Ducktales and Amphibia, it being on my roster. The answer why: I had a ton of comissions coming in, and other projects going on including ducktales coverage, so I kept putting off banned together/blinded by science for weeks.. until they coldied right into Season’s Cheatings and a flipmas carol. So yeah this one’s way too late and I will TRY not to have this happen again. I can’t promise they’ll be same day of or right on time as unlike Disney and Cartoon Network who are really good about putting their stuff on the app same day or that morning or streaming services which I own so.. yeah, Nick likes to take their sweet time sometimes and isn’t as steady with their release schedule. It’s why I ended up deciding not to do regular coverage of the casagrandes, though don’t be suprise if it shows up here on occasion as I sitll like it quite a bit. Nick is just a pain in the ass to deal with. Point is it’s here now and in time for the holiday season so i’ve delayed this long enough. Let’s get back to Season 5 after the cut
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Blinded by Science:
So yeah... i’m just going to say it.. this season.. has been fucking weird. 
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I mean sure there’s been plenty of normal episodes: The Boss Maybe, Strife of the Party, Kernel of Truth, Banned Together, Season’s Cheatings. There are more normal standard Loud House episodes than the weird ones... but that just makes out how looney some episodes have gotten stick out MORE. I mean among episodes tackling Leni struggling to step into Lori’s true, an obnoxious party despute, a news antics episode, Luna dealing with her career, and a holiday shenanigans episodes.. we’ve also had Lincoln get shipped off to Canada for an episode, Lincoln thwart a supervillian plot, Lori learning her school has a friendly ghost caddy that everyone who goes there knows and just accepts like that’s a normal thing, and with two of today’s episodes, Flip being some kind of monsterious miracle of science or possibly having an x gene we don’t know and then being visted by the ghosts of christmas past, present and future, who for no explained reason look and act like Lisa, Lincoln, Clyde and Lucy. 
I mean I can stretch disbelief for a lot of cartoons and i’m fine with it. Lisa does it pretty much on concept. But stretching things a bit for a joke is fine.. but it’s gotten to the point where the plots have gone from grounded slice of life stuff to really weird high concept stuff and it’s really hard to tell if this is going to work or not as Schooled and Family Bonding were not great, especially the latter, Ghosted was pretty good, Flipmas Carol was okay and this one... is decent. So it’s two good, two bad and one neutral. It’l take smore more episodes to see if this is a good thing or not.. I was leaning toward not before this block, but it’s very clear by the fact multiple writers have done this and the one whose done this the most wrote normal episodes last season, that this is an overall creative decision and thus something ‘im just going to have to live with. And hey, it gives me more material to work with so there you go.  So yeah let’s actually talk about this episode: Lisa is scrambling because she has a presentation at a big science convention, but doesn’t have any new discoveries to report. She does have snakebird though, which is exactly what it sounds like and exactly as delightful. Everyone should have one of those I don’t know how this isn’t worth presenting. Just put snakebird in hat. Lincoln comes to help because Rita heard snakebird and wanted to make sure lily was okay, and all he’s doing is taking her for a ride so it’s fine. Snakebird should be a part of my a different world style spinoff I’m just saying. Or with Stella.. I have a lot of spinoff ideas and only one of them has gotten a cease and desist from viacom so that’s progress! 
Point is Lincoln ends up being a very good big brother and takes her to flips for a flippee as that usually helps him think. He also crouchs down adorably to reach her height at one point. 
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Like it’s jsut really precious to see that. It also does something the show does at it’s best: Weave the other siblings into each others plots organically. Lately they haven’t been as good at that with some exceptions and while it’s fine to have a few episodes where the rest of the family isn’t involved it is weird to just sorta.. cordon off 11 of our leads instead of giving them their own unique dynamics with each other. And while I do think Lincoln gets way to much of the spotlight at times, and his episodes have not been the best this season, I do think he works perfectly here: He’s the one with the most history with flips, so his role he ends up taking in the plot make sense, and him taking a big brother role and taking her down there is really adorable. It’s honestly easy to forget sometimes since half his sisters outage and outrank him by a lot that LIncoln has some authority and brotherly duty himself but when it crops up it’s really nice to see. 
But yeah while Lincoln’s gesture was nice it does nothing to help. But what does is Flip himself. Honestly before these episodes i’d barely seen Flip and he’s alright. He’s not bad it’s just with this having happened just a few years ago
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So i’ts really hard for him to stand out in comparison when he’s kind of generic. He’s still pretty damn loveable though. And this episode has as he drops a drum of cheese on his foot, it does nothing, eats cheese right out of the barrel which.. 
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I mean at least have some sanitary standards man. Get a bowl or put it in a bathtub or something. Figure it out. But yeah it turns out his heart is also in his arm, literally on his sleeve.. something they don’t point out so it’s a subtle and well done joke. 
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Anyways yeah... so this is where the weird stuff comes in. Flip is some sort of miracle of science despite in all other episodes clearly being a normal human, And I like it.. while some bits of it are gross, i’m not a gross out guy so if you like that it’ll be up your ally and I respect that. But for the most part it’s just weird, bizzare stuff I can’t help but chuckle at like Flip having gills on his leg or being able to surivive freezing tempratures while not moving at all. See this works better than the spy episode in terms of what the fuck or to a lesser extent schooled because while it is fucking bizzare.. it works and it’s just swining so hard for the fences, it hits the moon. With the other two one didn’t bring it up till the end and the other just.. suddenly annoucned Royal Woods is next to canada and that lincoln taking a boat there was feasable. This just works for me.  So Lisa takes him to the conference, with Lincoln and Clyde joining in to serve snacks and promote the food and fuel which works, I also like the gag about them being late because they argued about what Science Casual meant. Lisa shows off this monstrosity and gets praise.. and a shady scientist asking if  she can use flip for her experiments which lisa talks him into and Flip agrees to because, like his agreeing to lisa’s experiments he likes money and tasks the boys with running things.  Naturally handing a miracle of science over to a shady science lady you know nothing about backfires and lisa trying to search incognito labs just blows up the computer.. somehow. Don’t think too hard about it. But LIsa finds lily petting a rat and soon finds the rat comes from flip begging for help. And upon spying on the lab, Lisa finds that flip is basically being tourtured and feels she did no better which.. no. While she did use him as a test subject, she also did so with his full consent, and for free publicity. She didn’t harm flip as while she subjected him to a lot of crap NONE of it harmed him like Ingognito’s experiments are. This attempt at a moral dosen’t work when Lisa , while still seeing only flip for his achivments, did nothing unethical. Flip willingly signed on for this and was never once in danger. And look medical trials can be unethical epsecially when people are deseperate. I get that. But here Lisa did nothing wrong and given her usual tendency to ignore scientetific ethics, that’s a lot.  Lisa goes to the boys for help and together they all sneak in and free flip in a decent sequence using various stuff from flips. The doctor for her part, as she was planning to shoot flip up into space without a suit to see if he could surivive because evil, gets blasted up. So yeah.. this episode ended with a 4 year old, an old man whose apparently a mutant of some kind x-men or otherwise and two 12 year olds having killed a woman. 
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And then they all just.. have flippees for aj ob well done. I mean yes the lady deserved it but still.. you all just killed someone! YOU SHOULDN’T BE ACCEPTING THIS. WHAT JUST HAPPENED. AND WHY DOSEN’T SNAKEBIRD HAVE HIS OWN MOVIE. EPISODE OVER. 
Final Thoughts on Blinded By Science: This one was okay. Insane, VERY insane, but okay. I’ve seen way worse, from this very season but man is it weird and man is that ending just... 
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Yeah that takes it down a bit but overall really enjoyed this one, Moving on. Real behind and got four to go so
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Band Together: I think I have one of my many reaction images that says it best here:
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Given i’ve seen pretty much every Luna episode, she’s my faviorite and i’ve been blatant about that,  and all of them are pretty good, I had high hopes for this one. And it STARTS promisingly enough: Luna is rocking out with her band which finally has a name! The Moon Goats. Which I like a lot: Besides reminding me of the objectively awesome Mountain Goats, it fits thehir personality and also reminds me of fellow teenage garage band goat cheese pizza from Zits... I miss when that strip was about teenagers and not two old men yelling about teenagers. Metaphorically. Point is I like this and my recent scott pilgrim kick means this is even better. We also find out Scoots is a huge fan of the band. Which is fantastic. Why an old lady with questionable morals is their biggest fan I do not know. We also get a band prank and fully names for the other two: Sully, the guy and Mazy the girl. I mean their not given MUCH character, Sully likes to bash his head on the keyboard and Mazy is uh there. And that is one of the episodes downsides: Despite being the first episode with Luna’s band to NOT focus on just Sam... the rest of them, and Sam really get to do nothing. The fact Sam and Luna are together dosen’t even factor into the plot. I honestly think it’s what removes the episodes punch, that we don’t KNOW these characters and thus LUna posisbly leaving them behind has no weight.  In contrast the series actually did something similar with little build up but made it work with the episode where Leni’s friends are trying to make her choose between them: Her mall coworker friends or her school friends. While we didn’t KNOW her school friends like the mall ones, the episode took time buliding them up so we got why Leni loved both and why this was so unfair to make her choose between them. Here it’s just two well designed carboards and a sam. And without the stakes of it possibly impacting Luna’s relationship, which I don’t want obviously but at least we have a stake in at this point, there’s just.. not a lot. Plus the solutions kind of obvious.  But what’s the problem? The band performs for a big manager who only needs Luna to fill in for a professional band.  The IDEA as i’ve said is good: LUna being forced to pick between her friends and her career, and both sides not being happy about it. But it’s just.. wasted. Besides clearly being bigger than 30 minutes, apparently we needed the half hour slot for a caddy ghost, this story just feels slight. Luna ends up with the other band and the manager gets on her for acting like she does with her friends.. but she’s a 16 year old who dosen’t know any better. What’d you possibly expect? none of it just really works. She goes back, no one is suprised, and the only part that really works at all.. is the ending. After welcoming luna back , as their roadie at first and clearly it’s more of a joke, Chunk plays with the band and gets Luna’s spot. THAT is not a bad ending and while I”ll miss the big lug, it’s really nice to see the guy get a big break and Chunk is low key one of my faviorite parts of the show. But otherwise yeah, this was almost nothing and given how usually FANTASTIC the Luna episodes are, this one was a really huge disapointment. No need for final thoughts moving on. 
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Seasons Cheatings: This is a quick one but only because there’s no real character stuff or bad parts, i’ts just a decent if contrived holiday episodes. It’s the annual family gift swap, and Lincoln wants a backpack for (insert thing he likes #37). That being said I DO like that Lincoln isn’t just into one thing obession wise as even with my tendency to hyperfocus due to my autisim, I have TONS of things I love and glom onto. YOu can tell just by my massive assortment of reaction images and quotes. So it’s nice for a show to for once NOT have a nerdy kid just have one hero they focus on. So it’s rip hardcore this time, with a fancy backpack. Why Lincoln didn’t just ask for it for christmas is beyond me and is the only thing that bothers me about the episode. Ohterwise i’ts pretty decent; LIncoln’s trying to cheat his way to victory by getting the right sister for the swap. Which really ends up boiling down to first LIly, since the parents will choose, but since LIly did her own gift this year, he then tries one of the older sisters since obviously, they actually take this seriously and have the money to get something nice with various shenanigans including lincoln dressing up like his own mother. Neat. It’s nothing amazing but it is neat.
 Naturally he forgets his own, and has to trade his gift to Chandler to get Lola a nice gift in time. Also Chandler is apparently Lincoln’s black market hookup ala hustler kid. I genuinely love everything about this from the fact it fits his character, to the fact him being rich means there’s a genuine way he can get the resources, to the fact that despite being rich and probably not needing to do this it still fits he’d do it anyway because he’s kind of a scamp. If they use Chandler more like this, as Lincoln’s sorta shady frienemy who Lincoln and Co and possibly the sisters go to for shady schemes and crookery, i’ll be fully on board with it. Plus it might finally squeeze liam out of the group and give us someone willing to hit rusty. So all good things. 
But we do get a REALLY sweet ending as Lily, having seen her big brudder sad, paints him a picture. We also get the sweet image up top of LIsa and Lucy having given each other the same gift. Overall not a bad episode. Not nearly as good chirstmas story wise as 11 louds a leapin, but with a shorter runtime and a tight premise it still works and is still very sweet. 
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A Flipmas Carol: Another very simple but alirght one.. and ANOTHER flip episode. And another one I can speed through a bit more. Basically it’s the night before christmas and Flip is taking advantage of the neighborhoods desperation with shoddy merchandise.. and forcing Lynn to work off the debt for some accidnetal damage on christmas eve and day. I mean she is legally of working age so this is legal but it’s still sketchy. Which is Flip’s wheelhouse.  Naturally this leads to a christmas Carol Parody and the weird part as the ghosts resemble and act like the loud kids> This is never explained, it’s really weird especially since Clyde ghost refrences his therapist.. but given the louds were in there and are in there enough for Flip to know them well, same with the mcbrydes, it easily could be a guilt induced hallucination or simply the ghosts taking a familiar form so i’m not going to dicker over it. It’s weird but you know not sudden super spies, golf ghosts or childrne comitting murders weird and as I mentioned up top, holiday episodes get a little more leway with me in terms of weird shit. not by a lot but by just enough. 
So they take him through what you’d expect: The Past gives Flip a sympethatic and well done origin story: Flip had a date with the girl of his dreams, but lost out due to a comination of Scoots selling him bad goods and bad tickets in middle school and vowed never to be hurt again barney stinson styles. The present shows him the consequenceds of his actions on other people’s christmas including whatever he gave the louds to make christmas dinner having turned into some form of abomination, causing him to actually feel guilt. The final one shows him having died, buired alone with no one to care in a ditch with a pizza box and having lost everything due to his practices. It ends how you’d expect, he goes to eveyrones houses and fixes things before giving the loud kids present and clearing lynn’s deabt before that happens. Not much to really dig into here, just a pretty good specail. Both of the christmas episodes are good, and while again not as good as the first one aren’t bad themselve.s 
So yeah overall this crop was okay. No real standouts, but outside of Band Together nothing bad and even that had extra scoots, luna’s band getting a name and that cheeks suish. All in all not a bad batch feels good to be caught up. Until next time courage. 
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More than you could ever possibly want to know
I had a bunch of these to answer in my drafts and realized most of them were so similar so I combined them into one massive post. Given the sheer amount of questions I won’t tag anybody but feel free to answer any of these and let me know your responses!!
Tagged by the lovely @storyinmyeyes, @cartoon-heart, @thatdamnokie, @honestly-wilde, @bookwormchocaholic, @heterocosmica, @notations, @apictureofspace, @panalegs27, @swanfireouat and @queenofglassbeliever. Thank you!
rules: answer 21 questions and then tag 21 people who you want to get to know better
name: Heather
nicknames: none
zodiac sign: Aquarius
height: 4′11″
nationality: Canadian
Hogwarts house: Hufflepuff
fave fruit: peaches
fave scent: lavender
fave animal: cats
coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: coffee first, but I love all three
last movie i saw: “The King”
last thing i thing i googled: actress Sarah Macrae
fave musician: Umm.... hard to pick one, but Mandy Moore is a serious top contender!
song stuck in my head: “Right on Time” by Dawes
other blogs: nothing active at the moment
following: 1186 (I’m sure many are inactive lol)
do i get asks: every now and then but not often
amount of sleep: probably average 6 hours
lucky number: Hmm—13, or maybe 26?
what am i wearing: t-shirt and sweat pants
dream job: I think I’d still love to do something with design and books (or magazines)
dream trip: easy—England and Scotland
fave food: pasta <3
instruments: a bit of piano, and I used to play clarinet in school
languages: English (and the teeniest bit of French)
fave songs: I have so many and my mind is going blank!
random fact: aside from university dorm rooms/etc. I have lived in the same house my entire life
aesthetic: 19th century English cottage with some modern elements for balance
relationship status: single
favourite colour: purple
top three ships: Red Cricket (Ruby and Archie) from “Once Upon a Time”, Anne and Gilbert from “Anne of Green Gables”, Abby and Connor from “Primeval”
fave fictional characters: too many
fave book: “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
lipstick or chapstick: chapstick
last song: “Spanish Eyes” by Clanadonia
when blog was created: 2011, I think, but I didn’t started really using it until about 2015
why blog was created: I followed people over from Livejournal and then really started using this blog when my love for “Once Upon a Time” was revived between seasons 4 and 5
meaning behind URL: I thought it was a pretty/poetic/floral take on my name and it sounded like “Netherfield” aka Jane and Bingley from “Pride and Prejudice”.
fave candy: gummy bears
fave holiday: probably Christmas :)
fave season: summer
fave flower: lavender
cat or dog person: I love both but cats are my super favourite <3
number of blankets you sleep with: 1 big duvet
ever had a poem or song written about you? don’t think so, unless my ex wrote a poem at one point *shrugs*
last time you played air guitar: can’t remember, but I got my little brother to play it in the car a few months ago which was awesome!
celebrity crush: Raphael Sbarge <3
sound you hate and sound you love: I hate ticking clocks and I love the patter of rain on the windows or roof
believe in ghosts: no
believe in aliens: no
do you drive: yes
ever crashed: no, thank goodness
last book: “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens—which I recommend :)
currently reading: the complete works of Shakespeare and “A Breath of Snow and Ashes” by Diana Gabaldon
last TV show: “The Home Edit” on Netflix
currently craving: chicken fingers haha
do you like the smell of gasoline: um... sometimes a bit (so weird but it reminds me of some family members and activities I think?) but not really
worst injury: I’m pretty careful so I can’t remember... although I banged my chin pretty bad when I was about 7 or 8
current obsession: well I’m reading through all of Shakespeare’s plays so that’s been fun, especially tracking down as many adaptations and stage versions I can get my hands on
do you hold grudges? I’d like to say no but I’m realizing it can be hard to let go of the emotions that came with certain hurts/betrayals even if I don’t necessarily hold grudges...
sweet, spicy, or savoury: savoury
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Tagged by the lovely @bookwormchocaholic and @mariequitecontrarie. Thanks!
How old are you: 32.
Surgeries: yup, quite a few
Tattoos: none, but it appeals to me more and more
Ever hit a deer: no, thank goodness
Sang karaoke: I don’t think officially...
Ice skated: Yeah—I’d love to do more 
Ridden a motorcycle: nope and I can’t say I want to
Ridden in an ambulance: yes
Skipped school: yeah, probably when I wasn’t truly sick
Stayed in the hospital: yes
Broken bone: nope! I’m too much of a fraidy cat so I’m always super careful (and not particularly sporty)
Last phone call: my mom, I’m sure
Last text from: my mom
Watched someone die: My pets.
Pepsi or coke: Coke.
Favourite pie: I worked at a farm/farmer’s market baking (frozen) pies for yeeeeears—my fave was “bumbleberry” which was actually just a mix of apple, raspberry, blueberry, and rhubarb I think it was, ‘cause why choose just one flavour?
Favourite pizza: margherita or hawaiian
Received a ticket: Nope.
Sunset or sunrise: Either, both are beautiful.
Favourite Christmas song: "O Come All Ye Faithful” sung by Pentatonix
Cupcakes or cookies: um, cupcakes!
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Tagged by the lovely @bookwormchocaholic. Thank you! Turns out I filled this out and kept in my drafts ‘cause I’m just crazy.
1. Are you named after someone? No, my parents just liked the name. (My middle name is after my paternal grandmother, though.)
2. When was the last time you cried? Probably a week or two ago, lol.
3. Do you have kids? No.
4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Not often, but sometimes.
5. What’s the first thing you notice about people? How kind they are.
6. What’s your eye color? Brown.
7. Scary movie or happy ending? Definitely happy endings.
8. Any special talents? Writing, graphic design, singing.
9. Where were you born? Canada.
10. What are your hobbies? Reading, writing, sometimes crafts like knitting and card-making…
11. Do you have any pets? I used to have a cat for over 20 years, but we had to put her down 2 3 years ago. My mom and I would love to get another cat, but my dad doesn’t want a pet right now. Plus, I just miss my cat a lot…
12. What sports do you play? Nothing.
13. How tall are you? 4′11″.
14. Favourite subject in school? English.
15. Dream job? Honestly, I’d love to be a graphic designer for books and be involved in putting them together and then do writing as a hobby to take the pressure off. I think it would balance out the creative aspects if that makes sense. (I was so close to getting my dream job, too!)
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