mocha leverage
Jul. 19th, 2010 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI made mocha tonight. It didn't suck.
The mocha used the last of the imported cocoa from Trader Joes--- from back when they used to actually sell things that weren't store brand shit. I lived in Chicago. Trader Joes is now the Aldi of the West.
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We attempted to watch the new series The Gates. It's horrible. Bleah. I'm not sure how you make werewolves and vampires banal, but they managed.
We also started the other new series Haven, which is only watchable in comparison. It feels like a rip-off of some other show. Probably that means it's a combination of several that I've seen.
Tonight's (well, the most recent) Leverage was oh-so-close to being awesome. There was too much magic handwaving in the plot. We didn't understand what happened in several scenes and didn't understand what they were going toward. Obviously being kept in the dark was part of the intention on the part of the writers because they had various characters in the show saying they didn't get it either. And this deliberate confusion is better than the previous episode where they flat out deceived us by clipping out an essential part of the scene just so they could show the audience that there really was a man behind the curtain at the end. So... we've been ticked off at the low quality plotting in recent Leverages and tonight's low-quality plotting is nothing new. But it was an Eliot-episode. Those are always a step up for me. [For later reference, this is season 3 episode "The Studio Job"]
Over the weekend we watched a Jackie Chan movie, The Spy Next Door. My SO likes Kung Fu movies and Three Stooges. (I think he must be working too hard.) This movie really suited him. I thought it was funny. The only thing that was completely unbelievable is the motivation where we're supposed to believe this kind-of decrepit looking old Chinese guy really loves this blond woman who looks maybe 30 and who has 3 kids which she fails to effectively parent to the point that they actively hurt the elderly neighbor man and the woman just smirks. It was really similar to a Vin Diesel movie, The Pacifier, but that one was better.
The mocha used the last of the imported cocoa from Trader Joes--- from back when they used to actually sell things that weren't store brand shit. I lived in Chicago. Trader Joes is now the Aldi of the West.
____
We attempted to watch the new series The Gates. It's horrible. Bleah. I'm not sure how you make werewolves and vampires banal, but they managed.
We also started the other new series Haven, which is only watchable in comparison. It feels like a rip-off of some other show. Probably that means it's a combination of several that I've seen.
Tonight's (well, the most recent) Leverage was oh-so-close to being awesome. There was too much magic handwaving in the plot. We didn't understand what happened in several scenes and didn't understand what they were going toward. Obviously being kept in the dark was part of the intention on the part of the writers because they had various characters in the show saying they didn't get it either. And this deliberate confusion is better than the previous episode where they flat out deceived us by clipping out an essential part of the scene just so they could show the audience that there really was a man behind the curtain at the end. So... we've been ticked off at the low quality plotting in recent Leverages and tonight's low-quality plotting is nothing new. But it was an Eliot-episode. Those are always a step up for me. [For later reference, this is season 3 episode "The Studio Job"]
Over the weekend we watched a Jackie Chan movie, The Spy Next Door. My SO likes Kung Fu movies and Three Stooges. (I think he must be working too hard.) This movie really suited him. I thought it was funny. The only thing that was completely unbelievable is the motivation where we're supposed to believe this kind-of decrepit looking old Chinese guy really loves this blond woman who looks maybe 30 and who has 3 kids which she fails to effectively parent to the point that they actively hurt the elderly neighbor man and the woman just smirks. It was really similar to a Vin Diesel movie, The Pacifier, but that one was better.
