Not to continue my streak of being really harsh on Robin Hood lately, but GAH! Warning: Spoilers for "Show Me the Money". I have to say, I have thought the last two episodes aired in the U.S. were well done dramatically- season finale worthy. However, to kill Marion's father two episodes after they killed Will's? Speaking of finale worthy, I would have hoped Sir Edward's death would be. I really liked him as a character, but since he was the one who most played by the rules, well.... At least he went out with a bang. The whole Marion yelling at him soon before his death was kinda cliché, though.

I showed my youngest brother the latest Avatar DVD last week. He loved it. We now quote it an unnecessarily high amount of times. I am glad I got him hyped up again before the finale, though he still has not seen a lot of the beginning of season three. I am getting really excited! I just hope it does not cause the online community to implode. Heh heh.

Also, two days to my birthday!

Well, there's nothing a medieval English carpenter/engineer can do. I just watched the Robin Hood episode "The Angel of Death" (twice- spoilers ahead). Poor Will, they keep killing his family. Run while you can Luke, run! I mean, when Luke and Dan showed up I figured at least one of them was going to die, since the ads made it clear the episode involved a "plague" but I did not see it coming in the first fifteen minutes!

But seriously, I do not understand why they cannot just let the sheriff die. Seriously, why does Prince John even care about Nottingham? And they could make his death look like an accident or something. But nooooooooo, Will infiltrates the castle and poisons the guy all by himself only to have the whole thing reversed. *Sigh* Whatever point Robin was trying to make went right over my head. And no new episode next week. Dang!

A note on the sitch over at the Avatar boards: I am sorry to see familiar names being banned. I could make an unnecessarily complicated analogy with a situation I faced in high school, but instead I will just say I hope no one else falls into the banned category. I don't really understand the reason some of them were banned, so perhaps there is still a chance of getting some of them back. Maybe?

Well, for starters I did not get to see the season two Robin Hood premiere on Saturday night because I don't get BBC America at school! Ah well, I'll have to catch up when I get home.

So Avatar is ending in July. Well, that gives me plenty of time to decide how I want the ending to be and then be disappointed when it does not turn out exactly how I imagined. It does not look good for Tokka, with Suki coming back and all, but I can still hope. Yeah, I am not really expecting a whole lot in that department, but I hope the finale will be epic anyway. There are still a lot of choices to be made. At any rate, "Ember Island Players" looks hilarious from the preview at NYCC.

It looks like I am using a lot of emicons today.

I am tired.

It's been a long week, and not particularly one which makes me want to be on a college campus. I'm from the Chicago area, and the NIU shooting hits close to home. My east-coast campus is a bit unstable right now, though I don't think near that level of dangerous. I have not however, been able to quell my mother's fears.

I have been rather unproductive this week. Everything going on around me has just caused my to want to escape to the world of fiction. I watched four Full Metal Alchemist episodes, Starting with "Thje Flame Alchemist, the Bachelor Lieutenant, and the Mystery of Warehouse Thirteen". It's been a while since I watched FMA. I continue to laugh at the irony I see when comparing Riza Hawkeye with Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H*

There was a decent, if not predicable, episode of Psych on tonight. The last few have been pretty funny, in my opinion. A few more twists in the story would be nice, though. It actially made me feel a lot better. Now it's on hiatus again until summer. Wow, it seems like it just started up again. And I still haven't seen the episode with Kevin Sorbo in it.

Here's looking to a better week and the sooner rather than later advent of the last half-season of Avatar as we know it.

So I get into these "phases" aka obsessions where I really really like one specific show. Right now it is Avatar. Unfortunately for me, I am in college, where no one else watches Avatar. That makes it hard to feed the addiction. Actually, the only other person I know (in real life) who watches it is my brother. He is eleven years old. Needless to say, he does not really have much of an interest in actually discussing plot or character development, but he does like to quote it with me. As I mentioned on the forums the other day, it goes something like this:

My brother and I are drinking tea.

My brother: This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!

Me: Uncle, that's what all tea is!

Both of us: How could a member of my own family say something so horrible!

We also once changed the screen-saver on our mother's laptop to read "I want to spend my vacation AT THE LIBRARY". She thought it was pretty weird.

Speaking of weird, I have discovered it is possible to connect almost any T.V. show or movie, plays and musicals, too actually, to Avatar or M*A*S*H*, which are of course connected by Makko. It is kind of funny. I have come across some interesting trivia, such as the fact that someone behind the scenes on Desperate Housewives seems to like Stephen Sondheim musicals. But seriously, I can connect Psych to Megas XLR, and it is a bit creepy. Strange, but entertaining none the less. I mean, when I was watching Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas as a little girl, I was already heading towards M*A*S*H*.

"Rock A Bye Baby" has renewed my faith in new Psych episodes. It was simply hilarious: Shawn and Gus being reported to the police for hanging out at the park, Shawn and Juliet at the cafe and then Juliet taking about the wedding, Shawn talking to the bunny.... I laughed the whole time. I hope the next one is just as good.

On another note, twelve days to Avatar!

Of course I did!

 I just needed to say (again) I can't wait for new Avatar and Psych Episodes. I can't even get Psych reruns. And only one week after Robin Hood ended, I'm dying for more. Nooooo! I've become addicted to television. At least I have my M*A*S*H* DVDs....

Notice the clever use of five exclimation points.

Anyway, after that pointless bit of celebration, I should mention the Robin Hood Finale. I liked it and all, but it could have been better. The sheriff's trap was clever and I thought Robin's attitude problem was overdue. I guess I was just expecting soemthing bigger.... It also ended kind of abruptly in my opinion. Oh well, I guess there is alwyas next season.

   Ahh, the stress of everyday life. I can only wish I had the time to watch all the t.v. I wanted to. Like that will ever happen.

   I admit to being obsessed with BBC's Robin Hood. When I think about it, it really is not that good. But I like it anyway, for the semi-lame but funny lines from the sheriff, the facial expressions of Gisbourne, the stupidity of Robin, and the general awesomeness of Will. It feels as if someone actually read the ballads.

   I also miss new episodes of Psych and Avatar. I could use a few laughs.

            I have dubbed my unyielding desire for all characters- television, book, and movie- to be good “The Snape Complex” after the Harry Potter character. My weird theories have once again surfaced after watching the season finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender on Friday. My poor little brother, sick and forced to hear me scream and yell at Zukko, got tired of my over-analysis very fast. While I find it unlikely when looking at it logically, I find a way around logic to explain his actions. Many such ideas have popped up on the forums.

            Why on earth would Zukko trust his sister again after she double-crossed him in “The Avatar State” and nearly killed Uncle Iroh in “The Chase”? I don’t get it. At any rate, I think the guy has his own agenda. I think there’s more at stake now than just his honor, regardless of how important that already was to Zukko. Maybe that girl from “Tales….” will come back.

            Then again, I’m always the one who wants to know what happened to all the secondary characters. I was mad that they left me hanging on Jet and crew as well as Suki and crew.

            Overall though, it was a dramatic finale. I’m hooked. The whole show is addicting in my opinion. Last week if you had asked me whether I was going to tune it, I’d of said “maybe”. A couple of shows last week (two repeats) and I was all excited to stay home with my sick brother. And now I am writing this.

            In collusion, I really want Zukko to be good, if you couldn’t tell. And that’s about it.

I missed most of “Fade Out, Fade In” (M*A*S*H*) on T.V. yesterday. Rats. I had the television on and everything, but I got caught up helping my brother. That reminds me, putting all of my dad’s CDs on an MP3 player, I was hoping I could find the piece that Winchester taught the Chinese musicians in the last episode. (It is Quintet for Clarinet and Strings K. 581, I think.) No such luck so far. Instead I found a symphony that brings back some painful memories, but enough about that. I will find that piece. He must have it. He has a lot of classical music. Someday, someday I’ll get you, Red Baron!!! I mean, Mozart music!!!