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What they do for fun in their new place.

Backsliding—meaning hooking up with an ex, or even just calling one to chat. Finally, a big, bold move: Nick is moving to a new place with Caroline. It's a bad idea if you ask me, but it's a good angle for the show, and right before the season finale at that. Schmidt and Cece are getting serious. Poor Winston still has the most boring storyline: he got his ears pierced and was the butt of all earring jokes.


*screencap by VLC
4:04 PM
No more Damon-Alaric bromance? BOOO!

"Elena goes to the dance with Stefan and Damon crashes the dance" sounds familiar. Anyway, supernaturals get trapped in the school, as Bonnie tries to undo spells and our humans negotiate everyone's fate. Ester's clever idea of killing her children and all the other vampires for that matter was to make another vampire─a vampire who hunts vampires (kind of like her husband Mikael) and the ultimate white oak stake. Poor Alaric, he couldn't undo his psycho alter-ego's deeds. And like Bill Forbes, he just decides not to complete the transition. Sniff.

Only he's just not on top of all things...
4:03 PM
I'm really loving these two together.

Witch hunters killed our very dear Jane, the perfect cover-up. In a private moment during the wake, Cassie kisses Adam spontaneously. Is the elixir is enough to make him feel nothing after physical contact? Using the crystal-finding map and spell earlier would have saved them an episode. And it's confirmed: Diana is really Balckwell's child, but she doesn't want anything to do with black magic.

But the biggest reveal of this episode is...
4:01 PM
May the 4th is considered by fans as Star Wars Day, simply because saying "May the fourth be with you" out loud sounds like saying "May the Force be with you" with a lisp. So the geek in me decided to do a special Star Wars post.

A lot of geeks hail George Lucas as a genius, exclaiming, "The great bearded one is so great at imagining the future!" Indeed, those same geeks believe that George Lucas enters into an altered state, where he communes with the gods of creativity in helping him visualize his futuristic universe.

Sorry to disappoint you, geeks. The inspiration for some of the Star Wars ships aren't really from the realm of ideas. Most of them were taken from ordinary, everyday objects. Here now is a list of eight Star Wars spacecraft, and the real world objects that inspired them1. They are numbered for sequential purposes only, and are not ranked according to any criterion.

8. Slave I

Boba Fett's (formerly Jango Fett's) ship.

resembles a

A common house iron.
2:26 PM
We've all accepted the fact that the Internet is too big to be monitored. It's actually a proper universe in itself, since like our real universe, cyberspace is expanding, and there seems to be no stopping it. There is more knowledge on the internet today than there was five years ago. Just like our real universe.

"Beep. Boop. Beep."

Being the huge universe that it is, I guess it's safe to say that it's quite impossible to police it. Imagine the Star Wars universe─even the Empire barely had any control over the planets in the Outer Rim. And such is the case with the Internet.

This article is about memes. It seems that nowadays, anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of Photoshop can create their own meme. And there are millions of memes on the world wide web, and a large majority of them are─to be honest─trash. Ideally, it would be great to have something like an International Convention for Internet Memes, which would create an international body that would monitor memes─making sure the good memes survive and the terrible memes die a natural death.

Wait, what's that you say? Deciding whether a meme is good or bad is a subjective thing? Well, yes, if you frame your aesthetic argument that way. But there are examples of really terrible memes. Like this one:

Even Getty Images isn't happy.

Notice that the maker of this meme didn't even bother to spend just a little bit more time on Google to find the same photo without the watermark. Sloppy!

Here's another one:

The root word is "invisable".

This is one of those color wheel macros, featuring a very young Sorcerer's Stone-Harry Potter. Sloppy as well! Maybe Adobe should start thinking about including spell-check in Photoshop.

Now if there were such a thing as an Internet Meme Police, then they would make sure that within 24 hours of reporting the incident, clicking on these memes will give you an Error 404. Make it happen, United Nations.
1:20 PM
RIP Renly Baratheon.

HBO
"Are you... the Ghost Rider?"

You will be missed by your subjects, and your penis will be missed by Ser Loras. And you can tell Margaery is grieving by her dress. No plunging necklines for widows in mourning, it seems.

HBO
Sorry, no more cleavage.
6:57 AM

I'm a person who started with the Eleventh Doctor. Yes, I may be a late bloomer. Yes, having Matt Smith as the first Doctor I've ever met makes me a clear noob. But I loved the show so much that I decided to travel back in time myself─that is, travel back to 2005, when this show came back on the air after a very long absence.

So I went back two Doctors, to the Ninth, played by Christopher Eccleston. And of course, being human, I couldn't help but compare Eccleston to Matt Smith, who was the only other Doctor I knew. Here's some of the things I've noticed:


  • Matt Smith speaks way faster than Christopher Eccleston.
  • Matt Smith is goofier than Christopher Eccleston.
  • Matt Smith has a hotter companion than Christopher Eccleston.


But let's not compare, shall we? They're the same Doctor, the same Time Lord from Gallifrey, with the same two hearts beating in his chest cavity. And since we're not comparing Doctors, let's not compare head writers as well. Russell T. Davies is not Steven Moffat. Christopher Eccleston is not Matt Smith. And Karen Gillan is not Billie Piper.

1. "Rose"

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Mickey (Noel Clarke) is my favorite character, hands down.
And not just because he has an original Bumblebee.

What a way to start off the reincarnated series─by featuring creepy mannequins. As a kid, I was damn terrified of mannequins. My uncle would try and get me close to a mannequin, and I would bawl my eyes out crying. I always thought they would come alive. And I guess I'm not the only one who thinks so.
9:24 AM
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Da Couch Tomato was given the privelege to interview the Avengers. Not the actual characters, of course, but the actors who played them. However, since we are a Third World blog, they granted us only one question for each actor. The nerve. Anyway, we made the most of it.

Robert Downey, Jr.1
Iron Man
"I should've registered "Genius, Billionaire,
Playboy, Philantrophist" as a trademark."

Who is the alpha male in the group?
Tony Stark, of course. An alpha male is someone who provides the pack their food, their shelter, their basic needs. I'm that guy. Also, I'm the only one with a kissing scene─with Gwyneth Paltrow. I mean, come on.

But on the other hand, if I were really the alpha male, I would've gotten a kissing scene with Scarlett Johansson as well. All right, that's going into the contract for the Avengers sequel.
11:58 AM
Great Russian accent, girl! Say "Mickey Mouse" again.

We say goodbye to Mr. My Best Friend's Wedding and say hello to Nick and Jess's passionate, er, bickering—annoying screaming, actually. We see a light on Cece and Schmidt's sort of relationship and also see a sort of foreshadowing of things to come: Jess and Nick. With all the craziness in this show, we still end up with clichés. (I told you so.) And until now, Winston still has no interesting story line. By the way, this episode had barely anything to do with tomatoes.


*screencap by VLC
2:00 PM
I mentioned in the review for the previous episode that George R. R. Martin loves to have his name appear between horse dicks. Apparently, that's a falsehood. With the introduction of new locations, of course the opening credits animated sequence will change.

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"Oh well. So much for horse dicks." -G.R.R.M.
11:48 AM
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