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Soo guys I just watched the entire S4 of Ellen in a day and that means I finally got to the Puppy Episode and yes that means I'm like 14 years late to the party but now I have SO MANY FEELINGS askdjflkahsdkf idek.
...dude, don't expect me to describe 'em.
The story arc was handled waaaay better than I could've ever expected. (Evidently, the recent writing on Grey's has lowered my standards.) The actual Puppy Episode was funny and heartening and insanely star-studded in a good way but I think I really liked the couple of eps that followed more, because they made the whole thing more Real - painfully, sometimes, okay a lot of the time - and they were Important & Necessary.
I don't really want to watch S5 now because the show received a lot of flak for being "too gay" after that point and yeah I can kinda see how that would play out. (Of course I'll still watch it anyway because the set didn't come cheap and I'm not about to skimp on 20% of it.) And with 14 years of hindsight now it's all good fun to say that this was the TV event that magically made everything okay buuuuut I keep thinking about how Ellen's - and even Laura Dern's, wtf! - careers crashed immediately following this and the bomb threat & hate mail and the amount of douchebaggery countered in the show that is still relevant today.
Also selfishly I watched the whole thing thinking "wow, this would still not be allowed on S'porean TV" sooo... mm. :/
Ew why am I being so negative. Here, have a video of young!Melissa and looksthesameasnow!Ellen - sorry I couldn't find a better quality vid, I'd actually wanted to post one of the opening title (which was brilliant!!) but I couldn't find that either. Meh. G'night folks!
Edit: Since I briefly mentioned local censorship here, I thought I'd mention that I just heard that Lady Gaga's latest song Judas is banned from radio due to religious sensitivities. I would be enraged but omg have you heard that song? I think we're all better off rn.
Okay I'm kidding. (Maybe.)
...dude, don't expect me to describe 'em.
The story arc was handled waaaay better than I could've ever expected. (Evidently, the recent writing on Grey's has lowered my standards.) The actual Puppy Episode was funny and heartening and insanely star-studded in a good way but I think I really liked the couple of eps that followed more, because they made the whole thing more Real - painfully, sometimes, okay a lot of the time - and they were Important & Necessary.
I don't really want to watch S5 now because the show received a lot of flak for being "too gay" after that point and yeah I can kinda see how that would play out. (Of course I'll still watch it anyway because the set didn't come cheap and I'm not about to skimp on 20% of it.) And with 14 years of hindsight now it's all good fun to say that this was the TV event that magically made everything okay buuuuut I keep thinking about how Ellen's - and even Laura Dern's, wtf! - careers crashed immediately following this and the bomb threat & hate mail and the amount of douchebaggery countered in the show that is still relevant today.
Also selfishly I watched the whole thing thinking "wow, this would still not be allowed on S'porean TV" sooo... mm. :/
Ew why am I being so negative. Here, have a video of young!Melissa and looksthesameasnow!Ellen - sorry I couldn't find a better quality vid, I'd actually wanted to post one of the opening title (which was brilliant!!) but I couldn't find that either. Meh. G'night folks!
Edit: Since I briefly mentioned local censorship here, I thought I'd mention that I just heard that Lady Gaga's latest song Judas is banned from radio due to religious sensitivities. I would be enraged but omg have you heard that song? I think we're all better off rn.
Okay I'm kidding. (Maybe.)
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with 14 years' of hindsight now it's all good fun to say that this was the TV event that magically made everything okay buuuuut I keep thinking about how Ellen's - and even Laura Dern's, wtf! - careers crashed immediately following this and the bomb threat & hate mail and the amount of douchebaggery countered in the show that is still relevant today.
Yeah. So much this.
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Ack you quoting that just made me realise I made a typo. *fixes*From:
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<- random knowledge
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omg i remember i think i even watch tv back in those days and i remember it being OMG SUCH A BIG DEAL and i was like.. "why?"
still
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(and by why i mean why is it even something that is an issue? why does it matter. next week on my blog: i come out that i prefer spinach to broccoli. ya know?)
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I get where you're coming from though. It'd be a lot better if everyone else saw things the way you do too.
P.S. I like broccoli better than spinach. WILL YOU HATE ME FOR THIS? D:
P.P.S. I AM SO GLAD TO KNOW I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE TIRED OF LADY GAGA.
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it's human bonding and love.
i'm having one of those days where the way the world SHOULD BE is so blatantly obvious that i CANNOT UNDERSTAND why it is not just that way. i don't understand. at all.
p.s. no i'm bi-vegetable
p.p.s. AND HOW
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Ugh, I know exactly how you feel.
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Oh no, a rhyme.