scary sherry: sorority girls do not make good toast

[vanitashaze]

1. As much as I like their music - they're about the only thing on the radio that I can actually tolerate, these days - I cannot figure out what is going on with the Flobots' music video for "Handlebars". The animation is all kinds of cool and I like the storyline (?!), but it doesn't have anything to do with the song. I always saw it as something like Jann Arden's "Love Is A Battlefield", a Claire/Elle theme anthem-for-the-young sort of thing: celebrating the little things, all the dorkiness and fail and win and mundane. Is it possible that this song is about something completely different, or were the music-video makers simply dying to use the blood-spatter technique they stole off Sin City? (& as far as said storyline goes - I can honestly say that this is the first music video for which extensive slash fanfic could be written for. Or, at least the first one I've seen. I mean... I like it. I want graphic novels and fics and fanmixes about it. Is that strange?)


2. Been working my way through all the episodes of Psych I've missed - and for only two seasons, there seems to be a lot - and I have had two revelations. Shawn/Lassie = ♥, and despite being kind of out of sync with the rest of the series, "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" was the best Psych episode so far. Without doubt.

The vague creepiness, Mary Lou, how the myth of Scary Sherry wove through the whole thing; that the significance of it kept going, even after they revealed that Sherry never jumped...
- The editing gave me chills; the flashback technique Psych uses is always good, but there it was just so... creepy. Off-putting.
- The fact that if Shawn and Gus hadn't started the myth, Doreen might've still been alive.
- Doreen herself.
- Even though she was a deranged pyromaniac with fluffy hair, I loved Alice. I think the question she raised - "what would you do?" - was especially unsettling, especially since we learned what Shawn would do, which was to make fun of a friend who is, in their mind, in a highly dangerous and frightening situation. & the rings just broke my heart.
- (The candles! Don't forget the candles!)
- Lastly, the scene with Lassie and the crew, at the very end. Where Lassie learns how his co-workers think of him, and his disappointment, his alienation... and then someone tosses him the cookie, and he gets that little smile on his face... I didn't like "From Earth to Starbucks" even though a lot of people say it is the quintessential Lassie episode, because I felt that though they got off on the right (drunken) foot, they spent most of the episode making fun of him. Like, it wasn't Shawn & Co. helping Lassie because they felt badly, but because they felt the need to highlight the "Lassie is a bad detective who obviously can't handle his cases on his own" angle even more. But with "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast", they did more with four minutes and a fortune cookie than the whole fifty of the other. In an episode mostly about the consequences of our actions, the end was surprisingly touching, from almost every angle you could look from.


3. I do not know what's going on with this. But then again, it is French.



From the French TV channel "Canal Plus" for English week, November 2007. The add apparently says "Together, let's warm up French/English relations". The French are represented by the frog; the English by the roast beef. And I do not think there's anything I could say to make it even more ridiculously funny than it already is.

Comments

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Shawn/Lassiter is DEFINITELY ♥, without a doubt. I think the writers put the subtext there on purpose.

And I agree with you about the Scary Sherry episode. The part where Shawn just made fun of Gus made me hate him a little. I was so sure he was going to be all "See, I can be a jerk sometimes but honestly I am a good friend and I'm gonna get you outta there, dude!" but he was just all "LOL scaredy-cat" and that really pissed me off. He can be such a shitty friend sometimes. And the end just made my heart ache for Lassiter -- I love that guy, I really do. And the thing about from "The Earth to Starbucks", though, is that really only gave him a couple of hints up until the very end -- he figured out the majority of it by himself, I seem to recall. Only at the end were they giving him the anvil-sized hints.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

There are some fandoms where I kind of doubt the levels of various subtext intended, but sometimes, it's hard to have much doubt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUM6oI5UtVk).

He did? Really? (See, this is why I have troubles following more than one storyline. I cannot pay attention. I honestly thought he was just happily running circles, with them feeding the anvils; perhaps I need to watch it again. Or, you know, not watch it at 3AM on a Monday morning.)

I think one of these days they need to have an episode where Lassie's the one that gets it all right at the end of the day, and Shawn's the one in the dark for a change. I mean he's always playing the foil, so to speak; we never actually see Lassiter being smart on his own. Forgive the rant; it, and Shawn's utter smugness about it, are my pet peeves of the show. They irritate me to no end.

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

I think the show does demonstrate that Lassie's smart all by himself (especially in the beginning of "65 Million Years Off"; Lassiter's kicking Shawn's butt up until the very, very end), and the premise of the show does basically hinge around Shawn being the one to solve the case all of the time. The second season did a great job of knocking Shawn down a couple pegs, though, so hopefully we can see Lassiter kick some ass as well. I'd love to see him be the one to solve the case before Shawn can.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

...and the premise of the show does basically hinge around Shawn being the one to solve the case all of the time.

Ah, but therein lies the rub! (Or something like that, anyway.) Because we all know Shawn's cocky, can remember but doesn't always bother to connect; say he got too cocky, and screwed up. Say he didn't solve the case. And then there would be doubt, and angst, and probably an argument with Henry - the emotinoal cannonfodder could provide for several episodes, and Shawn could actually sorta learn something. (Gasp, I know.)

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

The only association I have for "Love Is a Battlefield" is Pat Benatar, which... ahaha.

re: music video love - I have similar feelings about the video for Dire Straits' "Tunnel of Love," though it wouldn't be slash... it's the humorously low-budget filmmaking combined with an oddly touching storyline, I tell you! In my case, anyway.

From what little I've seen of Psych, I think I'd be more about Gus & Shawn. It looks like a fun show, and I've been meaning to watch more. One of these days! I like that its two leads are actors of color, even though Shawn himself is mostly whited out.

I love that ad. I would not have identified the barrel as containing roast beef (but of course: les rosbifs!) just by reading the French text, so props for clearing that up, hee.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

I like that its two leads are actors of color, even though Shawn himself is mostly whited out.

...?

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

James Roday is biracial and identifies as Mexican-American; however, the show cast two Anglo, blond actors to play Shawn's parents. He did speak (bad) Spanish in one Psych episode, which he wrote. More about all that here (http://ohinternets.livejournal.com/38940.html?thread=565276).

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at the amount of sheer... well, wankery over this.

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. Once I saw a panel posted on superdickery.com or somewhere with the sound effect SKANK, again without irony.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

There are so many oppertunities to make comic books look silly, aren't there?