Maps and Mirrors

Damn. I'd weaned myself off Glee early this season, but once this show really had me, and for a while it was because of Cory Monteith. I totally identified with being on the verge of your adult life beginning, and not having any real dreams, not having any real hope.

Too damn young.

Is anyone else besides me ridiculously excited about the Phineas & Ferb/Marvel crossover that the Disney channel is going to be doing?

Hey HuffPo, I'm not exactly new to your aggressive comment moderation policies, but disallowing any comment that expresses a negative opinion about an opinion piece or its author does not actually violate your terms of service and is NOT OKAY.

As if I didn't have enough reasons to dislike Alec Baldwin, apparently one may only comment on his posts with praise and adoration.

Dear Hollywood,

I vaguely knew there was another Carrie remake going on, but it wasn't until I saw the trailer yesterday that I understood what is genuinely horrific about this version. Apparently this will be an almost carbon copy of Brian de Palma's version, but with a really cute actress in the lead. Cue my mounting rage.

No love or regards, in fact feel free to go fuck yourselves,
Me

So AP, will you be striking "xenophobia" from your style guide as well?

Have you tried this Age Analyzer thing yet?

It thinks my Tumblr account is written by someone 65-100 years old.

It thinks my LJ/DW account is written by someone 13-17 years old.

I seriously thought it would come out the other way around.

(I'll be 42 this summer.)

OMG, my heart damn near exploded when I realized that Amy Acker was on Once Upon a Time. AMY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

However ...

This show is so cheesy and fluffy, but a big reason I love watching it is the way it constantly subverts tropes. So seeing two episodes in a row with the cute young girl falling for the unattractive older man makes me kind of sad. And a little bitchy. But mostly kind of disappointed.

I had a dream last night that Giles ran RPG's and wrote fanfic. No, sadly I don't remember what his fandom was.

Despite the fact that we have little in common I find myself identifying with Finn lately and it breaks my heart to see him making the same kinds of mistakes I made.

In a show that is largely about ambition Finn is the character without any. Finn doesn't have dreams the way the other kids do, he doesn't have goals and he doesn't have plans. There was the football scholarship that he didn't get, but I think that was more of an Expectation than a Dream. He expected to get a football scholarship to college and then ... and then he would Do Stuff. There was no particular end for that means and once the means was taken away there wasn't anything else in its place.

( Spoilers for 'Yes/No' )

Incidentally, I have no idea why Finn doesn't have any dreams. For my own part I figured it had something to do with dealing with chronic depression since my age was in the single digits. I wonder if for Finn if it has something to do with growing up as the man of the house with such an idolized absent father, especially if his mother really didn't have any relationships that Finn was aware of until Burt Hummel. I don't really know why, I just know that there's something missing for him.