Drop Dead Diva is Back!

I was so disappointed when I found out that Drop Dead Diva had been canceled at the end of its fourth season. Not only did I love the show and want it to continue, but season four ended with such a big cliffhanger that I was even more disappointed. So, I was so excited when I found out that the series would be back for a fifth season.

The first episode of season five premiered last week on Lifetime, and I'm so glad that it's back. It's like welcoming good friends back into my living room. And the episode did not disappoint; it even ended with a scene that I've been waiting for since the series debuted in 2009.

For the next 13 weeks, Sundays will be my Diva days.

Welcome back, Jane!

So You Think You Can Dance is Back!

Oh yes!

Favorite Doctor Who Episodes: The Christmas Invasion

It's David Tennant's first episode as the Doctor. And he starts out with a bang. I remember the first time I saw this episode. I was still sad that Christopher Eccleston left the series, and I didn't know who David Tennant was. I felt he had a lot to prove. This episode was a great introduction to Tennant's Doctor. By the time it was over, I was more than willing to give him a chance and keep watching Doctor Who. And, six or seven years later, I'm still glad I did.

The 10th Doctor is asleep through much of his first episode (he's in the middle of regenerating), but once he wakes up and is ready to take on the Sycorax - watch out!

The Sycorax is a great alien monster. They are able to control much of the population of Earth through some kind of mind control, and if the leaders of Earth don't give them what they want, then they will force the one's in their control to jump of high-rise buildings. And still, the Doctor sleeps.

I love seeing Harriet Jones in this episode, and I love how she introduces herself to everyone as "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister," and everyone replies, "I know who you are." It's such a funny running gag.

It's a great moment when the TARDIS starts translating what the Sycorax is saying. The reactions from Rose, Harriet, Mickey and Alex are great. And then we finally see the person everyone (including ourselves) has been waiting to see, open the TARDIS doors. It's a great moment. Aside: I think this is one of the few times that you see anyone open both doors of the TARDIS. End of aside.

I love what makes the Doctor wake up. Nice cup of tea. Well, maybe not exactly a cup. But it's exactly what he needed.

The great thing about the regeneration of the Doctor, is that he is a totally new person - a new personality. I love how the Doctor is trying to figure out who he is - what kind of a man he is. And he starts to learn as he deals with the Sycorax.

I love it when the Doctor talks about human beings and starts to quote "The Circle of Life" from The Lion King. He makes it sound like such a grandiose speech, and it's just Elton John.

Poor Harriet Jones, Prime Minister. She learns the hard way that you don't go against the Doctor.

Quotes:

Doctor: Here we are, then. London, Earth, the solar system, isn't it?

Doctor: Merry Christmas!

Mickey: Who is he? where's the Doctor?
Rose: That's him. Right in front of you. That's the Doctor.
Jackie: What do you mean, that's the Doctor? Doctor who?

Rose: I keep forgetting his not human.

Mickey: You can rely on me. I don't go changing my face.

Mickey: I can't even go shopping with you, we get attacked by a brass band.

Jackie: I'm gonna get killed by a Christmas tree!

Doctor: My head! I'm having a neural implosion. I need...
Jackie: What do you need?
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Just say. Tell me. Tell me. Painkillers? Aspirin?
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh, I don't know. Pepto-Bismol?
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Liquid paraffin. Vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E!
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Is it food? Something simple. Bowl of soup? Nice bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Oh, soup and a little ham sandwich?
Doctor: I need you to shut up!
Jackie: Oh, he hasn't changed that much.

Doctor: Something is coming.

Harriet: Harriet Jones, Prime Minister.
Llewelyn: Well, yes, I know who you are.

Harriet: Alex is my right-hand man. I'm not used to having a right-hand man. I quite like it, though.
Alex: I quite like it myself.

Llewelyn: You seem to be talking about aliens as a matter of fact.
Harriet: There's an Act of Parliament banning my autobiography.

Harriet: I don't think we've been introduced. Harriet Jones, Prime Minister.
Miss Jacobs: Yes, I know who you are.

Major Blake: I'm getting demands from Washington, ma'am. The President's insisting that he takes control of the situation.
Harriet: You can tell the President, and please use these exact words, he's not my boss and he's certainly not turning this into a war.

Harriet: What about Torchwood. I know I'm not supposed to know about that, I realize that. Not even the United Nations knows. But if ever there was a need for Torchwood, it's now.
Major: I can't take responsibility.
Harriet: I can.

Alex (translating the Sycorax message): "Sycorax strong. Sycorax mighty. Sycorax rock." As in the modern sense, they rock.

Rose: The Doctor wouldn't do this. The old Doctor, the proper Doctor, he's wake up.

Harriet: Did we ask about the royal family? Oh. They're on the roof.

Harriet (telecasting an address to the world): Help us. Please, Doctor, help us.

Rose: I've traveled with him and I've seen all that stuff, but when I'm stuck at home, I'm useless.

Alex (translating the Sycorax message): "Come aboard."
Harriet: Well, how do I do that?
Llewelyn: What's happening?
Harriet: I would imagine it's called a teleport.

Llewelyn: It's a helmet. They might be like us. (the Sycorax removed his helmet) Or not.

Harriet: Harriet Jones. Prime Minister.
Alex (translating for the Sycorax): "Yes, we know who you are."

Mickey: No chance you can fly this thing.
Rose: Not anymore, no.
Mickey: Well, you did it before.
Rose: I know, but it's sort of been wiped out of my head, like it's forbidden. If I try again, I think the universe rips in half.
Mickey: Ah. Better not, then.
Rose: Maybe not.

Jackie: Right. Here we go. Nice cup of tea.
Rose: The solution to everything.

Mickey: Tea. Like we're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. It's very British.

Rose: Someone's got to be the Doctor.
Harriet: They'll kill you.
Rose: It never stopped him.

Rose: I, um... I address the Sycorax... um, according to Article 15 of the Shadow Proclamation. I command you to leave this world with all the authority of... the Slitheen Parliament of Rexicoricophalvitorius and, um...the Gelth Confederacy... as, uh, sanctioned by the Mighty Jagrafess and... Oh! The Daleks. Now leave this planet in peace! In peace...

Alex: Hold on. That's English.
Harriet: He's talking English.
Rose: You're talking English.
Sycorax: I would ever dirty my tongue with your primitive bile!
Rose: That's English. Can you hear English?
Mickey: Yea, that's English.
Alex: Definitely English.

Doctor: Did you miss me?

Doctor: You can have someone's eye out with that.

Doctor: You! Just wait. I'm busy. Mickey, hello! And Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. Blimey, it's like This is Your Life. Tea! That's all I needed. A good cup of tea. Super-heated infusion of free radical and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first things first. How do I look?
Rose: Um... Different.
Doctor: Good different or bad different?
Rose: Just different.
Doctor: Am I... ginger?
Rose: No, you're just sort of brown.
Doctor: Oh, I wanted to be ginger. I've never been ginger. And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me. Oh, that's rude. Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger.

Sycorax: If I might interrupt.
Doctor: Yes, sorry. Hello, big fella.
Syrorax: Who exactly are you?
Doctor: Well, that's the question.
Sycorax: I demand to know who you are!
Doctor (imitates the alien): I don't know! See, that's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? A right old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed, left-handed, a gambler, a fighter, a coward, a traitor, a liar, a nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob*.

Doctor: Blood control. Ah, blood control! I haven't seen blood control for years.

Doctor: Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet, and, blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than... No, hold on. Sorry, that's The Lion King. But the point still stands.

Sycorax: You stand as this world's champion.
Doctor: Thank you. I've no idea who I am, but you've just summed me up.

Rose: Look out!
Doctor: Oh, yea, that helps. I wouldn't have thought of that otherwise. Thanks.

Doctor: You but my hand off!
Sycorax (celebrating): Sycorax!
Doctor: And now I know what kind of man I am. I'm lucky, 'cause quite by chance, I'm still within the first 15 hours of my regeneration cycle. Which I've got just enough residual cellular energy to do this.
[His hand regenerated]
Sycorax: Witchcraft.
Doctor: Time Lord.

Rose: Doctor!
[She throws the Doctor a sword]
Doctor: So, I'm still the Doctor, then.
Rose: No arguments from me.

Doctor (to the Sycorax): You want to know the best bit? This new hand... it's a fighting hand!

Doctor: Not bad for a man in his jimjams. Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man.

Doctor: Doesn't that sum up Christmas. You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there's always once stupid old satsuma.

Doctor: No second chances. I'm that sort of a man.

Doctor: When you talk of the Earth, then make sure you tell them this. It is defended.

Harriet: My Doctor.
Doctor: Prime Minister.
Harriet: Definitely the same man.

Jackie: Rose!
Rose: Mum!
Doctor: Oh, talking of trouble.

Rose: It was the tea. It fixed his head.
Doctor: That's all I needed. Cup of tea.
Jackie: I said so.

Doctor: Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones, because I'm a completely new man.

Jackie: It's like you're looking for trouble.
Doctor: Trouble's just the bits in between. It's all waiting out there, Jackie. And it's brand new to me. All those planets, creatures and horizons, haven't seen them yet. Not with these eyes. And it is going to be... fantastic.

*Gob - mouth

Smash: Final Recaps

I have to confess that it's been hard for me to get motivated to write the posts for the final two episodes of Smash. I am really bummed that the series was canceled, so it's been hard for me to write about "The Nominations" and "The Tonys" (even though I loved the episodes for the most part).

However, if you, my readers, would like to hear my thoughts about the episodes, and read the quotes that I liked, then please comment on this post and let me know. I would be happy to take the time to write about them if I knew that you would enjoy reading the posts. That would definitely be a great motivation for me.

Thanks for reading!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: season 3, ep. 12, Quippy Quotes

In "Helpless," Buffy is looking forward to spending her birthday with her father at the Ice Show, but instead, she finds out that her father can't make their yearly Ice Show tradition, she loses her slayer abilities, and she is forced to fight one of the worst vampires she's ever had to face - one that's not only the living dead, but criminally insane. But the worst blow of all is when Buffy learns how she lost her abilities, and by whose hand. Happy birthday, Buffy.

Quotes:

Buffy: Actually, I do have a thing.
Angel: A thing? A date?
Buffy: Nice attempt at casual. Actually, I do have a date. Older man. Very handsome. Likes it when I call him "Daddy."
Angel: Your father. It is your father, right?

Buffy: How do you know when one's aura is dirty? Somebody come by with a finger and write "wash me" on it?

Vampire: I'll kill you for that.
Buffy: For that? What were you trying to kill me for before?

Buffy: I'm way off my game. My game's left the country. It's in Cuernavaca.

Xander: An ice show. A show performed on ice. And how old are we again?

Oz: Ice is cool. It's water, but it's not.

Xander: We're still talking party, right? I mean, some of us still love to relish celebrating in the birth of the Buff.

Buffy: I think it might be time to put a moratorium on parties in my honor. They tend to go badly. Monsters crash. People die.
Willow: But 18 is a big one, Buffy. You can vote now. You can be drafted. You can vote not to be drafted.

Buffy: I think I'll choose to celebrate this one with quiet reflection.
Xander: Where is it written that quiet reflection can't combined with cake and funny hats?

Buffy: You know, it's not just cartoon characters. They do pieces from operas and ballets. Brian Boitano doing Carmen is a life changer.

Buffy: I just got swatted down by some no-neck and rescued by Cordelia.

Buffy: I have no strength. I have no coordination. I throw knives like...
Giles: A girl?
Buffy: Like I'm not the slayer.

Xander: Maybe we're on the wrong track with the whole spell, curse, and whammy thing. Maybe what we should be looking for is something like, um... slayer kryptonite.
Oz: Faulty metaphor. Kryptonite kills.
Xander: You're assuming I meant the green kryptonite. I was referring, of course, to the red kryptonite, which drains Superman of his powers.
Oz: Wrong. The gold kryptoite's the power-sucker. The red kryptonite mutates Superman into some sort of weird--
Buffy: Guys. Reality.

Buffy: Before I was the slayer, I was... Well, I don't want to say shallow, but let's say a certain person, who will remain nameless - we'll just call her Spordelia - looked like a classical philosopher next to me.

Angel: I saw you before you became the slayer.
Buffy: What?
Angel: I watched you and I saw you called. It was a bright afternoon out in front of your school. You walked down the steps, and... and I loved you.
Buffy: Why?
Angel: 'Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it safe, to warm it with my own.
Buffy: That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Angel: I was just thinking that too.

Buffy: Hummers. Big turn off. I like guys that can remember the lyrics.

Buffy: If you touch me, I'll kill you.

Cordelia: Is the world ending? I have to research a paper on Bosnia for tomorrow, but if the world's ending, I'm not going to bother.

Cordelia: Did something take her memory? He's Giles. Giles. He hangs out here a lot.

Buffy: Cordelia, could you drive me home?
Cordelia: Of course. But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.

Kralik: I have a problem with mothers. I'm aware of that.

Buffy: If I was at full slayer powers, I'd be punning right about now.

Buffy: I think you better leave town before I get my strength back.

Buffy: The important thing is that I kept up my special birthday tradition of gut-renching misery and horror.
Oz: Bright side to everything.

Xander: Admit it. Sometimes you just need a big strong man. Uh, Wil, give me a hand with that?

Pic of the Week: The Louvre

Grimm: Goodnight, Sweet Grimm

"Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" is the season finale of Grimm, and in true Grimm fashion, it left us hanging - on a gigantic cliff (so to speak). This was a really good episode, and I'm glad that the show is ending with such momentum after the way it just plodded along with the "Juliette not remembering Nick" plot line. I just hope that they don't take longer than one episode to resolve Nick's "condition" at the end of this episode. They need to learn from this season and keep the story moving.

Observations:

Eric is a horrible, horrible person.

Finally. Juliette tells Nick that she loves him.

And... the zombies have been let loose onto Portland.

That's a way to knock out a "zombie." Throw him against a brick wall.

It was very convenient of Hank to show up when he did so he could help Nick get the knocked-out zombie into his car.

I love that we finally get a scene with Eric and Sean together. I really like both of these actors, and their scene is really great.

I would like to know what happened to Renard's mother. Is she still alive? And if not, how did she die?

Why does Eric want Renard to go back to Europe? What is his agenda?

This is different for Nick. Juliette asked him how his day is, and he realizes he can actually tell her the truth.

Stephania has seven boys, and it looks like they're all just their mother's little gophers. They need to grow up, move out, and get a life. *wink*

Stephania needs the heart of a Hexenbiest in order to restore Adalind's powers, and the Hexenbiest has to be alive when they get it. Ewww! Poor Frau Pech, it looks like she doesn't stand a chance.

How did Adalind and Stephania know that Frau Pech was going to change her appearance to look like Adalind? There's no way they could have known. Of course it's an interesting twist, but very implausible. Well, so is the fact that Frau Pech actually changed her appearance. *wink*

I realize that they want Juliette to be more involved in Nick's life so that she's more than just the "girlfriend," but why would Nick really let her go with them? Nick knows what those "zombies" can do. It's pretty dangerous, even for a veterinarian. *wink*

Why isn't Eric afraid of the zombies? I don't think they are very picky about who they'll attack. I doubt they would attach the Cracher-Mortel, but I think anyone else would be fair game.

I was really hoping that we would see Nick's mother again in this season finale. I want to know what happened to her. You can't have a character leave with the question of "what is she really up to," without resolving it - even if it's just one episode. Please, bring Nick's Mama back!

Are we going to meet any other members of the royal family - not just the Renard family, but members of other royal families?

Is the "Scooby Gang" going to have to go to Europe to help save Nick? I hope that the show isn't going to move away from Portland, because I really like the Portland setting.

Last year's "To Be Continued," notice when they just said, "Sorry," was funny. This year's notice was just a bit too much. What are they going to come up with next year? Do they think they're going to have to top this finale next year?

Quotes:

I would love to see you do what you do. Would you show me?
Why not.

Juliette: I now know why you couldn't tell me everything.
Nick: I wanted to tell you. I just didn't know how. I was afraid fro you to see a world that I didn't fully understand.

Juliette: At least I know I'm okay. I haven't lost my mind.

Rosalee: Did that make any sense?
Monroe: In a sort of circuitous and charming way, yes.

Juliette: I don't suppose you could get the day off.
Nick: I could... if people stopped killing each other.

Nick (to Juliette): Let's just take it one Wesen at a time.

Nick (to Renard): Is this a "shut the door" kind of conversation?

Renard: You should know that his mother tried to murder my mother... and me.
Eric: That would make for an awkward Christmas.

Eric: I'm having a hearty northwestern breakfast and I feel robust already.

Eric: I can't wait to see you, brother.
Renard: Me either. Brother. (hangs up phone, then to Nick) We're not exactly close.

Nick: Sounds like somebody's upstairs.
Wu: Sounds like it. (pause) No. Not sure what that sounds like.

Monroe: He looks dead.
Nick: I know he looks dead. Probably was for a little while, but he's not now.

Monroe: You're telling me this guy is gonna wake up.
Nick: Yep.
Hank: And not in a very good mood.

Rosalee: It is not a pleasant experience.

Monroe: And the morning started so well.

Monroe: I don't want to have to hurt you, but if you hurt me...

Stephania (on the phone): We have found a way to deal with Frau Pech.
Frau Pech (as Adalind): I can't wait to hear how.

Nick: How's the leg?
Wu: About as bad as my arm.
Hank: What's wrong with your arm?
Wu: That's where I got a tetanus shot for the lady who sunk her teeth into me.

Eric's henchman: I'm going to need to check you for weapons?
Renard:  What you need and what you're going to get are two separate things.

Eric: What a shame. My own brother doesn't feel safe with me.

Eric: How long has it been since we've been breathing the same air?
Renard: Well, let me see. I believe I was 13, when my mother pulled me out of French literature class in Geneva and whisked us out of the country to keep us from being murdered... by your mother.
Eric: Yes. That was any exciting day, wasn't it?
Renard: Not so much for me.

Eric: That's all blood under the bridge.

Renard: Let's just get down to business.
Eric: How very American.

Eric (re: Adalind): It's a shame about her losing her powers like that. At least she carries a grudge.

Wu: It looks like somebody's planning a party. Not a party I'd want to be invited to.

Juliette: Just a normal day at the office?

Juliette: I'm going too.
Nick: Juliette, I'm on a case.
Juliette: Is it Wesen?
Nick: Yea.
Juliette: I'm not staying home alone anymore. I've a lot to learn. Please don't lock me out again.

Adalind: Ding dong, the witch is dead. And another one's coming back.

Rosalee: Juliette?
Juliette: Learning curve.
Rosalee: Works for me.

Juliette: What kind of Wesen are you?
Monroe (whispers to Juliette): He's not Wesen.
Juliette (whispers): What is he?
Monroe: Just a regular guy.

Rosalee: Why is this guy doing this here in Portland?
Monroe: I know. I mean, we have food and donuts, but that's kind of the extent of it.

Monroe: A member of the royal family came. That sounds kind of revolutionary.

Eric: Good night, Sweet Grimm, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.