#christina liveblogs

[voxmilia]

DM vs DM vs DM violence

Bonus: "He's gonna be shaking his head so much."

[francesderwent]

I figured it out. actually only the first two seasons of Greys are good.

[goldenloverss]

KiPSABIANNN

[figureskatingcece]

moving to montreal was the best decision christina and anthony could have made omg they look so solid... even better than they looked at us nats!! im so happy for them and i cannot wait for them to continue to succeed

[lattehearted]

Hey hi An E.ye for a T.ooth has broken my brain and I've yet to reboot.

[chiefnooniensingh]

I think Alex is the most unprofessional of the whole bunch

[chorsana]

according to Suzuha, Christina works for SERN. I... doubt that. she might work for them in the future, though. I now know why Christina was hesitant about the whole memory-sending thing, too: she's worried her father won't like another success of hers. I really feel bad for her now. her dad should just eat his pride and accept her superiority. it's nice to see Okarin trying to be supportive. this is slowly becoming an acceptable ship for me.

[tiaramania]

I went to go watch Kungliga Smycken, the amazing documentary about the Swedish royal jewelry collection, to get in the Nobel mindset before Saturday and found out that it is being taken off of SVT's video player on December 10th so make sure you watch it while you still can!!!

SVT - Kungliga Smycken

The documentary features interviews with Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, and Princess Christina and stunning shots of jewels. It's not geo-blocked so everyone can watch it. There are Swedish captions that I used to be able to translate using Google's translation extension but it's not working for me anymore. Is it working for anyone else or is it just me? Does anyone have any other suggestion for how to translate the captions? If you can't get the captions to translate and don't speak Swedish here are my liveblogs from when I originally watched it.

Episode 1 Liveblog

Episode 2 Liveblog

[polniaczek]

grey's anatomy s19 liveblogging eps 1-6

i'm fairly happy with the new interns. kat's gf from that one season of the bold type AND leighton's gf from the sex lives of college girls?

"lucas was derek's favorite nephew" well that seems like an unnecessary detail. i already kind of don't like him. hopefully embeth davidtz (i'm assuming) will make another appearance as his mom then

bartender taryn is hot

can you believe they brought april back in s18 for ONE EPISODE and said okay that's enough. because i cannot.

why would lucas prefer for people to think he's sleeping with amelia than for people to know he's her nephew???? it's all nepotism and the truth is less messed up wtf

teddy hates her husband lmao the only reason i hope they stay together is because otherwise he becomes someone else's problem

maggie and winston aren't a good match tbh why did they get married

maggie and christina yang however are clearly soulmates

carina showing up out of nowhere at the end of the episode and getting no lines are you joking

[lonesomedreamer]

SNW Liveblog: “The Elysian Kingdom”

This episode? Messy af. Spock in a wig? Sexy af.

The scene with M’Benga and Rukiya is precious, as always—though the subtext of it (her desire to change endings and rewrite stories more to her liking) is a little on-the-nose, considering that the writers of SNW are basically rewriting a classic television show to suit their own whims.

If Rukiya is running out of time, in theory all M’Benga has to do is stop materializing her so frequently…assuming that, while her pattern is in the transporter, she’s not conscious/aware. If she IS, that’s an entirely different (and horrifying) can of worms.

The exchange about superstitions between Pike and Spock is nice.

“Drinks are on me.” This is why Pike’s crew seems so undisciplined, imo. We know that Kirk would, and did, drink with his crew. But he wasn’t casually offering to buy them drinks from the captain’s chair.

“You gonna say the thing?” “Hit it.” Thanks, I still hate it.

I miss TOS’s buttons and tactile controls so much. They’re just more visually appealing (and frankly, more practical) than touch screens.

“Perhaps you did, indeed, jinx it.” I love Spock, lmao. (Also, as someone who calls out sports announcers and coworkers for jinxing things regularly…Pike totally jinxed it.)

People falling out of their chairs during turbulence is a real Trek classic!

Great, M’Benga is what, hallucinating?

These kinds of zany episodes on TOS/TNG took place either on a strange planet—like in “Squire of Gothos” or “Shore Leave”—or on the holodeck. Setting this on the Enterprise instead was…well, a choice.

La’an’s princess costume is delightfully ridiculous and sparkly.

It’s kind of a bummer to see that Christina Chong has real acting chops (even if “Princess Thalia” is intentionally way over-the-top), but is denied the chance to do much acting thanks to how flatly her character is written.

Ethan is hot. No notes.

“Maybe I can get us out of here with the help of some powerful magic called science.”

I vastly prefer hammy/possessed Kirk to hammy/possessed Pike. Sorry ’bout it. (Maybe it’s just the actors, or maybe it’s because regular Kirk comes off as so much more sincere than Pike to me?)

Why is Hemmer, an alien with inherent telepathic abilities, immune to whatever’s happening on the Enterprise, whereas Spock, an alien (well, half-alien) with inherent telepathic abilities, succumbed to it? I can hand-wave most plot holes…this one’s just lazy writing, though.

Worth it? Worth it.

I would watch THIS show.

“Truthfully, I should have known it as well…since that’s what he does in the book.”

“Don’t beat yourself up about it.”

“There’s no such place, my queen, he’s bluffing.”

All those lines were funny and delivered well!

Even though classic tricorders look pretty out-of-place on this redesigned Enterprise, I still love seeing them.

The resolution of the Rukiya subplot reminds me a lot of the end of The Motion Picture.

The moral quandry of it is enormous, way bigger than “storing your daughter’s biological pattern in the transporter to keep her alive,” which raises plenty of ethical questions of its own. M’Benga tells Rukiya that “it’s up to you”—but how can such a young child make such a huge decision: to exist in space as a disembodied consciousness for an infinite amount of time or to wait in stasis for a cure for her human body?! It’s uncomfortably reminiscent of the “willing” sacrifice made by the little boy in Episode 6…not really the comparison you want viewers to be drawing, given how that one ended. Children that age can’t give meaningful consent.

Besides, what does M’Benga know about this entity? How do either of them know that they can trust it? It’s been using the Enterprise as a dollhouse for hours out of boredom/loneliness! What might it do to Rukiya’s energy? And how will becoming said disembodied consciousness impact a nine- or ten-year-old human girl? There are actually a number of great science fiction (horror) stories about this, the premise being that human minds are ill-equipped for that kind of existence. For all M’Benga knows, he could find the cure next week. It was teased in Episode 6. All he needs to do is keep Rukiya safely the transporter—which really shouldn’t be a problem unless she is, in fact, conscious in there. But the writers obviously just wanted to wrap this problematic subplot up and move on.

A grown-up version of Rukiya appears to comfort M’Benga and tell him about her many “adventures,” because it turns out time exists differently for her now even though it’s been ~30 seconds of real time…? It cheapens the scene before and makes me feel belittled as a viewer. I’m okay with feeling uneasy about M’Benga’s choice! I’m not okay with being cajoled into thinking that it was the correct choice. When Kirk let Edith Keeler die, her ghost didn’t reappear to assure him that she understood why he had to! He—and by extension, the audience—just had to live with it.

“She’s safe.” He doesn’t and can’t know that for certain. He let an alien consciousness he neither studied/analyzed nor communicated directly with spirit his daughter away after two minutes of deliberation! Anything could be happening to her out there. Though, to be totally fair, she’s not going to die, so…there’s that?

So yes: this episode is messy. I rewatched it after seeing the ending and reading a lot of reviews/commentary and actually revised this liveblog. It’s not as bad as I initially thought! However, I’ve come to think that the Rukiya subplot itself was a poor choice, one full of troubling implications, dubious decision-making, and questionable ethics. I understand why the writers scrambled to get rid of it. And conveptually, this episode wasn’t even a bad send-off for Rukiya! The execution was just lacking. It could’ve been so much more.

But hey…at least we got La’an’s princess dress, Uhura’s evil queen ensemble, and Spock in that wig.

The Good: Gorgeous costumes—the actress playing Rukiya was a delight; I’ll miss her—Spock in general—some very funny lines/delivery—Christina Chong gets to act!

The Bad: The writing, pacing, set design, and some of the acting was all pretty clumsy—for an episode that turned so heavy, the campy fairy tale stuff was too light and took up too much time. Too much of Ortegas and Pike; not enough of La’an and Spock. (I think there’s too much Ortegas on the show, period. She just doesn’t work for me. No judgment towards other people who may feel differently.) Some truly WTF parenting choices made by M’Benga—huge unresolved questions/plot holes by the end.

But the beauty of SNW returning to Trek’s episodic roots is that it’s a standalone episode. Hoping for better (and more Spockstine!) in the next installment.

[voxmilia]

Oh Sklonda's righteous fury hits so hard, as a kid who WAS taken advantage of in many ways by her friends when she was in school, and whose mom tried to tell her they were being unkind and who didn't believe her until she got kinder friends

[pitbullwithaship]

DOCTOR WHO LIVEBLOG 2009 SPECIAL PLANET OF THE DEAD

I am ridiculously glad to get to watch Dr Who tonight cuz I just spent a 4 hour long rehearsal standing motionless and occasionally marching around and my legs and knees are killing me. AnyWHO time to watch!!

Ominous music

Ooh art museum at night optimal setting for interesting stuff to happen

Goblet (of not-fire, presumably)

BURGLAR we getting troped

WHATCHAMACALLIT CAT

Ooh she's cool

ACT NATURAL AND STOP SPRINTING DOWN THE STREET IN ALL BLACK CLOTHES

You're just gonna trust that they're genuine?

HELLO DOCTOR lol

They never saw her face I thought, why does he know it was her

Teeth joke

I'd eat it if I was her

Lol she's very confused

Usually epic police chases don't involve clunky city buses

The Voices tm

Oh wow that's very weird

Disappearing bus oof

Very bright

Desert fun

Okay chill in the bus until you figure out what happened or you'll all get heat stroke and die

Alien hand

Voices again

Oof dead isn't very alive omen

Transition lenses

Licks sand

It tastes like death oooOoOOOOooooOOOo

Okay he's dead

Very dead

Just a little out of your depth

Girlie is kinda awesome and young dude is kinda smart

I like Christina

He's a great peptalker I want to steal that quality

Hello UNIT

Portable shovel lol

I hate sand

Stares at phone confused

All the peeps on the bus must be so confused about why these people are so excited to meet him

Genius dude is kinda silly

#besties

Ooh those look like fly eyes

Shiny storm!! I love shiny things

Okay maybe shiny things aren't good

Definitely fly eyes

Etc

Very flyee

That's a gorgeous city

Stop flirting my dude

It's never that simple

Oof that's a sudden climate shift

That's a large amount of dead people

Disassociates

That's a lot of sky rays

Ooh that's a really cool creature

Christina is smartie smartie

Amazing creatures!

Cool cool I bet that weird goblet has something weird going on with it

Is she gonna go down there!!

She's awesome

Spaceman awww I miss Donna too

Good boy IM SORRY?!

Oh close call there

Oof lots of rays

Okay so bug guys are dead then

Those are incredibly sharkie rays

I love malcolm

Very trigger happy

Hammers it

GIRLIE YOU FUCK

Flies a bus lol

Oh they better make it in time

CLOSE IT MALCOLM

OH NO

NOT NOW IM BUSY I love this man

Why do you look so surprised my dude you were very furiously flirting with her the entire time

I love Malcolm

Oh he is mot in the space to have a companion now

At least explain my dude, communicate your brain a little bit

THANK YOU FOR ONCE

Aww poor Christina

HE WILL KNOCK FOUR TIMES WHAT

His face lol

Aww sets Christina free

Lol

Christina and the flying city bus sounds like a kids book

[typingwithmyhandstied]

I'm bringing back/making a "cordelia reads" tag because I want to liveblog my reading of books. For series, I will probably make a specific one, but otherwise, I think vague is better. I think I'm going to try to read Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren which might be a journey.

[figureskatingcece]

christina and anthony's perfume free dance was absolutely impeccable oh my godddddd

[crystallineirises]

Emmy 2024 Liveblog

We high, we got snacks, we filled out a physical ballot lets see if i can figure out my mom's tv

heyyyyy a brother for MLK day

I do think about how he marched for me, a black girl, to say "step on me" about white women on the internet *black power fist*

I'm bored already lol

I turned the volume down lower so i can eat my little nosh

Why does the Fox camera never look as good as the other cameras, this has got an American Idol glow on it

I was like "is that Pete Davidson"

MOM

FOLLOWED BY SARAH

CHRISTINA why have not finished Dead To Me oh yeah cause I don't want it to end

ROUND OF APPLAUSE AND TEARS

TWO HITS DISABILITY AND OZEMPIC GO AWF

OH J - no it's not it's comedy

I'm rooting for everybody black actually I'm rooting for everyone this is stacked

AYO GET YR ASS UP HERE

Oooh Padma is looking fine

The energy of this is already better than the whole GG

CAAAAROOOOLLLL

They should just stay standing up

She looks so GOOD and that joke hit PERFECTLY women are better at everything

I don't really know which way this is gonna go

I still need to watch Poker Face I keep forgetting

QUINTAAAAA she looks so sweet

Damn Sarah got that ICE round her neck alright rap star girlfriend

SHERYL LOOKING REGAL

Didn't prepare nothing I love it

I really don't need to annotate the physical ballot and live blog but WHO CARES this is for me

Can these commercials stop the Discord said this is J's category and I know its not gonna be her but what if it *was*

I'm that meme of "Bruh thinks he's on the team" I've been nervous all DAY

Sam Seaborn what's up why are you hosting weird shit

*adds Sopranos to watch list*

Oh they have props money

OMG it's the mom from Rizzoli and Isles!!! OMG HEY

Hoooooo here we go

THESE GAYS

Eighty damn people in this category

GASP if you're gonna lose lose to Jennifer love this for us *CAW*

ALL THE EVIL GAYS

Your arm still broken damn

Someone give us the bleeped version plz but also he nailed that stare

Alan with his rocks and insects speech tho

SARAHHHH LOL TOMGREGS WINNING

DAMN that theme song sounds banging on this soundbar I really should learn how to use this tv

How is Curb still on the air? Not that it's bad, it just seems like it's been a very long time lol

Someone on Discord just said they wondered if they're gonna do a Friends thing for Matthew OH MY HEART in memoriam is gonna be roughhh

I'm not high enough lol

AYEEE EBON

Also that leather jacket is sickkk

I like the lack of commentary as they walk up, can we keep this shit classy

FIRST AD let's shout out the tech TEAMS

BLACKPEOPLEEE

I didn't realize Jeremy was also a small man lol I kinda would have loved for OMITB to win something but it's cool

sweet baby full of LOVE

AMY AND TINA

Smoke break

A pyramid lol

That woman behind him in the navy dress looked hot oh it's in a suburbs kinda way that's a great fucking dress though

OH she's not here? SHE ALWAYS HERE that's how black moms work

BEANS DONT BURN ON THE GRILL

Hannah's face and Kieran's face

BLACK DONT CRACK AND ITS NEVER TOO LATE

This is the blackest show i've ever seen without that many black people nominated

So many babes in this category

MORE BLACK WOMEN BLACK QUEER WOMEN

THIS SPEECH IS GOING OFFFFFFF

AND HER MOM I need to have all the black moms in the audience in a glamour shot together

oh and NOW we are high let's get into it YUH *rock on emoji*

WHERE EVERYBODY KNOW YR NAME

NORM

I love The Bear but I do like when things get spread out a bit? There's so many shows out there

*survivor yell*

YAY FOR THE GAYS AND GWORLS AND KWEENS AND THEYZ

Arsenio looks GOOD

Who is this beautiful woman

ALWAYS SUNNY THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF MY HEART and they look AMAZING

JUNO YOU LOOK SO HOT that hair swoop is STRONG

LOL can we get a full transcript of all bleeped things

shouts to all the negative bank account hoes out here

GREYZ BEBEZ where's Kate Walsh

BARZ

OH GOD GILLIAN i am about to lose it

Just kidding they just threw us off with x files theme that's fucked up

MAD MEN THEME ANOTHER BANGER

NOT THE HUG

*twerk team* also Sarah Snook

omg the boy from 30 rock his face is me

this speech was boring but that shot of J was great

Beef is so good so far but I'm only two episodes in

Not enough people have been chased off the stage honestly

Amy and Tina you look GREAT

ELTON JOHN EGOT GAYS IS WINNING

Ryan is chaotic evil lol but he sure has given us some shit to watch

Secondary Beef sweeeep

That's the thing, you get one good role and then you win all three awards it can get a little boring

you're gonna make it after aaaaaaallllllll

and a HAPPY MLK DAY TO US ALL

Jessica nominated for something in every awards show and every time she's just sitting around being pretty and chill

JOAN AND TARAJI DREAM BLUNT ROTATION

invited everyone you kneewwwooooooowww you would SEE the biggest gift would be from ME and the caaaardd attached would SAY thank U for being a friiiiieeeeeennnddddddEEEEENNDDDDD *dah*

How is there another 50 minutes of this I'm pretty much over it

Also this new show with Diane Lane *gay panic*

not a compilation video of TV lol

WAG THEME

*we ARE welcome*

GOD look at her why am I always in the room with my mother when she's on stage lol

Yay gay people winning again

YES THEY DID BABY TRENT DID HIS THANG

Looking at her titties looking at her nails looking at her ass looking at her dress i am so femme and so gay and also so femme

I love that *this* is why they had the WAG theme that didn't register at first lol

Is RuPaul singing this song in the background wait maybe thats Titus or Billie who IS that lol which black gay is that

What up Sarah Kate that's a very gay outfit lol

Okay we have another 40 minutes though so like...unless we're gonna have Sarah speak for like seventeen minutes

They also keep panning to Jessica Chastain because she just looks beautiful at all times at all angles in all and it doesn't make any sense

LOL they found Bella like quick where's an enby quick, lol panning to Jenna holding a girl's hand

OMG Babette from GG love her guitar jacket that's camp

"Why is this always so fuckin SAD" - crystallineirses on in memoriam segments

LESLIE

PAUL

IRENE

I am gonna CRY how dare they

not the collage like it's top model

I came back to some random dance sequence lol what up Calista

oh LORD it's Kieran's time *MANIFEST*

MY MAN MY MAN MY MAN

SO MUCH KISSING BRIAN WHAT

SHIRTS OFF SHIT

MO GAYS

THE DEEP SIGH

MANIFEST

TEAM SHIV

SHIV BABIES WE DID IT

THIS IS OUR TIME

EMMY WINNERS SARAH AND KIERAN

"MLK allowed me to celebrate a bunch of white people depicting even worse white people" - crystallineirses on the Succession wins

MEN KISSING ON TV

FX IS TIGHT

GO J GO

get your way to him lol

Why are they off screen lol

Not me just watching J and Kieran shuffling around

DAMN Hannah

it's been real yall

Just more hugs for all the boys

MLK IN THE CREDITS

[lattehearted]

I'M IN C.HARLES SEASON, BABY