#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

[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.

[docholligay]

Yellowjackets s2 e3: Bullet Points

Hello! This is about up to Season 2, Episode 3 of Yellowjackets, and ONLY that of Yellowjackets. I have not seen beyond this spot, at all, and know NOTHING about this show. Please do not spoil it for me.  Things that are spoilery in nature, for me, include: saying things like  “Just wait!!” confirming or denying anything I put forward, outside information about the cast interviews or creator statements, leading questions like “Do you think “blank moment” means anything?” etc. Remember  that Y’ALL HAVE SEEN THE SHOW AND I HAVE NOT. This informs the way you  talk about things relating to the show. Just be really careful is all  I’m asking. Also: If there is LITERALLY any stance I  could take on this show or character that would make you upset, please  just fucking block the tag

If you WOULD like to discuss the show and my takes on it, the Discord is right here! I don’t go there, so it’s a great place to get every emotion out.

Please thank @sailorsunspot and @moonlight-frittata for backing this odd way of doing a liveblog, and remember my tip jar is always open

The mark on simone something something the long tail of trauma, especially when you never fucking actually deal with it. 

Misty’s storyline is mostly just fun in this episode, and I fucking love it. Love Walter and Misty matching each other’s freak. It’s a great tension breaker that still manages to move the story along, and I think it’s well done. Elijah Wood and Christina Ricci are kiling it, jesus. 

There’s something going on with Nat and Lottie that I can’t put my finger on and the more I tried to write about it the less sense it made so here we are, vibes. The interplay between fighting the spirit/symbol/whatever and leaning into it, something something, I just can’t quite get there. 

I know it’s spectral and also if I were in the same position I would take the shot but honeygirl there is no way in high heaven or low hell that gun is taking down a fucking moose unless you are the luckiest motherfucker on the planet. 

The baby is not surviving, I am calling it now (Though I still say they won’t eat it) I think Misty’s insanely tragic monologue really tipped me off to knowing I’m right. But also intrigued by the cryptic he stuff…antichrist type stuff? Maybe not? I don’t know which is why it’s here instead of anywhere else, but the way Lottie talked about the baby was odd. 

The one true survivor is Natalie’s dye job, it’s such a boggling choice in such a well-written show. 

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[gomiblog]

‘The Shift’ – A Liveblogged Book Review

Happy Friday, besties! It’s time for another GOMI Book Club reading of a blogger/influencer/creator book.This week we will suffer together through the dating advice book of Tinx, aka Christina Najjar, that TikTok girlie who got famous because she was on Gwyneth Paltrow’s radar for 5 minutes.

https://gomiblog.com/the-shift-a-liveblogged-book-review/

[remyfire]

Continuing to refuse to liveblog about MASH with anybody else because it's much much much funnier that Christina just gets to wake up to my shouting rather than someone older and wiser tell me what I can continue to expect to foreshadow in said series of mine as I watch and write—

I think so far the best thing about Christina giving me post-war prompts to write about in the context of my Some Things Are Evergreen series when I have, in fact, not yet finished my watch through is all the accidental foreshadowing I do to myself—

[lattehearted]

I'M IN C.HARLES SEASON, BABY

[jinglebuckrock]

Malcolm Bright: *calls Dani Powell beautiful*

Me: