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shadowkat1. I've managed to trace my maternal grandmother's line back 1568 Scotland. At the moment she's winning in the ancestry family tree game. Which is interesting and highly entertaining. I keep trying to see how far back I can go. Did run into a rather weird wrinkle...apparently the fourth or fifth grandmother back on my father's paternal line is the one who gifted my family with our last name. Because her son's last name was not any of her husband's last names. It was her surname or Christian name, whatever you want to call it. This is back in 1700 Gloucester, England. She also got around. She starts around London and ends up somewhere north of Manchester.
The trick or goal of the game is basically to see how far back you can trace your family. I managed to get to the 1500s on one side and 1600s on another. The rest are stuck somewhere in the 1700s and 1800s. I want to see if I can make it back to the 1400s, I doubt it, they kept horrible records back then and I'm pretty certain I'm descended from either peasants or a merchant class at most.
2. Television round-up.
Been going through DVR saved television shows. And I desperately needed to. I had 87 hours of television saved. I didn't know Optimum would save 87 hours? Apparently it does. Time Warner now Spectrum used to delete them after the 50 mark.
Anyhow, I ended up deleting a lot of shows without watching them. Too many tv shows, too little time. If it doesn't grab me? It's gone.
The cancelled or rather, deleted television shows that I did not watch list:
* Kevin Probably Saves the World (because let's face it, it's gone anyway, why continue? No one but me was watching it.)
* Black Lightening (It deleted early episodes that I hadn't gotten around to seeing yet, so..)
* Good Girls
* The Assaination of Gianni Versace -- (see Black Lightening, and well, yourlibrarian's review of it left me less than enthused).
* Roseanne (I despise Rosanne Barr, who is basically the female version of Archie Bunker and Donald Trump or what would happen if those two got together and had a kid.)
* Splitting Up Together (eh, I like the guy in it, but everyone else I wanted to smack in the first fifteen minutes and I can't handle a whiny affluent thirty-something couple with small children television series.)
Then I watched:
* Grey's Anatomy
I liked this episode. It made me cry. Particularly the scene with the Rabbi who was losing his skin due to a bad reaction to antiboitics and April who is feeling sorry for herself. He basically told her to stop being a child having a temper-tantrum. Life is painful. Bad things happen. It's not fair.
You don't deserve anything. You aren't entitled to anything. This is a gift, and being kind to others is what it is about. Get over your narcissistic self. I cried. It was wonderful.
Also, it was paralleled with Meredith getting her mojo back and pushing past all-work-all-business Meredith, with her hair tied up in braids around her head, to fluffy hair Meredith, who was a bit looser and freer.
And Owen romancing poor Teddy, only for Teddy to figure out that Owen is using her as a consolation prize, again. And really just needs to be in a relationship with someone who adores him.
* 9-1-1
Oh, cool, an Angela Bassett/Peter Krause romance. Yay.
Also Connie Britton is leaving the show and was written out for a trip to Ireland. I was happy she didn't end up with Buck, who annoys me. Apparently she did the show as a father to Ryan Murphy.
* Supernatural
This is one of those shows that you can just jump in and out of -- randomly, without much difficulty.
It has three main male leads, everyone else is just...well...guest stars. I also tend to like their stand-a-lone episodes better. Supernatural has that in common with X-Files, they are the only shows on television that I prefer to watch the stand-a-lone episodic shows to the serialized episodes. It's weird, but there it is.
This one was a rather comedic homage to Scooby Doo, Where Are You. Even riffing off an actual episode of the series -- the titular "A Night of Frights" in a haunted house. It parodied and played homage to Scooby at the same time. And animated everyone.
Dean is such a doofus in these episodes.
But I found it funny in places -- mainly because I watched Scooby Doo, Where Are You when I was a little kid.
* Deception
Not great, but better than most television series of this sort. Actually it's one of the few new television shows I've found to be entertaining and somewhat different. Reminds me a little bit of Leverage and a little of Bones (except I like everyone more here than on Bones. Not a Emily Deschanel or David Boreanze fan, hence the reason I never got into Bones). They go into detail on how the illusion or trick is done -- much like Leverage did.
I also find the characters and actors likable.
Will I stick with it, will it survive? Who knows.
* Alex, Inc
The only new sitcom that I made it through. This means nothing. It's not bad. The lead is as charming and witty as he was in Scrubs. The concept is a bit weird. But it may work. Guy quits his job to become a professional podcaster, and dips into the 401 to do it. Much chaos ensues. Best scene? His son's magic act at school.
* Lucifer
Eh. Not loving Tom Welling in this role, but you already knew that. I've figured out that I'm not supposed to like his character -- who is nasty. Hello, he's playing the first murderer, of course he is nasty.
Chloe has the worst taste in men. Just saying.
Also show? if you have to keep having Ella tell us how great Caine/Chloe are together or sexy they look or their chemistry...then you know there is a problem. Particularly Ella of all people.
Maze? What are you thinking? Seriously, we thought you were smarter than this?
Amendial -- can you stop whining for one episode? Is this possible? The sad puppy routine is getting old.
Lucifer? Sigh. Get over yourself already. Just show Chloe your wings and explain to her the whole situation. Charlotte took it a lot better than expected. Apparently Charlotte would rather think she went to hell, then be crazy, and seeing Lucy's wings helps with that.
Oh, found out why we aren't seeing the wings that often. It's not an easy trick to pull off. They have to have a guy stand behind him with a card-board cut out of wings, and then CGI it in later.
If Caine isn't dead and gone by the end of this season? I'm done. Although I think he probably will be. Apparently he's with Chloe because he wants to die and thinks if he gets her devoted to him, he will. He'll also end up in hell. Just because he feels no guilt over Able, isn't going to get him off. He's killed others.
Right now, he wants to get rid of Lucy, send him back to hell. Buddy, just let him get injured with Chole around, no problemo.
The trick or goal of the game is basically to see how far back you can trace your family. I managed to get to the 1500s on one side and 1600s on another. The rest are stuck somewhere in the 1700s and 1800s. I want to see if I can make it back to the 1400s, I doubt it, they kept horrible records back then and I'm pretty certain I'm descended from either peasants or a merchant class at most.
2. Television round-up.
Been going through DVR saved television shows. And I desperately needed to. I had 87 hours of television saved. I didn't know Optimum would save 87 hours? Apparently it does. Time Warner now Spectrum used to delete them after the 50 mark.
Anyhow, I ended up deleting a lot of shows without watching them. Too many tv shows, too little time. If it doesn't grab me? It's gone.
The cancelled or rather, deleted television shows that I did not watch list:
* Kevin Probably Saves the World (because let's face it, it's gone anyway, why continue? No one but me was watching it.)
* Black Lightening (It deleted early episodes that I hadn't gotten around to seeing yet, so..)
* Good Girls
* The Assaination of Gianni Versace -- (see Black Lightening, and well, yourlibrarian's review of it left me less than enthused).
* Roseanne (I despise Rosanne Barr, who is basically the female version of Archie Bunker and Donald Trump or what would happen if those two got together and had a kid.)
* Splitting Up Together (eh, I like the guy in it, but everyone else I wanted to smack in the first fifteen minutes and I can't handle a whiny affluent thirty-something couple with small children television series.)
Then I watched:
* Grey's Anatomy
I liked this episode. It made me cry. Particularly the scene with the Rabbi who was losing his skin due to a bad reaction to antiboitics and April who is feeling sorry for herself. He basically told her to stop being a child having a temper-tantrum. Life is painful. Bad things happen. It's not fair.
You don't deserve anything. You aren't entitled to anything. This is a gift, and being kind to others is what it is about. Get over your narcissistic self. I cried. It was wonderful.
Also, it was paralleled with Meredith getting her mojo back and pushing past all-work-all-business Meredith, with her hair tied up in braids around her head, to fluffy hair Meredith, who was a bit looser and freer.
And Owen romancing poor Teddy, only for Teddy to figure out that Owen is using her as a consolation prize, again. And really just needs to be in a relationship with someone who adores him.
* 9-1-1
Oh, cool, an Angela Bassett/Peter Krause romance. Yay.
Also Connie Britton is leaving the show and was written out for a trip to Ireland. I was happy she didn't end up with Buck, who annoys me. Apparently she did the show as a father to Ryan Murphy.
* Supernatural
This is one of those shows that you can just jump in and out of -- randomly, without much difficulty.
It has three main male leads, everyone else is just...well...guest stars. I also tend to like their stand-a-lone episodes better. Supernatural has that in common with X-Files, they are the only shows on television that I prefer to watch the stand-a-lone episodic shows to the serialized episodes. It's weird, but there it is.
This one was a rather comedic homage to Scooby Doo, Where Are You. Even riffing off an actual episode of the series -- the titular "A Night of Frights" in a haunted house. It parodied and played homage to Scooby at the same time. And animated everyone.
Dean is such a doofus in these episodes.
But I found it funny in places -- mainly because I watched Scooby Doo, Where Are You when I was a little kid.
* Deception
Not great, but better than most television series of this sort. Actually it's one of the few new television shows I've found to be entertaining and somewhat different. Reminds me a little bit of Leverage and a little of Bones (except I like everyone more here than on Bones. Not a Emily Deschanel or David Boreanze fan, hence the reason I never got into Bones). They go into detail on how the illusion or trick is done -- much like Leverage did.
I also find the characters and actors likable.
Will I stick with it, will it survive? Who knows.
* Alex, Inc
The only new sitcom that I made it through. This means nothing. It's not bad. The lead is as charming and witty as he was in Scrubs. The concept is a bit weird. But it may work. Guy quits his job to become a professional podcaster, and dips into the 401 to do it. Much chaos ensues. Best scene? His son's magic act at school.
* Lucifer
Eh. Not loving Tom Welling in this role, but you already knew that. I've figured out that I'm not supposed to like his character -- who is nasty. Hello, he's playing the first murderer, of course he is nasty.
Chloe has the worst taste in men. Just saying.
Also show? if you have to keep having Ella tell us how great Caine/Chloe are together or sexy they look or their chemistry...then you know there is a problem. Particularly Ella of all people.
Maze? What are you thinking? Seriously, we thought you were smarter than this?
Amendial -- can you stop whining for one episode? Is this possible? The sad puppy routine is getting old.
Lucifer? Sigh. Get over yourself already. Just show Chloe your wings and explain to her the whole situation. Charlotte took it a lot better than expected. Apparently Charlotte would rather think she went to hell, then be crazy, and seeing Lucy's wings helps with that.
Oh, found out why we aren't seeing the wings that often. It's not an easy trick to pull off. They have to have a guy stand behind him with a card-board cut out of wings, and then CGI it in later.
If Caine isn't dead and gone by the end of this season? I'm done. Although I think he probably will be. Apparently he's with Chloe because he wants to die and thinks if he gets her devoted to him, he will. He'll also end up in hell. Just because he feels no guilt over Able, isn't going to get him off. He's killed others.
Right now, he wants to get rid of Lucy, send him back to hell. Buddy, just let him get injured with Chole around, no problemo.
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Date: 2018-03-31 01:41 pm (UTC)