Okay, so I'm having like, a "Wut?" moment, like totally.

So I go to work, I go to the grocery store, and then I get back and Julie, my next door neighbor, is like, "Toodaloo! Hello! Hi Sarah, I have some questions for you!"

And I'm like, 'I thought toodaloo mean goodbye?' But I walk on over, all happy and smiley because she's all happy and smiley. 

She's like, "Are you into healthy stuff?"

"Yeah, sure," Looks down at shirt which says, 'A Healthy Indulgence,' but then thinks about the fact that that phrase could mean a good deal of things.

"Okay, well the company I work for is having this mixer thing, with hor d'oeurves and wine, and I was wondering if you would like to come?"

Have I ever been one to pass up wine and hor d'oeurves?

But unfortunately, it was tomorrow, and I work tomorrow, so sadly I couldn't go. But then she says, "But hey, I have another question, do you--" Her eyes get all shifty. "--babysit?"

O smile, full of confidence, and say, "Yes. Yes I do."

"Great! Because sometimes you know, on the weekend we need someone and we just want a little date night every now and then and --"

"I'm available this Friday if that works for you!"

And I swear to God her face lit up like a hot air balloon at an October New Mexico festival.

Then she invites me in and gives me all of these free samples of her skin care line. Dude, she gave me flipping strawberry-kiwi body wash. I am DOWN with these neighbors.

And the kids were totally cute. The older one is special needs, but he's doing much better with the new medication they're putting him on. They do seem like cool people, even if poor Julie is beside herself trying to find a cure for an un-curable kid condition. It takes time and love, but that's my own home remedy, and not for her ears.

So anyway, she also gave me loads of face wash and shampoo and conditioner and spot treatment (YAY). She also gave me like, an energy drink without the sugar, which I'm a bit hesitant to try. But it has ginseng, so maybe it's not THAT bad?

I mean giving me an energy drink is like giving coke to a squirrel. Best combination? Not so much.

Anyway, that was my "Wut?" moment. Any of yours?

And omg 30 Rock is teh besst show 3var.

Originally posted by nyxmidnight at PSA

 Let's start with the movie.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT, SUCKED.

Seriously, I was terribly disappointed.

First, Sokka wasn't funny. Second, they pronounced his name wrong. The acting was horrible, minus Noah Ringer and of course my future husband Dev Patel, and I really want to scream and cry and punch someone's face out.

But let me get organized.

We all know the story of the boy found in the iceberg. He was found by two kids from the souther water tribe and realized to be the missing avatar, the bender of the four elements of the world--water, earth, fire and air--and who could bring peace to the world. The avatar had been lost 100 years ago, just when the war with the fire nation began. And so, the boy who has been sleeping for 100 years must come back to the world and master the four elements in order to defeat the fire lord from conquering and destroying the world.

Now, I understand how turning about 10 hours of film into 2 is difficult. You leave a lot out of the plot of a movie which has been explained in the TV show, but this writing is inexcusable.

M. Night Shyamalan was direct and writer for the film, and he did a horrible job on several accounts.

As the writer, he delivered us a pile of shit, to be quite blunt. Every line was for the sake of explaining an incomprehensible plot. The plot is really quite simple, see I did a mediocre job of it in about five sentences, but with one thousand awkward phrases, Night just didn't get the point of the show. You know in the second to the last episode in the final season, when the kids watch themselves in that horrible play? THAT depiction was a thousand times better than anything Night put together in this Shyam of a movie.

And whether it was he or not, whoever picked those actors may have been high on something. Iroh wasn't a jolly chinese Santa. He was serious and he lacked a sincere parental vibe. Everyone knows just how Uncle Iroh would put up with anything for his beloved nephew Zuko, but this guy just didn't have me believing it. I don't even remember anything he said, other than that horrible scene when he interrupts Zuko's fight with Commander Pussy, I mean Zhou. Ooh, big difference, but I'll get to that later.

Katara. Oh Katara. I think if she slammed her face into a blender and put it on puree you still wouldn't get any expression out of her. She was, as they say, terribly wooden. She stood there like a block of oak and hardly clenched her fists enough for us to realize, "Oh, I think she's angry. Or constipated. Either way, I feel uncomfortable watching her." Her lines were delivered with awkwardness and frankly, she had as much character in her as...well, I was going to say a black hole because she sucked all light and hope from the movie, but I think that's harsh. That black hole is just misunderstood.

That Sokka did about as well as could be expected from the monotonous Jasper we all know in Twilight. Bravo. You out-bored yourself buddy old boy. Not one funny line. Not. One. And his awkward love affair with the princess...could have done without that. It was fake smiles and eye drop tears for this love affair. The realest tears in the film were mine, I do believe.

Now let me let up a bit and say that the visual effects were stunning. The bending looked very real and the kung-fu choreography was very well done. I think they made a great call casting Noah Ringer, who was a cute kid and a halfway decent actor, but just given a really bad script. Noah looked the part, but we missed that goofy kid-ness Aang had with his character, and instead we had this tortured soul. Don't get me wrong, there is a side of Aang that's tortured--his whole race is extinct because of him--but that doesn't mean he's not a KID. I like Noah, I think he has potential, but he needs a better acting coach and a WAY better script. Where's Chris Columbus when you need him?

Dev Patel was outstanding. He really brought the anger to the role that was called for. Zuko is a pissed off kid with lots of anger issues. it's how he fuels his fire, it's how he's survived so long looking for a figure who, to most, didn't exist. When all hope failed, Zuko's anger kept burning bright through all his years of turmoil, and that's EXACTLY what Patel brought, and then some. I didn't even notice his hair wasn't right until after the movie, and then I didn't care. I think they picked the perfect guy for the role. And I'll be further honest, as much as I loved Zuko's voice, Patel has a much more threatening delivery, and he actually does scare you a bit, while TV show Zuko...the lisp is a bit distracting at times. 

But as if the script and the bad acting weren't enough to make this film not worth seeing, they had to go and start pronouncing names funny and butchering the characters. As if Katara weren't already hard enough to watch, she now has to be completely 2-dimensional. Strike that, she has NO dimension. What happened to all that courage, all that feisty, "I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR"? Katara is completely badass for a 13-year-old in the show, and here...I want to murder her. I admired Katara in the show, and I thought she was a great inspiration, I didn't even find myself annoyed at her hope speeches, I found myself inspired and teary-eyed. In the movie it was my only hope she would drown in my tears of agony.

And Sokka. Oh, I mean SOH-KAH. I mean FLAT-FACED OVER-DRAMATIC ASSHOLE ANNOYING BITCH MONKEY. And assholes everywhere have just been burned. This guy, I never liked him as Jasper in the first place. He's creepy-looking, and he had no acting skills to begin with. Whoever thought it'd be a god idea to throw this guy in the mix must have had a serious case of denial running in the family genes. Not one joke. NOT ONE. Did NONE of these actors watch the show? NONE OF THEM? 

DID NO ONE HAVE THE BALLS TO TELL NIGHT THAT HE WAS A FUCKING ASSHOLE WHO WAS RUINING THE SHOW BY MAKING THIS FILM?

NOT ONE JOKE?!

Honestly, just like the show made my day brighter and happier, this movie ruined my day and stole $9 of hard-earned cash away.

The only reason I didn't ask for my money back is because I figure when I marry Dev Patel I'll be getting it back anyway. 

So out of 5 stars, I give it 1. And they're lucky to be getting anything from me, or from any person who calls his or herself a fan of the show.

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