Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Hi again!

Hi! So sadly I don't know how to make any kind of feed thing from the other blog. But we do update DAILY now so you can count on that at least?
Toby updated tonight and I thought it was pretty good!
I still don't know how to "insert links" :(
http://www.throng.co.nz/shortland-street/shortland-street-november-16-midnight-tricycle-mystery

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENT

Oh hey, we've decamped to throng.co.nz, where the blog is inexplicably currently under "wanted for TV 5". Jesus, I don't know.

All new blog updates (and hopefully some lovely people!) will be visible HERE from now on

Oh yeah also we can't swear anymore. Which I guess is okay. Not for me though. I am a very, very angry person.

Hey Leigh Peters, thanks for being the most recent follower of our blog. Sorry, but you've wasted your time. Sincerest apologies! We love you!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

TK is sad and this episode is boring

On Saturday night we saw Ido Drent aka Daniel Potts coming out of sweet mother's kitchen on Courtenay Place. I hope he had the curly fries. I was very starstruck. Like, way too starstruck for Daniel Potts. If I ever see a real celebrity I will probably flip my wig. Anyway, he was wearing a funny wee skinny red scarf and making these weird whooping noises. He is rather short too, which I didn't know. So now whenever I am watching the show I notice that they frame him so he doesn't look so miniature. He was with a girl. She looked pretty smug. I was carrying a bag full of eclairs and was in my work uniform. I was not smug.

Anyway, tonight we open our scenes with some crap about that Rafe guy being "a fox" to quote Wendy. Tania and Wendy go to check out said fox and he still thinks Tania is a hottie. Wendy is all "jealous!" and I am all "kill me please". It's good stuff.

Rachel wants Sophie of all people to be her PA. I can see why, imagine her CV

early 2010-later 2010: Owner of my dead husband's bar. Ran it into the ground.
Reasons for leaving: See above, had nervous breakdown
Referee: My dad, Callum or maybe this guy Brodie who I may have boned. References available on request.

2009-2010- Some kind of journalist/student
Reason for leaving: Seduced my lecturer, got stalked by lecturer, dropped out
Referee: Maybe the lecturer Ash. He may be dead or in jail?

2008-2009- High school student? Head girl!

Hire me please! I am a widow!


Callum however isn't excited about the idea of sad-sack Sophie working for the hospital "it will seem like I am hiring my daughter". Yes, it seems that way because that is EXACTLY how it is.

Anyway, TK dumps Jennifer's arse in the middle of her shift and leaves her sobbing in her exam room. Tracey comforts her in the ambulance bay and Jennifer is all "DON'T BE NICE TO ME!" she has serious issues.

Brooke is bummed out cos she lost her "one and only female friend" Rachel to the whole Chris/Rachel/2IC job hooha.

For reasons unknown Tania and Durville are hanging out with Wendy at the bar? I guess its cos Murray now works at the bar and Wendy likes to hang out waiting for her non fox man to finish up his shift. I bet she calls him "hubby". I hate when people call their husbands "hubby" the same goes for "bubby" for babies. And I am really getting angry about this newly popular trend of saying that you are doing something "just casually" or "casual-like". It drives me mad. Clearly, I have a very low tolerance for things. I should work on that.

Back at Rafe's hospital bed Wendy, some other nurse and an extra whose head is constantly out of shot are busy being regaled with tales of scaling K2. Wendy is disgustingly smitten. Tania is bored to sleep with his tall stories.



Tania is all "story time is over, bitches" and Wendy shrieks "But he's just getting to the good bit!". No wonder Wendy is like 50 years old and has never risen to the giddy heights of charge nurse, she is a lazy, stupid waste of space.



Isaac traps Rachel and Callum into attending a soiree at Isaac/Chris' house where he proceeds to make snide innuendos about Rachel and Chris boning. Isaac then tries to blackmail Rachel into giving him a payrise (cos he can't survive on $100,000 a year) and Rachel storms out of the party leaving Callum following bemused in her fiery wake.



Meanwhile, Sarah decides to go off with bad accent guy to Boston where she will research some MS. Tracey skulks in the kitchen with too much knowledge about TK and Jennifer and Sarah in her little head. Where is Scotty? That girl needs to get boned good and proper.

TK shows up at Tracey's door asking for Sarah. Tracey is all "come in have a cuppa!" and then when TK starts rambling on about how much he wants to bang Sarah Tracey makes her guilty little face and TK is all "what? what do you know?" and Tracey bellows "NOTHING! LET'S TALK ABOUT RUGBY! THE WORLD CUP!". She is a master of conversation!

TK worms the truth out of Tracey and TK is all devastated. He hasn't got a lot of chance to use the patented TK laugh this episode. Depressed TK is maybe more bearable, though less screenshot worthy than charming lothario TK.

Back at Rachel/Callum central Rachel is busy spilling her guts about the whole Chris kiss affair. Callum expresses his feelings



He is all "please don't touch me" and then suddenly the episode ends? Its actually really weird and unexpected. Caught me off guard in the middle of my roast lamb.

But check out this dapper Callum advertising shot thing! Can you say "silver fox?"

Saturday, November 6, 2010

NOVEMBER 5: WANT MORE DR PEPPER

Sometimes in life, things are going too easy. You're feeling real happy with yourself and it's real good, and then you remember why you're happy: you're happy because you haven't watched Shortland St in more than a week.

It's lucky for you readers that being happy makes me uncomfortable. Happiness means I've reached a pinnacle, and the only place one can go from the top is downhill. This is my downhill. This is Shortland Street.

There's a lot to catch up on since last time I blogged about the show. Basically, Sophie's still bummed about ruining two peoples' lives in one swoop, there's some kind of subterfuge going on regarding some hot new "2IC" position at the hospital, and as predicted a few weeks ago, Sarah's MS has reared its ugly head once more.

... and we're off to a flying start. I'm greeted back from my Shortland Street hiatus with this face:



as Tania helpfully reminds us that it's Guy Fawkes Day. It's worth noting she's one of those cretins that pronounces "yes" with a U instead of an E.

Sarah's been offered an MS-specific job in Boston, and tells Daniel (and the audience) all about it. I saw Daniel on the street last night. The actor, I mean. He probably wasn't in character. He was wearing a rather fabulous scarf.

Because TK's a god damned creep, he's doing some pretty intense research into Sarah's new job. Remember how they broke up for seemingly no reason whatsoever? Yeah I bet that storyline's about to be reintroduced.

For whatever reason, Callum is helming an angry meeting between Brodie and smouldering new bar manager Murray:



It mostly consists of the two yelling about some bullshit while Callum moves his mouth around, like a camel chewing or something.

Then some weird yellow-haired old lady makes her acting debut in the foreground of this strangely framed scene, where creepy glasses doctor buys Tania a snack from the cafe:



Sophie's just chilling around the hospital being a massive downer to everyone she meets. All ruining Bella's day and so on. Callum's grumpy about the bar. Then Sophie does some serious sad-sack acting

Creepy glasses bald doctor gets Tania's keys out of her car via taxidermy tools, somehow? Aren't most car locks electronic these days? Pretty sure you can't open them with scalpels and tweezers, but it works all the same. Tania's real impressed, and this is one of those moments where I wish I could post video clips because usually Tania actor's pretty coy, doesn't want to overdo things, but she really throws herself into her amazement of glasses doctor's lock picking skill:



We cut to the IV bar, where creepy bald glasses doctor wants a lime and soda. Hunter, out of nowhere, yells "COOL!" and then we learn that glasses doctor's brother Rafael (seriously?) is an "Indiana Jones styles" hot-air balloonist who is going to break some kind of record. I hope this means we get a dashing new character?

Then Callum strolls in and announces he's taking over running of the bar from Sophie. Which is probably good, because I don't think 18 year olds should own bars, and it's entirely appropriate for hospital CEOs to moonlight as pub managers.

Sarah sees TK coming into her office, and is thrilled because she wants to eat him:



Then TK's all, "oh yeah babe that job you want, the people who run it are from Scott-Speir". Remember that? It's okay if you don't, because it's a storyline that finished like FIVE YEARS AGO. Jesus Christ.

Doctor creepy glasses' ballooneering brother is being rushed to hospital with "serious injuries". Which I think means "broken leg". Life or death stuff!

Pretty sure every character's first scene should involve them lying down and screaming into an oxygen mask:



Sarah then reminds Daniel (and the audience) of that dreadfully shitty Scott-Spier storyline, which seems to have been just a bunch of middle-aged minor characters suffering car bombs. Apparently they killed foetus-faced temptress Toni too? Didn't she die like two years later of a mystery disease?

Anyway then Daniel reintroduces the TK/Sarah love connection storyline, but says there's "no way" TK still loves Sarah - "not after what you did to him". I'm not sure what she did to him, but that's not a very nice thing to say to your mother.

Back at the bar, Brodie says he and Murray need to come up with a new, wholly original idea. Something no one else is doing. His idea? Turn the IV into a sports bar. Fuck.

OnDemand is running this awful ad, which is all "in a perfect world, everything would be free and ATMs would be infinite money dispensers." Pretty sure if everything were free, money would be totally useless. This is bullshit, BNZ!

The guy who's offering Sarah her job barely even opens his mouth when he talks, also he thinks it's okay to be employed by murderers because he's "a great believer in thinking laterally". Well, as long as he's morally consistent, I'm happy.

Isaac's operating on hot new Rafael's foot, while creepy glasses doctor watches, constantly yelling at him.

Rachel decides to console Sophie, who's still really depressed about some bullshit. Sophie uses the phrase "epic fail". Rachel is all "I was like you when I was a kid, I ran around doing a whole heap of things" and I'm serious, that's an actual line of dialogue. I hope that if I ever find myself depressed, I have someone like her to turn my life around.



Rachel's hot solution to Sophie's unbridled misery is a job at the hospital. I love how characters' lives in this show are entirely dedicated to the same four or so sets

You know what's weird? Adam's apples. I wonder what they look like, I mean, under the skin and stuff.

oh I can see where this plotline is going. Creepy glasses doctor and his brother Rafael are gonna be all competing for Tania's shitty affections. Oh hang on a minute, Rafael just asked for Tania's hand in marriage. Way to make a splash!

And that's our show. God, I hate myself.