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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-27

Hobbit Christmas

An Unexpected Journey The trailer of the decade has been released! The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey maintains everything that is perfection within our existing Middle Earth minds while adding new friends (and foes) to the mix.

It is after viewing the trailer no less than 20 times that I realize that we aren’t even to the Smaug parts yet! The components of the trailer that really stand out the most to me are: The epic score by Howard Shore, Martin Freeman as Bilbo is my wildest dream come true (I am not disappointed, and I had really high expectations), seeing Galadriel (TWICE!), Kili (of course), Gandalf as playful and mysterious as he was (not to mention powerful!), the beauty of The Shire, and The Misty Mountain song (as sung by the Dwarf Company).

Though it’s still nearly a year away, I imagine I will be re-watching this trailer throughout the year and getting the same chills each time I do.

Respectfully

Supernatural returned for Season 7 with a satisfying episode that made at least one person a new fan. Fan response to the episode has been generally positive, which is something I had worried about. After fans immediately took to Castiel, his role grew to be nearly as important as the Winchesters and the news that he would not be a series regular this year sent many fans to the edge. The plot development of the leviathans is an intriguing way to keep him distant, but prescient. We’ll definitely keep watching to see if we can get our Cas back.

Not only because I’m a Dean Girl, but because it is now universally accepted as awesome, I end with the quote of the night.

Dean, to Death on why he should kill the “enemy”:

Because we said so, and we’re the boss of you…Respectfully.

Need More This

Television, no, real life needs more of this. Anyone who still hasn’t checked out Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens in Justified needs to just stop whatever they are doing and jump on it.

While I rarely have faith in awards shows, and the exclusion of Sean Bean as an Emmy nominee for Best Actor does little to reassure me of their significance, I will say that the nomination of my favorite Marshal makes up for it. My love for this show goes beyond my appreciation of Raylan (though that alone would be enough to carry me) due to performances of the entire cast. It’s refreshing to see people using Southern accents that aren’t so obviously affected that you want ear bleach. Take it from me, people in KY and WV sound EXACTLY like that. The sounds, sights, and stories are things right out of our backyards.

Too bad Raylan’s not.