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OZ in My Heart

December 20th, 2009 lindahuang No comments
Oz the complete season

Oz the complete season

This show is shocked me.

I does not adapt to when i start watching, some of the hubbub of voices, numerous and complicated characters, realistic shooting style, etc.

love is just a side in this show, but also let people moved. Love has a variety of expression, no doubt they showed.

Love is extreme and abnormal inside. However, I like them this expression.

unfortunately, OZ season 6 is too short. Keller died last, this is how the story suspended. Therefore, perhaps this is real life. Life is too short and suddenly, we cannot realize anytime.

Ps: I really hate, hate Schillinger, extreme racist.

Oz the complete season 1-6

Oz the complete season 1-6

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What Do You Plan to Do in Your Holiday?

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The simpsons seasons 1-19

The simpsons seasons 1-19

Holiday is coming. We imagine a quiet holiday at home for this winter after a busy year. What do you plan to do? The Simpsons is a good choice for you.

The Simpsons are a typical family who live in a fictional “Middle American” town of Springfield. Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife and mother. They have three children: Bart, a ten-year-old troublemaker; Lisa, a precocious eight-year-old activist; and Maggie, a baby who rarely speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. The family owns a dog, Santa’s Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in “I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot”. Both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. Despite the passing of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays, the Simpsons do not physically age and still appear just as they did at the end of the 1980s. Although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another.

The show includes an array of quirky characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople and local celebrities. The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokesters or for fulfilling needed functions in the town. A number of them have gained expanded roles and subsequently starred in their own episodes. According to Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the comedy show SCTV.

Wish you and yours a happy holiday on this gathering day.

The Music Plays A Significant Part in The Plot, Do You Agree?

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One tree hill the complete 1-6 season

One tree hill the complete 1-6 season

Music plays a significant part in the plot and the movement of the scenes throughout an episode. Several scenes are tied together seamlessly at the end of each show and the song, which is usually played in its entirety and helps create a singular mood from seemingly unconnected events. A significant portion of One Tree Hill episodes are named after songs.

In addition to featuring popular indie music on the show, artists have guest-starred. The show has used the musical aspirations of two characters (Peyton and Haley) to integrate the guest storylines. The in-universe bar and dance-club ‘TRIC’ and ‘Karen’s Café’ have been the settings of most of the musical performances. The season with most performances is Season 3, which also saw the release of a second soundtrack for the show. The show has a long list of artists who have participated in the show; Gavin DeGraw, Sheryl Crow, Michelle Branch, The Wreckers, Tyler Hilton, Jimmy Eat World, The Honorary Title, Fall Out Boy, Angels & Airwaves, Nada Surf, Jack’s Mannequin, Michelle Featherstone, Lupe Fiasco, Bear Lake, and Within Reason. Season 5 featured Kate Voegele in an important character role as Mia Catallano, The Honorary Title and Kevin Federline in another character role as Jason. Bethany Joy Galeotti who plays Haley James Scott, Bryan Greenberg who played Jake Jagielski and Tyler Hilton who played Chris Keller have also performed on the show. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz appeared in an episode after the band’s performance as himself, in a storyline where he becomes a love-interest for Peyton. Other well-known bands whose songs have featured on the show include: Oasis, Radiohead, Stereophonics, Mclusky, Snow Patrol, Frightened Rabbit, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s, Bon Iver, Keane, Starsailor, Travis, Feeder, Dashboard Confessional, Pink, The Cure, Switchfoot, Audioslave and Foo Fighters.

The show has released three soundtrack albums: One Tree Hill – Music From The WB Television Series, Vol. 1, Friends with Benefit: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 2 and The Road Mix: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 3. Proceeds of the second soundtrack go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation to tie in with a storyline on the show involving breast cancer. On November 13 2008, iTunes published a soundtrack called “Music From One Tree Hill” that contained songs from the sixth season.

Schwahn has revealed that each episode title is named after a particular song that has something in common with the theme of the episode. For example, episode 1.02 (”The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most”) is named after a Dashboard Confessional song of the same name. In this episode, Lucas realizes that basketball, which had once been his safe place, is now the place that he has come to fear the most after joining the Ravens.

One Tree Hill made history by having Led Zeppelin’s song “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” in its Season 3 finale. Led Zeppelin has never licensed their songs on network TV (the only other time was on HBO’s cable series The Sopranos). One Tree Hill is the first non-cable network television series to ever have a licensed Led Zeppelin song on their show.

The Actor in Bones We Known

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The Actor in Bones We Known

Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (seasons 1–present, main) – is a forensic anthropologist working at the renowned Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as a best-selling crime novelist. Her intellectual brilliance enables her to do groundbreaking work, but her lack of social skills provides most of the show’s lighthearted humor.

David Boreanaz as Seeley Joseph Booth (seasons 1–present, main) – Brennan aids FBI Special Agent Booth in his investigations involving human remains that cannot be identified without Brennan’s skills in forensic anthropology. In contrast to the other main characters, Booth has limited knowledge of science and is often used to provide a layman’s translation of the scientific jargon-filled dialogue. He also provides the dichotomy between science and emotion, as in one episode when Bones comments to Cam, “He can read people like you read pathology reports and I read bones.” Booth is known for his ability to guess people’s motives or “posit a scenario,” something that is a constant frustration and struggle to Brennan. He is a former US Army Rangers sniper with at least 52 confirmed kills, and has an intense dislike of clowns.

Michaela Conlin as Angela Pearly Gates Montenegro (Seasons 1–present, main) – A forensic artist at the Jeffersonian Institute and is Dr. Brennan’s best friend. Angela is Dr. Brennan’s team specialist in craniofacial reconstruction and can generate holograms using her 3-dimensional graphics program (The Angelator) to simulate various scenarios of a crime. She is open, friendly and caring, and constantly tries to draw Dr. Brennan out of the lab.

Eric Millegan as Dr. Zackary Uriah Addy (Seasons 1–3, main; recurring afterward) – Is introduced as Dr. Brennan’s graduate student and assistant at the Jeffersonian Institute at the start of the series. In the second season, he receives his doctorate in Forensic Anthropology and mechanical engineering and becomes a professional forensic anthropologist. Zack is closer to the stereotypical geek than anyone else on the team. Although well-meaning, helpful and friendly, when a situation calls for social interaction or intuition, he is often lost. During the course of events leading up to the death of Howard Epps, Zack was almost killed when he unwittingly triggered a pressure sensor tied to a bomb affixed to the headless body of Caroline Epps, only to be saved by Booth. He is extremely intelligent; in episode 11 it is said that his IQ is significantly above 163 (which is already a genius level). He is also Hodgins’ best friend, and lives in the upper part of Hodgins’ garage. Zack was removed from his position on Dr. Brennan’s team during the Gormogon episodes. Zack is also known as “Zacharoni”, “Z-Man”, and competes with Hodgins for “King of the Lab”.

T. J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Stanley Hodgins (Season 1–present, main) – An entomologist and is also an expert on spores and minerals, but conspiracy theories are his hobby. He is one of the more normal persons in the group, and helps teach Zack how to be socially normal. His family is extremely wealthy and Hodgins wishes for his current occupation to remain concealed from his bosses because he doesn’t want to be seen as a superior.

Jonathan Adams as Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1, main) – A former archaeologist turned administrator, who is also the director of the Jeffersonian Institute. He is a loving husband and father to a pair of five-year-old twin girls. His way of working leads Hodgins to think of him as subjective and long winded, and lacking the qualities of a pure scientist, although the antagonism between the two develops into a friendly rivalry as the series progresses. He has not made any appearances beyond the first season. As of Episode 23 “The Titan on the Tracks” Dr. Goodman is said to be on a sabbatical.

Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille Saroyan (Seasons 2–present, main) – Is the Head of the Forensic Division at Jeffersonian Institute. She was introduced in the first episode of the second season after being hired by Dr. Goodman while Dr. Brennan was on vacation. She was born in The Bronx and was a coroner in New York before taking up the position at the Jeffersonian. At the beginning of the second season, she and Dr. Brennan have an uneasy working relationship due to her being Dr. Brennan’s superior and their different work styles. Dr. Saroyan had a romantic relationship with Booth prior to her joining the Jeffersonian, as well as a short relationship after.

John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets (Seasons 3–present, main) – A psychologist assigned to Booth and Brennan after Booth arrests her father; the FBI feels the potential conflict between them may affect their working relationship. The character made his first appearance in the fourth episode of third season and his portrayer, John Francis Daley, became a main cast member from the ninth episode, “The Santa in the Slush”, onwards.

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Why People Like South Park?

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South park complete season 1-11

South park complete season 1-11

South Park as the sharp satirical TV series that it is faced a lot of criticism until the viewers got used to the humor of its “own kind”. This movie holds its irony to the core and answers the critics too through the movie itself. The movie offends a lot of people who need to be offended once in a while. Somewhere though it also goes over the top and thinks it to be cleverer than it actually is. Still, all in all a must watch, genuinely outrageous, nasty, hysterically funny, shocking thought-provoking and close to brilliant. As rightly quoted by Ron Wells, “If, like me you’re sick of every work of art getting judged by your grandmother’s delicate sensibilities and would like to watch some real artists have some fun while flipping off the cultural watchdogs, this film was made for you.”

The show revolves around the adventures of four boys Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick (often called “the boys” when as a group for easier reference)  and their friends living in the fictional small town of South Park, Colorado. The boys were in the third grade but midway through season four they entered the fourth grade where they have stayed ever since. There are many recurring characters on the show, including the boys’families, school staff, and other students. These include Leopold “Butters”Stotch, Chef (who no longer appears in the show), Mr. Hankey, Towelie, Jesus, and Satan. There are also many other minor characters.
South Park was the first weekly program to be assigned the TV-MA rating. And is generally intended for adult audiences. The boys and most other child characters use strong profanity, with only the most taboo words being bleeped by censors during a typical broadcast. The use of such language serves as a means for Parker and Stone to display how they claim young boys really talk when they are alone.

South Park commonly makes use of carnivalesque and absurdist techniques, numerous running gags, violence, sexual content, offhand pop-cultural references, and satirical portrayal of celebrities. The early episodes tended to be shock value-oriented and featured more slapstick-style humor. While social satire had been used on the show occasionally earlier on, it became more prevalent as the series progressed, with the show retaining some of its focus on the boys’fondness of scatological humor in an attempt to remind adult viewers “what it was like to be eight years old”. Parker and Stone also began further developing other characters by giving them larger roles in certain storylines, and began writing plots as parables based around religion, politics, and numerous other topics. This provided the opportunity for the show to spoof both extreme sides of contentious issues, while lampooning both liberal and conservative points of view. Parker and Stone describe themselves as “equal opportunity offenders”, whose main agenda is to “be funny” and “make people laugh”, while stating that no particular topic or group of people be spared the expense of being subject to mockery and satire.