Friday, December 16, 2011

Spaz! Primeval!!!! (Ignore if you want)

So this is originally a "30 days of primeval" but i dont have a tumblr to put it on and i'll only have time when i'm still sick so i just was going to do a spaz post and do it right now!
So as some of you know I am OBSESSED with bbc syfy, mainly Doctor Who (Whovians Unite!) and Primeval!
So here is my spaz moment of Primeval!

1. Favorite Episode.

Series 2 Episode 4 (for now, i'm going through the show again cause i'm sick :P)
why:
Mainly because of the whole Conner/Abby thing. connor is distraught when abby is taken by a future aquatic preditor, so he and cutter set out to find her, she eventually gets free but then is dragged into the future by the creature, where she ends up dangling over a cliff. and in that moment of panic he tells her that he loves her. (scream).
You also get used to Jenny not being Claudia.
Also cause it really is a good episode that expands what everybody really cares about.

But at the same time i get really mad about Connor denying that he admitted his feeling for her. But at least in the long run they end up together. :D

2. Favorite Female Character.

 Abby Maitland
1. She is Kick-Butt Awesome!
2. How even through his geekyness and stupidity, she loves Connor. :P
3. She's extremely smart.
4. She cares about the animals trapped on our side and takes care of them in the ARC
+ in real life (actor: Hannah Spearritt) is actually hooked up with Connor! (Andrew Lee Potts)

abby maitland - primeval
Abby working at the zoo.


3. Favorite Male Character.
 Is it not obvious already?
This is him right before he gets forced through an anomaly in series 5.

CONNOR TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE'S ADORIBLE!!!!!!!
He's a freakin' genius.
His goofy grin :P
He cares so much about everyone around him, no one more so than Abby. 
He's completely devoted to her in his own clumsy way. 
He makes mistakes and he learns from them. 
He's not afraid to cry.
He's incredibly brave. 
He's just this amazingly adorable geek that it’s impossible not to love.


(It also helps that Andrew is an incredibly good actor). 


* if Andrew Lee Potts was taken by any other girl on earth except for Hannah Spearritt, He would be MINE! :P


4. Favorite Creature.


Sid and Nancy

They, along with a whole pack of Diictodons, came through an anomaly from their home era of the Permian to a West London Hospital. One was in the ceiling when it fell through and was caught by Connor and Captain Becker inside a laundry basket. The other was lured by the distress call of another and attempted to get through the anomaly, but it closed and was captured inside Nick Cutter's jacket. Abby and Connor decided to adopt the pair, and were secured in Cutter's car before they were later moved to Abby's flat, and were later named Sid and Nancy. They get themselves into a mess of troubles. They basically act like burrowing reptile-ish, Pre-historic dogs :P


5. Least fav creature and why.
OK hard one. 
On the scale of freaky-ness,
     1- Predators- They are descendants of bats, and like bats use echolocation to hunt and locate prey, with the ears having moved to the front of the face. They are extremely agile, however it comes at a cost as they are easily stunned by powerful blows. The Future Predators are known to have caused the most deaths out of any creature in the series, both on-screen deaths, and total (if what Helen Cutter said about them wiping out humanity in the future was true). Their only weakness is high pitched sounds and loud sounds/vibrations like glass exploding.
     2- The Camouflager Creature (probably only because I first watched that episode at night)- It was responsible for the disappearance of two boys 14 years before the present, including Patrick Quinn, and leaving Ryan Mason the only survivor. In the present day it was being fed raw meat by a girl in order to keep it from eating neighboring pets. When the team arrived at the now abandoned house they could not find the creature due to its camouflage ability, and later it attacked Abby when she was alone. Abby later followed it and discovered the girl feeding it. She and Ryan were in the house when it attacked again, however when the others arrived it killed a real estate agent. It attacked Danny Quinn, and it went through its anomaly when it reopened, however it came back, only to be shot several times by Danny as it fell back through, possibly dead.
     3- Anurognathus, (like a flying piranha fish, with an amazingly keen sense of smell able to detect blood from hundreds of feet away. they attach in giant swarms )

and basically any of the bugs that are over 6 inches. YUCK!

6. Fav Pic of Connor

This is right after he shoots Abby in the leg with a tranquilizer, she's going to be really mad when she wakes up :P
lol

7. Fav pic of Abby

Abby Maitland - abby-maitland photo
IDK why but i just <3 this pic of her.
 The colors and style of her outfit and the lighting really makes her personality stand out, and her eyes are so pretty! plus this is when i really liked her hair.

8. Fav Pairing.
Um OBVIOUS! 
CONNOR AND ABBY (known to fans as Conby)
Abby and Connor ~ Primeval Series 4
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So from the beginning, Connor has liked her, not till about halfway through series 2 that she likes him back. He saves her life maybe 5 times, but she pretty much ends up saving him most of the time :P eventually they get stuck in the Cretaceous period alone together, where they get really close. then at the end of series she finally has to ask him to marry her. lol. 
OMG fav awkward moment.
In this one episode their unfortunately end up at the wedding of the now retired jenny, and Connor says this. 

Connor: We should get married here.
Abby: Should we?
Connor: Well...uh...theoretically...if we were to...to ever...you know...ever go down the road of...you know...go down the road of complete...
Abby: I'm going to go get more champagne.

you have to love it.


but I have to admit.
JESS AND BECKER ARE ADORABLE! (known as Jecker)
This is right after Jess, who is allergic to bug bites, is bitten by a prehistoric bug, and because the ARC is under lock down, has passed out and slowly fading. Becker holds her until Connor has saved the world, and Becker rushes out, even when he doesn't know if its safe, to get her an EpiPen. 
AMAZING!

9. Worst Pairing or couple.
Basically the worst is the whole love triangle between Helen, Cutter and Stephen. Stephen works for Cutter, Cutter is married to Helen who disappeared years ago and was thought to be dead, Then she comes back and uses both of them.

But the one i'm most mad at the writers about is between Cutter and Claudia. :'(
So they had just realized they both like each other, he's kissed her and later right before he adventures back into an anomaly she runs up and kisses him. But then in the anomaly they somehow ended up changing the present that Claudia Brown didn't exist but in her place(ish), and the same actress, is Jenny Lewis. Only he can remember Claudia, and constantly calls jenny, Claudia. :(

10. Best Story line.
Matt and Emily: I love the whole Victorian lady time traveler line and the whole Man from the future, travelling back in time to save the world, which is really two separate story lines, but the way the two characters are interwoven together, their similarities and differences bounced off each other, it really does detract from one to remove the other.

11. Fav Series. 
Hard One. Um. 
I really want to say all of them, just because there really isn't a big ending to them just one long story.
 But i have to say either series 3, 4 or 5.
There is no way to decide. 
But on the bright side I am expecting series 6 to be amazing!

12. Fav friendship.

WHY ARE THESE QUESTION SO HARD!
I like the friendships between: 
Sarah and Connor- the two geniuses 
Matt and Becker- shared respect really :P
Jess and Abby- the only two girls have to be friends in this world of guns and dinosaurs or they would die.

13. How did you get into it?

I saw a trailer for third(?) series once while watching Doctor Who on BBC America. I later actually watched it after it was recommended to me on Netflix when i was watching Doctor Who again :P

14. Best Actor or Actress.

Andrew Lee Potts
and i'm not saying this cause he's just adorable. He can really act. 

15. Worst Actor or Actress.

Any one that's not a main character. It seems like they spend alll their money on the main characters (which i somewhat approve of cause if you loose them the shows done for), and all the extras, victims and minor characters are horrible actors.

16. Books read.

I haven't read any of the actual books but i have read the fan fics
- Our Cretaceous Souvenir 
- Matchmaking! Moi?

17. Fav Pic of Becker


18. Biggest Tear Jerker Moment.

When Abby and Connor are stuck in the Cretaceous Period and are talking about home.
When Connor is distraught about Abby being taken by the Mer.
or when Becker thought he was going to loose Jess.

 All good ones. 
Though i think I cried the most while reading one of the fan fics. (our cretaceous souvenir)

19. Best Dressed Character. 
Connor has this cute, classic, geeky look to him that I love = vests, fedoras, geeky shirts, pocket watches, finger gloves. But Abby is also pretty awesome.


20. Best Kiss
um..... Well i'm still looking forward to the Jecker kiss. but i think this one is amazing.


21. Best Connor Quote.

i think this is the hardest one.
so many!
-"We should get married here"
-(Knight: I am in hell.) Connor: Technically it's London, but you know, it's an easy mistake to make. 
-“I can do the action stuff as well, you know. I’m not just a massive intellect.”
-“There’s no proof, is there? All you’ve got is a missing lion. Maybe he just ran away to join the circus.”
-“Action Man said he’s coming.”

-"I can't...I love you! I am not, I'm not leaving you here."

Those are the first to pop to mind mainly because i just watched those episodes.

22. Worst Story line

I really didn't like the future fungus episode. Ug. and they have been doing to many bug episodes.

23. Best Grafics
IDK exactly what their asking but....
Basically all the creature grafics suck, but the acting is so darn good you get into it anyway

24. Fav Fan-Fic
lol
I've only read two but 'our cretaceous souvenir' is probably the best. (i wouldn't read the fan fics if you didnt already know the correct story line for the show cause in your mind they could get really tangled)

25. Fav Guest Character
so as i explained before i never really like the guest characters cause of their acting, but I sort of liked Ducan and Tom.

26. Least Favorite guest character.
Jack, Abby's broke little brother who 1) bets Rex(the flying lizard dinosaur Abby and Connor kept) in a game of cards, 2) steals Abby's anomaly locator from her purse and 3) uses it to get trapped in the future by giant bugs and risks the whole team getting killed in the future by the bugs or the predators.

27. Something you wished never happened. 
well... the entire series is all over time so mainly that so many people on the team died. Stephen, I can live with out and maybe Cutter. but why Sarah? she was perfectly fine! and why did jenny leave? 
another is why did Abby have to like Stephen the first series?(you can see now why i don't mind he's dead)

I also wish there wasn't Leek, and Christine Johnson.

28. something you wish had happened.
maybe a bit more Sarah-Quinn going on?
and that Claudia had stayed Claudia and that whole Cutter-Claudia thing happened.

29. Best Lester Quote.
-"note to self: arrange regular mental health checkups for all the staff"
- "No, I'll get a shovel and mixer and do it myself..." 
- "Meet Professor Cutter - a fascinating study on the tipping point between inspiration and lunacy"
-I think I trust her about as much as I could throw a Stegosaurus. 
there's also one where he's talking to matt about being from the future and all... yeah.. cant find it.

30. Fav Scene.

to finish it off. the hardest question of all. out of 5 series you want me to pick one?

Ok.
When Abby proposes to Connor. <3

There. Done. I have spent about 6 hours on this.
but i enjoyed every minute of it!



for the record, Andrew Lee Potts is mine!


Omg is this not hilarious!
That's part of the Tardis' main counsel on the left and that's Connors invention that locks the anomalies.
MY TWO FAVORITE SHOWS LINKED TOGETHER!!!!!!!
<3

Well the day has passed, the world has been saved 12 times today (I've practically watched it all day), and i'm starting to feel better. Sigh. Mother said no more episode for the night. So i should stop now.
So...yeah... 
Peace out!
~Kiera



PS. I will marry him someday. :P lol


Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Lion King!





So today i went to see The Lion King at the hippodrome!
The Lion King is now the third of my best shows list, only after LES MIS(1) and Wicked (2).
The costumes and mannerisms of the animals were spectacular! The set pieces and props were magical! the young actors were superb! And best of all the music was extravagant! The sound in the theater was amazing!

This is the company that i saw. (this was when they were on Broadway)


Show Photos - The Lion King - cast
That's Rafiki (the baboon) and the gazelle dancers

Those are the lionesses w/ Nala on the right, during "Shadowland"

These are the Young Simbas and Young Nalas, I saw the Nala on the left and the Simba on the right.

I dont know if this is the same guy i saw, but i'm pretty sure it is.
He's hunky :)

The costumes are the best I've ever seen. The Cheetah was the best! The head was connected  to the puppeteer  by invisible strings and the he also had the PERFECT mannerisms. 

Again this is Rafiki!

This is Scar (left) and Mufasa (right).

 This is the opening, "the circle of life"

Timon and Pumbaa! I thought their acting was awesome but at times their jokes weren't really funny. At all.
This is Simba and Nala at the beginning of "can you feel the love tonight"

this is the dance sequence "the lioness hunt"