Friday, March 14, 2014

'Teen Wolf' GifTweetCap: Enough Crazy to Go Around

The first 10 of these gifs can be found on this Tumblr post. The last 7 can be found on this one. Note: I was invited to do my very first guest spot on a podcast, discussing this episode, on the Welcome to Beacon Hills Podcast (Ep 006). "De-Void" continues where last week's episode of Teen Wolf left off, in Derek's (Tyler Hoechlin) loft. It's one of the better episodes this season, with all the action and gore that can possibly be packed into a single episode.
The episode starts off with Evil Stiles (Dylan O'Brien) willingly allowing Sheriff Stilinski (Linden Ashby) to handcuff him. That's all part of the fun game of How Freaked out Can Stiles' Loved Ones Get? Apparently, pretty freaked out, judging by his dad's face when Evil Stiles breaks out of the cuffs faster than it took to put them on.
Soon, everyone else, minus Scott (Tyler Posey) and Kira (Arden Cho), join the party. Up next to play the game is Allison (Crystal Reed), who throws out some wild taser electricity. Stiles grabs that wire of shimmering energy like a benign rope, yanking the taser gun to which it's attached out of Allison's hands.
Whose turn is it now? Bad boy Derek, of course! It's unclear whether blue eyes have made him weaker, or if alpha-ness wouldn't matter against Dark Stiles, but Derek really gets thrown for a loop.
Finally, Papa Argent (J.R. Bourne) decides to put an end to the nonsense with a gun. We've come full circle when the ball is tossed back to Sheriff Stilinski for the final round. Evil Stiles, meanwhile, is highly amused by the turn of events. He also feeds off their anger. *STRIFE*, as Allison points out.
Lastly, the Smoke Monsters... er... Oni glide into the loft, and it's really on. Nogitsune Stiles was just biding time so all of Stiles' buddies could save him from the Smoke Monster Oni.
After the battle, Derek is left with a nice cut on the shoulder, but everyone else is fine. Evil Stiles and the Smoke Monsters (Hey, that could be the name of a band!) are nowhere to be seen... until Kira's mom spots him in the basement of Eichen House as she's planning to hide her last remaining knife (representing the last of her nine tails) with the body of her dead boyfriend. Nogitsune Stiles/Evil-Dead-Boyfriend-Spirit Stiles takes it from her and stabs himself with it, releasing a torrent of flies from his belly (for the sake of CHAOS). Why didn't he just do that earlier... or was he having too much fun messing with Stiles' loved ones?
So then the flies go around infecting all the werewolves, except Scott, who is making out with Kira in his room. Are the flies not able to infect him, or is the fly meant for him just too lazy to go around when it's presented with a closed window? Either way, Isaac (Daniel Sharman) (still in a hospital bed, unable to heal), Derek and the twins (another band name?) are all infected by the Evil Bug.
Lydia has one of her bug-out moments, triggered by malfunctioning car electronics, and pulls into a (mostly) empty parking lot. Evil Stiles is laying on the ground, passed out. They bring him back to Scott's house, where Dr. Deaton (Seth Gilliam) drugs him up with a little Kanima venom. He wakes and nearly chokes out Aiden (Max Carver) before the drug kicks in and paralyzes him.
Evil Stiles begins spewing his anger-and-fight-causing words -- including tricking Aiden into going off to protect his twin (Charlie Carver) from *PAIN*, when Dark Stiles knows he's actually sending him off to fight and possibly kill his brother -- until Dr. Deaton shuts up his paralyzed body with a little duct tape. Hey, duct tape really can be used for everything!
Meanwhile, the evil-bug-infected werewolves begin acting evil. For now, this mostly consists of shooting the evil-eye off to the side to show that they are thinking evil thoughts. Also, Isaac is miraculously healed, and makes out with an inexplicably unaware Allison. Later, he chains her to the bed and takes off to kill the twins to avenge Erica and Boyd.
Evil Stiles, who is king of the evil-eye, having birthed the evil-eye-causing Evil Flies (does that make him Lord of the Flies?), feigns tears to trick Mama McCall (Melissa Ponzio) into removing his duct tape. He uses the moment to continue his game of How Freaked out Can Stiles' Loved Ones Get? by telling her that Stiles knows the truth about why Scott's dad left, and that Scott will never forgive her if (translation: when) he finds out. Thus begins a new secret waiting to be revealed.
By the way, Agent McCall (Matthew Del Negro) saves Sheriff Stilinski's job, so all that worry was for nothing. Although, Stilinski does mention that McCall should tell his son the truth about why he left. Does that mean the only thing Scott's mom did wrong was to not tell Scott about what happened (whatever it was)?
Then the Evil Fly Werewolves begin to actually act out their evil thoughts, starting with the twins. The twins fight each other, until Isaac shoots them with a taser dart. I apologize ahead of time, but... he tased those bros!
Then Allison bonks Isaac over the head, but comes to the realization that all small children come to at some point when they hit someone bigger than they are: that may not have been the best idea. The twins wake, and all three werewolves come after Allison and Kira until they realize that it's way more fun to beat up someone their own size (each other).
Scott considers turning Stiles into a werewolf, but the gang decides to call Peter (Ian Bohen) and his stupid smirk for help. Peter says that Stiles is too weak, and will probably die rather than turn. Instead, he suggests he do the Werewolf Mind Meld. He also suggests Lydia go in with him. Being Peter, his suggestion involves a price which is revealed later.
Derek is also up to evil, covering Chris Argent with gasoline.
Derek plans on paying back Chris for the acts of his family by burning him alive. But don't worry -- he's going to wait for Allison to arrive, so she can watch. Of course, in TV language, that actually means that Chris has time for things to go back to normal before anything really bad actually happens.
Chris forgets that things fix themselves on this show, so he knocks himself backward, slips his restraints, and grabs a fat gun from under his desk. Then, he jams it under Derek's chin. Uh-oh!
Meanwhile, Scott and Lydia have entered Evil Stiles' mind. Initially, they are trapped within a few fake thoughts (one of which involves Lydia calling out for Jackson -- because of the Kanima venom, perhaps? -- and Peter calling out to save Lydia from dying in her sleep), but they quickly break free of them. And the solution to breaking out of the nogitsune's mind is surprisingly simple (and all Lydia's idea): howl so that Stiles can find his "pack" (even though he's human, he's also a part of Scott's pack). The hold on Stiles is almost immediately broken, and he knocks down the Go game (which looks like crazy checkers) he's playing with Mummy Man.
The trio wake up, but Stiles is unchanged until Peter takes his payment from Lydia. When she tells him the name of his supposed daughter (Malia, the coyote), Stiles begins throwing up Mummy Man bandage worms, and Supernatural demon smoke. This also dispels the evil flies from the other wolves, saving Derek from having his head blown off.
The bandages then rise up into another Mummy Man, but it turns out to be Stiles. Apparently, it's the real Stiles. If this is another trick, I may have to hurt the writers... badly. Or, at least send them an angry tweet. Seriously, though, it was an awesome mindbend to see Stiles puke himself out.
After Evil Stiles barfs up the good version of himself he disappears with Lydia, which is another clue that all this has something to do with Malia. Wolves and foxes and coyotes, oh my!
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Saturday, March 8, 2014

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Two Angry Roosters

All these gifs are available on this Tumblr post. Note: There aren't as many tweets as usual because I somehow lost many of the ones I was going to use. And I had so many great ones lined up! Not to worry... I've created my own app so this won't happen again! The Elementary episode, "The One Percent Solution," sees the return of Gareth Lestrade (Sean Pertwee), two roosters that serve as a metaphor, an assistant who shows how far Watson (Lucy Liu) has come in her relationship with Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller), and a very smart criminal who never would have been caught without the second part of the scheme.

The episode starts with an unexpected explosion at a table during a lunch meeting between a few Department of Labor officials and bank executives from Whitbrook-Balsille. It then cuts to Sherlock rehabbing Romulus and Remus, two roosters that had been used in cock fights. Watson won't fall for his attempts to call them "cocks."
Sherlock is put on the bombing case, but guess who just happens to be the "security czar" for Whitbrook-Balsille? Lestrade, of course! Lestrade is incredibly annoying, and just won't shut up about how great he thinks he is. He even mistreats his new assistant, Truepenny (Sarah Goldberg), who begged to work for him. Poor young woman has the lowest self-esteem in history.
Lestrade even attempts to show off his awesomeness by taking a helicopter eight blocks, and performing hypnosis on a witness under a term he obviously made up himself: "deep dive." Then he shows his disrespect for Sherlock by flushing the toilet right after asking Truepenny to call him.

As Sherlock becomes disheartened that Lestrade did not crash and burn without being able to continuously take credit for Sherlock's work, Truepenny seems to think that she is also in a competition with Watson. She also seems to think that Watson is a mere assistant, as she is.
A group known as Aurelius takes credit for the bombing, but Sherlock notices something fishy about their announcement, so he works a different angle. He notices that the bomb was at one end of the table, and appeared to be targeting a man named Laurence Iver.

The only guest Sherlock and Watson are unable to account for is a "Jaque St. Teton." When Sherlock notices a book in the office of Lestrade's boss Richard Balsille (Bill Irwin) titled "Teton," he pulls security footage to get proof that it's him. Instead, Lestrade himself is on the tape!
Sherlock believes Balsille may still be guilty, simply having Lestrade check in to the hotel for him. Lestrade is adamant that Balsille is not guilty of anything, but doesn't cop to checking in at the hotel when given the chance (Sherlock has not told Lestrade that he saw him on surveillance). Before Lestrade leaves, he tries to recruit Watson. Watson feigns interest, but steals his phone.

Sherlock has hit a roadblock in the investigation, so he makes some Yorkshire Pudding, destined for the trash can, in order to calm himself. Some folks were worried that he was pulling the roosters out of the oven!
Watson comes to get Lestrade for an interrogation while Sherlock is gone... and gives back his phone. Truepenny is extremely jealous, believing that Watson wants to steal her job. Oh, if she only knew! "Assisting" is so far beneath Watson, Lestrade himself could be her assistant!
Little does Lestrade know, Sherlock is waiting for him once he's finished with the interrogation. Sherlock is very curious why Lestrade has turned himself into such a moron. Oh, and he also mentions the fact that Watson was the one who stole his phone, and would in no way want to work for him.
Lestrade was, in fact, watching Iver for Balsille, but still doesn't believe Balsille killed him. He also confesses that he was basically acting as a pimp for Balsille, not planning a murder. Sherlock doesn't understand why he wasn't straightforward about it... why make Sherlock believe he was involved in murder rather than something that wouldn't even matter to him. Well, because he was embarrassed. Dumbass. Disrupting the investigation over embarrassment is only more embarrassing.
Later, Sherlock kills two birds with one stone by waking Watson using one of his roosters, and tricking her into saying something even funnier than he had imagined she would say.
He has wakened her to see some heat maps he has obtained, which show something burning at over 1,000 degrees each time Aurelius has set off a bomb. The heat is coming from behind a house. But the hot location turns up a crispy Aurelius suspect. He made an error in bomb-making, and died about a week ago. That's called karma! Unfortunately, he was not testing the same sort of bomb that Sherlock and Watson are investigating.
Sherlock and Watson are continuously interrupted from their thoughts by the new ringtone Sherlock has set on both their phones for Lestrade ("Had a Bad Day"). Lestrade finally gets ahold of them, upset that Balsille is being blackmailed. Whoever is blackmailing him knows everything about the women he has paid to sleep with him.
From there, it doesn't take long for Sherlock to deduce the culprit: Louise Forrester (Maggie Lacey), a woman who had been injured sitting at the table when the bomb went off, had been paid by Balsille to sleep with him. She now works at for the Department of Labor, and set the bomb to kill her boss and have early access to labor reports through the blackmail.

Later, Lestrade asks to stay at Sherlock's for a bit now that he's out of a job. He will have to live with Sherlock's two new roosters, which Sherlock has successfully trained not to fight. Watson is happy to see them get along, but not so happy to own the roosters. She wants nothing to do with their care.
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Friday, March 7, 2014

'Grimm' GifTweetCap: How to Kill a Wildesheer

Most of the following gifs are available on this Tumblr post. Last week, Grimm ended with Monroe's (Silas Weir Mitchell) parents learning the truth about his fiancΓ©e being a Fuchsbau, and that he's besties with a Grimm. Rosalee (Bree Turner) had just left in frustration as Nick (David Giuntoli) decided to drop by. This week, the episode "Revelation," continues with their fury at having just learned that A Grimm is standing right in front of them.

It starts out with Nick punching Monroe's dad Bart (Chris Mulkey). Nick feels a bit guilty for the punch after he learns that he's Monroe's dad, but not that guilty, since Monroe's dad was trying to kill him. His dad goes off on a tirade about Blutbaden being Blutbaden, and Grimms being Grimms, and Fuchsbau being Fuchsbau... and how none of these things should mix, blah blah blah.
After he sends his parents off, Monroe becomes a bit ticked that Nick only ever wants to come over when he needs help with a case. Of course, he's there to ask about Woden (Matt Lasky), the scalping fiend from last week's episode, whose favorite past time is creating human hair coats, so Monroe sends him off in frustration as well.
Meanwhile, Woden is busy enjoying his second favorite past time: enjoying roasted marshmallows ... er... hot coals by the campfire.
Then, some poor schmuck of a cop (Sean Graham) comes along, and decides to take matters into his own hands, after being warned that this guy is incredibly dangerous, and he should wait for backup. Bits and pieces of him wind up everywhere. Oh, and there are two Wildesheer!
Nick decides that Monroe is right about relying on him too much for Wesen goings-on, so he enlists Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) to take his place as researcher-in-chief. She seems just a little overly excited about what she finds. She also wants Nick to take the scalper danger seriously, since the scalps of powerful people give them even more power. A Grimm would certainly be a big target.
Monroe eases Rosalee's mind, and they sleep together in the spice shop to ensure they won't have any 'rents disturbing them. Rosalee is prepared to break up to avoid tearing his family apart, but Monroe insists that he wants a happy life with her over the hatred and bigotry of his parents.
He then goes to visit with his parents at their hotel for one last stab at convincing them. Instead, his father insults Rosalee, and refuses to accept Monroe's life choices.
Monroe cries at the thought of tearing his family apart, but just can't deal with them anymore, and bids them a final farewell.
Meanwhile, Renard (Sasha Roiz) gets word from his lackeys that Stefania (Shohreh Aghdashloo) has betrayed Adalind (Claire Coffee), and she's in danger. He believes her child is also his, and sends Sebastien (Christian Lagadec) to help save her. Sebastien then sends Meisner (Damien Puckler) in. Meisner helps her -- and the female viewers -- by taking off his shirt. Yummy!
The bad guys enter the bedroom where Meisner is disguised as Adalind's lover in bed. Adalind tries to talk some sense into them, but one of them shoves her right in the prego belly. Meisner shoots him, then Adalind -- or her Satan baby, or both of them, or whatever -- send a pen right into the other bad guy's eye.
Monroe's mom Alice (Dee Wallace Stone) isn't quite as bigoted as his father, so she decides to leave her husband to go back home while she tries to win her precious son back. Her first step is to do what appears to be the civilized version of a butt-sniffing ritual with Rosalee. They seem good with each other now.
Monroe realizes that he was hard on his pal, and decides to restart the bromantic kindle. When he learns that Nick is about to go up against a Wildesheer, he's even more adamant about helping out. He begins by pulling out his favorite childhood book. Ironically, it was his favorite at the time because "the Grimm gets obliterated." Unfortunately, it only says what will happen when Wildesheer appear ("thunder and howling wind," like the "gates of hell opening up"), not how to beat them. The Grimm is supposed to lose in that book, after all.
The Wildesheer are drawn to the powerful people (such as Grimms) who they want to scalp, so Monroe and Nick decide to leave Monroe's house quickly, before they show up there. Before they leave, Monroe's dad shows up in search of his wife. After spewing more hate, and the expectation that they are going off to kill some poor, innocent Wesen, Monroe finally gets a word in edgewise to tell his dad that they're off to fight Wildesheer. Daddy disapproves, afraid that his son doesn't know what he's getting himself into, but they leave anyway.
Papa Blutbad follows the pair as they take off for the trailer to find out how to kill the scalping beasts. Once there, they grab a couple of big guns and knives, and find a reference to the creatures on one of the books. One of Nick's ancestors had theorized that cutting their hair off would remove their power, but the theory had never been tested.
Just as they are getting their stuff together in the trailer, they hear the thunder and wind referenced in Monroe's childhood book. They step out to find, not one, not two, but three Wildesheer! After realizing that their guns are completely worthless against these guys, they hide under the trailer, but are pulled right back out for more fighting.
As Monroe is attacked, his dad decides to jump into the action and save his son.
Eventually, Nick is finally able to cut the matted hair off Woden, and he bleeds right out of his mop! From that point, it's cake. He just goes around and lops off their hair. --Some fans were more impressed than others.
Monroe's dad finally seems to have a glimmer of understanding, but also has an ominous warning: when Wildesheer come around, it means something horrible is about to happen, which will change the world. Then, we see that Adalind is about to give birth to her evil child. This is going to be interesting!
Later, the gang finally sits down for a painfully awkward, but somewhat peaceful, dinner with Monroe's parents.
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