You guys, I just watched the latest episode of iZombie, and am pretty sure my head has exploded with my rage over the treatment of mental illness. SERIOUSLY, HOW FUCKED UP CAN YOU GET? FUCK YOU, WRITERS AND CREATORS AND EVERY FUCKING OTHER PERSON WHO SAID, OH, YEAH, LET'S AIR THIS, IT'LL BE GREAT.

FUCK. YOU.

ETA: Not quite up to putting everything in a nice, logical discussion, but below the cut are pieces of my rage on Twitter, with quotes.

( iZombie why do you hate me? )

Okay, I have chocolate (thanks to B) and fresh iced tea and menthol cloves because I randomly found them at the gas station Friday, for the first time in almost a year. (I don't smoke regularly, but menthol cloves are my weakness. And now everyone who's reading the marching band au is smirking at me knowingly.) On the way home from a late day at work, I was flipping stations and caught "Born This Way" on the radio. (Still not a fan of the faily lyrics.)

Let's do this.

( Glee  )

Sporadic, exhausted commentary, but I think I liked more than I didn't. (What I didn't like, though, caused great rage. GREAT RAGE.)

So, uh, if you saw trailers for Splice and thought, as I did, that it looks like a sci-fi/horror movie -- cheesy, maybe slightly scary at moments, lots of mayhem and genetically engineered monsters, basically a fun movie night movie -- you may want to read this detailed, potentially triggery, and spoilery review/critique. (Link from apocalypsos here.)

I have never been so happy to be spoiled for something in my life, because if I'd watched Splice based on the trailers and ended up with what that review says, my rage explosion would have been massive.

I may actually still watch it, now that I've been warned, but I'm not sure I want to deal with some of the scenes.

I'm starting to think I'm allergic to my apartment building. Maybe the cleaning materials they use in the hallway? I would like to stop being sick any time now. So, from my sickbed (which looks a lot like my couch), television.

Sons of Anarchy "Gilead"

( spoilers )

And now, Glee's one last chance to stop sucking.

"Vitamin D"

( Spoilers )

Glee links:

I really like what Zvi says here:

Okay, here's the problem with Glee. Every single week, I watch and I feel hoodwinked. Per the promo and the pilot, I really thought I was going to get what amounted to Revenge of the Nerds for a contemporary TV audience: a multicultural group of misfits takes on the social hierarchy and uses their misfit powers to destroy it. Although Rachel was the student featured most heavily in the pilot, I figured that we would rotate our way through a large ensemble, and that we would get plenty of time for Mercedes, Tina, Kurt, and Artie to tell their stories as completely as Rachel told hers.

Instead, every week I'm watching the shenanigans of a self-centered Spanish teacher and his unhealthy relationships with every woman he knows over the age of twenty, plus the quarterback and the head cheerleader, plus the "best" singer in Glee club. (And, seriously, it's actually really disheartening to me that everyone accepts her assertion that she's the best singer in Glee, since it's clear that Mercedes is Rachel's vocal equal, if not superior, and the ¿two? times we've heard Tina solo, her voice seemed like it might be as good, too. Quinn is not in Rachel's league, but she's the only female soloist we've heard so far who clearly is not. It's also really, er, bizarre to me that Finn was recruited as a saving male voice and has gotten 90% of the male solos, and he just doesn't have a professional quality voice. I mean, for an actor, he sings quite nicely, but he's theoretically playing a singer, and he really doesn't cut it.)

I also love what handyhunter says about Mercedes here:

So, there's a line in Glee that Mercedes says: "I don't like this minority business. I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." I initially interpreted/heard that as "I'm more than a token minority." But what she actually says is, "I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." A lot more than being a black woman. More than her race. Which is another way of saying acting more white, because that's what acting more than your race means. When was the last time white people had to transcend their whiteness, after all. It also probably says something that I had to think about this to see the wrongness in it.

Finally, I keep seeing previews for Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and it looks like fun, but I'm always left thinking, Why isn't Darren a girl? By which I mean, of course the author of these books has every right to write about a boy, but where are the adventure stories about girls becoming vampires for the adventure and not for love? Or the movies based on these stories?