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Legend Of The Seeker Season 2 Episode 19 Extinction
Legend Of The Seeker Season 2 Episode 20 Eternity
Legend Of The Seeker Season 2 Episodes 18, 19, 20. Season 2 Finale Airs Weekend May 22, 2010
Wizard, mord sith, confessor, listener, house of Rahl, baneling, dahkra blade, sisters of the light, sisters of the dark, night wisps, gahr monsters, the keeper, the stone of tears, magic compass, the pillars of the creator, scroll of valdere, rift of the veil of the worlds between the living and the dead, sword of truth. If this list of beings and things are unfamiliar to you, then you haven't been watching Legend Of The Seeker.
Legend Of The Seeker will air it's 2nd season finale on the weekend of May 22 2010. Can hardly wait to see what's in store for it's 3rd season, the second has been so much fun. [This Just In: There Will Be No Season 3 For Legend Of The Seeker! A visitor to my YouTube Channel sent me a message that Legend Of The Seeker has been cancelled. Confirmation of the cancellation can be read at Michael Ausiello's EW column. Totally bummed. Big mistake that no network is picking up this terrific show]
Aside from the sword and sorcery aspect of the plot lines, the characters' depth have increased considerably. Hero Richard The Seeker and the Villain of the midlands Lord Darken Rahl it turns out are more than adversaries, they're brothers. It was prophesied Richard would kill Darken, but fortunately for the fans that event has been given a twist. Rahl has been revived from the dead many times over, the result of magic, some light, some dark, some falling somewhere in-between. The brothers are now bonding, and are united in a search for the stone of tears, a magical talisman that can help heal and seal a terra-firma rift of the veil that separates the world of the living from that of the dead, the latter of which is ruled by The Keeper. The Keeper makes Darken Rahl's earlier exploits seem virtuous by comparison.
Even though Rahl is now aiding The Seeker he hasn't lost his bad-boy edge. Ditto mord sith bad-girl Cara [my fav character]. Confessor Kahlan, when battling the bad guys, can still match Cara kick for martial art kick, and they too are becoming BFFs despite their earlier rivalry. Wizard Zed is still deftly dispensing magic, and life lessons, while guiding and advising Richard.
Excellent stunt work abounds, and the show's producers continue to make good use of New Zealand's breathtaking natural beauty. The same can be said of the show's costumer---the leather, satin, silk, muslin, and lace are in full flattering effect. Appreciators of beefcake and cheesecake are well served.
Legend Of The Seeker airs it's 2nd season finale on the weekend of May 22, 2010. Please check your local listings.
Showtime has picked it up, but won't be airing it until 2011. But you can have an on-line shrink session with Lisa Kudrow as Fiona Wallis on the cyber hit, Web Therapy. Very much in keeping with the sensibilities of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Web Therapy's dialogue is improvised, and it's protagonist is a curmudgeon with very little need or patience for the quiet desperation of others. In fact were it not for the fact that her patients provide monetary compensation, she'd sooner they be just that---quiet. This dame makes Larry David seem warm and fuzzy. Fortunately for viewers, Fiona's strongest commonality with Mr.David's misanthrope: she is extremely funny.
Forget about traditional 50 minute Freudian couch sessions. For starters, when asked, Fiona's kind of vague as to whether or not she has legitimate psychiatric credentials. In any case, she will only have sessions with her patients via webcam. Also she could not care less about dream analysis, and the sessions are limited to 3 minutes. Wallis' reasons for employing this 3 minute maximum "modality" [a word she uses as if it's a mantra] is that to her reckoning, when she did see patients for 50 minute sessions, the breakthroughs achieved almost always occurred within the last 3 minutes of the session. So, she concluded, skip the useless blathering the of previous 47 minutes and cut to the chase. The ostensible goal being, faster session faster healing. Of course Fiona's true motives are not in the least altruistic. Her therapeutic modality is being shopped around to investors for the purpose of marketing it for books, dvds, tv shows, seminars, etc.
Now in it's 3rd season, Web Therapy has great guest stars: Jane Lynch, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courteney Cox, Steven Weber, Alan Cumming, Victor Garber, Rashida Jones, Selma Blair, Molly Shannon, and Bob Balaban. Not for nothing, but Fiona exhibits behavior that indicates she could benefit from a few sessions with a shrink, and for considerably longer than 3 minutes. i don't want to do a spoiler for anyone who, like myself is new to watching Web Therapy, but i will tease that in the series' second season and third seasons, Fiona is compelled by law to have a therapy session, and we get a glimpse into her private life that reveals the catalysts of some of her neurosis.
In season 1, episode 1 [An Old Flame], when a former associate schedules a session with Fiona, she ends up stalking him. The associate, played by Tim Bagley, with brilliantly understated comedic timing, works at an investment firm, Lachman Brothers, with whom Fiona's trying to get financing, and with whom there was an issue of sexual harassment when Fiona was in their employ, with her being the alleged harasser. The vantage point of the audience is as if they can see the sessions through the patient's and Fiona's computers. When you see Fiona's screen [she uses an Apple computer] in the upper left corner of the desktop, is a thumbnail for a file which reads "Lachman Brothers Evidence.doc". The subtlety of that sight-gag delivers a smart laugh. That's part of the beauty of this show. Even if it's sometimes done in a passive/aggressive way, it brings the funny.
Web Therapy, is produced by Lisa Kudrow and her production company Is or Isn’t Entertainment, and is sponsored by Lexus. New episodes are added on Wednesdays and can be viewed at lstudio.com and at the lstudio channel at YouTube. Come 2011, we'll post the specific Showtime network air dates when that information becomes available.
i'm a gemini from wash.dc, married 35 yrs to an aries from san antonio texas.
i'm sookie, he's tex, together we are sookietex.
Many people think i adopted the name sookie after HBO's TrueBlood heroine Sookie Stackhouse.
Nope. It's not my birth name, but my older brother gave me the nickname sookie when i was a baby.
Best and might i add most prescient gift bro' ever gave me ;D
hubby and i live in nyc and even though we like it here, we dream of the day when we'll pull up stakes and move to austin, or maybe some other town in the lone star state.
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i am a child of the south, a "boomer", born in 1958, a child of the television age. This was a time when "African-Americans" referred to themselves as "colored". In fact on my birth certificate under racial description, "colored" is the word that is used. Today i still affectionately refer to myself as a "colored child". my paternal great grandpa was Blackfoot Nation, and my maternal great grandmother was also Native American, [but i have not found out which Nation]---i affectionately refer to that part of my heritage as 'injun'---hey i'm never going to be described as politically correct and have no desire to be.
my mother was a woman who was far ahead of her time in terms of "feminist" survival. Long before it was fashionable, she was a single parent. She did have support, and not just financial from my pop, but they did not live together as husband & wife. In fact they never did take that walk down the aisle...but that's another story. Mom was a woman who worked outside the home long before most women of her generation would have even thought of making that choice, much less do it. She fully appreciated the value, neccessity, and strength of a loving extended family. She did not need anyone to tell her it "takes a village".
When mother was at work, i, the youngest of 4 (2 sisters 1 brother & me), was alternately cared for by mother's eldest sister, "auntie" as we used to call her, and our nextdoor neighbors. They were like family to us. We called the elder woman 'grandma' (to this day I do not know her given name), and her daughter Miss Elsie, or more usually 'aunt'Elsie. They were very religious folk. God fearing, bible reading, honest, and i and my family loved them dearly. 'Aunt'Elsie always made sure my days were full of activity, but one of my favorite times of the day was when she would look at her watch and say "oh my, we'd better hurry, it's almost time for my stories". By her 'stories'
she of course meant the day's soap operas. For Elsie and her mother, watching the soaps was sort of a guilty pleasure, but at the same time they made it seem sacred. It was a ritualistic activity. Her favorites were The Edge of NightThe Secret Storm and General Hospital
Paul Harvey would say i am giving you "the rest of the story" so that you may better understand its importance, and how it relates to the spirit of this blog. Which is to say we all have drama of some level going on in our lives, so sometimes the plotlines of our favorite shows may seem either tame, empathetic, or absurd, depending on where life may take you on any given day.
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