The Shows Have Returned!

The shows are returning, and I barely know what to do with myself! I'd forgotten how difficult it was too keep up with so many shows, but somehow, I'm getting by just fine...

Anywhoo! Here's what's going on in all my shows. Recaps, theories, rage. But as always...





How I Met Your Mother

    So, we're five episodes in, and they are moving painstakingly slow. The episodes are all taking place the weekend of Barney and Robin's wedding. They're at a hotel and each episode we get a countdown of how many hours until the wedding, but we're all waiting for it to happen already, right?

    Lilly has met the future Mrs. Mosby on a train to the wedding, but after they get off the train, we don't see her again(in current time, at least). Lilly's miserable without Marshall and the baby(he's on route to the wedding in a Hummer with a stranger) and has not only resorted to Marshpillow again, but has hired one of the bartenders to make sure she never doesn't have a drink in her hand.

    Ted is going through a crisis being at the wedding of one of his best friends and his other friend who he still has on and off feelings about. (Although, thankfully, they're not spending too much energy on his unrequited feelings.) I used to be soooo Team Ted  & Robin (Tobin? Red?), but they've changed so much, I just want him to get over her. Which he could...if the writers would let him meet the mother already! They did have a little future scene between the two of them in which we see happy Ted with Wife, but still.

   Barney knows about the awkward handholding between Ted and Robin in the rain, but after getting back at him by making him do lots of ridiculous "Best Man" jobs, replacing him with who Barney calls the Karate Kid, and an awkward handholding of their own, they're BFFs again.

   We continue to watch and wait for the mother to enter the scene...

Once Upon a Time

   Our heroes have tracked dear Henry to wonderland to rescue him from the evil Peter Pan.

(I don't get it either.) 

   Rumple has gone off on his own, deciding to find Henry his own way, but he seems to be going a little off track. He's seeing apparitions of Belle and having flashbacks due to a doll one of the lost boys gave him. Once again, we see the power of magic calling to him, and pushing him towards doing the wrong thing. Is it his cowardice? His obsession with power? I don't know, but without Belle around, he could be losing his humanity...again. He already killed Tamara.

   Charming, Snow, Emma, Regina, and Captain Eyeliner, are trekking through the forest to find Pan. Peter is taunting Emma by showing up and providing "help" in the form of a map that will only show the way once Emma admits who she "truly is." After a pointless session of admitting to the empty parchment that she was the "savior," nothing happened, and Regina resorts to magic, placing a tracking spell of the parchment.

   Of course the villainous Pan sees that coming, and makes it lead them into an ambush. Pan calls it a warning and peaces out. No one dies, but Charming gets scratched by an arrow flying by him, one laced with poison. Deadly poison.

   After a tisk with mom and dad, Emma admits to Snow, and to herself, that she still feels like a lost abandoned orphan, even if she's found her parents....aaaand the map shows up. *tears from everyone*
Let's go! #savehenry

Glee

   Where do I begin? First we have Klaine back together, and the big proposal, and Rachel got Fanny, and Beatles music everywhere...!
   Then we have the tribute episode.

   I am not lying when I say I sobbed through it. Those actors were not acting in this episode. They we mourning a friend and colleague as their characters were also mourning a friend.
   Ryan Murphy told USA Today

 "I've never seen a crew that can't continue shooting because they've left the room sobbing. It was very hard."

   The sendoff was great. They didn't get into why, he died, but as Kurt said in the episode, they focused on how he lived.
   If you're a fan and haven't watched it, do. It's worth the tears.

 

~Tonico