Grey's Anatomy Season 8 Finale: Flight

Guess whose AP World Exam is over? MINE!!!!!

So in the true spirit of the Screaming Reviewer, 

I NEED TO SCREAM ABOUT THINGS!

So the previous episode of Grey's ended with Meredith, Cristina, Derek, Arizona, Lexie, and Mark on a plane, flying to pick up an organ for a transplant.

And then the preview for Flight comes on and OH MY GOD PLANE CRASH PLANE CRASH EVERYBODY THE PLANE CRASHED AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO DIE!!!!

So we start off this very Lost-y episode with a Lost-y beginning, with Meredith laying on the ground staring into the sky. But instead of a gold retriever appearing, it's Cristina, and she's like GET UP, GET UP NOW, WE WERE ON A PLANE AND IT CRASHED, THIS IS A PLANE CRASH.

And Arizona's screaming bloody murder with her own leg sticking out of the skin, and Mark's stumbling around like WTFFFF

And Meredith's like WHERE'S DEREK

and Mark's like WHERE'S LEXIE

and Cristina's like LETS GO FIND THEM

So they stumble around the forest, and find Lexie trapped under the plane.

Mark and Cristina stay to help, while Meredith goes to find Derek.

Where's Derek?

He's trapped under wreckage and his hand is destroyed in the worst way possible and ewwwww...

So Mark and Cristina are doing everything, but Lexie's like "yeah I'm dying"

and Cristina's like I'M GONNA GET MEDICAL EQIUPMENT

and Mark's like I LOVE YOU AND WE'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS AND I LOVE YOU

and Lexie's like I LOVE YOU TOO, OH WAIT I'M DEAD

and I'm curled up on the couch next to my Labrador retriever trying not to implode upon my emotions.

So they find Derek, and he's okay, and then he faints, and then he's okay again

and Cristina's like MY FRIENDS HAVE BEEN SHOT AND HIT BY BUSES AND GOT CANCER, AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE DEATH, SO MARK, GODDAMMIT, HELP ME

and then she goes to prod the in-shock Mark, whose currently sitting motionless next to Lexie's dead body, looking very gray, into action,

OH WAIT HE'S DEAD.

and we're all like fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

Just kidding he's alive, with serious-business heart damage, and Derek + Meredith + Cristina do a procedure on him with hand sanitizer and a freaking perfume bottle straw!

Oh and by the way, Jerry, the pilot had a broken back, 

and Arizona is coughing up blood,

BUT NO ONE PAYS ANY ATTENTION TO THEM!

And Mark almost dies again, like "Lexie's there waiting for me"

and Arizona's like "WE'RE ALL WAITING FOR YOU"

and Mark's like "okay"

and for some goddamn reason doesn't die...

And then a helicopter flies overhead but Derek doesn't know how to remove the safety from a flare gun,

and they can't keep a fire going,

and all they have for food is a stick of gum.

And then the episode ends with them falling asleep, freezing, hungry, hurt, and in shock, with Meredith's sister dead, Derek's best friend almost dead, Arizona's probably gonna die because all Callie talked about the entire episode was how much she missed her and the amazing sex they'd have when she came back, and there was some filler at the actual hospital, but no one actually care about that....

So yeah. Grey's Anatomy meets Lost.

And they didn't jump the shark.

WE ARE GOING INTO OUR 9TH SEASON.

9 YEARS.

THIS IS STILL GOING.

HOW?

WHY?

I DON'T KNOW.

BUT I DON'T CARE BECAUSE I'M TOO EMOTIONALLY INVESTED.

OKAY GOODBYE.

I'm supposed to be studying, but instead, I'm blogging HURRAY PROCRASTINATION

I feel like almost all of my blogs now a days start with "I should be studying"....

I hate school.

I also should be reviewing something because this is a review blog with hints of my life, not vise versa, but WHATEVER.

So things that have been going on in my life currently:

Friday was the Day of Silence, in which cool people don't speak for a whole day as a silent protest against bullying towards the LGBTQ community.

It was pretty successful - I cheated once and slipped up once, but hey, no one's perfect :)

I got a lot of different responses from it, some including the F word and others including a total stranger giving me a fist bump....

I was in a dance competition yesterday - we competed our hip hop and we thought we were all awesome and cool, and then this other hip hop went on and we were all like "wow, we suck"

Kidding. But that dance was cool.

I'm going bowling in like an hour. 

I haven't bowled since like 3rd grade, so that should be fun.

I'm actually going as a volunteer for a local company that provides support for kids with autism and their families - I do stuff for them a lot. You may remember Lose the Training Wheels and Exploring Sensations?

Yup. Pretty fun.

I honestly have no idea what i'm supposed to do there, so that'll be fun...

Also my dad is supposed to drive me but he's asleep and waking him is like waking a hibernating polar bear.

not really, but still.... 

My AP World History exam is in 24 days, and I'm honestly not that concerned over it.

But I am getting annoyed with all this stupid studying.

The irony of it all is that I spend so much time studying that I don't have time to do my real homework.

So... that's a problem.

I've recently become obsessed with a YouTuber, DailyGrace. She's fantastic and I love her and she's inspiring me to be more involved with the internet again.

Expect school.

I hate EVERYTHING.

I read the last two book in the Twilight Saga.

Holy crap they were terrible.

See, the first book had potential.

The second was the opposite of potential.

And these two?

Dear Lord.

I made a vlog about it  (that's right I'm sortakinda vlogging again) but it's not up yet so ha ha....

Yup.

Goodbye.

The Shawshank Redemption

Hey guys! Ha ha, it's Monday!

I said I'd blog every Sunday.... whoops.

Whatever! I should be studying anyway, so.... you're welcome :)

A Youtuber that I follow (I can't remember which one) said that the movie was his/her favorite movie, and I was totally baffled by that - how can you have a favorite movie?

I guess it's because I'm a series girl - I love book and movie series, so a single favorite is kind of impossible, but when I watched this movie, I understood why.

This movie is absolutely brilliant. It had to be, because Morgan Freeman was in it.

Basically, a banker named Andy was accused of killing his wife and her lover, but is innocent, and to be honest it takes a while for you to believe him, because DAMN this guy is weird.

Anyway, MF plays Red, whose in jail for murder with a life sentence. He's the guy you go to if you need anything.

Like, anything.

Also there's a really old guy named Brooks, who saved a baby bird and then kept it until it was strong enough to live on its own. He becomes important later on.

Anyway, Andy goes to Red and asks for a rock hammer,

which is a mini sledge hammer, about the size of a pencil.

And Red is like "dude, you trying to escape?"

and Andy's like "okaybai!"

So yeah, Andy isn't well equipped for prison because he's like "I'm bored, I'm going to carve my own chess set" or "I'm bored, I'm going to write one letter a week to the state asking for money to fix up the prison library" or "I'm bored, I'm gonna teach this kid Tommy how to read and help him get his GED"

Speaking of Tommy, he tells Andy that he knows who killed his wife and her lover,

and Andy's like "AWESOME" and tries to take this to court

and the prison warden is like "bang bang" and Tommy is dead.

yup.

So yeah, Andy's got this weird master plan and we're all like WHAT'S GOING ON?

and then one day, he's like freaking out and we're all totally convinced he's going to kill himself,

and then he's just GONE.

And everyone's like "wut"

and then the warden finds a freaking TUNNEL in the wall that leads all the way out....

WHAT?

I mean, this guy literally used a pencil-sized hammer to tunnel through a prison wall.

and it took like SIX YEARS.

and then he's like FREE.

and there's a bunch of other things that make me so proud of the human race because GOD HE'S A GENIUS.

So yeah. Watch the movie.

It's awesome.

Dance Competition

Hey guys!

So yesterday marked the beginning of competition season! The company was called Dancer's Inc, and it was one of the best competitions I've ever been to. Very efficient, everyone was very friendly, and we were never behind schedule!

It was awesome.

My dance studio was the second best performers, behind a studio where everyone was robots with a ton of money and time.

They didn't sell ridiculously overpriced food, the sportswear was really cool, and everyone was so nice!

So yeah, that was a success. Next competition, however, has the worst reputation EVER, but we're a partner to them, so we have to go....

Joy.

Anyway, dance competitions are always very interesting, and full of interesting people...

For example, one girl was so so SO obviously not wearing a bra, and it was like a train wreck, where you couldn't look away....

Sorry, that was a little mean, but SERIOUSLY.

Also, there are a couple different genres in dance, for example: Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical, Pointe, Line, Modern, Musical Theater, and Open.

Now, in my dance studio, Open is basically lip syncing and dancing at the same time, and we're pretty good at it.

But in other studios, Open is a synonym for Other,

or as I like to call it, Do-Whatever-In-Hell-You-Want....

Before I start listing things I saw, let me say first that this competition is was for teenagers.

I saw two girls in giant duck costumes.

A girl on a swing set, dancing to a song for 3 year year-olds, about how she's all these different animals.

A dance with little kids pretending to be adults, and older girls pretending to be children.

Three girls pretending to be the Real Housewives. Possibly the worst performance I've ever seen, besides the ducks.

Yeah.

So dance competitions can get interesting.

But otherwise, this was a great competition and I had a lot of fun!

It's Kind of a Funny Story, by Ned Vizzini

This story was inspired by the author's brief hospitalization for depression, and is about teenage stress and how it can manifest itself into mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.

The main character, Craig, attends a prestigious school called the "Executive Pre-Professional High School", which already makes me want to puke.

Craig discovers that this school is extremely stressful and is under a lot of pressure, and as a result, develops an eating disorder, takes drugs, and stops sleeping.

He talks to a psychiatrist and takes medication, but when he goes off it he becomes suicidal, and admits himself into a psychiatric hospital.

He finds a lot of support and friends there, especially another teenager named Noelle. She helps him confront his anxiety and discover a talent in art.

This is such a shift for him that he decides to transfer to an art school, and goes home.

I really liked this book because it was very honest. It's hard to write about things that people try to ignore, such as mental illnesses, especially in teenagers.

I myself have experienced problems in that area, and I know how hard it is to tell people about it. And the thing that Ned Vizzini emphasized was that no one is alone in the world, and nothing is hopeless.