The New Normal

Ryan Murphy perhaps is a genius. Or not, depending on how you view his creations. He's famously known for his plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck - I can't bear to watch the all the gory details despite the two hot doctors as the main leads, then perhaps Popular - it was very popular indeed in my high school back then but then after season 2 it lost its soul and eventually got cancelled, then Glee - which to me is more like Popular but with Music and gay stories, then American Horror Story, then here comes the newest: The New Normal. 

The premise was simple: a couple - a gay couple is trying to have a baby and they found a goldie named Goldie with a daughter trying to start over her life after catching his husband having affair red-handed, who was willing to be a surrogate mother. . It was supposed to be a sit-com, and a few months before its premiere I think several medias have reported that there were several organizations trying to boycott this series. Well little did they know that all the controversies  indeed were good for marketing. 

So NBC picked up the series, and I had to admit that my first eyes were to Justin Bartha: He was the forgotten cast member of the wolf-pack gang in Hungover movies - the cute one in the first movie who's also the groom. Then being his couple is the queenie Andrew Rannells, the previous Broadway actor - I think - who has had several awards up his sleeve. The pilot indicated that he was the stereotypical one in the relationship: fussy, superficial, into fashions, celebs, obsessed about looks, and so on and so on. Justin Bartha himself is the geek, an OB-GYN doc who's the quieter one, and apparently, the understanding one. 

Along with the trio were Goldie's grandmother and unique daughter, also Rannells' funny assistant. Despite the witty and sassy lines about Nana's being bigot and racist, it was funny until the moment you hit the intimate convo between the two leads: they were sweet enough - not too ooey-gooey that I actually tried really hard to hold back my tears. There were so many lessons about family; for example when Goldie said that family is family and love is love, or when Rannells telling Goldie's daughter that she's unique and that trait will lead her to greatness and how her mother just loves her for who she is... And the ultimate breakdown for me was when Bartha and Rannells hitting the bar back. They realized that their youth had long been over-due. 

And it hit me hard: all the endless fun, endless party, endless sex, endless shallow things that we all do - they will all be passing-by, in a glimpse of moment. That one day we're going to wake up and realise that there are still many things in our life that we still havent done. I for one would not want to be that guy. I wanna live my life to the fullest. There's no time for craps like failed relationship. Like meaningless fights. 

So thank you again, Murphy. I dont care what critics say. I dont care if in the long run your show is going to be a disappointment. That's not the point here. I thank you for making me see what I do want in my life. And for that, I will stick to the show for a while. 

SuperGeek: Part 2

the city was still sleeping when he reached the highest building, not far from a high and big statue of the city founder just in the upper side of the city. 

he revealed his mask; and you could tell that with that kind of jaw-line, he's much more a  stud rather than a genius geek. he sighed, to the empty air, to the cold silent statue just in front of him. 

the new-republic city was built over a hundred years ago; the founder, Gaudi, was a father who lost his only son after being bullied. He sought for justice, but justice itself had failed him. so he immersed himself in the technology, secretly took over all the vital facilities, and finally became the most powerful man in the world. everything else then fell into their own place; the rebellion was started and not more than 2 years Gaudi proclaimed himself as the ruler, and founded a new city: the new-republic city. 

it took another 5 years before he could finally revenge his son: all the non-genius studs and the like were exiled to the suburbs, and they were no longer allowed in the daily and vital aspects of the city. Along with the studs was all things supernatural and can't be explained scientifically. life was never the same ever since.

our hero then put on his glasses. all the sudden, you met again the genius geek underneath the black tight spandex costume. six months before he resumed his new identity as a superhero - he called himself SuperGeek - he met a gipsy during his way to the border of a suburb to collect certain specimens. his colleagues had never been keen to do field trip, and since he had unexplainable desire to the green environment and mother nature, he had always volunteered himself to such task. 

the female gipsy was trying to locate her missing feline when she stumbled upon him. then suddenly, she was just a different person: she levitated a few inches from the ground, emitting a bright white light from her body and eyes. She didn't open her mouth, but he could hear her very clearly, like an echo in a silent valley: The time has come. You have to fulfill your destiny and bring back the balance to the world. 

it was rather hard for him to understand everything - it was the first time he saw such magical phenomenon, after all - but the gipsy, being back to her own consciousness explained to him: there was a prophecy given by the city council just before Gaudi took over everything; that one day there would be a true geek with true compassion again, to restore the balance. and for that purpose and that day, the council had prepared everything he or she could possibly need. only a few were made known to this prophecy, and she was the last line of the prophecy protector. 

go south, dear, she said. not far from here, you'd find a secret underground pass to everything you'd nee;. my hope rests in you. just like that, she vanished into thin air, leaving our hero alone with this thought and disbelief. 

*to be continued

 

the pain unfelt

I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. 

That's what hurts the most. 

(I Wrote This For You)

 break-up is never easy.

anybody who says the contrary is either lying,

or simply doesn't love enough. 

but we survive.

you know why?

because we know, 

as always,

that it gets better.