Thanks for all you've shown us

Once again I'm sitting here, going into Jonas withdrawal. Not even LG15 withdrawal, but straight up missing Jonas. At the rate EQAL's going, Jackson Davis will be a big movie star by the time they get back to the Resistance...okay, and I would have no objection to that whatsoever. The guy can act. Hollywood needs him. But so does LG15. Aside from Jackson's acting skills that leave me kind of speechless and his lovely blue eyes, I also have a whole lot of love for the character of Jonas himself. And goddammit, guys, I miss him. I miss him as if he were actually a friend of mine I haven't talked to in months - only if he were really a friend of mine, I'd be more appropriately terrified right about now, since he's, you know, being held by the Order. But no, Jonas is a fictional character, and I am not on any kind of astral plane with him. I just miss him. So here are some of the all-time Jonas highlights of LG15, in my humble opinion, to get myself and other Jonas fangirls through this time of uncertainty. (I'd yell "LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO ME, EQAL!" but that'd be taking it a little too far. I know we're in a recession. Honestly, no, I have nothing better to do. Which should be a compliment, because it means I'm taking LG15 really seriously. Your art is being appreciated, EQAL! I-I'll donate to you. I have a PayPal account. I'll pay Jackson's salary...okay, eating my words now.)

In particular, I seem to have a bit of a weakness for angry, angsting, or emo Jonas. For one thing, his acting skills are at their finest tuned during some of his more angry, badass scenes. I'm not quite sure why I enjoy the emoing so much. I usually shy away from very sad storylines and scenes, but there's something about those scenes in Lg15 that pulls me in. It's the one canon where watching something sad actually makes me feel good. Cathartic, probably.

I'm Done


I can't even bring myself to make a drunken Jonas or angsting Jonas joke about this one, because it's too sad. The "I love you Bree!" was used in one of those "the story so far" videos, or some such thing, and it left such an impact on me that it's one of the quintessential Jonas moments for me. He loved that girl. He did everything he could to save her. And in the end, he lost her. This is grieving. He cries watching videos of them together, goes to the water where she once swam and sinks himself into it, tries to feel her. The person who's moved into the house she lived in has no idea; the world is moving on, but Jonas knows. And here he grieves.

Bullet to the Head


This video is a perfect example of Jonas's badassedry.

Daniel: ...but we're not murderers, right?
Jonas: We'll see.

And then he tells Carl that he's going to kill him.

He wields a gun and he's hardcore about it. Then Carl pwns him with the mention of P. Monkey living in a box under Jonas's bed, and all of the hurt that made Jonas what he is at this point comes flooding back into our consciousness - and his. Jonas has experienced loss. He has no reason to be afraid to fight, anymore, like an assassin whose wife and baby have been murdered and who now kills with no remorse. In other words: you cannot fuck with Jonas Wharton.

But it's the way he delivers the very last line of the video that really gives me shivers. Quiet, but determined. Ready to kill.

(I also have to point out the excellent Youtube description for this video: "Jonas went INSANE!" You sing it, Danielbeast! *laughs*)

Last Words


Here we have one of those quintessential angsty Jonas videos - the beer bottles alone fit the description.

"You don't know about what it is to-to fight; to really, truly fight. And to lose. You don't know me, okay, and you don't know what I've lost."

If I had to pick one quote to represent everything involving Jonas in the LG15 canon, it would be that. By this point, Jonas is a man broken, and he has lost virtually everything, and everyone he loves. Bree and Gina are both dead, and he couldn't save them. His parents still have no memory of their life with him, and he's separated from everybody else he cares about. He lives in hiding. He has nothing left, but no longer does this leave him willing to throw his own life away and fight. Now that his loved ones are safe, to the best of his knowledge, he's given up this fight. He's obviously in denial, because he knows deep down that he can't just let these girls die and that he has to take down the Order; it almost seems like it's destiny that either Jonas will take down the Order, or the Order will take down Jonas. But as Maggie makes her first attempts at convincing Jonas to join the Resistance, he wants none of it. And his pain is palpable.

HOLY SH%T!!!


This one is gratuitous. I just wanted some hot Jonas makeout action. But more seriously, I'm a real romance and relationship addict in my fiction, and this video gets to me - not only because it took a long time for something like this to happen in LG15, but because it was the only time it got to happen for Jonas and Bree. Jonas had no idea how short-lived it would be. It's heartbreaking.

Ah, here's one more while I'm on the topic of Jonas and Bree.

She's Missing


I can't think of a good enough word to describe the moment that they share in this one.

He loved her.

And the way he kisses her on the forehead...I love moments like that. *incoherent babbles of a hopeless romantic*

I know there's more, but those are the ones that come to me right away (the first three in particular). Maybe next time I'll post some Reed highlights, though there is less of him to go around, given he only showed up last fall. For now, I pose a question to my fellow Jonas fans: what are your favourite Jonas moments?

(All quotes in this article are copied from the transcripts posted on LGPedia. Thank you to the hardworking lonelycrackers who transcribed and posted them!

Bonus: Props to whoever can recognize the original and significance of this entry's title!)

Missing LG15

The final straw that led to me starting this blog was getting into the LG15 fandom, and wanting a place to blog about that. I suppose my timing was pretty crappy; while I got a good couple of months of the fandom with the Resistance going on (and Jonas as my cell phone wallpaper for most of that time), the season finale of the Resistance brought with it uncertainty; none of us know when (or even if?) the second season of the Resistance will come. In the meantime, The Show Is Yours has been going on, and the winner, LG15: The Last, will be premiering tomorrow. I haven't watched the pilot or the preview for The Last, and I just may give it a chance, but what can I say? I'm aching to see season two of the Resistance, and everything else - The Last, the Polish LG15 universe show N1ckola, and anything else going on in the world of EQAL right now - seems insignificant.

The hardest part of it is that I've fallen completely in love with these characters, and now, for the first time ever since lonelygirl15 started in 2006, they're in limbo. Upon every season finale in LG15's past - including the series finale of the original lonelygirl15 - there has only been a short break (maybe two weeks tops during lonelygirl15, and a month or so between LG15 and the Resistance) between seasons. Season one of the Resistance ended in December, and now it's March. Where did they leave off? Jonas and Maggie being held by the Order, expected to provide them with a supply of trait positive babies; Daniel unexpectedly returning for the first time in months; and Reed meeting Daniel for the first time, with the promise of Daniel's help in fighting the Order and retrieving Jonas and Maggie lingering ahead. And that's it. Limbo. LG15 has always been in real time, meaning that, unless they suddenly want to change that, we have to believe that the characters have been living and things have been happening since December, but we haven't seen any of it. It's like they just haven't been vlogging for months, and that is so unlike them. I know these circumstances are probably beyond EQAL's control, but I do not like this!

So, what can I do with the anxiety this brings me as a fan? Try to justify it in canon, of course. Jonas and Maggie obviously can't vlog right now, because they're being held by the Order. Sarah, being the evil Order member that she is, probably feels no need to vlog since she vlogged as a character she was playing, lying to everyone, and she no longer needs anybody to believe that she's innocent. (And what was that about an ascension, anyway? Did Sarah really become one of the elders?) Daniel came back into the world of vlogging and the Order only to provide more evidence as to Sarah's loyalties once her final betrayal had been revealed, and was only brought back into the fight by Maggie tracking him down and Reed knocking on his door, things he didn't decide on his own. Reed is the only mystery here; he's so new to the world of vlogging and enthusiastic about helping to fight the Order that one wouldn't think he'd give up vlogging so quickly. However, I think it's feasible that if Reed is working with Daniel, who likely wouldn't be so keen on the idea of vlogging right now, then Daniel probably encouraged him to stop vlogging (for now, anyway) as well.

It's entirely possible that Daniel and Reed don't have anything they really need to vlog about at this point, anyway, particularly if they're drawing up a big plan and mostly working in secret, planning more than actually taking action. But too many months have passed now for them to still be in the planning phase; lord only knows what might've happened to Jonas and Maggie by now. If Daniel and Reed haven't taken action yet, they'd better do so soon. On the other hand, they may have made many attempts to find them already, but without the added stress of filming it all and uploading it to Youtube. In either case, it may take the two of them realizing that they need the community's help to come back, asking for help with cracking a code or some such thing. But in order for that to happen, EQAL needs the money to continue funding production of the Resistance. As of right now, real life is deterring canon, and that is not cool. Not cool at all.

I'm impatient. I want Jonas and his expressive blue eyes back. Jonas, a man broken by the loss of too many of his loved ones, who needs to end this battle once and for all, one day.* Reed as he grows into a seasoned pro at fighting the Order and becomes a stronger man than ever before. Daniel, dealt blow after blow by the Order and as hurt by it all as Jonas, who'd been trying to cope with life until December, working to save Jonas once again. Reed and Daniel working together for the first time. Even Maggie, who I still don't know that well yet, but who shouldn't have to deal with this again after escaping once already, and who I don't want to see get hurt anymore. I want all of it, and I don't want them to stay in limbo forever. I don't want to sound like a stubborn child who refuses to accept reality, but EQAL, PLEASE, no matter what it takes, bring these characters back to me! I fell hard for this fandom in October and I've barely had any time with it as it goes on, because of that. I need more!

*(I'd love to see the Order not be defeated for years if it meant years of my favourite parts of the LG15 canon going on, but I wouldn't like to see it go on for too much longer if it meant that funding problems would be run into again, and the series would have to end without Jonas and Daniel seeing the Order defeated. Ultimately, I need them to have a happy ending and not be defeated or killed by the Order themselves. If that means this series can only go on for awhile longer, then so be it, but we at least need one more season. One more is enough. Anything but where it's left off right now!)

Is Akimoto Yasushi an Elder from the Order?

Inoue Naru and Bree Avery: Trait positive girls.

Those familiar with the Breeniverse and the Hymn of One - who are all about finding your "eternal song" and a whole lot of bull that doesn't really matter since it's not a real religion anyway - has this song that they use in the background of all of their recruitment videos, and the first time I heard it, I instantly recognized it from a very strange place: the beginning of the AKB48 song "Ai no Moufu", from their Himawari 2nd stage. AKB48 are a Japanese pop music group featuring a large number of young girls. Considering I've never heard this song anywhere else, this is a surprising coincidence indeed, and it almost makes me wonder if it's more than just that. Could there be...a connection? Could Akimoto Yasushi, the man behind AKB48, actually be...A PART OF THE ORDER?

DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!

You can hear the Hymn of One music in a lonelygirl15 video here, or the song alone here. You can hear the AKB48 song "Ai no Moufu", with the music in question at the beginning of the song, here or here.

If you actually consider it for a moment, it starts to all make A LOT OF FREAKING SENSE. There is plenty of evidence to back up the idea of Akimoto being an Elder, and it's been right in front of us all along! How were those fighting the Order able to miss this? Allow me to lay out the evidence for you all.

Firstly, there's the song. How on Earth did the Hymn of One music wind up in a Japanese idol pop song? In addition to the fact that the use of the Hymn of One music, of all things, brings up questions, it doesn't even match the tone of the rest of the song, in which the girls where white wedding dresses and sing lyrics about caring for others to a calm, happy melody. The Hymn of One music has a very creepy feel to it. There is one explanation that I see: "Ai no Moufu" is obviously an AKB producer's eternal song. Not Akimoto's, because he doesn't have time for that Hymn of One crap; he just wants to get some trait positive girl's blood so he can live his otaku businessman idol machine life for 50 extra years. No, some poor producer of the girls' music who actually thinks the Hymn of One is a valid religion probably heard this song in a dream one day and suddenly felt total enlightenment, and, declaring it his eternal song, decided to throw in the Hymn of One music at the beginning, just to give a little advertisment of his religion to the idol music listening public. And the white dresses the girls wear while performing this song? Ceremony girls wear white dresses when the Ceremony is done. The whole "Ai no Moufu" aspect of this is quite easy to explain.

Now, let's take a look at AKB48. AKB is an all female idol group whose member count, including Teams A, K, and B, the research students not yet added officially to the group, and the members of SKE48 is now somewhere around 80 girls, or something outrageous like that. The Order is always in need of trait positive girls. Naturally, Akimoto, in need of a trait positive girl's blood, would want to put together a huge group of girls in order to catch any trait positive girls who the Order might've missed when they were born. It's the perfect plan! Finally, having all of those girls in one huge group makes sense.

The girls are forced to maintain "pure" and "virginal" images, or else their reputations are tarnished and they can't be sold as viable products anymore. However, this primarily applies to relations with males. They're allowed to act as sexual as they want with each other in dance routines on stage, and...well, Ohori Megumi's allowed to...do what she does. On stage, and on TV, and in magazines, and wherever the hell else. But if it were to be found out that a member of the group had a boyfriend? It'd be all over for her. Just ask Kikuchi Ayaka, who got kicked out of the group after a picture of her with a boy that read "three months together" got leaked to the interwebs. Alas, with this new outlook on the group, the reason for these restrictions becomes obvious: the girls cannot break their purity bonds! If one of them were to be trait positive and run off and have sex with some guy, what if she got an STD and it was then passed on to the Elder who received her blood? That just wouldn't do! The purity bond rule is really in place to protect Akimoto and any other Elders who might receive the blood of any AKB members from sexually transmitted diseases. They don't really care what fans think of the girls dating.

You may ask if any AKB girls have, indeed, proven to be trait positive, and I have the answer for you: Inoue Naru. The Team B member graduated from the group suddenly this fall, announcing it to both her groupmates and the audience at the end of a show one night, never to appear on stage with the group again. After being absent from shows for a reason related to her "health" a number of times, she announced her graduation suddenly, stating that she wanted to take a new path in her life. Much as I don't want to believe it, it's too obvious for us to ignore: Naruppe was trait positive. No doubt she'd been on her carnivorous diet for some time by the time she graduated, and Akimoto was eager to suck her dry of her lifeblood. And poor Naruppe probably had no idea what she was in for, truly believing that the Hymn of One had bestowed upon her a great honour by choosing her to participate in the Ceremony, and that it would enlighten her and enrich her life in some way. Other members who've wondered why they haven't heard from her in awhile have probably guessed that she's in the mountains near Sedona. Little do they know that Naruppe, most likely, is no more...and Akimoto will be at this idol business game for a lot longer now. Oh, Naruppe, I'll remember you fondly!

Add onto all of that the fact that all of the members of AKB48 vlog - just like so many trait positive girls LG15 viewers are familiar with have done - and it should all be clear to us: AKB48 is a breeding ground for potentially trait positive girls. You know what, Akimoto probably tests their blood to see if they have "potential" when they audition for the group, letting them think it's some routine checkup, and only accepts girls with that particular kind of potential into the group. Trait positive girls are rare, hence only Naruppe having been sacrified so far at the time of this writing. Still, we cannot ignore or deny what happened to her. We, the wota must join forces with the Resistance to fight to save these girls' lives.

I see right through your lies, Akimoto, and I refuse to let you take the lives of any more innocent girls! We are the Resistance and WE WILL NOT BE STOPPED!!!

(Also, I am the Juju, and my bad sense of fangirly humor will not be stopped, either.

Disclaimer: Inoue Naru is not dead. Akimoto Yasushi is probably not a member of a fictional cult. Watanabe Mayu is not a cyborg. Okay, I'm lying about that last one. That'd be like saying Jonas Wharton doesn't drink, wear caps, angst in bathtubs, and look damn sexy when he gets mad, protective, upset, or...um, anything. But really, I just want to know why Akimoto tacked the Hymn of One music onto the beginning of "Ai no Moufu", and where he found it in the first place. Thanks.)

(Originally posted to Wings of My Heart here. Changes have been made to suit the content of this blog as opposed to the content of Wings of My Heart.)

Day of Atonement Vlog Responses by Moi

Throughout the day yesterday, I posted vlogs responding to what was going on in the 12 in 12 finale. I made a total of four.

The first responds to the 12:00 PM video, and Sarah kissing Jonas, which was DEFINITELY not the hookup I'd been waiting for.

The second - which won't kill your ears as badly, as my parents had gotten home so I'd had to stop yelling XD - features my reactions to Sarah's sudden turn to evilness, and Daniel's surprise video!

The third is my somewhat awed reaction to Jonas being trait positive, though at that point I'd misunderstood and was under the impression that he was the first trait positive male ever, not just in a millenium. Still, whoa.

The fourth and final vlog is where I express my excitement about the full-blown return of the Danielbeast (!!!!!) and the prospect of him working together with Reed to get Jonas and Maggie back. (I then briefly go into the fact that I twisted my ankle yesterday, but you can ignore that if you want to. XD I'm okay, anyway.)

My first 12 in 12 was all that I could have hoped for it to be, and I am excited as hell for the beginning of season two, with DANIEL and Reed!!! I wasn't happy at all about Sarah actually being evil at first, but when that made Daniel's return inevitable, I found myself 100% trusting the Creators' decisions once again. I still kind of wish Sarah will turn out to have been brainwashed this whole time, but it's probably not going to happen. I'm going to have to deal with it. But hey, this would make a return by Taylor REALLY interesting. And hell, who knows who might come back. I'm holding out hope that we'll see Emma again one day, because I really like her. Even if she's a year younger than me and played by an actress about eight years older than me. Whatever, Emma! She's cool. But for now, I'm just happy to have Daniel back! No doubt the second season of LG15: The Resistance is going to be amazing.

Not quite the hookup I've been waiting for...

You know, it never registered with me that 8am meant 8am California time. =_= Looks like it'll be 11 at night for me before I get the final video of this season's LG15 finale. In any case, the first video will be posted soon, and I'm getting anxious, but excited. I can't wait to see what happens!

Sarah posted a video last night called "Tomorrow", saying that they're going to "go all Jack Bauer" and so Jonas told them not to talk about anything. She just wanted to say goodbye in case anything happens to them. Then she heard a noise and went to film a mirror reflection of Jonas and Maggie in another room, kissing. Maggie tried to take it a bit further, pushing Jonas's shirt up, but he stopped her and said they should get through the next day first. Then the video ended.

Now, Jonas kissing anyone is damn hot. I'm not going to lie and say I didn't enjoy that, because I did. But really, this isn't the hookup I want for the finale, a Sarah and Reed hookup is. I only liked the Jonas/Maggie pairing for a split second before I stopped caring about them and feeling like it just...isn't right. The fact that I'm kind of in love with the Beaumont/Maggie pairing now only makes me want that one even more. But in any case, Sarah and Reed MUST kiss in this season finale. I want that to happen so badly, seriously. They've been building up to it all season, so come on, let it happen already!

Anyway, the picture doesn't have much of anything to do with this entry, but it's a perfect prelude to the beginning of the Day of Atonement videos. The day of atonement is here! I'm so excited for my first 12 in 12! =DDD

Betrayed

Back in the world of LG15: The Resistance, just when it seemed like Beaumont was the perfect knight to save Maggie and the Resistance was still alive, everything came crashing down in "Chapter 12: Journey's End". Last week, I was very nervous that Beaumont was going to say he was a part of the Hymn of One and claim that they would help Maggie, but when he said that he was part of a group fighting for girls like her, I believed that the Resistance was still out there. Apparently, I was both right to believe that Beaumont only wanted to help Maggie, and wrong to believe that this meant he was a member of the Resistance. The group Beaumont referred to was the Hymn of One, but he truly believed that they were there to help Maggie. They used him to get to her for their own motives, stealing her back from Lifesblood Labs as if she were simply an object, not a living, breathing girl. Beaumont was simply an innocent pawn, whose caring heart was taken advantage of and used to bring Maggie back into the Order's clutches.

I never saw this coming or thought of the possibility of Beaumont having been tricked by the Hymn of One, so my heart just sunk to the ground when I realized that that's what happened. In the end, Beaumont was forced to put Maggie in the back of the car and tie her up, though he put in one last ditch attempt at helping her to escape, telling her to run; she hit one of the car's doors and was hurt in the process. Beaumont's hands were tied before they had him get into the car, as well. Beaumont exclaimed that "The Hymn of One is supposed to help her," and this apparent end to his rescue mission became a heartbreaking moment of defeat, as we realized just as moment before he did how he had been played. Adding to this was the presence of Lucy, of all people. I feel downright offended by her presence...just from knowing what she did to Bree. What she allowed to happen to Bree. I checked the date on the security footage at the beginning of the episode just to see when this happened in relation to Bree's death, because for some reason I felt like I would be even more upset if it had happened while Bree were still alive. It appears to have happened near the end of last year, though, when Bree was already dead. Still, Lucy? Why is she always there when it comes to the trait positive girls we're familiar with, anyway? She's not the only freaking person in the Order who can work as a helper. I'm not criticizing the writers' use of her in the plot, if that's what it sounds like. I was just amazed to see Lucy get out of that car, and I hate her even more now.

(But I don't hate you, Amanda! ^__^ Congratulations on the baby, by the way!)

I'm furious at Lucy and the other guy in the car, and whoever else in the Order was involved in using Beaumont like this. I'm not worried for Maggie, because we all know that she's free now, we just don't know how it happened yet. I am, however, worried for Beaumont. If we find out that he's dead, I'll be heartbroken. He didn't deserve this! He just wanted to help Maggie! To save her! veelavaloom pointed out to me in a reply to my Youtube comment that the Hymn of One often brainwashes even their biggest enemies (ie. Jonas's parents) and holds onto them, so they might have just done that with Beaumont. Perhaps TAAG will be able to find him and save him, and he can join them in the fight against the Order. That would be brilliant. Even better, the Jonas/Maggie/Beaumont love triangle tension would be gold! Meanwhile, it would totally make sense for Sarah and Reed to be hooking up, in contrast to the relationship troubles of the other three...

I don't know if we'll get any more videos now until Friday, the day of the 12 in 12 finale. But either way, I'll sure as hell be looking forward to Friday, and seeing how this season will conclude. I believe that TAAG will bring Lifesblood Labs down, inspiring true fear in the Order for the first time. But I'd also be satisfied with just seeing Reed and Sarah make out. One track mind, okay?

No, but really, I believe in TAAG this time. They will have their victory. All we can do now is wait.

(Picture from LGPedia, here.)

Reed's Back!

Maggie, Jonas, and Sarah combined their efforts and rescued Reed!!! =DDD It remains unclear whether this happened today or yesterday, as all that was posted yesterday was a blog entry simply stating "We did it," featuring the headlines "Phase 1 Complete" and "You Will Know More Soon." Kind of a maddeningly short contribution to the series for the day. The rescue video, posted today, definitely made up for it.

The video was great: Maggie stayed in a van speaking to Jonas and Sarah through headphones in their ears, and playing around with various aspects of the building's security system; Jonas pretended to be an intern taking coffee upstairs and talked his way into the building; Sarah followed Jonas into the building and had him hold the elevator door open for her. When the security guard accompanying them asked her what her job was, she brilliant replied that she didn't work there and was just there to sabotage them. Then Jonas got the guy unconscious and pulled his mic to talk to Maggie with out of one of the coffee cups. GO JONAS!!! And Sarah too, holy crap! They're pretty damn cool in this video, that's for sure. Maggie does a great job, too, turning off the lights in the building to disorient the people working there, warning Jonas and Sarah when they're about to encounter a guard and when the lights are going to turn back on, and unlocking a door for them so they could escape from some LBL guys pointing guns at them. Jonas and Sarah broke into the room Reed was being held him, and they all managed to escape the building, run into the van with Maggie and drive away. WIN!!!

Possibly the best part of the whole video was the brief Sarah/Reed exchange right as Sarah and Jonas broke into the room Reed was in. "Sarah, thank god!" "...That's my boob." And we see that Reed's hand has landed on Sarah's boob. "Oh, sorry." LOL!

This time, it took me a few moments to even realize that I'd started clapping at the end of the video. Hells yes I am a happy girl right now! They got Reed back! The obvious Sarah/Reed ship love continues! And I only have two classes on the day of the 12 in 12 finale, so it won't even be so bad if I can't afford to skip them. The end of the season is approaching, and with how good the last week of this series has been, it almost feels like Christmas is coming early for us lonelycrackers. What could be better than that? =) Every time I see Crystal Young (Gina back in LG15 seasons 2 and 3) in her Bluenotes ad on TV, I get a little more excited...just because. Hell, Gina's death will be avenged. Bree's death. All of them. It's only a matter of time now. All I hope is that it takes at least one more season of LG15 for the Order to be brought down, because I'm not ready for this show to be over yet. XD

I wonder if that Italian series is really going to happen, though.

The Harrowing Adventures of TAAG

Oh Jonas, oh that body...

I've been addicted to lonelygirl15 for maybe a month and a half now, and ever since I got caught up on the current series, LG15: The Resistance, I've been following it religiously every day. Each evening I'm eager to see what new video or blog post has been posted for the day, and on Saturdays I'm thrilled to check out the latest weekly episode. I've completely fallen for Jonas, Sarah, Reed, and Maggie, the current lineup of the Teen Angst Adventure Gang...though only two of them are actually still under 20. TAAG is all grown up! Kind of. Their fighting brings out their inner 15-year-olds, but they're working on it.

Anyway, the last few days of the Resistance have been AMAZING. In last Tuesday's episode, "Taken", Reed was kidnapped by a guy from Lifesblood Labs after leaving the group on Monday, and the others have been looking for him ever since. The previous Thursday, Jonas and Sarah had tried to break into Lifesblood Labs and were arrested, and Reed had to bail them out; this caused Reed and Jonas to get into a fight (and I have to say, Reed looked pretty damn hot punching Jonas out...) and both Maggie and Reed to flee, though Reed spoke as if he didn't plan on returning to them while Maggie said she needed some time. It's not surprising that LBL decided to make a move while the group was split apart and vulnerable, but taking Reed is the worst thing they could have done. Reed is still new to this life of being on the run and fighting the Order, and it's not exactly something easy to get used to.

Last Thursday, Maggie posted a blog entry saying that she'd be in touch with Jonas and Sarah, as she had an idea of where Reed might be. He'd been forced to make a vlog telling them he was fine and not to look for him (it was very obvious that he was being forced to say those things), and when forced to make a blog entry also stating that he was fine, he included a fairly obvious code in it that spelled out "Help me." So on Friday's episode, "Lost and Found", the other three reunited, and went looking for Reed in the facilities Maggie was held in during her time as a test subject for Lifesblood Labs.

This episode was absolutely brilliant. Kidnappings and rescue missions are nothing new in the Breeniverse (it feels weird calling it that when she hasn't been on the show since 2007, though), but this episode features a great plot device in taking Maggie back to the setting of her painful memories. The seriousness of the situation hits you when you see Maggie standing in front of the building looking at it, determined, even while Jonas tells her she doesn't have to do this. In a truly creepy moment, Sarah brings the camera over to Maggie to reveal that she is standing at the doorway of the room she stayed in during her time at LBL, the bed stripped of its sheets and the room brighter than it looks in any of the LBL security camera footage. "This isn't you anymore, Maggie," says Jonas as he joins her. She replies, "Then why...why am I so scared when I see this place? I need to know." Then we see her frantically searching through a dark room, yelling in protest when Jonas tries to tell her they should go, until she finds some object and replies to Sarah's "What is it?", "Answers." All set to Tokyo Police Club's "The Harrowing Adventures Of?", complete with its own music box effects that might even remind one of the Hymn of One music.

BRILLIANT!!!


I love the way he's looking at her.

Saturday's weekly episode, "Chapter 11: We All Fall Down", only made me even more excited. In the pre-escape Maggie security footage, the great escape continues, and Beaumont speaks more lines than he ever has before. AND I FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM JUST A LITTLE. He's doing everything he can to help Maggie, and when he puts his hands on her face I could care less about the Maggie/Jonas pairing. And THEN, THEN! He tells Maggie that he is part of an organization fighting to save girls like her. When he said "Come with us," and Maggie said "Us?", my computer shut down and I had to turn it back on and reload the video, but I was on edge for those 10 minutes, not wanting to get my hopes up about what he was going to say, but HOPING he would say what I wanted him to say. And then, he said it. Exactly what I'd wanted to hear.

IS THE RESISTANCE STILL ALIVE, AFTER ALL?!?!?!

Many people aren't quick to believe this, as we've been led to believe that the Resistance was out there before, only to find that it was a trap. But someone else pointed out that they probably wouldn't reuse a plot element like that, and I agree that that makes the most sense. This would be the first time that we've heard anything of the Resistance still being out there, and this series being LG15: The Resistance, a development like that only makes sense. And what a freaking exciting development it is!!! I got so excited when I watched the episode that I started babbling about it in caps lock to a friend who's never watched a single episode of LG15. The Resistance is alive! I have to believe it.

So, after the usual Sunday break, we got the awesome video "All Eyes" on Monday. This video features clips of Sarah, Maggie, and Jonas watching Dr. Alderman of LBL in his home and leaving in his car, with text coming up on the screen that reads "How does it feel to be watched? How does it feel to know we're so close?" They continue to follow him once he's reached his destination, as well. At the end, there's this epic shot of the three of them from behind, and then you hear Maggie's voice: "We see you." The music, Celldweller's "Birthright", makes it all that much more epic. God, we've watched TAAG be followed ever since 2006, whether it was Bree and Daniel being followed by Watchers from the Order, or Reed being followed by the "creepy van man" from Lifesblood Labs this past fall. It's terrific to see TAAG doing the following, for once. They may not be following an Elder from the Order or anything, but LBL is an enemy worth bringing down, and succeeding at doing so would sure send a message to the order that the Resistance is stronger than ever, now.

Another blog entry from Reed yesterday said that he was fine, but it seemed as if the entry wasn't even written by him at all, but by someone from LBL who simply got Reed's password from him. There were no codes this time around, from what I can see, and the entry actually denied that there had even been a code in the last one, though it was completely obvious. This also makes me believe that someone from LBL wrote the entry, as they may have discovered the code in Reed's last entry and decided not to trust him to do anything any more. I just hope they didn't...hurt him. And I hope that they don't if they haven't already. God, I just want Reed to get out of this okay. And uh, make out with Sarah. But yeah.

Finally, we come to today's video, "We Are the Resistance". Much like "All Eyes", this episode could be viewed as something of a trailer for the series. Some fans seem to be disappointed that nothing's really happening in this week's videos, also saying that nothing's really happened at all so far in the current series, and that these videos would have been better at the beginning of the series as a way of promoting it and getting us excited about it. Maybe I'm just easily pleased due to being new to the fandom, but I don't really mind this at all. (If anything, the only time I was frustrated with a lack of things "happening" was on the day of the Boston live event, when there was no auction and all Sarah found was a note telling her to go back to L.A.) For one thing, today's video is pretty much as epic as Monday's was. With Jonas standing front and centre and Maggie and Sarah on either side behind him, our three non-kidnapped current TAAG members speak to the camera, threatening the Order, Lifesblood Labs, and anyone who stands with them, telling them that the tables have turned and their power will only decrease from now on, and indicating that this will all start tomorrow. There's a good chance that something moderately big is going to happen tomorrow, and I can't wait to see what that may be!

The one funny thing about today's video is that it obviously had to have been filmed by someone else, unless they set the camera on top of something in a different position for all three of the main shots. I can't help but picture them pulling some random, timid guy off the street and having him film them, and his expression turning to one of confusion and fear as he listens to what they say about the Order and the threats they make. XDD But this video is great nevertheless. While Maggie doesn't stand out much here, Sarah really grabbed my attention as she talked about the Order taking people's family and friends. Her sister Taylor's life was threatened by their own father, him being a member of the Order, and while Taylor is okay now, Sarah knows what it feels like to have a loved one's life threatened by these people. Being desperate to save her sister drove her to go so far as to help the Order, betraying TAAG, even though she didn't want to. I believe that she has redeemed herself, and that her actions were justified in that she had to try to save her sister and she did try to secretly help TAAG even while she was being forced to give the Order information, though I don't believe even Jonas has forgiven her yet. In any case, I liked watching Sarah say those lines.

And, Jonas. I keep falling in love with him a little bit more with every video where he does something amazing, and he sure had his amazingness going today, that's for sure. But this is no sweet, caring Jonas moment. Jonas is a man who's life has been destroyed by the Order. There's nowhere safe for him to go anymore; people are after him. The Order has tried to take everything from him, and to a large extent, they've succeeded: He couldn't save Bree. His parents were taken from him and he was left to believe that they were dead, and to this day they don't even remember him and want nothing to do with him. Emma was almost killed more than once, though she is safe now. Gina jumped in front of Jonas when a gun was pointed at him, sacrificing her own life to save his. He wound up discovering that his aunt Alex was working for the order when he, Daniel, and Bree stayed with her, although she wound up helping them later on, prior to Bree's death. He couldn't even save Nadia, the ceremony girl on the boat this past August, despite how badly he wanted to stop another ceremony from happening. (The effectiveness of his line "No, not again!" as he sees Nadia lying on a stretcher is chilling.) An early video from the current season in which Jonas tells the then unidentified Hymn of None Youtube poster "You don't know what I've lost," says everything. The Order has been hurting Jonas in one way or another since he was 13; he has a right to want them all dead. Each time he gets angry, all of his pain shows through his anger, and it's a downright powerful sight to behold.


"We are the Resistance. We will not be stopped." I believe in them. I have complete faith that TAAG are going to bring down Lifesblood Labs, and soon. And after that, the Order will know that they're in trouble now, and that it's only a matter of time. The only way this could get more epic is if our Resistance finds the bigger Resistance and joins them, and the group Jonas's father was once a member of ultimately succeeds and brings down the Order. This, along with the constant references to LG15: The Resistance's season finale as "the season one finale", has me sure that there will be at least one more season to come, if not more, so I am not too worried about the fate of the series after the 12 in 12 finale, "Day of Atonement" on 12/12. (So exciting!!!) Hell, there might even be time for Sarah and Reed to finally hook up.


Plz to be happening soon, thx.

The Resistance will not be stopped! The day of atonement is coming.

(All pictures taken from either inside.lg15.com or lg15.com/lgpedia)