We've come to the end of another Sourcies season, only to find that a New CW-World Order has arisen. In the past, the Sourcies had broken down into a battle between two fan favorites -- Supernatural and One Tree Hill -- with Gossip Girl occasionally landing a punch. But now? Now there's a new 800-pound gorilla in The CW jungle, and its name is The Vampire Diaries.
The freshman vampire romance dominated the Sourcies, winning eight of the 10 categories. The Salvatore boys and the women who love them brought wins in Best Kiss, Best Fight, Hottest Moment, Best Villain, Biggest Surprise, Best Recurring Character, Favorite Bad Boy and Best Cliffhanger.
But the Winchester boys and their allies on Supernatural fought back. They managed to fend off the bloodsucking fiends and take the Funniest Moment and Most Heartbreaking Moment categories.
If you take the two televised titans out of the equation, One Tree Hill, Smallville and Gossip Girl got the most love. One Tree ill was second-runner-up for Best Kiss, Most Heartbreaking Moment, Favorite Villain, Funniest Moment and Favorite Recurring Character. Smallville was second runner-up for Best Fight, Hottest Moment and Favorite Cliffhanger. And Gossip Girl brought in the yellow ribbon for Biggest Surprise and Favorite Bad Boy.
Congratulations to all the shows, and thanks to all of you for voting!
The Sourcies wind up the season with Best Cliffhanger
Yet another Sourcies season comes to an end... but we've saved the best for last! Our top shows hit us with loads of delicious cliffhangers this year, but which one rises above the others? Take a look and see what you think:
The poll closes on July 21 at 11:59pm central. Feel free to share the poll, but send folks back to us to comment. We'll wrap up all of the Sourcies on July 22 -- and then we dive straight into Comic Con!
Everyone loves a bad boy, even if they don't want to admit it. The same is true at The CW, so we're not going to judge -- we'll leave that up to you. Whether it's Dean, Damon or Chuck, we want to know about it. This time, it's good to back your rebel without (or with) a cause.
Who's your guilty bad boy pleasure? Polls close on July 19 at 11:59 p.m. Central, so get voting!
The Sourcies Plays Favorites with Best Recurring Character
You know we love our stars on The CW, but sometimes it's the people we don't see every week that make a show shine. With that in mind, we've got a passel of familiar faces nominated for Best Recurring Character. Take a look:
We're winding down the competition, so this poll will close MONDAY, JULY 19 Wednesday, July 14 at 11:59pm Central. (Sorry -- I'm apparently really looking forward to Comic Con, because I jumped a week ahead on my calendar.) One vote per person. Feel free to share this poll with all and sundry, but send folks back to us to comment.
And congratulations to The Vampire Diaries, which won the Biggest Surprise category with the revelation that sweet little lip-locking Elena was actually fiendish, finger-chopping Katherine. Chuck's disappearance on Supernatural was a close second.
The Sourcies love a good laugh, and The CW loves to deliver said snickers. We had plenty to laugh at on our fave shows this season -- sparring couples, secrets (and more!) revealed, high-times hijinks, badly worded confessions, smirking bad boys, and a certain "homage" to other TV shows that left no one unscathed. Take a look:
Which moment split the most sides? Your votes decide! The poll is open until 11:59pm on July 11. One vote per person. Feel free to share the poll (and send it out to all your fellow fans -- that's what's driving the voting!), but please send people back here to comment.
Editor's note: Le sigh. Once again, we're having trouble making a closed poll believe it's a closed poll. I've begged our poll provider for help with this, and I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, here's a screenshot of the results taken after the poll was supposed to close:
Congrats to Supernatural, which narrowly edged out The Vampire Diaries with a 4.5 percent surplus of votes. No one else even came close (although OTH fans did their best for the Brooke/Haley v Bunny Battle.) Thanks for voting!
And congratulations to Katherine from The Vampire Diaries for winning the closest competition yet! She took the title over Lucifer by only nine votes. Nine! We're thinking Lucifer should put her on payroll, because she's obviously got the chops to be his number-one purveyor of mayhem while he's trapped in the pit.
POING! The 2010 Sourcies have got some surprises for you!
Apparently the CW enjoys the sound of jaws hitting floors, because they served up several helpings of surprise this season. What shocked you the most? Baby drama? Mistaken identities? Relationship surprises? Big character twists? Take your pick for our contestants below:
Poll closes at 11:59 pm Central on July 7 (assuming our poll provider fixes the bugs). One vote person. Feel free to share the poll, but send people back to us to comment.
In results news: After a seriously hard-fought battle, Supernatural ended The Vampire Diaries' winning streak by the barest of margins. Congrats to Supernatural for taking the Most Heartbreaking Moment category!
The Sourcies embrace the eeeeeeeeeeevil with Best Villain
If you listen to our podcasts, you know that we have a weakness for unrepentant, mustache-twirling eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil on our shows. Fortunately, The CW knows what we like, and they deliver villains galore. Now, we're not talking about boys with a tough attitude that conceals a heart of gold -- that's what the Bad Boys category is for. We're talking villains -- people who would happily eat your heart just because they were a bit peckish. You know, wicked.
But what flavor of wickedness do you go prefer? Machiavellian machinations? World-dominating supervillainy? Complete craziness? Sexual ensnarement? Honest-to-God end-of-the-world-we're-all-gonna-die destruction? There's so much to choose from! Take a look:
Who's the evilest of them all? Your votes decide! The poll is open until July 4 at 11:59 pm Central. One vote per person, and yes, we're enforcing that to the best of our ability. Feel free to share the poll, but send people back here to comment.
Oh, and a big congrats to Stefan and Elena from The Vampire Diaries, who handily won Hottest Moment. No one else was even close!
The Sourcies jerk some tears with Most Heartbreaking Moment
You'll excuse us if we're a little fragile at the moment -- we've been sobbing quietly into our hankies as we went through the roster of your nominations for most heartbreaking moments on the CW this season. It was a bad year for moms, love and brothers on The CW, and we're still recovering. See what we mean below:
OK, because our poll provider is being wonky, and the poll is supposed to be closed, I'm taking a snapshot of the results and taking it down. And the winner is:
Oh, and congrats to Damon and Alaric of The Vampire Diaries, who defeated the tomb vamps and won the title of Best Fight. Actually, those tomb vamps were less of a challenge than Castiel and Dean from Supernatural -- the vampire/teacher duo fended off the angel/Hunter smackdown by only 4 percent. Well done winning that tough fight, boys!
The CW sure knows how to heat thing up ... so much that we couldn't limit ourselves to just five super-hot moments in this Sourcie category! Check out the video to see which moments made our temperatures rise this years:
Who's the hottest of them all? Your votes decide. The poll closes at 11:59 pm Central on June 28. One vote per person -- and yes, we've got our tech as secure as possible, so we mean that. (If we tightened it any more, we'd have to ask you to come in and cast paper ballots!) Feel free to promote and share the poll -- heck, we encourage you to get as many of your fellow fans across the globe to vote -- but please send people here to comment.
Oh, and speaking of hot: Congratulations to Damon and Katherine (although he thought it was Elena) of the Vampire Diaries, who took the Sourcie for Best Kiss with 43 percent of the vote. Well done! (Oh, and Damon -- if you need to practice your pucker over the summer, we're available...)
The 2010 Sourcies is back with another hot contest: Best Fight. That's right, we're not only pitting these shows against each other, we're also showing the beat-downs and punch-ups that happen in the context of the shows themselves. So which fight defeats the rest? Take a look:
So which fight knocks out all the others? Was it the raid on the tomb vamps' house to rescue Stefan on The Vampire Diaries? The Clark vs. Zod fisticuffs on Smallville? The James sisters pool brawl on One Tree Hill? Liam's righteous smackdown of Jasper on 90210? Or the angelic beatdown Castiel dispensed to Dean on Supernatural? Your votes decide!
Voting closes at 11:59 pm on Sept. June 23. One vote per person, and we're enforcing that. Feel free to link or embed, but please send us the traffic for comments -- and yes, we love to hear from you (trash talk and all). But enough of the official stuff -- get voting!
It's time for the opening salvo of The 2010 Sourcies, and we're kicking things off with a big one: Best Kiss. And The CW gave us plenty to choose from!
Some changes this year: We're using the most stringent security we can to prevent multiple voting. We hope this doesn't make it difficult for anyone to vote, but if it does, we apologize. Voting is open until June 20, 11:59pm Central time. You are welcome to post a link (which we'd prefer) or the poll (which is less happy for us -- come on, we need the traffic!) on your blog, fan site, live journal, etc., but please send people here to comment/trash talk/etc.
So which pucker is worthy of first prize? The revealing embrace on Smallville? The so-wrong-its-right liplock on The Vampire Diaries? The reconciliation kiss on 90210? The elegiac goodbye on Supernatural? The celebratory smooch on One Tree Hill? That's for you to decide -- vote now!
NOTE: NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED! Check back later today for the first Sourcie!
Hello out there in Sourceland! We've got big plans afoot for the summer, and we need your help! We're compiling nominations for the 2010 Sourcies, which will run from June 14 through July 16. Why the short run? Because after that, we'll be sending you news from Comic Con, the TCAs, the Teen Choice Awards, and still more events until the new season starts. So let's got to it!
Our Sourcies categories this year are:
Best Kiss
Hottest Scene (as in, sparks flying between two people, usually with some bom-chicka-wow thrown in)
Best Fight
Most Heartbreaking Moment
Most Surprising Moment
Best Villain
Funniest Moment
Favorite Bad Boy
Favorite Recurring Character
Best Cliffhanger
We're expecting big things this year with the addition of The Vampire Diaries -- will the Salvatore brothers be able to give the Winchester boys from Supernatural a run for their money? And how will One Tree Hill fans vote now that Leyton is out of the picture? Do the scrappy underdogs from Life Unexpected have a chance at glory? Will Gossip Girlreap in votes what it gets in buzz? Will Melrose Place get some love from the fans even though the network canceled it? Will Smallville fans come out in force after the move to Friday night? Will 90210's crazy plot twists make the grade? And will America's Next Top Model bask in rewards or wallow in dreckitude?
It's all up to you: Let us know what scenes, characters and moments should appear in each category. We'll present our slate of Sourcies starting June 14 -- get ready, and may the best show win!
One Tree Hill was apparently saving the best for last, because the final two eps of the season made us almost completely happy. Well, you know, as happy as we ever are. Which is... well, look, we're happiest when we're snarking, ok? It happens.
The group finally steps up for Haley, who has a mystical encounter with a wild animal that, by all rights, should either be asleep or ripping her face off. Quinn and Clay get cute, and then possibly get dead (although Quinn was already baiting death-by-frostbite with that bikini stunt). Skills shows off his hideous fashion sense, which Utah inexplicably endorses. We suppose we should expect that from a place that keeps tiny matador suits in random stores. Julian and Brooke have their dreams come true, and it was completely "Awwwwww!" inducing. Miranda and Grubbs finally leave Tree Hill, hopefully for good. Boy Alex takes off with Victoria, and girl Alex starts almost growing on us -- but not enough for us to really want her to move to Tree Hill full time. Chase and Mia and Alex may be embarking on a love triangle, and we're not sure we care. And Haley's preggers! Wheee!
The CW: Hellcats and ass-kickers join the schedule
The CW is sticking with what works, adding just two new shows to its schedule. But those two shows allow the net wot stretch out its original programing over five nights -- a first for the relative newcomer.
In keeping with The CW's emphasis on TV for chicks who spend, the net's two new shows feature women -- one concentrating on women who do high kicks, while the other follows a woman who kicks ass.
New shows:
Hellcats - Wednesday 9pm
So, remember "Bring It On?" Remember the part where a rebel-type chick who used to be a gymnast joined the cheerleading team, and hilarity ensued? Take that plotline, move it to a university in the South where football is life, then stir in Ashley Tisdale as the leader of the cheerocracy and Tom Welling as an executive producer. Go, Hellcats!
Nikita - Thursday 9pm
Maggie Q is the titular character, a woman who was taken out of prison and trained to kill for the CIA. Now she's escaped the agency, and she wants to make sure the ones she left behind have an opportunity to flee as well. Plus, Maggie Q had the best quote of the Upfronts: "I don't think any of you understand how good looking it is backstage. It's very intimidating. I had to push the A cups up a little. We exist!" How can we not want to love the show after that?
We've got the full fall schedule -- and our comments -- after the jump. Read on!
One Tree Hill finale: The healing power of love (and snow)
One Tree Hill learned its lesson last season -- don't ever end a season with all plots resolved and everything tied up with a pretty bow. This year, they made sure we had some loose ends to keep us going over the summer -- because yes, it does look like the show will be back. But first, let's dive into the season finale!
What we loved
Snow makes everything better
It's nice to see the Tree Hillians get out of town every once in a while, and the setting they descended on was pretty spectacular. The sledding, the snowball fights, the snow fort... we almost wish it was winter again. And when you can get Chicagoans to wish for snow in mid-May, you're doing something right.
Haley's reemergence
OK, so Haley did take up residence at the bottom of the pool at the end of last episode -- and apparently, that -- and Nathan dragging her out of the water in a panic -- was the step she needed to take to start coming out of her depression. "I was just trying to feel something. Alive, I guess," she tells the disembodied shrink. Did it make her feel alive? "No. But it made me want to," she says. We'll take it!
One Tree Hill: Jackson talks about college funds, fountains and general adorableness
So, One Tree Hill peanut Jackson Brundage is cute as a button on and off screen. In our interview with the young actor he talks about the capers he gets into playing Jamie, saving for college with the fellow actors' swear jar and his ultimate dream job. Check out the video with Jackson and cyber-pinch those cute little cheeks.
Something unprecedented happened this week on One Tree Hill: We totally loved Quinn. No, really! She was awesome! First off, she introduced Jamie to The Goonies, which is a fantastic movie. Then, she got Jamie to act all kid-like, which he doesn't often get a chance to do. And finally, for a brief moment at the beginning of the episode, we thought she'd taken care of the StalKatie problem and was burying her body in the woods. Two out of three ain't bad...
What we loved The treasure hunt
Now this is the way to use Jamie -- have him be a genuine kid, and intersperse his antics instead of making it one long, loooooooong KISS homage. We really felt for the kid when he was trying to please Haley and she just couldn't deal, so we were happy that Quinn came up with a great way to distract him. He was believably excited by the treasure hunt, and even his precocious moment at the end didn't feel spackled on. Well done.
Clay's fake-out
We'll admit that we were worried about Clay at first -- was he finally buying StalKatie's line of crap? Yes, he was very firm with her that Sara was dead and not coming back, but then he seemed to regress, poring over his wedding video and basically living in the past. So when Katie ended up on the pier, and Clay called her his wife, we were worried. But it was all an act! He was just making sure that Katie didn't jump, and once the cops grabbed her, he was happy to disabuse her of her happily-ever-after fantasies. We're hoping this means that Katie will be safely committed.... and that Clay gets a restraining order as a backup.
Behold: It's a miracle! We've got a One Tree Hill podcast actually coming out a day after the show! (Or, um, a podcast coming out a week after the show, but we're determined to be glass-half-full at the moment.)
Darcel and I take on the last two eps of OTH, and determine that we couldn't care less about Miranda and Grubbs, that Victoria is made of awesome, and that Tree Hill needs more litium in its water supply. Plus, we argue over how to respond to Haley, determine which of us gets which Tree Hill guy, and disagree on the efficacy of three-minute-long KISS homages. Listen up and tell us what you think!
Since we follow a whole lot more entertainment than just The CW, we've put together Snark Syndicate; a Facebook page that runs tabs on the industry and directs readers to the best news and time-wastingest content. Like this re-edited video about George Costanza. Why did we post it? Because it's hilarious. We love it. You'll love it too.
We also cover items with a little more heft, like the Conan O'Brien vs. NBC saga, what's going on with your favorite Glee actors and what TV pilots to expect this fall. Basically, it's a one-stop-shop for some entertainment news, our Source content and some extra giggles.
As a special side-package we've also started a Twitter feed, Pop Connoisseur, as a speedier way to get the news out there.
Best of all, this is another chance us to interact with you and you to interact with each other. Comment on our posts, let us know what you like and don't like in entertainment, and start some conversations. We'd love to hear from you.
One Tree Hill ratcheted up the impending dooooooooom this week, and we're getting worried. No, not about Psycho Stalker Mark 15 -- at this point, Tree Hill probably does mandatory anti-stalker drills similar to the "Stop, Drop and Roll" practice sessions we had in grade school. No, we're worried about Haley, who almost needed to stop, drop and roll herself after that little incident with the flaming keyboard. Hales? Honey? We're here for you, we promise, even if no one else is!
Haley
Haley continues to suffer, and we're getting a little pissed off. We know Miranda is a bee-yotch (and distracted by her own thoroughly inconsequential plot), but is she really so clueless about why Haley might be kind of out of it? Her mom just died, ferchrissakes, and that's not something you just snap out of. So perhaps you should be less worried about Haley being "unprofessional" and more worried about her being clinically depressed?
But Miranda, being the Big Bad Business Baddie, isn't necessarily supposed to have Haley's best interests at heart. That distinction goes to her family and friends... and they are sadly lacking. Where the hell is Brooke? Why would she spend so much time worrying about tabloids reporting about an alleged liaison with a boytoy when her friend is suffering? You can argue she doesn't know, but dude -- it's not up to Haley to tell Brooke she's in pain about her mom's death, it's Brooke's job to just be there. And Quinn? What about her? Is she so busy with Clay and Stalkatie that she doesn't see how badly her sister is hurting?
And Nathan... oh, Nathan. Look, we can maybe give you a little slack for wanting to believe that everything will be all right, but at some point -- maybe when your uber-responsible wife blows off work, or when she freaks out at your son -- you've got to stop hoping it's okay and start dealing with what's actually happening. And when he found her sitting numb in front of a piano on fire -- well that, dear Nathan, is what is known as "a sign." Maybe Haley doesn't want to talk to you. Maybe you're not equipped to deal with it. Find someone who is -- or are therapists kept out of town just like locksmiths and lawyers?
You're on notice, Nathan -- you better be taking better care of your wife next episode!
