Author Archives: Rose Duggan

Growing up, Rose Duggan had no idea she was a geek. She thought her childhood of space camp, anime, Tolkien, and sci-fi was totally normal. The blame should probably lean towards her parents: a couple of original Trekkies who own a small collectibles business.

Technically Rose is a housewife, married to a U.S. Marine and living on base in Hawaii. Aloha! Besides her awesome cooking and cleaning skills, Rose is an Registered Nurse (licensed, but without a job at the moment), owner of a successful tie dye business, tie dye by happyhippierose, and dabbles in modeling, writing, painting, and crafting. Rose loves surfing, running with her adorable pooch, as well as dancing in her car to European electropop. She watches genre dramas like Flash Forward, big budget shows like Dexter, Weeds, and Mad Men, '90s anime, comedies, and gory movies; she'll try anything, but her discerning humour makes keeping her interested tough. On the sly she pens racy Harry Potter fanfic; on the not-so-sly she blogs about crafting, church events and crock pot recipes. To see the wackniness for yourself check out: happyhippierose.

Theme Park Review: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

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On June 26th, I journeyed to Universal’s “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter,” right here in Orlando, Florida. As a loyal die-hard lover of the Potterverse, I walked away with a mixed bag of feelings: impressed in some areas, wholly disappointed in some, and unknown in many.

TV Review: Army Wives 4.09 – “New Orders” and 4.10 – “Trial & Error”

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Whoa, I know I’ve been absentee for a few episodes. I won’t lie, things got kinda ho-hum for a minute, but the past two weeks have sucked me right back in and I’m my normal passionate, die hard, going-crazy self. WTF is going on?! Insanity abounds, and I have lots of cheers and jeers for the going-ons at good ole Fort Marshall.

TV Review: FlashForward 1.21 – “Countdown”

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It’s finally here: “Flash Forward Day!” We’re finally going to see what visions are realized, and which ones aren’t. Well, sorta. We don’t get to see the whole night play out.

TV Review: FlashForward 1.20 – “The Negotiation”

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Ugh. I pretty much hated this week’s episode, and I had honestly had a hard time even sitting through it. I’m having a hard time even writing a sensible review because it was so all over the place.

TV Review: Army Wives 4.05 – “Guns and Roses”

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It’s Mother’s Day at Fort Marshall, and this week did not disappoint with a wonderful episode, paramount in Army Wives fashion with smiles and tears the whole hour long. I’m calling it the best episode of the season so far!

TV Review: FlashForward 1.19 – “Course Correction”

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This week’s episode was all over the place! There wasn’t a ton of action, but holy crap did we get a lot of plot development and finally some peak moments we’ve been waiting for all season!

TV Review: Army Wives 4.04 – “Be All You Can Be”

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A mostly slow episode with a few poignant moments, “Be All You Can Be” at least answered some questions that have had us on edge all week… I think.

TV Review: FlashForward 1.18 – “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”

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Technically this week’s ep is “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” but since I’ve been out for a few weeks, I’m going to yammer about the last most recent three-ish episodes.

Army Wives: Season 4 So Far

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Army Wives is back, and after missing the first couple episodes of the season (because I was off becoming an official military wife myself) I’m back with my weekly reviews. Spoilers up ahead as I catch us up to speed on the first three episodes of the fourth season!

TV Review: FlashForward 1.15 – “Queen Sacrifice”

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Mark and Vogel have to out a mole, and we get some more development on the storyline about Bryce and Keiko. This week was pretty okay — some action, lots of story building.