CSI: Miami- Hot Guys with Babies!!!

Oooh, this is the best CSI:Miami episode ever! Except maybe that first season one where Horatio has to protect the adorable two-year-old baby girl...that one was pretty good, too. Yes, this was the Ryan and baby epidsode...actually, there was another storyline, too, but that did not involve an adorable geek with a baby. Therefore I did not pay much attention. Even the commercials were very good- one of Mac flipping some guy out of a dumpster, and and Elvis one!!! Ha, this is such a good night for teasing!! Ahem, so just to outline the two stories...

Big Crime: There's a gang-related shooting in the ER, leaving some shady looking character dead. Big whup. But I guess even the Miami CSI's have to investigate gang shootings. Whatever, at least it gets us into the ER.

Little Crime: Ryan is called upon by a young mother in said ER to check on her baby. Ryan spends alot of time holding the baby. I love guys with babies. I don't know why. I think I have a mother complex or something. I don't like models, but stick a baby in some guy's arms and I'll fall instantly. I'm odd.

Okay, so things open with a bustling ER...something surely is up, because CSI never shows hospitals unless a crime takes place there. Okay, so we're panning around, settling on a guy videotaping his wife's pre-delivery. Come on. Why the hell would you do something like that??? Do you ever go back and watch that? "Hey, honey, do you want to watch grainy videos of parts of your mother you NEVER wanted to see all covered in slime for your birthday?" I know it's the miracle of life or whatever, but it's still pretty nasty. Nothing I'd like to remember on video.

Anyhoo, at this moment scary gangster looking men walk in, and we start hearing heartbeat sounds over the seventies dance music that always plays with CSI. Clearly, somebody's going down. Sure enough, within two seconds (just long enough for us to get it through our heads that heartbeat sounds are never a good thing. While everybody else is hitting the floor, Videotape Guy leaps on top of his wife, leaving the baby exposed, though. Idiot. It's just sticking out there- if you're going to protect anything- do that!! Come on! Guy drives me nuts. And we cut to a dead gangster on a gurney. The audience knows he's a gangster because he's got a tattoo. And clearly, anybody with a tattoo must be bad. (See, Mom, you trained me well...)

So Horatio and the gang arrives, checks out the scene, and Horatio annouces "It's a gang shooting, ladies." No kidding. He's a perceptive one, that Horatio. This also allows him to get in a classic bon mot just before it cuts away to a classic from The Who, "They brought the war to us, now we are going to take it to them." Wow. That's deep. What war, exactly? Aren't gangs always at war?

As we return from commerical, we see the arrival of Ryan in an adorable sweater vest. Yay!!!

Note: As this is a rerun, Ryan is still playing nicely with the other CSI's, and I can love him completely without feeling sorry for Calleigh. Or thinking he's acting like a five-year-old. In reruns, he's perfect!

Anyway, yay!!! Ryan begins his very important role by questioning a witness, a young mother with a baby. (Who is, by the way, adorable. Cutest little baby ever. Of course, even the toddlers are cute on CSI...) The mom is the friend from "The Wedding Planner". Because of this, I'm just going to call her Penny, because I dont' remember her name. I don't think she had one. Whatever. The adorable baby, who does have a name, and a very pretty one at that- Bethany-, has some bruising under her eye. No!! Ryan is, of course, concerned by this. Awww!!! Point one for baby-loving Ryan.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Er, Calleigh is frustrated by the shooting. Calleigh thinks they have their work cut our for them. Perceptive one, that Calleigh. On the other side of the room, Horatio is talking to Yelena, who totally doesn't understand that she belongs with Horatio and nobody would be a better dad to little Ray, Jr. , who, excuse me, already has a police record for goodness sakes, and she should just appreciate the fact that she has a wonderful guy who loves her and is sensitive too and dump the wife-beater otherwise known as the DA, who never evens spends any time with her!! I'm sorry, did that come out? Yeah, that' s just how I feel. On a completely different note, does Yelena's accent change from episode to episode? Tonight she's very Latino. Not that it's important, I was just wondering. All of a sudden, Horatio jumps this orderly because of something having to do with cell phone. Honestly, I'm still thinking about Ryan with the baby... Anyhoo, the orderly guy says something intelligent like "It's just a cell phone", and H gets to fire back with "In my world, that's call accessory to murder." Hehehehe...good one, H, good one!

Anyway, somewhere else Frank is scaring the crap out of Ramon, which is kind of funny, except I can't figure out who Ramon is. Then Ramon tells Frank that the dead guy from the ER bumped off Primero. No, not Primero!!! Who is Primero!?!?!? So Frank goes running to Horatio to tell him this, and H comes back with urging Frank to figure this one out before the city becomes a battleground. Wait a minute- isn't Miami already a battleground??? It's frickin' Miami, for goodness sakes!!! The hookers and drug dealers are fighting for a very limited number of corners!!!

Cut to Ryan playing with little Bethany...awww....is it hot in here??? Ryan then orders blood work, apparently following a hunch that he does not feel that the audience needs to be privy to. Whatever. Playing and blood work- two points for baby-loving Ryan.

Back in the not-so-cute storyline, the dead guy was shot recently! I'm sure this is going to mean someting...don't know what, but we know that H is going want that bullet!! H, in his infinate wisdom, tells Calleigh and Delko to set up the little dummies to figure out the projectories of the bullets, which we know are just going to be all off. Sure enough, this tell them that there was a third shooter, this one from the door. And he's still out there!!!! *cut to commercial*

Calleigh and Delko (who, by the way, hasn't started molesting girls against buildings yet, in case you were wondering) go out to the parking lot beyong the door and find a dub. For the benefit of the audience in middle America, Calleigh pretends not to know waht this is. (FYI, it's kind of like a hubcap.) Thankfully, these are high end and despite the size and concentrated wealth in miami, only one shop makes them. Unthankfully, this will likely lead us to a convicted felon (probably of something violent) which makes him automatically innocent, so why do they even wast our time??? Sure enough, Dub Guy was at the hospital- he brough his jailbait girlfriend and then "dumped her ass off". Lovely young man. Of course, he's innocent.

Despite this apparent dead end, H miraculously remembers the pregnant woman, and figures that the husband taped the whole damn thing. Grrr. This bugs me so much!!! Who does that!?!?!? Of course, this will miraculously give the CSI team the audio of something incrimiating like "I kill you, Ramon" or something like that, and will be enough to convict somebody. Okay, so it doens't give them dialogue, but it does let them here that the driver pulled away, which means Dub Guy was lying. Not that this means he's guilty. Calleigh spends the next ten minutes flirting with Tyler. Don't know who he is. Whatever.

After tearing herself away from the geeky lab guy Tyler, Calleigh and Delko search this car that they miraculously have. What do you know, Delko finds a safe with a gun in it!

This lead them straight to Pico Domingas, or something like that. Pico admits to the shooting, but they still have thirty-two minutes left, which means he is so innocent. Pico then goes all "You're a lazy pig" to Horatio. Too bad Mac isn't there to get all Marine. I wonder if H has any military service? Oooh, I wonder if Ryan has any???

Okay, somehow they end up at this Primero's house where his little girl saw him get shot. I don't know how, and I certainly don't know why, but that's where they are. Deal with it. Anyhoo, Carmen (the little girl) is probably as scarred as the little boy who watched the slut in the car with the IRS guy last week...freaky. So Frank and H ring the bell and Jesse (who had something to do with the investiagion) answers. When they ask him why he's there, Jesse says he "stepped up" after Primero died. Uh-huh. I'm sure it's all honor and has nothing to do with the super-model girlfriend. *rolls eyes* H goes and talks to Carmen, who says she saw fire when her dad was shot. Fire? H is confused...

Basically they find out that Anna (the super-model) was a slut and having an affair and probably engaging in bondage just to fulfill the weekly kink factor. Because its not like people who don't engage in odd sexual behavior get hurt, right?? Anyhoodle, they trace the belt buckle imprint from the bedpost to Eddie, the Dub Guy. Long story short, Anna and Eddie were fooling around, Primero comes home, Eddie tumbles comically out the window (hehe), Primero beats Anna up, Eddie shoots Primero and give Anna the gun. Whew. In the final little jab, H asks Eddie to take off his shirt, and he's got this huge flame tattoo on his back. Get it? Fire? Carmen? Keep up people!

Okay, so we're going back to the adorable story line, k? Ryan now has DNA results- turns out Penny is not the mother!! No!!! But have we considered adoption Ryan? Come on, be inclusive!!! But we don't have enough time to contemplate that because Penny breaks down and admits that she was the nanny and took the baby because her parents are such losers that they haven't even reported her missing yet and it's been almost a day. Damn them. Ryan is offend. And still wearing the sweater vest. Still want him...

Well, obviously the CSI's have to call Bethany's parents, who show up and are remarkably detached about the whole thing. Well, Ryan is scandalized. (As Imladris put it "Ryan's kind of hot when he's outraged!" So true.) So he gets H to help him skirt the law and lets Penny off scot-free. And child services is going to visit. You go Ryan!!! Penny gets to have a cute moment at the end with Ryan. I want a cute moment with Ryan. *pouts* The last scene is Horatio and Ryan gazing into the sunset---doubley good!!! I think Ryan needs sunglasses...

So what did we learn this week? The dating world sucks, we should all go back to arranged marriages, and Ryan's hotness grows exponentially when he's holding a baby. And he needs sunglasses. :)


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Alias- A Tale of Two Sloanes and a Sander

Ah, yes, this was a veddy, veddy good episode (FYI, I'm clasping my hands together evily.) I did actually have a post all written and everything, but somebody came on the computor and didn't save it, so I may skip over some stuff. But anyway...You kind of need to know a little bit of what went on last week to understand this week, so here is the...

Recap in Two- okay, maybe three- Sentences or Less!!!
Vaughn's still gone, Sydney's still lying, Nadia's visiting Katya in prison- almost kills her with chocolate (bummer), Katya says that Irina did not order hit on Sydney (what a mom), Sydney believes her (stupid, stupid Sydney), Daddy may have a genetic mutation (although why he'd want to reproduce again when he already has a daughter that can run around in a bikini and fire a rifle I'll never know), and some Hot Blond Chick in France is trying to seduce Vaughn (her name was so important to the story that I forgot it.). *deep breath* Vaughn is going all anti-CIA with the scary black dude, scary black dude works for Sloane, Sloane was the one that killed Mom, and Mom killed Vaughn's dad (I'm sensing difficult Christmas issues...). All this and a creepy Russian jewelry box too!!!

Moving on...

There are two main story lines in this one, but they end up being connected.
1.) One is very long and complicated but takes place mainly at the CIA office.
2.) The other involves a woman with a teddy bear being inexplicably kidnapped by -who else?- Russians and held against her will to build some ancient machine or something. I told you, I don't understand this show...

So here's what went on...Syndey and Vaughn (who is being welcomed with open arms despite the fact that he just got back from BEING ROUGE ) are telling Jack about the fact that Mom (Irina) didn't order the hit on Sydney's life, and that Sloane set things up so that Jack would kill her. Jack goes postal and corners Sloane in what apears to be a bathroom and points a gun at his face. Does a whole little "You made me kill the woman I spent my life with, even though she kinda tried to kill my daughter, it's still not nice so now I"m going to kill you too" thing, but Sloane denies it. Now, in the real world, Jack would realize that Sloane is a TERRORIST who had an affair with said "woman he spent his life with" and even had a child with her, and therefore probably is not telling the truth. Jack would then kill him. However, in Alias world, Jack believes everything Sloane says about being set up and somebody else was paying Irina and blah, blah, blah. Anyhoo, they come out of that bathroom practically hugging each other.

Slight Editorial: The audience , while realizing that there is a chance that Sloane is lying, know that Katya was being so fishy and so Irina-like to Sydney in the jail that she's probably the one that's lying. The audience is then okay with accepting the writers rather lame attempt tie this baby up because we are confident in the fact that we are much smarter.

Sydney, of course, believes Sloane, too. Uh-huh. Vaughn, however, is the only one with half a brain and says "Wait a minute. Let's get Scary Black Dude over here and he'll tell us if he really is working with Sloane". Well, the whole little CIA team think this is a good idea, and all crowd around the two-way mirror to watch. Shockingly (yeah), Scary Black Dude doesn't think that Sloane is the one he was working for, but he definately looks like Sloane.

~~~Cut to someplace in Russia~~~

The creepy guy who was holding the poor woman captive and making her build some sort of ancient thing (I'm guessing this is connected to this Rimbaldi thing I keep hearing about), actually does look like Sloane! In fact, so much so that I'm startled and jump back in my chair. Apparently, the woman is not willing to spend the rest of her life in a lab working for people of unidentifiable eastern European background. And with good reason. Can you name a single eastern European lab that hasn't been part of killing people in new and exciting ways? Hmmm? Can you? Didn't think so. Well, Fake Sloane (whose real name is Davis or something boring. Don't worry, we'll get to better names in a minute.) doesn't take too kindly to this and whips out a belt sander. At this moment, I start having CSI:NY flashbacks- is this woman connected to the Tanglewood boys??? Wait, I'm watching a differnt network...k, got it now... Yeah, you can pretty much tell where he's going with that, and it ain't pretty. *shivers*

Back in Glassland...um...I mean, CIA headquarters, all the little agents are sitting around coming up with fun names for this other Sloane. "Sloane Clone" "Arvin Clone" "Marvin Sloane"- for this the U.S. is paying them? And don't they have anythign better to do? I guess Windexing all that glass must get pretty tiring day after day...
Anyhoo, they need a plan to try to find this other Sloane (who will now be referred to as "Sloane Clone" or simply S.C. because I think it's funny). They decide to use Scary Black Dude as bait, and send him into some hotel with the coil (that I stil haven't figured out what it does. I'm assuming it also has something to do with this Rimaldi thing I keep hearing about.). The ENTIRE team will be functioning as backup. Vaughn's a guy in the lobby, the bartender seems to be in on it, Jack is a bellhop or something...no, no, I'm kidding, Jack's not a bellhop. But he should be suplimenting his income someway, because since he started glowing he hasn't really done anything.

So Scary Black Dude goes in and sits down at a bar. Of course, this gives Sydney a chance to go undercover as some reincarnation of a Slut. Today she's wearing a stewardess outfil and pigails. PIGTAILS. Ugh. Sydney, hon, if you dont' think boys have cooties anymore, you shoudn't be in pigtails, k? Another scary guy shows up, he and Scary Black Dude run away with the coil, and Sydney chases after them. Uh-huh. Like the bright red stewardess uniform and pigtails aren't noticable. *rolls eyes* They go into an elevator, which, to make a long story short, gets cut and they end up going crashing to the bottom of the building. Clearly, they're all dead.

Stewardess Barbie...I'm sorry, Sydney, runs after them and finds them dead on the floor. Bummer. Worse, somebody has just taken the coil!!! (Presumably S.C.). From what follows, it become clear to the audience that pigtails deaden your brain cells, because Sydney just stands there. Chase him, whore!!! You know what he looks like anyway!!!

Author's Note: After this I kind of get confused. This is how my viewing went.
7:33- No, Scary Black Dude Died!!! Sadness.
7:34- Wait, what's going on now?
7:35- Why do I watch this show? It's late and I'm hungry but I don't want to go eat because I could miss something. This isn't normal...
7:40- Maybe I'll get something to eat during the commercial break. No, too depressing to eat while watching Jennifer Garner prance around in a bikini or the like. Suspect a drink would go well, though. Darn, not legal yet.
And so forth...FYI, I didn't end up eating until after nine because I was so obesses with this show. I need a life...

Back in CIA headquarters, the gang decides something has to be done to get the coil back and find S.C. So Sydney (after having a painfully tender sister moment with Nadia- this show needs better writers!!) suggests that Sloane go to wherever it is that S.C. is and take back the coil because they look so much alike. Good plan, except S.C. is trying to build this Rimbaldi thing, and apparently Sloane goes crazy when he gets near the Rimbaldi thing. Yet they have him sit down with ancient papers and try to figure it out.

This is so a "Da Vinci Code" rip-off. Come on, people. I'll be Dan Brown could write better scripts...

Anyhoo, Nadia is upset because she knows that Sloane gets crazy. So she goes and yells at Sydney for no apparent reason, and then goes and has another painfully written tender moment with her father (aka evil international terrorist). Mr. Brown on line one?

Okay, so Sydney and Nadia and Sloane end up in this scary Russian Lab/Complex where this suspicious big red ball is being kept. Sydney, while there, doesn't spend a whole lot of time with the other two, presumably because she's out bikini shopping. She does pop in long enough to complain about having flashbacks to Moscow, which I later learned was something that happened first seaon with this big ball. Apparently it's important. Anyhoo, Sloane is getting crazy, and Nadia is getting worried. Good, Nadia, maybe you should have started worrying when you found out he probably kill your mother. Yeah.

The last part of the episode has Sloane alone in this big room with the red ball thingy, and Unimportant Extra Guy comes in. He demands that Sloane leave, becaus he has to do something with the big red ball thingy. Not the best thing to say to Sloane, who's already on the edge.

Sloane goes postal, saying "The Rimbaldi will never be yours, you don't understand it. It's about immortality!" (which prompted me to cry "Take it, it's yours!" much to the perplixity of those in the room with me...*blush*) and then starts bashing Unimportant Extra Guy's head in. The final scene is a one creepy-ass shot. Nadia comes in, and is somewhat upset to fnd her dad leaning over a dead guy (come on, Nadia, wake up!!) and screams or something. Sloane looks up with blood all over his face and a freaky ass grin and says something like "It's all over, sweetie." Uh-huh. Yeah. Totally don't understand that, but whatever.

Anyhoo, good episode, kind of freaky, with the Sloane Clone and all, but still really good. I don't, however, know what happened to the woman with the teddy bear. Hmmm. Next week, I think Jack starts to glow---ooooh!!!

Small Explanation

I'm terribly sorry to say this, as I know all of two people are reading this, but I seem to be getting behind in writing about all of my favorite shows. There are so many!!!! But I already watched Alias, and have a review already outlined so I'll post that later on today. And there was a very good CSI: Miami last night (Delko's got some issues...), that I definately have to write about (the handprints were just too good!!!), so those are definatly going to be up today or early tomorrow morning. If I have some extra time I'll write about the Grey's Anatomy episode on Sunday.

In the interest of time management (I do actually have to go to school), I'm going to skip the CSI:NY episode from last week, and my Thursday shows. I'm also just going to condense the Office reviews from last week and tonight into one post. And remember, all these shows are going to be in reruns this summer, when I will definately need something to write about!!!

So keep reading- I'll definately be updating!!!

CSI: Miami---so *thats* how you pay your taxes!!!

Ah, yes, it was a busy time in Miami this week. Not only did the completely upstanding, law-abiding citizens that staff the Miami-Dade PD have to file their taxes, they also had to deal with murders. (I don't know how much Horatio makes, but those CSI NY-ers have quite a lot to account for with their 98+ paychecks...) Now, this episode followed the traditional formula for the first five minutes (allowing Horatio to get in a cute little bon mot right before The Who starts singing- something to the effect of "It's tax time". I don't remember exactly, but I know it made me laugh at the absurdity of the situation. hehehe), with a man on a boat being shot at by a rich dude in a mansion on the shore. I'm sorry, but whenever I see a guy in a boat on this show, I think of Miami Vice. They could have alleviated this by just setting the show in Orlando or something...*sigh* The man on the shore claimed he was shooting in self defense because Boat Dude pulled a gun, and shot him in the leg (a superficial but painful scar). But, as we learn implausibly quickly in the next...oh...five seconds, the man on the boat was and IRS agent, and therefore not authorized to carry a gun. Huh. I guess Mansion Dude is lying!! But wait! Within the next five seconds we learn that MansionDude is on IRS guy's list- giving him enough motive for Horatio to accuse him of shooting himself in the leg.

Okay, I'd just like to take a moment out for a little editorial. How desperate do you have to be to shoot yourself in the leg? And how stupid do you have to be to just hold the gun down your thigh and shoot? First of all, can't you find something a little bit less important than your leg? You kind of use it a lot. Secondly, you know those clever CSI's are going to figure it out that the gun was fired down your leg and unless you and the IRS guy were pretty cozy (we'll get back to that later *wink wink*), he could not have shot you? Come on, guys, think!!!!

So Mansion Guy pretty much confesses, and I get rather upset. By this time, it's only ten after nine, and I'm settling in for a good evening with corpses. I'm already ticked off because the baseball game pre-emped Friends on TBS and I didn't have anything to watch while I ate dinner. So there'd better be something good coming, or I may retract my desire to give Jerry Bruckheimer my first born.

But not worry- as Mansion Guy is nursing his "wound", Horatio gets a call on his cell phone. There's another murder! And wait- it's another IRS agent! And another bon mot from Horatio! So we pretty much ignore the Mansion Guy vs. Boat Guy story for the rest of the hour. (Hence the unconventional formula) as H, Calleigh, and Ryan (yay!!!) go running across town to deal with this other murder. Once at the scene, Calleigh says something like "An awful lot of blood". She a perceptive one, that Calleigh. Dude was shot through the check twice!!! Of course there's an awful lot of blood! Ugh.

So they gather evidence for the next twenty minutes, and then My Future Husband notices that there's a tire track. Well, we all know who the resident tire-track expert is, don't we? But wait, there's a problem. Ryan and Delko are having a little cat fight! Apparently, Ryan left Delko in the water and went on an errand without him. Now, I'm not entirely sure how this constitues a snub, because I would rather just take a shower and get on clean clothes than go running all over Miami-Dade County trying to find H's SUV, but whatever. So Ryan has to swallow his pride and ask Delko for help. Awww---CSI's getting along!!!! How cute!!!!

Back to the murder. They investigate the second IRS Dude's office, and they find *gasp* a shredded check! Well, this implicates the assistant, who admits shredding the check because she wanted to get ahead in the fast-paced world of tax collectors. But she denies planting the poison that the clever CSI's found all over the IRS Guy's office. But wait- it's plant poison! So that leads them to the IRS Guy's tax-evader who owns a nursery. Which is really too bad because he's an adorable guy with two adorable boys. Awww- he can't be guilty.

For some reason (probably to fulfill the weekly kink factor) there's this other suspect with a whore for an ex-wife. But they're on the outs, making both of them suspects. This also allows the CSI's to search the rich guy's Rolls Royce and find- *gasp*- a heel print on ceiling. Gee, I wonder how that got there? *giggle*

Another editorial---How long do your legs have to be to to reach the ceiling ? I hate tall women. So Whore is sleeping with the Tax Guy to make her little problems go away and to get back at her ex-husband. I'm sorry, I just love this. ;) But all is not well. The Nursery guy's little boy is outside the car watching. Like the eight-year-old. Poor baby's scared for life!!!

So then H concludes from little to no evidence that either the Nursery Guy's fifteen-year-old son or the eight-year-old killed the IRS guy. So Seth (older one) confesses. Then Dad flips out and says he's lying to protect him. But then- in the shocker of the year- the eight-year-old (who's name I forgot) says that Seth is lying. He shot IRS dude. *GASP* *THUD* NOT THE LITTLE BOY!!!! He's so cute!!!!!! *GASP AGAIN* Oh, and Seth was the one who poisened the office. But that kind of gets lost when you realize the baby killed the guy!!!! After watching him go at it with the blond whore in the car. *shiver* Scary. Ugh.

I'll do something about The Office when I get home and watch the tape---late for class!!!

Grey's Anatomy- or why med schools should have an age restriction

I'm really sorry to the two people who actually read this that I haven't put anything up since last Thursday. I have been watching TV, and quite a lot of it, but I haven't really watched anything noteworthy. Well, except CSI: Original last Thursday- which was so shockingly good that I can't even recap it. I mean, when they find a prostate in there...whoa!! But Joey was a rerun, and so was Will and Grace. Although that probably wouldn't have mattered, because that show really lost it's edge when Leo came in. Now they're just dead in the water. And ER was a rerun with Neela whining (as usual) about her job and how she hates being a doctor. Blah, blah, blah... But last night there were some good shows on...so we're moving on...

I did watch Arrested Development last night, and it was actually quite disappointing. Not as funny as the earlier ones. I still don't want it to be cancelled, but they do need to get on the ball with that one. Too much spring break and not enough plot. There was the funny narrator part--- Ron Howards "I'm overworked and underpaid and totally deserve an Emmy for this" speech. And then I watched a couple of minutes of Desperate Housewives, which, while being rather stupid and annoying, is kind of interesting. I think I shall begin watching...

But the main view of the evening was ABC's "Grey's Anatomy". Otherwise known as the show that kicked Boston Legal off the air for six months. Grrr. :( Apparently this is like med school for high-schoolers. There's the barely post-pubescent Pretty Boy who was so important that I forgot his name, Izzie, the beautiful ex-model with inexplicable perfect hair, Christina, the way-older highly competetive one, Alex, the pervy frat-boy, and the star, Meredith, who is kind of crazy also with perfect hair. Actually, I have trouble telling her and Izzie apart except that Izzie has square front teeth. Other than that, they're pretty much twins. And they all live together in an implausibly huge mansion. Uh-huh. It's not like med school is expensive, is it? Anyway, they end up looking like girls at a Catholic boarding school ala "Trouble With Angels", except that they're giving unauthorized transfusions instead of smoking in the nun's chapel. I mean, come on- running from the Chief of Surgery because they might have fudged a little information? You're not in the ninth grade anymore!!!

I did enjoy this episode, though. There's a biker dude (whose name I forgot so he will forthwith be known as "Biker Dude") with a British accent despite the fact that this show takes place somewhere in New York, I think, who is hitting on Meredith and then demanding on leaving the hospital despite the fact that he has a gaping abdominal wound. Meredith reluctantly (with a smile, of course!) agrees, and as Biker Dude leaves he kisses Meredith. But wait- all is not perfect in paradise!! Patrick Dempsey's character (why, by the way, looked good enough for me to dust off my old Sweet Home Alabama DVD---good hair...) sees her!!! And he's not happy!!! No!!! So he bursts into the room, surprising Meredith, who looked way too comfortable sucking face with a patient, and asks (one of my favorite lines ever) "You make out with patients now?" hehehehe...I'm sorry, this just strikes me as funny for some reason. So she mumbles something about the chase or soemthing and you kind of get the feeling that their relationship is rather unresolved. Whatever. The hair was working in the scene. :)

There's a bunch of other story lines going on too, but I had trouble keeping track of them. Pretty Boy has a patient who is being really weird and hitting on him, which wouldn't be so bad except that its a dude. Nasty. So he spends most of the being awkward. Boring. And there's a brain dead guy who hasn't been identified yet, leading Christina and Izzie to fight to keep him alive long enough to become an organ donor. This is funny, because it's Sandra Oh at her bloodthirty best salivating over the possibility of sitting in on an organ harvest surgery. I think she's harboring some resentment over that breakup with the Sideways guy... This story line also gives us the chance to see Izzie having a sweet moment with the brain dead guy. (BTW, who names their daughter Izzie?)

Oooh, and this also gives us the Trouble with Angels-esque moment where Meredith and Christina talk to the head of surgury through the men's room door. And these people have M.D.'s after their names?

So the story goes along for like another hour and finally wraps up with a really gross organ harvest operation (I actually never wanted to see a kidney in a Zip-Loc bag...), and the creepy guy hitting on Pretty Boy isn't really gay- he's just...weird. Gross. Ooooh, and Biker Dude shows up again, this time with blood coming out of his mouth. So Meredith (perceptive one...) pulls up his shirt and you see this gross puffy thing that looks like Sigourney Weaver in Aliens...before the alien popped out of her chest. *shivers* Nasty. But of course they resolve that, and the episode ends with Patrick Dempsey, whose character has nothing to do but leer and firt with Meredith and yet runs around in scrubs all day, having a moment with Meredith. How sweet. Then there's this rather annoying "uplifting" voice-over by Meredith a at the end- you know, stuff like "It's actually all about saving lives...and rainbows are fun!". The last scene is the whole group of sixteen-year-olds---I'm sorry, interns watching surgical tapes and eating pizza. PIZZA???? What the hell is up with that??? Couldn't they think of something less gross to eat? Ew.

All in all, a very solid series, if you like watching the people supposedly saving you're life acting like high-schoolers. And not very mature ones at that. I'll definately watch again---mainly I want to see if Sandra Oh goes crazy and starts killing everybody screaming "Take that Alexander---Sideways would be nothing without me!!!!" :)

A Little Note to ABC...

What the hell do you think you're doing?!?!?! I mean, okay, you gave me Lost and Alias and I really do enjoy Hope and Faith even though it's pretty stupid, but why is Boston Legal not coming back until next September???? In favor of Grey's Anatomy, no less???? Boston Legal was amazing---slightly liberally biased, but really, what isn't? It was a beautiful show, with great actors, and great plot lines. And I still get chills when I think about the last five minutes of the last episode about the death penalty...it was that powerful. Now, I'm sure that Grey's Anatomy is pretty good, and I'm fully planning on watching it this evening and writing about it here (shameless self-promotion), but it's not like your schedule is so chock-full of ratings-getters that you can't take something like Extreme Makeover or Supernanny (did you know that FOX already has a show like that?) off for the last few weeks of the season and give us something!! And excuse me, the other networks are wiping up the floor with you on Thursday nights- put this after Jake in Progress which you seem to love so much. Just do something!! I mean, let's face it, if Lost and Desperate Housewives weren't around, you'd be dead. Like bankrupt dead. Even last year, when you had essentially nothing, I stood by you and watched the stupid sitcoms on Tuesday nights and your rather ill-conceived idead of "TGIF". Andn ow you take my show off the air. *sniff* I'm so upset about this, I'm going to post it in both my blogs!! Ha!

Lost, Alias, and CSI:NY Recaps

If you didn't watch these yesterday and don't want to know what happend, obviously don't read down. Pretty self-explanatory. But why weren't you watching them? They're three of the best shows on televison, two of which have been picked up for another season (thank you, ABC!!!), and you should definately be watching. Don't give me a silly excuse like homework, I had it too and I managed to watch!!! Moving on...

NOTE:This is going to be kind of a long one, because there were three shows and two new ones, but I promise it's interesting!!!!

I kind of half-watched "Lost" last night because there was only one TV that wasn't in use, and it was upstairs, and I had to eat. So I kind of missed the beginning, but I don't think it was anything drastic. First of all, this show is getting kind of strange. My bio professor and I were discussing this yesterday (and I pay for this education?) and the whole "glowing space-ship-like hatch" and Blessed Virgin dolls are freaking us out. And does the beginning seem Hitchcockian to anybody? You know, the whole "Lost" thing floating around in darkness with eerie noise in the background? It looks like "Charade" or some movie like that. And I don't think the writers know where they're going anymore. In the beginning it seemed like they had a plot kind of worked out, you know, with the whole pilot-being-sucked-out-of-the-engine thing, but now it's just kind of confusing. ABC has promised that the storyline with Kate and the little plane and one other one (I forget which) will definately be cleared up by the season finale. But you can bet they'll have another cliff-hanger for us that will plauge me for three months while I'm already dealing with the ungodly hot climate I live in...and I'm rambling. I'm just suggesting that the writers rein in the stories a little bit. Moving on to the actual episode...

It opened (I think) with Jack giving Boone a tranfusion of his own (Jack's) blood. I guess somebody on the plane had a blood-typing kit in their luggage, because otherwise this would have been somewhat dangerous. Whatever. Boone's not doing well, and apparently blood is pooling in his leg (probably because of the antibodies attacking Jack's blood. Didn't the writers take a biology course?) Not good. So Jack is faced with the difficult decision of whether to cut off the leg or not. And, for some reason I didn't catch, the Korean woman is with him and (I think) trying to convince him to leave the leg on.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island, Claire, Kate, Charlie, and the Korean woman's husband are walking around (also for no apparent reason) and Claire's water breaks. Again, not good. Although I don't know why they're all so darn surprised, she's been eight months pregnant since like October. Charlie, being the attentive sorta-boyfriend, runs off to find Jack. But wait- Jack is busy! Kate must deliver the baby! And Claire must freak out about the baby not loving her because she wanted to give it up for adoption. Kate, who I never saw as having many maternal insticts (maybe because she's spent most of the season skinny-dipping with Sawyer...ew.) gets Claire through her momentary psychosis and delivers the "baby" (at least four months old) and even the Korean dude who beats his wife cracks a smile. Awww!!!!

Somewhere else on the island (how big is this thing?) Shannon and Sayid are making out next to a fire. Don't know how they got there (last week they were "friends"), or how her white tank top stayed so remarkably clean with all the sand, or who started the fire, because they're both pretty much incompentant except he knows how to torture and she can sing in French, but they're there. (By the way, if you ever want to look at Sayid the same way again, don't watch The English Patient. Ew.) I guess Shannon drops the bomb about Boone, and Sayid is surprisingly okay with the fact that the woman he was just kissing has also kissed her brother, but whatever. Maybe the Iraqi sun makes you crazy. Then Shannon says something about not rushing their relationship and Sayid says something about having no expectations. Uh-huh. You're a perfect gentleman, Sayid. *rolls eyes*

Back with Jack and Boone, Jack knows something must be done. *dramtic pause* He decides to cut off Boone's leg- "It's dead" he proclaims. How is a leg dead? A leg is not a living being. The person can be dead, and/or the leg can not serve any function except festering and being a risk for blood clots, but a leg can not be dead. Somebody has got to enroll the writers in Biology 101. Grrr. I guess Boone comes to for a second before Jack starts chopping, because he whispers "Locke" which I'm sure will serve some significance later on in the show *wink wink*. So Jack starts chopping, and the Korean woman looks away, and I'm pretty sure the leg comes of (to be honest, I changed the chanel because I was eating at the time.). But alas, all of Jack's work does not pay off, and Boone dies. Sadness. Unless they're just doing another hallucinogenic drug thing where Locke drugged Jack and we only think he's dead. Hmmm. I doubt they'd trot that out again, though.

About the time this is all happening, the whole baby-posse comes out of the woods with a clean pink baby (how they cleaned it up in the forest? Don't know.) Awww- baby! Everybody oohhs and ahhs over the kid, including Sawyer who may not have a solid stone heart as previously expected. Hmmm. Then the fat guy taps on Jack's shoulder (Jack, by the way, has not seen fit to mention to anyone that Boone has died) and points over to the beach, where Shannon and Sayid are coming back holidng hands and giggling. Ever watched a former Iraqi operative giggle? Nasty. Sad music starts to play as we see Jack tell Shannon about her brother-slash-lover's death while she was rolling around in the sand with Sayid. Shannon is upset, evident by the brilliant crying she does at the end. Boy, that kid's acting school really paid off!!! All kidding aside, it was a really good episode.

Alias was also kind of confusing (actually, I haven't been able to understand it in three years). Apparently, Vaughn's dad was liquified in some sort of Russian torture chamber and now Vaughn needs to find out about this. Why did he wait until he's like thirty-five to do this? Don't know. But we do know that Russians and Germans and pretty much anybody from east of France is Very Bad. This the writers are sure about. They must be watching old tapes of CNN or something, because they haven't gotten the memo that the Cold War has been over for like fifteen years and not all of our villains have to be of eastern-European background. But whatever. It's fun to watch Vaughn speak Russian.

So Vaughn goes to his faithful and slighly thick girlfriend, Sydney, and gets her to help him by keeping this a secret while he figures out what to do. Sydney, however, goes running to Daddy and gets him to give her access to secret spy computor systems. Somehow they have this one word, "nightengale", that's related to Vaughn's dad's death, so Sydney does a little Google search and comes up with a program run-where else?- in Siberia by guys who speak German. Long story short, Vaughn gets upset that Sydney squealed to Daddy, Sydney assures Vaughn that Daddy will keep this a secret (it's not like he's every done anything to betray her trust like, oh, KILL HER MOTHER!!!!), Vaughn stops sniveling and he and Sydney go to Germany where Sydney gets to wear a barmaids uniform and almost kiss a gross old German dude but then kick his ass and get him to give her his computor. In the space of about five seconds. That Sydney can move quickly in fishnets and a short skirt!!! Daddy must be so proud! So Sydney and Vaughn return to the US, where nobody seems to care that they used the forbidden Google search and then went rogue.

But things are not so simple!! See, Daddy has been spilling all this to Sloane (creepy ex-terrorist who had an affair with Mommy). No, Daddy, no!!! It appears that they planned this so Sydney and Vaughn could go traisping all over the former Soviet block and risk their lives so that Sloane and Daddy could stay hom in their cool modern offices with so much glass you wonder what kind of secrets they can keep if they can all see into each other's spaces!!! What, Daddy not immediately think of Sydney's good first? Shocking!

And some weird guy (weird because he has an American and not Russian accent) is calling Vaughn and then drugging him and then telling him that he has information about his father. But he wants this coil thingy first. Well, back Sydney and Vaughn go to Siberia---this time with Daddy in tow for no apparently reason other than that the script required him to be there. They come upon the Russian Torture Chamber that the viewers remember from the beginning of the episode. Right here, you know something is going to go wrong. Of course, Sydney must rush into the chamber to get the coil, and lets the door slam shut behind her or something equally implausible. Meanwhile, Vaughn is doing something with the computor, and Daddy is shooting some Russian guy in the leg because he won't tell him where Yelena Derevkov is. (BTW, if somebody would like to tell me who the heck Yelena Derevkov is, I'd appreciate it!)

So Sydney is stuck in the liquifying room, and there's a countdown of sixty seconds, that somehow takes closer to five minutes to actually conclude. Sydney doesn't know she's about to be liquified, but she does, being so perceptive, know that something bad is going to happen. So she freaks out, and Vaughn does something with the outlet, and Marshall tries to do something with the computor from way back in the US, and Daddy finally hauls off and kills Russian Scientist dude because it's clear he's not going to tell him where this Yelena person is. Instantly switching from cold CIA dude to warm and cuddly dad-mode, Daddy rushs into a radioactive thing to stop the power to the chamber that Sydney is stuck in, saving his daughters life. Awww!!! Vaughn then hits Sydney in the face and takes the coil to go meet the bad American dude, allowing Sydney to go running to Jack going "Daddy, he beat me up and took the coil!!! P.S. I am totally not at fault nor did I know anything about the fact that my boyfriend has just gone rogue." They have a touching Father-Daughter moment where Daddy totally knows what's going on. See? That's why he has level-six clearance!

The episode ended with Daddy feeling kind of woozy from his little trip into the radioactive room, and I'm sure we're going to hear more about his in the future. Yay! Oooh, and ABC announced last week that they rehired Lena Olin to play Sydney's mom---even though she's dead. Hmmm. Must keep watching!!!!!

CSI:NY was a rerun---and not even a very good one. It's the circus thing again. I hate that one. You don't even see enough of Flack in it. And there's nothing about how sweet Mac is- or how obviously Aiden and Danny are meant to be together. And really, the Romeo and Juliet analogy has been done to death. Grrr. At least next week is a new episode. Happiness!!! By the way, when is CBS going to start living up to their promise that this edition is more about the personal relationships between the little CSI people? There hasn't been one romance yet!!! I mean, Mac took Stella to the dog show once, but that was just because he was finishing a case there. (Also, if you're making upwards of ninety-eight thousand dollars a year, you can take the girl someplace where you don't have to walk over dog poop to get to your seats. Come on, Mac.)

I'll post later tonight or tomorrow with stuff about tonight's Joey, Will and Grace, CSI: Original, and ER. Possibly a little Apprentice as well!!!

New Blog- explanation

Hey everybody!!! Now, I know you're probably thinking "Wait, Kathleen doesn't have enough of a life for one blog, why did she make a second one???" That's probably true, but whatever little of a life I have, I spend most of it watching television. And it was getting kind of difficult to integrate my thought on the previous nights programming into the random stuff that Ihave on my regular "I'm bored" blog. So this is one that is reserved for my ideas on my favorite television shows (which are now starting to overlap forcing me to buy more and more tapes. Bummer.) I'll update almost daily, because there's usually at least one show that I adore on each night (except maybe Tuesdays. Don't worry, I'll think of something. Isn't there a Law and Order on on Tuesdays?). So keep checking this one!! (I'm trying to figure out how to link it to "I'm bored" (which I'm still using just as much, by the way), but I haven't figured that out yet. As soon as I figure out the template and stuff I'll post a review of last night's shows.

Enjoy!!! :)