This time, it's not cable's fault. I don't have a modem until later tonight. As a result, the only stuff I can put up I have to do at school. And, as I have a law exam that I am going to fail and thus feel the need to study for during my break, you won't be getting anything. And I don't have time to finish the CSI: NY review from last night. But expect a better one next week, k???
This also means that there will be no Alias review. Long story short- Vaughn's not really bad, Sydney's pregnant, and they're running around the world. Big whup. Aside from baby, this is kind of the way that the last four seasons have gone.
So read the rest of the stuff and I'll try to get something up on tonight's stuff tomorrow. Ciao!!!
Friday, September 30, 2005
Thursday, September 29, 2005
CSI: NY---YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been waiting since May 19th for a new episode---this has been the longest summer of my life!!!! Wow, I really need some real people in my life...First, I'll get a couple of other shows out of the way...
Boston Legal on Tuesday was fantastic. I really hope it does well this season without Desperate Housewives as a lead-in, because it's so great. Again, funny show, so there's not much I can say about it. Everybody must watch!!!
And Lost was last night, too. However, unlike last week's episode, this one did not deliver like Dominos. They didn't show anything new, except on the raft, and I'm not that into that part. They took you through what happened between when Kate got pulled down into the shaft and when Jack arrived, which didn't involve a whole lot except a really old computor and more of Mama Cass. Whatever. Oh, and there's some kind of weird clock that turns back when you punch in THE numbers. And Desmond has been there way too long for him to have run into Jack on the tour de stade, so this is rather confusing. Oh, and Kate's stuck in a duct.
Meanwhile, on the raft, Walt really is kidnapped, and Sawyer and Mike have a little hissy fight, and end up being carried back to the island where they find Jin tied up on the shore screaming about udders. They realize that this means "Others" just before the credits roll. Damn them. I just have more questions from this episode, no answers. Grrrr.
The main view of the evening was, of course, CSI:NY. Thankfully, I have a feeling that Flack will not be the one to leave at the end of the next episode. Which is good, because he is my Reason To Watch. He did however, get a hair cut. Damn. As Imladris put it, "Caeser died two thousand years ago, and so did that style." *shivers* I'm really hoping it will grow out though. Anyhoodles, this was quite a good episode, with Stella lightening her hair and wearing even fewer clothes than last season. I don't think she's handling Mac moving on well... Hawkes is getting out of the morgue a little bit more, and in thus bringing his gallows humor more front and center. Ew. Danny lightened his hair, too, but unfortunately Aiden is falsifying evidence and will probably be given the boot next week. Which could be why she's the only one who didn't get new shots for hte opening. Good episode, and expect a full review of next weeks, okay???
Boston Legal on Tuesday was fantastic. I really hope it does well this season without Desperate Housewives as a lead-in, because it's so great. Again, funny show, so there's not much I can say about it. Everybody must watch!!!
And Lost was last night, too. However, unlike last week's episode, this one did not deliver like Dominos. They didn't show anything new, except on the raft, and I'm not that into that part. They took you through what happened between when Kate got pulled down into the shaft and when Jack arrived, which didn't involve a whole lot except a really old computor and more of Mama Cass. Whatever. Oh, and there's some kind of weird clock that turns back when you punch in THE numbers. And Desmond has been there way too long for him to have run into Jack on the tour de stade, so this is rather confusing. Oh, and Kate's stuck in a duct.
Meanwhile, on the raft, Walt really is kidnapped, and Sawyer and Mike have a little hissy fight, and end up being carried back to the island where they find Jin tied up on the shore screaming about udders. They realize that this means "Others" just before the credits roll. Damn them. I just have more questions from this episode, no answers. Grrrr.
The main view of the evening was, of course, CSI:NY. Thankfully, I have a feeling that Flack will not be the one to leave at the end of the next episode. Which is good, because he is my Reason To Watch. He did however, get a hair cut. Damn. As Imladris put it, "Caeser died two thousand years ago, and so did that style." *shivers* I'm really hoping it will grow out though. Anyhoodles, this was quite a good episode, with Stella lightening her hair and wearing even fewer clothes than last season. I don't think she's handling Mac moving on well... Hawkes is getting out of the morgue a little bit more, and in thus bringing his gallows humor more front and center. Ew. Danny lightened his hair, too, but unfortunately Aiden is falsifying evidence and will probably be given the boot next week. Which could be why she's the only one who didn't get new shots for hte opening. Good episode, and expect a full review of next weeks, okay???
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
House
Note: You can see what I think of FOX, and the MLB, and everyone who ever thought throwing a ball around constituted fun on my other blog, linked on the sidebar. Grrr.
I planned on watching Commander-in-Chief last night on ABC, because it looked semi-interesting, and I'm a sucker for anything presdential (I even sit through The West Wing). However, when it comes down to a viewing decision between Mr. Little and Mrs. Little, guess who's gonna win??? However, due to the abovementioned note, I'll have plenty of free time on Tuesdays for the next five weeks, so expect something next week, k???
Yeah, I watched House last night. It was friggin' awesome. I love this show. It should play for twenty years. Hugh Laurie should have won the Emmy. It's amazing.
In this episode, Cuddy's handyman falls off her roof after she made him go up there even though he has asthma. And then he gets gangrene in his hand and a bunch of other stuff happens that's too complicated to desribe. And it was all so well-written I can't even parody it.
It was a hilarious episode, though. When they break into Cuddy's house, and House jumps on her bed, or the "She uses super-tampons. What does that mean?" line??? HAHAHAHAHA!!!
But the best part was that Wilson was in the entire episode- almost every shot. Now, this would not be an abnormal occurence, except that they never even thought for one minute that the guy had cancer. They had absolutely no need for an oncologist whatsoever, and yet he was there all the time. Just hanging around. I want to work there. It seems like so much fun!!! I'd tell everybody to watch it, except it'd not going to be on for thirty-five days. And I can't tell you to buy the DVD because I don't want anybody supporting them finacially. But come November 1st, everybody had better be there with bells on!!!!
I have to get to class now, but I'll have a Boston Legal one up when I get home. :)
I planned on watching Commander-in-Chief last night on ABC, because it looked semi-interesting, and I'm a sucker for anything presdential (I even sit through The West Wing). However, when it comes down to a viewing decision between Mr. Little and Mrs. Little, guess who's gonna win??? However, due to the abovementioned note, I'll have plenty of free time on Tuesdays for the next five weeks, so expect something next week, k???
Yeah, I watched House last night. It was friggin' awesome. I love this show. It should play for twenty years. Hugh Laurie should have won the Emmy. It's amazing.
In this episode, Cuddy's handyman falls off her roof after she made him go up there even though he has asthma. And then he gets gangrene in his hand and a bunch of other stuff happens that's too complicated to desribe. And it was all so well-written I can't even parody it.
It was a hilarious episode, though. When they break into Cuddy's house, and House jumps on her bed, or the "She uses super-tampons. What does that mean?" line??? HAHAHAHAHA!!!
But the best part was that Wilson was in the entire episode- almost every shot. Now, this would not be an abnormal occurence, except that they never even thought for one minute that the guy had cancer. They had absolutely no need for an oncologist whatsoever, and yet he was there all the time. Just hanging around. I want to work there. It seems like so much fun!!! I'd tell everybody to watch it, except it'd not going to be on for thirty-five days. And I can't tell you to buy the DVD because I don't want anybody supporting them finacially. But come November 1st, everybody had better be there with bells on!!!!
I have to get to class now, but I'll have a Boston Legal one up when I get home. :)
Monday, September 26, 2005
CSI: Miami: Don't Trust Your Yacht Club
Oh, this was an awsome episode. Way more normal that last week's "Let's just get ticked off at the mob" theme. This one had a pretty girl being mauled, slightly shifty parents, a tall, rather nordic looking blond guy, an actual Nordic guy, and a foreign guy working in a mansion. And lest we begin to think that people behave normally when it comes to their hormones, CSI is here to remind us that incest does still happen. Ahhh....to be home again!!!!
This episode opened on a yacht that cost more than my house. There was an explosion. Preternaturally pretty daughter Julie flips out and gets ready to jump over the side. Preternaturally pretty Mom goes crazy because there are sharks in the water. Preternaturally pretty Dad is running from help. Bastard. Julie doesn't listen to Mom, and jumps in the water. She floats for all of three seconds before being yanked under. This is when preternaturally pretty son Luke goes against every single Girl Scout guide you can find and jumps in after her. Stupid, stupid Luke. Anyhoodles, they both disappear and there's this inexplicable rush of bloody water to the surface (kind of looked like the sharks got ill from the hair gel and lip gloss and threw up) before Julie's mangled life vest floats up.
Ouch.
Luckily, the slightly less attractive CSI's are all there to help. (This also is not expained. There is no reason for them to be there yet. This was not a homicide, it was a case of a fire on a boat and a shark ate her. Unless, as my father suggested, they were going to arrest the shark, there is nothing they could do. Do you think they have some kind of ESP or something to tell them that this case will end up being a murder???) And they all have their little jobs to do.
Delko goes diving for the body (is he the only one who has a wet suit??? And why is he down there alone???), Calleigh and Ryan go to process the scene, and H goes to interrogate the owner of the salvaging ship who tried to help but still would have demanded 500 k.
In the real world, this guy would be arrested. He's rude, shifty, was trying to rob the family, and looks like he smells. Oh, and he moved the bouy that caused the yacht to run aground starting the fire in the first place. This sounds like either second degree manslaughter, negligent homicide, or even felony murder to me. But, of course, he can have nothing to do with it. It's only quarter after nine.
Thankfully, Calleigh and Ryan are getting somewhere. They find the son's bong filled with cooking lighter fluid, which caused the explosion. Hmmm. Methinks something is not right here. I'm no drug expert, but I'm fairly certain it's not supposed to do that.
Unfortunately, before they can use there quota of little white gloves and q-tips, the boat starts to sink, and Calleigh and Ryan have to "run and shoot".... uh-huh, those pictures should turn out well...
Meanwhile, Island Delko (better than molesting-some-poor-girl-against-a-wall-because-he-couldn't-get-over-Speedle's-death Delko we were treated to last season...) has found a body. Then they (ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww) cut off his finger and fingerprint it. Of course, this cannot be the son, but rather some exchange student from Norway. Bummer, huh. Delko still can't find a razor.
Before they even get a chance to dry out, Calleigh and Ryan go investigate the unbelievably rich family that Exchange Student worked for. Sure enough, there's a big red stain on the floor. Tia, another preternaturally pretty whore, flips out and starts crying.
I say we start the investigation with her. She's too pretty to not have something to do with this.
Anyhoodles, a lot happens really quickly. 10 mil in gold gets stolen from Rich Family, Calleigh and Ryan find a casing (yay!!!), and Luke Gannon (the son) shows up alive and well on the aformentioned salvage ship. This guy still has nothing to do with it. Somehow they get figure out that Exchange Student's body must have been on the yacht before the explosion, and that gets Horatio suspicious. Like a good little CSI (except he never wears the coat), he investigates.
Turns out Dad and the kids have rap sheets longer than my arm. Mom is an innocent bystander.They used her (shocker of shockers) to gain access to the Yacht club so that they could steal the $10 mil. Oh, and they killed her husband. Which, by this point, gets kind of lost in the shuffle. Ironically.
And, just as I suspected, Tia has something to add to the investigation. (See, told ya.) She and Luke used to go out, but then she found him in bed with Julie (his sister). EWWWWWWWW. Excuse me for a moment while I go wash my brain out with hydrogen peroxide. *shivers*
However, Tia doens't have the whole story. Luke and Julie aren't sister and brother. This does little to appease slightly sick feeling I still have. And they're not kids. They're like thirty. But whatever. And Julie shot Exchange Student, but Luke was there. If Julie were alive, they'd definately be taken away for felony murder.
So Dad and Luke get taken away, and Julie is presumably dead, even though we never found her body, and Horatio gets to look out into the sunset with poor, broken Mom, who is going on and on and on about how she just wanted a family. Horatio, with his best I'm-going-to-take-care-of-you-ma'am look (you know, the one he uses with little abuse victims and the like) says, "I think that is what everybody wants, a family." Except he just put his last chance for one on a plane ala-Casablanca at the end of last season. *tear* But then we see Horatio watching every single CSI, who happen to be walking down the same corridor at the exact same time for the story's sake, and you see that it dawns on him that he really does have a family... awwwww!!!!!!
So what did we learn this week??? Don't go to your yacht club's single dances. You'll end up burned (literally..HAHAHAHA).
This episode opened on a yacht that cost more than my house. There was an explosion. Preternaturally pretty daughter Julie flips out and gets ready to jump over the side. Preternaturally pretty Mom goes crazy because there are sharks in the water. Preternaturally pretty Dad is running from help. Bastard. Julie doesn't listen to Mom, and jumps in the water. She floats for all of three seconds before being yanked under. This is when preternaturally pretty son Luke goes against every single Girl Scout guide you can find and jumps in after her. Stupid, stupid Luke. Anyhoodles, they both disappear and there's this inexplicable rush of bloody water to the surface (kind of looked like the sharks got ill from the hair gel and lip gloss and threw up) before Julie's mangled life vest floats up.
Ouch.
Luckily, the slightly less attractive CSI's are all there to help. (This also is not expained. There is no reason for them to be there yet. This was not a homicide, it was a case of a fire on a boat and a shark ate her. Unless, as my father suggested, they were going to arrest the shark, there is nothing they could do. Do you think they have some kind of ESP or something to tell them that this case will end up being a murder???) And they all have their little jobs to do.
Delko goes diving for the body (is he the only one who has a wet suit??? And why is he down there alone???), Calleigh and Ryan go to process the scene, and H goes to interrogate the owner of the salvaging ship who tried to help but still would have demanded 500 k.
In the real world, this guy would be arrested. He's rude, shifty, was trying to rob the family, and looks like he smells. Oh, and he moved the bouy that caused the yacht to run aground starting the fire in the first place. This sounds like either second degree manslaughter, negligent homicide, or even felony murder to me. But, of course, he can have nothing to do with it. It's only quarter after nine.
Thankfully, Calleigh and Ryan are getting somewhere. They find the son's bong filled with cooking lighter fluid, which caused the explosion. Hmmm. Methinks something is not right here. I'm no drug expert, but I'm fairly certain it's not supposed to do that.
Unfortunately, before they can use there quota of little white gloves and q-tips, the boat starts to sink, and Calleigh and Ryan have to "run and shoot".... uh-huh, those pictures should turn out well...
Meanwhile, Island Delko (better than molesting-some-poor-girl-against-a-wall-because-he-couldn't-get-over-Speedle's-death Delko we were treated to last season...) has found a body. Then they (ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww) cut off his finger and fingerprint it. Of course, this cannot be the son, but rather some exchange student from Norway. Bummer, huh. Delko still can't find a razor.
Before they even get a chance to dry out, Calleigh and Ryan go investigate the unbelievably rich family that Exchange Student worked for. Sure enough, there's a big red stain on the floor. Tia, another preternaturally pretty whore, flips out and starts crying.
I say we start the investigation with her. She's too pretty to not have something to do with this.
Anyhoodles, a lot happens really quickly. 10 mil in gold gets stolen from Rich Family, Calleigh and Ryan find a casing (yay!!!), and Luke Gannon (the son) shows up alive and well on the aformentioned salvage ship. This guy still has nothing to do with it. Somehow they get figure out that Exchange Student's body must have been on the yacht before the explosion, and that gets Horatio suspicious. Like a good little CSI (except he never wears the coat), he investigates.
Turns out Dad and the kids have rap sheets longer than my arm. Mom is an innocent bystander.They used her (shocker of shockers) to gain access to the Yacht club so that they could steal the $10 mil. Oh, and they killed her husband. Which, by this point, gets kind of lost in the shuffle. Ironically.
And, just as I suspected, Tia has something to add to the investigation. (See, told ya.) She and Luke used to go out, but then she found him in bed with Julie (his sister). EWWWWWWWW. Excuse me for a moment while I go wash my brain out with hydrogen peroxide. *shivers*
However, Tia doens't have the whole story. Luke and Julie aren't sister and brother. This does little to appease slightly sick feeling I still have. And they're not kids. They're like thirty. But whatever. And Julie shot Exchange Student, but Luke was there. If Julie were alive, they'd definately be taken away for felony murder.
So Dad and Luke get taken away, and Julie is presumably dead, even though we never found her body, and Horatio gets to look out into the sunset with poor, broken Mom, who is going on and on and on about how she just wanted a family. Horatio, with his best I'm-going-to-take-care-of-you-ma'am look (you know, the one he uses with little abuse victims and the like) says, "I think that is what everybody wants, a family." Except he just put his last chance for one on a plane ala-Casablanca at the end of last season. *tear* But then we see Horatio watching every single CSI, who happen to be walking down the same corridor at the exact same time for the story's sake, and you see that it dawns on him that he really does have a family... awwwww!!!!!!
So what did we learn this week??? Don't go to your yacht club's single dances. You'll end up burned (literally..HAHAHAHA).
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Supernanny
Note: I changed the template again. The last one wasn't working for me. I'll probably be experimenting for awhile...
Wow, I have a new favorite show. This show is awesome. I tuned in because I though (stupidly) that ABC was running all of their season premieres in one week (I must learn not to trust the alphabet network...), and wanted to see Hope and Faith, as much as it kills me to admit it. But, alas, ABC was toying with my affections again, and had this show on instead.
Last season, I contemplated watching it, but the woman annoyed me too much. I figured she was too Mary Poppins to suceed on network tv. And I was right. This season, it's the same woman, but suddenly she is out of those awful ill-fitting suits and into cute clothes, with her hair down and styled as opposed to the bun that seemed like the epitome of British restraint. In the words of Captain Norrington "This is some very restrained acting right here..." She's actually quite pretty. And bigger than me. I love that about women on TV.
But she's still Supernanny!!! Although what made her an authority on the subject, I have no idea, as she's single and not a mother. It's a lot easier to deal with children when you...don't actually have to deal with them...yeah...who hired her???
Anyhoodles, this week she was helping some poor family with two daughters, one of whom was developmentally disabled, and a little boy. Oh, and a father that resolved his issues with a "firm tap"...or a whack. Whatever you want to call it. I'm seeing little Julius ending up in juvie for "firmly tapping" the hell out of his girlfriend...
But that's not the point. The mom really wanted Jo there. And the Dad really didn't. The mom paid attention and followed Jo's instructions, or "techniques", even if they took hours. Dad groused for the half hour he actually did work, and then watched TV. All while Jo sat in their bedroom looking quite comfortable going "Now, mum, you must follow the bedtime technique...Dad, where are you going?"
I think Mom and Dad have some problems that Jo cannot help them with. Unless she has a masters in couples therapy.
So poor mom would haul her ass out into the hallway and drag whatever spawn of her love had crawled out of his/her room back to bed while Dad was like "This is totally bs." Well, he didn't really say that, although I wouldn't be surprised if ABC just edited it out, but you could totally tell that's what he was thinking. That and "Why the hell is there a British nanny in my bedroom???"
Ooooh, and the naughty chair. One cannot express in writing how absolutely ridiculous this sounded. Just can't. But it did. I guess it worked, though, because little Julius stopped throwing the naughty chair after about fifteen times. Hehehehe...that part was funny.
Anyhoodles, this is a rather addicting show, and as it's up against absolutely nothing of interest (that I could find...correct me if I'm wrong) I would suggest watching. Fridays at 7.
Lots of TV tomorrow and Tuesday nights, so expect frequent updates...
Wow, I have a new favorite show. This show is awesome. I tuned in because I though (stupidly) that ABC was running all of their season premieres in one week (I must learn not to trust the alphabet network...), and wanted to see Hope and Faith, as much as it kills me to admit it. But, alas, ABC was toying with my affections again, and had this show on instead.
Last season, I contemplated watching it, but the woman annoyed me too much. I figured she was too Mary Poppins to suceed on network tv. And I was right. This season, it's the same woman, but suddenly she is out of those awful ill-fitting suits and into cute clothes, with her hair down and styled as opposed to the bun that seemed like the epitome of British restraint. In the words of Captain Norrington "This is some very restrained acting right here..." She's actually quite pretty. And bigger than me. I love that about women on TV.
But she's still Supernanny!!! Although what made her an authority on the subject, I have no idea, as she's single and not a mother. It's a lot easier to deal with children when you...don't actually have to deal with them...yeah...who hired her???
Anyhoodles, this week she was helping some poor family with two daughters, one of whom was developmentally disabled, and a little boy. Oh, and a father that resolved his issues with a "firm tap"...or a whack. Whatever you want to call it. I'm seeing little Julius ending up in juvie for "firmly tapping" the hell out of his girlfriend...
But that's not the point. The mom really wanted Jo there. And the Dad really didn't. The mom paid attention and followed Jo's instructions, or "techniques", even if they took hours. Dad groused for the half hour he actually did work, and then watched TV. All while Jo sat in their bedroom looking quite comfortable going "Now, mum, you must follow the bedtime technique...Dad, where are you going?"
I think Mom and Dad have some problems that Jo cannot help them with. Unless she has a masters in couples therapy.
So poor mom would haul her ass out into the hallway and drag whatever spawn of her love had crawled out of his/her room back to bed while Dad was like "This is totally bs." Well, he didn't really say that, although I wouldn't be surprised if ABC just edited it out, but you could totally tell that's what he was thinking. That and "Why the hell is there a British nanny in my bedroom???"
Ooooh, and the naughty chair. One cannot express in writing how absolutely ridiculous this sounded. Just can't. But it did. I guess it worked, though, because little Julius stopped throwing the naughty chair after about fifteen times. Hehehehe...that part was funny.
Anyhoodles, this is a rather addicting show, and as it's up against absolutely nothing of interest (that I could find...correct me if I'm wrong) I would suggest watching. Fridays at 7.
Lots of TV tomorrow and Tuesday nights, so expect frequent updates...
Friday, September 23, 2005
CSI! CSI! OMG, CSI! And other shows...
Yes, it was the season premiere of CSI: Original last night... a long-awaited night for many in my household. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get into that show. No matter how hard I try. I know it's the best from an artistic standpoint of the three, and the characters and stories are great, and just the fact that it's set in Vegas is enough to ensure lifelong viewership from certain members of my family, but I just can't get into it. This is strange, as I arguably spend more time thinking/talking about the other CSI characters than the actual people in my life, but I digress.
Hysterical Breaking News Flash: Warrick got married!!!!! "What?!?!??!" you say? I know, I did too!!! Shocking. This is so going to hurt his relationship with Catherine...why is Jerry Bruckheimer intent on screwing up all of my CSI's relationships????? Cases in point: Mac spent the summer with some whore, and Yelena did a Casablanca and ended up in the Caribbean with "dead" Ray. The bastard. And now this!!! I don't know what to believe in anymore!!!
End Hysterical Breaking News Flash.
I did, however, watch most of it. I didn't really get it. I know somebody died with a skank in bed in a trailer park (what else is new???) and then sombody drove a car through the "house" and killed them. I don't get it. And then there was this car that they found that had been sitting out in the heat for six days...with two dead bodies in the trunk. Yeah, you know that one's not going to be pretty. Grissom suggested a "car condom" to transport the car back to the lab. Thank you, Grissom. That was lovely. I really needed to know that.
Yeah, I stopped watching towards the end, so I don't know what happened. But I do know that is was darn near impossible to parody. Talk to Imladris if you want to know the ending.
I do, however, have some gossip, from the venerable source TV Guide---
*SPOILERS*
Supposedly, there's the one case in a couple of episodes that takes Greg, Grissom, and Sara to another city. And Greg and Grissom share a room. But Greg snores. So Grissom goes and spends the night with Sara. (!!!!!!!!!)
Morality Note: I don't condone this.
Omigosh!!!!! The juiciness of it all!!!! :D:D:D:D Now, supposedly nothing happens, but still!!! Not to mention Sara's been having fantasies about this since Day 1. I even know that, and I've seen like three episodes.
*END SPOILERS*
I watched some other shows last night, too. Like I've stated before, I'll watch almost anything once. The most promising was "Everbody Hates Chris", on UPN at seven. Normally, I would have watched Joey, but I can't stomach him and Alex as a couple. *shivers* And it's not nearly as funny as last year (which is saying something, because it wasn't that funny last year!!!).
But that was amazing. I was laughing the entire half hour. "School shootings are like rock and roll, something that black men invented and white men stole." I'm still laughing!!! Oh, and "The principal did something with a little girl that we are not allowed to mention because of network censors. But if the principal moves to your neighborhood, you'll get a notice." HAHAHAHA
Despite the fact that it's on UPN, the network the other networks try to avoid in the hallways and never admit to knowing so that it's forced to sit with the WB and all those gorgeous, moody teens at lunch, this is definately one of the most promising new shows I've seen this season. Everyone should watch!!!
ER was on last night, too. I watched most of it, but it's kind of losing it's edge. I still like it because of Kovac (or my predisposition for recently formed eastern European nations), and they made some strong moves with putting those new interns in, but it'll never get back what it lost with Carter. Even if John Stamos joins the cast. Pretty much Sam and Luka ran around midwest looking for Alex. And then inexplicably ended up in a prison. Where Sam told Luka she didn't want to have more children (why????? He's like the best genetic speciman you could get!!!!) and I think they broke up. But I'm not sure. I'll watch next week, I promise.
So yeah, that was pretty much all I watched last night. Boring, I know. There's nothing on on Friday nights, and I'm going to a movie tonight, so I probably won't have anything up tomorrow. We'll see, though. :)
Hysterical Breaking News Flash: Warrick got married!!!!! "What?!?!??!" you say? I know, I did too!!! Shocking. This is so going to hurt his relationship with Catherine...why is Jerry Bruckheimer intent on screwing up all of my CSI's relationships????? Cases in point: Mac spent the summer with some whore, and Yelena did a Casablanca and ended up in the Caribbean with "dead" Ray. The bastard. And now this!!! I don't know what to believe in anymore!!!
End Hysterical Breaking News Flash.
I did, however, watch most of it. I didn't really get it. I know somebody died with a skank in bed in a trailer park (what else is new???) and then sombody drove a car through the "house" and killed them. I don't get it. And then there was this car that they found that had been sitting out in the heat for six days...with two dead bodies in the trunk. Yeah, you know that one's not going to be pretty. Grissom suggested a "car condom" to transport the car back to the lab. Thank you, Grissom. That was lovely. I really needed to know that.
Yeah, I stopped watching towards the end, so I don't know what happened. But I do know that is was darn near impossible to parody. Talk to Imladris if you want to know the ending.
I do, however, have some gossip, from the venerable source TV Guide---
*SPOILERS*
Supposedly, there's the one case in a couple of episodes that takes Greg, Grissom, and Sara to another city. And Greg and Grissom share a room. But Greg snores. So Grissom goes and spends the night with Sara. (!!!!!!!!!)
Morality Note: I don't condone this.
Omigosh!!!!! The juiciness of it all!!!! :D:D:D:D Now, supposedly nothing happens, but still!!! Not to mention Sara's been having fantasies about this since Day 1. I even know that, and I've seen like three episodes.
*END SPOILERS*
I watched some other shows last night, too. Like I've stated before, I'll watch almost anything once. The most promising was "Everbody Hates Chris", on UPN at seven. Normally, I would have watched Joey, but I can't stomach him and Alex as a couple. *shivers* And it's not nearly as funny as last year (which is saying something, because it wasn't that funny last year!!!).
But that was amazing. I was laughing the entire half hour. "School shootings are like rock and roll, something that black men invented and white men stole." I'm still laughing!!! Oh, and "The principal did something with a little girl that we are not allowed to mention because of network censors. But if the principal moves to your neighborhood, you'll get a notice." HAHAHAHA
Despite the fact that it's on UPN, the network the other networks try to avoid in the hallways and never admit to knowing so that it's forced to sit with the WB and all those gorgeous, moody teens at lunch, this is definately one of the most promising new shows I've seen this season. Everyone should watch!!!
ER was on last night, too. I watched most of it, but it's kind of losing it's edge. I still like it because of Kovac (or my predisposition for recently formed eastern European nations), and they made some strong moves with putting those new interns in, but it'll never get back what it lost with Carter. Even if John Stamos joins the cast. Pretty much Sam and Luka ran around midwest looking for Alex. And then inexplicably ended up in a prison. Where Sam told Luka she didn't want to have more children (why????? He's like the best genetic speciman you could get!!!!) and I think they broke up. But I'm not sure. I'll watch next week, I promise.
So yeah, that was pretty much all I watched last night. Boring, I know. There's nothing on on Friday nights, and I'm going to a movie tonight, so I probably won't have anything up tomorrow. We'll see, though. :)
Thursday, September 22, 2005
CSI: Miami and Lost
Note: I hate CBS. Possibly more than I hated ABC when they took Boston Legal off the air (I know it's been nine months, let me be bitter, okay???). Definately more than I hated the cable company when the cable went out and they neglected to fix it before the season premiere of House, and that is difficult. Because Presiden't Bush's speech last Thursday preempted the repeat of the CSI finale, they reran it last night, instead of a new CSI: New York episode. Otherwise known as the show I've been waiting since May 19th for!!! I hate them. I may have to retract my offer to give Jerry Bruckheimer my firstborn. I'm that upset. >:( Moving on...
Housekeeping (Not Angry At Network) Note: Rather than do a whole bunch of entries on every single show that I've watched in the past three days, thus wasting your time and mine, I'm just going to deal with them all at once. Thanks!!!
It's a new season!!! I'm so friggin' happy for me!!! And let me tell you, my shows so far have delivered like Dominos!!! :D Of course, due to the abovementioned knife in my heart, I've only had two major premieres so far- Lost and CSI: Miami. I'll deal with those first, and then run down the list of other shows I've tried this week. Oh, and there was a new episode of House that I want to touch on, too.
CSI: Miami:
Good Side: This show is making strides towards becoming a regular drama, with less individualized cases and more time spent on the actual people involved. Obviously, when you arguably spend more time with these fake people than the real ones in your life, this is a Good Thing. However, there is a...
Bad Side: The absence of laughably succinct cases makes it incredibly hard to write sarcastically about the episodes. I can't joke about a woman being raped and then losing the baby she was carrying. That's just sad!!!
(Also, in a remarkably un-CSI-like turn, they did not explain in painful, slightly disturbing, ages14-and-up-please detail exactly how being raped caused the poor woman to lose the baby. I found it refreshing, because really, we can all figure this out. Maybe they'll stop having a weekly bondage crime, too!)
Anyhoodles, this episode was amazing. It opened with Horatio confessing to some cardinal from New York ("Did you talk to Mac, Father??? He's in pain over the death of his wife and the fact that he went out with a whore who picks up guys at crime scenes. He needs your guidance!!!" Sorry...) that he's got blood on his hands. The cardinal seems quite familiar with this, and, as we know from TV Guide (*SPOILERS*), it's becuase Horatio killed a woman a long time ago. So the cardinal comforts him and then gives him a kind of weird explanation of penance that I kind of don't agree with but am not going to get into because it's pointless.
Anyhoodles, they never make it to abosolution, as there's a shooting in the cemetary outside the cathedral, and H has go run out and help. Some crazy has jumped out of the coffin and started mowing down mourners!!! H is outraged. As we quickly find out, this is the doings of the Mala Noche, who will be playing the part of Bad Guy all season, apparently. Interesting.
This is when we get to meet all of the CSIs who are back for another season in a rather long, somewhat tiresom slow-motion thingy. Calleigh's back!!! I totally knew it, but it was comforting to know for sure. I'm never sure when TV Guide's spoilers are reliable. And Delko's got a beard!!!!! Not a good look, btw.
Ryan is slowly morphing into Don Johnson. With a bad haircut. At least he seems to be playing nicely with the other little CSIs now.
And they all band together to do not much of anything the whole episode. Poor Used-to-be-Pregnant Woman was left out to be beaten up and raped by the Mala Noche while her employer/baby daddy runs and hides in the panic room with his perfect wife and 2.5 children (hehehe, literally!!!!). Bastard. Horatio yells at him for this.
Horatio: "Do you provide health insurence for your staff?
Bastard: "No."
Horatio: "You do now. You're paying for her hospital stay."
Bastard: "*is speechless, but presumably pays*"
So yeah, this wasn't a terribly procedureal episode, with two crimes that probably but not necessarily link up within the last fifteen minutes where the victim is always twenty-five, beautiful, thin, and probably engaging in risky sexual behavior, and the person who owned the murder weapon, the property where the victim was found, and had a significant reason to want her dead (it's always a her) is innocent. :) Still shockingly good, though. And next week's looks somewhat more par for the course, so we'll see about a funny review then.
Lost
Oh my freakin' gosh. It's been eighteen hours and I'm still speechless. And breathless. And counting the days desperately until next Wednesday. I missed the first few moments, as I had a family funeral to attend and can only run so fast from the car to the couch in high heels. But that's okay. The meat of the episode was after the first commerical.
Shannon and Sayid are taking a break from doing nothing but each other and are now just doing...nothing, apparently. Oh, except Shannon lost the dog, and is feeling badly because she won't exactly be able to explain to poor little Walt that she was distracted by the Iraqi militant that she was rolling around in the sand with and lost track of the thing. So she goes looking for the dog, and instead finds Walt- who whipsers (like the Others? Get it?) and disappears when her paramour arrives. Bummer, huh.
Side Note: Do you know that it is fundamentlaly impossible to yell in surprise in an accent other than your own? Seriously, watch any show where somebody is using an accent other than their native one. I've noticed this on House and now on Lost, too. When Sayid exclaims in surprise, he ceases to sound Iraqi, he sounds British. When House is surprised, he sounds British too, not American like in the rest of the show. Kind of funny, when you think about it.
And Kate and Jack and Locke (whose name I cannot figure out. They would not have named him after the philospher/political scientist/guy whose ideas were stolen by Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, thus giving us our concept of democracy if it wasn't important. If anybody has any ideas on this, please let me know, because it's killing me) have opened the Hatch, and discovered that on the inside is a little world, where this weird guy who met Jack once before the crash lives (who called it???) with a weird song blasting. Huh. This has given me enough to think about for the coming week.
And Hurley won $114 million dollars playing the lottery with the numbers that are all over the show. Freaky, huh??? This single episode was better than all of last season. Only six more days!!!!!!!!
House
House: "Maybe she escapes by having fantasies about older men with great hair."
Chase: *knows he just broke like every single child protection law in the state of New Jersey and therefore shuts the hell up*
House: You did it, didn't you???
Chase: "It wasn't sick- it was one kiss for a dying girl."
Cameron: *freaks out*
House :*rolls eyes* [to Cameron] "Go see if she's been molested."
Cameron: [muffled, as she still has her hands clamped over her mouth] "Okay."
House: "See, this is exactly why you can't touch my markers!!!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...this was on Tuesday night and I'm still laughing. Okay, you kind of had to be there.
Keep checking for new updates and possibly a new format...not sure yet.
Housekeeping (Not Angry At Network) Note: Rather than do a whole bunch of entries on every single show that I've watched in the past three days, thus wasting your time and mine, I'm just going to deal with them all at once. Thanks!!!
It's a new season!!! I'm so friggin' happy for me!!! And let me tell you, my shows so far have delivered like Dominos!!! :D Of course, due to the abovementioned knife in my heart, I've only had two major premieres so far- Lost and CSI: Miami. I'll deal with those first, and then run down the list of other shows I've tried this week. Oh, and there was a new episode of House that I want to touch on, too.
CSI: Miami:
Good Side: This show is making strides towards becoming a regular drama, with less individualized cases and more time spent on the actual people involved. Obviously, when you arguably spend more time with these fake people than the real ones in your life, this is a Good Thing. However, there is a...
Bad Side: The absence of laughably succinct cases makes it incredibly hard to write sarcastically about the episodes. I can't joke about a woman being raped and then losing the baby she was carrying. That's just sad!!!
(Also, in a remarkably un-CSI-like turn, they did not explain in painful, slightly disturbing, ages14-and-up-please detail exactly how being raped caused the poor woman to lose the baby. I found it refreshing, because really, we can all figure this out. Maybe they'll stop having a weekly bondage crime, too!)
Anyhoodles, this episode was amazing. It opened with Horatio confessing to some cardinal from New York ("Did you talk to Mac, Father??? He's in pain over the death of his wife and the fact that he went out with a whore who picks up guys at crime scenes. He needs your guidance!!!" Sorry...) that he's got blood on his hands. The cardinal seems quite familiar with this, and, as we know from TV Guide (*SPOILERS*), it's becuase Horatio killed a woman a long time ago. So the cardinal comforts him and then gives him a kind of weird explanation of penance that I kind of don't agree with but am not going to get into because it's pointless.
Anyhoodles, they never make it to abosolution, as there's a shooting in the cemetary outside the cathedral, and H has go run out and help. Some crazy has jumped out of the coffin and started mowing down mourners!!! H is outraged. As we quickly find out, this is the doings of the Mala Noche, who will be playing the part of Bad Guy all season, apparently. Interesting.
This is when we get to meet all of the CSIs who are back for another season in a rather long, somewhat tiresom slow-motion thingy. Calleigh's back!!! I totally knew it, but it was comforting to know for sure. I'm never sure when TV Guide's spoilers are reliable. And Delko's got a beard!!!!! Not a good look, btw.
Ryan is slowly morphing into Don Johnson. With a bad haircut. At least he seems to be playing nicely with the other little CSIs now.
And they all band together to do not much of anything the whole episode. Poor Used-to-be-Pregnant Woman was left out to be beaten up and raped by the Mala Noche while her employer/baby daddy runs and hides in the panic room with his perfect wife and 2.5 children (hehehe, literally!!!!). Bastard. Horatio yells at him for this.
Horatio: "Do you provide health insurence for your staff?
Bastard: "No."
Horatio: "You do now. You're paying for her hospital stay."
Bastard: "*is speechless, but presumably pays*"
So yeah, this wasn't a terribly procedureal episode, with two crimes that probably but not necessarily link up within the last fifteen minutes where the victim is always twenty-five, beautiful, thin, and probably engaging in risky sexual behavior, and the person who owned the murder weapon, the property where the victim was found, and had a significant reason to want her dead (it's always a her) is innocent. :) Still shockingly good, though. And next week's looks somewhat more par for the course, so we'll see about a funny review then.
Lost
Oh my freakin' gosh. It's been eighteen hours and I'm still speechless. And breathless. And counting the days desperately until next Wednesday. I missed the first few moments, as I had a family funeral to attend and can only run so fast from the car to the couch in high heels. But that's okay. The meat of the episode was after the first commerical.
Shannon and Sayid are taking a break from doing nothing but each other and are now just doing...nothing, apparently. Oh, except Shannon lost the dog, and is feeling badly because she won't exactly be able to explain to poor little Walt that she was distracted by the Iraqi militant that she was rolling around in the sand with and lost track of the thing. So she goes looking for the dog, and instead finds Walt- who whipsers (like the Others? Get it?) and disappears when her paramour arrives. Bummer, huh.
Side Note: Do you know that it is fundamentlaly impossible to yell in surprise in an accent other than your own? Seriously, watch any show where somebody is using an accent other than their native one. I've noticed this on House and now on Lost, too. When Sayid exclaims in surprise, he ceases to sound Iraqi, he sounds British. When House is surprised, he sounds British too, not American like in the rest of the show. Kind of funny, when you think about it.
And Kate and Jack and Locke (whose name I cannot figure out. They would not have named him after the philospher/political scientist/guy whose ideas were stolen by Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, thus giving us our concept of democracy if it wasn't important. If anybody has any ideas on this, please let me know, because it's killing me) have opened the Hatch, and discovered that on the inside is a little world, where this weird guy who met Jack once before the crash lives (who called it???) with a weird song blasting. Huh. This has given me enough to think about for the coming week.
And Hurley won $114 million dollars playing the lottery with the numbers that are all over the show. Freaky, huh??? This single episode was better than all of last season. Only six more days!!!!!!!!
House
House: "Maybe she escapes by having fantasies about older men with great hair."
Chase: *knows he just broke like every single child protection law in the state of New Jersey and therefore shuts the hell up*
House: You did it, didn't you???
Chase: "It wasn't sick- it was one kiss for a dying girl."
Cameron: *freaks out*
House :*rolls eyes* [to Cameron] "Go see if she's been molested."
Cameron: [muffled, as she still has her hands clamped over her mouth] "Okay."
House: "See, this is exactly why you can't touch my markers!!!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...this was on Tuesday night and I'm still laughing. Okay, you kind of had to be there.
Keep checking for new updates and possibly a new format...not sure yet.
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