Friday, November 18, 2005

Random Selection of Shows

I've been watching a lot of TV lately, and just wanted to run down the list...

House was on on Tuesday---yay!!!! Love House!!! Best show ever (aside from the CSIs...those will rule forever...). Funny, I know it was a good episode, but I don't really remember what it was about...oh, a biker who is using blood doping to win. And then gets sick. And then gets cured thanks to House. Yay!!! And when he and Mark are arguing in the cafeteria, "This is like watching Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward in the third grade...." HAHAHA... Next week's looks good, too.

Lost kicked a** this week, not the gentle pushing of last week. They recounted the first forty-eight days on the island from the point of view of the "tailies" (those from the tail of the plane). First, I would like to say that Michelle Rodriguez scares me. I get the feeling that she could beat me up and then spit on me or something. *shivers* She should not be with Jack... And we learn that Rose's Bernard is still alive. Yay!!! They can be together again!!! Oooh, and this side of the island found a list with names of people that the Others are going to be taking. *gasp*

Unfortunately, Guy Who Kind of Looks Like Sean Bean is dead. Bummer. And after only one episode, too.

And we found out that only the survivors from the first season mean anything sentimentally to the public. In the last couple of minutes, they show the tailies interacting with the other guys, and both Imladris and I were going, "Oh! It's our castaways now!!!" And then I realized that the thirty million other people who watch this every week were probably saying the same thing. I feel like of bad for the tailies. Somebody should adopt them.

And cheers to CSI:NY for giving Flack more of a presence on the show. And for giving Lindsay something else to do than just act awkward and shy around the rest of the group. Flack's lines in the beginning of the show were absolutely hilarious. And next week's look really creepy, so everybody should watch, k???

And I saw CSI: Original las night. It was the ending of a two-parter. Really good, and I'm not really even that into the show. Seriously, does anybody else think that everybody should just back off and let the CSI's do their thing??? In practically every single episode IAB is all "I'm giving you forty-eight hours and then I'm arresting the wrong guy just because I feel like it..." Crazies. Leave them alone!!!! Poor Brass, though. Sadness.

And how great did the previews for next week look??? My dad was commenting on how interesting my sister and I are going to be during it, as it is Thanksgiving and we will be partaking in all that entails, I am sure... ;) Yes, Grandpa, this is your legacy. Tipsy granddaughters yelling at fake people on television. Be glad it's not NY...that could be really embarrassing...

Finally, there was one show that I didn't watch this week, mainly because it wasn't on. FOX cut Arrested Development's episode order from 24 to 13, which means it will probably be cancelled. Bugger. I can't really blame FOX, because they stuck with it longer than any network probably should have, but it's still sad. I so want the DVDs for Christmas now...

Anyhoodles, I'm going to be gone tonight, but everybody have a good weekend!!!

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

CSI: Miami- That's *gotta* hurt...

Note: First, I would like to welcome Mary to the CSI-fanatic group. The people who almost care more about the characters and the actual people in their lives. Thanks to the crossovers last week, Mary will be spending ever Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday evening watching this show instead of interacting with real people. Welcome, Mary!!! ;)

*shivers* This week's episode was basically a reminder that we should all be careful around power tools. And maybe stay away from construction workers. And never marry a bastard named Gary who will leave us for a woman who is a size 0. Yeah, you read that right. 0. No 1 in front of it---although, really, a 2 would be preferable when you're dealing with adultery...

We find out in the first couple of seconds that Ryan has been shot in the eye with a nail gun. *screams* NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT RYAN!!!!!!!!!!! ANYBODY BUT RYAN!!!!!!!!!!! So he's writhing and thrashing in the car while Delko's like "Chill out, dude, here, take a drag off of this, it'll calm you right down..." and Ryan's like "Shut up you druggie, and just drive!!!" So Ryan's in the emergency room and Horatio shows up (Awww...see, Grissom would have been sidetracked by a bug somewhere...this is why Miami rocks....) and then we find out the whole episode was a flashback. And the flashback starts with a surprisingly old (probably forty at least) corpse. In a land where only those who are perfect twenty-two year olds are killed, this is a little bit shocking.

And she's been shot with a nail gun!!! Quell Suprise!!! And her poor little family was is all gathered around and then Miss Size 0 walks in with the daughter and is all "ACK! It's his ex-wife!!" In their infinite wisdom, the CSI's decide to question Gary, the soon to be ex-husband of Dead Woman, and see when the last time he saw her was. He lies (to steal a line from House, "Everybody lies..."), and we later find out that his DNA was under her fingernails. Hmmm.

Meanwhile, back in the lab, Calleigh is shooting at random things with a nail gun for "scientific" purposes. Uh-huh. I think she just likes shooting things. I wonder if she has a Closet of Crazy like Mac does in New York??? Anyhoodles, Ryan walks in and she points the gun right at his face. And 17 million viewers across the US collectively scream "AHH!!!!" and hide in their sofa pillows. Except that she doesn't shoot him. The director just continues to fake us out for the next half hour. Seriously, everytime it would make sense for a nail gun to be pointed at Ryan's face (and even a couple that weren't), there it is. And we all shiver and cover our eyes.

BTW, the only reason Ryan's there is that Delko didn't answer his page. Hmmm. Wonder what's goin' on there...so Ryan's tired and pissed and a little bit hot when he's all rumpled like that...ahem, sorry...

I kind of forget what happens next, because I spent most of the time under a pillow while my mom was going "Hey! That happened to me!!!", but I know that Scumbag Gary has changed his story and is now saying he slept with Dead Woman that day, even though the CSI's haven't found anything to support that. And trust me, if you want sordid details about the deceased's sex life, CSI is the place to go. So either he's lying, or he's...just a scumbag. Either way, they might as well release him, because we know he sure as hell didn't have anything to do with her murder.

Anyhoodles, this is when they somehow link the nail gun to the contractor (which wouldnt' have been that big a leap in my mind, but whatever...) and Ryan goes looking for him. In an empty building. Without backup. Without his gun drawn. Stupid, stupid Ryan.

Again, this is where the CSI's differ...you know Horatio is going to be "Okay, you made a mistake. Just make sure it doesn't happen again, son," when Ryan gets out of the hospital. Mac would go all Marine and be like "What the hell were you thinking, Danny!?!?!?! - I'm just assuming it's Danny, because he's the only one I could think of who would do something like that- You know what? You're not getting promoted! EVER!!!!" I'm not sure how Grissom would handle it, because all I havent' devoted quite as much of my life to his show.

This is when Ryan gets shot, by the way...*shivers*

So they finally find Builder Guy, and he confesses, sort of. With the brilliant you-can't-make-this-up story that Dead Woman payed him to kill Gary. But when he got to the house to kill Gary, Dead Woman was there instead. And wanted him to kill her. Well, Builder Guy honestly says "Hey, lady, I've got standards!" and stalks out (convicted felon, btw...). Dead Woman is all upset because she can't die and frame Gary for murder. Unfortunately, Gary's son was listening in, and got rather upset when Mommy was talking about killing Daddy. And then kills Mommy. With the nail gun. *shivers*

But for some reason the CSI's don't think that he had anything to do with shooting Ryan, and inexplicably turn to Charlene. And she cracks after two minutes with Horatio. I still don't know what it is about that guy. Why do people end up crying after two minutes alone with a skinny Irish dude who wears sunglasses inside???

This episode ends with a touching little tableau of human emotion in the ER. Delko has come to pick Ryan up (he can't drive...*snigger*) and he's all "Dude, it was my fault. I'm a loser." And Ryan's like "No, man, I really screwed up." And Delko's like "Yeah, you kind of did dude, but I still shoudl have been there." And Ryan's like, "Yeah you should have been, but how sweet is it that we're playing nicely again???" Okay, so they didn't really say that, but that was the general gist of things... ;)

Sorry this is a day late...I'll have something up on NY tomorrow!!!

Thursday, November 10, 2005

CSI:Miami and NY- *thud*

Oh my freakin' gosh. These two episodes were like the best ever. Unbelievable. Amazing. I finally have validation for spending this much time obsessing over fake people. Jerry Bruckheimer can totally have my first born.

Anyway, everybody watched it, so I'm not going to go into a huge long synopsis that nobody needs. Suffice to say Horatio and Mac are chasing Henry Darius, a serial killer that Mac and Co. put away a year ago, all over the U.S. Monday's episode was good, but pretty much just a rip-off of the movie Con-Air. Without Nicolas Cage. Which is a good thing. (Shut up Imladris...) How great was it when Mac arrived??? Colleen was like "Oh! He's got a duffel bag!!! He's staying for awhile!!!" We figured he brought along a picture of Stella. Clearly.

Speaking of Stella, she found another possible baby daddy!!! She spent most of last night living by the rule, "A little boy never wants a toy unless another little boy is playing with it." It was hilarious, "Are you always this hot on a case???" My dad was like, "Wait. What did she mean by that?" You could totally tell that she was figuring out how her kids would look with curly red hair (as opposed to the little marines she's been dreaming about since 9/11). Colleen and I decided that she was probably doodling "Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Caine. Mrs. Stella Caine. Detective and Mrs. Horatio Caine..." all over her case files. And she kind of looks like Yelena. Except Greek. And way prettier. And, as Horatio was served, he'll probably be back in NY soon. Yay!!!

Meanwhile, back in the lab, Lindsay is fuming and muttering under her breath because Mac made her stay in the lab. Which she took as an affront even though clearly he was just looking out for her (and probably pissed off that Stella was doing everything in her power to get Horatio's attention...). Even though, if you ask me, Danny is the loose cannon and should probably be kept in the lab as much as possible.

And the psychiatrist killed me. "I may have mentioned Alexa's inheritance." Mac was just staring at him like, "You stupid dumbass." Almost as stupid as the little sister who used the tissue Mac gave her, thus giving him DNA. Idiot. He's not trying to be nice, he's trying to avoid a search warrant!!! If I'm ever brought in for questioning, I'm totally not going to use a Kleenex or drink anything.

And how great was the ending??? When Horatio called the little boy and told him everything as alright. Awww... I love caring CSI's... And when Mac was at the prison and was all "You rot in hell, you son of a b*tch." This was quite starteling, as Mac doesn't swear a whole lot. It was like when I was watching Forrest Gump and he said a Very Nasty Word and I was like "*gasp* Mac!!!!"

Anyhoodles, this was a truly awesome show. They should do a movie. No, because then it would suck. But they should definately do more crossovers!!!!

Saturday, November 05, 2005

21 Jump Street

Yes, I know the show ended fourteen years ago. That's not the point.

Do you know what those bastards did now??? I, as a faithful Johnny devotee, have been faithfully purchasing every single freakin' season as they are released, and even sitting through all of the episodes because 1.) It's Johnny!!!, and 2.) I find Peter DeLouise's hair funny. Finally they released the fourth season, the one where Johnny leaves, and I thought I could finally stop buying them.

Not so.

Johnny's last episode on the series was the season finale of season four, which is mysteriously missing from the season four DVD. Hmmm. Turns out that the producers thought that it "belonged with season five" and included it on the season five DVD (presumably to be released in a couple of months.) Friggin' bastards!!!! They know their show sucks and nowbody would buy it if Johnny wasn't in it!!! So I have to cough up thirty bucks for a forty minute episode.

Who else thinks this is false advertising or something???

Thursday, November 03, 2005

CSI: NY- What statutory rape???

I'm back folks, mainly because this episode practically parodied itself. Too easy.

We open with a whore who looks surprisingly young standing innocently (yet alone) by an elevator, with an older creepy guy clearly staring at her ass. They get on the elevetor, where Creepy Older Guy shoves Young Whore against a wall and starts making out with her. You're like "Oh, how awful!!!" for a few seconds, before you realize that she's sucking back. Ewww. I don't know what happens next, because we changed the channel because my little brother was in the room. Yeah.

Anyhoodles, Creepy Older Guy was shot and killed with something that the CSI's have never seen before. Say what??? The Robospanker was nothing new to them. What the hell is going on here!?!?! Suddenly, my whole world doesn't make much sense... Turns out Creepy Older Guy, named Kinsey (not the Kinsey portrayed by Liam Neeson, you perverts...) knew Young Whore, who they find out is actually Quite Young, as she dropped a note saying "Auditions after third period" before high-tailing it out of there.

Lesson #1: If your life is still divided by "periods", you're too young to be making out with a fifty-year-old in the elevator. I don't care how rich he is. Or how rich you are. You still have a study hall, for heaven's sakes.

At this point, Hawkes drags Stella out of the elevator bank where she's clearly deciding which baby names sound best with "Taylor" to investigate a dead body found at the bottom of of a lake in Central Park. "Run into the park. That's safe!", according to Imladris... This is a rather inconseqential story line, mainly giving us more time to look at Hawkes, who I still don't think should have made it onto the Sexy Guys of CSI list. (There's a longer diatribe about this on this blog earlier in the year, but I don't feel like linking it right now, k???) So we'll just get it out of the way quickly.

Dead Guy was found wearing expensive clothes, but his shoes had holes in them. This made my sister and I decide that if our father was ever found murdered, they would take him for a hobo, as he doesn't ever buy new clothes or shoes, despite being able to pay for him. We'd be at the station like "Hey! He belongs to us!" and they'd be like "No, I don't think so. We'll just check missing persons, okay???" Turns out Dead Guy wasn't Rich too, just an imposter, pretending to be wealthy and mooching off of the actually rich. Hmmm. Somebody doesn't have his priority's straight, huh??? Anyhoodles, Actual Rich Guy decides he doesn't like this, and puts lobster bisque in Dead Guy's soup. Dead Guy's allergic. Bummer, huh???

Back to the real story. Danny's following Melanie (the young whore) around school trying to figure out why the hell she was in an elevator with her "boyfriend" (I'm sorry, but if the guy qualifies for AARP, you can't call him your "boyfriend anymore, okay???) instead of doing something productive like...well, anything other than hanging around with the perv. Mac is shooting odd weapons into ballistics gel and getting way too excited about building one out of a steering wheel lock. I'm glad that he's moving on from the whole Claire thing, but really, find something other than guns to be interested in, alright???

The rest of the episode was very long and complicated, and not that interesting, except to give us...

Lesson #2: Flack looks better with longer hair. Thank God that caeser thing is growing out.

So yeah, a parking attendent killed Kinsey after Melanie turned him down (FYI, this guy was in in forties), and Melanie's just a mean little bitch. Seriously. Awful. They did not teach her manners at that fancy prep school.

And the whole time they managed never to touch on the fact that a high school student was riding up to a fifty-two year old's apartment alone at night. Hmmm. Did New York just cut out a whole part of their statutes and not tell anyone???

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

CSI: Miami/NY

First of all, I didn't mean for the title to allude to next week's crossover episodes, but it totally did. So, while we're at it, how psyched are we??? (Apparently so much so that I felt the need to revert to 1985...) Can't wait!!! Imladris also said that there was a killer commercial out there, so you all should watch CBS until next Monday, k???

What I really meant to do was touch on the last couple of episodes of these shows. Unfortunately, I've been too busy to write long things about them, but I have been watching religiously. Miami's been kind of blah this season, except when they delve into Horatio's past. That gets interesting. But Delko's just a druggie, Valera is inexplicably back (didn't she get fired???), and Ryan is acting like a spoiled little baby. Calleigh can't carry the show all by herself. This Monday's was a repeat (O.J. is innocent!!!), but the last one was really good. Except that we all learned that watching David Caruso on a date is kind of painful. And I was very confused by the end. I was unsure of who was who. I hate it when CSI gets above my head. Then I feel really stupid...

NY has been really good this season. The whole feel is lighter, including Stella's hair. Thankfully, Flack's hair has grown out a little. Whew. That was a bad one. I'm still not sure about Newbie, though. Although it was kind of a funny moment last Wednesday when she started rubbing that vanilla stuff all over Mac's face and he's like "What the hell is she doing?" and Stella was practically foaming at the mouth. HAHAHA. I love it. New episode tonight, too. YAY!!!

House, my other favorite show, came back last night after five freakin' weeks off the air because of baseball (FYI, that was spat...). And I didn't even get to see it. I am such a good Catholic. *sniff* No, I watched the DVD as soon as I got home...super good episode, and we learned that Cameron is only attractecd to dying guys or House. Hmmm. That's weird. Again, Wilson hung around the whole episode without anything to do. I mean, there was a cancer side story, but he wasn't involved with that. Is he like the oncologist on call or something??? Anyhoodles, I like him much better in this than committing unspeakable acts in Dead Poets Society, so yeah...Colleen thinks that Chase is getting hotter this season, too, so everybody should watch for that, okay???

Didn't get a chance to see Boston Legal last night...can anybody tell me what happened???