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I was internet-less for almost a week and I've only now caught up (well, still one episode behind on Dexter, but other than that...), so I come bearing a meme:
Holiday Love Meme
My thread
And a few TV thoughts, while I'm at it:
Criminal Minds and CSI:NY
So, while I was without internet access, I mostly watched a whole lot of DVDs. I started watching Criminal Minds a month or so ago, and I completely love it! Now all I have to decide is whether or not I can swing the season 4 DVDs before Christmas or if I should just download the rest of the episodes.
So after I polished off the third season, all I really wanted to do was watch season 4, but since that wasn't an option, I settled for CSI:NY season 3, which has been sitting on my shelf, unwatched, for the better part of a year. And believe me, it certainly felt like settling.
Is it just me, or is the third season really sucky? Or did I just not notice the suckiness of seasons 1 and 2 because I didn't have a better show to compare it to? I've only watched half the season, and right now, I'm not sure I'll keep going, because I'm having the same issue with it as I did with the original CSI - I figure out who the killer is right away. And with NY, it's mostly due to the guest star. "Oh look, there's Michael Nouri. I bet he's the killer." Fast forward to the end: "Huh, well what do you know, it was Michael Nouri." Same thing with a bunch of other episodes. And it's not even done well, the ONLY reason to suspect them is because they're the "big" name guest stars. Other than the brief establishing scene for the character in the early stages of the episode, nothing points to them until the very last minute. And you still know exactly who did it. It's boring me to tears.
I'll probably finish the season at some point since I did spend money on it, but unless someone tells me that the plots get infinitely better in seasons four and five, I think I'll leave it at that.
Bones
I am seriously loving this season SO MUCH. How did this happen? Oh right, 'shippiness! I feel like it's the perfect time for this to happen, and I'm so glad they didn't do it before this season, because for the first three seasons, I wasn't 'shipping them all that much, and it was only last season that started turning me around to the way of Bones/Booth.
Anyway, the show just makes me happy right now. I hope they keep this up for a while, because Booth in unrequited love is a wonderful thing to have on my TV screen.
Being Erica
Season 2 is definitely my favorite of the two seasons so far. Not only because of Kai (though he helped!), but because Erica really grew into her own, and I love that she's taking chances and starting to know herself well enough to know when something won't work for her.
After the finale, I went looking for fic (I need either Kai/Erica fic, either set 10 years in the future or as a Time Traveler's Wife kinda deal, where he returns to visit her because now she's become one of his regrets. So, if you come across anything like that, don't be shy about sending me links), but came up blank, though the main comm on LJ had some interesting speculation about the door in the finale leading to her very own office and season 3 (please oh please let there be a season 3!) being about Erica becoming a therapist in her own right. Which I think is a very intriguing idea, and a way to keep the show moving forward and not stagnating. Plus, it gives me a kick thinking of Kai reaching that stage and then having patients going "Hey, aren't you that famous rock star? What are you doing here?" Heh.
Top Chef and The Amazing Race
Being cut off from my regular crack dealers download comms meant that I missed both finales for these. Given how lacklustre I was feeling towards them, I said "screw it!" and spoiled myself for who won, figuring that I could just download if I liked what I read. Yeah, still haven't seen either, and don't plan to.
Glee
I feel like I'm in a completely different place with this show than most of my flist. Mostly due to the cries of spousal abuse after Mattress that I just didn't agree with. Will may be a jerk, but I never thought he was an abusive husband, neither before or after the kitchen scene. I was actually kind of shocked when I saw the uproar, because if the marriage was to be labeled abusive, he was never the one I was going to pin the blame on.
That said, I'm finding myself less and less interested in being fannish about the show, so I probably won't write or read much more about it, only enjoy it for what it is and then forget about it until the next episode (I can't help but feel that this is what the writers want me to do, since they're not giving the audience much to work with when it comes to plot or characters).
I feel like I may have missed an episode of Castle somewhere along the line, so I think I'm going to track that down next.
Holiday Love Meme
My thread
And a few TV thoughts, while I'm at it:
Criminal Minds and CSI:NY
So, while I was without internet access, I mostly watched a whole lot of DVDs. I started watching Criminal Minds a month or so ago, and I completely love it! Now all I have to decide is whether or not I can swing the season 4 DVDs before Christmas or if I should just download the rest of the episodes.
So after I polished off the third season, all I really wanted to do was watch season 4, but since that wasn't an option, I settled for CSI:NY season 3, which has been sitting on my shelf, unwatched, for the better part of a year. And believe me, it certainly felt like settling.
Is it just me, or is the third season really sucky? Or did I just not notice the suckiness of seasons 1 and 2 because I didn't have a better show to compare it to? I've only watched half the season, and right now, I'm not sure I'll keep going, because I'm having the same issue with it as I did with the original CSI - I figure out who the killer is right away. And with NY, it's mostly due to the guest star. "Oh look, there's Michael Nouri. I bet he's the killer." Fast forward to the end: "Huh, well what do you know, it was Michael Nouri." Same thing with a bunch of other episodes. And it's not even done well, the ONLY reason to suspect them is because they're the "big" name guest stars. Other than the brief establishing scene for the character in the early stages of the episode, nothing points to them until the very last minute. And you still know exactly who did it. It's boring me to tears.
I'll probably finish the season at some point since I did spend money on it, but unless someone tells me that the plots get infinitely better in seasons four and five, I think I'll leave it at that.
Bones
I am seriously loving this season SO MUCH. How did this happen? Oh right, 'shippiness! I feel like it's the perfect time for this to happen, and I'm so glad they didn't do it before this season, because for the first three seasons, I wasn't 'shipping them all that much, and it was only last season that started turning me around to the way of Bones/Booth.
Anyway, the show just makes me happy right now. I hope they keep this up for a while, because Booth in unrequited love is a wonderful thing to have on my TV screen.
Being Erica
Season 2 is definitely my favorite of the two seasons so far. Not only because of Kai (though he helped!), but because Erica really grew into her own, and I love that she's taking chances and starting to know herself well enough to know when something won't work for her.
After the finale, I went looking for fic (I need either Kai/Erica fic, either set 10 years in the future or as a Time Traveler's Wife kinda deal, where he returns to visit her because now she's become one of his regrets. So, if you come across anything like that, don't be shy about sending me links), but came up blank, though the main comm on LJ had some interesting speculation about the door in the finale leading to her very own office and season 3 (please oh please let there be a season 3!) being about Erica becoming a therapist in her own right. Which I think is a very intriguing idea, and a way to keep the show moving forward and not stagnating. Plus, it gives me a kick thinking of Kai reaching that stage and then having patients going "Hey, aren't you that famous rock star? What are you doing here?" Heh.
Top Chef and The Amazing Race
Being cut off from my regular crack dealers download comms meant that I missed both finales for these. Given how lacklustre I was feeling towards them, I said "screw it!" and spoiled myself for who won, figuring that I could just download if I liked what I read. Yeah, still haven't seen either, and don't plan to.
Glee
I feel like I'm in a completely different place with this show than most of my flist. Mostly due to the cries of spousal abuse after Mattress that I just didn't agree with. Will may be a jerk, but I never thought he was an abusive husband, neither before or after the kitchen scene. I was actually kind of shocked when I saw the uproar, because if the marriage was to be labeled abusive, he was never the one I was going to pin the blame on.
That said, I'm finding myself less and less interested in being fannish about the show, so I probably won't write or read much more about it, only enjoy it for what it is and then forget about it until the next episode (I can't help but feel that this is what the writers want me to do, since they're not giving the audience much to work with when it comes to plot or characters).
I feel like I may have missed an episode of Castle somewhere along the line, so I think I'm going to track that down next.