TWT # 3, Gmail, Braindrain
I love Gmail. The one thing I hate about it, however, is its pretty crappy mail filter, which ignores all the junk mail and trashes mail group and activation messages instead. Grr.
Anyhoo, I've been feeling really drained this past week, mostly owing to the fact that my sleep schedule has been messed up for a couple of months now. In fact, yesterday afternoon I was slapping my face to keep myself from nodding off at work, and I've been especially forgetful these past weeks. I figured I badly need to make up for lost sleep, but remembered the trip to L.A. and San Francisco is in about a week. Jetlag will surely mess up my sleep schedule even more, so I figured I'd wait until we got back...then I'd transform into the ultimate slug.
Unless I find something to procrastinate and obsess over again (a very likely scenario, really).
So...here's the week's TV rundown. Spoilers await.
(To non-TV-obsessed friends: sorry; I'm seriously, seriously bored these days.)
THIS WEEK'S TV # 3
24
I'm impressed by how they've been keeping the show's pace this season. I'm pretty impressed by how they've been weaving from one explosive issue to another, while somehow still enabling smooth transition. I still don't love Audrey, but I certainly don't hate anymore. In fact, I admit I actually liked the interrogation and torture scenes.
That said, I'm still really irked about dear, dear Tony, and I'm beginning to suspect they merely did that to show that everybody on the show is mortal and expendable -- except Jack, that is (though Tony's death has made me doubt even that, so to a certain extent I'd say they were pretty successful).
On a totally different 24 note, I've been watching S3, the only season I have yet to see. Very gripping, it is, although I still like S4 best. I love the character of Gael Ortega. Now, I haven't watched the season in its entirety, but the fact that he no longer appears in later seasons makes me doubt he'll survive the 3rd day (don't tell me). And S3 Nina is much, much better than squawky, awkward Nina of S1. Too bad she doesn't survive the day (yes, I'm already very S3 spoiled, because I read it all ages before I got obsessed with this show -- pooh).
Lost
I didn't like that Locke installment much as I did the previous ones (maybe because I wasn't really in the mood for another depressing hour of TV; TV has, after all, been rather depressing lately), but I did like "Lockdown" better than most of the recent episodes. Of course, much of it I've known for a while -- that Henry Gale is certainly a disturbing character, that Jack and Sawyer moments are fun, that Locke's dad is a big selfish dweeb, etc. The most intriguing part of the ep, however, is the actual lockdown and the "map" Locke saw on the wall. Now, I'm still not sure if Henry Gale is an Other, much less who he really is, but I'm beginning to think he's somehow connected with the Dharma initiative. (Then again, Ethan Rom was, too, wasn't he?)
Veronica Mars
Ahh. We're inching just a biiiit forward with regard to the mystery. And Logan's cutesy-wootsy girlfriend exits. Finally!!! However...
Best Show of the Week: 24 yet again -- oh come on, when will we start seeing some competition here?
I'm the perfect couch potato, yes I am.
Anyhoo, I've been feeling really drained this past week, mostly owing to the fact that my sleep schedule has been messed up for a couple of months now. In fact, yesterday afternoon I was slapping my face to keep myself from nodding off at work, and I've been especially forgetful these past weeks. I figured I badly need to make up for lost sleep, but remembered the trip to L.A. and San Francisco is in about a week. Jetlag will surely mess up my sleep schedule even more, so I figured I'd wait until we got back...then I'd transform into the ultimate slug.
Unless I find something to procrastinate and obsess over again (a very likely scenario, really).
So...here's the week's TV rundown. Spoilers await.
(To non-TV-obsessed friends: sorry; I'm seriously, seriously bored these days.)
THIS WEEK'S TV # 3
24
I'm impressed by how they've been keeping the show's pace this season. I'm pretty impressed by how they've been weaving from one explosive issue to another, while somehow still enabling smooth transition. I still don't love Audrey, but I certainly don't hate anymore. In fact, I admit I actually liked the interrogation and torture scenes.
That said, I'm still really irked about dear, dear Tony, and I'm beginning to suspect they merely did that to show that everybody on the show is mortal and expendable -- except Jack, that is (though Tony's death has made me doubt even that, so to a certain extent I'd say they were pretty successful).
On a totally different 24 note, I've been watching S3, the only season I have yet to see. Very gripping, it is, although I still like S4 best. I love the character of Gael Ortega. Now, I haven't watched the season in its entirety, but the fact that he no longer appears in later seasons makes me doubt he'll survive the 3rd day (don't tell me). And S3 Nina is much, much better than squawky, awkward Nina of S1. Too bad she doesn't survive the day (yes, I'm already very S3 spoiled, because I read it all ages before I got obsessed with this show -- pooh).
Lost
I didn't like that Locke installment much as I did the previous ones (maybe because I wasn't really in the mood for another depressing hour of TV; TV has, after all, been rather depressing lately), but I did like "Lockdown" better than most of the recent episodes. Of course, much of it I've known for a while -- that Henry Gale is certainly a disturbing character, that Jack and Sawyer moments are fun, that Locke's dad is a big selfish dweeb, etc. The most intriguing part of the ep, however, is the actual lockdown and the "map" Locke saw on the wall. Now, I'm still not sure if Henry Gale is an Other, much less who he really is, but I'm beginning to think he's somehow connected with the Dharma initiative. (Then again, Ethan Rom was, too, wasn't he?)
Veronica Mars
Ahh. We're inching just a biiiit forward with regard to the mystery. And Logan's cutesy-wootsy girlfriend exits. Finally!!! However...
- I really hate these budget cuts. Where the heck is Weevil???
- I still don't like the episode-confined mysteries. Probably never will.
- The Fitzpatricks storyline bores the hell out of me, and seeing as how they're connected with the bus crash and all, I expect my reaction to the resolution to this season's big mystery will be...weh.
Best Show of the Week: 24 yet again -- oh come on, when will we start seeing some competition here?
I'm the perfect couch potato, yes I am.