And Friday...
TGIF! Really. Just a whole lot.
I have amazing, wonderful plans for this weekend that include - but are not limited to - watching TV, going to see a movie (Syriana looks good), reading and writing smut (I didn't forget), sleeping in, and, quite possibly, a nice, long, hot bubble bath. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna be a busy girl.
In the meantime, though, I have two - count them, TWO! - shows that I watch (or watched... stupid CBS) on Friday nights. They are, of course, the incomparable Numb3rs and Threshold, that I will miss very much. So! Onward...
Numb3rs - It was a major favorite for the last half of the season, and it still is. I like the new people - Megan I liked right off, and the little Larry/Megan thing they have working is just one of the cutest damn things ever; Colby took a bit of getting used to, maybe a couple of episodes, but he's cool. I'm kinda glad we're not seeing Amita as much as I was afraid we would... and not just because she upsets my Bro!Yay apple cart. In the real world, any relationship between her and Charlie, so close to him having been her academic advisor, would call her credentials into question. It's the one thing that I just don't think the producers get - or at least Cheryl doesn't, as she's proven time and time again by her vehement (and, frankly, unprofessional) comments on the matter. Whether or not there is or was any actual impropriety, the appearance of impropriety would be enough to ruin her professionally. It wouldn't do Charlie any favors either. They can't "get together" until she's been established as an accomplished professional in her own right, and they would be considered, if not equals (since Charlie probably has very few true "equals") at least colleagues. The whole relationship - which seems forced to me; I don't see any chemistry between them anyway - just irritates the snot out of me. But, they seem to have half-way dropped it for now, so hopefully they'll just leave it there. In other news, everyone is still far more beautiful than anyone has a right to be, and I do rush home to see even repeats on Friday nights. You don't? :) And also, without Numb3rs, I would never have been introduced to the love that dare not speak it's name, and I wouldn't be on the bus to Special Hell with all the fun people I've met there. Yea for the angstydirtywrong love! Numb3rs rocks!
Threshold - Okay... it was my favorite of the three alien shows that premiered this season. I liked it. I liked that it had a strong, smart female lead, I liked the rest of the ensemble, and I thought the overall arc was going somewhere while they kept the show itself episodic enough that they didn't lock themselves into a particular viewing order (the way Lost and, to a certain extent, Alias and Veronica Mars does). It was more believable than Surface, and less character driven than Invasion... more action, less drama. Hell, maybe it would have done better if it had been more character driven. The ratings weren't even that bad, I didn't think. Maybe not as good as some (several) of CBS's other shows, but hardly in the toilet. At least until they shuffled it to Tuesday after a week-long hiatus and against some awards show that pretty much won the night, ratings-wise. I knew Close to Home would do well in the Friday time-slot - it's a more family oriented show, and if anyone's going to stay home Friday night, it's going to be people with kids who like that kind of thing. Plus it was a better transition between the other two shows. But Threshold didn't really fit with the rest of the Tuesday line-up, and, regardless, they only gave it one week. I hate TV executives. At the moment, I live in hope that the (I think) four episodes that are rumored to have been already shot and wrapped prior to cancellation will air at some point - even if it's in a foreign market; bittorents are a beautiful thing. Or that they'll release the series on DVD. There was supposed to be a whole three-season arc - Threshold, Foothold, and Stranglehold - that I wish we could find out what they were planning to do. Now we'll never know, unless they talk someone into turning the trilogy into movies. Or books, maybe? How much trouble do you think I'd get in if I kidnap Braga and make him tell me where it was all going? (Okay, not really...)
Stupid fucking CBS. And I can't even boycott the network - probably a third of what I watch on a weekly basis is on CBS. Instead I'm just generally irritated, with nothing to do about it. I'd boycott the advertisers, if I ever watched the commercials. And, you know, didn't use those things. :) Okay, technically, I could boycott both/either the network or the advertisers, but that would require more effort on my part than I'm willing to put forth, since I'm pretty sure CBS couldn't care less about my viewing habits if I lived in Guam. I'm just saying. I'm one little person in fucking Kansas, for crying out loud.
Okay, that's it. That is actually everything that I watch on Network TV. There are other things I watch on cable (most notably The Daily Show with John Stewart), things in syndication (like Mythbusters, Dr. G: Medical Examiner, Forensic Files, various things on The Science Channel and the Discovery Networks, and - god help me - Cartoon Network) and some re-runs (Who's Line is it Anyway?, various sit-coms, and stuff on Spike, A&E, and TNT that I watch both network and syndicated re-runs). Other than The Daily Show, the rest of it tends to fall by the wayside during the regular season, then sustain me through the off-season. Otherwise, I'm not sure I'd have time to work with all the television.
I'm a dork. :)
So, since I have nothing on Saturday, maybe I'll entertain you with a list of all of the various series' I have on DVD. Seriously, it's alot. I probably have a couple thousand dollars all told tied up in DVDs, and recently have bought far more series tv DVDs than movies.
In any event, I'm off to watch as much Alias as a friend of mine and I can cram into the evening before I crash and burn consciousness-wise. (She hasn't seen any of the current season at all so far; she missed the first episode, and didn't have a VCR to play the copy I gave her, so I made her wait until I could burn a decent DVD of it. Eight episodes and several hours of re-encoding, menu-making, chapter-making, music-picking, and burning, we're ready to get mostly caught up.) So... I'm off!
Kisses...
I have amazing, wonderful plans for this weekend that include - but are not limited to - watching TV, going to see a movie (Syriana looks good), reading and writing smut (I didn't forget), sleeping in, and, quite possibly, a nice, long, hot bubble bath. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna be a busy girl.
In the meantime, though, I have two - count them, TWO! - shows that I watch (or watched... stupid CBS) on Friday nights. They are, of course, the incomparable Numb3rs and Threshold, that I will miss very much. So! Onward...
Numb3rs - It was a major favorite for the last half of the season, and it still is. I like the new people - Megan I liked right off, and the little Larry/Megan thing they have working is just one of the cutest damn things ever; Colby took a bit of getting used to, maybe a couple of episodes, but he's cool. I'm kinda glad we're not seeing Amita as much as I was afraid we would... and not just because she upsets my Bro!Yay apple cart. In the real world, any relationship between her and Charlie, so close to him having been her academic advisor, would call her credentials into question. It's the one thing that I just don't think the producers get - or at least Cheryl doesn't, as she's proven time and time again by her vehement (and, frankly, unprofessional) comments on the matter. Whether or not there is or was any actual impropriety, the appearance of impropriety would be enough to ruin her professionally. It wouldn't do Charlie any favors either. They can't "get together" until she's been established as an accomplished professional in her own right, and they would be considered, if not equals (since Charlie probably has very few true "equals") at least colleagues. The whole relationship - which seems forced to me; I don't see any chemistry between them anyway - just irritates the snot out of me. But, they seem to have half-way dropped it for now, so hopefully they'll just leave it there. In other news, everyone is still far more beautiful than anyone has a right to be, and I do rush home to see even repeats on Friday nights. You don't? :) And also, without Numb3rs, I would never have been introduced to the love that dare not speak it's name, and I wouldn't be on the bus to Special Hell with all the fun people I've met there. Yea for the angstydirtywrong love! Numb3rs rocks!
Threshold - Okay... it was my favorite of the three alien shows that premiered this season. I liked it. I liked that it had a strong, smart female lead, I liked the rest of the ensemble, and I thought the overall arc was going somewhere while they kept the show itself episodic enough that they didn't lock themselves into a particular viewing order (the way Lost and, to a certain extent, Alias and Veronica Mars does). It was more believable than Surface, and less character driven than Invasion... more action, less drama. Hell, maybe it would have done better if it had been more character driven. The ratings weren't even that bad, I didn't think. Maybe not as good as some (several) of CBS's other shows, but hardly in the toilet. At least until they shuffled it to Tuesday after a week-long hiatus and against some awards show that pretty much won the night, ratings-wise. I knew Close to Home would do well in the Friday time-slot - it's a more family oriented show, and if anyone's going to stay home Friday night, it's going to be people with kids who like that kind of thing. Plus it was a better transition between the other two shows. But Threshold didn't really fit with the rest of the Tuesday line-up, and, regardless, they only gave it one week. I hate TV executives. At the moment, I live in hope that the (I think) four episodes that are rumored to have been already shot and wrapped prior to cancellation will air at some point - even if it's in a foreign market; bittorents are a beautiful thing. Or that they'll release the series on DVD. There was supposed to be a whole three-season arc - Threshold, Foothold, and Stranglehold - that I wish we could find out what they were planning to do. Now we'll never know, unless they talk someone into turning the trilogy into movies. Or books, maybe? How much trouble do you think I'd get in if I kidnap Braga and make him tell me where it was all going? (Okay, not really...)
Stupid fucking CBS. And I can't even boycott the network - probably a third of what I watch on a weekly basis is on CBS. Instead I'm just generally irritated, with nothing to do about it. I'd boycott the advertisers, if I ever watched the commercials. And, you know, didn't use those things. :) Okay, technically, I could boycott both/either the network or the advertisers, but that would require more effort on my part than I'm willing to put forth, since I'm pretty sure CBS couldn't care less about my viewing habits if I lived in Guam. I'm just saying. I'm one little person in fucking Kansas, for crying out loud.
Okay, that's it. That is actually everything that I watch on Network TV. There are other things I watch on cable (most notably The Daily Show with John Stewart), things in syndication (like Mythbusters, Dr. G: Medical Examiner, Forensic Files, various things on The Science Channel and the Discovery Networks, and - god help me - Cartoon Network) and some re-runs (Who's Line is it Anyway?, various sit-coms, and stuff on Spike, A&E, and TNT that I watch both network and syndicated re-runs). Other than The Daily Show, the rest of it tends to fall by the wayside during the regular season, then sustain me through the off-season. Otherwise, I'm not sure I'd have time to work with all the television.
I'm a dork. :)
So, since I have nothing on Saturday, maybe I'll entertain you with a list of all of the various series' I have on DVD. Seriously, it's alot. I probably have a couple thousand dollars all told tied up in DVDs, and recently have bought far more series tv DVDs than movies.
In any event, I'm off to watch as much Alias as a friend of mine and I can cram into the evening before I crash and burn consciousness-wise. (She hasn't seen any of the current season at all so far; she missed the first episode, and didn't have a VCR to play the copy I gave her, so I made her wait until I could burn a decent DVD of it. Eight episodes and several hours of re-encoding, menu-making, chapter-making, music-picking, and burning, we're ready to get mostly caught up.) So... I'm off!
Kisses...