pass me the tissue box, don't touch the remote
this week's Doctor Who got my tear ducts on overdrive. normally, my kids would tease me whenever i go teary emo during a movie or a tv show. but i guess they were too focused on Neil Gaiman's scripted episode to get distracted by their hormonal mother. also this season's penultimate episode of Bones got me misty-eyed over the death of a minor character. i don't know what's up with that since Bones has increasingly annoyed me enough to be moved into my imaginary list of tv shows on probation.
there's bound to be more tissue box moments in the next two weeks as various television shows get around to their season-enders which tend to have people getting shot or blown-up, hooking-up, breaking-up, getting married or giving birth or any combination of these. i anticipate getting pissed off and emotionally gutted in equal measures by House, and i want this so much since that other show that i really really like (aka Fringe) finished a season's worth of smart writing and delightful acting on a blah note; i still believe that karmic balance encompasses the land of television and since House has had more blah than whoa episodes this season i'm really really hoping that it's season ender will wow me and remind me again why i like this show, and i can't believe i've spewed mental vomit all over my LJ page. sometimes i miss the simplicity of Buffy's season enders where the Slayer beat the Big and thwart an apocalypse. sometimes Buffy dies, but that's par for the course for mystical entities.
there's bound to be more tissue box moments in the next two weeks as various television shows get around to their season-enders which tend to have people getting shot or blown-up, hooking-up, breaking-up, getting married or giving birth or any combination of these. i anticipate getting pissed off and emotionally gutted in equal measures by House, and i want this so much since that other show that i really really like (aka Fringe) finished a season's worth of smart writing and delightful acting on a blah note; i still believe that karmic balance encompasses the land of television and since House has had more blah than whoa episodes this season i'm really really hoping that it's season ender will wow me and remind me again why i like this show, and i can't believe i've spewed mental vomit all over my LJ page. sometimes i miss the simplicity of Buffy's season enders where the Slayer beat the Big and thwart an apocalypse. sometimes Buffy dies, but that's par for the course for mystical entities.