A teeny note on politics, 2 eps of SGA, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY w/ a side of Ghost Hunters

[delwyncole]

So, I'm finally getting around to writing the post I said I was going to do days ago. The one about the episode of Atlantis I missed before hiatus and what is now last week's episode. Because I waited around so long, first there's a teeny-tiny note on then New Hampshire primaries which those uninterested in politics (or who don't want to listen to

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[delwyncole]

Hmm, there was a time when I knew a few of the monologues from Hamlet, but I've clearly made space in that part of my brain for things I actually enjoy. It still annoys me. Usually, Shakespeare's apostrophes served some purpose, and this one really doesn't seem to. I can't work out how it would possibly change the pronunciation or rhythm of the word.

Yeah, I kind of thought Lindsey had killed the boy too. The Dad's were great. I didn't hate Lindsey, but she was a little annoying.

The Wizard of Oz connections were twice as fun to me and started when somebody called her the Wicked Witch of the West Side. They didn't spend a lot of time talking about Danny's angst, just kind of acknowledged it for continuity's sake. I take it you didn't see that episode. I don't think I reviewed it either. There was a little boy who lives in the apartment across the hall from Danny's. I think they said he was 9. Anyway, his Mom's a single mom and his dad isn't around. I don't know if he's dead, unknown, or just a bad dad. Anyway, Danny apparently does stuff with the kid on a fairly regular basis, and in this episode he had promised to take the kid to "the blessing of the bikes" which is some weird Catholic thing where they say a prayer and toss some holy water on a bunch of kids bicycles. They go, and are walking back home when there's a gunshot. They're less than a block away from the apartment, and the kid is on his bike. The apartment is in the opposite direction from the gunfire. Danny tells him to go home and starts dealing with the scene. He gets caught up in that and doesn't even think to check and make sure the kid made it home alright. They were less than a block away, after all. Then, when he's talking to Mac about his case, a body gets wheeled into the autopsy room and it's the kid. Turns out he was actually hit by that first shot they heard, he just didn't notice what with all the adrenalin and because of the place he was hit. Apparently that's fairly common. But his blood loss was massive and rapid and he bled out before he made it home. The whole shooting thing had been a convenience store robbery. The robber had shot (but not killed) the store owner. His sister picked up the gun they had and shot back (though she denies it at the time). It was the sister who shot the kid. Danny's twice as upset because he thinks that as soon as there was someone else on the scene he should have been seeing about the kid. Of course it wouldn't have mattered because Sid says he died pretty quickly, and Danny was busy with the wounded store owner for longer than that.