The Mentalist and Bones, to me, are both incredibly similar shows. A rather rough around the edges, strictly business, I-wanna-catch-the-bad-guy-no-matter-what agent teams up with a rather quirky specialist. The pair and their team solve murders. The credit usually goes to the quirky specialist, but it's usually half-and-half with the agent.

( Possibly an unfair comparison. )

I found an essay over at ship_manifesto about Angel/Cordelia (which is one of my favorite ships), and it broke my heart. It really reminded me how the writers didn't do as well as they might have concerning a non-platonic/physical relationship between the two in S3. While watching S3 and S4 I dreadfully missed the Angel/Cordy of S1 and S2. S5 ( Read more... )

These are totally off the top of my head, so when I'm doing my rewatch I'll be like "OMG HOW COULD I FORGET THIS EPISODE IT IS AWESOME" and then make a totally new post.

This list is sort of in order, but sort of not. After the first few I basically just put it in chronological order. So, here goes:

( Cut for spoilers, cuz I know that some people on my flist are watching it for the first time. )

I am not the biggest fan of Stephen Moffat. I think that while his episodes are interesting and well written, he has problems with consistent characterization. Some of his original characters I don't like. I didn't like River Song. Not just because of the whole "WTF wife?" business, but because I felt that she was an empty character; her presence ( Read more... )