"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars."
Quick weekend television review. And Monday.
Kolchak - If Carl Kolchak and John Winchester aren't hunting buddies, then at the very least, they run in the same circles and piss off all the same people with their obsessiveness.
SG1 - First episode in... er, a year and a half to hold my attention. Daniel-Disneyworld. Heh.
SGA - First episode in recent memory to be almost completely unwatchable. Mileage apparently varies on this. Radically.
Psych - Ooh, Steve Bacic! And I see he hasn't managed to get a haircut since the end of Andromeda. I love how Shawn could so easily be a Proper Detective... but he's having so much more fun doing it his own way.
Inside the Actors Studio - Hugh Laurie really is quite funny. Nothing new revealed, but it was lovely to hear his real accent and watch him make faces. And there was piano playing. And singing. Hee! Pity they spoiled it with the stupid audience questions at the end. Eventually I'm going to have to move "The Gun Seller" off my Wish List and into my Shopping Cart.
Dorkling stuff.
After mucking around with her ponytail and eventually pulling it out to end up with her hair being poofy everywhere, Nieceling #2 was declared by her jie-jie to have "Rock Star Hair!" When I oh-so-foolishly snicker at this and idly wonder aloud just how many rock stars they've ever even heard of to know what rock star hair looks like, Niecelings #1 and #2 both give me "You are so un-hip" stares and declare "Nini!" Well, duh. How could I have forgotten Nini?
Later in the day The Boy and I are hanging out in his room, setting up castle guys to attack one another. I again foolishly snicker - this time at the little plastic cow standing among the knights, war horses, dragons... The Boy solemnly informs me that this is the Cow of Doom and none of my evil knights can kill it. Except one. Which he will reveal to me later. Which he did. By pointing to one of my "dead" guys. "Too bad. He was the only one who could have killed the Cow of Doom." And then the Cow of Doom wiped out the rest of my troops.
Shortly thereafter, Nieceling #1 wandered in and decided to help me regroup my poor zombie army. She soon discovered that our side had been allotted a catapult. And gremlins. And that gremlins scatter quite entertainingly when shot four at a time from said catapult. Also that plastic cannon balls will bounce off the ceiling, the bunk bed, the dresser, and her brother when launched with enough force. And that knights can be flung clear across the room and into the closet, possibly never to be seen again. Oh, and most importantly, that the following interaction, in tones of aggravated amusement and unbounded glee respectively...
The Boy: No, wait. Let me set these guys back up first...
Nieceling #1: FLING!!!
The Boy: Not the armor...
Nieceling #1: FLING!!!
The Boy: Don't fling the horse...
Nieceling #1: FLING!!!
The Boy: Aww, man!
will cause Auntie G to laugh so hard she'll cry.
And yes, Nieceling #1 was actually shouting "Fling!!!" prior to every launch. Hee!
I love my Dorklings.
Oh, and Eureka tonight. I give it two more episodes before Jack's house goes psycho on him.
Kolchak - If Carl Kolchak and John Winchester aren't hunting buddies, then at the very least, they run in the same circles and piss off all the same people with their obsessiveness.
SG1 - First episode in... er, a year and a half to hold my attention. Daniel-Disneyworld. Heh.
SGA - First episode in recent memory to be almost completely unwatchable. Mileage apparently varies on this. Radically.
Psych - Ooh, Steve Bacic! And I see he hasn't managed to get a haircut since the end of Andromeda. I love how Shawn could so easily be a Proper Detective... but he's having so much more fun doing it his own way.
Inside the Actors Studio - Hugh Laurie really is quite funny. Nothing new revealed, but it was lovely to hear his real accent and watch him make faces. And there was piano playing. And singing. Hee! Pity they spoiled it with the stupid audience questions at the end. Eventually I'm going to have to move "The Gun Seller" off my Wish List and into my Shopping Cart.
Dorkling stuff.
After mucking around with her ponytail and eventually pulling it out to end up with her hair being poofy everywhere, Nieceling #2 was declared by her jie-jie to have "Rock Star Hair!" When I oh-so-foolishly snicker at this and idly wonder aloud just how many rock stars they've ever even heard of to know what rock star hair looks like, Niecelings #1 and #2 both give me "You are so un-hip" stares and declare "Nini!" Well, duh. How could I have forgotten Nini?
Later in the day The Boy and I are hanging out in his room, setting up castle guys to attack one another. I again foolishly snicker - this time at the little plastic cow standing among the knights, war horses, dragons... The Boy solemnly informs me that this is the Cow of Doom and none of my evil knights can kill it. Except one. Which he will reveal to me later. Which he did. By pointing to one of my "dead" guys. "Too bad. He was the only one who could have killed the Cow of Doom." And then the Cow of Doom wiped out the rest of my troops.
Shortly thereafter, Nieceling #1 wandered in and decided to help me regroup my poor zombie army. She soon discovered that our side had been allotted a catapult. And gremlins. And that gremlins scatter quite entertainingly when shot four at a time from said catapult. Also that plastic cannon balls will bounce off the ceiling, the bunk bed, the dresser, and her brother when launched with enough force. And that knights can be flung clear across the room and into the closet, possibly never to be seen again. Oh, and most importantly, that the following interaction, in tones of aggravated amusement and unbounded glee respectively...
The Boy: No, wait. Let me set these guys back up first...
Nieceling #1: FLING!!!
The Boy: Not the armor...
Nieceling #1: FLING!!!
The Boy: Don't fling the horse...
Nieceling #1: FLING!!!
The Boy: Aww, man!
will cause Auntie G to laugh so hard she'll cry.
And yes, Nieceling #1 was actually shouting "Fling!!!" prior to every launch. Hee!
I love my Dorklings.
Oh, and Eureka tonight. I give it two more episodes before Jack's house goes psycho on him.