Dead Letter Office
Charlton Heston died this weekend. Thus bringing my score up to 2/10, with a few months left. How is Ariel Sharon still hanging on? No clue, he's the ER of the celebrity death pool world.
singingrl linked to a very sweet HIMYM blog, Have You Met Ted. Recaps, casting, little trivia things, ep comparisons, lots of a good stuff, basically, without being too pointless or obsessive. Also, Jason Segel is going to flash peen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall! He likes getting naked, apparently! Richard Roeper fangirls the peen! I'm excited for this movie. Peen + comedy + Russell Brand = I will be there for opening night, yes indeed.
Did anyone watch SNL last night? The googly-eyed plant sketch with Christopher Walken killed me, I laughed so hard. I am going to make myself a little googly-eyed cactus, more precious than the Adipose, y/y?
CSI:
Oh hey, that didn't suck! I quite liked this episode, because it had a little bit of everyone, is gave us some insight into Grissom, it had several interesting guest stars (Jack McGee and of course Bonnie Bedelia), and it focused on a well-developed case.
My favorite things were all the Bruno sightings (omfg, puppy! so cute!), Hodges giving Nick the smackdown for being all germy (because that was so gross), the scene with Brass at Grissom's apartment (one of the best scenes of the season, easily, Paul Guilfoyle is amazingly talented), and the fact that Warrick did not seem like a pod person.
I didn't miss the deleted scene, really, although it's telling that THE scene they promoted the episode with didn't make the final cut. I didn't think the deleted scene was a bad scene, because I liked the moment of friendship and the snooping was funny, but ultimately it didn't serve much of a purpose. (We got to see Grissom's place in several other shots, the case info Cath shared was stuff we already knew and didn't need exposition on, and frankly it didn't really reveal anything about Grissom and Sara's relationship we didn't know or wouldn't learn by the end of the episode.) I'm glad they put it on YouTube and didn't just drop it (like a show that rhymes with Mattlestar Fralactica would have done), but it was a complicated casefile and obviously ran long, they had to cut something, I think they made a logical choice.
The scene at the end was cute, and it's good enough for me. I'm just annoyed we have no idea wtf Sara is doing right now. But I'll take what I can get, I don't really have any expectations at this point other than a dim hope Sara will re-appear in Grissom's last episode.
Oh, and I know some fangirls flamed out at that whole "soul mate" line, I swear sometimes I read things completely different than everyone else. I thought it was a sad, bittersweet sort of scene, where a lonely, aging workaholic was almost making a joke with someone she thought was in the same boat. (I mean, I assume Maddie would have heard about Grissom and Sara considering they were disciplined by Ecklie and it seems to be part of her job to know everyones business, and also knew that Sara was gone, so she drew her own conclusion.) Like a "look at us, isn't that sad?" type of thing, and then the cut into Grissom and Sara's phonecall was a touching sort of moment, a "hey, don't give up on me yet" type of thing that was really captured in his expression at the end of the bar scene where he smiled wistfully.
Whatever, I liked it. Next week looks like it could be decent as well, although I don't have a lot of faith that they will really tackle any important issues. I do think that by the end of this season, I am going to sound like the Project Runway panel talking about Chris and Rami's collections, because this season is dark. But they've handled cases with children well in several cases, so we'll see.
Battlestar Galactica:
I thought this episode was good, it was just a lot of set-up, however, all at once, which felt a little clumsy.
I really liked how Starbuck seemed just a little bit off, Katee played her scenes so well, because as a viewer I was really sucked into the whole "what the fuck is going on with her? Can she be trusted?" and the conflict all the people that love her face was really resonant with the confusion being so palpable. It was Starbuck, only it almost wasn't in really hard to pin down moments. Loved it.
Lee was so cute, too, hugging her. AWWWW, LEE. I love how he's always been so "I HATE CYLONS KILL THEM!!1!" and as soon as the possibility that Kara might be a Cylon came up he was like "LOL, JK I HEART CYLONS THEY ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!"
Also, way to tap that presidential ass, Old Man!
I though the whole eye-for-an-eye thing they had going with Tigh imagining putting one right into Bill's brain was interesting, if a little overdone. Similarly, I thought it was smart to have Anders scanned by the Cylon and have his eye glow red, confirming everything once and for all in the canon itself, but that's obviously going to lead to a lot of trouble later, and if I were anyone on that ship I would be losing my mind if the Cylons had the chance to wipe out all the humans once and for all and then randomly disappeared. Seriously, freak out, no question.
Gaius and his whole Manson harem is... who knows, he always exists in his own little world on that show anyway, it's like he has a built-in spin-off, Gaius and his Wacky Friends. Nothing like an incredibly graphic deadly beating to fill you with religious rapture, I guess.
What else happened? Nothing I remember off the top of my head, so moving on...
Doctor Who:
That was decent.
I like Donna, and I mostly like her because she will call The Doctor on his shit, and that will be entertaining. I also like her for all her almost childlike exuberance, it's like she went to the planetarium on a school field trip, and a week later was packing her bags for astronaut camp, ready to go to the moon. I have a thing for older characters that still are capable of honest glee and delight.
As for the Aliens of the Week (seriously, what do Who fans call them? House has its POTW, Who should have its AOTW, y/y?) -- I don't know, they were cute and the story was a bit silly and whatever, it was fine. I tend to only really like the historical alien plots, anyway, for some reason they don't make me giggle like the modern day and future-based ones do.
As for unexpected buttsecks Rose, I have to admit I was excited to see her so early, although Billie did look like she had a bit of gas in that scene. I'd like to see someone else pop up in the next episode, to sort of take the pressure off Rosewatch 2008 some, but keep the intrigue going.
My ~crystal ball visions~ for this season is that I do think it will be based on a lot of those missed connections, butterfly under your boot, chaos theory moments. Maybe time itself is disintegrating, or something has become unstuck, as it were. If there are more of those little moments (and not just magical mystery Rose, but Donna and The Doctor on the streets, etc.) beyond the first ep I bet they'll be the breadcrumbs. Maybe it has something to do with that place, as well.
And tossing that sonic in the trash was s-t-u-p-i-d. Seriously, Ten, that's just asking for it.
singingrl linked to a very sweet HIMYM blog, Have You Met Ted. Recaps, casting, little trivia things, ep comparisons, lots of a good stuff, basically, without being too pointless or obsessive. Also, Jason Segel is going to flash peen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall! He likes getting naked, apparently! Richard Roeper fangirls the peen! I'm excited for this movie. Peen + comedy + Russell Brand = I will be there for opening night, yes indeed.
Did anyone watch SNL last night? The googly-eyed plant sketch with Christopher Walken killed me, I laughed so hard. I am going to make myself a little googly-eyed cactus, more precious than the Adipose, y/y?
CSI:
Oh hey, that didn't suck! I quite liked this episode, because it had a little bit of everyone, is gave us some insight into Grissom, it had several interesting guest stars (Jack McGee and of course Bonnie Bedelia), and it focused on a well-developed case.
My favorite things were all the Bruno sightings (omfg, puppy! so cute!), Hodges giving Nick the smackdown for being all germy (because that was so gross), the scene with Brass at Grissom's apartment (one of the best scenes of the season, easily, Paul Guilfoyle is amazingly talented), and the fact that Warrick did not seem like a pod person.
I didn't miss the deleted scene, really, although it's telling that THE scene they promoted the episode with didn't make the final cut. I didn't think the deleted scene was a bad scene, because I liked the moment of friendship and the snooping was funny, but ultimately it didn't serve much of a purpose. (We got to see Grissom's place in several other shots, the case info Cath shared was stuff we already knew and didn't need exposition on, and frankly it didn't really reveal anything about Grissom and Sara's relationship we didn't know or wouldn't learn by the end of the episode.) I'm glad they put it on YouTube and didn't just drop it (like a show that rhymes with Mattlestar Fralactica would have done), but it was a complicated casefile and obviously ran long, they had to cut something, I think they made a logical choice.
The scene at the end was cute, and it's good enough for me. I'm just annoyed we have no idea wtf Sara is doing right now. But I'll take what I can get, I don't really have any expectations at this point other than a dim hope Sara will re-appear in Grissom's last episode.
Oh, and I know some fangirls flamed out at that whole "soul mate" line, I swear sometimes I read things completely different than everyone else. I thought it was a sad, bittersweet sort of scene, where a lonely, aging workaholic was almost making a joke with someone she thought was in the same boat. (I mean, I assume Maddie would have heard about Grissom and Sara considering they were disciplined by Ecklie and it seems to be part of her job to know everyones business, and also knew that Sara was gone, so she drew her own conclusion.) Like a "look at us, isn't that sad?" type of thing, and then the cut into Grissom and Sara's phonecall was a touching sort of moment, a "hey, don't give up on me yet" type of thing that was really captured in his expression at the end of the bar scene where he smiled wistfully.
Whatever, I liked it. Next week looks like it could be decent as well, although I don't have a lot of faith that they will really tackle any important issues. I do think that by the end of this season, I am going to sound like the Project Runway panel talking about Chris and Rami's collections, because this season is dark. But they've handled cases with children well in several cases, so we'll see.
Battlestar Galactica:
I thought this episode was good, it was just a lot of set-up, however, all at once, which felt a little clumsy.
I really liked how Starbuck seemed just a little bit off, Katee played her scenes so well, because as a viewer I was really sucked into the whole "what the fuck is going on with her? Can she be trusted?" and the conflict all the people that love her face was really resonant with the confusion being so palpable. It was Starbuck, only it almost wasn't in really hard to pin down moments. Loved it.
Lee was so cute, too, hugging her. AWWWW, LEE. I love how he's always been so "I HATE CYLONS KILL THEM!!1!" and as soon as the possibility that Kara might be a Cylon came up he was like "LOL, JK I HEART CYLONS THEY ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!"
Also, way to tap that presidential ass, Old Man!
I though the whole eye-for-an-eye thing they had going with Tigh imagining putting one right into Bill's brain was interesting, if a little overdone. Similarly, I thought it was smart to have Anders scanned by the Cylon and have his eye glow red, confirming everything once and for all in the canon itself, but that's obviously going to lead to a lot of trouble later, and if I were anyone on that ship I would be losing my mind if the Cylons had the chance to wipe out all the humans once and for all and then randomly disappeared. Seriously, freak out, no question.
Gaius and his whole Manson harem is... who knows, he always exists in his own little world on that show anyway, it's like he has a built-in spin-off, Gaius and his Wacky Friends. Nothing like an incredibly graphic deadly beating to fill you with religious rapture, I guess.
What else happened? Nothing I remember off the top of my head, so moving on...
Doctor Who:
That was decent.
I like Donna, and I mostly like her because she will call The Doctor on his shit, and that will be entertaining. I also like her for all her almost childlike exuberance, it's like she went to the planetarium on a school field trip, and a week later was packing her bags for astronaut camp, ready to go to the moon. I have a thing for older characters that still are capable of honest glee and delight.
As for the Aliens of the Week (seriously, what do Who fans call them? House has its POTW, Who should have its AOTW, y/y?) -- I don't know, they were cute and the story was a bit silly and whatever, it was fine. I tend to only really like the historical alien plots, anyway, for some reason they don't make me giggle like the modern day and future-based ones do.
As for unexpected buttsecks Rose, I have to admit I was excited to see her so early, although Billie did look like she had a bit of gas in that scene. I'd like to see someone else pop up in the next episode, to sort of take the pressure off Rosewatch 2008 some, but keep the intrigue going.
My ~crystal ball visions~ for this season is that I do think it will be based on a lot of those missed connections, butterfly under your boot, chaos theory moments. Maybe time itself is disintegrating, or something has become unstuck, as it were. If there are more of those little moments (and not just magical mystery Rose, but Donna and The Doctor on the streets, etc.) beyond the first ep I bet they'll be the breadcrumbs. Maybe it has something to do with that place, as well.
And tossing that sonic in the trash was s-t-u-p-i-d. Seriously, Ten, that's just asking for it.