Anyone else watching Mildred Pierce? I'm DVR'ing tonight's episodes to watch later this week, as other than reality shows all I'll have is Castle and Justified.
I really liked Jenna Kaye (although part of me will always think of the actress as Alex Mack from the kids' show way back when).
As for Justified, my favorite part is how they've tied Boyd in with the Bennetts, as that is sure to be awesome. Also, how they've made Boyd a compelling character, because believe me, I never thought I'd like him back in S1, and now I love watching him.
I'm excited that you're still watching H50 as I know you had some very understandable reservations about it. I also really liked her; she was quirky in an interesting and realistic way rather than being some kind of MPDG.
The whole Givens-Crowder-Bennetts-Dixie Mafia snarl of competing shady interests and histories is fascinating. I particularly like that Mags Bennett and Boyd Crowder agree that meth is the scourge of the region. Looks like next week we'll find out why Papa Givens didn't want Raylan agitating them. Funny that you say that about Boyd as my pal mahoni just watched s1 this past week and was all, "what is it with Boyd?" and I said, "he gets a LOT more interesting" and then she watched Bulletville and was like, "this is so!"
I dropped in to see if second hand there was fandom frenzy over the fact that the shipper on Castle lived with her parents. Since you didn't even bring it up, I'll assume that the nets are quiet.
I am actually not that deep in Castle fandom--follow a tumblr or two but nothing on LJ and no boards--so if there was an uproar I didn't hear it. I actually thought her depiction wasn't as mean as it might have been which probably says more about my lowered expectations than anything else. That said, it's been made pretty clear that Beckett is an online fan at least of Castle himself (there was a whole bit about how she'd read some extra chapter available only to members of a particular online fanclub or something) and she herself is certainly versed in the lingo and didn't say much of anything at all about the shipper except her actual unpleasantness, which was a different thing.
I halfway got it into my headcanon that Barney's dad = the serial killer Lithgow played on Dexter. As it was I was a bit disappointed with the episode, it didn't feel like the build-up to finding Barney's dad that we were promised--not in the character of the father, but in Barney's reaction and their interactions thereof. I did really like that Marshall told off the guys for treating him with kid gloves, though, because it was a good issue to address head-on with the person in question and not just the others talking about how they should treat Marshall.
That's really awesome that 5-0 didn't denigrate the comic con atmosphere in the episode; it's something that, despite it being written by geeks, Big Bang Theory fails to do.
I agree with everything you said about Justified! Everyone should watch it.
By the end of Abed's story I was cracking up by how many times they said "Cougar Town." I guess that was the intended response.
It was disappointingly written. What about Barney's reaction did you not care for? One part I did like was how it reinforced how much Barney lives in a universe of his own creation because the actual universe is a disappointment to him. We've been seeing lately how often he lies to his friends and himself about events, which puts his stories about his conquests into sharp contrast, I think. And yet we're sympathetic since we know the reasons why he started lying to himself all the time in the first place.
But the showrunner of BBT isn't a geek; he's Chuck Lorre of Two and a Half Men fame. He's just a sitcom guy. The creators of the H50 reboot worked on Xena forever and were the screenwriters of the ST reboot. So they can easily reel off some bit where a guy is dressed as Sisko and when Danny calls him Kirk he says that there wasn't a brother on the Enterprise and Danny says what about Uhura and he says "she was a sister and answered the phone."
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As for Justified, my favorite part is how they've tied Boyd in with the Bennetts, as that is sure to be awesome. Also, how they've made Boyd a compelling character, because believe me, I never thought I'd like him back in S1, and now I love watching him.
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The whole Givens-Crowder-Bennetts-Dixie Mafia snarl of competing shady interests and histories is fascinating. I particularly like that Mags Bennett and Boyd Crowder agree that meth is the scourge of the region. Looks like next week we'll find out why Papa Givens didn't want Raylan agitating them. Funny that you say that about Boyd as my pal mahoni just watched s1 this past week and was all, "what is it with Boyd?" and I said, "he gets a LOT more interesting" and then she watched Bulletville and was like, "this is so!"
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That's really awesome that 5-0 didn't denigrate the comic con atmosphere in the episode; it's something that, despite it being written by geeks, Big Bang Theory fails to do.
I agree with everything you said about Justified! Everyone should watch it.
By the end of Abed's story I was cracking up by how many times they said "Cougar Town." I guess that was the intended response.
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But the showrunner of BBT isn't a geek; he's Chuck Lorre of Two and a Half Men fame. He's just a sitcom guy. The creators of the H50 reboot worked on Xena forever and were the screenwriters of the ST reboot. So they can easily reel off some bit where a guy is dressed as Sisko and when Danny calls him Kirk he says that there wasn't a brother on the Enterprise and Danny says what about Uhura and he says "she was a sister and answered the phone."
Cougar Town!
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