Comments | miss_porcupine: this is not a love song

miss_porcupine

this is not a love song

May 25, 2011 12:31

Dear CBS,

Recycling is nominally supposed to be good for the environment. Not so much for serialized television.

NCISes

( the hazards of low expectations )

ncis, watching the detectives, criminal minds

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fureux May 25 2011, 16:49:09 UTC

Froth should not be asked to support anything weighty. I've never heard that before and hotdamn does it sum things up into a nutshell. Nice.

miss_porcupine May 25 2011, 19:04:31 UTC

Thanks. :)

ldyanne May 25 2011, 18:45:48 UTC

I don't watch The Mentalist, but you are right on with your assessment of the other shows.

They're going to break Tony's heart again on NCIS, and I think I hate them for that!

miss_porcupine May 25 2011, 19:05:04 UTC

Yeah, they are. Unless EJ turns out to be doing extra double secret spy work for the good guys.

anonymous May 25 2011, 20:05:16 UTC

My theory on the CM finale:

(Writers are trying to come up with an actual decent story.)
Writer #1: You know, it doesn't matter what we do- they're just going to spend the summer trying to figure out who's on next season.
Writer #2: Crap, you're right. Screw it. Let's bang this thing out and go get tacos.

Anonymous J

miss_porcupine May 26 2011, 01:30:50 UTC

You may not be wrong. :)

fantasyenabler May 25 2011, 21:05:00 UTC

I don't watch most of these because they make The Husband gag with their preposterousness. (I asked him how his NCIS agent friends feel about the show. He said that they say that it's nice to get attention from the public, but they wish the source of the attention at least tried to be realistic. Hubby's just happy his agency said no when the producers came to them first.)

However, I do watch The Mentalist which The Husband loves. :) I think it's because Jane is his kind of interrogator, sneaky! (Husband and Co. once rigged up a copier to produce sheets that said "Yes" and "No," and told a suspect it was a newfangled lie detector. :) ) If it weren't for Jane though, I don't think we'd watch it. It's just his character that raises it a notch above all of the other adequately-done LE procedural shows.

miss_porcupine May 25 2011, 21:13:06 UTC

My favorite 'copier as lie detector' scene on TV remains Homicide: Life on the Streets' version.

fantasyenabler May 25 2011, 22:00:33 UTC

Hah! I didn't realize they'd done that. They must have stolen that from whatever agency my husband stole that from. :) (I think this trick actually originated in an FBI office somewhere, but I'm not sure.)

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miss_porcupine May 26 2011, 01:31:51 UTC

They did okay with Hollis and with Coast Guard Abby and even with that madam who's appeared a couple of times. It's just everyone else. *wry*