Damn - three entries this week.  I am en fuego. 

I kid.  

This one's just for my own anal-retentiveness to add links to my episodic brain spew at Wicked-Insanity.  Fake cuts provided chronologically by airing.  And yes, I'm still a little bit behind (Last week's Lost, the BSG finale - still).  Sue me.

Bones: 2.17 - "The Priest in the Churchyard"

Lost: 3.14 - "Exposé" 

Bones: 2.18 - "The Killer in the Concrete"

Lost: 3.15 - "Left Behind"

And - what the hell.  I guess I'll talk about this, too:

Drive: 1.03 - "Let the Games Begin"


Last week also brought the return of both Stargates: SG-1 and Atlantis, and they were quite good.  This last batch of SG-1 eps has me very curious to see where the baddies of the Orai end up - and for the fates of Vala and her daughter (Claudia Black and Morena Baccarin both float my boat).  Atlantis had a decent resolution to the cliffhanger from last fall, keeping the city from being nuked - and O'Neil is always good for a laugh.  The Dresden Files also ended its short season on Sunday, with Harry and Murphy closer than ever, so that's good.

Entourage has been back the last two weeks, along with The Sopranos, and it seems that this week and next most network stuff is returning to the schedule with new stuff for the last sweeps period leading to the season finales. 

A busy time to be an obsessive TV-watcher. *yawns*





Kristen Bell is awesome.

Holy Crap.  It's been a month since my last entry.  

I won't get all "woe-is-me, work sucks, been too busy" as an excuse - but will just say that real life has been sucking all of my available free moments as of late, and any down-time at work has been non-existent.  I've had little LJ time to even read and catch up with stuff on my flist, let alone update my own - thus the slacking. And it pisses me off, because fandom crap makes me happy.

Anyway, I have been trying to keep up with my self-imposed TV commenting, but needed to play catch-up with that, too, for the last few weeks. I'm almost all they way there, though - only behind on thoughts for last week's Bones and Lost, and the frak-tastic season finale of Battlestar Galactica. So... I wanted to go ahead and list a bunch of links on shows that have aired since my last entry.  As usual, all the fake cuts lead to comments posted at Wicked-Insanity, and I'll try to keep these as chronological-by-airing as possible.

Veronica Mars: 3.15 - "Papa's Cabin"

Lost: 3.10 - "Tricia Tanaka is Dead"

Battlestar Galactica: 3.17 - "Maelstrom"

Heroes: 1.18 - "Parasite"

Lost: 3.11 - "Enter 77"

Battlestar Galactica: 3.18 - "The Son Also Rises"

Bones: 2.15 - "Bodies in the Book"

Lost: 3.12 - "Par Avion"

Smallville: 6.16 - "Promise"

Supernatural: 2.16 - "Roadkill"

Battlestar Galactica: 3.19 - "Crossroads" (pt.1)

Bones: 2.16 - "The Boneless Bride in the River"

Lost: 3.13 - "The Man from Tallahassee"

Smallville: 6.17 - "Combat"

Supernatural: 2.17 - "Heart"

I won't even get into the whole Veronica Mars 'will-they or won't-they' fiasco. The CW is running a piss-poor business model of a network, both financially - and especially creatively, if the show gets cut off similar to the shit pulled on Everwood last season.  Thoughts of the show not being around anymore at all make my heart hurt, when mind-numbing garbage like the Pussycat Dolls gets higher ratings, so I won't elaborate on anything more until "official" word of its future is announced in May.

I feel like there's a whole lot more random crap I should just put here since it's been so long, but I'm tired and it's Sunday night, which means more work tomorrow.  And I need to go watch my DVR-ed Dresden Files. 





Kristen Bell is awesome.

So, I typically don't like going more than a week without adding at least something here, now that I've gotten into the swing of fairly regular updates - but work and real life stuff has just sucked any and all free time as of late.  Mainly, I needed to get some links to comments for a week's worth of TV.  Fake cuts to all posted at W-I. And I'll keep these in more or less chronological order:

Bones: 2.14 - "The Man in the Mansion"

Lost: 3.08 - "Flashes Before Your Eyes"

Smallville: 6.15 - "Freak"

Supernatural: 2.15 - "Tall Tales"

Battlestar Galactica: 3.15 - "A Day in the Life"

Heroes: 1.16 - "Unexpected"

And one of the longest commentaries/brain spews I've posted in a long while.  The seasonal/series implications left me a little dark and rumbly inside...

Veronica Mars: 3.14 - "Mars, Bars"

Friday Night Lights still continues to amaze me, but its future is still questionable, too.  If that and Veronica don't get renewed - two of my top six shows - I may have to hit something or somebody very hard, repeatedly.  Seriously - I won't be a happy camper for quite a while, and that's an understatement.  

In the realm of guilty-pleasures ending, the series finale of The O.C. was last night, and it was actually not too shabby.  A little rushed for all the stuff that was up in the air leading into the hour, but not a bad resolution in the last 20 minutes.  The Cohens moved back up to Berkeley, Ryan finished college and made a go of it with Taylor, Julie and Kaitin are independent women, and Seth and Summer found their way back to each other after parting to grow individually, and walked down the isle. For a show that was often cheese, sometimes poignant (surprisingly), but at other times hilarious, it had a decent run.

For as much of a prime-time soap that it does tend to be, Grey's Anatomy the last two weeks has been pretty damn good.  And I belatedly realized that Marti Noxon wrote last night's episode, which was unexpected.  I actually really enjoyed the ep. - something that escaped me once in a while when she was exec. producing the latter episodes of BtVS. But I won't go any further into that.

Last week's The Office was directed by Joss Whedon, while last night's was helmed by J.J. Abrams.  Both episodes were hilarious and not very much changed from their usual style of shot selection and editing - which is how it should be, I think, even with superstar directors. The essence of what makes the show unique should remain, and it did.  And Jim is still my hero a little bit. Scrubs was side-splitting last week and the week before, and I've yet to watch last night's.  I'll do that tonight, for sure.

I still have to put some words together from this past Wednesday's Lost, and also want to give a brief recap of my experience last weekend at MegaCon here in Orlando.  I'll try to do so before the weekend is over.  

Thank God it's Fucking Friday.




Kristen Bell is awesome.

So I had a moment or two to post on new TV threads at W-I this morning, so I'll link what I have.  I still have some Thursday shows to watch/comment on, so this is just partial. I'll try to get in another update over the weekend or early next week, if possible.

Veronica Mars: 3.12 - "There's Got to be A Morning After Pill"   This was good, but God it hurt.  Ugh... J-Doh and KBell KILL me.

Bones: 2.13 - "The Girl in the Gator"   Bill S. Preston, Esquire!

Lost: 3.07 - "Not in Portland"  FINALLY.  It's back.  And it was gooood.

Friday Night Lights was also superb yet again on Wednesday, and though I watched Smallville and Supernatural last night, I've yet to formulate some words.  Will try to later.  The Office was awesomely inappropriately funny, and The O.C. is down to the last two episodes now, maintaining it's relative watchability as a guilty pleasure - I laugh more than I cringe, so that's good.  

Still need to watch Scrubs, E.R. and Grey's Anatomy, which are recorded, and tonight will DVR the fun nonsense of The Ghost Whisperer for my Jennifer Love Hewitt fix.

My friends Dan and Sarah are in town and will be staying at my place Saturday night, so I may be proccupied and putting off my television obligations for a day or two.  Why I wanted to at least get these links in today.

Again I say, I need to find a way to quit work and just be a fan.  That would be swell.



Kristen Bell is awesome.

Work is so kicking my ass, but I've got to add an entry here for new TV before I burst.  Fake cuts to brief comments at W-I, as usual, for stuff from the last week:

Bones: 2.12 - "The Man in the Cell"

Smallville: 6.13 - "Crimson"

Supernatural: 2.13 - "Houses of the Holy"

Heroes: 1.14 - "Distractions"

Last week's Friday Night Lights was intense and poignant as usual, while Thursday's Scrubs, The Office and The O.C. were also wholly entertaining in their hilarity. 

Tonight is new Veronica (yay! but ugh! -- the angst!), and tomorrow is all new, with Friday Night Lights, Bones, and the return of Lost - finally.  Thursday's slate of TV is all new, too. Kick-ass couple of days. Or at least, it would be if work didn't suck so hard. 

Back to it.



Kristen Bell is awesome.

Very short entry to just keep things up to date. Fake cuts to blurbs at W-I for the last bit of new TV before 2007. 

Bones 2.11 - "Judas on a Pole"

Battlestar Galactica 3.11 - "The Eye of Jupiter"

And just because I feel like it:


Work now.

So... yeah.  I know I'm struggling to maintain my personal goal to try and just add entries on at least a weekly basis, to cover all the new installments of the shows in the unhealthy amount of television I keep up with.  Work has just been kicking my ass recently - the office has been busy as shit, with some of the most asinine dipshits coming across my path. And between watching said TV shows, and being too tired/apathetic to get online at home at night or much on the weekends, I'm just behind.  Hell - I'm doing this update from work in a few moments of slacking.

Anyway, I'll add fake cuts/links to the bit of commenting I have kept up with at Wicked Insanity.  I've dropped off a few shows, with regards to religiously adding something every week - including Prison Break, Studio 60, Friday Night Lights, and Grey's Anatomy.  I still watch them all, but just cannot manage to brain spew on every single one all the time, even if I really want to (esp. Friday Night Lights, The O.C.).  That said, here are the essential additions since my last new TV entry, in their weekly chronological airing order:

Heroes: 1.07 - "Nothing to Hide"

Prison Break: 2.10 - "Rendezvous"

Justice: 1.08 - "Shark Week"

Veronica Mars: 3.06 - "Hi, Infidelity"

Bones: 2.08 - "The Woman in the Sand"

Lost: 2.06 - "I Do"

The Nine: 1.06 - "Take Me Instead"

Smallville: 6.07 - "Rage"

The Office: 3.07 - "Branch Closing"

Supernatural: 2.07 - "The Usual Suspects"

Battlestar Galactica: 3.07 - "A Measure of Salvation"

Heroes: 1.08 - "Seven Minutes to Midnight"

Veronica Mars: 3.07 - "Of Vice and Men"

Bones: 2.09 -  "Aliens in a Spaceship"

Smallville: 6.08 - "Static"

God help me, I'm still trying to keep up.  And I have yet to finish Grey's Anatomy from last night, or even start The Office and Supernatural.  I'll post on them next time.  I think Justice is axed for good, as FOX pulled it from the schedule this week and next - and may only offer the rest of the 13 or so episodes filmed online.  That's a bummer, since I really was enjoying it.  

Lost is gone until February, so that's a break from some heavy pondering each week, but I managed to catch the 2-hour premiere of Day Break, running in Lost's time slot for 13 weeks.  I have to say, in spite of some not-so-favorible criticisms by reviewers, I quite liked it. It's got the thriller aspects down, as sort of a Groundhog Day-meets-24. Taye Diggs seems like a watchable lead character as Det. Brett Hopper, and the nature of the setup leaves me with thoughts of  "what the hell is going on here?", so I need to have some questions answered.  Nothing else is on in that slot (where I'd be watching Lost anyway), so I'll stick with it for now.

Tonight is more eye-candy with The Ghost Whisperer, and the upper-echelon  of TV excellence with Battlestar Galactica - and Dixon from ALIAS is guest-starring!  Can't-miss TV.

And... I'm out.