Been almost two weeks since the last update - just haven't had or made the time to be more diligent here, but I'm trying. 

And thus, I need to first give belated Happy Birthday! wishes to

apriljoiex, who celebrated on the 3rd (sorry for the late-ness), and I'll go ahead with two-day early wishes for empressvesica, whose day is the 9th. Here's giving you ladies only good thoughts for a prosperous and fortune-filled year to come.  

So, what's worth mentioning?  Ah, yes - movies.  

As I said a couple weeks ago, I thought Forgetting Sarah Marshall was just outstanding, and not just because of my (obvious) KBell infatuation. The overall quality of the Jason Segel-penned script, with the inclusion of realistically-developed and portrayed characters, made the whole story that much more memorable.  I'm glad to see that other flist-ers have seen it and also approved. Though I do believe the final box-office will show its merit as a financial success (it's already cleared much more than its budget), it doesn't look to be matching the domestic totals of other Judd Apatow productions - The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, or Superbad. Which, really, is unfortunate, because I think FSM is probably the best well-rounded film of the bunch, in terms of balancing comedy and heart with great dialogue. Perhaps Jason Segel's full-frontal scenes scared dudes away from repeated viewings? Oh well - I'll probably see it again this weekend. 

And easily the biggest movie of the year so far is Iron Man, and I also saw that on opening day. I'll add to what other flist-ers have said, and agree that it is definitely worth the price of admission. Director Jon Favreau has hit a home-run with his biggest project to date, and Marvel's first foray into financing their own movie (rather than selling the rights to an outside studio) has paid off.  Iron Man manages to combine an enjoyable script (a little sarcasm and satire cleverly mixed in with the humor, not taking itself too seriously) with an A+ cast and superb visual effects (courtesy of Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic).  I'm not an Iron Man comic die-hard by any means, but I am a little familiar with Tony Stark's background, the type of person he's supposed to be, and with the characters that surround him. And from what I took away from the moves, the entire cast is just about perfect for their roles. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, and Terrence Howard are pitch-perfect in their respective supporting takes on the well-written script. And of course, Robert Downey, Jr. just nails Tony Stark. The attitude and physicality are dead-on for what was really necessary for the character, and he just seems to really be having a ball as a big-budget action-star. 

I'll have to see it again to be completely fair, but I'd say Iron Man ranks right up there in my top-5 of modern-era "comic book" movies.  It's easily better than any of the Spider-Man films, and the Fantastic Four jokes. I think I'd even put it past the first X-Men, and possibly on par with X2. It's still below Superman Returns and Batman Begins on my personal list, but those two are Warner/DC masterpieces that I really almost look at as heavy dramas about comic characters, rather than just comic-based action flicks, which is pretty much where all the others lie.  But as an eye-candy-filled, entertaining-as-hell introduction/origin story that isn't leveled-down for the kiddies (Spider-Man and FF, I'm looking at you), Iron Man is top notch. Go see it. Oh, and stay 'till the end of the credits - especially if you're a Marvel-'verse comic reader. There's a bit of a nice tease. 

I've already got my ticket to see Speed Racer this Friday in IMAX. And it's not that I was highly-anticipating this flick as a "must see right away" type of thing, but just watching the teaser ads the last couple of weeks in HD on my 60" TV made my jaw drop a bit, so I'm anxious to see the next evolutions in visual effects the Wachowski brothers can come up with. Oddly enough, I recently re-watched all the bonus material from The Complete Matrix Collection - all the behind the scenes documentaries and featurettes about the stunt work and filmmaking technologies developed for the first film, Reloaded, and Revolutions, as well as the shorts from The Animatrix. All of that reminded me that Larry and Andy Wachowski have some seriously ballsy imaginations, so my interest in Speed Racer - where the sets and locations are almost entirely virtual - is definitely piqued.  Also, my boy Matthew Fox plays Racer X. So that's another plus.

Speaking of Foxy, last week's episode of Lost: 4.10 - "Something Nice Back Home" - became one of my all-time personal classics, and probably my second favorite of the season (behind 4.05 - "The Constant"). 
  

I see that a couple of other flist-ers have recently started the show, which is awesome. Again I advise anyone that doesn't watch, but is curious about doing so - either borrow or rent the DVDs, or download all the eps from the beginning.  You won't be sorry, and will easily become a more intelligent and quality-discriminating television viewer just by watching.

Battlestar Galactica has also been excellent, but IMO is almost in a plot-limbo right now, as the characters are scattered around  - or away from - the fleet. The acting is still top-shelf as always, but I think we're in the midst of a build-up toward the race for Earth. Seeing the varying reactions by Tori, Col. Tigh, Tyrol and Anders to their respective newly-found identities as Cylons is interesting as hell, though. Lee's beginning to see that having and enforcing the morally-righteous high-ground isn't necessarily what may be best for the populace, politcally, as Baltar's prophet/messiah status builds.  And Kara's facing mutiny along her desperation to "feel" her way to Earth. Classic.

Smallville's still a jumbled mess (and it's gonna drag on for an eighth season - fuck me), but I will say that last week's Tom Welling-directed episode was his best work of the three episodes where he's been behind the camera. Story was hole-filled and preposterous at points (as usual), but his blocking and camera placement was much improved. 

Supernatural is still the only critical-acclaim-worthy show on The CW, and is still fun as hell. The faux-reality satire of "Ghostfacers" had me LMAO for an hour - among the appropriately creepy traditional haunted-house standbys. Tweaking the suspense/horror genre is something this show does consistently well - IMO, on par with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in that regard. I'm really looking forward to seeing how in the hell Dean's soul-to-Hell pact will be dealt with, now that we've got a fourth season to look forward to.

I guess that's about all I've got.  Plus, I'm tired of typing - doing all this tonight since there was no new TV to watch. Tomorrow's another full Thursday night lineup, including the last episode (of a stike-shortened season) of Scrubs to air on NBC. It's almost a sure thing that ABC will pick it up for an eighth and final season, since it's an ABC Studio show. So hopefully we'll get at least 13-17 more episodes to see it sent off properly - one of the funniest shows to ever air, IMO.

Off to bed in a bit, probably. Peace out.




Kristen Bell is awesome.

Random TV talk, among other things....

So this is the first Thursday night in quite a while - months, at least - where everything I watch on this night of the week is brand-spankin' new.

First, and most importantly, Lost is back from its five-week, strike-imposed catch-up period with the first of 6 straight new eps to finish out season four. "Kick-ass" #1.  

Closely following in excitement, Supernatural is also back from its strike-lengthened hiatus with new stuff. "Kick-ass" #2.

In addition, NBC's lineup is all-new, all of which I watch: My Name is Earl, Scrubs ("Kick-ass" #3), The Office ("Kick-ass" #4), 30 Rock, and ER.  Prior to Lost on ABC, Grey's Anatomy is back with new stuff. And before SPN, The CW has another new Smallville. Both Grey's and SV have become little more than tiresome chores to keep watching, but I'm multiple seasons into my show-obligation, and can't stop myself now. *sigh*

Oh, and if all of that were not enough, my hometown Orlando Magic are trying to go up 3 games to none against the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the NBA playoffs.The Magic are my second-favorite team (behind my beloved and awesome San Antonio Spurs), so I'd like to see some of that, too. Perhaps both VCRs will be working tonight, in addition to the dual tuner DVR.

Lastly, I didn't want to forget the Happy Birthday! thoughts for my flisters gracejen and candlewaxdreams, as they both have birthdays today and tomorrow, respectively. Hope the last year has treated you well, ladies, and that the next one is even better!

Also trying to decide if I want to see Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay this weekend. I didn't see White Castle until it was on DVD for quite a while, but loved its absurdity - especially the part of NPH. I'm really tempted to see this one in the theaters, stupid though I know it will be. It's like I need something to see this weekend while anticipating next week for Iron Man - which looks loads of fun, btw.

That's all I've got.  May not get to update tomorrow, so I hope everyone's weekend goes swimmingly.




Kristen Bell is awesome. 

Well, it seems my first March entry comes in halfway through the month.  So goes the nature of my professional/personal time the last several weeks. 

I won't get into a whole rant or venting spiel, but will just say that work is on an ever-descending shit-spiral, that seems to be picking up speed the last few months. Essentially, the workload combined with the kind of work my job entials day in and day out is pushing me to the end of my tolerance levels.  The new job/career path search is officially underway, because this current work is making me too old (and too bitter) way too fast.  And the zero down-time at work has joined forces with fairly busy evenings (and simply being too exhausted for Interweb play) the last month or so, thus my severe lack of updating and/or keeping up with regular commenting on my flist. For that I apologize and will try to do better.

Anyway... aside from that crap, I've been meaning to post all week about last weekend's MegaCon 2008 here in Orlando. I actually got too busy to remember to buy my advance pass online, prior to the week before (when advance ordering closed), so I had to get a ticket at the gate. I only wanted a one-day ticket for this one, as it was half the price of the three day pass, and I figured I could get what I wanted to get done in one day, and reduce the two added days of temptation to spend more $$$ on fandom stuff I really don't need.  It worked out okay for my day spent there on Saturday, but the waiting lines were horrendous. A fairly brief summation (compared to FX, anyway) under the cut:


Other than the above show stuff, the only other babbling I've got is that Lost is continuing to be sock-knocking-off fantastic this season. I won't get plot-spoilery for already-aired episodes, but  I just feel pity for anyone that will never realize the monumental nature of what this series is - how original and groundbreaking it is as a "genre" drama - and am continually impressed with the turns the story takes. We have been getting some substantial answers to questions that have been lingering for a couple of seasons now, as well as being given new questions and puzzles that we had no idea could be introduced prior to this season.  I anticipate the weekly installments of this show more than anything else I have ever watched. No lie.

Also, the best TV-related news since the strike ended must be the respective renewals of Supernatural and Friday Night Lights.  The CW must know by now that SPN is by far the best thing they have on their schedule, quality-wise, and I'm sure the stellar ratings numbers (highest of the season, if not of the series) of the last pre-strike filmed episode helped with the decision. And I don't care what kind of episode-sharing deal has to be made with NBC and Direct TV (or any other network), as long as FNL is back in some capacity. In terms of genuine overall-quality - from writing to acting to directing and overall production value - the series is THE best show since the 2004 season brought us Lost, Veronica Mars and Battlestar Galactica. 

And finally, this month's Paley Center for Media's Television Festival makes me temporarily wish I lived near L.A. The annual event has an awe-worthy lineup of show panels this year, the first notable of which was yesterday for Pushing Daisies. The event's entire lineup can be found at the official page, but I'll also c/p the list panels I'd be there for in a heartbeat, if money and distance were no object:

 

I mean, really - the Buffy reunion is worth the drooling alone - almost the entire friggin' cast, plus Joss! - but to be there for talk about Daisies, Judd Apatow's insane entourage, Chuck (moderated by Lost's exec. Damon Lindelof!), Friday Night Lights, Damages (best FX drama since The Shield), The X-Files (new film being made - awesome), and Mad Men - a show I want to get into, hearing only good things about - all of those are a TV enthusiast's dream. I look forward to reading/hearing/seeing details about what went on during each, and will be insanely envious of anyone who gets to actually be there.

I guess that's about it for now. Hopefully I won't go a few more weeks between posts again.  Oh, and since I may not be online tomorrow, early Happy St. Patrick's Day to all. It's the honorary Irish day, and I'll at least have a beer or two to celebrate.  Too bad it's not on a weekend this year. Oh well.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

I know the day's almost over, but it's still the 29th here, so the day's just an excuse to have an entry. And, it's worth noting a date that comes around only once every four years. 

Plus, you know, I wanted to make a post to prove that I do still exist. I've barely been able to check my email regularly the last few weeks, so updating and commenting here have been virtually impossible.  BUT - I have been scrambling to read my flist every few days, so I have been keeping up with all the wonderful ramblings my fascinating flist has to offer, I just can't seem to comment or reply nearly as often as I'd like.

Oh, and I also need to wish a very belated Happy Birthday! to blackmamba2517. I'm not sure if she's even been on LJ in ages - no updates for over a year - but her birthday was the 23rd, she's still got an LJ page, and I knew her prior to the world of LJ and flists. So if you eventually see this Hallie, I didn't forget, I just got busy!

I have no time to even get into it now, but for anyone who keeps up with Lost, I sure hope you are enjoying the ride as much as I am. This season is just redefining the nature of how to blow one's mind with serial television. Especially last night's episode, 4.05 - "The Constant". A seriously whacked-out hour of TV, in absolutely the best way possible.

Will be driving down to West Palm Beach tomorrow, for a wedding on Sunday afternoon - the wedding for which I went to Las Vegas two weeks ago for the groom's bachelor party - so another weekend of trying to catch up on the interwebs will be shot. Oh well. Having a life of some sort is not too bad, I suppose.  

On that note, I'm off to do some laundry.  Hope everyone's weekend is swell.




Kristen Bell is awesome.

LOST is back!

The best show on television - possibly of all time - finally returns to kick off its fouth season tonight. Strike-shortened season notwithstanding, I'm still way more than ready to get more story.  To say I'm excited would be an understatement.   If anyone has yet to jump on board for this series, I'd highly recommend a marathon of the S1-3 DVDs. Totally worth your time.



That is all. 

Another update this weekend, probably - for an FX Show briefing.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

I was actually offline - as in not on the interwebs at all - for over a week. A WEEK. Not even email. I think that may be the longest drought for me ever - or at least, since college, when the Internet actually found its legs and began its addictive ways.

I've spent some of today and yesterday - the first time I got online since a week ago Saturday - trying to sift through the gobs and gobs of mail in various accounts, sorting out what's worthy of reading and deleting spammish crap. It's a chore, I tell ya. And I'm not close to done yet.

There was no real reason for my online hiatus, save for the fact I got totally immersed in re-watching Lost over my last three days off of work for the holidays before I had to go back. From last Sunday through this past Saturday, I marathoned all three seasons' worth of episodes, plus the special features - and that's including working two of those days. Essentially I watched 72 hours of episodes and maybe 10 hours of bonus material in about 4 days. Lost-age was oozing from my pores. I guess I'm just a tad excited for the season four premiere on Jan. 31st. Can you tell?

I really don't have time for much else, but I just wanted to pop in and give a "hey, I'm still here", since I've been a shitty f-lister - I will be trying to play catch up by this weekend. Now I need to go watch the second hour of The Sarah Connor Chronicles - the first episode of which aired last night, and was pretty bad-ass all around. Summer Glau is made of win in her role as Cameron.

I'll leave with one thing I did glean from the flist, ganked from gypsy_sally. And I swear I didn't cheat:



Except for Lee's family baggage, I can see it.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

So, yeah, I'm trying to procrastinate at work, and I thought I'd post on something current. Plus, I wanted to bitch and moan just a bit.

It's become pretty clear over the last several TV seasons that the Primetime Emmy Awards are a joke when it comes to actually recognizing the "best" that television has to offer.  Seldom do the really deserving shows and/or actors win, and more often than not the last few years, even the snubs in nominations are egregious.  I mean, to totally screw up the top 5 or 6 in a category is just asinine and indicative of how out-of-touch the voters truly are.

Last year I did make somewhat of a fuss over the show at W-I, but refrained from doing so this year, mainly because of the uselessness of it all... and I was lazy.

Honestly, the only thing that grabbed me at all this year was the red-carpet and audience appearances of Kristen Bell with the various Heroes entourages - both at the Creative Emmys last week, and the show from last night.  I mean the woman is into absurdly-ridiculously hot territory, with ever-increasing national exposure. It's like she's personally trying to torture/kill me with how much better and better she continues to look - and she was a knockout to begin with.  As soon as I get some pics of her from the ceremonies loaded into the bucket, I'm going to post some here.  Just because.  *daydreams*...

Anyway - I'll list the major categories from last night's show here, along with some brief thoughts on the nominees and winners. Under the cut, of course. Beware of personal taste and some mildly angered swearing.


Also - from various sources, I've read that the show overall was a bore and ham-handed in its execution.  Makes me glad I totally forgot to tune in.  I'd like to see "Seacrest. Out." Permanently - from all media.

Lunch now.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

Just checked back with Ausiello at TV Guide online today, and it appears that Kristen was formally approached by show producers this week for a possible recurring role on Lost next season - but that a spokesperson has said she won't be joining the cast - rumors of her not wanting to relocate to Hawaii for an extended stay being a possible reason. The article also mentions talk of her joining the Broadway production of Legally Blonde in February, thus her not wanting to get into any long-term TV commitments.  The link to the page is HERE, but I'm also going to c/p the info under a cut:

( KBell not getting 'Lost'... )

*Sigh* I'm glad my hopes weren't up too high for this Lost development, long-shot that I thought it was.  If she legitimately was approached for (or offered) a part on the show, I may question the decision to decline - exposure doesn't get much better than that, television-wise. But, she may have had enough Hawaii for a while (being away from her boyfriend, family, and dogs) after wrapping Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and staying in the lower 48 allows her to still be on the ready for even more opportunities, I suppose.  And though I don't begrudge her wanting to do theater again, since Broadway was where she got her start performing, I will mildly *groan* just a bit over the fact that someone out there thought Legally Blonde needed a Broadway adaptation...

Here's to still being on the lookout for anything else she decides to be a part of...







Kristen Bell is awesome.

According to different hopeful rumors I've read/heard the last few weeks, Kristen Bell's name kept popping up as a casting possibility for a recurring role on the upcoming season of Lost.  Of course I was interested, and while I wished something like that could be true, skepticism is the watchword on this one.

Now, TV Guide's spoiler-guru Michael Ausiello has posted some more news on this possible development.  The mention leads off his weekly Ausiello Report. Nothing is confirmed by any means, but even the remote impossible possibility is enough to make me tingly.  In the discussion thread, even fellow TV Guide editor/columnist Matt Webb Mitovich is ecstatic:

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.

I know I'm severly slacking on my episodic dilligence, as I've yet to get completely caught up with comments through this week's stuff at W-I.  However I plan to "leave no show behind", and will link a few things to recent posts here right now:

Lost: 3.09 - "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Battlestar Galactica: 3.16 - "Dirty Hands"

Heroes: 1.17 - "Company Man"

I have yet to speak on this week's Veronica and Lost, and still want to get in a (brief) write-up of my weekend at MegaCon 2007.  I will get to that as soon as I can, I promise. 

Now I need to get some food.






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.

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.