Well what a night, all four of the Must See TV sitcoms were brand new, as was ER (which I didn’t watch-too tired.).
Friends
Great Friends for a change. Funny with out the dumb angst of some of the other episodes. Ross and Chandler’s friendship is back. There’s no faux Rachel and Joey or Ross chemistry. No more uber-mature Monica. Just same old Friends, just older.
Scrubs
Best line of the night. “Do you have any idea how many patients I ignored? People died.” Great episode. Funny, angsty, and cheering all at the same time. Scrubs has some really great ensemble casting. Even the minor regulars are funny. It was fun to see Dr. Kelso get his for a change.
Will and Grace
Hallway farting and spying. Leaning on the doorknob. Who the heck was that hottie overacting man? So Antonio. Dating men has a lot more slapstick. Well actually it does. Jack is such a naive racist. Poor Will. I see Richard’s point though. The hazards of dating a younger man.
Good Morning Miami
Wow! Frank is secretly brilliant? Beautiful. I love Fran Drescher. She’s good at the bitchy agent roles. I love the blond robot line. Personally, I think Dylan was being a poor sport about the whole thing. Poor Penny. She and Jake will always be working at cross-purposes. The writers on the show have had me fooled. I first though Jake was destined to Dylan. Then I thought they had tricked me and were going for Penny. Now who knows? Although I figure since I like Penny better and I think Dylan’s a flake, he’ll end up with Dylan.
Thursday, March 13, 2003
Angel. Whew! That was one heck of an episode. Poor Faith, so severely tested so quickly. I give her kudos to have the moral courage to stand up to Wesley and his gray lines. She’s right not to want to do it his way and he ought be able to see it. His crossing of the line cost him his friends and self-respect but I guess he still doesn’t have that clarity yet. Funny to see Faith coming to the same conclusion that Buffy did at the end of season 5 about being the kind of person who doesn’t cross that line while still getting the job done. Unfortunately, moral courage doesn’t always win the physical battle, plus Faith is out of practice. Gunn and Fred? While I feel sorry for Fred, I can’t help but feel that Gunn was right not to immediately accept her apology, things can never be like they were, nothing is static, you can start fresh, accept your mistakes and they may be able to move on but at this point I doubt it. Angelus was a little better this week, he was a good wall for people to bounce off of. I still think its possible that he’s Angel but it’s the chance is getting slimmer. I enjoyed his smirk and “interesting” when Connor was unable to hit him. (Actually, I enjoyed Gunn’s smirk too). And poor Connor, being sorely misused and mislead by Cordevilia. I really don’t like him but he is a product of his hero’s and both Holtz and the current incarnation of Cordelia aren’t exactly the best influences. The whole Connor being a demon? Hah! Take that you self-righteous bastard. What a cliffhanger! Faith a vampire? Dead? I doubt it if they were still kicking around the idea of Faith spin-off when this ep was written. Damn this has been a great and twisty turny season. I feel breathless as we head in to the final innings of the year. Anyone know when?
Monday, March 10, 2003
Okay here’s my semiweekly roundup.
Thursday Must See TV
Not so must see except Good Morning Miami. First, there’s Bush’s dumb press conference. I’m not going to get into this particular rant though. Then repeats of Friends for the second week in a row. At least GMM was new and not a bad eppie either. More Penny and Jake angst. Also it’s nice to see Gavin all insecure and Frank so bold. Plus as usual, Suzanne Pleshette was darling and funny as Jake’s Aunt Claire. Tom Poston as the sexy old handyman has been a hoot too. I still miss the weather nun though.
Friday
Finally, a new John Doe. Unfortunately, it’s still on my tape so I haven’t watched it yet, you’ll get that soon.
Sunday
The Dead Zone. Yeah. I’ve been loving this new season. This was a fun episode. I love the graphic depiction of the idea of a man disappearing. Poor Johnny, so desperate for company that he eagerly awaits the delivery guy. He needs to spend more time with Bruce and Dana. Speaking of Dana, I thought her hair was looking good. I did find it hard to believe that neither Bruce nor Walt was easily convinced that Johnny had actually met Mr. Grissom. I meant these guys have experienced first hand what Johnny can do AND he had a recent checkup, pretty convincing to me. Also, considering Johnny’s notoriety and connections to the Faith Heritage Foundation I found it hard to believe that the government operatives thought they could easily make him disappear. But I don’t necessarily expect 100% reality from a science fiction show, which would just be silly. But I did like it, not as cool as last weeks “Cabin Pressure,” or as emotionally riveting as the mine episode, but a nice solid storyline with fun-which has been lacking in recent eps. Also, the fact that Johnny’s Jeep was missing one of its daylights was a nice touch.
Tonight
Due to crap television no new episodes of Third Watch or Crossing Jordan. But there appears to be an ep of Everybody Loves Raymond, which is a pleasant distraction sometimes.
Thursday Must See TV
Not so must see except Good Morning Miami. First, there’s Bush’s dumb press conference. I’m not going to get into this particular rant though. Then repeats of Friends for the second week in a row. At least GMM was new and not a bad eppie either. More Penny and Jake angst. Also it’s nice to see Gavin all insecure and Frank so bold. Plus as usual, Suzanne Pleshette was darling and funny as Jake’s Aunt Claire. Tom Poston as the sexy old handyman has been a hoot too. I still miss the weather nun though.
Friday
Finally, a new John Doe. Unfortunately, it’s still on my tape so I haven’t watched it yet, you’ll get that soon.
Sunday
The Dead Zone. Yeah. I’ve been loving this new season. This was a fun episode. I love the graphic depiction of the idea of a man disappearing. Poor Johnny, so desperate for company that he eagerly awaits the delivery guy. He needs to spend more time with Bruce and Dana. Speaking of Dana, I thought her hair was looking good. I did find it hard to believe that neither Bruce nor Walt was easily convinced that Johnny had actually met Mr. Grissom. I meant these guys have experienced first hand what Johnny can do AND he had a recent checkup, pretty convincing to me. Also, considering Johnny’s notoriety and connections to the Faith Heritage Foundation I found it hard to believe that the government operatives thought they could easily make him disappear. But I don’t necessarily expect 100% reality from a science fiction show, which would just be silly. But I did like it, not as cool as last weeks “Cabin Pressure,” or as emotionally riveting as the mine episode, but a nice solid storyline with fun-which has been lacking in recent eps. Also, the fact that Johnny’s Jeep was missing one of its daylights was a nice touch.
Tonight
Due to crap television no new episodes of Third Watch or Crossing Jordan. But there appears to be an ep of Everybody Loves Raymond, which is a pleasant distraction sometimes.
Lets’ see. Oh yeah, Angel. Angel rocked Wednesday
night! Seriously. Yeah little stiffness on the part
of David Boreanz and Charisma Carpenter but everyone
else was right on.
I felt bad for Wesley having to deal with chopping off
Lilah's head to prevent vampirism. He may not
have loved her but he might have been able to and
he’ll never know. Boy, the death of Lilah was a real
blow, ME is missing many ops to explore the banality
of evil there. Ah well, tragedy will make Wes all the
more intriguing.
Angelus was kind of boring and I know there’s been
some discussion of ME not wanting Angel to have to
deal with too much death upon his return but I think
there’s something bigger going on. Unless they just
want to keep Angel from brooding more than usual. But
Angelus simply better doing head games evil than
actually killing people (Jenny’s breathtakingly
brilliant and heartbreaking death ASIDE -the first
time that BTVS made me cry btw). I wonder if Angelus
is actually Angel. There are too many weird things
regarding the de-soulment and subsequent fake
re-soulment. And Lorne being fooled? I don’t see it.
I just don’t believe either Lorne or Wesley being in
cahoots with Cordevilia (who coined that? I love
it!). She’s evil all on her own. IS it Cordy? If
not, then how long? Has season 4 Cordy all been evil
or is it more recent? I’d say all season, thereby
removing culpability for the evil that was
Connor/Cordelia, but that actually seemed like
something Cordy would do out of misguided soft
heartedness. I meant ew but conceivable.
It was great seeing Gunn back to his old self-bad-ass
and funny to boot. He and Faith have good friendship
potential. Fred was blah but that’s okay, she’s been
pissing me off with her dithering about Wes and Gunn.
Connor was by turns annoying, pitiable and
refreshingly his age. Annoying with his blah blah
blah Let’s stake Angelus, etc. Pitiable in his being
taken for a ride by Cordevilia. An adorable in his
crushing on Faith.
And Faith? She kicks ass!
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night! Seriously. Yeah little stiffness on the part
of David Boreanz and Charisma Carpenter but everyone
else was right on.
I felt bad for Wesley having to deal with chopping off
Lilah's head to prevent vampirism. He may not
have loved her but he might have been able to and
he’ll never know. Boy, the death of Lilah was a real
blow, ME is missing many ops to explore the banality
of evil there. Ah well, tragedy will make Wes all the
more intriguing.
Angelus was kind of boring and I know there’s been
some discussion of ME not wanting Angel to have to
deal with too much death upon his return but I think
there’s something bigger going on. Unless they just
want to keep Angel from brooding more than usual. But
Angelus simply better doing head games evil than
actually killing people (Jenny’s breathtakingly
brilliant and heartbreaking death ASIDE -the first
time that BTVS made me cry btw). I wonder if Angelus
is actually Angel. There are too many weird things
regarding the de-soulment and subsequent fake
re-soulment. And Lorne being fooled? I don’t see it.
I just don’t believe either Lorne or Wesley being in
cahoots with Cordevilia (who coined that? I love
it!). She’s evil all on her own. IS it Cordy? If
not, then how long? Has season 4 Cordy all been evil
or is it more recent? I’d say all season, thereby
removing culpability for the evil that was
Connor/Cordelia, but that actually seemed like
something Cordy would do out of misguided soft
heartedness. I meant ew but conceivable.
It was great seeing Gunn back to his old self-bad-ass
and funny to boot. He and Faith have good friendship
potential. Fred was blah but that’s okay, she’s been
pissing me off with her dithering about Wes and Gunn.
Connor was by turns annoying, pitiable and
refreshingly his age. Annoying with his blah blah
blah Let’s stake Angelus, etc. Pitiable in his being
taken for a ride by Cordevilia. An adorable in his
crushing on Faith.
And Faith? She kicks ass!
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003
I'm at work right now kind of goofing off. I don't often enough so I’m trying to make an effort. My keyboard at home has a broken space bar so I’m not doing much posting to any sites right now. I’m somewhat depressed because I just was paid and it’s enough for last month’s car payment. Sigh. I need a new job but there’s nothing in the paper and I just don’t seem to have the connections for a “good” job. I hate borrowing money from my mom but there’s no choice I guess. I have made some lifestyle changes. I’ve been cooking at home lately, tonight I make a big pot o beans! What else? My friend Maria from high school is getting married. I’m glad for her; she finally got the military guy she wanted-he’s in the navy. Plus I guess they met at church so it works for her since she’s all super-religious now. The downer part is that she’s getting married the same weekend as the Cleveland Buffy Con-and I wanted to meet James Marsters-plus it was close. Maybe I can save enough for the May Con in Chicago. His band is going to play. Ghost of the Robot. The fun part of the wedding is that it will be in Alexandria, VA so I can stay with my friend Kristi and hang with her a little bit. I don’t know if Dave will go with me or not. I rather want him to go but I also relish the idea of some quality time with Kristi.
My late weekly roundup.
Must see TV. All repeats except for one weak episode of Good Morning Miami. I know they have to stretch the triangle out but Dylan is starting to get on my nerves. Penney is so much cooler. So, they finally show the show after a 3-week absence but drop it in the middle of a bad TV night. Are they trying to kill it? I think networks do this on purpose. I’m not sure why though. Anyway, I do really like GMM and I see that its being refurbished but I liked the weather nun. I hate when they drop characters without explanation-but where did the Cuban chick go?
Friday-no new John Doe dammit! Another show that the network is apparently trying to kill.
Sunday-I’m a dork and totally forgot about Dead Zone. Thank God, they repeat it.
Tuesday-I forgot about Frasier but as that was the only show I watch that was new I guess I’ll survive as Frasier no longer is a must see for me. Buffy was a repeat as it will be for the next the next two weeks then there’s only a few episodes left. Eek!
Must see TV. All repeats except for one weak episode of Good Morning Miami. I know they have to stretch the triangle out but Dylan is starting to get on my nerves. Penney is so much cooler. So, they finally show the show after a 3-week absence but drop it in the middle of a bad TV night. Are they trying to kill it? I think networks do this on purpose. I’m not sure why though. Anyway, I do really like GMM and I see that its being refurbished but I liked the weather nun. I hate when they drop characters without explanation-but where did the Cuban chick go?
Friday-no new John Doe dammit! Another show that the network is apparently trying to kill.
Sunday-I’m a dork and totally forgot about Dead Zone. Thank God, they repeat it.
Tuesday-I forgot about Frasier but as that was the only show I watch that was new I guess I’ll survive as Frasier no longer is a must see for me. Buffy was a repeat as it will be for the next the next two weeks then there’s only a few episodes left. Eek!
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