tv this week
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cimorenethis was an excellent week in tv, going in order of awesomeness: csi, which was completely made of win and had us squeaking in disbelieving joy when they made a recurring plot thread of the creepy miniature crime scene - which was already incredibly cool. it's genius. omg, the two miniature crime scenes side by side - that was such love. alas i was too overcome with joy to get any good caps of the miniatures at the time. that said, the cops vs racism plot not so much made of win. i always hate that theme. bonus: woobie greg, more vague nick/gregness. catherine in one seriously hot shirt. i mean, no, seriously hot.
almost as fun was csi ny, with a case involving a bear trap, a moonrock, a macy's thanksgiving parade float, two professional paintball players, a crooked cop and a highly rare variety of coke, plus a three-years missing geologist. i mean, that is already a hilarious joke without even knowing the plot! i had to pause the episode to enumerate the wonderful and weird elements of the case. also, for bonus points, csi adopted veronica mars's clever strategy of hiring recurring extras from sga by picking up sora as the geologist (veronica mars has cadman, of course. other connection to veronica mars: beaver, looking red-eyed and woobie).
veronica mars has me tickled with its new recurring secondary characters and its clever season 3 replacement for wallace and his keys to the principal's office. with the dean and his wife (the aforementioned cadman, only even hotter here because she's vamped up for noir!). the dean seemed like he could've actually cracked his wife's ex's bones open and sucked the marrow out if necessary, which is a little skin-crawly but kind of impressive. he reminds me of john malkovitch's character from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and i mean that only as a compliment. bonus points for the noir film festival, daddy mars showing a FATAL WEAKNESS FOR A SEDUCTIVE WOMAN at last, and veronica's weird relationship with the creepy stalking TA and her new bombshell blackmail material! they're pushing tons of noir buttons now right and left in a way that's really delightful and makes me wish i knew more about noir than i learned from those PI holodeck episodes of star trek: tng (don't lie, you loved those too. and data as sherlock holmes, how awesome was that? and the one where moriarty transported himself out of the holodeck? ♥). there was sheriff lamb too! so basically the only flaw was not enough weevil.
studio 60 was kind of on notice from my good graces because of being occasionally tiresome and generally less funny than it should be, so when i heard it had been renewed my reaction was less "yay" and more "oh dear, now i have to keep watching". but this time i was entertained from beginning to end, so i take that back. i realised that the scenes with jordan and her boss are consistently the funniest part of the show, which is a little odd because of how, well, the part that's about saturday night live and all is... basically not-funny. well, it's a little poetic, anyway. i'm not really complaining; i like jordan and her boss and i've come to get over the instant knee-jerk hate that i usually apply to all members of the cast of friends. i wonder if bradley whitford, whose part is kind of put-upon and usually laconic straightman, would be funnier if the scene around him were funnier, though. i mean, i seem to remember josh being funnier. but maybe that's because i was a teenie back then.
although i enjoyed it very much i have less to say about criminal minds, except it was really sweet how reid tattled ondaddy gideon and told morgan he was worried. and then daddy came right out and admitted he really said that, and he was all, "why are you interrupting my reading again?" so morgan went to the back of the plane with an ill-concealed grin and listened to his headphones which no doubt contain illicit recordings of garcia talking. i'm sure that's how he gets to his happy place. garcia/morgan moments: (wax points out they were grinning like idiots while exchanging their pet names - fine, for the record, although that's not out of the ordinary for them.) when morgan explains to garcia that the computers are going to take over and enslave humans garcia exclaims "oh no, that's not good for me - i'm surrounded by them." "don't worry, baby, you've got me to protect you!" says morgan. "now that gets my blood going," says garcia. ♥
torchwood made me roll my eyes a lot in between the cute bits; it was agreed, generally, that it's about time for house to have a nemesis and that we heartily approve of their choice of nemeses; and i still think stand off has "cancel me" written all over it.
almost as fun was csi ny, with a case involving a bear trap, a moonrock, a macy's thanksgiving parade float, two professional paintball players, a crooked cop and a highly rare variety of coke, plus a three-years missing geologist. i mean, that is already a hilarious joke without even knowing the plot! i had to pause the episode to enumerate the wonderful and weird elements of the case. also, for bonus points, csi adopted veronica mars's clever strategy of hiring recurring extras from sga by picking up sora as the geologist (veronica mars has cadman, of course. other connection to veronica mars: beaver, looking red-eyed and woobie).
veronica mars has me tickled with its new recurring secondary characters and its clever season 3 replacement for wallace and his keys to the principal's office. with the dean and his wife (the aforementioned cadman, only even hotter here because she's vamped up for noir!). the dean seemed like he could've actually cracked his wife's ex's bones open and sucked the marrow out if necessary, which is a little skin-crawly but kind of impressive. he reminds me of john malkovitch's character from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and i mean that only as a compliment. bonus points for the noir film festival, daddy mars showing a FATAL WEAKNESS FOR A SEDUCTIVE WOMAN at last, and veronica's weird relationship with the creepy stalking TA and her new bombshell blackmail material! they're pushing tons of noir buttons now right and left in a way that's really delightful and makes me wish i knew more about noir than i learned from those PI holodeck episodes of star trek: tng (don't lie, you loved those too. and data as sherlock holmes, how awesome was that? and the one where moriarty transported himself out of the holodeck? ♥). there was sheriff lamb too! so basically the only flaw was not enough weevil.
studio 60 was kind of on notice from my good graces because of being occasionally tiresome and generally less funny than it should be, so when i heard it had been renewed my reaction was less "yay" and more "oh dear, now i have to keep watching". but this time i was entertained from beginning to end, so i take that back. i realised that the scenes with jordan and her boss are consistently the funniest part of the show, which is a little odd because of how, well, the part that's about saturday night live and all is... basically not-funny. well, it's a little poetic, anyway. i'm not really complaining; i like jordan and her boss and i've come to get over the instant knee-jerk hate that i usually apply to all members of the cast of friends. i wonder if bradley whitford, whose part is kind of put-upon and usually laconic straightman, would be funnier if the scene around him were funnier, though. i mean, i seem to remember josh being funnier. but maybe that's because i was a teenie back then.
although i enjoyed it very much i have less to say about criminal minds, except it was really sweet how reid tattled on
torchwood made me roll my eyes a lot in between the cute bits; it was agreed, generally, that it's about time for house to have a nemesis and that we heartily approve of their choice of nemeses; and i still think stand off has "cancel me" written all over it.
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