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Glee - I'm still really enjoying Glee, but mostly for the music. I think a lot of the plots are annoying, and there's some definite race, gender, and disability fail at times. Other people have written much more eloquently on all of that, so I won't right now. The thing that has surprised me the most in the past few weeks of Glee? My favorite character is... Quinn Fabray. I don't always like her as a person or agree with her decisions, but I think she's the most well-drawn character on the show. Most of the characters have stayed pretty comfortably within obvious stereotypes, but Quinn actually grows beyond that. I was really glad to see her asking to go it alone, which is what I've thought she should do for some time because both boys are, well, immature high school boys.
Because I have strange taste, I quite liked this song. (I also really liked My Life Would Suck Without You last night, even though I know the song, well, sucks.) Anyway, thanks Quinn for being the one character worth caring about on Glee. Well, Kurt is awesome too.
Bones - Christmas episode tonight! (Yes, technically it was already on here, but I was at dinner celebrating the end of classes, so I'm watching after 30 Rock.) Nekkid Booth! Zooey Deschanel! I've previously expressed certain frustrations with Bones, but really I've been loving this season. Last week was kinda meh with the "OMG Avatar advert" thing going on (if they're going to do obvious product placement, it should be ultra self-aware a la 30 Rock) but there were good moments too.
I just re-watched "The End in the Beginning" the other night cause I was in a bad mood, and Bones is my go-to for that right now, and confirmed that I really do love it, whatever the haters say. At first I had mixed feelings: on one hand we had totally fun AU, on the other "it was all a dream" + amnesia, and when is amnesia ever a good plot device? But... they're actually going somewhere with that, character wise. Booth now openly acknowledges that he wants the type of relationship with Brennan that he had in the coma dream, and although Brennan is still too afraid to admit she loves Booth, from what she wrote in her book, she's obviously not as unaware as everyone thinks she is.
Also they are smart and gorgeous and fight crime.
Dollhouse - Alas, poor Dollhouse. I knew it would be cancelled, but still... it's so much better than many other shows on right now. The mythology they're building is really intriguing, so I really hope we'll get at least some answers by the finale. I'm really enjoying how there's delving into what makes someone a "real" person this season. Echo finally has a bit of a personality of her own, but she's still not Caroline. And who the heck is Caroline anyway, and why does Summer Glau hate her? The biggest problem with this week's two episodes was the lack of Sierra (I suppose because of the amazing Sierra story that preceded them), but at least we had Victor as Topher, which was genius. Enver Gjokaj really is the best of all the actives. Echo's fine and all, but more Victor, more Sierra, and more Whiskey would make me very happy.
Bonus! Check out this interview with Joss Whedon from last week.
Monk - I haven't really been watching Monk recently, but the series finale was on the other night right after my project group went home after our meeting. Monk finally discovered who killed his wife, which was a fitting conclusion. The case itself was somewhat unrealistic--but that's hardly unusual for the show. I thought it was sweet that he was able to meet Trudy's daughter, I cried at some point, cause I'm a sap.*
Also watching: The Office, 30 Rock, old Spooks (MI-5) on Netflix
Shows I'm abandoning: FlashForward, Stargate Universe, V
I gave these a chance at the beginning of the season, but I'm just not pulled in enough to keep going. If you're watching and understand the secret awesome, please let me know.
Shows I need to catch up on: Fringe, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Merlin, How I Met Your Mother... all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Fringe runs against The Office and 30 Rock, and on Thursday nights I need some laughs. (It's the one night a week I watch network TV instead of Hulu.) The others are simply lack of time!
*Right now we have free HBO. (We have for awhile now, not that I usually have time to watch.) On Sunday I caught the end of The Land Before Time, which I really loved as a kid, and ended up crying at the end. Watching cartoon dinosaurs. Because that is the type of sap I am.
Glee - I'm still really enjoying Glee, but mostly for the music. I think a lot of the plots are annoying, and there's some definite race, gender, and disability fail at times. Other people have written much more eloquently on all of that, so I won't right now. The thing that has surprised me the most in the past few weeks of Glee? My favorite character is... Quinn Fabray. I don't always like her as a person or agree with her decisions, but I think she's the most well-drawn character on the show. Most of the characters have stayed pretty comfortably within obvious stereotypes, but Quinn actually grows beyond that. I was really glad to see her asking to go it alone, which is what I've thought she should do for some time because both boys are, well, immature high school boys.
Because I have strange taste, I quite liked this song. (I also really liked My Life Would Suck Without You last night, even though I know the song, well, sucks.) Anyway, thanks Quinn for being the one character worth caring about on Glee. Well, Kurt is awesome too.
Bones - Christmas episode tonight! (Yes, technically it was already on here, but I was at dinner celebrating the end of classes, so I'm watching after 30 Rock.) Nekkid Booth! Zooey Deschanel! I've previously expressed certain frustrations with Bones, but really I've been loving this season. Last week was kinda meh with the "OMG Avatar advert" thing going on (if they're going to do obvious product placement, it should be ultra self-aware a la 30 Rock) but there were good moments too.
I just re-watched "The End in the Beginning" the other night cause I was in a bad mood, and Bones is my go-to for that right now, and confirmed that I really do love it, whatever the haters say. At first I had mixed feelings: on one hand we had totally fun AU, on the other "it was all a dream" + amnesia, and when is amnesia ever a good plot device? But... they're actually going somewhere with that, character wise. Booth now openly acknowledges that he wants the type of relationship with Brennan that he had in the coma dream, and although Brennan is still too afraid to admit she loves Booth, from what she wrote in her book, she's obviously not as unaware as everyone thinks she is.
Also they are smart and gorgeous and fight crime.
Dollhouse - Alas, poor Dollhouse. I knew it would be cancelled, but still... it's so much better than many other shows on right now. The mythology they're building is really intriguing, so I really hope we'll get at least some answers by the finale. I'm really enjoying how there's delving into what makes someone a "real" person this season. Echo finally has a bit of a personality of her own, but she's still not Caroline. And who the heck is Caroline anyway, and why does Summer Glau hate her? The biggest problem with this week's two episodes was the lack of Sierra (I suppose because of the amazing Sierra story that preceded them), but at least we had Victor as Topher, which was genius. Enver Gjokaj really is the best of all the actives. Echo's fine and all, but more Victor, more Sierra, and more Whiskey would make me very happy.
Bonus! Check out this interview with Joss Whedon from last week.
Monk - I haven't really been watching Monk recently, but the series finale was on the other night right after my project group went home after our meeting. Monk finally discovered who killed his wife, which was a fitting conclusion. The case itself was somewhat unrealistic--but that's hardly unusual for the show. I thought it was sweet that he was able to meet Trudy's daughter, I cried at some point, cause I'm a sap.*
Also watching: The Office, 30 Rock, old Spooks (MI-5) on Netflix
Shows I'm abandoning: FlashForward, Stargate Universe, V
I gave these a chance at the beginning of the season, but I'm just not pulled in enough to keep going. If you're watching and understand the secret awesome, please let me know.
Shows I need to catch up on: Fringe, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Merlin, How I Met Your Mother... all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Fringe runs against The Office and 30 Rock, and on Thursday nights I need some laughs. (It's the one night a week I watch network TV instead of Hulu.) The others are simply lack of time!
*Right now we have free HBO. (We have for awhile now, not that I usually have time to watch.) On Sunday I caught the end of The Land Before Time, which I really loved as a kid, and ended up crying at the end. Watching cartoon dinosaurs. Because that is the type of sap I am.
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