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CSI: WTF? Also, rock on Veronica Mars
Nov. 21st, 2006 08:08 amSo I'm really giving into the idea that for the time being this LJ is going to be mostly about television. My real life can be summed up as: I go to class, I teach class, I research, I read, occasionally I get anxious, I see friends. I don't think that makes for very compelling posts, so, television. CSI musings cut for length and spoilers.
I took Six Degrees off the TIVO. I wasn't watching it and there were plots that I didn't find compelling. In the end the presence of Campell Scott and Hope Davis doesn't make up for crappy JJ Abrams plots. I feel sort of sad about this, because I'm sure they think that they're making quality television or whatever, but while the characters were interesting the situations were annoying.
( I'm almost caught up on CSI and WTF? )
How I Met Your Mother continues to be awesome. There isn't much you can say about it that I haven't already said, but it's just so clever without being arch, and silly without being a farce, and I hope that the Emmys recognize it in some way this year.
Ugly Betty is also so much fun, yet it allows itself to be complicated, and go places you don't think it will. I like that Daniel is aware of his little-boy-lost appeal, and he knows he's spoiled, and he doesn't care. I like that Betty gets called on her control freak/martyr tendencies. I like that Hilda isn't just a flake and wants to take on more responsibility. I like that Vanessa Williams is working. And I'm pretty sure that Betty and Daniel won't end up together, nor should they really, but I'm really getting sick of Walter, who is annoying.
As for Veronica Mars, I think I'll have more to say when this arc is over, two episodes from now. The episode commitment from the CW has been raised from 13 to 20, so we'll definitely get through the second arc and I can't imagine we won't get through the third and get the full season order; I think it's less VM's performance and more CW's inability to plan that is the issue here. But I love it when shows allow their leads to be unlikable but in an understandable way, and we got piles of that in this week's episode. Rock on, Rob Thomas.
I took Six Degrees off the TIVO. I wasn't watching it and there were plots that I didn't find compelling. In the end the presence of Campell Scott and Hope Davis doesn't make up for crappy JJ Abrams plots. I feel sort of sad about this, because I'm sure they think that they're making quality television or whatever, but while the characters were interesting the situations were annoying.
( I'm almost caught up on CSI and WTF? )
How I Met Your Mother continues to be awesome. There isn't much you can say about it that I haven't already said, but it's just so clever without being arch, and silly without being a farce, and I hope that the Emmys recognize it in some way this year.
Ugly Betty is also so much fun, yet it allows itself to be complicated, and go places you don't think it will. I like that Daniel is aware of his little-boy-lost appeal, and he knows he's spoiled, and he doesn't care. I like that Betty gets called on her control freak/martyr tendencies. I like that Hilda isn't just a flake and wants to take on more responsibility. I like that Vanessa Williams is working. And I'm pretty sure that Betty and Daniel won't end up together, nor should they really, but I'm really getting sick of Walter, who is annoying.
As for Veronica Mars, I think I'll have more to say when this arc is over, two episodes from now. The episode commitment from the CW has been raised from 13 to 20, so we'll definitely get through the second arc and I can't imagine we won't get through the third and get the full season order; I think it's less VM's performance and more CW's inability to plan that is the issue here. But I love it when shows allow their leads to be unlikable but in an understandable way, and we got piles of that in this week's episode. Rock on, Rob Thomas.
