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Meanwhile, on other shows ...
Shockingly, I'm actually watching other shows besides LoM! Amazing, I know. I just keep forgetting to post anything about them. Mostly because I haven't really been blown away by anything dazzling.
I went into my thoughts on the "Ghostfacers" episode of Supernatural in this comment thread over here. Now we're caught up on the latest and ... I kinda just want to write this season out of my personal canon. This wasn't a bad episode, but it's gotten to where I'm so braced to cringe when I watch the show that I'm not even enjoying the good bits anymore, especially since the show seems determined to live down to pretty much every low expectation that I have. And, no, I don't know why SPN is getting to me so much worse on the race & gender stuff than most of the other things I watch. But it is.
None of the recent NCIS episodes have really knocked my socks off, either. This past week's ... I kept feeling all through the episode that Ziva was wildly OOC. Her reaction didn't make sense -- this is a woman whose shot and killed her brother in her first episode on the show, for pete's sake. I really like Ziva as a character, and I generally quite like the episodes where we see beneath her facade to the person inside, but her shell-shocked behavior just felt wrong for her. It was like they'd written the episode for a different character and then retrofitted it to Ziva at the last moment.
I don't even remember the last few episodes all that well. They've been enjoyable enough while I was watching them but not, apparently, memorable in particular. Well, except for the dog episode, which stuck in my head mainly because I disliked the whole idea of the dog getting more sympathy than the guy who was mauled by the dog. I get that Abby's softhearted and can be a bit flighty when she's distracted by something, but considering how protective of her friends she normally is, I couldn't help feeling that her condemnation of McGee for shooting the dog in self-defense was a bit over the top.
Is that all I'm watching right now? I guess it is. Of course, I'm also re-watching LoM again from the beginning, so it's not as if I'm suffering for lack of entertainment.
I went into my thoughts on the "Ghostfacers" episode of Supernatural in this comment thread over here. Now we're caught up on the latest and ... I kinda just want to write this season out of my personal canon. This wasn't a bad episode, but it's gotten to where I'm so braced to cringe when I watch the show that I'm not even enjoying the good bits anymore, especially since the show seems determined to live down to pretty much every low expectation that I have. And, no, I don't know why SPN is getting to me so much worse on the race & gender stuff than most of the other things I watch. But it is.
None of the recent NCIS episodes have really knocked my socks off, either. This past week's ... I kept feeling all through the episode that Ziva was wildly OOC. Her reaction didn't make sense -- this is a woman whose shot and killed her brother in her first episode on the show, for pete's sake. I really like Ziva as a character, and I generally quite like the episodes where we see beneath her facade to the person inside, but her shell-shocked behavior just felt wrong for her. It was like they'd written the episode for a different character and then retrofitted it to Ziva at the last moment.
I don't even remember the last few episodes all that well. They've been enjoyable enough while I was watching them but not, apparently, memorable in particular. Well, except for the dog episode, which stuck in my head mainly because I disliked the whole idea of the dog getting more sympathy than the guy who was mauled by the dog. I get that Abby's softhearted and can be a bit flighty when she's distracted by something, but considering how protective of her friends she normally is, I couldn't help feeling that her condemnation of McGee for shooting the dog in self-defense was a bit over the top.
Is that all I'm watching right now? I guess it is. Of course, I'm also re-watching LoM again from the beginning, so it's not as if I'm suffering for lack of entertainment.
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It's actually pretty unusual for a show to hold my interest as long and intensely as SGA has. However, they don't usually go downhill like a ton of bricks the way SPN is doing, either...