Unbelievable
After Friday night’s Firefly (Serenity) fiasco, I was really looking forward to a weekend full of fluff, where no one dies and all is right with the world. It started on a positive note with the DVD of “The Three Doctors” starring Jon Pertwee. This is a decent four episode series that brings together the first three actors who played Doctor Who. I’m beginning to think my favorite Doctor is now Patrick Troughton. The Brig was awesome as usual with a few great lines. I’m looking forward to seeing the episodes again with the commentary and information text.
That was all very nice, but then the weekend got ugly. “West Wing” didn’t have Martin Sheen this week. Urgh. Well, I suppose they can’t all be good episodes, but I can only take a limited amount of Jimmy Smits. But I thought I could cap the night off with my favorite show, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” …and that’s when it got really ugly.
I thought Chris Noth was going to join the show, to pit his “street smarts” against Goren’s “book smarts.” Apparently the ads got it all wrong, Goren and Eames are gone entirely. They aren’t even in the opening credits anymore. I only watched the show because of Vincent D’Onofrio, I guess its time to go.
Now, I usually give a show a few episodes before I give it the axe, but here I sit, writing this with the show only half over. The female cop seems to be the smart one, but you know the emphasis is going to be on Noth bustin’ heads.
Law and Order has a reputation for revolving door actors, but to me actors make or break a show. I stopped watching “Chicago Hope” when Mandy Patinkin left and I stopped watching the original “Law and Order” when Michael Moriarty left. How long will I stay now that Vincent D’Onofrio is gone? Oop! It’s fifteen minutes until the end of the show and I just changed the channel to PBS. “Foyle’s War” is an excellent show with a really smart detective set during WWII England. Maybe this weekend can be salvaged after all.
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LIBRARIANS: the books, the fame, the fortune… What more could you want? (Maybe more books.)
That was all very nice, but then the weekend got ugly. “West Wing” didn’t have Martin Sheen this week. Urgh. Well, I suppose they can’t all be good episodes, but I can only take a limited amount of Jimmy Smits. But I thought I could cap the night off with my favorite show, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” …and that’s when it got really ugly.
I thought Chris Noth was going to join the show, to pit his “street smarts” against Goren’s “book smarts.” Apparently the ads got it all wrong, Goren and Eames are gone entirely. They aren’t even in the opening credits anymore. I only watched the show because of Vincent D’Onofrio, I guess its time to go.
Now, I usually give a show a few episodes before I give it the axe, but here I sit, writing this with the show only half over. The female cop seems to be the smart one, but you know the emphasis is going to be on Noth bustin’ heads.
Law and Order has a reputation for revolving door actors, but to me actors make or break a show. I stopped watching “Chicago Hope” when Mandy Patinkin left and I stopped watching the original “Law and Order” when Michael Moriarty left. How long will I stay now that Vincent D’Onofrio is gone? Oop! It’s fifteen minutes until the end of the show and I just changed the channel to PBS. “Foyle’s War” is an excellent show with a really smart detective set during WWII England. Maybe this weekend can be salvaged after all.
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LIBRARIANS: the books, the fame, the fortune… What more could you want? (Maybe more books.)
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