Chuck vs the Honeymooners

Posted a lot later

The first thing i'm going to say in today's post is that the episode you just watched is better known as a showkiller. Yeah. And unless the writers can pull off a Law & Order (take a dead storyline and make it work... for a hundred more episodes and 50 spinoffs), this show has reached its apex, and is going to have a humpty-dumpty fall. Don't get me wrong- Chuck is my favorite show- it was this show that made me begin to actually follow TV. But i think we have learned from experience that TV shows don't last long once they finish their main cliff hangers.

The Ep opens with a shady looking man (yes, shady. the only long haired white haired genst i've ever seen were on America's Most Wanted and in Lord of the Rings)in a suit pulling a vicious looking knife from a sheath. He pushes a room service tray to a compartment where apparently, Chuck and Sarah have been having a very exciting time. And we see that for the next few days, they don't leave the room. And their troubles begin when they DO leave the room.; Chuck just HAS to flash on  a  Basque terrorist, and Sarah's ninja instincts puts her on the trail of the same Basque. '

What results are several scenes that just scream Mr & Mrs Smith- Sarah's drunk Texan belle act and Chuck's    climb over traincars (Polar Express, anyone?); then both of them somehow managing to cover up the fact they were running a covert op, and messing each other up... Ok, that metaphor didn't come out as smooth as i wanted but u get the point: Chuck and Sarah are now the post-house fight Mr & Ms. Smith.

What we have now is the show repeat itself: Casey and Morgan tied to the chair, Chuck and Sarah Kimbo-slicing their way through a room of ETA guerrilas; Chuck and Sarah crashing through a restaurant window on a moped, Morgan's babbling blowing the cover of some ETA (great name, btw. Very Jamesh Bond) posing as Interpol. Casey and Morgan- chair scene is definitely from Chuck vs the Undercover Lover; i guess casey must have been trying to remember "how to fight with an incompetent set of numbnuts strapped to you back":. Chuck & Sarah fighting while handcuffed in perfect sync is almost a mirror image of Sarah and Bryce in Chuck vs the Nemesis; The moped, well; we all know it was from Chuck vs the First Date, Casey's crown vic's grand entrance to that restaurant.

It seems that the show is going full circle; the only thing i wish for is that the ones that are "in the know" right now stay the only ones "in the know"

NCIS: Houston, we have a problem NOTE: Spoilerlike

Hi there, sorry i wasn't able to post; my internet was going wacko, so i just caught up on my TV. :(. Well, i;m just here to comment on all the buildup on the NCIS finale- the teasers, spoilers, and previews.

NOTE: SPOILERS!!! AHHH!!! YOUR EYES ARE BURNING UP!!! i hope not...

Here's what we have:

• Abby and McGee head down to Mexico, with Vance watching over their shoulders.
• Gibbs has stormed out of a polygraph exam 
• Michael Weatherly (plays Tony Dinozzo) has called the finale "Gibbs in Hell"
• It's not Tiva-centric
• Been called a game-changer, equated to S2 finale, "Twilight", where Kate takes a bullet between her eyes.
• One colleague dies, another is injured. :(

OK, here's my take on the matter:

It sounds bad, and probably is bad: Storm clouds are brewing overhead for the MCRT, and looks like Gibbs is the lightning pole this time... It's obvious that the canon buildup for the finale is starting with this tuesday's episode; Mexico is the place where Colonel Bell and M Allison Hart hangout, where Mike Franks stays, where Mr Alejandro Rivera's from, and most importantly, where Gibbs killed the scumball that murdered his wife and kid. Abby and McGee will uncover something that proves Gibbs killed the drug dealer, and try to hide it, but Vance, who's been keeping tabs on them, gets a hold of it; and in the Season finale; Gibbs is going arrested... but Gibbs' team is Gibb's team, and they just happen to have a ex Mossad assassin and a forensic scientist at their disposal and it ends maybe with

•  Vance dead by the wrath of the Gibblets, and Gibbs injured, (most probable outcome)
• Vance is killed by Colonel Bell and his goons,  Gibbs is on the run/ taken/ arrested, One of the team is injured.
• Vance goes after Gibbs, Team Gibbs finds that file, and blackmails Vance into standing down. (cold be combined with No.1)

I know, call me the prophet of doom, but this is my take, and as much as i don't want it to happen, it seems inevitable. i just got one thing to say: Gibbs is screwed.

Bones: The Predator in the Pool

This episode, 5.18, the Predator in the Pool, introduces the character of Dr. Catherine Bryar, a marine biologist who has an instant attraction to Booth. We also see that Bones is now seeing Director Andrew Hacker, Booth's boss.

In truth, I thought Hacker was actually OK (ignoring the fact that he likes Bones) until this episode. I mean, before, I thought of Hacker as the older, more successful version of Booth+ 500% more cockiness. Now? I 've equated the name Hacker with lame pickup- lines and the word @$$ hole.

Now, Dr. Bryer is a different case. She doesn't give off the "ego centrical jerk" vibe that Hacker exudes, and actually someone i could see Booth dating. I guess that if Booth really is into Bryer, which he could be (keyword: COULD) 

  

I think that this episode fit well in the sequence after the 100th episode. Well, for the showrunners, at least. Using "The Death of the Queen Bee" to "clean up" after "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole" to show that things were back to normal (well, as normal as things could get, at least), then using this episode to frustrate the viewer by throwing new love interests at the male and female leads... now THAT's a "sweep the leg".


Well, I think that this episode's case was a bit TOO obvious: smarmy fraud of a self - help lecturer is murdered; and a teacher who was at the scene of the crime at the moment the vic was being eaten by sharks gets off by a shaky alibi- taking care of sleeping kids- somehow is connected to the vic. And yes, I know, it sounds superficial, but I suspected her from the beginning- not the assistant guy. He just seemed... too nice, what with talking about the wife and vacation. And the Aquarium girl seemed too clueless, more like the annoying reporter of Ep99 "The Bones on the Blue Line"


Overall, an OK episode. Here's my report Card:


B&B Action: D-
Case: C
Characters: B (They did what they should do. Will elaborate later)


Thanks for reading. Next week: Chuck is back, NCIS is back, and more. 

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This site is a nothing more than a commentary on the TV shows of today, run by the people of tomorrow. Cheesy, yes. But true. hopefully, i'll be around tomorrow, so i can catch the new episode of NCIS. Knowing that i'll read this later on and kick myself, I'm just going to shut up and get to point.


Here's a list of the shows I will try to cover; it's not permanant, seeing as how shows get cancelled :(, and new shows added. They're not in the order of preference, i'm not biased, or at least won't be on this blog.

• NCIS, Tuesday 8-9 on CBS. One of the many police procedurals that populate the networks, but this one stands out of the crowd. And there's proof of that, topping the Nielsen's almost every night a new ep premieres, and staying on the list even for reruns. Starring: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Sean Murray, Pauley Perette, Rocky Carroll, and David McCallum.
• Bones, Thursday 8-9 on Fox. Another police procedural, focuses on the unlikely partnership between a former Army Rangers sniper turned FBI agent and a cold, analytical, socially awkward anthropologist/writer who makes up for her lack of social skills with her stunning good looks.
  Starring: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, and John Francis Daley.
• Chuck, Monday 8-9 NBC, an action comedy about a geek turned spy. When Chuck Bartowski accidentally downloads the government's top-secret intel database into his head, he turns his life upside down, filling his previously underachieving life with spies, guns, and lies.
  Starring: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Alec Baldwin, Joshua Gomez, Sarah Lancaster, and many, many more.
• Castle, Monday 8-9 ABC, OK, I'll admit, i do have a thing for police procedurals, but I only like the good ones... OK, that excuse failed, but this show won't. Castle is a lot like Bones, except it's the cop who's uptight, and the writer has maturity of a 6 year old. This show's a rising star, except this one's not made of hydrogen, but comedy and twists.
  Starring: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, and Tamala Jones.
  Realizing that you may be getting a bit bored, I'll rapid fire off the other shows I'll cover:
• Human Target, Thursdays, 7-8. Action Drama; about a hitman turned bodyguard. Off-season currently
• Merlin, BBC's latest hit show, fantasy. Self-explanatory really. Just add the word "young" to the front, and you've got the gist of it.
• And reruns of the above. I'll only recap eps that actually meant something, like game-changers, finales, and the really good stuff.

Yep, that's about it. Now, if you move your eyes down, you'll find out a little about me.

the noob on the tube

OK, I'll start out with the username. "the noob"does not mean i'm an inexperienced netizen (ok ok, 90's term. won't happen again); it just means that i'm relatively young. "on the tube", well, that refers to the fact that this blog is a commentary on TV, again, probably a dated term by now, but...  it works. 

I'm going to try keeping it incognito, but i will say a couple things: i'm what people call "young", just your regular youngster. The rest, well, read carefully.