Well, actually, it's been mostly just watching TV.
USA Network has been rerunning the premieres of the new fall NBC shows, so I've been doing a little catching up:
* Chuck: Better than I expected, though it's still filled with odd bits of stupid. Like the whole premise of the show. And that NSA vs. CIA trying to kill each other thing. Good role for Adam Baldwin, even if he's basically playing a slightly-smarter Jayne Cobb.
* Life: Pretty good. Perhaps even very good. I'm a fan of Damian Lewis, from his role on Band of Brothers. They certainly did frontload the pilot with a mess of character baggage, potential plots and arcs.
* Bionic Woman: Eh. I was napping for the first 15 minutes, maybe I would have liked it better. Probably not. And Mark Sheppard is way too young to play the mad scientist father. Even with gray in his hair.
There's also a Law & Order: Criminal Intent marathon on. I've pretty much stuck to reruns -- I like Randall Flagg better than Eric Bogosian as the captain of the Major Case Squad, and I don't care much for the Chris Noth episodes. Especially when they started moving more to character-driven episodes instead of plot-driven ones. But the writing for the new ones? The one I saw this afternoon involved polonium, the Mossad, the FBI, and the Men in Black. It was pretty ridiculous.
Also pretty (but still ridiculous, or at least implausible) is having Alicia Witt playing a hard-boiled Major Case Squad detective. She's 32 and looks even younger, which is a stretch even for TV cops.
Oh, and in this one that's on now, (which is a Vincent D'Onofrio one, of course), everyone, from the crime scene tech to the former Marine who was supposed to carry it, is calling the M1911 .45 cal pistol an "M11", which is irritating.
Anyway, I just had a chicken curry for dinner from Charcoal Kabob. So it's all good.
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I,too, like 'Randall Flagg' better,lol.
Let me ask, though....do Vincent D'Onofrio's overblown mannerisms just make you want to, after awhile, reach into the TV and smack him and say 'for God's sake, TONE IT DOWN!" ? Coz that's my response.
My fave Law & Order series is SVU.
And I Still miss Jerry Orbach from the original series.
Kathi -- one other thing I forgot I don't like about the new Criminal Intents -- no ADA. I liked Courtney Vance, and the lack of the prosecutor/police interaction loses something.
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