write like you're running out of time

Well, it seems obvious that since becoming undersheriff Ecklie's gone back to being a little bit like a douche. But only a little bit; after all, he did tell Catherine and Brass to keep the hit and run case open...

Also, I was surprised by the fact that it was Langston and not Hodges who pulled out the BSG reference, although not as surprised as I was by the one in Ecklie's Erin Brockovich dig at Catherine.

And tonight, CSI gets its own meat puzzle. Not as interesting (or as gross) as the one from NCIS five or six years ago, though. But at least Ducky didn't have to sort through cut-up body parts and garbage.

*sniggers* Loved Hodges geeking out over the dinosaurs in this one.

Two disappeared teenage girls from five years ago...doing the calculations I figure that'd put the case right around when the team was dealing with the whole "Miniature Killer".

And somehow, my mom ended up confusing Laurence Fishburne with James Brolin. I dunno.

Sqweegel: Creep factor times infinity!

Props to the writers for the shout-out to season one's "Justice Is Served", particularly while Langston was drinking his chocolate shake.

Is it wrong that I find it funny how bitter Hodges was in the beginning?


And yes, the fetal pig still belongs in Grissom's office even if it's not Grissom's office anymore.

Okay, I know that it wasn't the same actor and everything, but...

...Dude, did not Mr. Dick and Jane serial killer look like Noah [CENSORED] Bennett?

All right. After tonight's episode, does anybody besides me think that a recurrence of Grissom's hearing loss is going to be a factor in why his character ends up leaving the show?

Also, yay for Lady Heather next week!

So, no one around the house was planning on doing anything remotely interesting today. While the rest of them stayed home I went up to Rockford. Hit Tomorrow is Yesterday since I hadn't had a comic fix in almost two months.

(is it mean of me to say that, compared to Barnes & Noble, TiY's selection of manga sucks?)

Anyway, came away with a relatively small haul; five comics and two graphic novels - CSI's Dying in the Gutters and the "Betrayal" arc of Lions, Tigers and Bears. I'm currently 22 pages into Dying in the Gutters, and snickering already. Why does it not surprise me that Gil Grissom's favorite comic book character is Ant-Man?

Afterwards I swung by Barnes & Noble and picked up season 4 of CSI: NY. I think NY is currently replacing Miami as my favorite CSI series. And Sid Hammerback is definitely my favorite character; adding Robert Joy to the cast of NY was a master stroke of genius.

Now I'm home again, and we're back to boring. And cold (it was warmer in my car than it was in the house when I left).

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...THAT SON-OF-A-BITCH!!!!

While Mom's downstairs bitching and moaning about the 2nd Cubs playoff game being delayed because the game before them is still in the bottom of the 8th, I'll regale you with my thoughts about tonight's CSI.

( Wouldn't want to spoil anyone so...a cut )

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Am I seeing things, or was that Tim Gunn cameoing as the target of the PI Nick was talking to?

This book makes me love Greg all over again.

Memo to the parental units:

Wouldn't it have made more sense to find/buy/decide on the sink you wanted BEFORE the guys came and completely demolished the entire kitchen?

Just don't drag this decision out to when they start to get the counters installed, or I will have to hurt somebody. Which will most likely be you, Mom, since this project seems to be your baby and all.

P.S. - I am also thisclose to reporting my mother to customers_suck, because she was so engrossed in trying to find a birthday present for my cousin MyKenzie that she didn't notice that the STORE WAS FECKING CLOSING!

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Also, not happy about the lack of T*Witches DVDs at the Disney Store. You'd think that a Disney Channel movie would actually go on sale on its release date in a Disney Store, but apparently not. According to the clerk I talked to, the same thing happened with the DVDs for High School Musical.

Well, I'm not waiting a month to get that DVD. Hell, I've waited almost a full year for that movie to come out. *goes to Amazon*

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Currently reading: Snake Eyes, the new CSI novel. So far it looks good. I just wish that Max Allan Collins will catch up with the seasons. We're almost to the premiere of season 7, and he's still writing in season 5 with the team split up!

Finale reactions lj-cut for your phobias.

( CSI Finale )

( E.R. Season Finale )

I don't know how I'm going to make it through the summer.

Fortunately there's always TM RP...

ETA: *grrs* How many times does it have to be said, people? There is NO new episode of Avatar airing tomorrow night on Nick! They're showing another stupid FOP hour-long special instead. You'll just have to wait until next week (uness the ep is up early on iTunes again). Would it hurt you to go back a few pages in the comm and see if anyone else has asked the same question? Odds are, it'd pop up at least once on every page.

So, Mom took the van down to the dealer/mechanic because it was misfiring on her. When she went to go pick it up, the van was sitting out on the lot with the keys inside. When Mom asked the desk lady about it the lady said something to the effect of, "Oh, we leave the keys in all of the new cars on the lot." Mom wasn't too happy because this wasn't any "new" car; this was her car. And just what do these people plan to do in the event that someone just walks up and drives off with one of these cars? Run after them, screaming for them to stop?

What a bunch of morons. Makes me glad we didn't buy my Saturn from them.

CSI tonight...Mom and I almost busted a gut between us laughing at Greg's "film noir" flashback to the crime scene. Sara's little asides were great, too ("They didn't..."). And hallelujah, Nick finally cut his hair!

ER...I dislike watching this show with my mom for one reason and one reason only - I read spoilers, and she doesn't. You have no idea how close I was to blurting out what Ray's "news" to Neela pretty much was.

He cut his hair! He freaking went and cut his hair!

Seriously, I almost did a double-take when I saw Leland without the curls. On the monitor screen it almost looked like it was a short buzz cut like he had for Alien Ressurection, but once he came down to the ER it was a bit thicker than that. I'm thinking about the length it was for Pearl Harbor. Wonder what made him go and get rid of the curls, though?

Haircut aside, how cool was it to see Dubenko actually performing surgery, though? I think it's the first time since he started on the show that he's done a procedure. And, "Sorry about your floor"...*snigger*

And I'm using my Abby/Dubenko icon in defiance of the last three or so minutes of tonight's episode.

ETA: Also...Nick Stokes, with a mustache? No. S'not happenin'. I'm serious, they had better make him shave that puppy because it's not doing a thing. The first thought I had when I saw it was, "what, are they pulling a Hunnicutt?"

CSI:
   Okay, the opening shot of the whole team walking towards the burning, gutted trailer? So awesome. It needs to be capped and turned into wallpaper. Or a header for a webpage or an LJ community or...something cool like that.

   Poor Catherine. Everyone is congratulating Warrick on his newly acquired married status, and she looks like she just got sucker punched in the gut. Even three-quarters of the way through the episode you could tell she was still reeling from the news. Loved Nick ragging on Warrick about it; "condemning his elopment", indeed.

   "Flying car vs. trailer, through and through" - the look on Nick's face when Grissom came up with that theory was priceless. As was the drunken suspect attempting to flee after he admitted to what happened, although he was also kind of pitiful.

   And how gross was Sarah and Greg's case? The whole time I was reminded of this fic, even though the fic scenario wasn't exactly the same.

   Finally - loved Grissom with his baseball cap on backwards, loved him even more with the straw hat.

ER:
   First thing's first, the new actor playing Alex Taggart. Mom and I are both in agreement - Oliver Davis never should have been replaced. The kid playing him in tonight's episode didn't look like he fit the part and his acting was too wooden.

   Secondly, I know I shouldn't find this funny but...Neela made her intern cry. *tries to stifle laughter* I'm not laughing; seriously, I'm not. *snerks* she made him cry!

   I've said it before, but it bears repeating - Morris is NOT fit for the job of Chief Resident! Honestly, going to bed and leaving the on-call resident and her interns alone while the board is swamped? And then trying to use them as scapegoats to cover your ass? Thank God Susan and Pratt aren't as naive as Morris was apparently hoping they'd be.

   And finally, I am not pleased with the lack of Dubenko in this episode. Nope, not pleased at all.

"Too bad this isn't a tv show," [Sarah] said. "We could have the results after commercial...." (Collins, Max Allan, Binding Ties p. 190)

Bwahahahahahahaha!