Scrubs was decent this week, though not as good as the season premiere. Hopefully now that everyone's had their babies there'll be a little less plot and a little more funny. Both episodes from this season were way better than pretty much anything from season 6 though - I'm not sure what the writers were smoking when they wrote that season.
8 I took it as Jim trying to be the nice guy by making sure Michael and Dwight didn't do anything particularly malicious to the Utica branch (aka Karen). He may have broken her heart, but I'm sure he still cares for her and didn't want to turn a blind eye when it was possible she would be in danger.
9 - I don't question Jim protecting Karen (much less Michael and Dwight from themselves), but I just would have liked a different way for him to do so. In fact, he put himself in a situation where he ended up being totally ineffectual.
Jim showed his similarity with Michael at the end, going for humor to try to deflect an uncomfortable situation, failing, and never really recovering.
I really preferred the Finer Things plot to the Utica plot, especially after Jim got back in the car, it just really was not that funny to me at all until Dwight threatened to burn Utica to the ground. I did think that the Finer Things meeting was pretty stellar, as was Jim's Michaelesque foray into the group.
14 - Whedon also directed a season 3 episode called "Business School", I think. It was the one with the bat, and Michael's speech at Ryan's college. One of my all time fav episodes.
So, writer's strike is set for Monday, it looks like. Why am I suddenly worried that the proportion of ESPN and FSW in my TV viewing is about to jump even higher than it has been?
With all the episodes of television I have recorded but that I just haven't had time to watch, if the writers' strike goes longer than, oh, five years, I might start feeling the pinch.
I have felt the same way about Heroes during its entire run. Good scenes mixed with dreck. I can't seem to shake the show entirely, but I probably should.
25 Oops, I left out the word "twist". Plot twist, not plot.
I meant that the last scene of last night's episode set up something that could be quite interesting in future episodes. Hiro has an arch-nemesis! I don't think they needed to use six or seven episodes or whatever it has been so far this season to set that up. I agree with you that the show's filler-to-action ratio is far too high, especially this year.
26 - Ah, yes. I noticed the whole Adam thing, but I was sort of dozing off by that point. But thinking about it now, I still sort of have a "whatever" reaction. Maybe it's my fault.
On first blush, tonight's was an excellent episode of The Office.
The eyes are the groin of the face.
I love Thursdays.
My degree of whelmment is very low.
Jim showed his similarity with Michael at the end, going for humor to try to deflect an uncomfortable situation, failing, and never really recovering.
"So how would sleeping at your desk be better than not being here?"
"I can't believe he called my bluff..."
I'll be plowing through my Netflix list very quickly if it's an extended strike.
I want Landry to be used most effectively!
I have felt the same way about Heroes during its entire run. Good scenes mixed with dreck. I can't seem to shake the show entirely, but I probably should.
I meant that the last scene of last night's episode set up something that could be quite interesting in future episodes. Hiro has an arch-nemesis! I don't think they needed to use six or seven episodes or whatever it has been so far this season to set that up. I agree with you that the show's filler-to-action ratio is far too high, especially this year.
I'm going to have to try FNL I guess. With the end of Mad Men, that Glenn Close lawyer show, and Weeds, pickings are slim.
Does anyone watch "Brotherhood" on Showtime?
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