I'd trade Clark -- but only because he's the least eccentric which makes him the least interesting squintern. I also think they've toned Daisy down enough this season that she's not so over-the-top-tooting-her-own-horn annoying. She's always seemed to me to be the best and the brightest of the squinterns, but there was always too much whiny garbage in whatever she had to say. I don't think there is as much anymore.
So, in reality (which the show isn't), to find that the cause of death is murder, they would have to be looking for it -- and the show can likely get away with everyone just assuming he had a heart attack and died (if they want) and not looking.
@David Adamson - One of the things we're talking about here is how real the show is, meaning will they detect an air bubble in the heart? A Google answer:
"The detection of air embolisms requires special precautions during autopsy. An aspirometer has to be used for the detection, measurement and storage of gas. The aspirometer has to be filled completely with distilled water containing two drops of Tween 80 to reduce the surface tension of the water and to prevent adherence of small air bubbles to the wall of the aspirometer. Subsequently the gas has to be analysed by gas chromatography. When the results correspond with the main criteria defined by Pierucci and Gherson the diagnosis "air embolism" is justified. The technique for the detection of air embolism is simple but requires a careful procedure."
... or, a real example, the New York Yankees honchos thought they were a classy (pinstripe) organization, so they debated trading Mickey Mantle long and hard when the rookie was openly living with a stripper who got him to sign over 10% of his earnings to her, which became public knowledge when the media ran, tongue in cheek, with her story and the way he paid her, but of course Mantle was special; however, to the point @estatica made, several years after Mantle retired, the very same honchos who put up with him early on, ordered him to do some promotional work (he received a stipend for that), saying he hasn't hit any home runs for the Yankees lately!
@euterpe - I do agree with your laws of physics thinking. It's a matter of whether or not the audience member liking/disliking an entertainment can suspend their disbelief to enjoy the show or can't and is annoyed by the depicted supposed reality. That said, there are exceptions made in all fields for "characters" who are super highly regarded in reality (BUT, admittedly, way way more so in fiction -- for instance John Sandford's Lucas Davenport, a fictional Minnesota state cop who solves problems for the Governor, and about whom the fictional FBI says Minnesota doesn't have the death penalty except for Lucas Davenport)
@watcher - It took awhile to read all this and do see you're not much of a Jane fan (to see no reason not to hold him to the same standards as others in CBI); so, not wanting to ratchet up disagreement, but accept that may be. What I want to add is my sense of how the CBI has treated Jane as their special treasure right from the start, but came right out and had Hightower say it and that Lisbon's job and performance ratings were only on how well she controlled Jane, that if she couldn't, she was gone (and Jane was told that Lisbon was his "whipping boy," and that whatever happened to Lisbon was up to him since he was so valuable to the CBI and she wasn't).
Do not like Elizabeth Shue on this show at all. Watched last night's episode (3/20/2013) to see if I could stand her better ... nope, but also thought so many of old cast look old and out of shape (to put it kindly). Danson was a great addition (and has hopefully run out of family to be accused of crimes or kidnapped), but can't imagine how show can continue???
I think Glee is over -- just hanging on to their diehard fans. The 5 million could be enough to keep it going on Fox forever (or not), but I don't think, no matter where they're scheduled, they'll jump up again to, for instance, being scheduled to follow the Super Bowl.
Lea Michele should still have a super career, however -- when she can get out of her Glee contract!
It was good to see Alfredo back, if even briefly. I like when shows expand the universe a little with recurring peripheral characters -- and wonder/hope Watson's reporter friend could return, either helping them find some information or bringing them a sticky problem. That would be fun!
I thought it was good fun to see them dressing up and acting like adults. It even made sense to me that there would be such times/moments with the women in their lives for long enough already to be an influence. There might even be some more fun in them acting like adults in certain situations (or trying to)!
I think where they mess up the characters (@womansciencegeek's comments) is the staff sitting around fleshing out the comedy/jokes each episode going to standard fodder (Sheldon's self-worth, Penny's sex life, Penny's IQ, Raj's shyness, etc.) -- running jokes. But they mess up when they sometimes turn Sheldon into really dislikable/despicable or Penny into a slut.
However, I like the Penny-Leonard dynamic this season -- how much Penny seems to want Leonard to want her. She seems to be orbiting around him in a way this year that is either a development or a slip of the comedy staff's joke writing (like her friends are now only the women in his friends' lives). She's acting more like she's in love than that Leonard just happens to be the guy she's seeing. I like it!
I agree about how nothing/boring were the classroom scenes ... and think it's for what the reviewer suggested about the premise seemed such a good idea (I mean writers/producers probably thought the same -- only they were wrong. I did like the princesses and the guys' reactions at the end -- but wasn't it sort of the same Leonard joke as Penny's horned rimmed glasses.
I love this show. I've criticized the reviewer for some of what she likes best as opposed to what I watch the show for -- but this episode was ineffective sentiment, cheap thrills, played with melodramatic gimmicks. We've somehow gone from John Wayne standing stoically in a doorway looking on while a family reunion he brought about, after a movie's worth of challenges, is taking place ... to people seeing a photograph and falling to their knees, wailing out, waving their arms at heaven and weeping vociferously at the unfathomable (except by the folks at Bones) tragedy of War (and of course in the lab attacking their teammates for not feeling as deeply or showing enough emotion as Arastoo particularly determined a "proper" person would, which I think was the real intended message).
I think the girl Raj is seeing is thin, sure, but she's very attractive. I also think the way she portrayed her shyness did ring true. I hope they keep her around and develop the relationship. So far, what seems different about her to the other female regulars is that she seems to be thinking, but keeping what she thinks to herself -- which might mean an ability to blurt out some great lines down the road. I hope she's an addition to the show, because I think she's great!
I liked Luke managing to con each of his older sisters into putting on the shoes, just so he could see them fall -- and they each didn't have a clue and still didn't fall! It felt like family to me, like his sisters each gave Luke, maybe as the baby of the family, the benefit of the doubt. It was also a solution a child as young as Lily might come up with to glue down the slippery wig.
This show always seems to manage to connect with some of the funniest, over-the-top situations and character scheming. It's kind of amazing!
In trying to understand 18-49 ratings, somewhere I saw and kept in my mind as significant that 1.4 means cancellation and 2.4 means renewal ... generally. I don't understand it, but remember that. And probably saw those numbers on one of the sites referred to in comments here (but not positive).
On 9PM and 10PM time slots -- isn't the later slot more for shows featuring "adult" content (meaning shows like Dallas or Peyton Place adult content)? Maybe they're testing for that audience??
There's no way that they could (or would) plot out the whole series right from the start -- and so we shouldn't work too hard to figure out details as if they have.
The big gripe I have, though, is that I believe all of this unresolved speculation about whether or not the show is coming to an end has screwed up the continuity that, for instance, the show had in the first and second seasons -- the first season especially!
After that, though, the way most fiction writing goes is opportunism -- like if your characters have to go into a convenience store, the writers might imagine some interesting characters to be found there and such interaction might lead the plot down an interesting twist (or, say, Cho could have an interaction with a prostitute that they might draw out several episodes). But, season after season with however many people there were involved in writing scripts would generate all kinds of loose ends or false clues unconceived at the beginning (and maybe there are some ideas for twists -- like it is possible that the recurring religious sect was imagined by the writer of one show for that one show, but was good enough to have been drizzled into and expanded in other episodes to where it will -- it must, mustn't it? -- have something to do with the show's final resolution). (cont.)
When someone conceives a story idea, it starts with a "what if?" question. It isn't, however, clear whether the show started with a speculation about what if a carnival mentalist was solving crimes and then figured out what would have happened to get him interested in doing that -- or if it was what if a crime-solver's family is killed by a serial killer because he taunted him on television and then figured out what he could have been doing on television taunting a serial killer.
My suggestion is that, in any case, when the idea was proposed, it wasn't necessary for anyone to know who Red John is/would be. By now, I would guess, they know and that they do a fix-up on each accepted for production script to not contradict that. (cont.)
The interactions between the characters reminded me of the early episodes (1st season, I'm thinking, but maybe 2nd season as well) -- so I thought of it as more of a throwback than something new. Back before the heavy RJ story arcs, hints dropped, and all, the cases were, if not lighter, more of a framework for the team's interactions. I liked/like that -- but then I've personally never been much of a fan of mini-series or long drawn-out-over-multi-seasons story arcs!
I liked the basketball in the face in the end. The thing that's different about Lucy Liu's Watson compared to the British show or traditional Watsons is that she's not an enabler, but actually expects a standard of behavior from him -- which makes her more of an actual partner instead of a devoted sidekick. Nice twist!
Besides my over-the-top comment, here's a more serious take: Remember the reunion episode? The implication in that episode was that she was bullied by her fellow students like always (but, of course, her solitude may have been re-enforced by a maternal comment at 15, sure). But, when people are constantly bullied, first they hide it from their parents, which begins their isolation, and then they learn defense mechanisms from very early on, such as avoiding attention (like not meeting anyone's eyes and walking away from any group having fun) and withdrawing emotionally (my nickname was "Ice") while being vulnerable to kindness, such as from a janitor, and over-thinking any human contact and finally submersing in some interest, by which one can redefine and re-imagine one's self--often schoolwork, which garners teacher attention.
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So, in reality (which the show isn't), to find that the cause of death is murder, they would have to be looking for it -- and the show can likely get away with everyone just assuming he had a heart attack and died (if they want) and not looking.
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"The detection of air embolisms requires special precautions during autopsy. An aspirometer has to be used for the detection, measurement and storage of gas. The aspirometer has to be filled completely with distilled water containing two drops of Tween 80 to reduce the surface tension of the water and to prevent adherence of small air bubbles to the wall of the aspirometer. Subsequently the gas has to be analysed by gas chromatography. When the results correspond with the main criteria defined by Pierucci and Gherson the diagnosis "air embolism" is justified. The technique for the detection of air embolism is simple but requires a careful procedure."
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Lea Michele should still have a super career, however -- when she can get out of her Glee contract!
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However, I like the Penny-Leonard dynamic this season -- how much Penny seems to want Leonard to want her. She seems to be orbiting around him in a way this year that is either a development or a slip of the comedy staff's joke writing (like her friends are now only the women in his friends' lives). She's acting more like she's in love than that Leonard just happens to be the guy she's seeing. I like it!
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This show always seems to manage to connect with some of the funniest, over-the-top situations and character scheming. It's kind of amazing!
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On 9PM and 10PM time slots -- isn't the later slot more for shows featuring "adult" content (meaning shows like Dallas or Peyton Place adult content)? Maybe they're testing for that audience??
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The big gripe I have, though, is that I believe all of this unresolved speculation about whether or not the show is coming to an end has screwed up the continuity that, for instance, the show had in the first and second seasons -- the first season especially!
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My suggestion is that, in any case, when the idea was proposed, it wasn't necessary for anyone to know who Red John is/would be. By now, I would guess, they know and that they do a fix-up on each accepted for production script to not contradict that. (cont.)
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