Last I saw, Bobby Brady was a race driver who crashed and was in a wheelchair. Is he going to miraculously heal, or is this a complication they intend to introduce into the new show, or are they going to pretend that it never happened?
Nice review, Jim. I am looking forward to the season DVD, too. I don't have cable. I think I'll borrow them all from the library and watch them over again. Good series, killed too soon. SyFy (ridiculous name) has a habit of doing that.
Borin really is one of the best of the recurring characters on this show. She is written as a very funny person, with all of her Gibbs-like work habits. It's going to be delightful to see her again.
She and Gibbs are hilarious together, but they would not suit as a romantic couple. In the episode mentioned, Borin assisted Gibbs's team in the search for a woman for him, but showed ZERO interest herself.
I'm on vacation, so I actually got to see this episode the other day, in a motel with cable. (I have to get this show on DVD after each season is over.) I was dismayed like Jim G. at the idea that smarter equals less caring. I was grievously disappointed with Allison, too. She instantly did not support her husband being more intelligent than he had been previously. She looked to me to be treating him like a beloved pet, ignoring the possibility that this might be a positive change, given time to stabilize. This episode made me quite uncomfortable with the characters. It was almost like affectionate contempt, not a sound basis for a marriage, IMHO.
The show runner has said that Jane is not Red John. In addition, there was that episode where the deputy kidnapped one twin, and Red John killed the other. Red John had been upstairs smoking and having a cup of something hot, when Jane and the deputy arrived in the basement. Patrick Jane is NOT Red John.
Jane told Brett Stiles one time that Stiles would not hurt a fly. It appeared to me that Jane meant it. Stiles seems to know Red John, but not be him.
I won't be able to evaluate the look on Wainwright's face regarding the disciple question until I get this season's DVD, and can watch it again, but I did not notice that look at the time. Enough people have mentioned it over the subsequent months that I figure I missed something, though.
For Revolution, the actor's name is spelled Guinee. He played a recurring character in the last years of Stargate SG-1, and one of the subsequent movies, and he is terrific. I have seen him do guest roles on most of the shows I watch -- he even played the villain on NCIS one season. I would watch him in anything, anything at all.
Tyler Labine just made one of the funniest movies I have seen in years, Tucker & Dale vs Evil. He is a riot.
Crystal portrayed Dexter, the troublesome monkey in Night at the Museum.
I agree with whateva -- I am always happy with Matthew Perry in any capacity. I first spotted him in Second Chance in 1987, and have been watching happily ever since.
And Bill Pullman is a serious hunk. Adorable.
I'm very pleased with the actors they have rounded up. As with the other networks, I have no comment on the basic premises of the shows. It's be nice to see a list of the writers ....
I don't know about the premises of the new shows, but I certainly admire some of the casts. Reba McEntire and Lily Tomlin together? Joy! Andre Braugher, Dichen Lachman and Bruce Davison. Happiness! I will be watching ...
Well, that's a shocker. I like Body of Proof, but no way did I figure that it was good enough to be renewed. So I guess now we will find out whether Peter survives being stabbed in the guts .... I must admit, I would have missed the Bobbsey Twins, Curtis and Ethan. They are charmers, especially Curtis. I would enjoy a co-worker like Curtis. I hope the writers spend the summer thinking a bit harder than they did last off-season. And they need to get that woman some sensible shoes!
You may be entirely right in all of your interpretations,and you are definitely right about hitting that man with the shovel.
However, I had a different view on the dinner of Bloody Marys. Jane had a very thoughtful look on his face, and I wondered for the rest of the show (and still do), whether he hit upon this as a new approach to getting Red John. He knows that he is watched; he can assume that RJ will be told of his actions, file-burning, firing, etc.
Jane has a lot of mental tricks to take himself away from what is going on in front of his face, to protect himself. It would not surprise me if this is all another trick. He has some regard for his co-workers, but not so much that it would bother him to deceive them yet again.
On the other hand, he did go nuts for a while after the murders of his family, so it is not impossible that he might crack again. Very interesting, indeed.
I really love this show. The wedding, hilarious and touching in turns, made me tear up. I loved the look of shock on Amy's face when Sheldon took her hand during the launch. I thought that Bernadette's father's comment about Howard's mother was dead-on point. Even Sheldon made a fairly normal comment to Penny during the wedding ceremony, about her being burned. He would never have had the presence of mind, the self-confidence, or the feeling of being one of the group back in the beginning of this show, to make such an apt, off-the-cuff comment. Sheldon is slowly growing. I don't think he will ever be completely normal even in his geeky social circle, but he has moved on a long way towards normalcy, whatever that is.
You're right -- Leonard and Penny belong together, and any other outcome would be wrong for this show. I'm a bit sorry that Johnny and Kaley aren't together any more.... They really are cute.
@ kelly arden Martha is off to the Hamptons, and Alexis's sleepover is lasting until at least noon. They won't be there for breakfast, which I imagine will be pancakes and bacon, again. (Like after the fire, and when he stayed at her apartment guarding her ...)
Mr. Smith has had a face since the first episode of this season, when they had the actor walk by Beckett's hospital room. They showed his face when he was looking through the clippings, and they showed it in the parking garage. What they finally revealed, partly, is his relationship to Montgomery.
I don't think Mr. Smith will survive to come forward to help Beckett. I think there will be about the same amount of Alexis. There has to be a relationship in the future of Castle and Beckett. This is not the idiotic Bones writing staff. This one is competent, and knows it can be done. See any William Powell movie of the 1930's. I still despise the new Captain, and miss the old one.
I also thought that bringing that gangster to his father's house was insanely dangerous. And stupid. I pretty much agree with everything that you said; I was very disappointed with Jamie for most of the show, UNTIL he told the gangster that he was a crook, and Jamie was a cop. There may be hope for him yet.
I think Danny is probably a better cop, at least for now, but he is never going to be smart enough to carry on the family tradition of being police commissioner. Jamie is smart enough, and will understand the politics better when he grows up. Assuming he lives that long.
I have never seen most of the programs and characters cited; however, I agree with Chandel that Daisy on Bones should make this list of candidates for the title of worst. She is appalling; had she worked for me, she'd long since have been fired yet again, and not allowed back. Lance Sweets runs a close second, and the new cliche southern squintern is third on my list. Fourth would be the woman on Criminal Minds who is actually leaving again. Nice! I look forward to her absence.
As the show was renewed for three years at the beginning of this year, it seems there is plenty of time for the roommate situations to change around and change back several more times, as the writers see fit. This is one of those shows where the writers say that it is made up as they go along; there is no overall plan, as there is on HIMYM.
I fall into the "like-Amy" camp, and I was amused to see her using her job skills to forward her relationship with Sheldon. I admire her gumption. She is going after what she wants, and doing it very cleverly.
Leonard and Penny belong together, but I agree that was bad timing. What do you tell the kids ten years hence when they ask about the circumstances of the proposal? Dicey.
It would be wonderful if they figure out a way to have both the marriage and the launch into space. Glad I am not a writer....
I am always pleased to see that actor. He was wonderful on Saving Grace. He did a nice job tonight, too. He played another good guy -- not perfect, but good. Since I don't care about the personal livs of any character except Cho, I didn't much care that they revealed little of Teresa's. I did think that Cho made the best of a seriously bad situation. Summer has a chance. But she needs to stay gone. And I now like Grace even less than I already did. Miss Priss. She is like one of those odious ex-smokers, preaching unasked. Tiresome creeps. Teresa and that billionaire would get along, if he would just grow up.
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She and Gibbs are hilarious together, but they would not suit as a romantic couple. In the episode mentioned, Borin assisted Gibbs's team in the search for a woman for him, but showed ZERO interest herself.
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Jane told Brett Stiles one time that Stiles would not hurt a fly. It appeared to me that Jane meant it. Stiles seems to know Red John, but not be him.
I won't be able to evaluate the look on Wainwright's face regarding the disciple question until I get this season's DVD, and can watch it again, but I did not notice that look at the time. Enough people have mentioned it over the subsequent months that I figure I missed something, though.
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Tyler Labine just made one of the funniest movies I have seen in years, Tucker & Dale vs Evil. He is a riot.
Crystal portrayed Dexter, the troublesome monkey in Night at the Museum.
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And Bill Pullman is a serious hunk. Adorable.
I'm very pleased with the actors they have rounded up. As with the other networks, I have no comment on the basic premises of the shows. It's be nice to see a list of the writers ....
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However, I had a different view on the dinner of Bloody Marys. Jane had a very thoughtful look on his face, and I wondered for the rest of the show (and still do), whether he hit upon this as a new approach to getting Red John. He knows that he is watched; he can assume that RJ will be told of his actions, file-burning, firing, etc.
Jane has a lot of mental tricks to take himself away from what is going on in front of his face, to protect himself. It would not surprise me if this is all another trick. He has some regard for his co-workers, but not so much that it would bother him to deceive them yet again.
On the other hand, he did go nuts for a while after the murders of his family, so it is not impossible that he might crack again. Very interesting, indeed.
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You're right -- Leonard and Penny belong together, and any other outcome would be wrong for this show. I'm a bit sorry that Johnny and Kaley aren't together any more.... They really are cute.
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I don't think Mr. Smith will survive to come forward to help Beckett. I think there will be about the same amount of Alexis. There has to be a relationship in the future of Castle and Beckett. This is not the idiotic Bones writing staff. This one is competent, and knows it can be done. See any William Powell movie of the 1930's. I still despise the new Captain, and miss the old one.
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I think Danny is probably a better cop, at least for now, but he is never going to be smart enough to carry on the family tradition of being police commissioner. Jamie is smart enough, and will understand the politics better when he grows up. Assuming he lives that long.
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I fall into the "like-Amy" camp, and I was amused to see her using her job skills to forward her relationship with Sheldon. I admire her gumption. She is going after what she wants, and doing it very cleverly.
Leonard and Penny belong together, but I agree that was bad timing. What do you tell the kids ten years hence when they ask about the circumstances of the proposal? Dicey.
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