Ms. Amused

I finished watching Season 3 last night.

I’d gotten interrupted between the episodes where Meredith fell in the water and the following one which was kind of an odd point to have to leave off at. Between that and the spoilers I already knew about the season ending, I wasn’t as enthralled with the remainder of the season as I would have liked.

It also got a little repetitive and it felt like the characters were in holding patterns and not really going anywhere. Just filling air time.

Also I wasn’t fond of the totally obvious “pseudo pilot” where Addison went to LA and we were given a ‘preview’ of what the new show “Private Practices” would be like. As “introductory” episodes go, it sucked. CSI does it better. Tim Daly was the only really interesting character in the LA group though I’ve always liked Addison so I’ll probably give it a watch when it comes to DVD. I’m also wondering if Eric Dane’s character went over with Kate Walsh’s (Addison) to LA. He’s better suited there anyways.

That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy it at all. I did but I’m looking forward to season 4 where it all hopefully gets straightened out and at least I have no further spoilers for.

One thing that continues to amaze me about this show is its ability to make me cry. For all the outrageousness of the plotlines, when it comes down to the depth of emotions and the human experience, they hit the mark like Andre the Giant hitting the doohickey off the Hi Striker at your local carnival.

Sandra Oh’s final scene of the season was so perfect that I can’t wait to see what happens in S4.

About 2 months to go before I can watch Season 4.  And I’ve added Private Practice on Netflix too. In a bizarre note, Netflix lists S2 and S3 of PP… um. Only one season exists so far right? GA is going into S5 and PP into S2 in the Fall right?

You get: Celebrity Family Feud.

The Feud was one of those things that was often something watched with my family so I’m already predisposed to it. And then when the promos started showing during American Gladiators and I saw Wolf staring down the other family on the Feud, and then later Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) of My Name Is Earl on it too, I knew I had to watch this.

And it’s been a lot of fun so far. But I was biding my time for when the Gladiators and also the Earl cast were on. Much to my surprise, they’re all on the same episode!

What’s different in CFF is there’s 4 “families” that face off in two matches, the winners face off in a final match and then the overall winner does the last part for 200 pts to win the money ($50k for charity of choice). Also what’s different is that there’s only 3 games per match, first two are single points and the 3rd is triple. And if no one gets to 300, then its sudden death.

Anyways, I really loved the first half of tonight’s show, the Gladiators were hysterical and it couldn’t have been better except if they’d brought Crush instead of Venom (or perhaps my other new favorite gladiator besides Jet, Hurricane). Also very glad they brought Laila and not Hulk who I now hate to see at all given the crap way that he and his family have responded to his son’s maiming of his friend. I used to love Hulk Hogan but I’m done with him now. I even wrote to NBC asking them to boot him for future seasons of AG, go with Lou Ferrigno or someone else cool.

And the Earl game was fun, turned out it was all MNIE cast but in character. The Hickey Family vs Camden County (semi regular characters that are the townspeople). It was a little weird because they stayed in character and goofed the answers in ways that the actors would never have.

I’ve always loved watching the Feud because of my grandmothers (one of the rare things that they had in common) and it’s fun to watch it again with the “celebrities”… now I want to see them do it with the cast of NCIS vs CSI or something cool like that! Since I think they’ve already filmd all of this season, perhaps next season? Doubt it’d happen though if for nothing else, it’s an NBC show, why would they promote other network’s shows by using casts from them?

Not sure what else CFF will be worth watching for but I’ve enjoyed the games up til tonight while waiting for AG and MNIE to show so I’ll keep watching.

I just can’t get enough of watching AG! Almost into the semifinals, which means it’ll be over soon

Ok I have to give them credit too a la House for being more original with the ways to get rid of a character. The lead in episode to this showed Booth getting shot but like I said before, no way would they get rid of him.

Now I’m curious why the actor left. As always, I hope it was their wish and not the studios trying to cut costs.

A little Google Fu and the answer is … not his choice (don’t click if you don’t want to be spoiled). Dammit!

Well rest assured, YOU WILL BE MISSED! I hope they do bring you back though admittedly, it’ll be hard.

Clearly I need to go rewatch this because I keep seeing people talking about the status of the team and while I get what happened to one part of it…. the rest leaves me going huh what?

I know I was knitting during that episode but I must have been more distracted than I thought!

Now I get why I saw a lot of emotional reactions to the House finale, “Wilson’s Heart”.

I’d held off on watching the first part of the 2 parter finale so that I could watch them back to back. But then that night, I’d started to watch the Bones finale that was on before House and #$*#$#&&~!!! The captions were fucked up due to some kind of broadcast problem. And then I realized oh shit… the House pt 2 is probably fubarred as well! And it was.

But the other night I finally remembered to check online to see if the online version was captioned. And it was!!

So last night I watched pt 1 on my TV and tonight I watched pt 2 on the computer.

AND OMIGOD!! I cried.

I know I recently ranted about how every show I watch shot/killed/or departed a character and that it was like “be original plskthx?”… and even NCIS got into the game. But House at least, they managed to make it original and plucked the bejesus out of your heart strings. Which is amazing considering the characters involved.

There’s a reason the writers fought so hard for internet residuals… times like tonight is one of them. My Mom’s another case scenario as its now the only way she can watch any of her shows.

Just WHAT is up with all the season finales these days? A major character (or two) has been shot (or blown up) in just about every show that I watch. Seems like there’s a mass exodus of regular characters as well.

Jesse L Martin left Law & Order (yes I was living under a rock and hadn’t heard of his departure beforehand)

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