Well this was going to be a review of last night's Vampire Diaries episode, which has finally come back after a hiatus that was too long. However this girl here thought the show was on at 9 when it was really on at 8 and so she missed it. It's not available online yet so I'll just wing it with something else.

What happened to the TV? Am I the only one who remembers when you would have a new episode from like September to May with very few interruptions in programming? I mean you'd have your break for the Holiday specials (Christmas and Easter) and that was usually just a week - maybe two at the most - then your show was back. If there was an interruption beyond that it was something that was considered a rare oddity...When did this month/two month crap of "breaks" start happening?

The other thing I miss is shows used to do "theme" episodes, for the holidays. There was the spooky one for Halloween, the Thanksgiving one, the Christmas/New Year's one...etc. What happened to that? CSI New York and Bones are the only two shows that I can think of doing it from time to time over the last four/five years. It seems like it's just faded away...

Ok one last though before I go start my day of running around. Does anyone else thing that reality tv has killed prime time? I could never seem to get on the bandwagon of RTv. Survivor just is stupid to me; seriously if they really wanted to have people "survive" strap some cameras to poles/trees/rocks and let the people be. When someone walks up to the camera and says - I'm done, I want to go home - a little boat/car/train comes, picks them up and then the game continues until no one is left. No tribal councils, no immunity games...BigBrother is just voyuerism on steriods. I can't say anything more than that. The only one that I think is half way decent (and that I will watch if I can't find anything else on and I don't have anything recorded on my DVR - which isn't often) is Dancing with the Stars - but even now seeing how they aren't being horribly selective on their "stars" aspect (Kate Gosselin - I mean, come on really? Someone really thinks she's a star because she's had 8 kids whom she's used to make a name for herself and a nasty divorce to boot? I just don't see it but she's truly a topic for another post).

Ok...One blog post down, one to go -- now it's time to get some work done around the house, run errands and try not to wake anyone in my house up for 1pm...

So we started off as a CSI blog that had our opinions of CSI and it's two spinoffs. Now, four years later, we've expanded our television viewing somewhat and I (Sheri) have decided to revive the blog so we can continue our fun dialogue about the shows we now watch. Both Krista and Holly are also authors and going to be adding their own flair and opinions about some of the same shows as me and some different ones.

Thanks to streaming I can watch my shows more at my convenience while working it around my schedule. I consider this part of my me time...something to do just for me...and whoever might want to read this.

Shows I like to watch and might comment on are as follows, in no particular order:
Castle
CSI:NY
Flash Forward
Fringe
The Vampire Diaries
Bones

Wow a top six...didn't realize there were that many...haha. Anyway we'll see where this takes us, stay tuned.

See last night...that was fantastic. I thought it was some of the best New York had to offer I really did. I almost wish it was a two hour special because that much could have been done with it. However they did well with one hour and I'm glad both victims conntected to the other. At first I was thinking that a second case wasn't needed, but the fact that they were connected worked for me.

Edward Furlong was creepy and yet sad. At the end there when Danny shows him that his brother Ian actually shot the bartender you could see the different stages of emotion that Shane went through right to the defeat when he slid down the wall and dropped the gun. That was such a great moment and I'm glad they let Danny run with it. I wish they would have said more about Louie, cause honestly I'm a bit miffed that we still don't know if Louie is alive, dead or still in a coma. More info on that would have been nice, but getting to Danny by talking about a younger brother having to take care of his older brother was a nice touch. I love it when they delve into that man's character.

OOOH and the burn for Peyten...FIRST Mac pushes her hand off his face and THEN he calls her Claire...holy crap...that was...wow...I can imagine Peyten was beyond hurt that was mean. I mean it wasn't a shock for me that in the wake of finding Claire's son that she would be foremost on Mac's mind but my goodness that's a low blow. And uh did anyone think that Peyten looked a lot like the pics of Claire that Mac had? Maybe I was reaching but that week that he went to see Claire's kid (his name escapes me) I thought the pics looked similar. Either way I wonder if they will continue at all with the Peyten storyline or if it'll just die down. Probably the latter.

I wish there could have been a bit more with Hawkes, but I LOVED the scene with Mac barelling into the precinct to talk to Hawkes AND that Flack went to bat for him even though last week he was questioning if he should trust Mac. That whole scene was fantastic I just loved it. The Chief is an ass yet you could tell he wasn't all bad...just probably doesn't really understand the CSI's work and probably is of the 'they aren't real cops' mindset.

Stella's comment to the chief about going after one of her guys was awesome! I loved it 'I will make it my business to have your badge' or something to that affect. Oh wow that was amazing. And we got to have our reactionary Danny back! So good! I just loved him this ep...more than normal...when he confronted the bouncer and then when he talked it out with Mac and Stella and Stella was the one to come at him about how it would effect Hawkes. It just.

Yeah I loved this ep...I'm sorry that this may be the end of the Shane Casey thing...although there was that FBI murder last week that will obviously come back in the new year since I think they are probably going into repeats over the month of December. Fine with me...I hope they are consistent with eps next season too...I look forward to it!

I think I've almost given up on Miami...I just...yeah...H is too much. The over dramatics almost always pains me...can't do it. Vegas is like old faithful...it just makes me all happy to watch it. I'll be sad to see Griss go (whenever that is) and interested to see how that plays out.

I'm done now...gonna go do the work thing. Anyone else have comments?

As I sit here on this night before Thanksgiving, watching a mini-marathon of CSI: Miami past. One thing that I have discovered on this historic journey is that the whole "let's take a walk on the beach just to show how much of a team we are" isn't something new from this specific season. It's something that has been going on from atleast season 2, possibly even from season 1. It seems like they started using it, either discovered it made no sense or just didn't like it, phased it out and are test driving it again this season.

Also, H seems to have upped his Super Hero-esque ego. The writers need to get him to be more 3 dimensional. I mean I loved that when Marisol was a factor they showed his softer side (though she needed to be save like every third episode), that he had something outside of work. Maybe his character is intended to be this way, to be "All about the job" and the hero of the world.

It just seems like Miami is the wild child of the CSI series. Everything is bigger and more flashy in Miami. I wonder if that's the way they meant it to be or it's just evolved that way...Things that make you go hmmmm....lol...


As a side note, how many hilarious lines is Mac getting this season? He's had more than in the last two seasons combined so far! But more on that tomorrow....

Night night....

Okay I'll say it Carmine Giovinazzo has a beautiful body. It's true. This is a fact so I shall not deny. HOWEVER, he is also an extremely talented actor who is being over shadowed by his beautiful body. This pains me. *sigh*

There was no point for his nakedness this past episode. Now it is a first for him to be seen sans shirt including no beater and like I said pretty sight. It is difficult for me to enjoy this sight, however, when I KNOW that it is just to appease the horny fans. It makes me sad that an obviously talented roster of writers feel the need to strip him for good ratings.

ESPECIALLY when in that scene the focus should have been more on Hawkes. A person is hard pressed to remember when Hawkes is contemplating when his co-workers are stripping do to coffee related mishaps. (How many D/L fans do you think are gonna have him and Lindsay going at it as a reason for the coffee spillage? Not me I can assure you.)

Aside from my combination of enjoying/hating the nekkid I actually kinda liked this episode. I loved the focus on Hawkes. Hill Harper excelled in this ep. Points to the talent of that actor. I wish they'd let Carmine do more of the talent end to his acting...but I'll digress. The tension between Sheldon and the Attending was palatable. I liked it, I felt it, it worked.

The end was quite cheesy with the Baywatch/CSI:Miami walk that they did and I was a bit distracted by the ways to hide Anna's growing belly. The moment between Stella, Mac and the mother who killed her own daughter was amazing. That actress when she was saying 'she tried to tell me'...wow that was amazingly done.

All in all I liked the episode...and will admitedly look for screen caps...I mean come on he's hot!

Well I'm convinced of one thing after finally watching "Murder Sings the Blues" Peyten Driscoll definitely is majorly smittin' with Mac Taylor.

Mac on the other hand looks at her like he's wondering why she's touching him. You know I'm all for Mac having a relationship and moving on from Claire but if I'm supposed to believe that they have feelings for each other it would help if Mac didn't look like he was being forced to escort his long lost cousin to the opera. (By the way getting called out of the opera for a case is SO something I wrote in a fic before this...I swear TPTB owe me...lol) He just doesn’t look like he’s into it NEARLY as much as she is. There is no chemistry that I can see. Even though I like both characters I just don’t see them really into it, it’s contrived and devoid of passion. It would make more sense to pair him with Stella and I don’t think I’d want that either. So yeah that’s my take on that.

Then we have Hawkes and his connection to the victim. I am so excited that Hawkes is getting more storyline this season. I'm even willing to give up seeing Danny for it. It seemed a BIT of a far stretch that he met her a few months ago and she still had the post it note that he wrote his number on in her purse. She looked the type to change her purse and it's contents many times a week so I don't get how his number always seemed to be with her, even though she never called it. Point of interest only, still loved seeing more of Hawkes!

I liked that they showed Mac as not always being right. The fact that he tore a strip off Hawkes in front of everyone and wouldn’t let Lindsay leave was poignant and showed that Mac doesn’t always have it together. It was also brilliant how Hawkes dealt with it by calmly making a very good point before leaving the lab. Their moment at the end even if it didn't have a formal apology worked for me. They are professional men probably not big on long drawn out I'm sorrys. They were talking again and understanding each other and that's all that matters.

I find it interesting though that someone who is SO about the evidence would go so hard against that one guy just because he had a criminal record. Isn’t that prejudice? Sort of like guilty in spite of? I mean it shows that Mac isn’t perfect but if he’s gonna fire Aiden for tampering and get Danny off the promotion grid because he went with his gut then it doesn’t seem to ring true to me that Mac should be able to push for a guy who has no evidence against him. And again, second week in a row, Lindsay actually following the evidence is shot down. I’m still wondering at how they are dealing with her character but throw her a bone. Are you gonna get her in trouble for following her instincts AND for following the evidence? Where the heck is she supposed to go then?

Danny wasn't in the ep much so he was pretty but character wise I didn't get much. LoL I do love it when he and Flack get to have those funny dialogue moments and his 'I hate rich people I really do' plus Flack calling him Dan-o made for a really fun interaction which lightened the episode for sure.

Anyway that's my take on last week. I'm still a bit confused as to where they are going this season but I do like the new character development. Now just make Lindsay believable to me! Hell steal how I write her I don't care just give us something! I'm done now...really I am. :)

A friend of mine came up with that one. Made me laugh really hard and I promised him I would insert it into our vocabulary about Horatio Caine.

"Horatio Caine dons his sunglasses of justice and with a pelvic thrust of fortitude and a head tilt of wisdomosity, administers the verbal cliches of sanctimoniousness."

LOL

Last night - man alive. I thought for sure H would launch off the ground and into the air a la Neo. They even angled the camera in such a way as to leave room for his invisible cape.

Was it just me or is Frank even starting to sense the ridiculousness that is Horatio? He kept giving him these perplexed looks like, "Are you really serious, man? And where the f*** do you get off calling me 'Francis'? Only my mother is allowed to call me that!"

I think somebody gonna get a hurt reeeaaal bad.

Also, why is it that apart from Calleigh, all of the CSIs in Miami are whiny, snot-nosed, spoiled-brat babies? Or, why, for the name of all that is collection of forensic evidence, does Boavista ALWAYS look like she's getting her rocks off when she's processing something? It makes me want to punch her in the nose.

And I don't punch just anyone.

Okay, my final complaints are these: If Steve Dunlar called the cops about the 'sideshow' just before he went to the woman's house (presumably with his accomplice, Luke Baylor) at 6:00am and that's approximately when Dex was killed, how is it that Luke was able to be in two places at the same time? They did not explain that very well. Was the sideshow so close to where Dunlar was siphoning the jet fuel that Luke could just pop over that quickly? AND, how come there was so little blood in that car? The guy's rudding head was taken right off, you'd think there'd be so much blood that Luke would be loathe to even be near the thing. But no, there was so little blood that Luke only got a few drops on him, even though he hauled AN ENTIRE HEADLESS BODY out of the car.

Okay. That's all I wanted to say for today. Hopefully CSI:NY will either be so terribly bad or so terribly good (read: lots of Danny angst) that I'll have something clever to say about it too. :)

Pregnant Anna Belknap at event
CSI: NY star Anna Belknap, 34, is expecting her first child with husband Eric Siegel this winter.
Source: www.celebrity-babies.com

Ok, so I watched Curse of Coffin last night (I'm getting slightly more timely with these things), and I laughed. I mean out loud, woke my sleeping husband up, laughing. I don't know where to even begin, so I guess I'll just jump right out there and start.

I didn't know that the lab was less than four minutes to the beach. I didn't know that you couldn't call a bomb squad in to diffuse a bomb in that short of time, I mean isn't the precinct right next door to the lab? Mac and Danny managed to diffuse a bomb in NY without any mishap... And, without notifying anyone (He never technically told Tripp where he was going) drive it to the beach, get out, put on your reflective sunglasses of justice, and walk away to let the thing blow up!?!? Does that make any sense? Wouldn't you try to preserve as much evidence as you could? Are these reasonable questions or is it just me?

Ok, guess I've beaten that dead horse enough.

Ok, and why -- if you discovered that they were hiding the gold in the burial plot in the middle of the day -- would you wait until it's completely dark out to go investigate - especially if the case is freaking you out a little?? Does that make any sense whatsofreakin'ever?? Why wouldn't you go right then...I mean? Really...

I have to admit I thought it was interesting to see Delko pulling rank on Wolfe based upon religion. I mean are we to take it to mean that Ryan has no or very little religion affiliation? It's just odd in my book - I thought the rule was never discuss politics or religion with a friend you want to remain a friend...Maybe it's just me...I would like to see this episode a multiepisodal arc to it because of the way they left the ending (we really never do know how she got the mini coffin thingy) but we know that probably isn't going to happen.

I have to say though I liked how Calleigh, Delko, and Ryan talking about the case at the end. I still wish they'd do alittle more character development on this show, I'm scard to see how that would turn out...

Seriously this link kills me!

Find Your Inner Horatio Caine-ness!

I think I would add these two points though:

Do you always address the person you are speaking to by saying their first name so many times your sentence ceases to have purpose?

OR

Do you say 'Here's what we're gonna do...' before very instruction thinking it means you have some sort of authority?