TV update!

So, in a post about new midseason shows, I covered a few. Here's what I've been watching that I haven't been relentlessly blogging:

Arrow: (CW, Wednesdays 8 PM) Yes I'm blogging it but just need to say I love this show I love this show I FREAKING LOVE THIS SHOW. And the producers are self-admitted Whovians, which they say is why they got John Barrowman and Alex Kingston in the same episode!

Body of Proof: (ABC, Tuesdays 9 PM) Still an enjoyable forensics show. 

Bones: (Fox, Mondays 8 PM) Meh. Nothing particularly interesting lately, and it's been getting a bit like CSI: After-School Specials, it feels.

Continuum: (Syfy, return TBA) I'm actually really, really liking this series. Things get very interesting in the last few episodes of the first season!

Criminal Minds: (CBS, Wednesdays 9 PM) This is alternating between being like almost-softcore-torture-porn, and having some really, really interesting episodes with unexpected endings.

Cult: (CW, um... when?) I think the only positive point of this show is just how genre-savvy it is - it mercilessly makes fun of the industry. But that's enough to keep me watching. It's been shuffled around time slots, because it used to be Thursday, but then a week and a half ago I found it in the Friday Night Death Slot, so I'm guessing it's doomed. Unless the fact that a lot of it is filmed using the WB lot as "on location" happens to make it worth the few viewers it brings in.

Elementary: (CBS, Thursdays 10 PM) So much love for this show, and it just keeps getting better. If you don't already, watch it. 'Nuff said.

Glee: (Fox, Thursdays 9 PM) Somehow, this show went from over-the-top satire, to confusion, and now it's surprisingly good and has a more diverse cast than ever. Plus, they have been doing some truly amazing songs - including a rendition of "In Your Eyes" complete with a boombox, and a wonderful mashup of "Bye Bye Bye" and "I Want It That Way." 

Grimm: (NBC, Fridays 9 PM) The plot is really, really picking up and I'm really liking it. Also, this show is doing a good job of surviving the Friday Night Death Slot, as some SF shows do - and probably with an increased audience now that Fringe (RIP) is off the air.

Haven: (Syfy, returns fall 2013) I love this show. I started it after one of my friends who watched Fringe liked it. The first season was very, very reminiscent of old-school X-Files. (There was a guy whose shadow killed people in one episode, I know for sure. But they solved it by surrounding him with ambient light)

Law & Order: SVU: (NBC, Wednesdays 9 PM) Still full of ripped-from-the-headlines cases, as usual. I'm liking the two new detectives, though.

Project Runway: (Lifetime, Thursdays 9 PM) There's not anyone I love this year, but there was an episode with male stripper. And the team dynamic is really interesting.

The Following: (Fox, Mondays 9 PM) This is a lot better than I expected. Granted, Kevin Bacon's character likes to go alone into places where he knows that there are serial killers, a lot. The story is moving, and it's actually not going down the apparently obvious plot lines.

Ancient Aliens: TIME TRAVEL TIME! And NAZIS!

Half of me just wants to make this entire post a link to Doctor Who on Netflix.

Alright, now that I've got that out of my way....

In the first 30 seconds you mentioned Hitler. Please tell me this isn't going to be about Hitler. Please.

"Could Einstein have accidentally helped the Nazis build a time machine?"Well, I guess it is going to feature Hitler....

I guess this week people watched "Let's Kill Hitler" and the Indiana Jones movies before producing this?

They're talking about Nazis potentially doing stuff in secret as if it's a question. Third Reich scientists carried out clandestine experiments on everything. Even - no, especially - implausible metaphysical type things. Are you seriously failing that badly at history that's only 80 years old?  Oh, and "Super secret Nazi technology?" Thank you for those precise academic terms.

For what is probably the first time, and quite possibly the last, in this show's lifespan, it argues that an ostensible spaceship crash is actually not a spaceship crash. Because it's a Nazi time machine crash.

"...rituals of stargazing, believed to enable time travel." Well, if you take the Wilfred Mott approach, I guess stargazing maybe can help time travel?

Sirius is apparently where these aliens came from, because why else would people in multiple, separate ancient cultures be fascinated by the brightest star in the sky?

Nope, that actually doesn't look like a representation of a spiral galaxy. That is actually a single spiral, and that is a series of concentric circles. *facepalm*

Inaccurate visual of the day: A discussion of neutron spins accompanied by a clip of people in a lab lit solely by green light, pouring something that looks like liquid nitrogen into something else.

Oh, they actually used the word "Stargate". I HAVE WON ANCIENT ALIEN BINGO!

No, they're mentioning the LHC now... even better.

And they just used the word "god particle."

Oooh, and they're talking about aliens like the "Roswell" aliens. And how they look like how some people think humans might look in the future. Once again, some kind of wibbly wobbly timey wimey logic they're using here!

Once Upon a Time: Done with season 1!

AKA, "Why hasn't anyone in this town sit Emma down for a Revenge marathon?"

So, obviously, spoilers throughout!

So what am I doing with this blog?

I don't know. I guess since it's 2 AM, or more precisely past midnight but it feels like 2 AM, or later, my brain is making the kind of decision that brains make when they think it's this inappropriate of an hour and it's come to the conclusion that Twitter, Tumblr, and other such places aren't a sufficient way for me to put every thought that comes through my head out into the universe.

Because I'm jobless and have far too much time to do things and the power of the internet at my fingertips. I feel like I should be, I don't know, writing radical new programs or apps, or cracking into high-security places and exposing corrupt corporations, or something. But instead I'm going to use this to shout at the TV where everyone can hear or something like that.

Oh, yeah, a side effect of being jobless is that I watch a lot of TV. A LOT of TV.

Right now I'm Netflixing my way through Once Upon a Time, Being Human (with live chats with my sister, mostly about how gorgeous Aiden Turner is and how we wish Annie was our BFF and how really really freaking beautiful Aiden Turner is), Star Trek: TNG, and Doctor Who with my roommate.

Then we have, at last count, 30-ish shows on our DVR, which sounds like a lot but some are regular-season shows and some are mid-season shows and some are summer shows and some are British shows that have sporadic periods of five or six or seven new episodes at a time, and our DVR can only record two things at once. Right now, a lot of things are on hiatus, but in the regular season we've been watching Rizzoli & Isles, Arrow, Criminal Minds, SVU, Glee, Project Runway, Elementary, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

And I'm a mere two episodes away from the thoroughly epic-looking conclusion to my absolute favorite TV show of all time, Fringe. The concept alone interested me, the first promo made me determined to watch the pilot, and here I am, five seasons later, wondering what the hell I'm going to do with my Friday nights now. (Actually, maybe that's why my brain thinks it's 2 AM)

Other things that might happen include various forms of geekery, cooking misadventures, bemoaning my state of unemployment, updates on my cat, the completely surreal experience of living in Los Angeles, various things concerning science, links to cool things I find on the web, extensive excitement about comic conventions and who/what I'm cosplaying, and me complaining that the LA weather still isn't warm enough for about half the year.