Watching The CW

I’m so sorry I haven’t been around much, but I’m still sans my laptop and its difficult to get use of a computer to update. Hopefully, this won’t go on much longer. I guess the timing isn’t bad, since the season is pretty much over.

Speaking of the season, the CW posted their Fall Schedule, and as predicted, (more…)

They did it. They made an updated version of a show from the 90’s and its good. At least I’m enjoying it.

This week’s episode of 90210 was all about learning lessons. Well, that’s what I got out of it.

Annie learned that there was no getting between Ethan and Naomi. Silver told her, but she just wouldn’t believe her until Ethan stood her up after she had turned down a date with Ty, which made Ty think she really wasn’t interested in him. She learned that she was really interested in Ty, and just letting her feelings for the Ethan of two years ago make her think she liked him.

Ty learned that Annie really did like him when she baked him some Snickerdoodles to say she was sorry, and then kissed him when he didn’t want to accept the cookies.

Dixon learned that he could count on his dad, even when he had screwed up again. He borrowed the car and ended up taking off the side view mirror on some kid’s expensive car in the school parking lot. He didn’t want to tell his dad or get involved with the insurance, so he told the guy he’d pay the $500 himself. Dixon got a job at the Peach Pit, but then it started affecting his grades. In the end, he told his dad the whole story and his dad said he would pay it off and Dixon could pay him back in time.

Naomi learned that her dad’s little fling with some out of town chick isn’t just a fling. The woman, Gail, has moved into their beach house and it doesn’t look like she’s going away any time soon. Naomi also learned that she needs Ethan.

Ethan learned that he still has feelings for Naomi and that even though he’s interested in Annie, he really wants to be with Naomi.

Kelly learned that she still has feelings for Sammy’s father, Dylan (and we learned that Dylan was Sammy’s father) when Brenda called her out for avoiding sharing with Ryan.

Tabitha learned that she was overbearing and picked on Annie too much when she took over running the school musical.

Silver and Dixon learned that they liked each other. Of course, we figured that out a couple of weeks ago.

There were probably a few other lessons in there, too. But I can’t think of them right now. Overall, it was another good ep, not as good as last week, but still solid.

Lots of shows that I’ve been waiting for start up again this week. Well, to be honest, a couple started last week, like Bones, which is airing on Mondays at 8 pm ET on Fox, and Law & Order: SVU on NBC at 10 pm ET. There were 6 new eps of Bones and 5 of SVU. Actually, last week’s ep of SVU was one of the most disturbing I’ve seen in a long time.

So here is my TV schedule for this week (all times are ET):

Monday
Big Bang Theory - CBS - 8 pm
Bones - Fox - 8 pm
House - Fox - 9 pm (4 new eps start 4/28)
The Bachelor - ABC - 10 pm

Tuesday
American Idol - Fox - 8 pm
Beauty and the Geek - CW - 8 pm
Hell’s Kitchen - Fox - 9 pm
Reaper - CW - 9 pm (5 new eps)
Law and Order: SVU - NBC - 10 pm

Wednesday
America’s Next Top Model - CW - 8 pm
Back To You - Fox - 8:30 pm
American Idol - Fox - 9 pm

Thursday
Supernatural - CW - 9 pm (4 new eps)
Lost - ABC - 10 pm (5 new eps)

Friday
Sarah Jane Adventures - SciFi - 8 pm (new eps to air in US)
Doctor Who - SciFi - 9 pm (new eps to air in US)
Moonlight - CBS - 9 pm (4 new episodes)

Obviously, I’m gonna be pretty busy this week. Thank goodness for DVR.

The last of the new Moonlight eps aired Friday on CBS. I was a little disappointed in how things were left, especially in light of the fact that we may not see new eps for a long time. Until the strike is over, if ever.

It’s not that I’m disappointed in the actual ep itself, it’s just that there are some things that I’m finding harder and harder to swallow. There are so many things we don’t know or that don’t seem to add up.

Take Coraline, for example. How long were they married that Mick never knew anything of her past? They must have been together for a while at least, because Mick said she took him under her wing when she turned him, when comparing it to that doctor who was turned in the ep, Dr. Feelgood, and who’s sire had abandoned him. And yet he didn’t know that she was part of a French aristocratic family that had been turned prior to the French Revolution.

Also, why, as a vampire, is he still so altruistic. Did Coraline teach him that? Was he a PI before he became a vamp? What makes him care about being human and helping others? The doctor didn’t even feel that way after he was turned, and he was a doctor, for goodness sake. It was his job to help people before he was turned, but he still somehow became a monster after he was turned and even killed his own wife. I know they tried to say it was because he hadn’t been taught by his sire, but Mick’s sire was Coraline, not necessarily someone who has a high regard for human life. She is the one, after all, who planned to kill Beth just so she and Mick could have a family. Something that must have occurred well after they were already separated. How does someone like that inspire a newly turned vampire to become Philanthropist of the Year?

What’s the timeline anyway? He’s been a vampire for 50 years, it was 30 years ago when he helped to put that serial killer away, and 25 years ago or so, when he saved Beth from Coraline. So was he a bad guy for a while, say 10 years or so? What then made him be a better person? He implied that his turning point was saving Beth from Coraline, but that was after he put the serial killer away, which means that he was already acting on the side of good.

And what’s with Coraline anyhow? She’s known for what, 200+ years, that her family had some special vampire antidote, she’s know for 50 years that Mick didn’t want to be a vampire, but she just decides to go steal it now?

And Josh, the last time we saw Beth and Josh together, they weren’t. Together that is, they were on the outs. Sure, Beth told Mick she couldn’t stay with him in New York because she had to go back and make things up to Josh, but we never saw anything like that happen. We just see them finally make up right before he gets killed. But, somehow, he was having a stone set for an engagement ring, which he had planned to go pick up that very night. And why meet the person setting the stone for dinner at a fancy restaurant? Doesn’t she have an office or a store?

Maybe I’m being too nit-picky here, but I like things to add up. Part of why Lost makes me so crazy, actually, but that’s another story. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still watching this show when it comes back, but when that happens, I’m gonna want some answers.

Moonlight, Alex O’Loughlin, Lost