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…)

I’ve been wondering what’s going on with the CW. It seems like there’s been a lot of repeats lately, so I have nothing new to talk about. So I went through the next two weeks to see what’s happening. This is what I found out.

This week, Monday’s shows, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill are repeats. On Tuesday, 90210 is also a repeat, but Privileged is a new ep, the first season finale.

Wednesday is (more…)

Supernatural was really good last week. I loved how it seemed like the house was haunted and how it was all so very scary and yet so very fun. It was good to see the guys working well together and fighting the bad guys together.

This week’s ep was good, too. Not only am I a fan of magic, you know, the Houdini kind of magic, I lalso oved all the special guest stars, like Barry Bostwick, John Rubinstein and Michael Rubinstein. John has, of course, been around for a while and I’ve seen him on lots and lots of shows. But for me he will always be evil attorney Linwood Murrow from Angel’s Wolfram & Hart. Michael is (more…)

This week marks the return of new episodes for many of our favorite shows on The CW. Plus, one new show.

Here’s the way the week looks. On Monday, January 5, 2009, we get new epsiodes of both Gossip Girl at 8:00 pm (ET) and One Tree Hill at 9:00 pm (ET). I’ve never been a fan of either show, for some reason, but I’m sure there are a lot of people out there, I mean a lot of people, who have been waiting impatiently for both shows to return.

On Tuesday, January 6, 2009, we get to see (more…)

One thing is true. Biblically, angels are warriors.

The last two episodes of Supernatural (”I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Heaven and Hell”) were basically one long ep. They were all about a young woman, Anna, who was being hunted by angels and demons alike. I’m just not buying it.

Look, I’ve this kind of love/hate relationship going on with Supernatural from the very beginning. Don’t misunderstand me, I really like the show, but sometimes they take it (I’m not sure who I mean by “they,” but probably the writers) in directions that I just don’t get. It’s like I don’t want to follow them around that bend.
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Last week’s episode of Supernatural, “Wishful Thinking” was just OK for me. Not enough Dean, for one thing. When I first saw the trailers, I thought it was gonna be like Pleasantville or something like that anyway. But it wasn’t. Once again, for some reason, I missed out on any good Dean lines. I usually either write them down when he says something awesome, or I just remember them. But not this time. Which is sad, cause I’m sure he said some things worth remembering.

In any case, the story of the ep was that wishes were coming true in this small town. It sounds great, but it’s not, since people can wish for lots of things that might not be good for the general public. Like, there’s the kid who wants to be invisible so he can hang around in the ladies locker room. One woman thinks he’s a ghost. There’s a little boy who is always picked on by bullies who wishes to be very strong. He now has the bullies on the run. There’s the little girl who wants her teddy bear to be alive, but it turns into a huge depressive alcoholic monster.

The teddy bear was kinda fun:

The wish that has started all of this, however, was a lonely, geeky guy who falls in love with a beautiful woman who doesn’t even know who he is. He wants her to love him, and she does. But he finds out that its not all it should be, since she does nothing else but be in love with him. She doesn’t seem to care about anything else.

Well, the boys have to track down the first wish, which they do, because only the first wisher can undo the spell that has been laid on the wishing well with the ancient coin he used to make his wish. At first, he doesn’t want to change it, because he does want her to love him, but then when he sees how destructive her obsessive love is, he changes his mind. It was kinda sad to see her not even know who he was after the wishes were undone, though.

Anyway, I’ll try to keep better track of Dean during tonight’s ep.

OK, you know I love Supernatural , right? But Sam Hane. What in the Sam Hill is Sam Hane? The word is Samhain, but it’s pronounced Sah-ween or Sow-een or even Sah-veen, but not Sam Hane. Shouldn’t someone have done some research and learned that? And its a time of year, not a person.

*sigh* I just hate stuff like that. I love this show, but I hate silly mistakes. I know its their show and their world, so they can create their own mythology to go along with it, but why not just use something that already exists, the correct way, like say some actual evil demon from what ever mythology or religion they choose. And then learn to pronounce it properly. Its like an unnecessary thing that causes people, well people like me anyway, to get all unhappy.

Overall, though, the episode was good and creepy, which I like. I’m not a big fan of gore, though and while there wasn’t a lot, the razor blade thing really grossed me out. I think I may have been so upset by all the Samhain wrongness, though, that I totally missed any good lines. And there are always good lines in Supernatural.

I knew Sam was gonna need to use his mind mojo on the big bad, for sure, cause I didn’t think any silly little knife was gonna do the trick. I’m still not sure I understand why Dean is so against his using it, since it does help save people. I mean if you have special powers, you should be able to use them, right? I know I would use mine. I’m just saying.

I loved last week’s episode of Supernatural. It’s always great when its very Dean-centric, cause I so love Dean.

I won’t bother trying to recap it at this late date, since there’s another new ep tomorrow. I’m excited about that, too, cause I can finally watch it on TV instead of waiting for someone to upload it and then having to watch it on my laptop. We actually found out by accident that CBS and the CW were back on our TV. My husband was just flipping around through the stations and the local news was on CBS (instead of the college football that has been on there since October 3). It was a happy moment.

I’m also gonna have to get all caught up on Smallville, since I never did get a chance to watch it online. I wanted to, but I just never did. But now that the CW is back, I’ll make the effort to go find the three episodes I missed. Almost probably.

One of the best parts of last week’s episode was the little trick that Jared Padalecki played on Jensen Ackles. You may have already seen this floating around, but if you didn’t, you have to watch. It’s really funny. In the actual scene on the show, Dean is laying on the front seat of the car listening to music. The song is Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger, and you see Dean’s arms starting to play the drums, when Sam comes up, knocks on the roof and then they talk. However, apparently, in one take, Jared never came up to the car, so Jensen just kept on playing and lip syncing along with the song.

Enjoy:

“Well, that’s gonna be . . . horrible.” Dean’s quote pretty much sums up Thursday’s episode of Supernatural. No, wait, the episode was good, but it was also pretty gross and horrible. Dean did have some great lines, but when doesn’t he.

The point of the ep was Dean finding out that Sam has been lying to him about using his powers. Sam seems to want to help people more than he wants to kill demons, which sounds good on paper, but can end up getting people hurt or dead. Which they find out when an old hunter friend, Travis, calls them to his town to help fill a rugaru (I’m not sure of the spelling, but that’s what it sounded like). This creature comes out when a person is about 30 years old (apparently) and runs in families. The rugaru they are after is just a nice suburban kinda guy, with a lovely wife and a nice home. He starts getting really hungry. Then he starts eating wrong stuff, like raw hamburger.

From there, it isn’t too long before he wants to take a little nip from a human. At first, the Winchester boys try to talk to him, it being Sam’s thought that they might reason with him and explain what’s happening to him. If they can do that, maybe he can stop himself from eating a person or as Dean calls it “manburger helper.” Instead, the guy gets angry and orders them off his property. (”Good talk” says Dean as they walk away.)
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Thursday’s ep of Supernatural was really good. OK, maybe I think that because it was heavily Dean-centric. I’m not even sure if Sam (Jared Padalecki) was in it at all, now that I come to think about it. And I do love me some Dean (Jensen Ackles). I don’t care what anyone says, Jensen Ackles is about the most perfect looking man around.

Dean was sent back in time to Lawrence, Kansas in the 70s by the Angel, Castiel (played by Misha Collins), to stop something, although he doesn’t tell Dean exactly what he is supposed to stop. Dean comes to find out that he is back in the 70’s to kill the yellow eyed demon who is there in that time. Also, Dean gets to meet his parents (a la Back to the Future) and finds out that his grandparents and mother were hunters.

He also finds out one more part of the puzzle, and that is why the yellow eyed demon came to their home when Sam was a baby and killed their mother. It turns out that what the demon was doing in Lawrence back then. He was there tricking people, giving them something they wanted now for a promise that they would give him something when he came back to see them in 10 years time. What he’s going to want then, is their babies. Well, he wants to be able to get to their babies, uninterrupted for a little while, so that he an inbue them with a gift, which is where Sam’s abilities came from.

All in all, it was a good ep. I’m still missing the music, though.

I want to be on Supernatural. Aside from the obvious reason, that Sam and Dean are super hot, I want to sit those poor boys down and given them a real nice home cooked meal and a nice fresh homemade pie, maybe apple or pumpkin (considering it’s Fall) with a icy cold glass of fresh pressed cider. Just watching the the beginning of this week’s ep, when Dean kept reminding Sam to get him some pie, and knowing he meant some sad little fake junk food thing from a convenient store, it made me sad. I feel so bad for them sometimes.

One thing that also struck me this week is that they spend so much time with demons, they are almost afraid of angels. I know that Dean has that whole “God doesn’t exist” thing going on, so he doesn’t want to believe in angels, but then Ruby (the new fake Ruby - and no, I won’t get over it already) tried to make Sam think that angels are a bad thing. Maybe they will be a bad thing in this Supernatural universe, but I’m not buying it. There has to be some good to combat evil, and it can’t be just a handful of people around the world who think they are all alone.
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At first, I wasn’t too sure about the season premiere of Supernatural. The first few minutes just didn’t do it for me. I was disappointed somehow, in some vague way that I can’t quite explain, by what happened. It did get better,though, and by the end, I had mostly enjoyed it and was looking forward to next week.

But there were still a few things that bothered me. This may be a little spoilery if you haven’t seen the ep, so read at your own peril.

First of all, I had a very hard time swallowing the fact that some divine power brought Dean back from hell. Even more, before we even met the angel, when I saw the first burned out eyes, I said to my husband, it’s God. He said what? I said they are gonna make it that God brought Sam back. I was right. It just seemed like a cop out to me somehow. Its so easy to blame God for everything, isn’t it, since He’s not likely to explain Himself. I guess it all leads back to the fact that Dean has no faith in God, which I always thought a little unlikely, cause how can you believe in evil if you refuse to acknowledge good. What would demons be fighting against if there was no ultimate good trying to save souls? But whatever, I’m over it.

There were other issues as well. It seemed like they didn’t have a lot of time to let things play out. Both Bobby and Sam didn’t trust that it was Dean at first, but they both seemed to give in too easily without really questioning things as much as they should have. They just expected too much suspension of disbelief from me, as well.

Beyond that, I’ve read about the budget cuts, which enable the CW to channel more money into its new shows, like 90210, and I could see the lack of money. The crummy music, for one thing. One of the best parts of Supernatural, to me at least, has always been the awesome rock music soundtrack, and that was noticeably deficient. I’m not saying there was no good music, but there was also some really bad music. Of course, it could just be that Sam has sucky taste in music compared to Dean.

Also, that was Ruby?? That was Ruby?? *sigh* I know, I know, they can explain it away by saying that demons can inhabit different bodies, but it really bothers me. I’d rather they say that Ruby had disappeared, that she had died, that she had been eaten by an giant Gila monster, anything than just putting Ruby into a different body and acting like nothing had changed. *sigh*

Finally, and this is a minor point, but some of the effects were a little, um, not so effective. Like the trees all bent away from the grave. I was not impressed. Especially since they showed it so fast, I could barely tell what I was seeing.

I’ll still be watching next week, but I don’t have to be happy about what they’ve done.

We’ve already had a peek at the and chatted about some of the new and returning shows, so the question now is what are the exact dates and times when the shows I care about are coming back. Well, The Futon Critic has an amazing list that you should check out here. It’s an incredible list, which includes every show, new and returning (and even cancelled), when it airs, what network its on, and how many eps there are. Awesome!

As for the CW, returning this Fall are America’s Next Top Model, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Smallville and Supernatural, with Reaper coming back as a mid-season show in 2009.

Cancelled shows from last season include Aliens in America, Beauty and the Geek, Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants, CW Now, Girlfriends, Life is Wild, Online Nation and Pussycat Dolls: Girlicious. Farmer Wants a Wife is listed as on hiatus or fate to be determined.

As mentioned, there is a full slate of new shows for Fall, which are 90210, Easy Money, In Harm’s Way, Privileged, Stylista, Surviving Suburbia and Valentine, Inc., plus one new show, 13: Fear is Real, scheduled for 2009.
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The CW has posted their 2008-2009 season primtime schedule:

MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM GOSSIP GIRL
9:00-10:00 PM ONE TREE HILL

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM 90210 (New Series)
9:00-10:00 PM SURVIVING THE FILTHY RICH (New Series)

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL
9:00-10:00 PM STYLISTA (New Series)

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM SMALLVILLE
9:00-10:00 PM SUPERNATURAL

FRIDAY
8:00-8:30 PM EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS
8:30-9:00 PM THE GAME
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL (Encore Presentation)

Notably missing from this schedule are Aliens in America, Beauty and the Geek (just when I started watching it!), Farmer Wants a Wife, Girlfriends, Pussycat Dolls, Life is Wild and WWE Friday Night Smackdown.

It may appear that Reaper is also missing, but don’t worry, it’s coming back mid-season. So we are losing seven shows, and only gaining three, but I think these are good decisions. Maybe annoying reality TV is on the way out, which is a good thing. And apparently, at least on the CW, it’s being replaced with young adult soaps, which can also be a good thing. I guess we’ll find out.

Here’s a link back to the CW blog, where they have lots more info on the shows and what’s happening, as well.

I was surprised to see that they are reviving everyone’s favorite zip code in 90210. I wasn’t a huge fan of the original series, but I was certainly aware of it and I think it will be interesting to see how they have updated and modernized the show. I’m also interested cause I heard Rob Estes is in it and I’m in love with him. And I mean, really.

In any case, it looks like the CW has a great season set up for us and I’m looking forward to checking out the new shows. As for this summer, I plan to also try to catch up on some of the shows from this season that I just didn’t get a chance to watch the first time around. When I do, I’ll let you know all about. You count on that!

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.