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Long Weekend In Review
I work for the government, so I had yesterday off in honor of Veteran's Day. It was just as well because after Sunday night, I didn't feel much like even getting out of bed. Here are my thoughts on Moonlight, Cold Case, The Big Bang Theory, and K-ville.
Moonlight:
In Friday's episode, we had a death in a fire of a lady with a tattoo on her back and the murder was committed by a dead guy. Oh yeah...and to top it all off, the photojournalist capturing all this looks exactly like Mick's dead vampire ex-wife. I don't know about y'all, but I knew the whole time. I didn't know how she'd done it, but I just knew Morgan was Coraline. Until Mick catches on, I'm going to call her Coragan. I do hope he catches on soon because now he trusts her since he can find no reason to believe she's Coraline.
I want to know how she did it. That last scene when she rubbed the makeup off her tattoo made me so mad, but now I want to know how she did it. Neither Mick nor Josef could smell vampire on her, so I just want to know how in the world she did it. My other question is about the guy who killed the girl in the fire. Is he now a vampire? He attacked Mick at the cemetery, but by that point he'd been dead for a while.
I do wish that Mick had told Beth about Coragan being the one who kidnapped her all those years ago. Hopefully this will come in one of the next few episodes.
We got to see more of Josef in this episode and more importantly more of Josef and Mick together. I loved their little field trip to Hank's house to find clues about the guy. Josef cracks me up whenever he shows his teeth. It's like a hungry animal licking his lips, which isn't entirely off base for vampires. When he got right up on Coragan to smell her I thought he was just going to lay into her. It was cool to get to see Josef jump like Mick does, but the funniest part was when he sat down on the bed and started bouncing on it. Cracked me up.
Josef did of course have the best line of the night: "One of these days, you're gonna have to stop hating what you are." I know Mick hates being a vampire because of the primal instincts that come with it, but it's so true that he's going to have to embrace it eventually. That statement by Josef is so completely true about so many people including to some degree, yours truly. Eventually, you have to find a way to love yourself for who you are.
Cold Case:
I've said this before, but I'll say it again. I HATE THE EPISODES WHERE THE VICTIM IS A KID! And then this one was about 4 little boys who were killed over an 8 year period. The "doer" turned out to be an adult who had a disturbing childhood where his counselor at his orphanage made him stand inside a box for days at a time. So, as a revenge, he's killed kids who resemble the kids who beat him into submission at the orphanage because the counselor made them all stand in boxes whenever Malik did something wrong. Punishing all for one. It was seriously disturbing to watch this episode.
A couple of questions I had:
*How come it took the team as long as it did to figure out the kids were being taken from an arcade? I got it from the tickets and the little toy in the plastic container.
*Why didn't Malik go after the actual kids (who are adults now) who cut off his finger and tortured him all those years ago? I know he's probably a child trapped in an adult body, but a revenge killing makes more "sense" if you kill the actual people rather than associate those people onto others.
Again, this was just a sad, sad episode.
The Big Bang Theory:
On a happier note, The Big Bang Theory was on last night. I look forward to this show every week because it always makes me laugh.
Last night, Raja's parents arranged a date for him with an Indian girl from his past in the hopes that he would get married and give them grandbabies, and his friends couldn't be concerned for him long enough to help him. They just couldn't focus and kept moving on to other subjects. So, Raja put feelers out for new friends while trying to figure out how to get through the date. I loved Howard acting like Raja on the phone with Lalita to set up the meeting time. That was spot on. And apparently, Howard's parents have used every avoidance mechanism in the book to keep their marriage a happy one.
To help out Penny, the gang agreed to be bar patrons so she could practice her drink mixing skills. In the process, Howard asked for a slippery nipple, Leonard a tequila sunrise, and Sheldon a rum and coke (hold the rum and make it diet). Raja got a grasshopper, which after one sip gave him the courage to actually talk to Penny...I think the first woman he's ever spoken to in his life other than the women in his family. It also provided the best line of the night: "How can I be a gynecologist? I can't even look a woman in the eye?" So, the gang figured out that Raja could get through the date if he had a grasshopper.
At the date, Raja ended up being an obnoxious drunk who kept tell Lalita that she looked much better now that she's not fat. Yeah...that wins the girls over EVERY TIME. Sheldon showed up and stole Raja's date because Lalita looked like an Indian princess from a children's book his mother used to read him when he was sick. Turns out Sheldon just wanted to talk to her that one night. I'm not completely sure that Sheldon even knows that dating exists. In the end though, Penny was able to loosen Sheldon up a bit by spiking his rum and coke (hold the rum and make it diet). This sent Sheldon into a performance of all the songs from Fiddler on the Roof. Fantastic episode.
I have to say the bit with Sheldon and the rum and coke reminded me of Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces when he went to the diner and wanted toast, but it was past breakfast time. So he asked for chicken salad on toast hold the chicken salad. To which the waitress asked where he'd like her to hold it. Jack's response: Between your knees. One of the greatest movie scenes of all time.
K-ville:
Finally, K-ville returned after the world series and that 2 hour Prison Break. And this week we dealt with Cobb's past catching up with him. Cobb and Boulet are really getting the hang of each other and are able to cover their behinds a little better. If I caught this right, Trevor Cobb was Trevor Laurette. I don't remember seeing the last name on the mug shot in the pilot, but I could be wrong. It may have been there.
Trevor's "friends" from his past of course didn't completely trust him when he just showed up all of a sudden. They tried to double cross him with the antique store heist, but Boulet cut them off at the pass. We did find out that Cobb had a relationship with his buddy's girlfriend and that they had planned to run off together. Then the jail time came for Trevor and then the storm. Oh the obstacles of love amongst felons.
So one of Trevor's friends had Trevor pegged the whole time he just didn't know why he didn't trust Trevor. Tilly was a loose cannon and that obviously reared its ugly head at the end when he exploded the C-4 (Boulet had a nice decoy operation on the supply guy with the spicy food.). Quinton still didn't trust him completely, but trusted him enough to have him run a job with him. Problem was that Quinton just didn't give Trevor much information to go on. Wanda, Quinton's girlfriend, followed Trevor where she saw him meet up with Boulet and then squealed on him to Quinton and Tilly. They forced Trevor to finish the job because he was the only one who could do the explosives.
Trevor tried to save Wanda and the innocent victims of the house raid, but Wanda ended up getting shot in the back by Quinton who got away. This was a scary episode because I just kept waiting for the two worlds to cross paths and the Embry to figure it all out. But of course, if he does, there's no show.
In the midst of all this, Boulet found out that his wife was spending some time with another guy while she was in Atlanta. She said nothing physical ever happened, but emotional cheating is sometimes worse. They seemed to make up in the end, but I think their relationship will continue to be a rocky one.
Looking forward to your comments. I LOVE reading them, and a lot of times they help me see something I missed or understand something in a completely different way. So, keep 'em comin'.
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Nov 13, 2007 4:57 PM
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I'm really enjoying Big Bang Theory as well. I wish they'd tone down the laugh track, and stop making nearly everything Sheldon says a one liner said as a quip followed by fake laughs. Other than that, I really like this show. Last night's episode was great. Howard doing the Indian Accent and getting called a Simpson's character was awesome. As was Lalita asking which kind of Indian (Native American or her kind.) This show is a lot of fun, and would be so much better if they made Sheldon less a walking laugh track and let him be an over the top character who doesn't come across as phony as he does much of the time.
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Nov 13, 2007 6:02 PM
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Moonlight is my new favorite show. It's so much fun to sit down on a Friday night and unwind with Mick, Beth and Josef. I also can't wait to find out how Coraline (Morgaline, Coragan, whatever. LOL) fooled Mick and Josef.
Is it Friday night yet?
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Nov 13, 2007 7:10 PM
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Who was Wanda in the 11/12/07 episode in K-Ville?
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Nov 13, 2007 7:19 PM
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dafoxters:
Wanda was the red-head with Cobb's former friends. The one who followed him and saw him meet up with Boulet. She was played by Brigid Brannagh from Army Wives.
wondergirl9847:
I know what you mean about is it Friday, yet. I used to get excited because it was Friday. Now I get excited because it means Moonlight is on.
Darclyte:
I think Sheldon is pretty over the top. He objects to just about everything the gang wants to do because it goes against his norm. He's your classic, completely stereotypical geek who doesn't know how to merge with the world outside his science lab. I think we'll see some heavy duty Sheldon in one of the upcoming episodes when Sheldon and Leonard are given credit for one of their research projects and Sheldon doesn't want to share the spotlight with Leonard.
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Nov 14, 2007 9:51 AM
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