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I finally got the chance to watch the second half of the season finale of Lost.

I truly love this show, they always go that one step further, but now they are starting to answer questions.

Who was in the coffin?

How did Jin die? (I don't think he is really dead.. I hold out hope!)

What made Jack hit the booze and pills?

How they 6 got rescued?

Just wow!

But... my question is this... did Daniel and the others on the Zodiac get killed too?

Did they make it to the freighter?

Or are they on their way back to the island after the freighter blew up?

Sawyer made it back alright, so I am assuming if you are within so many miles/yards that you are 'with' the island.

Which explains why the freighter wreckage disapeared when the island disapeared.

What do you think? Daniel dead too?

Let me start off by saying OH MY GOD! Wow what an episode. For this one I will do a full recap. I apologize if I have left out details. I only watched it the once so I am going on memory!

The imagery in this episode (in my eyes) was really powerful. Lots of little moments were slowed down to be captured. Grissom outside the bar, in the steam and flashing lights; the look on his face highlighted. Later the gang leaving the restaurant one by one, pausing almost as they walked through the door. And at the end… wow.

The episode starts off with a funeral. Women are singing and the pallbearers are carrying a coffin. One man looks to be struggling and I thought for a second, on no! He is going to drop the dead guy! But we here a creaking and a white man falls through and then a very large black man falls on top of him.

I personally didn’t realize he was that large or the coffin was that large until Nick and Grissom were talking about it. And behind him, David was struggling to do up the body bag!

The family of the bereaved didn’t want to let the coroner or the crime lab take the dead man away, saying they were here to bury him and who was going to buy a new coffin?? Nick generously offered and the widow stopped a mini riot from happening when they tried to take the man away.

We discover that man who wasn’t supposed to be in the coffin was a private investigator that Warrick had previously hired to help dig up dirt on Lou Gedda over the murder of the dancer, Joanna, and over the people that Gedda has been barbequing over the years.

Warrick leaves the morgue and heads back to the lab.
Later Hodges goes to give Warrick some lab results but over hears a very heated phone conversation which you just know will come back to bite Warrick in the a$$. Warrick leaves the lab as Hodges runs off and hides.

Grissom is told that Warrick knew the PI and is not happy. He calls Warrick and leaves a message. Then Grissom receives a phone call from Warrick, he demands to know where Warrick is but Warrick is saying he doesn’t know what happened. Gedda is dead. We see Warrick covered in blood, holding a gun and as the police enter the room, we see that Gedda is dead in his barber chair.

Grissom rushes to the scene and speaks to Warrick alone. He asks what happened and is told that Warrick doesn’t remember, all he knows is he came here to the club after receiving a phone call from Gedda. Grissom tells him to get a lawyer and Brass comes in and says the same thing. Oh poor Warrick... he looks like a mess!

Warrick refuses a lawyer and he is being interviewed up IAB, his clothes are taken away by Eckley and he is given an orange jumpsuit. Even Eckley tells him to get a lawyer.
He tells the IAB guy he doesn’t remember what happened and IAB is snotty with him, asking if it’s on purpose that he doesn’t remember. We slowly start to watch Warrick lose his cool as he can’t remember. We see his flash backs of him walking down the hall calling for Gedda with his gun out and then he wakes up covered in blood and Gedda dead. IAB brings up the dead girl and Warrick talks about Joanna... IAB stops him and says no, Holly Gribbs.

Holly was the brand new CSI shot to death by a returning murderer on her first day of work and the season 1 pilot. Warrick, it turned out, left her alone to go place bets for a dirty judge. Warrick then says he wants a lawyer.

Nick notices Hodges speaking with an AIB lady, and wants to know what he said. Hodges is reluctant but tells him anyway. Nick is upset about it, but Hodges just says he told the truth as he saw it.

Grissom, Catherine, Nick and Greg discuss Warrick and the case. They are trying to treat it as just ‘another’ case but poor Nick can’t do it. It’s Warrick. Greg is cool and detached and says that it looks like Warrick did and the evidence is saying he did. Nick gets really upset but Greg says the jury will tear him apart. They will see a rogue cop and a dead gangster. It won’t go over well... Greg knows.

They decide to take a look at the evidence again and they discover that Gedda had chloroform in his blood, so he must have died almost right away after getting dosed. So they go back over the evidence, Warrick’s shirt has a weird blood drop pattern on it, they think it is from Warrick being held up (with someone supporting him under the arm pits) to shoot the gun. Hodges gets a fake blood spray right in the face as he is ‘Warrick’. They also notice that the cuff marks on Gedda is different the Warrick’s cuffs.

They decide to go over the people who are at Gedda’s death and the other crime scenes since they still need to find out who killed the PI. They discover a cop’s print on the coffin and he turns out to be at the other scenes, Officer Pritchard. No one has seen him since yesterday so they open his locker. The gun and his cuffs are missing. Grissom tests his cuff key for blood and it’s positive.

Warrick is let go, Grissom tells him that the under sheriff is going to decide if Warrick will be suspended and demoted or fired. Warrick hugs Grissom and tears up a little. We are all relieved! Brass is a little standoffish to Warrick and I am reminded of Brass’s feelings since day 1 when Holly was killed. Brass has never really liked Warrick.

Warrick, Grissom, Catherine, Nick and Greg all go out for breakfast; Nick is teased about staring at the waitress. They comment about how the food is bad here but no one comes for the food. It is a sweet moment. We find out Greg finished his mobster book and his going away to meet with the publishers! Then one by one they all leave, posing (?) in the door way. Catherine gives Warrick a kiss on the cheek as she is leaving and tells him to call her if he wants to talk. I am scared that as Warrick goes through the door he will be shot but he makes it to his car alright. Nick is left at the restaurant to chat up the waitress.

Warrick gets into his car and starts it, there is a knock on the window and we see it is the under sheriff, telling Warrick he is happy that Warrick was exonerated and he looks forward to seeing Warrick at work.( I’m sorry I am sketchy on what exactly the under sheriff said to him).
Warrick turns away to look forward and as the sheriff is about to leave, he pulls out a gun and shoots Warrick in the neck. We get slow motion as we see Warrick’s body take the hit but Warrick is still alive. They zoom out and the under sheriff fires another shot at Warrick. Finally Warrick slumps forward and the episode is over.


Wow, just wow. I didn’t think they would kill(?) Warrick off. And I am extra shocked that is the under sheriff that did it! I never did like him... but wow!!

However we don’t actually see Warrick dead, there is a possibility that come next season Nick could find him alive. Poor Nick, this is just going to crush him.

What do you guys think??? Did they do a good job with Warrick’s ending?

Oh I can't wait!!

The season finale for CSI is on tonight!
Poor Warrick! I will miss him, he has always been my favorite character and the show won't be the same without him


Monday has Bones.. what will happen to Booth? Who will die? Who is Gormagon?

And House as well... What is wrong with Amber? Why was she on the bus?

And Lost.. who could forget Lost? I can't really say anything about it since I still haven't watched the last few episodes that I recorded. I know that's wrong but I don't have enough time right now.

And then So You Think You Can Dance starts on Thursday, YAY!!

I admit I don't like American Idol's David Archulata.

Sure he has great voice and in the beginning I thought he was best thing next to sliced bread. I loved Mandissa and Melinda and LaKisha too and then they got boring.

But he got boring. The same style of songs over and over again. He didn't really change them and some of them were quite dated and some of them I didn't know.

I liked Micheal Johns, Kristy Lee Cook towards the end, Sayesha and my favorite is David Cook.

Maybe because my favorite type of music is alternative like what David C does.

The Mariah Carey song he did is my all time fav, before and after he did it.

So why am I a hater? Am I not allowed to have an opinion? Why do people jump down your throats on this site? And not just about American Idol. I don't understand how some one can be THAT passionate about fictional characters or someone that they will probably never meet and in 3 years forget about.

IT IS TV. IT ISN'T YOUR LIFE.

Take a step back, take a deep breathe... and remember other people are allowed to have an opinion too even if you don't agree with them, doesn't make them wrong. It makes it an opinion.

So that is my rant for the day!

Sorry this recap is a bit late.. Softball season has started, thank god for PVR!!

This episode was written by the writers from Two and a Half Men, Lee Aronsohn and Chuck Lorre. Apparently they were NOT making fun of any previous female leads that they worked with.... apparently.... (like Rosanne Barr or Cybill Shepard)

We had an all star cast for this week as well.. Diedrich Baker (The Drew Carey Show), Katy Sagal (Married with Children), and Stephen Tobolowsky to name a few.

There was a lot of little comments and bits in this episode that was almost like behind the scenes commentary, the emmy Grissom picked up, the 'jump the shark' comment from Brass. The pointing out of Charlie Sheen and his co-stars from Two and a Half Men. Megan Kupowski's explanations of what had 'actually' happened.
Her character really reminded me of Cybill Shepard's best friend Mary-Anne on Cybill.

All and all I really liked it! It was a fun episode with some witty dialogue and pointed jokes. Lots of familiar faces.
Next week though....
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It looks like Warrick's drug problem rears it's ugly head again... and brings up back to the storyline from pre-strike with the strip club and the mobsters!!

I love when I watch I show I really enjoy and I actually learn something!

This weeks CSI was another classic, funny CSI.

The beginning opened normally enough I guess... dead deer with a pink tutu, woman wearing foil wanting to make complaints and warning people. Green blood and Doc Robbins taking pictures for his scrapbook! Classic CSI!

I have to say I love Brass, I love how the writers have developed his character: he started off angry and mad at everything, was tired and beaten for awhile, and has progressed through all the other stages to be the hard worn, caring cop.

His comment 'Light him up' was awesome little did he know it was literally going to happen!

It was an overall good episode where people and the cases were oddly attached to each other. It was completely believable, IMO.

Another character that is developing quite nicely is Hodges. I am glad that he isn't as irritating as he was when first introduced. Hodges and Wendy have quite the little chemistry going on. Her correcting him on the Star Trek trivia was priceless, especially when she kept giving him tidbits about Spock (Ambassador Spock that is).

I definitely caught the Mythbuster’s cameo! Those guys rule!!

I wonder how they will write Warrick out of the script; I am worried that it will be completely stupid and disappointed. Like his 5 minute drug addiction will come back or something. Remember Aidan from CSI NY?? They wrote her off and brought her back in a really good way.
For those that don't know, she was working a serial rapist case and ended up falsifying evidence against him (as she was so passionate about protecting the victim from a possible 3rd attack). She ended up fired but came back the next season still working the case but was murdered over it.
They don't have to do the same thing for Warrick, but please make it plausible and respectable!

I am looking forward to next week with Two and a Half Men!

Now this is CSI at it's finest.

The case is about Drops.. our resident rapper/gangster, Method Man and how people he knows are dead or missing.
Essentially people were found dead in 2 apartments he owned/rented and his very pregnant girlfriend was missing. Then his business man was murdered and his girl friend's best friend was murdered as well.

Overall it was a really good episode, there was alot of funny lines from Drops, Brass and Nick.
We had an actual story line that finished and made sense. There wasn't too much in the way 'out there' things (other then Drops being released from jail to help solve the case).

At the end I felt really bad for Drops, he lost the woman that helped raise him, his girlfriend and his baby. I understand why Drops hid his money like that but I also understood where Dana was coming from in taking the baby and leaving.
I am happy we saw lots of Nick and a little of Catherine. I missed Warrick, he had what, one line?

This episode turned out to be a good one, very sad but really good. In the beginning it reminded me of season 7's Burn Out with Alan Tudyk, which turned out to be an amazingly sad episode.
I am glad though, that they didn't take the child molestation route with this one and it was more sad for revealing the true nature of her death.

A few things I have noticed though.. Catherine is really cranky about cases involving children and occasionally women. Hodges remarked on it as well to Grissom about ticking off Catherine. I loved Grissom's response though, she was heading that way when she came in.

Another thing, Warrick do up a button on your shirt! It looks so sloppy and it really bugs me! (even though I heart Warrick). I am glad we got to see more of Nick and Warrick and that things are back to normal.

Jay Paulson, who played Dean James/Leo Finley really creeped me out at the end. I will admit, I jumped and kind of screamed when Catherine turned around and he was in her face! I think that he will be back in the future to deal with his promise of blowing his brains out on her front lawn. I hope he does come back, he is a good actor. And his fiance was a hoot.

The case overall was sad, she died playing hide and seek and because her step father panicked and took the bus in stead of calling an ambulance. I am really glad it wasn't a case of neglect or child abuse. Just an accident. Although I found dying her hair to be rather odd. And the sad part was, when they showed the child with her natural hair color it didn't look right. Go figure.
The death of the mother at the end was sad and senseless as well, but also really quick and forced. Plus no one mentioned it later on.

Hodges was right when he was talking to Catherine and Grissom, it is always tragic when a child is dead but for some reason it is extra tragic when it was a beautiful child. It is weird how society works, how shallow we are. But I understood what he was saying and I think Grissom might have as well from the look he gave Hodges.

Overall I really enjoyed this episode and can say CSI is back!! Yay!

Ok.. I hate to say it.. but I wasn't overly impressed with CSI's return.
Personally it felt like a really choppy episode.
No mention of Warrick's previous issues.. he must be all better now.
No mention really of Sara, I am assuming that Grissom's phone call at the end was her.
The AD was an interesting character, it was a shame that she was never introduced before. I thought her comments about the team members to be petty. At least Gill let it roll of his back. I thought it was cute how they were all sick and still working. Poor Greg.

I unfortunately seemed to have missed something, the real reason why the father-in-law killed his daughter's husband? To me it felt like there was something missing.

I hope next week is better, the previews make it look really good!

I was so glad to see a new CSI last night!
And it was really interesting to see a new case setting as well. The bull riding competitions!
It was a big surprise to see Jewel actually singing the national anthem and to see Nicole Sullivan as well. She is such a funny woman. This episode realy reminded me of a show I watched last year that followed 3 bullriders through all the circuits, it was a neat show.
I felt so bad for that poor cowboy Cody, decorating his truck for his bride to be, waiting for hours but it turns out she was hit by a car. A car carrying two semen rustlers (that was an odd storyline) who helped along the bullrider we saw in the beginning who got kicked in the head.

I was also shocked to see Warrick calling in Cody, who was sitting in the truck with a shotgun to his head. I thought he would have been in trouble, but Nick was glad he was back on the job. So am I!! I hope that new moody pill popping Warrick is gone for good.

One funny moment in the lab, Hodges telling Catherine he cried at the end of Brokeback Mountain too and that it takes a real man to admit it. Ha!

What say you guys? Was it up to CSI standards?

CSI: Las Vegas

So I thought this week’s episode was much better then last week, I still think that all the anger towards Warrick, while understandable, felt very forced.

So we start out looking at what we assume is a very hung-over and hurting Warrick, who is being interviewed by internal affairs. They are questioning him on the death of Candy, the stripper. The IAB detective feels that Warrick was blurring professional and personal boundaries at work and makes a few comments about Warrick’s pill popping along with the 300$ worth of alcohol he drank the night before.
They clear Warrick pretty quickly of any wrong doing (yay!) but he was sent home by a very pissed off Grissom and told not interfere with the case any longer. But of course, Warrick doesn’t listen.
He discovers that the there are only 2 sets of prints in his car, his and that of the bum that was hanging around last week. So they go to find the bum who is sleeping off his meth high in a tent city. Brass finds a bloody knife, Candy’s phone and purse underneath the bum.
Back in interrogation, the bum is high and unable to answer any questions; he seems to keep agreeing with Brass and Grissom. Warrick busts in and accuses the bum of taking the rap for Pegrelle and the bum stands up and starts yelling at Warrick. Basically blaming him for what had happened. Warrick is kicked out of the room by Grissom and argues with him in the hallway. Grissom tells Warrick that he is suspended for 2 weeks or he can be fired, the choice is his.
They cut to an officer in the shadows in the police station who calls Pegrelle to let him know that Warrick was suspended for 2 weeks.

Case #2 is a more sensitive topic dealing with dog fighting; I have noticed already there have been a few comments posted about it. I personally am glad that they are making a big deal of it. People should know it is a horrible thing and not only the ‘vicious’ breeds that suffer for it.
I am really happy we got to see Doc Robbins’s singing and his band, he is actually pretty good with his ‘moldy oldies’!!

The case is this: a woman is found dead with many dog bites, in a mass dog grave in the desert. It turns out Doc Robbins does know her, he saw her last night at the charity function where his band played. She won a humanitarian award. But in reality she was Las Vegas’s worst dog fighter or best in that her dogs always won. The victim worked out of a kennel where an informant, Tommy, was placed to infiltrate the dog fighting ring. Tommy couldn’t stand what was happening and that she wasn’t being stopped so he stopped her. The victim was murdered in the kennel, beaten, euthanized and then chewed on by the injured/saved fighting dogs. She was then dumped in the desert.
The husband knew all about it, which was the reason he left early, so she would go to the kennels to get what was coming to her.

All and all, it was a good episode. It was nice to see the interaction in the lab and I got a kick out of Hodges’s warning to Wendy about being an ass kisser! I think he really likes her!
I felt so sorry for the dogs, what an awful thing to go through, to me though, the saddest scene was the chihuahua shivering in the cage next to the bandaged dog. How pathetic and sad it looked.
It was nice to see Catherine and Det. Vega. As well as some Nick time! I loved the little comments he was making to the gangster couple while they were searching the house, but I only understood a little bit of what was said.

Much better then last week, I hope that Warrick gets his sh*t together sooner rather then later. Also it seems like this case may have a few episodes left in it. I hope it gets solved before they run out of new episodes.