If you want something really, really bad...

Now that all my fall shows have roughly two thirds of their Seasons done, I thought I`d do another "progress" report.

Castle - same old, same old, the actually handle the coupleness of the main pairing reasonably well
Bones - I continue to watch for the interns. Hopefully, the Palant story is supposed to be done the next time it rears its ugly head. Tedious to the extreme.

Both NCIS and NCIS LA -the cases are pretty much bla-bla at this point and they don`t even slightly bother to put a Navy-jurisdiction spin on it for the most time. I still like the characters, though, on both teams. So depending on how they are written, I enjoy the ep. "Corresponding fish" might be the best thing ever, though. *g*

Criminal Minds - watch it out of habit mostly
Supernatural - took a VERY disappointing nosedive in quality after ep 9ish, now we`re back to the same status quo that I got sick of YEARS ago. Eh. ( spoilers )
Arrow - I`m easy, I just love Oliver kicking ass and shooting arrows in between moping in the batcave with Diggle tryin to cheer him up/talking him into and out of things

The Vampire Diaries - Strange Season. Stuff still happens at a fast pace and the characters are as amoral and teenager-y as ever but something doesn`t quite work. ( general spoilers )
Person of Interest - each episodes just manages to be so suspenseful, I`m usually at the edge of my seat when watching, loving it
Elementary - so far enjoying it quite a bit, though maybe I`m the only person on the planet who prefers the Holmes character to Watson. I like Joan and I like Lucy Liu but the quirky genius asshat draws me in more
Beauty and the Beast - major missteps recently, don`t know what they were thinking
The Big Bang Theory - normally I still like it fine but a recent episode made me nostalgic for the days when this was more profoundly tethered to geek culture instead of generic sitcom, the "who can pick up Thor`s hammer" discussion, almost against their will? Gold.

So, SPN ( 8.05 )

Some more "one sentence or less" TV ramblings this week:

Elementary 1.03 - great episode but highly disturbing IMO

Arrow 1.02 - seriously love Oliver in all of his angsty broodiness

Person of Interest 2.03 - Awwww

The Vampire Diaries 4.02 - missing Ripper!Stefan and not!Stelena soooo much

Supernatural 8.03 - not too happy about faux Season 1 tension, stop that

Beauty and the Beast 1.02 - still not entirely terrible, though glad pushy!Cat might be done

Haven 3.05 - Nathan, Nathan, Nathan *shakes head*

Man, haven`t done those in ages but with Samble out of the picture, I gave it a try:

Supernatural ( 8.01 )

In short: it doesn`t touch my personal fave openers Lazarus Rising and In my time of dying by a longshot but I liked it fine. Better than the last couple years anyway.

And in shallow terms: Eh, I think maybe a handful of men on Earth can sucessfully pull off the Tarzan/Fabio/flowing locks look - and none of them are or have ever beem on this show. My hand was twitching for scissors. So logical nitpicks aside, Dean in any incarnation? Looked insanely hot to me.

Little tidbits from Comic Con I gathered so far:

Aww, Grimm brought the entire cast. And they were cute together. From what was said, Season 2 sounds intriguing. ( General spoiler )

Vampire Diaries - I had hoped to see a few new faces in the line-up but okay. Yeah, Zach Roerig was there but sorry, Matt is just the least interesting character for me. Gotta wholeheartedly agree with ( Spoilers again )

A cute story from the panel: a fan asked a question that maybe the Con people thought was going in the wrong direction and preemptively cut the mike on her. The cast boo-ed that decision, telling them not to do it anymore and that answering the questions was what they had come for and getting to ask these question was why the people had queued for hours. So to please let them ask whatever they wanted, as Ian said.

Now, from what I gathered, the real "question" that they cut was rather inocuous in the end. Just an excited fan wanting to say hi to Trevino. And yes, as a con goer those kinds of things are annoying if you want true questions and juicy answers but geeze, let them ask it for gods' sakes.

The Merlin panel wasn't on yet as far as I know but I saw a spoiler-y interview. Only Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath there, though. Too bad, I would have liked the whole cast, at least the core characters. Again ( spoilers )

Lets see how SPN does today. Maybe they can finally give some spoiler that won't suck.

I had kind of a renewed interest after the last thirty seconds of the SPN Season 7 Finale but the first spoilers out have already cured that. Completely. Same old, same old.

( spoilers )

I'm not sure if this is the longest I've ever held on for a show that makes me wanna drive spikes through my head - nope, X-Files still holds that record, in the end I cried every year when I heard they renewed it. Still, Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins, I'm sending you my therapy bills. :-p

Meanwhile, I also read some basic spoilers for Season 5 of Fringe. And while those make my stomach clench, they do so in a good way. ( more spoilers )

I'm sad it will end after only 13 more episodes but if they manage to pull the last one off, too, they will have had an - for me - unparalleled winning streak. I can't recall ANY genre show like this where I liked ALL the Seasons. Even if I meassure only the first five years of all my shows, they always had at least one real stinker in them. Fringe, so far, hasn't had one. Sure, I have my fave as well - Season 2 - but that doesn't mean I hate the others.

So maybe it will be good to go out on a highpoint. Hopefully.

What do you know, Samble is out and Carver is back in on Supernatural. Guess the surprise "twists" these days on the show happen off- and not onscreen. *g*

Considering I loathed her as both writer (for the last 3,5 years) and showrunner (for the last two) with a bloody passion, my response is: good riddance, please don't ever return. Also considering I didn't watch his new show but was pretty okay with him as a writer when he left, my response is: hm, maybe things won't suck quite so abysmally now. Maybe.

I do think he doesn't hate Destiel, at least by the eps he has written.

In conclusion: YAYHM!!!

I feel like I have reached a breakthrough from the last SPN ep. Not that I found it great or anything though one or two scenes made me a little verklempt. But then we were right back in the familiar feeling of the last 2.5 years which is "this is hell and I'm in it".

However, for the first time since that bloody Season 5 Finale that I still hate with the passion of one million suns, I feel like I can go back and rewatch some of my fave scenes from earlier in the show. I just couldn't, knowing where it all went. We'll see if that feeling holds.