What happens when you have the TV on in the background while you are working.
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cognitive dissonance
cognitive dissonancemusic: Steeleye Span - Blackleg Miner
Mythbusters is officially the best thing on television.
I'm starting to be a little distressed by how much I like certain things about Criminal Minds, which I have been half-watching in reruns ever since I noticed Mandy Patinkin was on it, and since I decided that Matthew Gray Gubler could be my television child bride. Because, dude. Check out his website. (Which seems to be down right now, but here's the cache.)
(He can't be my television boyfriend, because he's like a sixteenth my age.)
Geeky boys, so hot.
The show is sometimes exploitative and the plots are a little painful and it's a little too ripped-from-the-headlines.... but it has three different strong female characters. And a fat girl who can dance. And an alpha geek. And more than one character with an ethnicity other than white Californian. And many of the actors actually can, when given half a chance.
And it keeps doing things that stun me a little. And taking some chances that made me sit up and go, "huh." Many of which revolve around the Gubler character, and his family secrets, and the hints that he's worried a bit about his own sanity. (His mother is non-functional schizophrenic, and there are hints that sometimes he himself sees things, and hears voices that explain things to him.) Also, giftedness seems to have a correlation with mental illness, and he's the kind of scary creative so-smart-he's-not-quite-human character that that TV so often completely screws up, except this one is playful and his team mates adore him and mother-hen him (because while he's a supergenius, he's also twenty-four or so), and he's also stupidly courageous.
And pretty good at manipulating people.
I wish I'd thought of this character, in short.
Dear Brain, and also CBS:
I realize that I have been hanging around with the slash crown too much, and they're rubbing off on me to the extent that I expect to start treating any evidence of affection or concern or rivalry between male characters as OMGTHEY'RESODOINGIT any second now. But I refuse to let you slash Mandy Patinkin with anybody. No matter how much I also like the other guy.
So stop it.
He's mine.
--OH
Word. Although I don't feel the slightet desire to slash any of them, because they'd pobably just go along for the clinical experience (as opposed, say, to the Boys of NCIS, whose brains would explode in ways that would amuse me).
It is WRONG that I enjoy this show so much more than CSI:NY. I mean, Mandy P, yeah. But Gary S! Is there no justice in this world?
Bah.
Please never make me think about Michael Weatherly with his pants off.
Love, Bear.
...I know what you mean about CSI:NY. There is not enough Robert Patrick and Dennis Haysbert in the world to make me watch The Unit.
I love the conjuring-up-images thing.
*love*
The mind boggles! What myth were they busting?
I have been hanging around with the slash crown too much, and they're rubbing off on me
No joke! I found an MP3 of the song "What was Robinson Caruso Doing With Friday on a Saturday Night" and have been in fandom so long that I was actually surprised by the heterosexuality of the answer.
Toast. Butter-side down. "It is a truth universally acknowledged...."
My favorite episode so far has been the one where they interview the "two" serial killers just before their execution. That was a serious tear jerker, and definitely raised all kinds of interesting ethical questions one doesn't usual see on a prime-time show.
*has mad love for your icon*
As someone in
Chantal
Also that Buster doesn't get a big enough paycheck.
And I love Garcia. She's not a bit like Abby. (Who I love even more.) But they would be a LOT of fun to go bowling with.
Hustle really surprised me, since it's a rather slick show. I like the characters immensely, but I haven't seen enough of it to really make more comment.
And Mythbusters should be on everyone's Must See list. I mean, how cool is it to disprove/prove urban myth?
Ahem. I've been watching the show since it started because, hey, Mandy Pantinkin. But Reid caught my eye, and other portions of my anatomy, quite quickly. It fascinates me how very very brave he is, not only physically but emotionally as well. It's as if he missed that whole defending your heart and image lecture most males seemed to have internalized. I wanted, af first, to say it's childlike but it isn't. Children have no idea of the risks they're taking; Reid does and he goes ahead. And he's a geek! And cheekbones! And and....
MKK
He totally is. I'm in love with him because that particular aspect of his character reminds me very much of *my* character, synchronistically named Matthew. (Otherwise they're not too much alike.)
He's geeky and sometimes too intense to remember his sense of humor and sometimes he can be a little bit of a jerk.... but it's funny, because when he *is* a jerk, it's totally calculated.
The bit from the episode with the family killer, where he intentionally provoked the guy who's been falsely convicted of the crime by asking him if "continued the cycle of abuse" is just great.
And there's the whole egolessness thing. He will ask for reassurance, and he'll show fear (even sometimes when he doesn't feel it), and he's just generally such a fantastically cute geekboy.
I love that character *a lot*
And he has his moments of emotional cowardice too--the thing with his mom. That was just awful.
didya know that pauley perette (who plays abby) has a master's degree in criminology? i found that amusing.
the unit has surprised me a bit. not that i'll be adding it to my regular schedule (what there is of it), but the episodes i've seen were a lot less rah-rah than i had expected, and i like that they don't go for pure action, but include the life at home as well. but it's still too ... theatrical for my taste.
and i can't for the life of me get into CSI:NY. i don't know why not. it leaves me completely cold. i don't even like CSI:miami because of the giant ego that is horatio / david caruso, but i'll watch that over the NY show any day (because at least it has bullet girl).