At the risk of being a follower, I have been sorely neglecting my new year’s resolution to waste more time on the Internet this year, at least as far as writing on the Blog is concerned.  I do read my World of Warcraft blogs regularly (don’t you worry, kids!), and I even logged onto Facebook this morning and confirmed a few people as friends, which is a rare event indeed, as I’m quite frightened of Facebook and its creepy habit of making people from the distant past reappear.  Anyway, so I’m going to let MrHattyHat’s recent post inspire me to copycat-ism, and post a follow-up on this season’s television lineup, which I wrote a preview post on some time ago.

So based on the shows I expressed interest in previously, here’s how the season has shaken down:

1. Fringe: Fox keeps calling it their smash hit, but I gave up on it early, and I think MrHattyHat is generally right about it, though I don’t feel so strongly as he does.
2. Knight Rider: I cannot express strongly enough my surprise that this lasted beyond the pilot, which I choked down 15 minutes of before my brain sprouted hands through my ears in order to poke out my eyes.
3. Life on Mars: Pretty lame.  Journeyman was way more interesting by the time it got cancelled.  Dropped it from the DVR after two episodes.
4. Kath & Kim: Not nearly as funny as it might have been.  Dropped it after one episode.
5. My Own Worst Enemy: I dropped this one after four or five episodes, and then it was cancelled.  It had potential but was way too convoluted. 
6. Eleventh Hour: I never actually watched this one.  Too derivative of CSI.
7. Crusoe: By the time this premiered, it was plain to see it was way too closer to the Charmed side of the production value scale, and not near enough to the Rome side, as it was supposed to be.
8. Kings (NBC: Winter): This one’s about to start, but it looks much less interesting now than it sounded before.  I doubt I’ll bother with it.

Other shows I’m watching that are coming back:

1. Bones: Still watching this one.  It probably fits the same criteria as MrHattyHat’s description of 24, but I’m interested in the characters now.  By and large, it’s ridiculous, but still entertaining.  I think the same way about House, which I now watch on USA once in a while.
2. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: I liked this show, but I just never made time for it.  I would probably get it from Netflix sometime and catch up on it.
3. Supernatural: I’m still into this show, but it gets bumped all the time because Thursday is too crowded.  I’ll catch up online.
4. Heroes: Emphatically dropped.
5. Chuck: Still good, still watching. 
6. The Office: I like that its short and funny.  I laughed my butt off after the Super Bowl when Angela threw her cat up into the ceiling.
7. Life: I’m glad this show is seeing a revival.  It’s one of my current favorites.  Charlie Crews is a great character.
8. Pushing Daisies: Still love the writing.  Still watching.
9. CSI: I still like this show, but I haven’t been able to watch much because it’s on crowded Thursdays.  I need to catch up on what I’ve missed.  I think Laurence Fishburne has taken the place of the departed William “Gil Grissom” Petersen, which is a shame, because he was good on the show.
10. Lost: I’m of pretty much the same mind as MrHattyHat on Lost.  I used to really love this show, but its harder and harder to follow.  I’m still invested in the characters, but its starting to lose its grip on me.  The fact that they have to make a whole other show called Lost: Untangled just to explain the show to people can’t be a good thing.  They’ve made the mistake of stretching the mysteries out over too much time, and now when they try to make these big reveals, people just scratch their heads, trying to remember why that particular revelation was significant.  I’m still watching, but its getting closer to the edge.

 

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