So, the season is starting. \o/ I do wonder how soon I will fall behind :D

( Hellcats 1x01 )

( Vampire Diaries 2x01 )

( White Collar 2x09 )

( leverage 3x13 )

( Rizzoli & Isles 1x09 )

( Nikita 1x01 )

( Merlin 3x01 )

And this was a slow week...

Not spoilery: OMG OMG OMG.

Spoilery ( OMG )

Last SPN episode seems to have proven definitely that ( spoilers kthxbye )

Higher brain functions can't be accessed.

Thought processes can be summarised as: What? How? What? FUCK. What?

I'm finally seeing a point in watching the Dollhouse, the last two episodes were actually like a Joss Whedon show.

( spoilers sleep in a box )

tl;dr: If you watched the first ep and found it lacking, try 1x06 and 1x07. It's almost like a different show.

Now, Sarah Connor Chronicles. Which continues to amaze me this season, and which I love like burning, because how many shows quote Virginia Woolf in the episode titles, and have kick-ass female characters with guns and emotions and mission and badassery? YES.

( if this show gets cancelled, I shall go on a killing spree )

Give a man a title of a Detective Sergeant, and a British accent, and he immediately rises on my scale of hotness by at least three points.

Watching Law & Order UK, already a great fan of Matt/Alesha and James/Alesha.

Yes, because I need another procedural to watch. But, Freema. And Jamie.

I have just cried my eyes out on an NCIS episode. That hadn't happened since... oh, wait. That never happened before.

This season is so awesomely, wonderfully good, it boggles my mind. Last season had been dreadful, season before that, mediocre. Now, they're back to the top form, best since season two, if not best ever.

All the crime shows are difficult to pull of after a while, there's only so much you can do with making the Case of the Week interesting and novel. Once in a while you can fuck with the format of the series and pull it off splendidly (CSI had some great episodes of that, for example, the Lab Rats last season was brilliant), but you can only do that a few times. In your third, fifth, or ninth season, you really have to rely on the characters.

And NCIS fucked that up last season, in my opinion, making some abysmally weird character choices (even Tony was annoying me. I love Tony, how could he annoy me?), but this season? Every damn character gets a moment to shine, and yet it doesn't feel forced. The ensemble works like a damn good piece of music; they keep working each other up, and annoying each other, and making fun of each other, but you see the love and trust and how good a family they are (also something that I love about My Good Boyfriend Show: CSI:NY). And it's so amazingly funny, the dialogue flies and oh my, Tony and Ziva and McGee worked up a fantastic banter camaraderie, I'm loving it. (I also love the shows where everyone makes fun of everyone regularly but it's never mean spirited: How I Met Your Mother, for example, or again, CSI:NY)

I was on the verge of giving it up this season, to be honest. God, that would have been stupid.