Haven't used the blog here yet, so I figured what the heck :) During the season, our local NBC affiliate had pre-empted one of the L&O:CI episodes, so I finally got to see it tonight - "Shibboleth". It was a VERY interesting episode - looking at how even a single incident in a child's life can leave a lasting imprint that follows them into adulthood. Of course, it doesn't start out anywhere NEAR that, but it wouldn't be L&O if it did, eh? I also decided to check out the premier of "Wanted". Here's the commentary I posted over at the forum for that show: "I'm having real mixed feelings about it so far. There are just some things - like the discussion with the son about pubic hair - that seems to be there just to say "Ooh! Aren't I daring! Did you just hear me get vulgar?!" Sure, it's the kind of discussion fathers and sons might have, but it did NOTHING to advance the relationship between this father and son OR to advance the story - it just sort of stood out like a sore thumb. Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not opposed to ALL vulgarity. If it serves the story in some way - helps define a character, moves the plot along, makes a point or something like that, fine. For example, when the lead guys says "s***" after one of the cops dies, that works. It wouldn't make sense for the charater to just say "oh shucky darns" or something like that, you know? I just find it distracting when a show gets vulgar just for the sake of being vulgar, when there's no real purpose for it. My other concern is that some of the characters seem to be a bit too one-dimensional, though that's not unusual for a pilot episode. There's so much to compress into a single episode - introducing the show concept, setting the tone and introducting the charaters, that often the most it can do is give us the bare bones outline of the characters - so I'll give it some time on that point. Right now, though, I'm not as impressed as I would have liked to have been. It's got some promise, if it can flesh out the characters more and make more purposeful use of it's vulgarity, it might be ok." That's about it for now... summer sucks because so much of what's on are repeats. At least we get Rockstar: INXS the next three nights! That's a fun one :)