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Yeah, had yet another one of those nights where I wake up on the couch after having fallen asleep without realizing it (is there any other way?) at 9:30am. I woke up at 2am, tapped the Guy awake (he'd fallen asleep on the loveseat), and we dragged ourselves to bed. And then I couldn't get back to sleep, and kept waking him up, so I transferred BACK to the couch, moved a floor lamp over so I could read, stopped reading, and watched some hilarious CSI: Miami episodes. Then I finally started nodding off around 5am, and got two and a half more hours of sleep. That's when Mermaid sat down on my feet and turned the TV on again, to watch a recording of Ace of Cakes.
Right now, the arc that's showing on cable is the one where Eric is shown to be buying a huge wad of weed; and then in the next episode, he's shown running to this girl he knows in front of the hospital, in front of Calleigh. Then, in the episode after that, the other CSI guy, Wolfe, mentions how he's sick of covering for him on his days off, and where the hell has be been?
In any case, the penultimate episode in this arc was shown last night, where we FINALLY discover that Eric's been buying pot for his cancer-ridden drop-dead-gorgeous sister, and spending time getting her to eat, etc etc etc.
What happens as soon as we, the audience, learns who the chickie is he almost risked his job for? Let's see...the LEAST romantic character, and most awkward character of the bunch, Horatio, has dinner with Eric's sister Marisol; and Eric himself is shown flirting beyond heavily with Boa Vista in the storage locker (which has chain link walls, hence, is see through). I guess once the coy pretense of the "false ship" is done away with, it's go on full force with the REAL relationships and flirtations. It was very funny how unsubtle it was. It was like the writers were held back by Eric's mystery girl plot thread.
About the ONLY character who said anything that made any sense was Wolfe (who had his eye shot with a nail only two weeks before, and yet has no swelling or black eye from the incident? what?), who said that HE thought that office romances were a Really Bad Idea. Of course, this was AFTER he saw Boa Vista and Eric doing the firtly dance in the room without walls. And admitted he'd thought of asking Boa Vista out on a date. (You'll notice, if you watch this show, how there are almost no actual no-see-through walls there are in the sets.)
On a separate note, Three Way, directed by Jonathon Glassner himself, has got to be, in retrospect, perhaps the funniest of the Miami CSI episodes. That's not counting the episodes that use complete and total science fictional technology (esp computer tech) that doesn't exist yet. Those are a hoot. I just love it when perps just spill EVERYTHING in a bad imitation of British Cottage Mysteries. You know...Poirot sits everyone down in the living room and tells them what happened. In this case, it's Horatio giving the perps his case, and the lawyers for the opposition what his side is going to go for. Alan Shore would make mince meat of this guy.
Anyhow, Three Way is the episode where three women friends, all married, come to Miami for a break and to have fun. And have fun they do: they ALL end up sleeping with the poor tennis pro they all met by the pool. Or maybe he was a pool employee. I'm not sure - but it's not the point. This poor guy get sex from at least two of the women, but in every case...well, let's say that Wiley E. Coyote never had it that bad. This episode was nothing more than a Tex Avery Warner Brothers Cartoon, a Looney Toons. The victim gets wonked in the head, twice, then thrown down the stairwell (by accident, but still), then dragged into a car trunk, then let out of a car trunk, still alive, and then finally gets his neck snapped in the hotel boiler room by the enraged husband of one of the wives, who was there about one of her friends, whom he was sleeping with.
The first time I saw that episode, I was like, huh? Is this for real? The second time I watched it, I watched it more closely - and sure 'nuff...Jonathon Glassner has a really keen sense of humor. Black sense of humor? I can see why he grabbed this one for himself.
If you watch any of CSI Miami, watch Three Way. It's not your typical CSI Miami episode, but it's pretty darned deserving of another look.
The other episodes? Um...no.
Vote more Most Annoying Character: the ME, the woman who cooes and caresses the bodies of the victims, no matter WHAT they were like in real life. She's creepy, really. And simply annoying.
Calleigh, the blonde, doesn't annoy me as much as she used to, but man, she has bad taste in men. Her luck with men runs about the same as Sam Carter's on Stargate. I wonder if they're related somehow?
Eric is okay. He looks great in a thin sweater, and he is very watchable, for the fluff potential. His story arc with his sister was a real tease and a waste of time.
Wolfe (I forget his first name) is fine. He's not great looking or anything, but he has the most authentic feel of any of the characters. I guess it's because he's not "pretty". And man, can he scream, espeically when he's got a fake nail poking out of his eye socket. That was pretty gruesome. Considering how held back and relatively unemotional these people tend to be (strange for such a Hot locale) that was a real breakout in the acting department.
And then there's Horatio, the Red-Headed Cop o' Doom. Um...although I can't quite see how this show would get along without this particular character (he's stamped all over it) overall, I much prefer Grissom. They're both emotionally constipated men, but the actor who plays Grissom actually seems to have some chops. This guy, well, I sometimes get the feeling he's trying to outdo William Shatner at his own game. Sorry, can't be done. Shatner is the scenery-chewing master. Horatio is a tangle of pat body language and motions and voice mannerisms. He's annoying. He's also shy around women, I guess, but that doesn't stop him from dating the sister of the guy who works for him. And yes, I know she gets shot and killed later on, in order to give Horatio more of that "wronged man" mystique - I have problems with how THAT episode went.
Yes, I know he was the guy who married Marisol, but I really didn't like how Eric was sidelined in a show about his own sister's death...but I guess he got his, later on, when he got shot himself, in the head, and got to grieve all over again...and show up on the show later with NO aftereffects of being shot in the head. Pretty serious shot in the head, too. Oh, blurriness, sure: but Wolfe had that, too, after getting the nail in the eyesocket as well.
Ah, crappy, flashy TV shows. What would we do without you?
Right now, the arc that's showing on cable is the one where Eric is shown to be buying a huge wad of weed; and then in the next episode, he's shown running to this girl he knows in front of the hospital, in front of Calleigh. Then, in the episode after that, the other CSI guy, Wolfe, mentions how he's sick of covering for him on his days off, and where the hell has be been?
In any case, the penultimate episode in this arc was shown last night, where we FINALLY discover that Eric's been buying pot for his cancer-ridden drop-dead-gorgeous sister, and spending time getting her to eat, etc etc etc.
What happens as soon as we, the audience, learns who the chickie is he almost risked his job for? Let's see...the LEAST romantic character, and most awkward character of the bunch, Horatio, has dinner with Eric's sister Marisol; and Eric himself is shown flirting beyond heavily with Boa Vista in the storage locker (which has chain link walls, hence, is see through). I guess once the coy pretense of the "false ship" is done away with, it's go on full force with the REAL relationships and flirtations. It was very funny how unsubtle it was. It was like the writers were held back by Eric's mystery girl plot thread.
About the ONLY character who said anything that made any sense was Wolfe (who had his eye shot with a nail only two weeks before, and yet has no swelling or black eye from the incident? what?), who said that HE thought that office romances were a Really Bad Idea. Of course, this was AFTER he saw Boa Vista and Eric doing the firtly dance in the room without walls. And admitted he'd thought of asking Boa Vista out on a date. (You'll notice, if you watch this show, how there are almost no actual no-see-through walls there are in the sets.)
On a separate note, Three Way, directed by Jonathon Glassner himself, has got to be, in retrospect, perhaps the funniest of the Miami CSI episodes. That's not counting the episodes that use complete and total science fictional technology (esp computer tech) that doesn't exist yet. Those are a hoot. I just love it when perps just spill EVERYTHING in a bad imitation of British Cottage Mysteries. You know...Poirot sits everyone down in the living room and tells them what happened. In this case, it's Horatio giving the perps his case, and the lawyers for the opposition what his side is going to go for. Alan Shore would make mince meat of this guy.
Anyhow, Three Way is the episode where three women friends, all married, come to Miami for a break and to have fun. And have fun they do: they ALL end up sleeping with the poor tennis pro they all met by the pool. Or maybe he was a pool employee. I'm not sure - but it's not the point. This poor guy get sex from at least two of the women, but in every case...well, let's say that Wiley E. Coyote never had it that bad. This episode was nothing more than a Tex Avery Warner Brothers Cartoon, a Looney Toons. The victim gets wonked in the head, twice, then thrown down the stairwell (by accident, but still), then dragged into a car trunk, then let out of a car trunk, still alive, and then finally gets his neck snapped in the hotel boiler room by the enraged husband of one of the wives, who was there about one of her friends, whom he was sleeping with.
The first time I saw that episode, I was like, huh? Is this for real? The second time I watched it, I watched it more closely - and sure 'nuff...Jonathon Glassner has a really keen sense of humor. Black sense of humor? I can see why he grabbed this one for himself.
If you watch any of CSI Miami, watch Three Way. It's not your typical CSI Miami episode, but it's pretty darned deserving of another look.
The other episodes? Um...no.
Vote more Most Annoying Character: the ME, the woman who cooes and caresses the bodies of the victims, no matter WHAT they were like in real life. She's creepy, really. And simply annoying.
Calleigh, the blonde, doesn't annoy me as much as she used to, but man, she has bad taste in men. Her luck with men runs about the same as Sam Carter's on Stargate. I wonder if they're related somehow?
Eric is okay. He looks great in a thin sweater, and he is very watchable, for the fluff potential. His story arc with his sister was a real tease and a waste of time.
Wolfe (I forget his first name) is fine. He's not great looking or anything, but he has the most authentic feel of any of the characters. I guess it's because he's not "pretty". And man, can he scream, espeically when he's got a fake nail poking out of his eye socket. That was pretty gruesome. Considering how held back and relatively unemotional these people tend to be (strange for such a Hot locale) that was a real breakout in the acting department.
And then there's Horatio, the Red-Headed Cop o' Doom. Um...although I can't quite see how this show would get along without this particular character (he's stamped all over it) overall, I much prefer Grissom. They're both emotionally constipated men, but the actor who plays Grissom actually seems to have some chops. This guy, well, I sometimes get the feeling he's trying to outdo William Shatner at his own game. Sorry, can't be done. Shatner is the scenery-chewing master. Horatio is a tangle of pat body language and motions and voice mannerisms. He's annoying. He's also shy around women, I guess, but that doesn't stop him from dating the sister of the guy who works for him. And yes, I know she gets shot and killed later on, in order to give Horatio more of that "wronged man" mystique - I have problems with how THAT episode went.
Yes, I know he was the guy who married Marisol, but I really didn't like how Eric was sidelined in a show about his own sister's death...but I guess he got his, later on, when he got shot himself, in the head, and got to grieve all over again...and show up on the show later with NO aftereffects of being shot in the head. Pretty serious shot in the head, too. Oh, blurriness, sure: but Wolfe had that, too, after getting the nail in the eyesocket as well.
Ah, crappy, flashy TV shows. What would we do without you?
