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May. 11th, 2011 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stThings are starting to stagnate a bit around ye olde TV. Seasons are winding down to their supposedly EPIC finales and it is all leaving me rather wrung out and unimpressed. I started watching House again a few episodes back, maybe it was episode 14 or 15. Anyway, once the Huddy was over, I poked my head out of my burrow to see what the show was doing. I just watched the one with the spud-gun competition and a famous face from the past. The face was a beautiful as ever, but I thought the episode was rather contrived. Contrived seems to be the norm these days with House. Maybe it was trying to make Huddy work or maybe it is just that the show is getting on in years and running out of steam. I don't know. I still have hopes for the shocking House/Wilson Series finale that will cause a real uproar in TVLand. But since this is America and the show is on Fox...I am probably just going to get some lame overdose fade out to heaven or something.
Doctor Who isn't really impressing me. I keep putting off viewing it. Pirate episode still to watch. Meanwhile, in Canadian TV, I just watched the finale of S4 of Murdoch Mysteries. I love that show, but talk about a contrived ending. I didn't believe one word of the season finale. Murdoch and Julia were completely out of character. My only hope is that it turns out to be a sick dream when we come back in a flippin' YEAR. How do people wait an entire year for these things shows? Luckily, the episode was pretty much designed to make me forget the show, so...I suppose they've done me a favor by making it such a hot mess.
And finally, some of my Supernatural friends will be pleased to know that I've seen the light re: Cas/Dean. For the longest time, I simply couldn't get behind the forbidden love of a guardian angel and his pet human. I liked Cas, I did, but he didn't seem to have much passion in him. I thought, perhaps, people were simply so appalled by the obvious incest subtext in SPN that they were desperately clinging to any other marginally viable pairing they could find. Cas was a great addition to the show, but, I didn't feel a spark with him, despite some obvious "he's gay for Dean" reference in S5. No spark = No shipping for Rabid.
But finally, I stepped on board the ship over these last few weeks. Something about the level of pain and angst Dean and Cas are going through now has tipped me to favor that pairing. Also, Dean showed some interest in someone other than his brother...which was a welcome change. I love all of these boys, don't get me wrong...but until recently I just haven't seen much to convince me that Castiel was in love with Dean. Now, suddenly...I buy it. So that is one thing that Sara has accomplished. Of course, now she has me in the fold, she's probably going to do something ridiculous to upset me.
And so...it is on to the dog days of summer reruns and replacement series. Psych is coming back. And SYTYCD. And I've yet to watch Fringe S3. All things to look forward to, but the Murdoch Mysteries finale really has put me in a funk.
Rae
Doctor Who isn't really impressing me. I keep putting off viewing it. Pirate episode still to watch. Meanwhile, in Canadian TV, I just watched the finale of S4 of Murdoch Mysteries. I love that show, but talk about a contrived ending. I didn't believe one word of the season finale. Murdoch and Julia were completely out of character. My only hope is that it turns out to be a sick dream when we come back in a flippin' YEAR. How do people wait an entire year for these things shows? Luckily, the episode was pretty much designed to make me forget the show, so...I suppose they've done me a favor by making it such a hot mess.
And finally, some of my Supernatural friends will be pleased to know that I've seen the light re: Cas/Dean. For the longest time, I simply couldn't get behind the forbidden love of a guardian angel and his pet human. I liked Cas, I did, but he didn't seem to have much passion in him. I thought, perhaps, people were simply so appalled by the obvious incest subtext in SPN that they were desperately clinging to any other marginally viable pairing they could find. Cas was a great addition to the show, but, I didn't feel a spark with him, despite some obvious "he's gay for Dean" reference in S5. No spark = No shipping for Rabid.
But finally, I stepped on board the ship over these last few weeks. Something about the level of pain and angst Dean and Cas are going through now has tipped me to favor that pairing. Also, Dean showed some interest in someone other than his brother...which was a welcome change. I love all of these boys, don't get me wrong...but until recently I just haven't seen much to convince me that Castiel was in love with Dean. Now, suddenly...I buy it. So that is one thing that Sara has accomplished. Of course, now she has me in the fold, she's probably going to do something ridiculous to upset me.
And so...it is on to the dog days of summer reruns and replacement series. Psych is coming back. And SYTYCD. And I've yet to watch Fringe S3. All things to look forward to, but the Murdoch Mysteries finale really has put me in a funk.
Rae