See, AA crooning to his kid automatically set my cringe-face to 11 for the rest of the ep. I saw what they were going for, having that audio combined with the visual of the body being pulled out of the water, but it didn't work for me. Nice idea, but the juxtaposition didn't play. Maybe if it had been just the kid singing...

And then I was irked by the decided lack of CH face-time, and when he was on, he was leering and smirking like a twelve y/o which just turned me off. The whole plot with the chief was so watch-from-the-hall for me. /perspective of an insomniac looking for something to do at 3 in the a.m.

Grrr. Not enough of one of my many red-headed TV boyfriends. And not enough Love Tap and Glue Boy!

Dr. Cox is my red-headed would-be boyfriend. Wouldn't that be six days of love, peace, sarcasm and rude nicknames? I'd probably end up the cuddly optimist. God, that's scary. And, you know, thread drift, but I did not find much in this ep that wasn't like Cop Show #23. Which makes me very sad.

thread keeps drifting...

Dr. Cox, Trevor Cobb, Charlie Crews, Danny Vasser (he'll always be strawberry blonde to me)...

The whole plot just had me groaning, and the replacement-daughter with sexual over(under?)tones just icked me out big time. I don't feel that I got to know the chief any better for this storyline. And seriously, why are they type-casting Adrienne Barbeau's boobs?

I have a new reason to love NCIS tonight,''Panda poop paper''. I was worried it wasn't going to be as interesting this season without Bellasario running it, but it is still as geeky and as fun as ever.

Survivor House! They're not even being subtle about that.

The ruthless bitch, the fake doctor, the twins--I love the way they're doing this. A dozen little character sketches with shading being done on some of them. That's the way to fill an hour-ish show.

And Wilson was wonderful.

But, dear god, Cameron . . . bah. I think I like Chase showing up to observe, like he can't stay away from his crush. I'm thinking his headshake was to indicate that he's not coming back to work for House.

I was worried about the size of the cast, if Chase and Cameron--and, from the credit, Foreman--become regulars, along with whomever shows up for House's new team. But if the writers continue to maneuver the characters as deftly as they did tonight, it could work.

Bones:

I was wondering when we'd see Max.

House:

Does anyone else think that Wilson has gotten even more ruthless and... well, and kinda cruel? I mean, I get that he just fucks around with House (not like that, perverts... (ok, maybe like that...)) just to mess with him, which is maybe better than earnest!worried!Wilson...

But he lies. A lot.

Is it just me?

Is it just me?

Well, earnest worry wasn't getting him anywhere.

I think we're seeing the Wilson that House fell in love with became best friends with. The snark, the wit, meeting tantrum with ridicule.

I liked the Tibetan monk bit.

See, AA crooning to his kid automatically set my cringe-face to 11 for the rest of the ep. I saw what they were going for, having that audio combined with the visual of the body being pulled out of the water, but it didn't work for me. Nice idea, but the juxtaposition didn't play. Maybe if it had been just the kid singing...

Sure, in the first scene, but then he did the silly dad thing and did it again and again - which I find amusing. I'm imagining him doing it when she is 13 and her irate 13 year old reaction. Because Dad sometimes just doesn't get it when something is past it's sell-by date. (Didn't his wife say something to put the kibosh on it? I believe she suggested ice cream.)

I think it would have been more effective if they had opened the episode with Boulet singing to his kid, a nice family moment, and have what's going on in Boulet's background ambiguous. Then have Cobb call him over, and then the camera lets us see that they're at a crime scene hauling a body out of the water, and the little girl is still singing to him on the phone. That I think would have been a better way to juxtapose it.

It also annoyed me that he was singing over his daughter, rather than along with her. Also, does it make sense that I would have preferred if Boulet/AA was either slightly better at singing or slightly worse?

Didn't his wife say something to put the kibosh on it? I believe she suggested ice cream

bless her for cutting him off, because it was still annoying on the second rewatch. I think I'm still hung up on my "AA is annoying" ...hangup. So his sleazy "I know you want a banana split too" to his wife made me want to slap him.

Speaking of second rewatches, it was slightly better with a full night's rest and the cobwebs out of my eyes (and brain). Being grumpy and tired definitely skewed my view. There was a lot more Cobb/Boulet and Glueboy/Love Tap than I remember.

The chief's story at least highlighted Boulet's position as a father and cop, but unless the daughter comes back into the picture, I fail to see how this ep informed the chief's character, how it highlighted a "why" to him that we the viewer could keep in mind for future eps, and frankly, I don't want that much screen-time dedicated to him again. At least not with plots lof this caliber. I was liking his character just fine with the glimpses we got of him, and thought how he handled his team informed/illuminated his character far more than this ep did.