damn you bonny, like I needed another show to watch! But I share your disappointment with The Mentalist, so caved and checked out Lie To Me.
Really really liked it. Instantly liked all the characters, the pace, the dialogue, the relationships, Brendan Hines! (*misses Middleman) Tim Guinee! (be squishable like Tobin, please? and not nefarious) the fabulous sets (lots of clean whites and funky lines), the fact that there is in fact a character that proclaimedly always tells the truth. Loved how the various truths bounced around who the killer might be.
Sorry Julie, I feel your overload pain in re tv.
Oddly, the show is saying Paul Ekman is their inspiration, rather than Gottman. I'm stunned by how similar their work and terminology is. The only difference I can see so far is 'thin slicing' vs. 'micro-expression'.
Ha. I just watched a public tv piece on Ekman where he says straight out that a baby's smile is what 'makes us put up with their crap.'
Plus, they talk about the quantifiability of emotion, which is something I'm trying to push to businesses. Popular culture seems to be catching up with what I'm all about.
eta: I was conflating the Gladwell stuff on Ekman and Gottman. On re-read, I see that Gottman was expanding on Ekman's stuff.
I love it when tv inspires me to dig more deeply into something interesting. Not that I don't love me some eye candy, but the brain candy is my aphrodisiac.
disclaimer: this is probably hogwash.
I was at the imdb page because I hadn't caught all the characters names (specifically Tim Roths!) and they struck my eye funny. Especially "Eli Loker". It looks like "Loki", which I thought was interesting given his characters penchant for "radical honesty".
Cal Lightman. What is Cal short for? Looked up "Callum" and it means "dove". Dove and a man of light. Sounds like a bringer of truth to me.
Gillian Foster: "Young Forest" Flexible, macrofocused? Naive? Earthy?
Ria Torres, Ria is short for Maria, which means "bitter sea" and Torres means a tower. Lighthouse, much? Shining the light of truth on the bitter rocks and keeping people safe.
Ron, Gillians's husband: Ronald means "advisor to the King", it'll be interesting to find out what his job is that supposedly keeps him late at work.
Again, my brain is probably making shit up, but I had to share. And of course, if we presume that Cal's full first name is Calvin, then the meaning changes to "Little Bald One".
Two hours of Bones tonight! Yay!
Opposite of NCIS! Boo!
TV on the Net! Yay!
When I tuned in to NCIS, it was an episode of CSI! I'm not sure where the screw up is coming from, it might not be that way where you are, but you may be safe from having to watch online.
Bones: I'm a little behind real time, but I'm afeared that this episode is going to be watch from the hall material. Well, more than it already has been.
My exact thought, Frank.
The season premiere of L&O: CI has, without explanation, been moved to summer. *sob* I swear I do not understand the thinking, if that's the word I want, of television execs.
Bones: Loved the hair gel bit!
NCIS: Isn't it normally on on Tuesdays anyway?
Brennan gets excited about the strangest things.
Yeah, it is, but maybe they were going to show it tonight because the inauguration preempted, like, everything? I dunno, but my TiVo thinks it's on tonight.
