I just saw Hardison (from Leverage) on Bones.

Oh, I think he's got a guest spot in Nathan Fillion's new show too.

Does anyone else get a "Bones" vibe off of the "Castle" promos? I like Nathan, but the quirky guy-straightlaced police-type lady thing is getting old.

No, but that's because my general impression of Seeley (having watched all of four episodes, ever) is that compared to my (even less informed) impression of the Castle character, Seeley has a gigantic stick up his yoohoo.

At first Castle looked really really bad, but the more I see the promos, the more I'm enjoying them and looking forward to exploring just how ridiculous it will let itself be, and hope that doesn't get mired down in too much drama.

Is The Mentalist and Life making me crave goofy shows with dark premises?

OK, I know I said I wouldn't complain about the Jewish stuff on House, because, first, they get much more right than most shows do, and second, I know not to expect much from TV on this front. However. This one's bothersome enough that I had to mention it:

Cuddy told House at the beginning of the episode that the Simchat Bat would be on Friday night. Now, I am impressed that they got it right that she'd be having a Simchat Bat -- there's no set ritual for celebrating the birth of a baby girl, and a few different traditions have developed, and the Simchat Bat does seem like the one that Cuddy would be most likely to pick. And lots of people do have it as a ceremony at home. There could be a rabbi there, but there doesn't have to be. Cuddy seems like the type who'd want a rabbi there, though -- she doesn't seem terribly observant, and so having a rabbi at the ceremony would make it seem more religiously official. I didn't notice anyone in the scene who was obviously supposed to be a rabbi, but I'm not certain. But anyway, rabbi or not, have an at-home Jewish ceremony on a Friday night makes little to no sense. At Conservative and Reform synagogues, Friday night services are generally at 8. People have dinner at home first, then go to synagogue. Services take 45 minutes or an hour, and then there's cookies and coffee and socializing and stuff. This leaves no time for either the rabbi or any of the congregation to go to a ceremony somewhere else.

(I'm also iffy on Chase and Foreman wearing the kippahs, and also on the particular ones they were wearing, but that's just somewhat odd, not to the making no sense point that the Friday night thing was.)

I'm hoping it's Daniels that leaves. She barely does anything. She has the smallest role of the whole team. Even the A/V guy gets more lines.

Yeah, it seems that Tao, Flynn and Provenza get all of the good stuff.

for those who haven't seen Leverage, there seems to be a marathon starting at Tuesday at 10AM

Again? Cool. They just ran 6 or so episodes on Friday and Saturday.

Oooh... Rigsby's goin' out. And not with Van Pelt.

I enjoyed the Leverage episode...especially the 'then I thought, what would ____do' bit.

The thing I didn't like was the blowing up the office bit. They could have destroyed evidence in a more sophisticated, L-team way. Like fillng up the office space with insulaton foam, or something. Pell mell blowing up a building (even just on floor) where other people work and might be walking by when the shards of glass and rubble come-a-tumblin-down? Shot me right out of the story so much that I almost missd Badger's amoral speech.

I did love Elliott taking knocks and still ticking. Kane looked like he was having a good time.

I did love Elliott taking knocks and still ticking.

Why won't you go down!!

And if he hadn't been sucker punched, it would have been over a lot quicker.