Normally I can ignore plot holes in NCIS, but last night I couldn't.

The new guy has his own agenda to solve whatever tragic thing is in his past (I assume it's one that got away), but I don't care about his tragic past or his experience at Ruby Ridge. I'm trying to like him and I'm trying to remember that the show had to scrap ideas and rewrite scripts to deal with MP's decisions and cut them slack but it's kind of hard.

Criminal Minds isn't one of my all time favorite shows, but it's a decent hour of television and I prefer it to the L& Os and CSIs.

24: Day 7 postponed. (Because Fox is overhauling their schedule in light of the writers' strike.

"My name is Jack Bauer, and today is the shortest day of my life."

Dani's ex

Crud! I missed too many eps of Life before I found it.

Nina was smokin' hot and the fact that I think of her as Nina is evidence of how amazing she was in that incredible kick-ass first scene of hers in 24. Wow, I'm still amazed at the jumping out of the plane thinking about it. Ripley in the first Aliens; Linda Hamilton (who is always Linda Hamilton to me and not Sarah Connor, how weird is that) doing pull-ups in Terminator II; Nina in 24; Gina Gershon in, er, the one with the good jazz and Peter Berg which name I always forget... ANYWAY, she was very good playing a softspoken but tough woman last night. I might be able to get over calling her Nina in time. Okay, that kind of loving? totally went over my head. Eww.

I'm watching Without a Trace and Principal Flutie was just on. It's a Without A Trace/ CSI crossover tonight.

Principal Flutie was just on.

That's where I'd seen him!

That's where I'd seen him!

YES, me too. Thank god. I'd already used up my identifying mojo on the main guest star, who played Sol on Deadwood, and who I find almost totally unidentifiable when clean-shaven.

Nina was smokin' hot and the fact that I think of her as Nina is evidence of how amazing she was in that incredible kick-ass first scene of hers in 24. Wow, I'm still amazed at the jumping out of the plane thinking about it.

Wasn't that Mandy (Mia Kirshner), not Nina?

Gina Gershon in, er, the one with the good jazz and Peter Berg which name I always forget...

If you're talking THE LAST SEDUCTION, that's Linda Fiorentino, not Gina. Gina, however, was smoking hot in BOUND.

Mia the Superspy is the one that parachuted off the plane that blew up and never got caught.

She's the bestest spy ever!

She's the bestest spy ever!

Naked Mandy rocks. I love that she's shown up in one capacity or another just about every season (even if they never really follow through on the set up, like when she infected David Palmer).