I missed Life this week and last so I'm really going to have to catch up. I watched CRiminal Minds my brother and FSIL are in town and we ended up watching it together. As soon as Smokin' hot guy was interested in Garcia I said I hoped that it didn't turn out bad because the only time a hot guy is interested in someone who looks like Garcia he wants to use/hurt her. Because shows always go there, the only exception I can think of is China Beach when whathisname fell for Ricki Lake's character.

I ended up getting in an argument with my brother because he didn't believe that I could have guessed that Hottie would have turned out bad just from him being interested in Garcia, I had to have gotten it all from the foreshadowing. It kinda ruined the evening because once again my brother can't like I actually do know what I'm talking about and has to contradict me. I wanted to argue that I know television so I do know what I'm talking about, but it felt lame and so I dropped.

Ted totally rocked, and with that one action, became eight times more interesting. I mean, he's been a fine character in the past, as a foil to Charlie, but now that they've given him something interesting to do? Oh, yeah.

I'm glad Constance is back, though I dislike her new haircut. What I love, though, is how Charlie is different around her. Like most of his mask falls away, and he's suddenly a real person.

Okay, so if she's working for the D.A.'s office now, will she have to recuse herself from any case that Charlie's involved in?

Between Life and PD, Wednesday is by far the best night on television. Who would have guessed at the start of the season?

Life gets repeated on either USA or TNT late Sunday night. (11 or 12)

It was a nice scene, but the clues were SO over the top obscure that once they got to the payoff I was just WTF?

The wine-year thing was a bit WTF, but if LT was a follower of the minor league baseball teams and the locations of the teams represented by the baseball caps = sites of the bombing, I can sorta imagine her making that leap, especially if she studied the casefile. My mind doesn't work like that, but she's a cop and used to deciphering clues and putting things together. And really, I'd have been happy handwaving anything because I adored seeing those three brainstorming together.

I dislike her new haircut

Urrghh. Tell me about it. I loved her old 'do, which had this very retro 40's black'n'white movie feel to it. Now, it looks like some 5 year old took gardening shears to her locks.

I think her working in DA's office will need some major fanwanking, because I cannot imagine anyone in their right minds appointing her to the task squad to bring Charlie down for Ames's murder, given the flagrant conflicts of interest. Or maybe she's not directly involved in the case. Then how would she have gotten the info about the DA's office searching Charlie's house? Hmmm.

I was damn surprised that they were able to use a song from the new Radiohead album in the funeral montage at the end. I mean, I loved the song and the montage, but I cannot recall ever hearing one of their songs used on a TV show before. Maybe the music supervisor for the show (who I understand works for KCRW) has some pull with the band? Huh.

I'm starting to wonder if Connie's weak-linkness is due to the actress having to share her screentime with another show, and if that interupted the thread that was originally intended for her, and now their pulling things out of their asses to make her disappear and reappear? Because in a show with all this stellar acting and character development in the scripts, she is so not in same league as everyone else.

Anyhoo.

I liked that the wine/ballcaps scene highlighted the fact that Charlie had missed out on a lot of local history. And that us being in the dark and all WTF about the connections being made was exactly where Charlie was. Neat.

Except that she has barely been on FNL. Barely.

I think there was one scene.

Perhaps we'll get more of the Billy Riggins story this week.

Except that she has barely been on FNL. Barely.

damn. I really was trying to figure out how they went wrong with her character.

I think that they ramped up the sexual tension between her and Charlie too quickly, and now they're trying to backtrack.

I think that they ramped up the sexual tension between her and Charlie too quickly

Yeah, I was surprised they went there so fast (even though the actual scene was hot like burning). I almost figured the actress wasn't coming back -- maybe the whole thing's been uncertain between the strike and the actress' other committments?