She irritated me in a low-level way until last night. I'm a huge fan of the character now and now, in retrospect, I think ... er, whoever the actress is... I just closed those links... has played it really well with good development over the arc and nothing overplayed at all. I'm not a fan of the oost relationship [feh on Moonlighting]; this looks like it could be one of the really good relationship shows on TV, with Dan and Katie being solid enough that Dan and Livia can continue having their past and present relationship play out. I never watched Quantum Leap so I don't know what this is being compared to, but they've got such a rich source of material for stories with the 4 adults and all their relationships and the time leaping. Except for the time travel itself, nothing has been that asspully, has it? Okay, last night's was pretty psych 101, I saw that coming right away and the creep was awfully broad and why did he strip to a wifebeater, come on, but that's the only one, I think?

sn't Idol starting up soon?

t ptui "Filthy people, we will speak no more of them.

Bones: I wasn't upset by the kiss. And I got teary too, with Christmas as the prison. And no tree because of shiv materials. "Don't commit murder, don't go to prison, you can have a Christmas pageant of your own at home!"

House: No Conniving Bitch! Yay!!! And Wilson's getting sued! Agh!! But more Wilson angst he can mope with House over. I quite like the Cuddy bit at the end. "Wait! This was your game all along! Well, at least the game is over." "How long have you known me?"

I don't watch Idol, but I'm still going to have to suffer through the commercials for the damned thing. I could deal with it, if they didn't insist on doing the Gong Show bits with the poor folk who blow their auditions. I despair of my species, that there are those who revel in people with dreams but no talent.

Fox has decided to space their remaining episodes out is my guess.

Sweeps ends this week, so we probably wouldn't have seen another new episode until the new year anyway, strike or no strike.

The patient on House was Angel's old buddy, Penn.

The patient on House was Angel's old buddy, Penn.

That's why he looked familiar, but not overly so! Thanks for that heads up.

I really liked Bones last night, the kiss was...not as bad as I was... not horrible. But I liked that Brennan was with her family and then Booth showing up with a tree did get me a little teary eyed.

It was a nice Christmas episode.

Bones did a Christmas episode, I think the first season, that was also very well done. Such a Little Show That Could.

sigh ... a friend called and we spent almost all of Bones on the phone. I can hope for a rerun, right? And last year's Christmas show was delightful - DB is SO GOOD at being goofy!

Oh man, the look she gave when told to leave the house after Dan arrived... wow. Stubborn, angry, defiant, hateful. I loved her for not wanting to leave.

This is what irritated me the most. Why would she not want to leave? Why did Dan have to remind her about their son? It just pissed me off. The way they write the wife makes her seem at once very capable and supportive, but also whiny and irritating. I hate for the first few eps that she kept complaining about his time travel. As if this is a smoking habit that he can quit with a patch.

Well, I'm wondering whether leaving might have been the wrong thing. As in - his whole craxiness was based on his mother leaving and then he had Katie put on the apron and making lunch. I thought that maybe making lunch, not leaving might appease him.

(I didn't mean that Bones didn't have Xmas episodes - I just meant that this was the first show I've seen that has done a Xmas episode. Sometimes, in normal years, shows have the odd new episode outside of Sweeps. SPN is having one in December (for example.)

I think it was the right move because he told her to leave, as opposed to the little kid not having a choice so many years ago.