Did anyone watch the premiere of missing last night? I wasn't that impressed.

Yeah, it kind of missed. Too bad - the cast is good and am I crazy or was that Gillian Anderson playing the CIA boss?

So, I'm watching an episode of Blue Bloods that I recorded a few weeks ago, and I was very amused to realize that Tom Wopat had a guest role. He has not aged as well as John Schneider.

Okay, I know this is entirely trivial, but I decided to play along as I watched CSI Miami, and fact check, since it was tennis, and I like tennis.

So they said something I thought sounded spurious, and I would doublecheck my assumptions--each pro uses a unique (red flag word) string tension, and there's a website that lists them. How likely is that going to be? Seriously?

OMG. So fucking wack. Seriously. Now, if they were looking at a combo of racquet brands and strings they might have a start, but players have a starting tension, and move from there. Plus, der, they have to have racquets restrung all the time. Tension doesn't *stay* at what they set it at. You play, you lose tension.

Also, there are a shitload of pros. Of course some of them are going to use the same tension. Which will not be measured to two decimal points. For christ's sake.

Okay, that was your irrelevant diatribe about a show that's never accurate anyway. I think I feel a little better, but somehow...still watching...there's no curing me.

I'm glad you looked into it. For some reason, knowing that a show I don't even watch is that ridiculous with its "facts" is strangely comforting.

Why that should be I can't imagine, but I'm not going to examine it too closely.

And - to inject even more reality - I imagine that in Miami's humidity the strings would loosen up just sitting around. Unless they have climate-controlled storage, like some people have for their wine.

Unless they have climate-controlled storage, like some people have for their wine.

Which, ya know, you're not going to do for a bloody tennis racquet. You just have the thing restrung. In Miami, I'm sure you can have that done in about as many places as you can have a key cut.

It just seemed weird--it's not like they picked something even vaguely obscure or hard to research. Tons of people play tennis. I don't even play tennis, and I knew it was crap.

The mystery on Castle didn't grab me very much, but the relationships were cool. I do like Ryan finding out he's just too happy to be attractive--I'm glad they raised the cliche of married men being more attractive, not less, because I thought that was weird. And I do wonder if Castle finding out Beckett wanting to be a lawyer is going to go anywhere. They certainly seemed to linger on it.

However, I was more grabbed by the preview for next week and the reveal of Kate knowing he's in love with her the whole time than by any part of the case this week.

As soon as Ryan took his ring off, I thought, "that's going to get lost" (he was standing by the elevator! There's a ring-sized gap for things to drop down the shaft!) So I'm glad that once again Castle did not go for the easy cliche. I should know better by now than to expect such things from these writers!

Still nervous, however, about how next week's going to go. (Fortunately, I also know that promos seldom bear any resemblance to the actual show.)

Still nervous, however, about how next week's going to go.

I expect some serious angst. And, I hope, another therapy session.

ooh ... wouldn't it be fun if there were a Castle/Bones crossover to bring in Stephen Fry as a therapist?