TV Thoughts

Been a long time since I've actually got to see TV beyond NBC. I've now seen two episodes of House. The first one had me rolling my eyes at the thought of a hospital administrator willingly and knowingly allowing House to detox AND work at the same time (can you say lawsuit?) but I was impressed with the accuracy of it. The second episode impressed me more. I think I like it though it brings back flashbacks of working for assholes like House when I was a medical resident. Still, he's rather funny from a distance and like I said, nice accuracy. That's why I never usually watch a lot of medical (or forensic) shows, too inaccurate for works (CSI springs painfully to mind, not to mention dressing all their professional women like hookers, yeah I'm looking at you too Crossing Jordan).

Saw the new thing, Empire, not sure if I like it. Octavius Caesar is rather dumb or young or is that the same thing? He looks like Tom Welling.

Saw the promo for Alyson Hannigan's new thing and couldn't be more disinterested. However, I KNOW what David B. is doing and it looks like they're going to ruin it. It's based on Temperance Brennan, a lady doctor, forensic anthropologist, from Kathy Reichs mystery novels. Dr Reichs is a forensic antrhopologist and brings a lot of authority to her work however, I've stopped buying the novels because a) she overuses the hook of 'if only I knew then what I know now. I mean it's in every chapter of the last one I read and b) occasionally she has Temperance doing something moronic to put her in peril and needing rescue. Seriously when she was working and someone put human eyes on the dashboard of HER car and she was friends with the police already would she NOT tell them like her character didn't. It's supposed to be set in Montreal (and partially in North Carolina). However, the clips I saw of DB and the star of the show (who actually isn't DB just so you know. He's more a co-star) looks like they've made too many changes to the character from the get go. But, I'll watch it.

Night Stalker. Need I say more? I loved Kolchak as a kid. I can't wait to see it again. I do see (as Flippy said) a heavy supernatural emphasis in this year's line up.

Angie Harmon, one of my favorite assistant D.A.'s from Law and Order is on a new show called Inconceivable, about working in a fertility clinic. It's kinda inconceivable to me how they managed to pitch a show about watching infertile women trying to get pregnant.

See, it's better if I'm kept away from the tv probably.

my teeth

Because I'm sure you're dying to know what happened to my teeth. When to my cousin's dentist today (figure if my cousin's been in the dental field for 20 odd years and she trusts him that's saying something). He gave me the antibiotics for Mr. Ugly Tooth and then informed me that my other dentist must have been trying to pay for that ritzy dental office in Florida because the two teeth he said were cracked, aren't.

The one that's infected does need a root canal caused by me grinding my teeth at night and like I suspected, the reason I can't abide night guards is because of my TMJ and in fact they're counterindicated for me (which I saw on the OTC ones). AND the reason my crown hurts so damn much is the nerve from that root canal regenerated. Oh, it won't regenerated in my hand where I want it to but if it can regenerate in my mouth and cause intense pain then by all means.

Weirdest thing, my mom's side of the family has nearly no enamel on their teeth and she, her sister (my cousin's mom) and her brother all had their teeth extracted in high school (back in the years of no fluoride). My cousin put up her dental x-rays up against mine...let's just say I hope we won't need them to tell us apart. They've very very close in the number of filled cavitys and crowns. sheesh