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[cornerofmadness]

Felt rather awful all day so didn't do much but work more on that reproduction and fetal development lecture set and lounge around catching up on last week's tv

Castle Okay yes, I know the plot is extremely unlikely but that said it's just plain fun. Like I said last time, it's the women that make the show for me, not Nathan. (okay he's cute and all) His daughter is a pretty cool character. Mom too. I'm less impressed with the female lead. This year we're suddenly swamped by the stoic tough female cop but she doesn't rise above caricature (witness, Castle, the Eleventh Hour, Fringe and the Mentalist).I'm not sure what to think about it. It's not like it's a new idea and it's done SO much better elsewhere (The Closer, any Law and Order, hell Agent Scully)

Heroes OMG this was almost good. Wow. the ending with Matt and Daphne was sweet and sad. Warm Mommy and Cold Daddy were hysterical. Touch and Go Baby great name. Wow, they FINALLY remembered Micah exists. I was wondering if they had forgotten him and his cousin entirely. Here's praying they don't bring in yet another 'sister-clone' of Nikki

Dollhouse Okay yes I said I was done with this but there was nothing on friday so I took a chance. SHUDDERS. We're now into the part Joss Whedon was raving about in interviews (giving us warning it would take this long to get to the good stuff). It's still awful. the slutty and still ugly clothing they're putting on Eliza is insulting and not really attractive (then again I don't find Eliza all that hot, unlike much of my Flist) This episode was just dumb. In so many many ways (well at least they knew teh hippocampus plays a role in memory) Boyd bumbles around uselessly (and he's the only character I liked) then punches out the bad guy but how does he even know that? All he sees is Echo sobbing don't leave me to him. And did Echo manage to convince anyone she was smart enough to understand that stuff in the lab when she was Catherine? Well didn't convince me and the acting is still wooden. So yeah unless I get totally bored I'm thru with this. Fox is usually so fast to cancel and now it has something that deserves it and it's not pulling the trigger

And the REAL reason for this post in many ways turn your computers off at night I've known about the energy stuff for a few years now (my school is Draconian about it but no one listens half the time. sigh). I just thought this was a very good short write up on how horribly wasteful and damaging to Mother Earth it is to leave the computer burning 24/7. I don't know enough about PC's to know if the restart stuff is true but I've read countless articles in my professional journals about the energy stuff.