{"id":580,"date":"2008-10-27T23:13:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T07:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/test\/2008\/10\/27\/monday-night-tv\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T04:48:59","slug":"monday-night-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/monday-night-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"monday night tv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this entry LAST Monday. I just never finished it. And since I was home sick today (fever, so fun), I thought I would finally get it posted.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night is, without a doubt, my favorite night of TV.<\/p>\n<p>Gossip Girl. One Tree Hill. Chuck. Heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, ok. <i>Heroes<\/i> really isn&#8217;t so great anymore but I still like to know what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an episode behind on GG and OTH but I&#8217;m all caught up with the other two so here I go with the comments (beware spoilers).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Chuck<\/b><br \/>\nThis show is so awesome (even more than Captain Awesome). I love that Sarah&#8217;s past is being explored, Casey&#8217;s starting to warm up to Chuck, and Chuck&#8217;s getting the chance to flex his spy muscles. And there&#8217;s also so many great moments in each episode that constantly remind me why this show rocks my socks. Some examples from the most recent episode, <i>Chuck Versus the Cougars<\/i>&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8212; Casey as a DJ at the reunion. Oh, oh, AND he was dancing\/clapping to <i>MMMBop<\/i>. OMG, that was fantastic.<br \/>\n&#8212; Chuck and Casey teaming up with Chuck as the bad cop (MAD DOG!!!) and Casey as the good cop.<br \/>\n&#8212; Sarah and Heather&#8217;s fight scene. In the shower no less. Total pandering to the male demo but I still thought it was classic. Playing <i>Smack My Bitch Up<\/i> during that scene was inspired. Hee.<br \/>\n&#8212; Actually, ALL the music on this show is perfectly chosen. I mean, they played Backstreet Boys and the <i>Dawson&#8217;s Creek<\/i> theme song during the reunion! Those are SO 1998! (I just realized this makes me a year older than Sarah. Huh.)<br \/>\n&#8212; Loved this quote by Chuck to Heather&#8230; &#8220;Of all the semi-tart Asian yogurt places in LA, you walked into this one&#8230;&#8221; I&#8217;m totally paraphrasing but that made me LOL.<br \/>\n&#8212; This didn&#8217;t happen in the last episode but I love the idea of Sarah as a yogurt store employee (at the Orange Orange!). Yogurt shops are so trendy right now; that was a perfect touch now that the Wienerlicious is no more.<br \/>\nThe only change I want to make to the show is to incorporate the Buy More storylines into the main plot somehow. I like most of the Buy More characters (well, I like Lester, Jeff, and Anna &#8212; not Morgan so much) and want to see them in something other than the crazy &#8220;B-plots.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know how that would really be possible, though.<\/p>\n<p><b>Heroes<\/b><br \/>\nEach episode since the premiere has been disappointing. I was so hopeful! There&#8217;s just way too much going on and too many characters. Not to mention that I&#8217;m slowly becoming indifferent to characters I used to love (Claire, Hiro and Peter &#8212; I&#8217;m looking at you).<br \/>\n&#8212; Claire, once my favorite Hero, kinda sucks now. I can&#8217;t stand her bad attitude. Though I have to admit that in the last episode, she was pretty bad-ass.<br \/>\n&#8212; Hiro totally aggravates me with his terrible decisions and bad judgment. I know that he <i>believes<\/i> that he&#8217;s supposed to be the one &#8220;saving the world&#8221; but now he just comes off as self-centered. AND he killed Ando. That is unforgivable. F to Hiro. Although I did like when he called the new character &#8220;Mister African Isaac.&#8221; Cause it&#8217;s so true.<br \/>\n&#8212; I can&#8217;t stand Parkman and Daphne. And I want to like them so much (because I adore Greg Grunberg)! But Matt&#8217;s storyline is a total snoozefest and Daphne still bothers me. I think it might be the actress. She only has 1 expression and she does that weird thing with her lips when she speaks. Totally annoying.<br \/>\n&#8212; Was not really a fan of Adam&#8217;s but no more David Anders. \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\n&#8212; I kinda like Sylar now. I thought the character overstayed his welcome past the first season but now that I sense a redemption arc, I&#8217;m on board.<br \/>\n&#8212; I&#8217;m loving Tracy and Nathan even though they&#8217;re being severely underutilized right now. They are such a great hero-couple.<br \/>\n&#8212; Bring back Elle!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s definitely more that needs to be fixed to bring the show back to the awesomeness of season 1 &#8212; the suggestions in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20235213,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/ew.com\" target=\"\u201d_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener\">ew.com<\/a> is a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this entry LAST Monday. I just never finished it. And since I was home sick today (fever, so fun), I thought I would finally get it posted. 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