hey, so

You know what's fun sometimes? Watching TV shows you haven't seen before.

I know this will sound like a radical idea to many of you, but no, it's true! Really!

Of course, my selection of all the unwatched stuff on my various hard drives was sort of random, so I spent most of my morning rediscovering my love of CSI: NY, and let me just say

a) I waved my hands in the air for like a SOLID MINUTE at the scene of Danny and Lindsay waking up together (on Danny's pool table, in Danny's awfully swank apartment - does Danny normally sleep on the pool table, do we suppose? or did he go get pillows and a sheet-ish thing so they could sleep there after getting it on? Wouldn't sex on a pool table be... bad for the pool table? Danny seems like the kind of guy who would not want to mess up the pool table's pristine surface, but maybe it's a sign of how crazy he is in love with his Montana) and then

b) I said to them, "Hey, you guys are too happy for a season finale, SOMETHING AWFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ONE OR BOTH OF YOU!" and you know what, I was right.

c) Ahahahaaha SHE TOOK HER HUNDRED BUCKS OUT OF HIM IN TRADE.

Also, AWWWWWW, ADAM! YOUR POOR BURNT HAND! YOUR PREVENTING OF SENSELESS TRAGEDY BY RUNNING OUT TO ID THE COPS!

Also, dude! Mac made it all the way to the end of a season with his girlfriend still his girlfriend! And not dead or anything! Wow! AND he totally got to be John McClane. LIKE A LOT.


On a slightly more boring/serious note, the resolution-such-as-it-was of Mac's hearing in the Dobson case really bugged me. He did need to be investigated, because he did violate procedure and a suspect did end up dead, and while I suppose his reaction is supposed to come across as wounded honor--really, I would have expected Mac to be the first to understand that he has to go through those formalities, and to understand that what matters is proof, not any suspect's bare word. I wanted to see him vindicated by evidence, to have his team pull together and demonstrate that his word was good; I didn't want him to win because the other guys did something worse and he knew it. Even at the end, I wanted him to say that Dobson's suicide attempt the first time he was arrested demonstrated that he would have been likely to jump when arrested again, and that this was crucial information about Dobson's motive, not that he had a way to blackmail Sinclair and Jacob Sel'mak Gerard.

I had the same sensation, even worse, when watching... some second season West Wing episode or another, with the General who was about to go on TV and trash the president, and was prevented when CJ pointed out that he was wearing a medal he hadn't earned--why did it have to be that the good guys won because their antagonist was stupid or unethical (and misogynist, just to cover all the bases)? Why couldn't it be that the good guys were righter? Just... not satisfying, to have to paint the opposition as villains, when they're people who are nominally on our side--I don't like being directed to see military officers or cops as corrupt or cowardly or dishonorable for the convenience of Our Heroes, and every time I see something like this it makes me think that the people writing it expect me to already see them that way, so that the resolution confirms my prejudices, and then it just makes me uncomfortable with the whole enterprise.



On the other hand, Danny and Lindsay are really cute. And they should take Flack and/or Adam home with them--I mean, if you're using a pool table, the floor can't be that much less comfortable, and it looked like Danny had lots and lots of empty square footage for a slumber party. I'm just saying.