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dorking out
So now that school is done, I'm not getting my RDA of dorkiness from going to class and doing my homework, but that's okay, because! TV Ratings.
I'm sure you're all excited to know that Numb3rs won the timeslot, and the night, last night with a 7.7/14. That's down some from previous weeks (the last four new-episode ratings, three of which fell in November sweeps, were 8.0/14, 8.2/14, 7.9/14, and 8.0/14) but still above the pre-sweeps ratings from the first six eps of the season. I think it's time to cave and admit that Numb3rs is doing significantly better with Close to Home as a lead-in than it did with Threshold (poor, poor Threshold). And while Johnny's-psychic-girlfriend-Alex-from-The-Dead-Zone makes a pretty annoying prosecutor, Lindsey-from-Angel is kinda cute as her husband, so I guess it'll do for last-ten-minutes-before-Numb3rs viewing.
It's becoming more and more and more obvious that this show does not know what to do with eight major characters (Don, Charlie, Alan, David, Megan, Larry, Amita, and Colby). Episodes where all eight appear tend to suck, and the episodes where we get the best Don/Charlie or Eppes family dynamics drop someone.
Colby's not in the credits, which is why I assumed he would be the expendable one--it's why I figured he'd be killed off. But Amita has actually been dropped from more episodes (last week's, Bones of Contention, was the only one I remember Colby missing so far, while Amita's appearance has been as spotty as it was last season, when she was a guest star). I think it's probably because, having done that whole Horrendous Dating Storyline, the show's writers don't know what else to do with Amita without dealing with that, where Colby can be slotted in anywhere David or Megan are.
Last night, Scorched dropped David (I think that was the first episode he hasn't been in?) and Amita--but I think that was mainly for the sake of fitting in a) Bill Nye the Science Guy and b) Charlie's prospective firefighter boyfriend and prospective college student boyfriend, neither of whom turned out all that well. Charlie's "He USED me" seemed particularly betrayed, didn't it? Sweetie, only Don really loves you for you. And sometimes Colby.
Anyway. The last few weeks Don and Charlie just KEEP GETTING CUTER TOGETHER. Last week, Don announces he doesn't have a problem hugging Charlie and they wind up boxing in the yard (and you know that turned to wrestling after the fade-to-numbers). This week, ohmigod PLUMBING together. If this keeps up I will be forced to conclude that the people making the show love us and want us to be happy.
Anyway, this morning I am rewatching "Toxin," for reasons totally not related to not working on my Yuletide story AT ALL, and. I LOVE DON AND CHARLIE AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER. Don says, "Young Eppes!" as he walks into Charlie's office. Don does MATH on the FLOOR. (Well, okay, marks maps on the floor, whatever, it's adorable and hot.) And Colby is madly in love with Edgerton. And now Charlie and Don are alone in their motel room, so I have to go.
I'm sure you're all excited to know that Numb3rs won the timeslot, and the night, last night with a 7.7/14. That's down some from previous weeks (the last four new-episode ratings, three of which fell in November sweeps, were 8.0/14, 8.2/14, 7.9/14, and 8.0/14) but still above the pre-sweeps ratings from the first six eps of the season. I think it's time to cave and admit that Numb3rs is doing significantly better with Close to Home as a lead-in than it did with Threshold (poor, poor Threshold). And while Johnny's-psychic-girlfriend-Alex-from-The-Dead-Zone makes a pretty annoying prosecutor, Lindsey-from-Angel is kinda cute as her husband, so I guess it'll do for last-ten-minutes-before-Numb3rs viewing.
It's becoming more and more and more obvious that this show does not know what to do with eight major characters (Don, Charlie, Alan, David, Megan, Larry, Amita, and Colby). Episodes where all eight appear tend to suck, and the episodes where we get the best Don/Charlie or Eppes family dynamics drop someone.
Colby's not in the credits, which is why I assumed he would be the expendable one--it's why I figured he'd be killed off. But Amita has actually been dropped from more episodes (last week's, Bones of Contention, was the only one I remember Colby missing so far, while Amita's appearance has been as spotty as it was last season, when she was a guest star). I think it's probably because, having done that whole Horrendous Dating Storyline, the show's writers don't know what else to do with Amita without dealing with that, where Colby can be slotted in anywhere David or Megan are.
Last night, Scorched dropped David (I think that was the first episode he hasn't been in?) and Amita--but I think that was mainly for the sake of fitting in a) Bill Nye the Science Guy and b) Charlie's prospective firefighter boyfriend and prospective college student boyfriend, neither of whom turned out all that well. Charlie's "He USED me" seemed particularly betrayed, didn't it? Sweetie, only Don really loves you for you. And sometimes Colby.
Anyway. The last few weeks Don and Charlie just KEEP GETTING CUTER TOGETHER. Last week, Don announces he doesn't have a problem hugging Charlie and they wind up boxing in the yard (and you know that turned to wrestling after the fade-to-numbers). This week, ohmigod PLUMBING together. If this keeps up I will be forced to conclude that the people making the show love us and want us to be happy.
Anyway, this morning I am rewatching "Toxin," for reasons totally not related to not working on my Yuletide story AT ALL, and. I LOVE DON AND CHARLIE AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER. Don says, "Young Eppes!" as he walks into Charlie's office. Don does MATH on the FLOOR. (Well, okay, marks maps on the floor, whatever, it's adorable and hot.) And Colby is madly in love with Edgerton. And now Charlie and Don are alone in their motel room, so I have to go.