"I guess I didn't learn anything"

So this week seems to be the week where most of fall TV returns. Yesterday was "Bones", tonight was "The Office", tomorrow is "Dollhouse". I have to wait until Monday for three of my shows but this was a pretty good start. I have enjoyed the new episodes so far. We'll see if they keep up at this rate. The return of regularly schedule programming has dulled my pain at the loss of "True Blood" for basically another year. Some of the shows I am watching returned or began earlier than this week so that's why they weren't mentioned. So today's favourite things is the beginning of a new season on my favourite shows.

"I don't trust you. You're a vampire. Or is that an offensive term? Should I say 'undead American'?"

I read a lot of books. They tend to be of the romantic variety. A few years ago, there were barely any books about vampires. Now, it seems like every second book has some vampirical element. It's madness, I tell you, madness. There are a few series of books about vampires that I enjoy but for every series I enjoy, there are at least ten more I have no desire to read. It seems like each series also has its own vampire mythology. Mixing of series will end up in mind-bottling circumstances (I read a series where slayers were bad/ Vamps were good and then I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer soon after -- DID NOT COMPUTE*) I will admit that recently I bought "Twilight" to see what the hype was about. I haven't actually read more than a few pages in it yet, we'll see. I was going to just borrow it from the library, but I was 423rd on the waiting list and that just seemed absurd. I think I might just watch the movie and be done with it. I also tried getting into the Sookie Stackhouse series. I ended up renting the TV series instead ("True Blood") which has been quite enjoyable so far. I am on episode 7 now. I am hoping to actually get into the books soon, although it may be after I have watched all of season one (apparently season one encompasses most of the first book). So anyway, today's favourite thing is certain TV/ book series about vampires.

* I should also mention that I watched "Buffy" and "Angel" while I was watching "Bones" and it was really hard for me to separate David Boreanaz's characters of ANGEL and BOOTH in the two shows. Over the course of a couple episodes of "Bones", BOOTH a) refused to break down a door because it would hurt his shoulder (ANGEL always seemed to enter a room by breaking down a door) and b) got quite seriously shot - to the point where people believed it when he faked his own death (I was convinced that his vampirical healing powers would save him.....they may as well have --he was out and about in the next episode which was only set a couple weeks later)

Not as bad as I thought...

Apologies to all the "Bones" fans who watch it on FOX. Minor spoiler alert. Generally, when 'Global' has its act together, we get 'Bones' episodes a day early (when they don't, occasionally we don't get them). So I saw this weeks episode (that airs tomorrow on FOX) already. It was an enjoyable episode and that is all that I am going to say without getting into heavier spoiler territory. I was worried when I read the premise but it turned out better than I thought it would. That being said, today's favourite thing is getting TV shows a day early.
I apologize if that was still too spoilery, I really tried to say something without saying anything (if that makes any sense whatsoever).

A show for the whole family, but really not....

"Bones" is definitely one of my favourite TV shows although I haven't always felt that way. I stopped watching after the episode "Aliens in a Spaceship" because it annoyed me that they didn't catch the guy. Oddly enough, that episode is the one that got one of my sisters watching the show. This week's episode brought closure to that episode and I really enjoyed it. As with many "Bones" episodes, it had moments that brought up more questions that they answered but it was enjoyable enough that I didn't mind. Apparently, my niece had to call my sister to tell her that she was scared in the middle. Yes, my four year old niece watches "Bones." It is totally an inappropriate show for her to be watching but she loves it. Especially the parts where they actually show the bones. At the end, my one sister called back to make sure my niece was okay. Her mom said she was but they were going to have to have a discussion about ghosts.

Mwa ha ha ha!

My evil, evil sister has this ability to get me hooked on to various things. Many of the things that I enjoy, particularily of the TV variety, it is because she is the one that said you should watch this. And I do. And I pretty much get hooked. It's happened with the Office, Bones, Buffy and to a lesser extent Angel. Yesterday she taught me a solitaire game that I had a difficult time not playing today. So when I know that I have gotten her interested in a particular show it makes me happy. The shows that I started getting her to watch have been Big Bang Theory, Chuck and 30 Rock. Knowing that I am the reason that she watches those shows makes me quite happy and I feel that is justifiable payback for all of the shows she's hooked me on over the years. So today's favourite thing is getting my sister interested in stuff and then not telling her how it ends.

Ah ha, unidentified particulates. The two sweetest words I know

I am going to give you fair warning. This is going to be another TV related post and if you don't watch the show in question, this post may be completely irrelevant to you. But rather than it being about a specific show, it is going to be about a specific character. Namely, Jack Hodgins from BONES. This character has got to be one of my favourite characters on TV. Why? To answer that question, I will have to make another list. In no particular order:

• He's rather cute.


• He's snarky and sarcastic.


• He gets oddly excited about things like insects and compost heaps


• Even when he hates everyone, he's funny about it.


• Even though he is extremely wealthy, he comes in everyday to work with insects, dirt, and unidentified particulates


• Finding weirder and weirder things about Angela made him love her more and more


• He is one of the more self-aware lab workers


• He's not above using his boss to make his problems (or Dr. Sweets) go away
  
• I mentioned that he is snarky right?


• He unconsciously uses words like 'baby' and 'dude' when he gets excited.

There a lot more reasons why he amuses me, but the main one is his snarkyness. If anyone has other reasons, feel free to share.