Ponderings and Spoilers Galore. BEWARE

[webbgirl]

Unfortunately, there's no chemistry between the main couple really.  Or maybe it's the way they introduced them.  I agree with jesshelga that I would much rather see Ron Livingston's eyebrows hook up with the Gina Torres character.  But that's because she's a goddess.
Another problem was that they tried to do two distinct storylines in the pilot.  Clearly that was way too much for the writers to handle.  Neither of them were spectacular premises (premi ?) to begin with, but I think that trying to do a crisis with 'All American Actor Dad' (fka Luke Duke) who wants to kill himself for what seem to be fuzzy reasons to begin with and a storyline with 'Mommy never loved me' spoiled kid turned Muslim (WTF?) was just a bit too much.
I'm hoping that this will be like other shows that just took a couple of eps to get it's footing (we all know that you can't go more than 2 to 3 anymore before the axe falls, especially on FOX).  I would really LOVE to be able to stare at Ron Livingston and his amazing Eyebrows every week.

I've been avoiding commenting on the spoilers for the CSI:NY premiere, but I feel like I need to get it out of my system. I'm not wholesale against the idea of Mac getting some lovin'.  Really.  He's hot.  He deserves it.  My slash goggles are sturdy enough to withstand any such entanglement.  My issue is with how they're doing it.  The whole retcon thing with the Peyton character just bugs me.  I feel like A) the writers are trying to cheat by bypassing all of the initial relationship stuff, B) we get screwed out of seeing any Mac character development that could have come from such a relationship, and C) it messes with previous canon.  Essentially for Mac we go from the end of S1 where he's nervous about just having dinner with someone to now where we're supposed to believe that not long after that, he hooked up with this woman who he used to work with.  I have issues with Mac just suddenly being okay with that.
I guess we'll see what happens with that and the whole Danny/Lindsay and Lindsay's secret past, and more of the Danny's got a past thing.  *sigh*  Maybe this will help weed out my TV viewing in the long run though.

I agree with the folks who aren't thrilled about why Gibbs is coming back (to help Ziva) but it's not necessarily upsetting news for me.  I'm used to getting yanked around and screwed over by Bellisario, so I'm properly prepared (lots of lube).  What bugs me are the insinuations that there may be something that happened between Ziva and Tony.  Again, I have sturdy slash goggles, so I'm good for that.  The problem is that DPBs female characters tend to delve into whiny, bitchy, needy territory when they get anywhere near a relationship.  (See Mac from JAG.)  The men surrounding them tend to get stupid or fawny at the same time (again with JAG).  The exception to that is if the woman is already set up on the Mommy/Saint track.  Apparently he really does have a whole Madonna/Whore issue going.  
Anyway, I was just starting to kind of like Ziva and I have the feeling that like isn't going to last very long if things head in that direction.  
Then again, it could be DPB with the chain yanking, yet again.

New PRun tonight!  Hopefully someone will make Jeffrey cry like the whiny little bitch that he is and he'll get sent home!