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November 6, 2009
Fringe: Chasing Shadows
We knew it! We knew it! Oh, maybe we shouldn't spoil this right up front. Let's just say there are a few things that make us very, very happy about this episode. Sure, it's a monster-of-the-week episode (what a monster!), but it also gives us a closer look at Broyles' personal life. Okay, not the big question about his kiss earlier this season with Nina, but some serious backstory for him. Let's just say in this episode Ahab got his whale. With a very decisive gunshot.
Of course, this is Fringe, which means more questions were raised than answered, but it sure was a lot of fun this week. We'll geek out our excitement over the reveals after the poll -- and the jump. You've been warned.
"Pluck you!" said the murderer who wrung the chicken man's neck on Bones. Booth and Brennan find themselves tarred and feathered (ok, corn syrup and paper feathers) when they investigate the murder of a chicken farmer and encounter angry residents protesting the animal cruelty and gawdawful stench associated with such establishments.
It's been at least several episodes since we've heard the status of Angela's celibacy, and she informs Hodgins it's been five months and 14 days. Someone call the National Guard! When she questions her friendship with Brennan after an argument over saving a cute piglet -- Brennan's rational, Angela's emotional -- Sweets points out she may be channeling all that sexual frustration into other areas. Gettin' hot and sweaty and saving Babe the pig. Sure... same thing.
Wendell Bray -- the intern most likely to make us go "awwww" -- admits to loving bacon, ribs, steak, you name it, but gives Angela all the money in his wallet anyway. That's enough to have her breaking out of the nunnery and planting a few big ones on the surprised, and very pleased, Wendell. We have to say: didn't see it coming, but don't really object either. We'd probably plant a few wet sloppy ones on him too.
This week as we watched So You Think You Can Dance, we were pretty grumbly about everything from costumes to baseball to who had to dance for their lives. But only because we have such high expectations and affection for the whole shebang. (How can you not love a show that produces scenes like the above -- thanks, Jakob and Ashleigh!)
This time the judges once again chose who went home, thanks to the World Series -- apparently this national pastime thing takes up so much primetime they can't fit in a results show again this week. Whatever. It's not so bad when the judges completely agree with us, but when we have irreconcilable differences with them -- like tonight -- we're left shaking our fists at the sky and plaintively asking "Why??? Why couldn't this have been left to a phone vote!?!"
Tell us in the poll (and comments!) if we were all alone in these sentiments tonight. More after the poll and the jump.
Oh Brandon. Brandon, Brandon, Brandon. We barely knew you. Seriously, you were put into a pretty impossible position and we were sad to see you cut from So You Think You Can Dance before you really had a chance to show us what you could do. Eliminations from the top 20 started tonight, but it wasn't a matter of voting from the audience -- the judges chose which guy and which girl was sent packing.
At the end, we had no idea which two women would have to dance for their lives, but alas, we were pretty sure you would be on the chopping block. You and Pauline were an absolutely adorable couple. You had some of the best chemistry, and we enjoyed watching your waltz, but in a year where everyone else knocks it out of the ballpark every time... well... sorry. We look forward to seeing you next year, if the rules get bent enough that we can do that.
Okay, not exactly an elimination, but a significant change in So You Think You Can Dance Season Six Top 20. We really thought Billy Bell was going to be one of the final two, but not this year. Via an official press release, came the announcement that Billy had to drop out due to illness.
A quick tour of the various sources around the Internet (Did you know Billy has a fan pageon Facebook? Now you do. Go sign up there as a fan of his to keep in touch.) provides no further details, except that Billy was just released from the hospital on Sunday and his family is asking that fans respect their privacy. Yikes. We're all sending Billy best wishes on a speedy recovery and we hope to see him doing great things in the near future. He's got a ton of talent.
But where does that leave So You Think You Can Dance? Well, the show must go on. And taking Billy's place in the Top 20 is a face you may remember.....
Say hello to Brandon Dumlao, a hip-hop dancer from Concord, CA. Yep, that makes FOUR men from the ranks of hip-hop this year. Those of us who are huge hip-hop fans are having a hard time containing our enthusiasm, we're sad to say. (We were really sad to see Brandon cut from the top 32 and can't wait to see more of this cutie.)
The change in the line-up didn't happen prior to filming the show-off special that aired last night, so we didn't get to see Brandon strut his stuff there, but he'll be appearing in tonight's broadcast of the first elimination round. We hope to see him stick around a good, long time. Welcome, Brandon!
What a night on So You Think You Can Dance! It was really great to watch a bunch of performances without having to worry about who would be going home. And we loved seeing the variety of styles, the colorful costumes, and the enthusiasm from dancers, judges, and audience alike.
We weren't wild about all of the choreography (sorry choreographers! we know you're all famous and stuff, we're just the uninformed public here) but we didn't see any dancers struggling through uniformly difficult performances. We don't know how they're going to make any decisions this year about who stays and who goes. These folks are fantastic.
More detail (and more photos!) after the jump. But first, pick your early favorite in our poll.
So this Glee was fraught with anger, wasn't it? From the very beginning (the walk-by slushy ambush) to Ken wigging out on the football team to Finn tackling fellow teammates, the cast was getting out some very intense emotion.
Speaking of getting out emotion, Puck singing Sweet Caroline was... interesting. Naturally Puck's instrument of choice is a guitar, but his Mohawk and Neil Diamond don't exactly mesh. Have you seen Neil's feathered, flowing locks? Baby steps, Puck. Baby steps.
Weird mash-up aside, Puck's voice was great and his scenes with Rachel and his family were classic, especially his sister screaming at Schindler's List. Clearly Puck just wanted to get into Rachel's pants (apparently god wants that, too), but telling her that they were never really friends when she gives him the shake off was a little harsh. But then again, that was far less of a curve ball than the guitar ballad/sing-along.
Finn's moment of weakness was also a bit of a blow -- if he can be strong for Quinn and already got the ball rolling with Glee from the first episode, why was it so hard to do it again? This is just a reminder of how much it can suck to be a high school kid. Have fun with that angst, kid. It's a blast.
It's been exhausting -- emotionally, physically, regionally -- but So You Think You Can Dance has finally whittled the dancing horde down to just 20 of the best in the nation. And seriously? They're FANTASTIC. This is going to be an amazing season. Three tap dancers made it through (no tap dancer has made it to the top 20 ever before) plus a krumper (our favorite!) a b-boy (we have our doubts, but the judges saw more of his performances than we did) and an adorable hip-hop specialist. We can't wait to see how these guys grow through the insanely tough challenges ahead of them.
The women have less variety when it comes to dance genre, but more variety when it comes to skin color. We're thrilled to see the diversity of experience, personality and ethnicity. They were all very happy for each other as they came through the curtain tonight and announced they made it. We hope they can live together in the same spirit. There were lots of tears again this week. Tears while they waited nervously to hear how they did. Tears if they got cut. Tears if they didn't. Tears if their friends got cut. We just wanted to give them all a big hug. More after the jump.
Did you love the promos for this episode of House as much as we did? It's true, we could watch Foreman freak out like that over and over and over and never get tired of it. Especially since he's been so full of himself these last few episodes. Sheesh, new boss guy, relax! Or, well, you know. You could try getting the bejeezus scared out of you in the morgue instead. We the viewers vote for the latter. A lot.
There was, of course, other drama and a patient of the week (or two?). We'll get to those next...
Now they're just being mean. It's one thing to tease a potential romance between two characters as they get closer and more intimately involved in each other's lives -- as Booth and Brennan have done through the course of their partnership. But it's quite another to take that sexual tension to the brink of a relationship-changing act (usually that first explosive kiss) so often the audience refuses to believe the writers will make good on the promise. People: Bones is messing with us.
On the upside: Watching Booth's obvious pain as Brennan unwittingly (or so it would seem) tramples all over his heart by skipping off to a date with his boss's boss (Hi Diedrich Bader, we love you!), is just good TV. For a smart woman, she can be pretty oblivious. Or, is she? As Angela smacks her in the face, metaphorically, with the idea that she could be getting down and dirty with Booth instead of Assistant Director Hacker, Brennan doesn't look so surprised by the idea. It comes across more like a stubborn refusal to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Booth becomes about as blatant as he can be when it comes to his feelings for Brennan when he shows how hurt he is by her casual sharing of a story with Hacker that Booth had only told her -- what's between them is special, in other words. All good stuff.
On the downside: ARRRRGGGH! Take a stand people! Are they going to get romancey or remain platonic partners and friends? Booth and Brennan have made up their minds -- if all we go by is the unspoken signals bouncing between them. Make it happen, we say. And soon, or... we'll go on a Bones strike (ok, not really, but stop being mean!).
Oh, and there was a murder, a mummy, a giant ruby and the return of Daisy Wick, in a not-as-annoying capacity. Yay.
What do you think? Is the Booth/Brennan to be or not to be romance driving you slowly insane or could you care less? Speak up in the comments!
