Wow. TV CRAZINESS!

Wow. Wowie, Wow, wow. Are tv producers trying to kill me? I thought the tv season was going rather well, I haven’t hated anything that I’ve viewed yet. Overall…enjoyable. Nothing too pulse raising, but still enjoyable. Well, that all changed on Wednesday.

Please be aware that what follows is a discussion of the Veronica Mars, Alias & Everwood premieres. If you haven’t seen either yet, and plan to, you might want to skip down to the NEWS portion of the update.

It is absolutely official. My favorite show on tv is now Veronica Mars. I know I’ve talked highly about the show for some time, but it really won me over with the last 6 episodes of the season and the premiere locked it up. Lost is still amazing and of course I love my Jack Bauer, but I haven’t been in this deep with a show since the buffyverse or the first season of alias. I know that some of you are still missing out on this show, WHAT IN THE CRAP ARE YOU WAITING FOR? UPN is rearing the premiere on Sunday, so if you hate football and have nothing better to do, I suggest you check it out. –Oh KT Update break----Sorry for the brief interruption, as I am typing this up Buffy is playing in the background. It was the scene where Willow & Xander are trying on their formal wear for the Homecoming dance and have their first kiss. That’s why I love this show. I’ve seen this episode 50X but it still pulls me away from what I’m doing. Hee Hee. Sorry, back to Veronica Mars.

When we last left Veronica she had outed her best friend’s killer, found out that her ex-boyfriend was not her step brother and opened the door to a new boyfriend. I have to say that the show kept me guessing throughout with lots of little twist & turns. My head was spinning for most of the show. They managed to make Duncan a little more endearing, but I still think he is a total snore. I think it makes sense that Duncan & Veronica would be together again since they never had resolution in their previous relationship. I’m much more of a Logan girl. Yes, yes, I fall into the bad boy category. Spike, Pacey, Sawyer; actually the only time I’ve pulled for the “safe guy” was Felicity. I love me some Noel! Ohh that reminds me, Amy Acker said that when the cast found out she was cutting cut from The Unit, Scott Foley really fought for her to stay. Ultimately, the producers chose to ax Amy but I thought it was sooo awesome that he really tried to keep her on. I love Foley. Sorry, back on topic. I’m really concerned about this whole Logan thing. I feel like they have pushed his character way back. By the end of last season he had progressed into a good guy, someone to root for, and you kinda understood why he was such an ass in the beginning of the year. Now, when he has lost everything, I feel like they are taking the less interesting character path and making him an ass again. I think it would be much more exciting to see Logan struggle to be a good man, to fight for Veronica, to fight against everything he has grown up with. I don’t know, that is the one thing that really concerns me about this show, I’ll be upset if Logan disintegrates into the real villain of the piece. So yeah, I’m hoping that eventually Veronica will realize that Duncan is LAME and Logan will redeem himself AGAIN but I love this show so much that I’m willing to have a little faith. And the new mystery, WHOA!!!! I had a feeling something was going to happen to the bus, but that was CRAZY!

The show was up 16% in the ratings and I think it held most of its America’s Next Top Model lead in. So, fingers crossed. Oh and one more thing. For any of you that watched the show, did you catch Logan doing “the shocker”? I had no idea what this was all about but everyone on the internet was going on & on about. I shan’t go into specifics, but suffice it say that “the shocker” is a “vulgar” hand gesture. Um, if you watch Rescue Me, I’m pretty sure that in the first season the boys had a big discussion of the “shocker”. It was something Tommy did.

I hadn’t recovered from Veronica Mars when Alias premiered last night. There has been a lot of talk about Michael Vartan’s impending departure. Rumors abound that Jennifer Garner decided it was too stressful to work with Vartan & thus he is gone…I hope that’s not true, I don’t want Jennifer Garner to be a bitch, I really like her. So yeah, I was watching last night expecting Vaughn to be kidnapped or put into coma or some other plot contrivance that would keep him out of the picture for a while without permanently eliminating him. Or ya know, start a storyline where Vaughn would find himself in mortal peril within the next few episodes. Wow. Was I off. They didn’t waste any time. They shot him full of bullets and BAM! funeral in the last 2 minutes of the show. It was a bit shocking. I’m torn on it. On the one hand, it hurts a bit when a main cast member is killed off so quickly. I mean, imagine if Nate from SFU died & was buried within 20 minutes. That really sucks for the Vaughn fans. He kinda got the shaft. I mean when Buffy’s mom died the whole next 2 episodes dealt with it and she was a supporting player. Plus it wasn’t very dramatic. I felt my eyes getting misty but only for a second. It wasn’t like when Fred died on Angel and I sobbed. So I can see how Vaughn fans might be upset.

On the other hand, Vartan & Garner had ZERO chemistry last year. Their scenes were painful at times and this event has jumpstarted a very interesting storyline. I think overall, it may be a good move for the show. Seasons 3 & 4 were not nearly as exciting, moving or fun as the first 2. Maybe this is what the show needs to finish on top, but based on the comments I saw last night, the show is losing quite a few viewers. So we’ll see, at this point, I’m too heavily invested to give up now. Need to know how it all resolves itself & hello Balthazar Getty! Amy Acker! Sark-a-liscious!

After Alias last night I hopped over to the WB for the premiere of Everwood. There was all this talk about a wedding and that we’d be surpised. Umm, I called that months ago. No surprise there. But, it was mighty enjoyable to see Hannah & Bright, Amy and her new hairdo and the resolution to Andy’s profession of love. That’s why I love this show, it does the opposite of every other tv show. The main character does not win the woman that he loves after a dramatic profession of love. So that was cool. And at the end of it all, we got a little ephram.

TV News Tidbits!!

Fox has give Prison Break a full season order. I’m interested to see what that means for the show since it was supposed to end in Nov. after 13 episodes. January=Jack Bauer.

The Office, Family Guy & American Dad have also received full season pick ups.

USA has picked up The 4400 for a 3rd season.

That’s all folks!