Booth & Brennan

When Brennan’s dad Max gets a job as a science teacher at the Jeffersonian Bones is not amused and tries to fire him. Booth and Bones investigate the murder of a special ops guy whose remains are found in a tree. The investigation leads them to an expensive private school. Booth worries that he’s not taking care of Parker like he should and wonders if he should get him into a private school as well.

Watch out! Here be spoilers!

Slow, but nice episode. Not very memorable, but nice and easy going. They still haven’t replaced Zack and none of the candidates so far seem very promising. Also, I thought that the girl’s confession could have been a little more dramatic: come on! An eleven year old matter of factly killing her nanny, actually shooting the guy? Just because she wouldn’t do her homework? Shouldn’t there have been just a little more outrage? Recriminations? Reflections on society?  Now they all just went back to playing with coke bottles and mentos. Btw, you’d think even Parker would know that old trick, doesn’t the boy ever go to YouTube?

I like Mmax, hope he doesn’t die too quickly. Guess he’ll start dating first and Brennan will get all weird about replacing her mom, and then maybe next season he could get killed by one of his old crime buddies?

What do you think? 

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I’ve been rewatching all seven seasons of Voyager, and as I watched Chakotay strutt his stuff, recalibrating the warp core , the Doctor singing opera, and Janeway being, well, Janeway, I was wondering: where did all these people go?

Seven & Chakotay

Did they just fall of the planet? Up sticks to the Delta Quadrant? And then I saw Tuvok as the doorman in Samantha Who? and thought I’d look ‘m all up, maybe even Neelix….

Captain Kathryn Janeway, the impressive Kate Mulgrew, wrote history as the first female captain of the Star Trek series. It did involve a lot more touchy feely scenes than Kirk ever had to put up with. Kirk’s answer to most problems was a fist fight, while Janeway has endless cups of tea with disgruntled crewmembers and even the occasional hug! Recently Mulgrew has been on the stage, starring in Equus.

Janeway’s Number One, Chakotay, hasn’t done much acting since Endgame aired. Sure, he’s been on CSI, but then again, who hasn’t?

Chakotay wasn’t always happy on the show, claiming to be “damned bored” in a couple of seasons because the writers gave him very little to do. Actually, he has a point there, he’s hardly IN season six and when he was he only got to say dull stuff like “Are you sure, captain?”. After a couple of squabbles with the writers, luckily, in the final season he got a lot more to do (and, let’s face it, he got to snog Seven. Repeatedly!) Nowadays he holds a yearly Galaxy Ball which raises funds for the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles. 

Voyager crew

Ensign Kim, aka Garrett Wang hasn’t done much acting since Voyager. In an interview with Esquire he stated  ”sometimes talent does not measure up to ambition, so you have to seek alternative options.” Bless him! He’ll always be Harry Kim, the guy who fell in love with every unsuitable gal in the Delta Quadrant (including a Borg drone and a dead girl!)

Seven of Nine

Speaking of Borg drones, what happened to the unforgettable Seven of Nine, played by German born Jeri Ryan? Well, she has done very well for herself! First she was on Boston Public, then Boston Legal and finally Shark. Also she swapped her investment banker hubby for a French chef. Yum. Apparently, Seven is quite a dab in the kitchen, she even moonlighted as a chef herself! She and husband Cristophe now own the tres chic L.A. restaurant Ortolan.

More culinary fun comes from Neelix, aka Ethan Philips. He co-wrote the Star Trek Cookbook. In it you’ll find interstellar haute cuisine suitable for Klingons, Vulcans and any other species. Well, maybe not the Borg. Acting gigs include a recent appearance on Bones as a open mike host. And I’m not saying whether he was the murderer!

Star Trek Cookbook

The Doctor, Robert Picardo, originally attended Yale as a Pre-Med major, but he hung up his stethoscope to pursue a career in acting. Funnily enough, he is most remembered for his two roles as a doctor, on both China Beach and Voyager. Years down the line, Rob is still acting up a storm. Currently he is on Stargate Atlantis as Richard Woolsey, but he’s had roles on anything from CSI:NY to Smallville. If he ever retires he hopes to open a sweet shop!

B’ELanna, Roxann Dawson, is fifty and still looking great. She has since Voyager ended its mission turned her hand to writing! Apart from a play she has written  a sci-fi trilogy Tenebrae. Also she’s a big advocate of The Half the Sky foundation and even auctioned off her Klingon forehead prosthetic to donate to this organization. Good for her, though I imagine there must have been more than one of those?

B’Elanna’s tv hubby Tom Paris, aka Robert McNeill, has also left the small screen to go into directing. Recent credits are Samantha Who?, with former colleague Tuvok,and Chuck.

Tuvok, as said, can be seen as Christina Applegate’s sarcastic doorman on Samantha Who? and also as Principal Ted Franklin in Nickelodeon’s show iCarly. Not a bad score, Mr. Vulcan!

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Riley

The plot thickens! And thickens, and thickens….

Sooooo, Jesse’s been sent back from the future to kill Cameron?! From a future that’s different than the one Derek’s been sent back from? So, maybe, in Derek’s future, there’s no need to kill Cameron in the past? Hmm. My head’s starting to hurt….

Soooo, Stupid Boring Riley is actually a spy? In cohoots with Annoying Jesse, she of the ridiculous accent? (where the hell is she supposed to be from? Yeah, I know, the Future. Maybe in her future everybody talks that) Riley went up a coupla notches in my estimation! Maybe not as dull as she looks. Though she ruined it by crying and being, well, boring. When Derek pulled his gun on Jesse I really hoped he’d just pull the trigger already. Derek to Jesse: “I love you. But don’t push it.” Though now Cameron can slowly rip her head off, which might be even better…..

Cameron: “Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point. It’s a Go proverb, it means the same rules don’t always apply.”
Sarah: “It’s always the same rules and they always apply.”

Sarah: “They’ll find their money, they’ll get their miracle.”
Cameron “How do you know?”
Sarah: “Because it’s written in blood on my basement wall.” (nice!)

I love scary redhead Weaver’s outfits.

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Peyton & Lucas

Pretty exciting episode!
Samantha smuggles a boy into her room and Brooke freaks out. Nathan has a chance to try out in front of a bunch of major coaches. Jamie has a kiddie piano recital, but he’s not exactly in love with playing the piano. Brooke gets a shot at designing clothes for Lucas’ film and Peyton goes to see the doctor for her stomach pains, while Lucas jets off to Los Angeles to meet with a movie director.

I thought Dawson’s Creek James van der Beek was a big disappointment as a coke snorting movie buff. Unconvincing and even pathetic. Shame, I liked him in HIMYM as Robin’s geeky ex.

Soooo, does Peyton have cancer? Will she die? Will Lucas and Peyton get married before she dies? Will the wedding be in the hospital? Or will they search for a miracle cure?

And what’s going to happen with Sam and the creepy older brother who shot Q.?!
And Millie and OWEN? Owen back on the booze? Millie going all slutty? Why oh why didn’t she just sleep with her own boyfriend, Mouth, rather than make a big deal out of not a hell of a lot and keep spying on Mouth and Gigi? Still, I guess it’s never bad to sleep with a handsome stud like Owen, so maybe Millie’s onto something….

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Robin

Very funny episode!

Ted is still sharing an apartment with Robin and when he comes home one night there’s a naked guy sitting on his couch. This is Mitch, Robin’s blind date. Robin is outside taking a phone call and this guy’s just sitting there. Turns out that that’s his move: “The naked man”. He simply takes his clothes off and two out of three times he gets lucky. Ted doesn’t believe him until Robin falls for it. The gang all decide to try out “The Naked Man”.

Very funny episode. I liked how Ted picked up Vicky in the elevator, that poor girl put on less and less clothes just so Ted’d talk to her. Who goes to work (un)dressed like that? Great outfits though. And I really liked Robin trying to prove to herself that she’s not a slut, though I would have slapped Marshall if he’d called me a slut! Just because he’s all loved up with his first love doesn’t mean that the rest of us have to wait for true love to have sex! Luckily! Bit of a double standard going on there: Barney gets to sleep around all the time and Marshall never calls him a slut!

Quote:

Naked guy on couch: “The naked man is a last resort, kind of a Hail Mary of first dates, when you know there isn’t going to be a second date.”
Ted: “How do you know there isn’t going to be a second date?”
Naked Guy: “Just look at me Ted.”
Ted “I’d rather not.”

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Now nobody in their right mind would call director Baz Luhrman, he of iconic flics such as Romeo & Juliet and the unforgettable Moulin Rouge a one hit wonder. Well, apart from a wiki about one hit wonders!

Apparently, Mr. Luhrman had a pop hit way back when: Everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen). I hear the “aha’s” bouncing back from my screen. You remember that little ditty, it’s basiccally just an actor reading an essay to a beat. It was a number one hit for about a week. It remained a one off, which is why he made the Wikipedia One Hit Wonder list. Of course, we had to see it to believe it, so here’s Baz:

Baz is also about to hit the cinema’s with his epic Australia with no other than Aussie acting canons Nicole Kidman and the delectable Hugh Jackman starring. Here’s their MySpace interview:
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Rather a pathetic interview, Rob is getting on my nerves a little with the whole posey attitude, fiddling with his hair. Highlight: Rob used to be a hand model. A female hand model, mind you!
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Ugly Betty

Betty tries to get into an editorial writing program and comes up against Mark. Both have to present concepts for a magazine, and only one of them can get in. Wilhelmina tries to get Connor in the sack, while Daniel has the hots for Connors fiance, Molly, the kindergarten teacher. Justin gets into trouble with his best friend.

I really like Hilda as a mom. For all her trashy talk and low cut dresses, she’s a model mom who always puts her kid first. Betty is an IDIOT for giving up on the stupid writing program just because she may have gotten special treatment. Why the hellll would she give it up just so Mark (!) could get in???? Other than that it is the usual Daniel screws up, Daniel fixes things in the end story line, but it was a feelgood episode.

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Cromartie. Not that dead?

Whoever thought life would be a breeze for the Connors now that Cromartie is gone has another thing coming!

Jesse seems to be loosing it when she kidnaps and roughs up an old geezer she meets in the mall, claiming he’s been sent from the future. John and Cameron take a trip back to Mexico to make sure Cromartie stays dead. Sarah falls ill and revisits the psychologist to talk about her, rather terrifying, nightmares.

Creepy dreams are kinda easy to put into a series, but somehow Cameron and Sarah in pink housewifey dresses gave me the heebie jeebies. 

I can see what Derek likes about Jesse. “I need you NOW. Bring a gun!” That’d be a turn on for any guy, right? Good to see Richard Schiff. So weird that Derek and Jesse don’t share the same future!!! That’d be so weird. 

Cameron is getting more and more interesting every ep, and she really seems to want to get together with John. Hmmm. Lot’s of interesting stuff going on!

I so hope they don’t cancel this show!!!

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