mariness

Ordinarily this would be the time when I would render some snarky comments on the latest hijinks of the mad scientists and their extremely unscientific cow at Fringe, but this year, these snarky bits will generally be delayed for at least a week thanks to laziness (on my side) and greed (on Fox TV's side.) On my side, although we do get Fox live here, watching live TV requires, gasp, getting up and switching the TV from DVD mode to television mode, gasp, and then unless the other person in the household was watching football on Fox, which sometimes happens, adjusting the antenna away from watching football on ABC to watching Fringe on Fox, which might not seem like much but is generally more than I feel like doing for a show that will eventually and conveniently be popping up on my little computer where I can pause it midway for a snack or rewind bits that I like without a problem. On the other side, Fox, which previously released new episodes the day after original airing, now has them on a week's delay unless you are a Dish network customer, which we aren't. (Besides, Friday night is usually when we pop in a movie into the DVD player.)

(Nope, we don't have a DVR or cable, and at the moment, my checking account has explained in kind but firm terms that we won't be getting either for a bit.)

Instead, I'll just note that I finally got around to catching up to most of the summer episodes of the silly, fluffy Eureka and Warehouse 13. The fourth season of Eureka, post the time travel reboot, has been the show's best ever, allowing character growth and adjustment while adding different sorts of tension. Warehouse 13, a show I've previously been kinda eh about, also stepped up its game, with two solid episodes -- the exceedingly silly crossover with Eureka where everyone ended up as a video game character, which did crack me up, and the more serious episode where Mika chased after the person who assassinated her partner.

Neither show is going to change your life, but if you're looking for some fairly mindless, fluffy entertainment with the occasional jokes, they aren't bad. And, to give both shows credit, neither tries to put a cow in a lab (although what Eureka does choose to put in its labs also generally leaves me wiping tears from my eyes. I'll let you determine the cause of those tears.)