Here’s a couple of random babblings that I was supposed to post last may, but never got around to. How self-important am I that I still feel the need to post them? :) Third Watch Finale After a couple of weeks of promos that never panned out, NBC’s Third Watch eventually did deliver on the loss of a cast member during its season finale. All I can say was that it was shocking, and a little on the gory side. Why do the networks seem to feel that they need shock value to tell a good story? (For those of you who don’t remember since it was last April or May, they ended up blowing one of the lead characters into two pieces.) Hadn’t we seen that before with characters losing body parts on JAG and ER? (Via a landmine and a helicopter blade respectively.) Here’s hoping that sometime soon network executives will wise up and insist on writers who don’t have to resort to shock value all of the time. ER 200 ER’s episode number 200 was bloody boring. (No pun intended.) If that’s the best that they could come up with for the show’s 200th episode, than all involved should consider a new line of work. Hunter After only a few weeks on the air, Hunter’s return to the air ended due to poor ratings. Hmm, I wonder if screwing around with the show’s timeslot on the first week played a part. I know I never bothered to check the show out after getting the shaft by NBC on week number one when they scheduled it at one time and then aired it an hour earlier. (Causing me, and probably lots of others, to miss it.) Enterprise The end of last season’s Enterprise saw them pull out the old standbys of the Borg and pon farr (the Vulcan mating cycle). The Borg episode was handled well, but the pon farr episode just seemed like an excuse to get Jolene Blalock stripped down to her undies and get her all hot and sweaty – not that there’s anything wrong with that…. The West Wing The final two episodes of last season on the West Wing were brilliant. The president’s daughter gets herself kidnapped, and we get a look at just how bad things can get in the oval office. And the temporary addition of John Goodman to the cast didn’t hurt things either.

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