Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Less that 2 weeks to go until I am unshackled from these glasses (I hope). I have noticed this week that I am "feeling" my glasses on my face more. I notice the pressure points and even how uneven they feel. I also notice the slightest unevenness on how they sit on my face while I look in the mirror. But soon it will all be a distant memory (I hope). In the back of my mind I can see the doctor coming in after my evaluation and saying, "Mr. Dieterman, I don't know quite how to say this but your eyes are so bad it's a wonder you can even see to walk. There is no procedure now, nor will there be in the foreseeable future, that will even come close to repairing your mutated eyesight issues." Since I am bracing myself for this exact response, more than likely whatever they tell me will be a relief.
What with the writer's strike the wife and I have been rationing out the few tv shows we have left recorded on the computer. We have a few Prison Break's, Jericho's and House's left (having burned through all the CSI an CSI NY episodes). No new shows really caught my fancy so I decided to give some existing shows another shot, namely CSI Miami and Numb3rs. I downloaded all the CSI Miami episodes, read the tv.com review of last season's cliff hanger to get a feel of where they left off and tried to approach the show with an open mind. I had tried to watch this show in years past and just had to give it up. I think the show has a bunch of trained monkeys as writers.
Writer #1 - Hey, how about we have a really pretty young girl with hardly no clothes on.
Writer #2 - Yes, I like it. How about this, she's dead.
#1 - Yes, I like it. Ok, she's young, pretty, dead and naked. Now what?
#2 - OK, she's in a swamp.
#1 - Yes!
#2 - OK, lets take a banana break.
The characters are so shallow and way too pretty. Also, they tend to wear white pants suits to bloody crime scenes. And the tireless drivel that passes for dialog is just painful to watch. This is the 3rd time that I have tried to give CSI Miami a chance and also the 3rd time I have given up. So I decided to try Numb3rs again.
Numb3rs intrigued me when it first came on since I majored in Math in college. The first year was pretty good. The geeky math dude (who's brother was an FBI agent) helped his brother solve cases. The problem is that I could tell when it was real math and when they were making stuff up. I suppose it would be the same if a medical person was watching House or if a police officer was watching Prison Break (and this might be the reason I like those shows - since I cannot tell when they are making stuff up to move the plot along). Anyway, once they exhausted the 10 ways that math could help solve cases, they resorted to the same useless dialog and made up stuff that CSI Miami has come to use. Take episode 3 of this year for instance. It was about a car that crashed into a coffee shop. The car was street racing. So they are investigating street racing and all its dangers. Toward the end when they know who crashed the car, they head to a street racing hangout to catch the killer. They see him and instead of walking up to him and arresting him, they come in with sirens blaring and stop 100 foot from the bad guy and get out to chase him. He then gets in his street racecar and takes off making the FBI agent chase him down the streets of LA. This sounds straight out of the playbook of the Dukes of Hazard to me. First of all, street racing is illegal and the FBI appears to know where all the street racers hang out but yet this is the first time they decided to drop in to arrest people. Secondly, the racers appear to pay no attention to those around them and the FBI guys could have walked right up to them and arrested them but they chose not to. Thirdly, coming in with your sirens blaring and STOPPING the CAR 100 FOOT AWAY is just STUPID. I mean, drive right up to the bad guy, hit him with the car if you have to but don't just plan on chasing him on foot. Fourthly, and here is the stupidest part, don't make me think that an FBI dude in a standard issue government car is going to outrace a street racer in his decked out car. At the start of the race / chase I stopped the show and immediately deleted the other 10 episodes off my computer. The are now resting there comfortably with all the CSI Miami shows so they will be in good company.
Well i can smell the bacon from the kitchen so breakfast is ready.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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