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[geebs]

Could there be any more TV on Monday nights?! At least the Closer is done, but then Heroes and HIMYM start up next week, and Chuck the week after that!

TV commentary:

On Gossip Girl, Dan and Serena break up yet again, only this time it "permanent". Heh, the little fangirls in the park all "Why R U guys back together?!" were both weird and hilarious! Yeah, Serena would prolly lie to him again, but only because she's freaking out because he's such a judgmental prick. Although Dan's pretty much back to being persona non-grata now that he's cut ties with the only person at school who actually liked him (lets face it, not even Jenny was a big fan of him, ha!). And I wonder if Serena will go back to her wild ways now that she doesn't have Dan to strive to be good for.

Jenny loses her internship for criticizing one of Eleanor's designs to a model, but then the power goes out and she helps Eleanor with things and is unfired. And then we find out Rufus is dating some random when he goes to check on Jenny.

Nate tries to rekindle things with Vanessa and get out from under the Duchess' thumb by trying to get Chuck to reconsider the loan, but alas he's put the money into bonds and can't get it back for a few more months. So Nate's stuck whoring himself out. But then he decides to choose V over Catherine and figure out the money thing. The Duchess realizes something's up, and with Blair's help finds out who Vanessa is. They scheme and invite V to the party, and she and Nate are rightly suspicious. Nate figures out Catherine knows about Vanessa and tries to un-invite her, but then Rufus tells her to just pretend she didn't get that voicemail and go anyways. V gets there just in time to see Nate and Catherine holding hands and knows something's up. Heh, Nate takes Vanessa aside and tries to explain, "Oh, no, its not a creepy Mrs. Robinson thing, I'm doing it for money!" As if that's any better. But he resolves to break it off, only the Duchess finds Vanessa first and blackmails her into leaving Nate by saying if Nate breaks it off, she'll go straight to the Feds and tell them where his father is. So Vanessa tells Nate to go to Catherine and cries to Dan about it in the end.

As for the Chuck/Blair/Marcus triangle, Chuck can't get it up for anyone but Blair, whereas Blair wants some Marcus, but he's all "No thanx, you're a delicate flower, lets wait!" What is he, gay!? Blair's friggin' hot! So during the blackout, she tells Marcus to meet her upstairs, but then Chuck goes back to his rapin' ways and pretends to be Marcus. Of course, Blair isn't stupid, and she knows down inside that its really Chuck, and when Marcus catches them he calls her on it. So he dumps her, but then she's all she only did it because he doesn't show her any passion and they kiss, so I guess they're unbroken up now?

The only peeps from Blair's little gang were Penelope and Nelly Yuki were at the party though. Could they not get the other girls? Hopefully the rest of the gang will be back next week. At the very least Hazel, she's my favorite.

So on SCC, John makes a new friend, Riley. Its very odd, given she's also a mysterious blond, I'm wondering if the character was originally supposed to be the one mysterious chick from last year and the actress fell through or something. Anyways, she's a little too friendly though, something's definitely off with her though. Maybe it was off camera, but didn't John find it weird she spent the night without having to tell anyone anything? And I know they're not exactly a normal family, but Sarah's fine with him just taking her up to his room for the entire night? Coolest mom ever! In any case, I'm guessing she's in the resistance, or she's a terminator. Yeah, Cameron analyzed her, but Cameron also seems broken, so its possible for her to be a robot and Cameron just didn't say anything.

Speaking of Cameron, something's definitely off with her, and the rest of the gang is uneasy around her now, worried she'll flip out and kill them all. But that doesn't stop Cameron and Sarah from having a cute little rapport going at the plant they're going undercover at, synchronizing their answers and wot-not. Speaking of the plant, they go back to the whole Sarah dying of cancer thing by having her develop a fear or radiation. I think its a neat little development, no matter how irrational it is. I mean, yeah, she died of cancer, but its a totally different time line now! I she worried just because she originally died of cancer, she's susceptible to developing it? Everyone's susceptible to getting cancer, some more than others (though didn't the doctor say she isn't more likely to develop it than the average?). So it is kinda crazy for her to freak out near anything that could possibly cause cancer. And then asking Cameron "Is this how it happens?" How should she know, its a different time line! It couldn't have been how it happens, because she would've died a few years before, and thus could not die from being irradiated years after her death!

Interesting, are they doing a weird time war sort of thing, where now Skynet and the resistance are making trips to the past for tactical advantages in the future? And what's with them sending Terminators back that mimic specific people?! I guess its possible, but that kinda changes the game. Before, you only had to worry about the T-1000s or people they never met being Terminators. But now terminators can be anyone! In any case, its hard to tell who "won" the ep. They stopped the plant from melting down without causing the plant to be shut down permanently, but then Garbage lady disguised herself as some CEO who's automating the plant and several others. So is it advantage Skynet?

And what was the weird words written in blood? Who wrote them? Are they plans/clues for what Connor and company need to do next? Oh, and Ellison and Dixon tell Penelope Widmore about the whole Skynet deal, and the Dixons leave because the terminators might come after them for some reason?!

So on OTH, we get a sad funeral ep for Q. I'll give them credit for making me feel bad for a character I used to despise, but I guess he was getting better in recent eps. Heh, having the captions on, I saw the voice over in the beginning was done by some Samantha. So I was all, "Who the eff is Samantha?" I guess she's the shoplifter girl. Strange, where did she get the Clothes Over Bros top? Didn't Brooke stop her from shoplifting? Did she get it some other time, or is she linked to Brooke's attack? Speaking of, is there the implication that Brooke was raped? Being beaten like that is rough, but it seems like something darker took place. And she threw in rape when she was spouting off all those assault statistics. If she did, her mother is a real scumbag then, not only getting her daughter beat up, but raped as well just to get control of the company?! We still haven't seen her again yet, and I guess not all that much time has passed since the season started, but I'm still thinking she thought it would be Millicent at the store when she sent the masked man there, if it was indeed she who did that.

I'm also amused how they try to fit Carrie and Dan in with the loss theme of the ep by revealing she's a crazy psycho because she lost her son and that's why she's trying to steal Jamie.

On Prison Break, Team Scofield finds out T-Bag is in LA, but because he's a lucky SOB, they have to let him go before they can find the bird book. So he goes to his job, where the cute secretary is played by Lindsey from the OC. Its nice to see her get more work. Especially in an awesome cleavage baring blouse like that. spcv('Nice!')

On the Closer, how did they not realize one of the work guys was in on the conspiracy? The dead boys were obviously crazy sociopaths, therefore, if these guys were so buddy buddy with them, they should bear closer scrutiny! I wonder if Sanchez is going to make it?

Comments

[clevemire.livejournal.com]

I was totally expecting an analysis of the kid's tactics or weapon choices on the Closer. Who was the one kid who wasn't in on it? He looked familiar as hell.

On the Terminator, I figured the guy who told them about the plant left those messages. He was bleeding and had info from the future... I'm not really sure why he was able to write all that, or if he was why he didn't say "there's stuff written on a wall" instead of pointing to the nuclear plant.

[geebs.livejournal.com]

The kid had a pretty good choice of weapon, a M4 carbine type weapon. Too bad he was unable to take advantage of the huge range advantage he had over the team. I mean, he could be delivering accurate fire up to two to three hundred meters away, while they could only provide aimed fire to about 40 to 50 feet.

Though while the body armor would protect him from the hits, there's still a transfer of kinetic energy. So with that many people shooting at him, he would been knocked back or down. And his head, arms, and legs were unarmored. I'm highly skeptical they would actually aim for the bag. It was smaller than a duffel bag, so its not like its way easier to hit than the rest of him. And they don't know how much explosive he had in there, so I'm surprised they were willing to risk it. They could've killed themselves and countless innocents in the mall below!

Oh, speaking of guns though, I know they needed to have an excuse for Sarah to get a gun in the plant so she could shoot the terminator, but I have to call shinnanegans that the one guard would be standing calmly at his post while the friggin' meltdown alarm is going off! Who's he protecting the place from? The place is about to blow up!

[clevemire.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was thinking that blowing up the duffel bag was dangerous too. My other thought is that if you have access to all those propane tanks, wouldn't you put a bunch of them on the roof too, strategically placed for defense from just that type of situation?

And that guy at the plant, I get that it'd be a high security area and all, but would they be packing that kind of heat?

[geebs.livejournal.com]

I dunno, in this post 9/11 world, I don't think its too crazy to be that heavily armed. I mean, for a while we had national guardsmen in full body armor and assault rifles outside the airports. And its not like there's too much danger of accidentally shooting civilians in the area he'd be guarding. And those rifles are firing 5.56mm, which are powerful enough to go through body armor, but their size/velocity are such that they'd shatter against the thick walls of the plant rather than penetrating something potentially dangerous.

[clevemire.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it fully automatic though? We don't even get that to guys in the army. Plus, for security on the interior in relatively close quarters, I would think the rifle wouldn't necessarily be that helpful. I dunno.

[geebs.livejournal.com]

I think we're back to automatic in the military- the three round burst system on the m16 was so poorly designed that the marines were just disabling it and resorting to semi-automatic, so I think they went back to full auto capability. And I always thought it was dumb to idiot proof the weapon by limiting automatic fire rather than training the soldiers not to panic and waste all their rounds in one long burst. I mean, wouldn't you want the soldiers protecting you and your country not effing up because of good training, not because the equipment stops them from effing up, particularly when that results in poorly designed equipment?

But I digress, I don't think its that hard core. They're most likely protecting the plants from 1) people who want to frak with things and possibly causing a meltdown that could kill thousands or millions, or 2) people wanting to steal nuclear material to make a bomb that could kill thousands or millions. So I don't see a problem with being as heavily armed as possible.

Plus, full automatic fire isn't really for putting as many rounds in a target as possible, its mainly for suppression. And not all of the plant is close hallways either. I'd think it would be totally useful in such situations- they're trying to stop people from getting past them, and I think they'll be more effective sending as many rounds towards them as possible in a short amount of time to keep the enemies' heads down and not charging rather than just trading shots with slower semi-auto fire. Especially in close quarters. With that many rounds going down a tight corridor, it'll be less likely that a baddie will get lucky and manage to make it through without getting hit.

[clevemire.livejournal.com]

I get that reliability should be the number one concern, and obviously if ditching full auto causes problems you shouldn't do it, but I don't really get what fully automatic does for you in suppression that semi automatic doesn't. If I'm firing once every half second or so, are you going to duck any less than from a constant fire?

And I can see crazy security around the perimeter, but I guess I don't see why you'd have it all over the place.

But the scenario I just thought of though is maybe you have the interior guards with standard sidearms, but with heavier weapons in a locker by each station, and they pull them out when an alarm goes off. Might also make sense as to why they'd still be around, just in case the alarm was set off accidentally (or a malicious false alarm), to make sure the plant is secured before finishing evacuation. I don't know enough about security to definitively say that makes sense, but it makes sense to me.

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Fully auto, you're prolly doing about 12 rounds a second (700-950 rounds a minute), which is way faster than humanly possible. I think there is a huge psychological difference between ducking from someone firing as they can pull the trigger to true full automatic fire. A skilled person could fire pretty fast, but not that fast- I would think hearing "bam-bam-bam" within a span of a second, you might think you can make it. But that loud constant "brapp", that's pretty scary.

Truthfully, firing that fast means they'll go through their 30 round clip pretty quick. So if you think about it, a person standing in the hall firing single shots could hold off people longer because it'll be longer til he has to reload. Someone firing full auto will send a bunch of rounds down range quick, but the opportunity to charge while the guy is reloading comes quicker. But its a psychological effect- people are too freaked by the loud gunfire to think about it like that. Thus I think they are distinctly more scared of fully automatic fire rather than someone firing really fast- its definitely a different sound.

[isabel79.livejournal.com]

"No thanx, you're a delicate flower, lets wait!" What is he, gay!?

That's what I was thinking, but didn't they do that with Little J's boy toy already? They can't be repeating it. But I'm not buying the you just want me for my title rant. So there must be something more. Of course we won't find out till the end of the season or something.

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think they're gonna repeat the secretly gay thing. But there is definitely something weird with him. He's a little too distant with her and like you said that whole "you just want me for my title" rung a little false, like he was just trying to find an excuse to break it off.