SPOILERS BELOW for pete's sake.

Last night's fare? Well, Chuck was light, as expected. It was a decent dose of computer & gaming geeks working in a knock-off of BestBuy ("If you Buy More you save more, if you save more you Buy More," -- best store motto ever) but with the usual the-writer-knows-shit-about-computers. "This laptop has a DOS override, " says Chuck when defusing the bomb attached to a laptop. But all he does is open a browser and goes to a virus laden website. Plllpthbhht. I like the Johnny Mnemonic style info-straight-to-your-brain concept but as to why he is able to process that info, who the fuck knows -- definitely not the writers. The show has charm which will probably let me forgive it for about a half dozen episodes.

Heroes ? I honestly wish it had started with more of a bang. The only thread that kept my attention, as in I walked in from washing dishes, was Hiro's -- I looooove the wayward British folk hero. And we well know that Hiro is going to end up being his own folk hero. But other than that and the down & out Nathan, not much interested me. It will get better so I will watch the season. Especially when Kristen Bell joins the cast for a few episodes. Grindy grindy grindy !!

Journeyman? My favourite style of all the shows.. I really like their cinematography and colour scheme. Yes, that kind of thing attracts me. For example, I truly enjoy the browns & earth tones of CSI:NY over the greens & yellows of CSI:Miami. It's a family man's Quantum Leap, as expected, with a man going back in time in order to ... create good time lines? confirm good timelines? defend good timelines? All we know is that he is tossed randomly back in time and given hints about a life he has to fix. But why and how? Who ever knows. And then there is a connection, a thin thread, to some organization that is doing this, that somehow reminds me of that baaaad movie Millenium with Kris Kristofferson -- ala dead girl on plane who doesn't really die but is drawn into the time travel organization. It had the typical, "are you nuts or on drugs," aspects which were resolved nicely in the statement, "I will always come home...." That gave me chills. This might compete with Medium for my favourite show that shows a bond between a couple.

Not a bad start and I washed dishes while watching so my butt & brain didn't turn to goo after three straight hours. I will have to DL the half-hour Big Bang Theory. September 25 07