And so my weekly TV watching goes up to 3.5 hours...

[lance_sibley]

Desperate Housewives: Okay, so just what is Bree up to? This can't be the end of her antagonism toward Justin. She's using him to get to Andrew. The other storylines tonight were kind of meh, though I liked seeing Kyle MacLachlan as the target of Susan's desperate "must hide from Mike" moment.

Billable Hours: naturally, Showcase puts a show I'm interested in opposite the last half of Desperate Housewives. Fortunately, I discovered that I had enough space on a VHS tape to record it and watch it following DH. It wasn't laugh-out-loud funny, but it was amusing. It co-stars one of those actor whom we've all seen, but whom we can never identify. At least, for me. It turns out his name is Aron Tager, and apparently he's also an abstract artist. Gabriel Hogan (whom I mentioned a week or so ago - he played Ken Dryden in the recent miniseries Canada Russia '72 - was mildly amusing as Sam's tormentor, all grown up (physically, if not mentally) and come back to torment him some more as an actor ostensibly doing research to play a lawyer. (That's kind of amusing, as Hogan was a cast member on the Canadian legal drama The Associates a few years ago.)

Oh, and of course, I have to admit that Fab Filippo looked good. (Then again, when doesn't he? *sheepish grin* )

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[hoskie.livejournal.com]

New Desperate Housewives! *bounces*

... will be downloading that in a few hours, I'm sure. ^_______^

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

It's easier to just watch CTV at 9 o'clock, y'know. :P

(Hmm. I need a good Andrew/Justin icon...)

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

For those of us with televisions, yes. :P

There are two in my building, but they're nearly always in use (when I want them anyway). :/

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Aha. That would explain it. Well... happy downloading!

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

By the way... I have a whole crapload of Andrew/Justin screencaps if you need 'em. ^_^

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Yes, please... feel free to fire a couple my way.

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

Uploaded!

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Would you think less of me if I said that several of those were totally hot? ;)

As you can see, I've already iconned one of them. I'll look at the rest when I'm sober...

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I watched a few of those scenes multiple times. ... I like the ones where they're outside and Justin is going all vampire on Andrew. ;) *happy sigh*

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

Billable Hours was lame

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I think there's potential there, though. I think that the major flaw in this episode was that Gabriel Hogan was onscreen too much - he drove every aspect of the plot, except for the senior partner and the young guy making themselves sick on nicotine gum and chewing tobacco. (And I admit, that bit was kind of lame.) In any show, we need to get to know the main characters better before they can be torn down and ridiculed. This particular episode might have worked better a few weeks in.

[thekevinlc.livejournal.com]

The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

*grin* It's been a while since I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and even longer since I last watched the Mel Stuart film (I didn't see the Tim Burton version).

With respect to the subject matter, while I have the TV on most of the time for background noise, I actually pay attention to very little of it. It's really more than the 3.5 hours per week I claim, since I usually eat dinner in the living room, but again it's on more for background than anything else. (And, of course, there are hockey games - though I'm often at the computer and just listening to the game.)

[thekevinlc.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm the same way. I hardly ever pay attention unless it's something that manages to steal my attention away from the PC. I find shows I really like and wait for them to come out on DVD so I can watch them whenever I want to.

The Tim Burton version of Charlie is good. I still like the Mel Stuart version but I enjoy the Burton version more than I should.

[saintrobert.livejournal.com]

So that is what Fab has been up to. There is hope that Scott Hope still lives to play the violin another day.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Technically, it would be Ethan Gold playing the violin... Scott Hope was just a high school student. ;)

(Somehow, I think you knew that, though...)

[saintrobert.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes I did. I deliberately mixed those metaphores. Well characters. :D