Distracted By Something Shiny

We finally finished Southland. It is over forever now. While I thought the season was actually quite compelling and excellent, if the way it was going in the last three episodes was how they intended season six to be, I am glad they canceled it before we got there. ( Spoilers. )

Now for Teen Wolf. ( Let's just start straight out with a spoiler cut. ) My favorite scenes were simply Sheriff Stilinski trying to get Stiles away from the computer and Derek's entrance, which I maybe rewound and watched like five times in a row, cuz hot damn. And to think, Derek annoyed the piss out of me in the first season and now I'm all, "Gimme, gimme."

And the new show I am watching...The Fosters. Multiple A+s. Even my sister is excited. I have emotional feelings about kids in foster care and I dislike when media gets it wrong, but I felt like this show did a very good job. My sis read an article written by a foster family who all gave it a thumbs up on accuracy. Their only complaint was how simple it seemed to be to place the kids, aka what about all the red-tape? But I suppose stacks of paperwork doesn't make for compelling drama. Things they got right include; the way the kid felt so 'outside' in a chaotic household of people who 'belonged' there, the way she had her guard up because you never know what the placement will be like, the way she felt like she wasn't being heard (which is a typical teenage complaint anyways), the way they portrayed some homes as being good families who are really trying hard and some homes as less than stellar placements where the kids have to watch their own backs, and the kind of messed up relationship foster kids can have with their birth parents and the mixed feelings that come with that. It was a compelling family, with good solid story-lines to play off of and was not the sappy '7th Heaven' shiny thing I was worried it would be, without also being too over-the-top on the 'foster care is bad' that makes for good drama but is lazy writing. I recommend, if you want a family drama for the summer, that you check it out.

Off to edit porn now.

Southland has been cancelled. Boo. I am super sad-face, you guys. What's up TNT? Why do you keep cancelling all my beloved shows? Southland is honestly the best cop show I have ever seen in my life and I love all of the characters, even when I am mad at them for something, and I am just going to miss it a hella lot. For some reason, in my head, I group Mad Men, Justified & Southland all together - probably because they are all cable shows that started up around the same time and that everyone in my household watches. And of those three, if one had to get cancelled, it probably should be Mad Men. I say this only three episodes into this season of Mad Men, but as much I love it (and I do) I feel like the characters are at such a stand still. Aside from Joan and Peggy, which character has grown as a person since season one? None that I can tell. They are all just doing the same crap behavior they've been since the start and if a character doesn't have an arc, then I kind of lose interest after awhile. (I think a lot of this is my frustration with Don right now, but still...) My point is, Mad Men keeps going and somehow Southland gets the ax.

On the Southland front, I love Dewey, I don't even care. We held off on watching this season until Justified and Being Human were finished, so we are currently four episodes away from the end and it occurs to me...( Spoilers. )

Anyways, every time my sister asks me what I want to watch tonight, I say 'Southland'. Now that I know this is the end, I will probably get Leverage-syndrome and try to space it out and slow down so that it will never be over! Dammit.

In other TV news, holy shit NCIS:LA! What the hell was that? Is that how you are going to end the season? Holy crap. Deeks, omg, Sam! And Quinn! And Kensi! /clutches everyone to my chest/

I'm not gonna lie, I ship the hell out of Kensi/Deeks. Which is unusual for me. I find that I don't get that interested in the tension of 'will they, won't they' when it's the kind of relationship that most likely will at some point. So I find it odd that NCIS:LA has two major probably-going-canon ships that I adore; Kensi/Deeks & Eric/Nell. Kensi/Deeks is the canon romance I am most invested in than any other out there. And see the thing is, with shows like this, you know they are going to go there eventually and I find that tends to lessen my need for it, that craving of wantwantwant. But not with these two for some reason. I know logically that if they get together, they can't be partners anymore and that going canon with it may ruin it for the viewer (half the fun is the tension) but I still want it like woah and damn but they have been laying on the UST lately and it is So Good For Me.

But I still can't believe the season ended like that.

Firstly, who is watching "Southland?" I am so excited that this show is back. And it is as awesome as it ever was. Doesn't Ryan Ben look good in his uniform? And Bull John too. And Chickie. Yes, I like the uniforms. And Lydia rules. We sat down to watch the season premiere and my sister says, "They got Regina King back this year, right? I don't want to watch it if she's not in it anymore." And she was totally serious. I thought that I had a big old crush on the woman (cuz I do), but my sister's crush is way worse. She thinks Lydia is more kick-ass than Zoe. That's hardcore. Also, TOM EVERETT SCOTT, you peoples! The amount of excited I am that he is back cannot be quantified with words. I know NBC didn't want him, but I am so glad that he is TNT's boy (oh they love him over there). I hope they find some more to do with his character because I love him with big hearts. Oh, and omg the thing that happened to Sammy's character in the last episode, good lord.

"Justified" is back on Feb 9th! Whoo-hoo - Kill-tucky!

( Shows I Quit... )

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SyFy's new "Being Human" premiered last night and I Tivo-ed it and am going to give it a shot and see how I like it.

That is all.