Watched till Leyton left…
I didn't even care for them as a couple, since I favoured the Brooke stuff a lot more but after watching two episodes without them I just lost it.

Second and third seasons could have a few mass five episode reviews, or something. I like the second a lot, but the third can drag. Fourth is excellent once again!

Cool voice.

About the budget…
Angel's fifth season had a budget cut and still felt like it had a huge scope (kinda!).

Community does both. The stuff about Britta and Jeff was planted throughout, as are a lot of the storylines this season. I think it's been a bit TOO subtle and somewhat pandering to it's dedicated audience (which I love) but yeah, there's that. Winger also brought it all home, but I think they've worn that one out…

Ted's future wife lives with Cindy. Or did last year.

You have to let go with this stuff for a Cody or Whedon show. I may be able to accept that the Gilmore's have time to watch and then reference films, and stories, spanning decades, but when we're talking Buffy Summers* or fucking Angelus - it's just the writers. As long as its delivered correctly and doesn't take you…

I prefer Bones. It's much more overtly soapy and although I probably hate everyone in the cast individually for different reasons, they all function better than the people in Castle ever do. I also like that Bones is all light blues and whites; that's a lot prettier to look at than Castle's browns and blacks.

Yup, this entire episode felt more Scrubs-y than normal. Travis' storyline was definitely "Cougar" territory, but the Andy storyline too felt like something similar. (Reminded me of Carla's brother, I think, that threatened Turk. Or something).

Mikey B, they did try to do that — and someone reference it a few comments ago.

Completely agree. I haven't seen many episodes of it, but it there's some genuinely great moments from what I'veseen. The actors are fantastic, the storylines aren't necessarily bad but it's just burnt by Lorre's 'laugh at them, not with them' snark. It's horrible.

Arrr, Pirates!
I didn't really care for the episode, but wasn't expecting too. It just made me want that HBO TV series about REAL Pirates some more.

So I saw this concert at the O2 in London…
And it was pretty good. I doubt I'll watch this, I've mostly gone into Gaga-backlash since the release of the ridiculous "Born This Way". That song is TOO Madonna for it's own good. I just annoyed at her now.

Firefly would be great, at some stage. Sepinwall done it last year so a break certainly is necessary.

Depends if you consider a show by Josh Schwartz having a large music budget surprising. Ha!

AND BLOOD, BLOOD IS MANLY AND FOR GROWN-UPS!

Type.

Figuratively, Robin.

Best "normal" ep since season one…
It all felt totally natural for me, there were some let-downs with the conclusions when analysing the storylines but I felt they all functioned terrifically during and whenever the show has tried to return to the relative normalcy of S1 this season, it's always felt off. Stuff…

I always feel awkward when anime is ever mentioned - I like the stuff! It's not all big fucking eyes!