This show shoots New York exteriors better then anything. Law & Order always just shot some doorway near Washington Sqaure Park with a dead body lying in it. White Collar actually manages to show some of the nice parts of the city.

I think she might just be using all of that as an excuse to leave early and not call any of you back.

I have to give White Collar some real credit for how good it looks. It's just a really well fimed show that looks far more polished then anything else I can think of on USA or TNT or anything else for that matter. They have 3 sets that they focus on most of the time but whenever they move out of them into the streets…

Case of the week. It had a couple of 2 parters and a central mystery that was touched on once every few seasons. It was really mostly an hour long comedy.

I thought the quality stayed pretty level once Natalie took over.

Yes, sort of. It wasn't brilliant or anything - you always knew who did it the second they showed up and their was very little plot to speak of. It was mostly a solid 25 minutes each episode of Monk being crazy. But he was very good at that and it stayed mostly funny for all of it's seasons.

Lost Girl - Oh, Canada. If I had a nickle for every threesome that ended that way…

Oof, that wasn't so hot. I love that apparently some time between like Monday and Tuesday Socially Inept Seer Nurse and the dead Emo boyfriend managed to hook up and form a deep, lasting bond.

Claire's stores is actually pretty profitable and successful. So, the analogy sort of fails.

I was going to post that one. I saw it on his show and the way he ends it with the impression of carrying around a bunch of D'agostino bags, just poignant and hilarious.

They're all Tooheys.

The only halfway comptetent Ayn Rand associated work (including her own) was that Simpsons story that retold The Fountainhead in a nursery school.

The only good Cardassian is a dead Cardassian.

Romulans are simply ambitious and misunderstood.

It's a pretty good idea to hate Cardassians, every Ferengi other then Quark and later his brother and the kid are hugely annoying little shits who deserve to go right out the nearest airlock, and the Vulcans are all mostly snobby British dicks.

Lydia is a detective, and thus you'd expect her to be more mature, more intellectual. The rest of the cast is now just foot soldiers (Sammy had that mentality even when he was a detective) and I think their actions reflect that.

I think you are right. Giving Lydia a storyline that spans a couple episodes once in awhile would be a good way to contrast with the staccato nature of the other plots.

Yeah, I agreed with all of your points. Lydia's new partner must be the most earnest, nice guy detective I've ever seen. And she must be a saint to listen to that every day. "Hey partner, let me talk to you for a few hundred hours about the emotional connection I have with my kids, when you don't have any". "Sure…

At least Lost Girl guy (his acting has improved hugely from the first 2 epsiodes) had the decency to hint that there were bigger reasons behind it and not sound like a shmuck when he did. So I'll say he wins.

I don't know, it seems to have gotten pretty bad ratings last week, http://tvbythenumbers.zap2i…