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Since I'm so rarely around to post anymore, I know you are all just dying to know what I am doing these days. Well, I work, I ride, I carry a lot of water (all the troughs are frozen because of the current weather conditions, so my evening work out is carrying water buckets for 8-12 horses), I watch TV, mostly DVDs (just finished Over There, now I'm starting JAG). And I watch my shows, though it seems as if every year there are fewer and fewer shows I watch.

Here are the shows I'm currently following:

( NCIS (watch out for spoilers for recently aired episodes) )

( NCIS LA )

( Doctor Who (watch out for spoilers for recently aired episodes) )

( Desperate Housewives (watch out for spoilers for recently aired episodes) )

( Brothers & Sisters (watch out for spoilers for future episodes) )

( Bones )

( Castle )

( The Mentalist )

( Leverage (watch out for general spoilers for aired episodes) )


Supernatural


Last, but not least, Supernatural. Which, while maybe not getting better and better, as it has steadily done since the very first episode, has reached a level of brilliant that it now steadily keeps. I love it. I have many many things to say about it, but this post has already gotten a little out of hand, so I'll stop here.

Who knew I was watching so many shows? I though I was being reasonable this year. Hmm.


So, what have you guys been up to? :-)

*wears HUGE silly grin on her face*
Bones and Booth are making me so happy it's killing me.

*goes off to check DVD prices*

My Top Ten Shows of 2006

1. NCIS
This was a hard decision, because I think that other seasons, particularly season 2 of NCIS was a lot better than the current season. But I still enjoy the hell of the show, and I love them for never neglecting the characters, always revealing something more, funny, absurd, personal,about them. And compared with The Unit, which made second place, I still love NCIS more. It's not a rational decision, it comes from the heart.


2. The Unit
I love this show so much. The shows keeps getting better and better, even though they continue to hint at things and then not tell us, which drives me insane. It helped, of course, that 2006 was even more The Bob! show than before, but even apart from that, I loved each and every episode. Well, except for the season 2 opener. I'm still not over the shock.


3. Stargate
Okay, so it's not the show we knew and loved all these years anymore. But it's still a good show, and there are still aliens and Stargates and spaceships, combined with action, humour and our favourite characters: Daniel, Sam, Teal'c and surprisingly also Vala and Cameron, who have really grown on me. Vala, because she is cute, Cameron, because of his huge crush on the whole team and the wa he worships them with practically everything he does. Of course, you gotta wonder if they ever taught him what it means to be in command, but I like it when he watches SG-1 play with alien toys, not even trying to be in charge. And let's not forget that there is still Jack to love, who is sitting in Washington pretending that being without Daniel doesn't break his heart every day. It's so dramatic.
*loves SG-1*


4. Numb3rs
Had I made this list after two episodes into the new season, Numb3rs would have made the first place. I still can't believe how good the two-part season opener was. I love this show very much and they did some really great things with some of my favourite characters this year, but it continues to lose points with its "One outstanding, one boring episode" policy. Just throw out the boring plots this year, please?


5. Smith
*cries*
This was such a great show! It would have made #1, if it hadn't been cancelled so brutally after 3 episodes. What a great , great show. My heart's broken. BROKEN!


6. Veronica Mars
Judging purely from how much I'm looking forward to shows every week, Veronica Mars is at least #6. I wasn't happy with everything that happened this year, but it wasn't unhappiness from a TV POV, it was a personal unhappiness: some things I wasn't so interested in, some I found stupid. And that, given that the show is now set in college, is quite clever, really, because a college show could not be realistic if I were interested in everything that happened in it. I'm just too old for that. But overall, Veronica Mars continues to grow up with its characters, who are still some of the most human and real characters on TV. And the scene with Veronica and the phone in the cafeteria (I'm not going into details to avoid spoilers) is one of my favourite TV moments ever.


7. Doctor Who
I never expected to love the "new" Doctor so much, but I did. I loved the show, I loved the Doctor, I LOVED Rose, and then they made me cry, so now I don't think I'm ever going to love them again as much as I did this season, but I will also never forget how much I loved them.


8. Bones
Surprise! Yes, I enjoyed Bones quite a lot last year. It has gotten much better since the first season and all the characters are just..loveable. Even the Bones equivalent of Madame Director.


9. Eureka
Well, that was fun. ;-) No, really, this is the only thing I can say: fun. It's not a great, innovative show, but it is well-made fun with some nice ideas and sympathic characters. I can't remember one episode that disappointed me.


10. Torchwood
I already said once that I love Torchwood because it is clumsy, not despite of it. And yes, maybe I enjoyed parts of Torchwood more than Bones or Eureka, but parts of it were also horrible, that's what it is only #10. Bones and Eureka were more consistent, even though they didn't have the highlights Torchwood has. It's a close race. I think it was episode 11 of Torchwood that gave the decision. Still, love the show and its clumsiness.



( Shows that almost made it into the Top Ten )


( Other shows that I watched, that I didn't make it anywhere near the Top Ten )


( Most Disappointing Shows of 2006 )

I think that's it. Quite a lot of shows, I know, but it's not like there was a new episode of each show every week, and besides, I was without work for half of the year. What's your excuse? ;-)

( New Bones! )

I'm so happy this show is back!

Of course, whoever is responsible for the music on this show still deserves to be shot.

"Bones" is starting to amuse me. Not Bones herself so much, but the rest of the team, especially DB. I decided that I don't have to like her in order to like the show. I'm not sure if I'm even supposed to like her. I'd trade her for Ziva though, anytime. It didn't hurt that the case was interesting for once.

I admit that while I liked Angel, I never thought he was a particularly good actor. He could do Angel as long as all he did was a) nail puppies to doors, torture and black leather, or b) look tortured, unhappy and wear black. Then the whole baby things happened, which lead to smiling Angel, and I hated it. He just couldn't pull off smiling Angel for me.

So I was more than skeptical to see him in this role, but he is great! That last scene, with the eggs, or the scene in the bar. And who else could say "I went down there to shoot somebody through the heart from 1500 feet." like that? Well, Gibbs, obviously. Oh, shut up. Still, he shouldn't be handing out guns to Bones. I don't think she is mentally stable enough to carry a gun. Or even look at it. I wonder how he manages to have UST with her. She doesn't seem capable of having UST with anyone. Though maybe, she just does clueless very well.

Also loved the "Clash of the horny titans" comment, and yes, I'm actually looking forward to next week's ep.

I finally got the torrent for NCIS. Not that it helps much, seeing tha tI have to leave the house now, which means I'll have to turn the computer off.
But with a bit of luck I'll get to see it tonight.

This night however, I downloaded "Bones", and watched one ep for breakfast. Because it sounds exactly like the kind of show you'd want to watch for breakfast.

( It sucked. )