{"id":3132,"date":"2011-11-17T22:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T06:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2011-11-17T22:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T06:08:52","slug":"7-quick-takes-tv-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3132","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes &#8212; TV Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There has been some good TV this week and as I&#8217;ve done enough updating on my so-called life already, I figured I&#8217;d give y&#8217;all my thoughts on what I&#8217;ve watched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Judy.<\/strong>  Nothing new with this one &#8212; I&#8217;ve just gotten addicted to watching her.  I saw an interview with her a few months ago and her philosophy is that if you&#8217;ve graduated from high school and are working and trying to live your life decently, she&#8217;s chill with that.  Her problem comes when people make choices that aren&#8217;t wise and that hurt other people.  I love her sternness, her wit, and the fact that she doesn&#8217;t suffer fools gladly.  She&#8217;s also a good source of ideas for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\" title=\"NaNoWriMo\">NaNo piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hart of Dixie.<\/strong>  This isn&#8217;t in the class of <em>CSI<\/em> or <em>NCIS<\/em> but it&#8217;s been a new addiction for me.  I don&#8217;t think I ever watched anything with Rachel Bilson before and I happened to see ads for this randomly while channel-surfing and watching <em>NUMB3RS<\/em>.  I love the contrast of the Zoe Hart and Lemon Breeland characters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NCIS.<\/strong>  Serious goosebumps when they were off-loading Quincy&#8217;s body and the Marines were saluting.  (I may be a flaming liberal but I am patriotic and I do believe that we need to treat our fallen heroes with dignity.)  It was a lovely two-part episode.  Other highlights were the flashbacks with Gibbs and Matteson when they were at basic training and seeing what Di Nozzo&#8217;s greatest fear was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NCIS:LA.<\/strong>  It was a tough episode to watch because of the brutality and I genuinely felt sorry for Jada in the end.  It also made me wonder if Ruben, one of my seminary classmates from Sudan, was still alive.  He was getting his MTS in Old Testament at Trinity and I used to word process his papers for him (all 30 pages).  He went back to Sudan to be an Anglican bishop for the Diocese of Renk in what I think would now be South Sudan.  At the time, he had a wife (Grace) who was my age (21 at the time) and a 2 year old son.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CSI.<\/strong>  Powerful writing for the episode last night (Wednesday), especially when the killer turned out to be Detective Vega &#8212; one of the good guys for 8 seasons.  Seeing Nick tell Russell (the Ted Danson character who I like) to stop working on the murderer that Vega was trying to drown and instead focus on Vega was very well done and I continue to like the character of Morgan Brody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Big Bang Theory.<\/strong>  OMG&#8230; &#8220;Relationship Agreement&#8221; between Amy and Sheldon tonight!!!!!!  I also loved the Warlords of Ka&#8217;a expansion pack that was &#8220;Wild West and Witches&#8221;.  Best line: &#8220;Like shooting nerds in a barrel.&#8221;  My college friends were the guys on the show (math\/compsci\/engineering geeks who did role-playing games) so this show is endlessly amusing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NUMB3RS.<\/strong>  What can I say?  I like crime dramas. It&#8217;s not my favorite one but it keeps my attention.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\">ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some good TV this week and as I&#8217;ve done enough updating on my so-called life already, I figured I&#8217;d give y&#8217;all my thoughts on what I&#8217;ve watched. &#8212; 1 &#8212; Judge Judy. 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