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With you on the Cassandra business, lordonia. I am tired of the cutesie, womangirl waif type that I puke all over their childish clothes and general preciousness. I laughed at all of the law books, shapeshifter. So immediately recognizable to anyone who works in a library. I wonder why TV libraries are always so well stocked with U.S. Reports and all of the West series. I laughed out loud at the state code of Rhode Island behind Noah Wiley in the pilot.

I'm perfectly OK with Erin winning, and would've been equally fine with either of the others...Bill more than Naylet because her design in this challenge was kind of repellant to me. I also have no problem with Erin's perkiness--it's less than an hour a week, on TV where I have a choice to watch or not, or fast forward or not, so I don't see what the big deal is. Duff's perceived favoritism for Erin was more than off-set, I thought, by Lauren's obvious dislike of her. And Lauren's fondness for Bill was off-set by Nancy's not-so-fondness. That's how it looked to me.

Hot damn it! Now I'm really annoyed that I forgot to set the DVR before I went out last night!

Comedy Central is having a Colbert Report marathon on Dec. 18, starting about 10 a.m.

I have an aversion to all things Tolkien but I enjoyed the interview.

That happened to me as well. Loved it when I was growing up, cannot watch it now. When White Collar began, I was annoyed they didn't acknowledge that it was essentially an ITAT reboot. But given the unwatchability of ITAT now, it was probably just as well.

The list of nominees.

Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, etc. are reporting that Letterman's last show will be in May (20th? 30th?) and the debut date for Stephen will be announced soon.

The writing was pretty bad, definitely not as sharp as I expected from the guys behind Leverage. Yes on the Buffy one-librarian-in-all-the-world and slaying of potential slayers, and on the very Warehouse 13-like library. What I wouldn't have given for Pete, Myka, Claudia, and Artie to show these rookies how it's done. Christian Kane was also on Angel, so those new to him might want to check out the episodes with Lindsay in addition to Leverage.

I read the FJ clue as meaning a quote or something from red River but couldn't think of anything.

Looking at the onscreen guide description of the final challenge, I'm glad Erin got to stay. It seems like the kind of thing she'll have fun with (cutesie wootsie fun, but it's only one more episode, I can cope) and I'm interested in seeing what she comes up with, mostly based on the yule log challenge. I wish all of the contestants got to stay through the whole show and that there were running scores throughout, with the final winners and runners-up based on cumulative scores plus the final showpiece.

riley, that is truly scary, and I say that as someone who endured Peter Pan Live last week.

Simon and Simon are not brothers in real life, but only on television. </Cartman>

They do a fake out: Juliette is pregnant but the time of conception pre-dates the reGrimming sex. But I really hope they'll just drop the whole idea of a pregnancy.

Christmas songs seem to have popularity cycles. A few years ago, I couldn't escape the multiple, horrible versions of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" (I hate that song), and one year it was like everyone had recorded their own version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and every one of them was being played ad nauseum (Sinatra nailed that song. Now everyone please leave it alone). I guess this year it's "Marshmallow World".

Xena was first (1995, Buffy 1997), but I think what saves her from the trope is that Lucy Lawless looks like she can land a solid punch.

Like everyone else, I thought Josh as going to betray them when they showed him the trailer. When it was clear he wasn't, I hoped he'd stay and be given the job of digitizing the book collection and cataloging the weapons and potions.

I don't think it matters if the musical has been filmed already; The Sound of Music: The Movie is on TV every Christmas.

Re: Borle His Smee was fun, especially when it was him and the two other bloody buccaneers and each a murderous [pause] crook. But I was underwhelmed by Mr. Darling, especially in the opening scene. I'm not sure what he was going for there.

And extra time during commercial breaks so you miss the first minute of the show you're watching afterward. I still hold a grudge against one local station that ran over because of some minor weather event during Buffy. I completely missed the scene of Principle Wood burying a body...which was kind of important since it was a big clue about the character. Because it was much more important that we be told, at length, that it was going to rain.

WRT The Music Man, I would love to see Borle as Harold Hill but I think a MM production can survive with lackluster leads as long as Marcellus, Mrs. Paroo, Mayor Shinn, and Mrs. Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn knock it out of the park. Ye gods!

That was me! Back on page 1. Once they said it was Walken I wasn't going to watch, and then Borle was announced so I had to watch. Damn you, Borle! Damn you to pirate bicep hell! Allison Williams' voice was adequate but as everyone has already said, what a boring Peter. The whole production seemed to lack spark and a sense of humor about itself that was very odd. Kids might take this at face value, but adults get the camp and inherent silliness. This, like cartoons, should've played to both sensibilities. I also echo everyone's comments about the Lost Men, geriatric Wendy, etc. I'm not a fan of child actors (could not understand a word Michael said) but there must be capable boy actors aged somewhere between 13 and AARP. I did love the pirates' songs, because nothing is ever not fabulous about singing, dancing pirates.

I would like one last Technical Difficulties and cut back to Stephen with the lawyer making him sign something.

Hurray! A final "Once again, my apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin."

Fourthing of fifthing the Trevor love. Great debut. It annoyed me that the studio audience seemed to have missed a couple of his drier lines.