Beginning of "The Season"

So in a perfect world, I would have come home yesterday, watched Sleep Hollow and New Girl, wrote about them (while it was all fresh in my mind) and then gone on and done something else enjoyable.  Instead, I was a good friend and woke up to drive my friend to the airport to catch a morning flight to LA, and then worked both jobs back-to-back.  So, I woke up at 5, left my house at 5:30 and didn't get back home until 10.  Since I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, I turned into Zombie Beth around 4 and Crazy Beth around 6.  Apparently, Crazy Beth was fun for customers and co-workers alike and Crazy Beth got quite a bit of money in the tip jar, but she also gave her number to someone she shouldn't have so I think I'll avoid Crazy Beth whenever possible.

Now that that's over: TV!

Before I get into today's stuff, I'd like to have a short rant about Sunday.  In the 3rd quarter, Fox randomly decided it didn't want to show the Packers-Deadskins game and randomly switched to Cowboys-Chiefs.  It's like, "Excuse me, I was watching that! I don't want to watch Romo unless he's getting pummeled by the Packers.  And I don't want you to cut out in the middle of a Packer victory!  We'd have gone somewhere we could have watched the game had we known you wouldn't let us watch the last quarter."  Stupid cable.  So, instead of enjoying the game, Dad and I were both glaring at NFL.com on our respective computers. They wait till, like Saturday before they announce what game they're even going to show out here and then they don't even show it! *Deep Breath* Moving on...

Sleepy Hollow: Pilot  It was rather uninspired, both in plot and dialogue.  To link the headless horseman to the first horseman of the apocalypse isn't... well, how do I say this.  I don't want to say it's not original; I don't know if it's been done before or not and if it has, I've never seen it.  It makes sense; when you're talking about famous supernatural horsemen, you have the apocalyptic crowd and the headless dude.  But it just feels so obvious because of that that it feels like that idea is already tired.  To me, at least.  Aside from that, certain aspects of the plot seemed forced, which really isn't all that unusual in a pilot, so I'll let it slide this week.  But seriously, the cops popping up everywhere and arresting people (or trying to arrest people) willy-nilly was almost funny.  I'm still not sure why the arrested Ichabod in the first place (okay, I know it was as a murder suspect but why did that cop suspect a guy walking across the road and "because he was in league with the horseman" is not a satisfying answer).  But as I said, I'll let it slide this week because the Pilot had to get from point A to point B in order to set the story up for the rest of the season (all five more episodes of it).

New Girl: All In (Season 3 Episode 1) It was very "New Girl" I really can't think of much else to say about it.  It wasn't any better or worse than the bulk of the episodes.  Nick and Jess run off to Mexico because they think the loft has to many problems only for Nick to get arrested sneaking into a resort.  Schmidt is trying desperately to choose between Cece and Elizabeth and ends up dating them both and making Winston look bad in the process.  Winston just wants to do a puzzle, only to discover that he sucks at them and is color blind. So, yeah.  A few funny lines, amusing moments, etc but nothing all that great..  I bet it'll be funnier when I watch it with my mom though.  I really should stop watching New Girl without her.

No more new TV this week (although Angry Birds Star Wars II is supposed to come out tomorrow [or today, if FB is to be believed]).  Next week, in addition to Sleepy Hollow on Monday and New Girl on Tuesday, I get Castle (Monday), Agents of SHIELD (Tuesday), Big Bang (Thursday) and Grey's Anatomy (Thursday). And the week after that, I get new books *big grin*