Thoughts: 12-September-2009

So I decided to watch the premiere of Vampire Diaries on the CW and I could only take ten minutes of this crapfest. Why is this stuff popular? The two scenes that killed it for me were:

1. The vampire uses his powers to convince the high school secretary to let me come to school with no records. This vampire lived for decades or centuries and wants to waste his time in high school? This is the best place for him to hang out, with a bunch of goofball teenagers who never heard of Mozart or Wagner?

2. Our heroine in in a graveyard visiting her dead parents' graves and the bad vampire fills it with fog. She gets scared and runs. She falls hurting her leg. She looks up and see our high school vampire looking at her. She starts to swoon at his "charms". She asks if he is following her and he says "No, I saw you fall and came over to see if you were all right". She responds "Oh I must be foggy from all this fog".

That is when I gave up on this crappy show and switched to the Steeler-Titans game. A big F and I have no desire to ever watch another second of this crapfest.

Supernatural (CW) had its fifth season premiere this week and this potentially final season (interview with the show's creator in Entertainment Weekly) got off to bang. Lucifer is free and inhabiting the body of the actor who played Jacob on Lost, Dean and Sam are not getting along because of Sam's actions last season, and it may be that God has returned to take a hand in this current mess. What a great series and if it ends, TV will be a sadder place as one more quality show is gone. A big A for this entire series and if you have not seen it, check our the first four seasons on DVD.

Eureka (SyFy) had another great episode where Matt Frewer returns as Taggert who was around the first two seasons. This show just gets better and better. A is the rating.

Penn State takes on Syracuse today, I pick the Nittany Lions to beat them up in State College. The big bloodbath will be Monday night when the Patriots beat up on the hapless Bills in Foxboro.

I plan on seeing Whiteout today will report back on that to you. Also, on BBC America tonight, the final season of Robin Hood starts and we will see how they deal with the death of Maid Marion from last season's finale.

Oh well.