Thoughts: 13-November-2009

Friday the 13th never bothered me, a silly superstition.

Penn State takes on Indiana in their final home game of the season. Indiana is the only Big Ten school to never have beaten the Nittany Lions in football. Look for that streak to continue this weekend as Penn State kills Indiana 56-7.

Patriots start a tough three game run with the Colts on the road, Jets at home, and the Saints on the road. This will tell us what kind of team New England has. The Colts are only favored by three, and their last two games only won by 4 points. I think that New England has Peyton Manning's number and it is time for that goofball to lose. A close game, 21-17, but a win for New England.

Good news from the Hollywood Reporter via TV.com. Dollhouse has been cancelled by Fox. Craphouse never should have gotten a second season when good shows like the Eleventh Hour and Reaper were cancelled. Fox will be running double episodes each Friday in Dec until the 13 episodes are used up. Now maybe Joss Whedon will do the show the people want to see....FAITH THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.

A great magazine that I would urge anyone to get is the Smithsonian. Each issue has great articles and there is something of interest every issue, from history to natural science to geography. I love it.

MysteryQuest (History Channel) after a crapfest episode on Alcatraz, redeemed itself with a great episode on Jack the Ripper. Two new suspects were proposed and a profiler, Ripperologists, and a forensic handwriting expert looked at the evidence. Very well done and they could do a whole miniseries on this topic. This is the kind of episode that MysteryQuest should focus on. A

Three Great series that you should be watching and all are getting a big A from me.

House (Fox): After a dull season last year, House has come back. Each episode has been very good and the show is worth watching again. If you gave up on it, check it out now.

NCIS (CBS): Last season was great and the show is continuing with strong stories and great characters. For a show in its 7th season, it just gets better and better.

Supernatural (CW): Each week you get the unexpected from this show. Last week a spoof of the shows that run against it on Thursday night. This week, Sam and Dean go to a Supernatural convention and spoof on that. Last year we had a Halloween spoof on the Universal Monsters films. We also had a spoof on the Ghost Hunters. This show runs the gambit from comedy to dead seriousness. I don't think that I have ever seen a bad episode. Heroes (NBC) could take some lessons from this show on how to keep the creative juices flowing.

Oh well.