Diary of a House virgin – The doctor’s nemesis is in
(Season One, Episodes 13 – 16)
It took me a couple of episodes to get behind the introduction of Edward Vogler, but by the end of these four, I was. You’ll see that I didn’t think he was necessary when first introduced, but he grew on me. It’s odd, considering what these doctors do each week, but his hard-nosed, and back handed, tactics have raised the states of what goes down in the halls of Princeton-Plainsboro.
Pushing Daisies – Only one more to go
At least we’ll have the comic book continuation. It’s worked tremendously well so far for Farscape, Buffy and Angel. That said, Pushing Daisies charm is so much in the narration, the bright pastels and the whole tone of it visually and aurally that I fear it will be lost in the translation to a words-and-static-images format.
That being said, there’s also that strangely frenetic and beautiful grown-up storybook dialogue that would read just fine. I can certainly put the right voices with the right words. At any rate, since Bryan Fuller pretty much told me (you do know we hang out… oh yeah, all the time!) that the series finale wasn’t going to be satisfying in any way, I’ll be looking for those comics to continue the story.
Reaper is as good as dead … or at least Sock is
Yesterday FOX put out some show pick-up news that’s mixed with the good and the bad. First, let’s start with the good news. FOX picked up a new show titled Human Target, based on the DC comic book of the same name, and it’s got a terrific cast: Mark Valley and Chi McBride, for example. Sounds like a great premise too.
Now, the bad news. FOX also picked up a new series titled Sons of Tucson, which by itself is OK news but it’s who’s featured in the cast that stings: Tyler Labine, who currently plays Sock in CW’s Reaper.
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Where are you going with yourself, Pushing Daisies?
You remember Chuck’s dad, right? Poor guy took a dirt nap when Chuck inadvertently brought his mother back to life, only to lose her again that night to a kiss on the forehead. With Dwight Dixon in the picture, snooping around Vivian and digging up caskets to get a locket, the idea was hatched to unearth him (after twenty years no less!) and ask him what he might know about everything.
Now I’m no expert on human decomposition (I usually don’t stick around long enough at the crime scene – badumpBUMP!), but I would think twenty years on a dead body, no matter the embalming technique, wouldn’t be nearly as generous as the writers and makeup artists gave us here. And that’s not all they gave us on that front either. Chuck got thirty seconds to have her last hellos and goodbyes with the man she loved and lost so suddenly so long ago, but is thirty seconds really long enough? How can it be, right?
Pushing Daisies – Secrets are getting harder to keep buried
(Season 2, Episode 7 – “Robbing Hood”) 
I hope the writers are going to have time to wrap up the Dwight Dixon storyline before the cancellation hammer comes down and slashes Pushing Daisies from the schedule forever. Things are chugging right along and we’re getting dangerously close, as well, to the aunts finding out about Chuck and perhaps secrets about Chuck’s parentage coming out as well.
With six episodes left, there’s plenty of time to get to that, but there’s no guarantee that ABC will keep it on the air that long. Now that the word has come out that the series is canceled, it may shed more viewers and get to that point where ABC questions whether to keep it on the air. Assuming that they do, and they really should, the writers knew they had only a 13-episode commitment, so maybe they planned for that and at least set up a conclusion of sorts. It’s really irritating to commit to a series only to have it end mid-stride.
Is House’s new team here to stay?
When House’s original team all either quit or were fired, and the new team was subsequently hired (after much ado!), I really thought it was only temporary. We’d get a few short story arcs with some of the new characters, then some monumental, simultaneous “Ah-ha!” would happen to House and his former team, and they’d all reunite with warm fuzzies.
Since I’ve been waiting almost two seasons, it may be time to give up the thoughts of a reunion. What I can’t figure out is what was wrong with the formula in the first place. Am I too set in my ways? Not for every show, I think, but I hate it when they shake things up on House.
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