coming soon to this blog

1. Cloverfield discussion
2. Apparently there are two episodes of Chuck I haven't watched
3. I haven't watched the last couple episodes of Journeyman either

Stay tuned.

R.I.P. Journeyman

So, it looks like our friend Dan Vassar won't be back for another season. Or even a whole season. I'm not sure how many episodes the show ended up having, but it wasn't many. I'm not really surprised, what with the strike and everything. It's a little depressing, sure, because I like shows about time travel, and previously to my introduction to Doctor Who, this was my only fill for that genre. But I'm all good now, because Doctor Who isn't going anywhere, and wouldn't even if it was affected by the writer's strike, which it isn't.

Journeyman was an interesting show - it was well written and thought out, and probably could have gone some interesting places for a couple of seasons. I think they could have had Dan's son become a time traveler as well, and he could run into a grown version of him at some point... and then the whole thing with Olivia being from the past was interesting and could have gone somewhere. And then the tachyon scientist guy, who knew about Dan's time traveling and was probably a time traveler himself, or at least knew some other people who were, and the fake FBI agent who was looking for him. Well, it could have been interesting is all I'm saying. There could have been a secret society or agency of time traveling people like Dan and Olivia, and it would have been cool.

Keep in mind that I still haven't watched the last episodes of Journeyman, so I'm not totally sure if my speculation has already been proven right or not. When I have time, I will watch them, but I'm too distracted lately by old episodes of Doctor Who and my job to take care of that.

But let us have a moment of silence for another canceled science fiction show, only the latest in a long list of predecessors.

1. Katie: "Are you gonna be home tonight?" Dan: "You know better than to ask that... let's just say I have nothing planned." Ha.
2. Okay, that guy is seriously going to give me nightmares. The convict one that came into Dan's house and shot him. He is absolutely terrifying and the exact kind of person that haunts my dreams. I'm not even kidding.
3. NBC, why are you showing an ad for Journeyman WHILE I'M WATCHING JOURNEYMAN.
4. This stupid player was working fine when I watched Heroes earlier... why is it getting all skippy on me now. I am seriously annoyed.
5. HAHAHA! When they found Dan's iPhone... "It's a... calculator."
6. Hmm! So that "FBI agent" isn't really an FBI agent. He just wants to find out about Dan's time travelling. He's a bad guy. Yay underlying conflict.
7. I thought, "How's he going to break down the door with his arm in a sling?" about two seconds before he tried to break down the door with his arm in a sling and hurt himself even more.
8. That convict guy is sure making himself look stupid to me, given that he's walking around an empty house talking to someone that isn't there.
9. Whatever's going on with that kid is messed up. He's eating a ketchup sandwich. That is gross.
10. OH MY GOSH!!! That kid is the scary convict guy! AHH! How is that possible! The kid is cute!
11. The creepiest thing about the convict guy is his hair. I had a nightmare recently about a guy that looked kind of like that who was hitting on me and stealing cats.
12. Oh, and now NBC froze Firefox completely. I'm going to try watching this on Internet Explorer now and see if that's any better. I'm not going to get my hopes up.
13. Okay, it's working a little bit better. Digression over.
14. Dan, do you not see that you are bleeding all over the floor? He looks like he's about to pass out actually.
15. Okay, yelling at the kid is not going to fix anything. Seriously. It's just going to make everything worse.
16. Oh, and now Dan just passed out. Yelling at the kid really took a lot out of him.
17. I'm really not sure what the "FBI" guy is getting at when he's talking to Jack about those pictures of Dan from the past.
18. OH. That "FBI" guy is hunting the time travelling people.
19. Do wounds really get infected that quickly?
20. Oh man, I'm sure Dan was thinking about killing that kid in the past when he was contemplating the scissors.
21. I was right. Dan: "I wanted to kill that kid." Thankfully he didn't, because he is a good guy.
22. Haha! They both just disappeared out of the ambulence.
23. HAHA! Jack just saw Livia! He is freaking out!
24. "Weirdest family ever." I like the editor guy. I wish I could remember his name right now.
25. Katie is thinking, "this convict guy has serious mommy issues."
26. And everything ends well. I'm just happy that Jack no longer thinks Dan is crazy. And the "FBI" guy is dead now. That just means that more people investigating the time travelling people are going to show up.

yeah

So I got all caught up on Chuck, Heroes, and Journeyman. I didn't write anything about them though, because I was in a lazy mood and decided not to. Here's what I remember though.

Chuck.
1. I didn't like Lou so whatever. I'm glad it didn't work out with her and Chuck.
2. Bryce is alive after all? I guess I should have seen that coming.
3. I love Casey.

Heroes.
1. Of course Mr. Bennett wasn't going to stay dead. But when he came back, that was gross. I did not like watching his blown out eye fill in to his socket again. Yuck. I'm glad he and West are okay with each other now though.
2. Oh West. You're a little bit silly, but I still like you.
3. Mohinder is a great big jerkface.
4. Sark is still cute. I don't know if he's good or bad though. He wants to take down the Company, but he's also, like, killing a bunch of people. I'm impressed he managed to stay alive for 400 years though. I want to know what would happen if you cut his head off... would he just grow a new one? Just something to consider.
5. So Claire, Sark, and Peter are all going to live forever? Is that the idea I'm getting from the Sark thing? That's interesting. That's at least three characters that they can carry on for a long time on the show.
6. Going back to the HRG dying and coming back thing. Who did that for him? We had a big argument about this at dinner the other night. My dad thinks it's Bob, because he had Claire's blood. It could be him, but it could also be Adam, because he and Mr. Bennett both want to bring down the Company, so they're on the same side. So I think it could be either of them.
7. Oh and I'm glad they cleared up the whole "how did Nathan survive that, how did he not know Peter lived" thing that I was obsessing over. I am satisfied with their explanation.

Journeyman.
1. LIVIA IS FROM 1948!!!! That's awesome! I just think this show is so cool. It'll probably get cancelled but whatever. I love time travel.

Jack Vasser is a jerk.

1. I'm NOT going to start watching Bionic Woman, okay? Don't pressure me, NBC.com. I'm watching this online, and before Journeyman started they showed an ad for it.
2. Okay, I'm really hating the kid now. Not that he knows any better, but why would he tell anyone about it?!!!!!!!!! And WHY didn't Katie and Dan PUT IT IN A SAFE!! USE YOUR BRAINS GUYS!
3. Wooo theme music!
4. I don't like Alec Baldwin. I tell you this, because the commercials this time are for other NBC shows, and I just saw one for 30 Rock.
5. The FBI guy used to be on 24, where he was a huge douche.
6. I'm not sure I really get the whole heist thing.
7. Dan: "How do you know, you worked at the D.A.'s office what, like a year?" Livia: "A year longer than you."
8. So this is gambling Dan, right?
9. I'm still not going to watch Bionic Woman.
10. It's foggy and weird in this alley, so Future Dan could probably get away with more than usual.
11. Ha ha! He's fighting himself! That's cool!
12. How come the Past Dan can't figure out who he is? I guess he is drunk, but still.
13. THAT WOULD BE SO WEIRD. Rescuing yourself and stuff. COOL, though.
14. I'm really, really bored with Jack being suspicious of Dan. I'd like him to find out the truth so he can stop being annoying.
15. Oooh, we get to follow Livia a little bit in this episode. And she's in Katie's closet in the future.
16. Wow, I am STILL not going to watch Bionic Woman! This is third time I've seen this ad.
17. FOURTH TIME!
18. Do you think they'll put the money in a safe when Dan gets back? Or are they still too stupid to figure that out?
19. So obviously Livia is going to do something to get Katie to show up at the poker game to save him.
20. Or not.
21. Hopefully this doesn't mean Dan's going to start gambling in the future again.
22. I feel bad for Livia. But if she wasn't dead then I really don't understand why she didn't go find him again.
23. Wait... okay, so if it was Future Dan who was there in the second part of the game, and the Past Dan was sleeping that whole time, how did Future Dan remember that that was what had happened? I guess Katie could have told him...
24. So the FBI guy is a great big douche in this show too.
25. Blah, Jack. Come on. But does Dan even have the money anymore? Did it get left in the past or did he bring it back with him? I didn't notice if he had the bag with him.

take me on, take on me, I'll be gone in a day or two

1. Ohh, I love "Take On Me" by Aha! It makes me happy. And Dan's wearing a mask because it's Halloween, right?
2. Yay for the awesome theme music.
3. Where were they just leaving money around that their kid found it? Why isn't it in a safe or something?
4. That'd be so weird to see yourself in the past. I'm kind of annoyed though, because in the previews they kept saying "if you had the chance to go back in time and tell yourself something, what would it be?" Well, the part where Dan sees himself was for like two seconds, and he doesn't say anything to himself. He's kind of staring when Jack is yelling at him for being out late, and then one of them (was it Jack? It would make more sense if it were Jack) sees him and goes "what are you staring at?" and I can't remember what Dan says, but Livia stops him from going over and intervening. I wonder if Dan remembers that now and remembers seeing himself and not knowing it then.
5. Clearly the little brother is the bomber.
6. I was right.
7. I really want one of those Sync car radios. Those are amazing. You just tell it to play whatever music you want and it does it. You don't have to worry about almost crashing when you're changing CDs or songs on your iPod when you're driving. It's probably really expensive though. BUT STILL. IT'S COOL.
8. Did anyone else see the commercial for that new air hand dryer thing! That was so cool! And yeah, I do the thing where you wash your hands, "dry" them off on the dryer and then wipe them off on my pants because it never gets the job done! Wow! I hope those things get installed in places soon because I want to try one.
9. I was watching this in the basement of the SUB and a HUGE spider walked across the floor in front of the TV. It was the biggest one I've seen that was not a tarantula in Costa Rica. It was gross. I put my shoes back on at that point because I was nervous that it would come over to me and walk on my bare skin and poison me or something. (It didn't.)
10. Whoa, the crazy bomb guy knows Dan's time travelling... hmm.
11. I like Jack. He's really just trying to help... I wish Dan would just tell him the truth about his little habit, so he could stop being so suspicious all the time. And I'm glad Katie wasn't cheating on him, and that she really does love Dan. I don't need another reason to hate her.
12. I think next week's episode looks sweet. Going back in time to protect yourself... I think that's cool and will probably be more exciting than this episode was. I like thinking about the paradoxes like that... it's the most interesting part of time travel stories.

mississippi moon won't you keep on shining on me

1. Oh, poor little Zack, that would have completely traumatized me to have my dad vanish like that. Dan should've known better than to go off with his kid just the two of them though.
2. When/where the heck is Dan? A very scary place... and that was a parachute, right? At first I thought it was a hot air balloon.
3. NO COMMERCIALS THIS TIME EITHER! AWESOME!
4. I don't really get why Dan doesn't tell Jack about his time traveling stuff.
5. I'm really confused how nobody has managed to see Dan disappear. He's done it several times in the newsroom, where there are tons of people.
6. Katie has the same kind of toothpaste as me.
7. How can I be in love with so many different TV show heroes at once. Seriously - Dan Vassar, West, Chuck Bartowski, does Jim Halpert count? Well, I really like Dan, is all.
8. Hey, it's Black Water by The Doobie Brothers. I LOVE that song.
9. Hey, the tachyon scientist guy is the guy who played the president in The Island. Katie's probably the only one who will get that reference.
10. I really want there to be a society of time travelers or something like that. It would be cool.
11. K, the scientist guy obviously knows something is going on and that Dan isn't really writing a novel.
12. OH AWESOME, Zack is the first one to see Dan disappear!!!!! That's so cool!
13. You know what I'm willing to bet happens? In a future season, Dan's gonna meet his son when he's older while he's traveling... and I bet he's travelling too. I BET YOU ANYTHING Zack's going to be a time traveler too. And that's going to be exciting.
14. The guy who plays Dan's dad looks familiar to me...
15. Awww! Zack is cute. The look on Dan's face when Zack hugged him after saying he saw his "magic" was so great.
16. I love this show. This was the best episode of all the ones I watched today.

I want a nerd with a mind like a diamond

Concerning Chuck, which no one but me watches.

I really love that the theme song is "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" by Cake. I had just made that song my ringtone right before I watched the episode where they first showed the intro, and well, I was thrilled. The show has really good music throughout the episode, too - unsurprising because the guy who made this show was part of making The OC, which according to iTunes and the general populace of the world, has good music music, whatever else it is (I've never watched it, so I'm going to try not to judge).

This episode had a very James Bondsy feel to it. Maybe James Bond meets Pink Panther, given that they were stealing a diamond combined with how goofy the entire premise is in general.

I love Zachary Levi. He is perfect at being a lovable geek. Or rather, nerd, since he is on the "nerd herd" at "Buy More." I want to find someone like that in real life. And Adam Baldwin is completely fantastic - good ol' Jayne. He's the best.

Some favorite quotes...
"I need to ask you a favor, and feel free to say no. And by that I mean, say no."
-Chuck

"How am I supposed to know Karina has a remote control jet ski? It's not usually an option in real life!"
-Chuck

Morgan: You know, if our relationships don't work out.... okay, because we got each other.
Chuck: That's really really sad.
Morgan: I know.

"Your grape soda's on the kitchen floor!"
-Chuck to Morgan
(I liked that one because it was after he dropped it when a ninja lady came in and attacked him. It's all about context.)

Concerning Journeyman, which I watch, and my dad watches, and no one else watches.

I'm really loving this show. I really like Kevin McKidd. He's very... heroic. Perfect description.

The way this episode started was great - waking up in a church in the middle of a wedding rehearsal.

I LOVE the music in the opening credits. I'm very big on music.

One thing about this show I really don't like is the wife. She just bothers me. I do like the brother, Jack, and I hope he figures out soon what's going on with Dan so he can stop looking like the bad guy.

I still hate NBC.com. I watched Heroes, and then Chuck and I guess the NBC player got tired because it kept freezing when I was watching Journeyman. Very frustrating, but I'm more used to it now.

all in one post this time

I discovered a way to watch my shows on a real TV, when they actually air, as opposed to the next day. In the basement of the SUB, there is a big screen TV. And nobody watches anything on it, at least on a Monday night. And there's a couple of really nice couches. So it's pretty perfect, because nobody knows about it, or remembers it at least, and not a lot of people are walking by, usually. It is right by the bowling alley, though, so if some people do happen to wander down there and decide to bowl, it can get a little noisy. But no big deal. Just turn it up. Yep.

I got to watch three shows tonight! Cool huh. Yeah. Three hours... but it's okay, because I did actually study for my Latin quiz during the commercials. And it's fine if you don't believe me that this strategy actually worked, but it was just memorizing a chart I have to write down on a piece of paper tomorrow. And I probably studied more than I would have, because I didn't have anything else to do during the commercials. So, really this is a good development, that I managed to commandeer a TV for this purpose. And I can go to bed sooner, because I already finished studying, and that makes everyone happier.

First, Chuck. SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS SHOW. IT IS BEYOND... swell! Okay, I'll just say it - awesome. Chuck is awesome. It's unrealistic and corny and just hilarious. It's a spoof spy show. And you need to watch it, so it doesn't get cancelled. (Please. You have no idea how paranoid I am about that happening. TOO MANY GOOD SHOWS GET CANCELLED BEFORE THEIR TIME!)
1. Chuck has government secrets in his head, and in this episode he has to get tested by a doctor (which happens at the beginning). They start showing him random images, because certain images are related to top secret things and he's supposed to say those if they're related and say when it's "just a turtle" or whatever. One of the first things he says when he gets going on the slides having to do with secrets is: "Oceanic Flight 815 was shot down by..." and then he goes on - he talks really fast. If you are as TV nerdy as me, or maybe not even that much because tons of people probably recognize that, you realize that HELLO THAT IS A REFERENCE TO LOST! HOLY CRAP! "SHOT DOWN BY"?! I THOUGHT DESMOND DID IT WITH THE MAGNETIC PULSE THING!!!! And okay, I'm not entirely sure it was "shot" instead of "brought," but as my sister pointed out on the phone when I called home immediately after this (well, at the next commercial break), those sort of mean the same thing. And granted, this is a spoof show, all tongue in cheek, so maybe it's just a joke. BUT STILL. And this is even on NBC, and Lost is on ABC, so who even knows what that means... well, it either means the influence of Lost is even greater than anybody thought and it might take over the world, or the people at NBC are just messing with us. Either way though... still really cool reference.
2. I really love John Casey. He is played by Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne on Firefly. He's so funny... he's a lot like Jayne in this show, actually, only more intelligent. "I don't kid about quiche."
3. Sarah, the other agent (Casey is the NSA agent, Sarah is CIA) is working at Wienerworld as a cover. She seems to be the only person who works there, which makes no sense. But whatever. She and Casey don't get along and they have a huge random fight there, which also made no sense, but it's not really supposed to, is it? (No.)
4. Chuck has to fly a helicopter at the end of the episode and I think that was probably the funniest moment of the two episodes we've seen so far. Sarah's trying to tell him it's just like a video game, and Chuck gets all situated finally and he's above a bunch of water and he's like, "Is this one of those games where the helicopter can turn into a boat?" I loved it. Chuck is just so lovable and nerdy.
5. One of my favorite things about this show is how the references to real chain stores are so ridiculously obvious. Chuck works at "Buy More," in the "Nerd Herd." And he drives a "Nerd Herd" car to go and help people with computer problems. "Buy More" is right next to "Large Mart," which looks exactly like Sam's inside (which I obviously got a kick out of, especially the five or six speeding forklifts Chuck runs into when he's there).
6. Please just watch it. It's wonderful.

Heroes!
1. So the Irish guy did say iPods. ...WHAT? That's all they could think of? I really wanted Peter to be like, "what's an iPod?" I mean, he has amnesia, why would he know what an iPod is?
2. It seems that these Irish dudes are differently abled. Um - a half naked guy chained in a warehouse who doesn't remember who he is took all the iPods. That makes sense. Did he stuff them in his pants? Or did you check there already? Or are you too busy beating him up to realize that he really doesn't know what an iPod is? And I don't like their accents. (Jessica, yes.) If those are actual Irish people, and that's really their voice, then whatever, I'll take it back. But if they're faking it then they really just need to stop. And go away. That Caitlin chick especially. That was terrible. If that girl is Peter's new love interest I am going to be incredibly annoyed.
3. Any time Claire hurts herself deliberately is gross. Sticking her hand in a boiling pot? Gross. More on this later, obviously.
4. So the F shaped symbol thing that everybody kept seeing last season means "great ability." Thanks Ando! Why didn't anybody think to ask the random Muggle last season? Seriously that whole time he knew what it meant? And finally someone asked him and he's like "oh, yeah, I know what that means, it means 'great ability.'" UGH. Okay, whatever. It's a comic book show. It's not supposed to be realistic.
5. Sark and Hiro are just wonderful. I love that story line!!!!!!!! "You look like a fish when you talk." Cool Sark! Thanks! Poor Hiro though, because he's totally crushing on Mulan.
6. I LOVE WEST. I love him. The first time he was there this episode, when Claire was obsessing over the regenerative lizards in Biology, and he was just sitting there, looking at stuff, I was like AHHH. WEST I LOVE YOU. I LOVE. YOU. He's just adorable. And he hasn't really done anything yet, except be a creeper around Claire's house...
7. Okay, I don't understand the Spanish people. They're twins, and the girl kills people somehow and the guy heals them, at least when they're affected by her weird power. I don't really understand what her thing is though. If they're separated, and she gets the least bit freaked out, she kills everyone around her? I don't get it.
8. The Haitian!! I'm glad he's back. He's cool. Mr. Bennett's partner in crime. Or saving the world, whichever.
9. Mulan, seriously, you are stupid. What are you doing? Did you really think you could fight like ten samurai guys by yourself? You better be thankful Hiro is around to save your ass. And Hiro was completely awesome in that scene, with getting the swords and the bows from those guys... so cool to see it the way the other people do as opposed to Hiro's perspective.
10. Seriously I'm so done with these Irish people. He saves the sister from getting raped or whatever, and then the brother comes in all pissy and like "look what you did, now they're mad at me. I have to get them more iPods" or something. What is your problem? I thought Irish people were supposed to care about their families more than anything else. And since these Irish people seem pretty stereotypical, I feel like that should be included. And what is with that box? Where the heck was that "on" Peter? When they found him, all he was wearing was pants. Was that thing just sticking out of his back pocket or what? So lame. And the Irish guy is like "you'll help me, or I will throw this box in the fire and you will never know who you are or anything else about you!" Nerny nerny nerny! Okay Peter, listen up: freeze time, take the box, and LEAVE. THERE YOU GO YOUR PROBLEM IS SOLVED AND WE DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE ANNOYING IRISH PEOPLE ANYMORE! Then you can just fly back to New York, show up to your brother and mom, and say "I'm not dead." Well, presuming you remember who they are at some point.
11. Claire's car got stolen! HA HA! Did West give you a ride then? Did he fly you up into the atmosphere and talk about how he hears everything and that he was sorry for leaving you when he went to visit his blown up home planet? No? Well, it's only a matter of time! But seriously, West is just so adorable. And he and Claire are totally sucking face in all the previews so we know that happens eventually. Yay.
12. Okay, ew. Is EVERYBODY almost related on this show. Mr. Sulu and Mrs. Petrelli? GROSS. And who is after Mama Petrelli! SCARY! But good that Nathan showed up to save her, kind of.
13. Sark is so great when Mulan comes up and gives him the sword... and then he's all, "alright, I'm in." And then he goes outside and promptly gets shot. OH NO. But wait, um - what? He's healing? THAT'S SO COOL! HE'S LIKE CLAIRE'S BIG BROTHER ALMOST! Well! Neat!
14. Claire, that is just disgusting. Please don't EVER cut your pinky toe off again. GROSS. And okay, West? At least when Superman stalks Lois, he doesn't let her see him. You could use some lessons from him on that, I think. Fortunately for you, Claire's so dumb that she's probably just thinking "OH NO HE SAW ME CUT OFF MY TOE AND THEN SAW IT GROW BACK!" and not "holy crap how did he find out where I live? What was he doing out there?!" And she chases him outside, and the yappy dog comes too, who admittedly is kind of cute when he's jumping up and down on the driveway freaking out, and Claire just picks up that book and looks around, on the ground, while the dog is looking UP and barking... CLAIRE, come ON, your real dad can fly! THIS SHOULD OCCUR TO YOU! Whatever. Just, I know that they will be madly in love soon. And I'm pretty sure he's going to fly her up and kiss her up there. Just like Superman! And I will be so very happy.
15. Sylar in the preview: rescued by a lady who clearly doesn't recognize DISTURBED when it walks in front of her munching on brains.

Journeyman.
1. This show is so cool! It's a lot like the Time Traveler's Wife, I think more so than Quantum Leap. Although still elements of both obviously. Anyway, a lot of people seem to find that annoying, but I don't. I LOVE it.
2. I really want to know what the back story is with the romance stuff concerning Dan and his brother. Katie, Dan's wife, was with the brother, whose name I forgot, at some point. There was a little reference to it this time, but not enough to satisfy me.
3. I love how everything is connected, and all the times Dan runs into himself or other people he knows in the past. He doesn't let them see him, usually... but I thought it was great that one of the cops chasing him when he paid for a cab with "counterfeit" money (one of the the new twentys) was his brother. And when he was hiding from himself in his apartment, that was funny too.
4. The girl in the past that he's supposed to help, when she confronts her dad that she's never met before, I got so sad and angry that there are men like that in the world. All he does is say, more or less, that "your mom claimed I'm the father, I gave her some money and she was never supposed to tell you about me. Here's some more money to go away." How can someone even fathom doing something like that? He fathered that girl. She has lived her whole life without him, and then when she finally finds him, she just wants to know if there's a possibility for a relationship there, and he just blows her off. So easy for men to do that, because they aren't the one who gets pregnant. I absolutely loathe that lack of a sense of responsibility for their actions. Treating a child like they're just an "inconvenience." They are a person, and how can anybody forget that? I know this was fictional, but it happens in real life, and that disgusts me.

the verdict is in

Journeyman: awesome.

It's like Quantam Leap meets The Time Traveler's Wife. Good combination, if you ask me. Spoilers ahead, obviously.

Dan, who is the "journeyman," is somehow being transported through time. This causes problems for him, obviously, and everyone assumes he is on drugs. They even stage an intervention for him. Which I thought was pretty funny. He randomly jumps through time, back and forth from the present to the past, leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time the next leap will be the leap home... oh, I mean, no. I'm getting confused. That's not quite what happens. But he does have to fix something that happened wrong. In the pilot episode, he has to save the life of a kid named... James? Was that it? He has to save this kid from being murdered - he convinces the mom to keep the baby, and he prevents the dad from killing him later on when the mom is leaving the dad and taking the son with him. We find out in the end that the kid is a super genius, basically, and he saved the lives of a bunch of people who were in a bus crash. (I think it was a bus.) "It was all about saving the kid's life," as he says. Only he says the kid's name, but I can't remember that.

In the middle of that, he has to prove to his family that he isn't actually on drugs, or drinking, or whatever it is they think he's doing when he's gone. Because he just vanishes, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days. He just appears or disappears anywhere at any time. And then one day, he went to the library and the librarian there knew him and told him she'd known him since she was a little girl, and that she knew they were going to get married one day. Oh - no, that's... that's wrong again. Sorry. Um, no, he's married to this lady, who is named... Katie. Yeah. That's it. (Not Clare.) He tried to tell her that he was time traveling, and she was like "no. You are on crack. There is no other explanation." And lo, there was much frustration. But it actually ended up being okay, because the next time Dan went back to the past he took Katie's wedding ring, got a box, put the ring in with a newspaper from that time period (which was 1997), and buried it in the backyard of the house he would eventually live in with his family. He goes home finally after saving the bus kid, and when he gets there, Katie is really mad, because he's been gone a long time, and she's so ready to start a fight right there, but Dan is all "hold on, okay" and he gets a shovel out of the closet (closet?) and goes in the backyard. Katie is thinking he is even crazier than before. Dan, standing on this nice stone patio, is like, "when did we put this patio in?" She says, "right when we moved in..." and then he starts hacking away at it. And Katie goes "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" and Dan says, "saving my marriage," and Katie says, "not really!" But then he digs up the box with her wedding ring in it, gives it to her, and all is well with everyone, except for me, because the entire time that was happening they were playing a song by The Fray.

I think this show is awesome and has a lot of great potential. I love time travel stories, and I like all the characters so far, except the wife actually, she bothers me a little... but I don't know. It's only been one episode. But I'm really interested in finding out what went on in the pasts of these people, because Dan kept running into this girl Livia, and you find out he was engaged to her, and that she apparently died in a plane crash, and he shows up at this restaurant where his past self is having an engagement lunch with his brother and... Katie. Katie and his brother are together in the past, and he's engaged to Olivia. So what went on there...? Livia dies, Katie leaves the brother and marries Dan. It's pretty obvious that she's in love with Dan in the past, even though she's with his brother. It seems sort of complicated. But interesting!

And THEN, SUDDENLY, Dan is doing something in the past, and he just left Livia in his old apartment, and he goes down the stairs and runs into... LIVIA? And he's all, "how did you get...?" And she goes "Come over here. NOW" and runs into this alley thing, and then you see... Livia... leaving the apartment. So! It would seem that not only is Livia NOT DEAD in the present, but she is also one of these time-challenged people who are jumping around. She goes, "Do you know why you're here?" and Dan goes, "The never found the body, so does that mean you're alive? Did you even get on that plane? Are you like a ghost or something?" and she's like, "I don't think I'm supposed to be here" and runs out another door and then there's the flash of light that means she left to go to another time. Dan is very confused, but that's all you hear about on the subject in this episode.

So add this to the long, long list of shows I'm watching this year. You should watch it too. Good stuff so far.