CSI:NY premiere + Life update (Ew.)

Because life has a tendency to get overwhelming (aka I am sick of writing essays), I am once again updating. LJ is a great tool of avoidance.

I'll start off with a bit on the only other premiere I watched last week, CSI:NY.

CSI:NY

Well... it kind of sucked, actually. I dunno if anyone else on my flist watches it; I picked it up sometime last season, thanks to reruns on Spike (and now TNT). In some ways it's compelling (Detective Flack, aka Eddie Cahill, is really good-looking... *halo* Plus I like a couple of the other characters), but in some ways it's pathetic (the scripting/dialogue is frequently SOO CHEESY to the point where I want to pull my hair out).

The season finale in May was amazing, though sad. They killed off one of the recurring cast members (Flack's girlfriend, actually), who I really liked, and it was a whole big plot, full of action and suspense etc. At the end, the CSIs are sitting in a bar toasting to their fallen friend when a car drives by and opens fire; you know someone gets shot, but you don't know who, and that's where the premiere picks up.

Sad thing is, the villains were completely worthless. Last season, there was a really compelling bad guy, spanning numerous episodes -- a media mogul that they never quite got enough dirt on, so he's still potentially in play. They could easily have worked him in, or done something, to make it more than just, "oh, some random guys opened fire concidentally on a bar where all the cops were hanging out literally 'just because they could.'" No joke, that was the actual reason.

On top of that, EW THE DIALOGUE. The character who got shot, Danny, is [temporarily] paralyzed in the legs. He tells his wife (a fellow CSI) he has a 60% chance of walking again, and she finds out in the course of the episode that it's actually a 10% chance. So, she confronts him, and it goes something like this--
Lindsay: Why didn't you tell me? I don't want you to feel like you have to lie to me.
Danny: You were just, you're so optimistic, I didn't want to...
Lindsay: You know, they were saing on the news this morning that there's a 10% chance of rain today. I brought my umbrella anyway, because I believe.

Wth, that is retarded. You did not just equate leg paralysis to rain. Haha and it gets better -- it was so ridiculous, my friend and I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. The episode concludes with Danny in his wheelchair, trying really hard to move some part of his leg. He stares at his feet for a full minute, before finally, you see the tip of his right foot begin to lift up. RIGHT as he does that, you hear thunder, and suddenly you can see it raining through the windows. So cheesy.

In other news...

Something to add to my grand plans:
- Make some fun icons for LJ and whatnot

What's going on in my life:
- Med school apps are eating me alive. This entire weekend is dedicated to getting as many of them done as possible. Of course, this means school is falling by the wayside a little bit, but luckily, I don't actually have anything major going on there. I have an assignment due Tuesday, but I'll just do it Monday night.
- ...yea, that's it. It's sad, how much the applications are dominating my life. I want fun back! *protests*

How are you all doing?