Body of Proof 10/4/11

Last night on Body of Proof one story line was about Dr. Hunt being jealous of Dr. Murphy's influence on Dr. Hunt's daughter Lacey. Dr. Murphy is dating Dr. Hunt's ex husband. Lacey wanted to buy some shoes that she had seen Dr. Murphy wear. I think Lacey is 14. They were very high-heeled with leather straps up all the way up over the ankle and with a zipper. And Dr. Hunt's problem was that she didn't want her daughter to be influenced by another woman. She didn't want to be usurped as mother.

WTF? How about the fact that Lacey is way too young to wear bondage f-me pumps? How about using it as an opening to talk to her daughter about what's age-appropriate? And about how men will perceive her if she wears overtly sexual clothes or shoes when she is so young? It looks a lot different on a teenager than a woman in her 30s. How about discussing with your daughter the spectrum of sexuality, and how she gets to choose how much she displays in public? How about telling her she has the option of being modest in public and sexual in private in a committed relationship? And how about telling Lacey that she should not dress like that at her age because men will target her for victimization? Dr. Hunt was incapable of doing any of this, she was just jealous of another woman's influence in her daughter. What a shallow, petty character.

The only question is, do they intend her to be such an immature brat, or do they not even realize that's what they've written. I'd bet on the latter.

Castle 9/20/11

B-

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There was something missing from this episode. Was it too much compressed into too little time?

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Story: Beckett recovers, time goes by, it's suddenly three months later and no progress has been made in the investigation into who shot Beckett. When Beckett was shot, Castle told her he loves her; Beckett pretends to not remember. The new captain is a by-the-book hard ass. Ryan, Esposito, Beckett, and Castle continue to investigate and hide it from the Captain Gates. No progress in the investigation, then Castle gets Beckett to put it aside in the interest of sanity. Last scene: Castle is investigating by himself.

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No best line. Nothing to make me go "ooh nice writing, guys!"

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I continue to think that the writers have never met a teenage girl. Alexis does not seem real. Or maybe I've just never met a teenage girl who was that sane.

CSI --

Well, no lingerie-clad corpses this week, but there was a necrophiliac. I'm not sure if this is an improvement.

Law and Order: CI -- sloppy story line

Sundays L&O:CI, the one about the hacker who was tortured by his shrink, was a mess. Plots points were dropped or never explained, and the ending didn't tie up the loose ends.

The were so intent on getting across their guantanamo political point, that they mucked up the story. I don't watch fiction on TV to get lectured on politics by a bunch of film majors. I watch for entertainment.

errors:

• Guy C, who worked at ubcool (or whatever the dumb name of that company was) was shown finding the potato chip can and putting the antenna on the roof. Later we were supposed to believe that Guy A, the skinny tortured nutcase did it.
  
• The never explained to us how the skinny weak nutso moved a heavy vending machine 20 feet and heaved it down a flight of stairs. The machine would have had to be moved that distance in about 3 seconds for the victim (Guy B) not to have seen it as he passed the landing.
  
• Nutty Guy A was supposed to have killed Guy B because he was listening to house music. ON HIS IPOD. Please explain to me how nutty boy know what some guy was listening to on his IPod, especially when he was nowhere near Guy B because he was busy moving a huge object around in a subway station.
• The shrink was supposed to have tortured her patient because that would somehow justify what was going on at Guantanamo???? Puh-leeze.

There were more, but that's what I still remember on Thursday night.