February 19th 2017’s Episode

Why does it seem like every week, there’s another notable death in the world? What’s up with that? I just don’t understand why this keeps happening. Sure, people die, but some notable person every week? And I thought that last year was bad. Why must famous people keep dying?

The first weekend between the last movie watching that I did was spent by me being on vacation to the baptism of my cousin once removed. It was nice seeing him for the first time. I didn’t have free time that first weekend, so let’s get to the next one. On Saturday, I watched Free Willy. I replaced it with Finding Dory. On Sunday, I watched the last of the Nature Documentaries. I replaced that with The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Thus, the items from the second dissolved Sunday list that wound up in the new Sunday list are all replaced, should the last item to be moved not wind up on this list (if that makes sense). Now the only choices on the list are stuff from when it was Friday’s list, from Sunday’s first dissolved list, and the replacement choices. (Had I told you about that?) There was no movie watching the next weekend as I was busy with my sister’s baby shower.

I have no idea at the moment when the next new episode will air. It might not be until March or it could be sooner. All of the special events that seem to be happening in February seems to preempt the usual programming. I remember in 2015 when most of the Sunday shows on CBS were on hiatus the whole month of February, which is odd since February is a sweeps month. I’m sure that there was a reason, however strange it might have been. What’s more telling is that they aired the rest of CSI early into that time of year instead of waiting for a better time and putting it with actual lead-ins.

Well, it actually a confusing night for both me and CBS. If this blog were linked up with my Madam Secretary blog, it would be messed up now as this show was new tonight at it wasn’t on. They aired The Good Fight for the only time on TV at seven while NCIS: Los Angeles had a weird airtime at 8 before they aired this show. FOX shows were normal.

They were airing a golf tournament that cut into what should have been the local news before primetime on CBS. They cut out the eastern time zone feed to start primetime on time on this coast. Only they weren’t finished with it so they moved the coverage to the golf channel. This is only the second time that I’ve seen them move the coverage of a sport event to a cable channel to do primetime. This is the first time that there wasn’t a delay of any kind. Now was that channel not airing anything at this time? It seems weird that they switched whatever they were airing to that event. Of course, it was weirder the last time that they switched that it took them 16 minutes before the switch to actually do it. I bet people without the cable channel or internet (where it was also airing live) were screaming curses at their TV for this Heidi moment.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a recap of what is happening with Shinwell and his daughter. I didn’t remember that he had one. Watson talks to him some. She wants to see him finally. We then get to a podcaster. He is playing a video game. But people who watch this notice a criminal coming after him. They don’t know where he is in New York or if he is dead.

The second act has the team looking at the potential case. I love how this is getting into the world of gaming that happens online. I wonder if they are talking about speedrunning or other types of playing. Watson talks about it and hears from Sherlock about the case. He was able to find the body due to the nearby billboard. He has what appears to be a buzz cut. When did that happen and why? I have no idea, from what I can remember. Shinwell talks to his daughter after her school gets out. She says that she’s in trouble, but we don’t find out how just yet. Sherlock talks to people relating to the murder. A person gives good information and tells them the real name of the victim. The team finds a weapon that possibly relates to the case.

The third act has Sherlock thinking that a person who was suspected of the crime was actually framed for it. Sherlock offers yet another one of his famous theories during this time, but I find it hard to understand right now. Why am I so easily confused? A woman comes in and she relates to animal rights people. Why are they always portrayed as weirdos? I’m not sure what seal hunting has to do with the case. They find out that the gamer supported seal hunting and that related to his murder. If that’s what an animal rights person would do, then they are more than just weird.

Shinwell talks to Watson about his daughter and the possible problem she’s in. It turns out that this person who wants her romantically, but she’s not interested. They do more with the case and the Asian guy from earlier is investigated as a possible suspect. Apparently he thinks that the escort people he works with aren’t good people. Are any of the good people? This is an actual link to human trafficking being investigated.

The fourth act has more information about the human trafficking crime. Shinwell then talks to this person that’s bugging his daughter and makes him an offer to leave her alone. Carla, whoever she is, is interrogated by Marcus and Tommy. She gives them information about what is going on. I’m losing track of a lot of what is going on this act. I just know that Sherlock thinks that global warming is responsible for the murder. Also, how can some thick headed people still not get it through their head that global warming is real? 97% of scientists say that it is? Is there not enough evidence? I should not ever have the windows in my car down in February, but I did on just Friday.

The fifth act takes us to a random traffic jam. Sherlock and Marcus go after the person who might end up being the final suspect of the night. Once again, I don’t fully understand what is going on. They find out that a firm hired the hit. They investigate Raina and learn from her that she is the person who was largely responsible for most of the mess regarding the main murder. Shinwell then talks to his daughter again and they part ways for now.

There are no scenes from next time, which is to be expected since they are airing The Oscars next week. There is an upcoming change in this blog. During Advent, you saw this posted on Sundays. That was because my Survivor blog was moved on Thursdays and this blog was moved there instead. Now it will be moving to Sundays again during Lent. I will alternate Sundays when I post this blog, meaning that it won’t be every Sunday that you see it updated here, but every other Sunday. This won’t last forever, though as I will be back on Thursdays.

On Maundy Thursday, which is on April 13^th this year, you should start seeing these posts on Thursdays again. The main change that this will bring is the order of the episodes that I’m updating this in. I didn’t want to go out of order on any of my blogs again, but this might be the only way to keep up on this blog. First, you should see three older episodes from this season that I haven’t put on this blog yet. Then, I’ll go from the next episode that airs for as long as I’m posting on Sundays. I should be back to current episodes when I get back to Thursdays and should be posting the oldest unposted episode in the event that I’m not able to post the newest one.

When I get back to Thursday updates, this blog should be updated on every Thursday even if there wasn’t a new episode the previous Sunday. I do plan on posting the season finale last this season. I don’t know yet if this season will be the last one or if it will return for another one. Things are not looking good now for another season. But, it could come back with a surprise renewal ala The Mentalist. I don’t know what will happen with this show yet. We’ll see in the future. I’d like this show to continue, but it might not. Also, this blog is sort of linked up with my blog about Madam Secretary so when I post episodes about that, I’ll post episodes here that relate to that. I’m behind on updating that blog, which can be helpful for this blog and the at least three posts I’m behind on. I could get behind on more, although I hope that I don’t. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

January 29th 2017’s Episode

I believe that the AFC championship game will cause the preemption of this show. I write this in the past as we’ll know later when the episode aired, as evidenced by the title that it will have. I just hope that it ends on time and they don’t air a stupid post game show afterwards which would cut into what I want to watch after it. We’ll see if that happens or not.

I wonder if these games are done differently each year as I don’t remember this game airing in most of primetime since Scorpion was a new show. But they aired a 45 minute post game show starting at nine which was supposed to be when Scorpion started. If they delay the first ever episode of Hunted, then they are screwing themselves over a lot. Plus, why is its premiere not at its usual timeslot? I always get annoyed when shows do that. If you are going to air a new show for the first time, it should be when it will always air. This supposed great lead-in could wind up dooming that show I’m not sure would have lasted long anyways.

Let’s get to all the movie watching that I was doing since the last new episode aired. I watched the movie Fireproof and replace it on the list with Free Willy. I was also watching The Hobbit movie series and the next one to watch is the extended edition of The Battle of the Five Armies. I’ll be keeping the movie series on the list so I can watch it again with commentary. I wasn’t able to watch any movies from my lists the next weekend, but I did see 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Miguel Ferrer, an actor who was still working on NCIS: Los Angeles, died recently. The NCIS franchise hasn’t been doing well this season as both NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans had to get a new showrunner after the one they both had, Gary Glasberg, also died. I read that they were planning on writing out Miguel’s character on this show due to the actor’s health concerns. I don’t know yet if they will replace his character or not. I also don’t know if he will appear anymore as the last time his character showed up, he wound up shot and they could have already killed this character off long before his real death actually happened. I guess that we will see what happens later for sure.

The character he played, Owen Granger, was the assistant director on the show, but they went without one until he was introduced in the third season. I don’t know yet if they will find a new assistant director for the show or not. It would seem kind of rude to recast the part with a new character since he actually died. But they may have already planned that anyways. Meanwhile, they could use the character of Leon Vance, the main NCIS director, do double duty like they did before they introduced Owen onto the show. In fact, if you ask me, that might have been why they had an assistant director of NCIS on the first spin-off in the first place. I was wondering if we’d ever see an assistant director like Owen on the second spin-off or if they would upgrade him to director in case they wanted to get rid of the old director. On the main show, they briefly made use of a character named Jerome Craig to be acting director. If they could get the actor who played him back, Greg Germann, they could make use of the character again. He only appeared in season 10 of NCIS thus far.

What is probably the last episode of Conviction airs tonight so I will be able to live watch the future episodes of this until March when Shades of Blue starts again. There are a lot of great potential things airing at midseason on Sundays, yet weirdly scheduled after February sweeps. I guess that this is because of all the special programming scheduled that month like the Super Bowl, the Grammys, and the Oscars. I’m still wondering if there will be a post Oscar show. Jimmy Kimmel normally does that, but would he do double duty since he is already hosting the Oscars?

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin first with three different flashbacks of a man wanting Sherlock’s help with an assault case, but Sherlock is too busy each time. I remember the second one the most as it had the possible killer doll and aired at the same time as the first episode of the great show Allegiance. In the present, the man takes over a diner full of people with a gun and that is when Sherlock is finally forced to help him. Watson has to stay in the diner as another hostage. Sherlock then goes out to investigate the case, but he doesn’t have much time to do it. He has until midnight before his carriage turns back into a pumpkin.

The second act has Marcus and Sherlock investigating the case. Sherlock uncovers information being investigated that could help with the case. The hostage taker (is that the right term?) explains that he’s only really after one person at the diner who he feels is responsible for nothing happening with the case thus far.

The third act has Sherlock trying to go after bad people which leads him to literally put on a shirt that has looking for bad people on it. One finds him and this leads him and Marcus to visiting a gang where they learn information that helps them with the case. When they leave the place, they find a location that has a bunch of maple syrup but also has links to drugs, it seems.

Sherlock is able to make a breakthrough in the case, but it comes too late as it is past the deadline. Nothing really bad happens at the diner as Watson is able to defuse the situation and keep the hostage taker alive where he gets arrested. As for the criminal, they are able to use a law the effectively extends when the statute of limitations is up via the criminal’s international travel and arrest him.

There are no scenes from next time as next week they are airing the Super Bowl. I’ll be rooting for the Ravens for two reasons: 1- they have never won the Super Bowl before and more importantly, 2- they are not the Patriots. I guess that we’ll see eventually who wins or doesn’t win, but life doesn’t always go the way you want it to. At least there is nothing really significant about football affecting the world so I won’t get too upset over a Patriots victory. Heck, I never even hated the fact that the Cubs won the World Series and I’m a Cardinals fan. We’ll see what happens later and I’ll be back with the next episode sometime then. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.