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.