Thursday, February 2, 2017

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.

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