NCIS: LA - Citadel

I will admit, my new school schedule wherein I don't have class on Mondays or Fridays has really messed with my sense of time - as in, I never know what day of the week it is. Having said that, I very well might have forgotten to watch tonight's TV shows regardless, because instead I was watching a man do this:

It's a bird! It's a plane! No! IT'S SUPER-PILLAR!!!

But I digress. 

Oh hey, Talia's back! I still really want to go watch The Finder every time I see this actress (it's on Netflix, I highly recommend) but I know that will make me sad because 1) Michael Clarke Duncan is dead and 2) that brilliant show was cancelled after one season and that's a bummer. Anyway.

Her partner is a traitor and she's mad at him and he's trying to plead with her, but she's having none of it. Apparently he was blackmailed/extorted/coerced somehow to do it, and then a cop barges in and shoots the guy, and she shoots said cop. That was interesting. 

Deeks' house is having plumbing issues, and Kensi is bragging about things that she's eaten at an expensive restaurant, and then he has something to say about it that involves proposals and her face goes all bug-eyed. 

Kinda like this, but with less eye-rubbing.

Some security firm (named Citadel - roll credits!) had investigated the cop who shot Talia's partner, as well as the partner, and Deeks. Talia is antagonistic, as per usual, and her house is practically empty. Which is a good thing, because then it gets all shot full of bullets - how convenient that this happened right after Deeks and Kensi arrived. Timing! 

Eric and Nell hacked the system of the supposedly 'impenetrable' security firm. Good thing they work for the good guys, eh? Sam utters the phrase 'deja vu all over again' and I'm reminded of Yogi Berra and that makes me sad. 

Deeks and Kensi and Talia go to visit the partner's wife - who is named Emily! - and he starts talking about compartmentalizing personal and life stress, and jealousy over Talia, and that's just awkward. 

Callen ends up agreeing to fail the test to get Citadel approval, and he freaks out while in a dark room with electrodes attached to his head. 

Am I wrong in saying this looks like a sci-fi movie?!!

Sam passes the test and gets taken into a room with a nice smiley lady, while Callen goes into a weird cabinet-filled room with a steely-eyed creepy dude named Bennett who promises to pass him in exchange for 'I might ask you for a favour in the future'. Callen takes him down and says, somehow in an incredibly enticing way "Would you like to see how dangerous I am?" To which the dude just says "Not the face!"

Callen pulls a fire alarm, and for a highly secure evil company, the oldest trick in the book seems to work really well. But all they did was leave with the Bennett guy. Not sure why they needed a ruse for that, it's not like they needed people to leave so they could snoop around. 

His information was a DEA informant list and it was really really well hidden and being sold to a cartel. So they sorted the people they tested into 'good guys', failures and 'evil people'. And they asked the 'evil people' to do their dirty work. 

Deeks randomly staring at a lady's shoes and recognizing that they're really expensive = kinda creepy. Also, nice car name-drop in there. I hear you, Prius. But OH MAN he ruined the shoes in finding that thumb drive that her husband had hidden. 

Now I'm just thinking about shoes...

I might be getting sleepy now, because I'm finding it hard to concentrate on the big-bad complicated plot right now. 

So the smiley lady from earlier is really evil too, and she's the head of the whole program. Deeks refuses to go undercover with Kensi, and wants Talia to go with him. Kensi instead has to be a sniper and protect the two of them while they're carrying out the plan. 

Sam gives Kensi a pep talk that ends with the phrase 'more being less doing'. I'm sure it was very inspirational and all, but there I go getting distracted again. Bad Emily. 

We were just gifted with Callen in a hot-dog patterned bucket hat. You're welcome, world. Kensi carries on some profiling trying to figure out who the shooter in the crowd is. Talia is holding Deeks' hand and trying to use coupley-ness as their cover story, as they discuss the mission OUT LOUD and IN PUBLIC. I feel like that's not smart! 

The evil lady says she knew that Deeks would betray the LAPD and he gets all squirmy. Then Bennett gets sniped and evil lady just strolls off like it's no big deal. Callen and Sam and Deeks and Kensi can't for the life of them find the sniper, which is just not helpful. And then all the sketchy white men with coats & sunglasses that Kensi profiled earlier actually pull guns out and they take those guys down - I forgot that this is a TV show, and therefore the criminals actually all look the same. But the evil lady gets away. 

Or not... Because she tries using her phone back at her office, and it doesn't work, and then Hetty shows up all sneaky-like. Evil lady says she'd run a test on Hetty back in the day and she'd failed, but Hetty just does that little 'I'm smarter than you' speech she does and says that that was only 'whoever she felt like being that day'. Goddamnit I love Hetty. 

"But.. But... it's IMPOSSIBLE to outsmart the HL7 protocol!" Spare me the gobbledegook, lady, this is Hetty Freakin' Lange you're talking to. 

HOLY DAMN SHE WAS THE ONE WHO INVENTED THE TEST THAT'S WHAT THE HL STANDS FOR. THIS WOMAN, I SWEAR. 

*Continues to be a badass*

And Talia kisses Deeks RIGHT in front of Kensi. The stones on this one! 

I don't get why they make such a big deal out of Callen cutting his hair every season - Deeks' hair is waaaay longer, and so is Eric's, although he isn't a field agent. Hetty just likes things a certain way, I guess. 

Deeks' mom is actually who was at his house, and he brings Kensi home to meet her. And she approves of Kensi! Awww... But let's be honest, who wouldn't. Kensi rocks. 

The Big Bang Theory - The Separation Oscillation

I will admit, my new school schedule wherein I don't have class on Mondays or Fridays has really messed with my sense of time - as in, I never know what day of the week it is. Having said that, I very well might have forgotten to watch tonight's TV shows regardless, because instead I was watching a man do this:

It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's SUPER-PILLAR!!!!

But I digress. 

Sheldon wants Leonard to see their early-into-marriage separation as a win for efficiency. He also used the phrase 'some hardcore mouth-on-mouth action'. AND THEN HE KISSES PENNY!! 

Nevermind, Leonard was just having a nightmare. *Whew* Real-life Sheldon would totally use the word 'dalliance' though. 

Sheldon keeps bothering Amy, and refers to their show Fun with Flags as a 'baby'. And then he starts talking about Sonny & Cher, which is not a pop culture reference I would have expected Sheldon to make. 

Apparently Sheldon's capable of NOT doing his knocking ritual if he's not friends with someone. He thinks it's a 'privilege' for people to get to see it. And then he took one of Penny's bras to her apartment to try to make her jealous, but naturally she knows better. 

Everyone is either mad at Howard for telling them the secret about Leonard and the girl on the boat (Bernadette) or not telling them and leaving them out of the loop (Raj). Soooo much drama. 

Jon can't handle the drama

Sheldon suggests that Penny meet the girl from work so she'd feel better after seeing that she has nothing to be jealous of. Leonard thinks this is a bad idea, and Penny gets more mad. 

Naturally, she turns to the girls to figure out what she should do, and Bernadette does a REALLY terrible job of convincing everyone she didn't know about the kiss beforehand. Kinda like this:

You're not fooling anyone, Pheebs. 

Sheldon does a Fun with Flags episode where he is sad and depressed and accidentally makes a clueless double entendre. And he's bitter. Reeeeally bitter. 

This Mandy girl seems nice, even if she does think Sheldon and Leonard are gay, and slept with all the other guys on the boat... I ain't here to judge. 

Sheldon's throwing shade at Amy via the Fun with Flags episode. Lots and lots of shade. Last week I kind of felt bad for him, but now he's just being douchey...

Leonard and Penny made up, he owned up the the fact that he was just feeling insecure all along because he doesn't feel like he deserves her. Awww... He called her 'Penny Hofstader' which is interesting because I just remember we never actually learn her maiden name. Weird.

And Sheldon gives them a wedding gift, a trip to San Francisco but he's coming too. Awkward. 

Sheldon's delusional, as always. He thinks Amy wants him back, buuuut I don't see that happening. Now she's the one I feel sorry for...  

NCIS: LA - Active Measures

I don't think I ever paid attention to the title format of this show, what with the colon before the name of the city. I think I just kind of assumed it was like the CSI title format - and it is!

Sorry this is later than usual, as I explained in my Big Bang Theory post from last night, I was watching baseball because the BLUE JAYS RULE. TV premiere night is usually my favourite night of the fall season (my birthday being a close second) but meaningful September baseball is so damn exciting/stressful, especially tonight's game. It won't happen again (it totally might happen again).

If you need a refresher on what happened in the season finale (I know I did) you can find my blog with that recap over here . Now, on with the show!

Callen is walking in a dark alley (side note - the beard is back!) when he comes across a mysterious stranger with a gun - only it's not a stranger, it's Sam! And Sam shoots someone else who looks mysterious and sketchy, and was apparently following Callen.

Kensi and Deeks are running/biking along the beach, he looks like every adorably backwards-hatted frat boy ever. All these random girls keep saying hi to him, as he's convincing Kensi to eat breakfast. Because it's the most important meal of the day! I never miss breakfast! It's an excuse to eat sweet things or bacon or bacon AND sweet things!

*Drools*

But it's cute because Deeks says he loves her and she loves him too and AWWWWWWWWWWW

Callen's taken off on Hetty, without her permission, and slammed the door - rude! You don't slam doors on Hetty Lange! He was doing something on a Chinese computer when she just casually showed up at his house.

Granger doesn't look worried, he looks annoyed. He says Sam wouldn't like to see him when he's angry. I'm guessing Granger has the same range of emotions as Darth Vader:

Eric should not be trusted with a gun, I have the feeling he's going to hurt himself... Sam wants him to keep tabs on Callen, which is sketchy and a little creepy.

The guy who Callen was meeting was Kensi's old pal CIA officer Sabatino. And Callen has gone 100% off the grid. Hetty is worried and kind of sad (because she has facial expressions).

Callen needs to check on the guy Kirken who Deeks helped fake his death last season (remember. the one in the bathhouse?). He said he'd help Callen if Callen steals a painting for him. Granger meets with Sabatino, who says that Callen was asking about Arkady and the dead guy was a bad guy and had actually been following Sabatino.

Funny enough Deeks was what Kirken had asked for initially when making the deal with Callen... But Deeks refuses to go back to the bathhouse. Not that I blame him. That did not look like a good time.

Callen uses some kind of drone to spy on Kirken, which is incredibly convenient because there's a lawnmower going nearby to drown it out. That thing is noisy. Sam breaks into Callen's house, like any good friend would, and talks to him via the security camera, asking him to come back or at least let him in.

Kensi and Deeks have one of those ambiguous conversations that basically goes like this:
"What's bothering you"
"Things"
"What things"
"I don't know"
"Tell me the things"
"I can't"
"Why not?"
"Because I don't think I know them"

He'd seen someone from IA snooping around in his garbage, and also tells her a story about his first day on the job he was paired with an old-school guy who had interrogation methods of questionable legality. Said guy had also shoved his gun in Deeks' mouth for reporting him. Yikes. And then Granger interrupts that conversation (as he does) to get them all back to Ops.

Sam agrees to try to track Callen down, Eric becomes paranoid and thinks Callen has 'snapped' and gone rogue. And then he starts listing movies, because clearly that sounds logical. Sam mocks him by going along with it and then exaggerating so as to make the theory sound ridiculous.

It's ok Eric, I know another adorable nerd who'd be happy to go along with your conspiracy...

OH MY GOD

Hetty just straight-up tasered him!! I knew something was up when she was holding her hands behind her back when she confronted him in that parking lot. But to tase the guy?! Somehow he manages to get up and run away in spite of the tasing, and runs into - you guessed it- Sam.

"I'm working the streets"

"You look like the streets are working you"

A+ banter from Sam in a tense situation. But then he just lets him go! I don't get this, Sam still doesn't know what Callen's doing, or why, or the fact that he'll be ok. 

Hetty and Sam get into an argument and she tells him to 'step off' and in that moment I believed that she could seriously kick his ass. She also told Granger she 'doesn't need any damn tea'. GO HETTY!!! Some typical Nellric awkwardness when they're like the kids trying to sneak away from the table during a fight without finishing their vegetables, and their dad Granger calls them back down. Sorry, guys. Nice try, though. 

Sam gets a big grin on his face and drops the bomb - he put a tracking device on Callen. Clever man!

Callen should not wear hats. They do not look good on him. Somehow he changed the temperature in the other Russian guy's house remotely - I have no clue what this has to do with the whole painting-stealing plan - and he breaks in and takes it. Suddenly Kirken and his goons appear out of nowhere and point guns at Callen. They were planning to take him hostage because someone else wanted him in exchange for the painting. But the team showed up in time and no one got shot or kidnapped or anything. 

Callen knew the whole time that Sam was tracking him, Sam doesn't believe this, and I think I detected some Granger sarcasm! 

I agree, Granger. 

Sam and Hetty made up, she forgives him for not following orders. They hug and Deeks gets inappropriate thoughts that cause Kensi (and me) to cringe. 

Hetty gives Callen a list of Kirken's contacts, and then threatens to fire him if he goes behind her back again. I still don't get why he had to keep all of them out of it... But oh well he's back and everyone's safe and it's all good. Yay!

Big Bang Theory - The Matrimonial Momentum

Sorry all my posts are late today - I was watching the Blue Jays game. Normally I'd have been all over 3 shows premiering in the same day, but meaningful September baseball is a priority!!

No, Ron, no I do not!! 

Leonard and Penny are about to get married, and Sheldon calls and interrupts them to tell him about his breakup with Amy. Poor Sheldon! He's heartbroken! And sounds like a sassy teenager.

Amy is mega-insulted, also sounds like a sassy teenager. Sheldon's being passive-aggressive. Apparently it's pathetic to watch a wedding (even on the internet) without a date. Oops I might be pathetic then... I've never had a date to any of the weddings I've been to. Although, I was 7 when I went to the first one, so that might not count...

"We make everyone feel awkward, that's our thing!" Sheldon has never been so self-aware hahaha

Vegas weddings always seemed so sad to me. I couldn't imagine having no control over my wedding, or not having any friends or family there. Not that I'm getting married anytime soon...

Penny doesn't have any proper vows prepared, so she just recites the lyrics to 'You've Got a Friend in Me'. Which I thought was weird (so did the minister) but Leonard loved it, so that's good!

Sheldon insults Amy and they have a huge fight and she decides they're officially broken up - right in the middle of the wedding. So everyone missed the end of the ceremony.

Leonard screws up by continuing to talk about that girl he'd kissed. Apparently he works with her, and Penny freaks out, and well there goes the honeymoon!

Sheldon's mom! I love Sheldon's mom. He's sworn off women and pop rocks, because apparently they both hurt you on purpose.

Pop rocks: Practically the same thing as a woman

Penny's hair sprouted some length on the drive home from Las Vegas... No WAY it was long enough to pull into a mini-bun the night before.

Apparently if one's hands are full, saying 'knock knock knock' is a good enough substitute for Sheldon's ritual. He lets slip that the girl Leonard made out with is 'brilliant and attractive', and Penny's reaction to that was priceless.

Stewart continues to be kinda creepy, first hitting on newly-single Amy and then saying 'innnteresting' when he finds out Penny is at home alone.

So nothing really got resolved in this one, I gotta say that's a bit disapointing! Leonard and Sheldon are both sad, Penny's miffed, and Amy's alone. And everyone else had minimal screentime. Let's hope next week ties up some loose ends!