Season 2 Episode 5

Since I don’t think that I have yet mentioned it in this blog, note that there will likely be an upcoming potential blog on Without a Trace and then other parts of the CSI franchise coming at some point in the future. I don’t yet know when or just how long in the future it will be when it happens. If I’m blogging about this show still, I will post a link to that here.

 

Continuing on to more of Schoolhouse Rock, we now have the Science Rock section to cover. This one that is next is The Body Machine. It starts this section and I’ll get to the rest of them.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh2-g3ftCaE

 

The boss of the Shadow Temple is Bongo Bongo. I’m covering it next, although it seems as if fandom is convinced that it should be the last temple covered. It isn’t. That is why I’m covering this now and getting to the next part covered. It seems as if the player is a noob as they almost die. But this is intentional on fandom’s part in order to show what happens when you mess up.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqBvJP3fao

 

I forget how I mentioned it, but the song Otherworld from the very beginning and near the end of Final Fantasy X was mentioned in the past blog post. I know that it was not covered in the episode itself.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9dEu29RY44

 

As for what was in the episode, they did the song Field of Gold. I thought that I would now share the Celtic Woman version of that song. I will now be sharing a song of theirs from their concert Songs from the Heart until I reach the end of it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXPqCv9dV6g

 

In this old Madam Secretary blog post, I talk about some of the things that I wish the show covered, like the judiciary. They never covered that as instead of was more or less a different international crisis in most episodes. I talk a bit about one of the old showrunners regarding the NCIS franchise. I might have to go through the history of that at some point, but won’t in this week’s post. I now have a hatred of Son of Zorn due to its cancellation on major cliffhangers.

 

I also mention about not knowing stuff about football like why refs make the gestures they do. I also talk about my problem with not renting movies which is a lot of people’s problems given just how little video rental stores remain. There is still one that I can use. I also offer some minor thoughts on Venezuela in this post. I’ll talk about it more in the future.

 

https://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/episode-from-11-20-2016.html

 

Movie update: On Saturday, I watched The Sound of Music. I replaced that with a movie that I’m borrowing from a co-worker called Sponge out of Water which is a Spongebob Squarepants movie. On Sunday, different plans for lunch meant that I could not watch a movie that day. But it worked out better in regards to other plans of mine that I had. On Monday, I had to watch laptop shows instead of a movie. On Tuesday, I watched One Night with the King. I was still finishing that on Wednesday. I replaced it with Stuart Little. On Thursday, I was once again watching shows on my laptop instead of a movie.

 

The first part has professors and others like them being honored. But bad things start to happen with a possible biological attack happening. Meanwhile, Catherine goes to a fantasy room to lure someone there to talk to her. A woman is dead as we continue to look for the missing Grace. But what happened to the weird scene from the end of the first season? Are we ever going back to that? Is that going to be like Ray Langston? I’m still pissed by that lack of real resolution.

 

The team arrives at the scene with more going on the next day. There is a lot of vomit as they are in suits. A dead body was found with them wondering what all went on and why so many people are affected.

 

The second part has more of the scene investigated. The fish are alive which seems to imply that this is airborne. The team goes to the hospital and talk to a lot of the people here who can’t all remember what all went on. A professor named Morrow had left the party early. He becomes an obvious suspect. He is investigated by the team. He claims to have eaten everything at the party.

 

One of the MEs thinks that it could just be what amounts to a collective panic attack by the group instead of something real. But that might not be the case. One of the team members wants to talk to other survivors. Beau somehow knows a whole lot about certain types of party and is no longer invited to the garden party, I mean, Allie’s birthday party. What I believe are feds show up to take control of the crime scene. This is an obvious problem, of course.

 

The third part has the team trying to figure out what to do. Since the rats that weren’t taken by the feds died at the same time at the humans, they are used to figure out what all went on regarding the case.

 

There is more going on with the Grace and the stripper (I think) named Monica wants to give certain evidence including the dress she is currently wearing. Alie is able to figure out that some type of poisoning is going on. They go back to the crime scene. Are they allowed to do this? There is a lot of investigating going on at this place. One of these plugs is not like the other. Maybe it’s a pretender? They find what appears to be a weapon of some sort. I’m confused.

 

The fourth part has this weapon being brought into the lab. They mention what could be going on. Is this a real thing? I guess that it could be? I don’t know if I buy this exactly. They need to test how it works. Is this like Havana Syndrome? It is because of the electromagnets that are causing this to happen. They think that one person was the target. It looks like the obvious suspect from earlier could be guilty? But it might not be Professor Morrow as Maxine notices a guy on crutches. She thinks that this man is faking and is the killer.

 

The fifth part has more investigations into the lead. Meanwhile, Catherine’s lead into a man named Cosgrove doesn’t appear to go anywhere as he left for somewhere. Maybe he will be in the place of the next CSI spinoff? It seems that Luther, whoever that is, is brought in with the weapon and was faking being a patient so that he would seem like he one of them. He is the killer as he wanted his main victim stopped. Catherine winds up meeting Monica again at the strip club no less. There are leads in the case which will be talked about in future episodes, likely. The feds leave with the weapon, but not the part of it that makes it do anything.

 

On the next CSI: Vegas, there was a broken body, someone is sorry, and there was not a good surprise. Are there often good surprises in crime shows? It probably doesn’t happen much, if at all. If there are in this show or any like it, we’ll have to wait and see to find it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Season 2 Episode 4

Something that I’m wondering about this season is how many episodes will be in it? I won’t know for sure just how many episodes of this show there will be and thus how much I will be blogging about it. I guess that I will see for sure later. I just hope that I know for sure to be better prepared.

 

The last of the America Rock songs is called Presidential Minute. I might as well share it to finish out the collection of these songs even if I never started at the beginning, only seeking to finish out the rest of them.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWe__25nzAE

 

Continuing with the bosses of Ocarina of Time, we get to Morpha, the boss of the water temple. The video makes the boss seem very easy. I wouldn’t know as I have not made it that far.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64mKARo9Qw

 

In this old Madam Secretary blog post, I mention awaiting the Thanksgiving time period and making use of what I could of it. I talk about possible uncertainty or, I should say, inaccuracies, regarding 2016 polling, but will have to look that up if I care. I know that the 2020 polling wasn’t as inaccurate as people thought it was since only two states were wrong with senate races and much wasn’t wrong with the polling of the presidential race than either. And the gubernatorial races were 100% right.

 

I also talk about cheats for updating blogs. It started in my TV blog, moved to my Madam Secretary blog, then back to TV blog, then back to Madam Secretary blog, then the Good Fight blog, then Elementary blog, then TV blog, then Madam Secretary blog, and is now back in my Good Fight blog. I also talk about election countdowns. It is now 19 days until the 2022 midterms. I’ll have to update you soon about other of the countdowns as well.

 

https://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/episode-from-11-13-2016.html

 

Movie update: On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, I was busy with a vacation so I was not able to see movies then. On Tuesday, I wasn’t sure at first whether or not I should see a movie or watch shows on my laptop. It worked out better for me to see a movie so I watched Back to the Future part 2 and replaced it with Back to the Future part 3. On Wednesday, I watched the rest of Back to the Future part 2 instead of any movie from Wednesday’s list. On Thursday, I had to get caught up on laptop shows so I watched that instead of a movie.

 

The first part has what seems to be a person holding others at gunpoint or otherwise terrorizing them. Catherine leaves a message for someone and is called into a crime scene. It seems that nearly everyone has died outside of a baby that might have just been born? She confirms the bad news to law enforcement outside. This will be a long case for them to investigate.

 

The second part has Catherine giving orders to others before going into the house where the people lay dead with a woman named Penny being brought into this place with Catherine running through what happened. Penny seems to be really nervous. Or she could be guilty of something. I can’t tell for sure, but it is likely one or the other. There is a bloody hand print on the wall. At least it isn’t a bloody smiley face. But I think that Red John was taken out.

 

Penny throws up but finds more evidence at the crime scene outside. She also finds notes about what is going on relating to a robbery, but it could be personal or overkill. I only remember overkill from Final Fantasy X. My brother did that to both forms of Braska’s final aeon.

 

The third part Catherine talks to a person who I think is the mother of the dead mom. This woman dismisses Catherine and other things for now. Penny doesn’t want to work this job at all. Catherine says that this job will make a person feel uneasy all the time if one is to remain human. Allie notices that the killer left his fingerprints there at the crime scene as the blood is that of the pregnant woman.

 

It is possible that the killer is leaving messages for them. It could be a cry for help. It is possible that he wants to be caught. The killer might not have fired the weapon or was inexperienced with it in some way. The team talks to a man with a mustache who talks about having sold weapons, but wasn’t telling much about them. He is under house arrest or was at the time. He is also potentially liable of the crime.

 

Maxine gets a swab from the baby as she arrives, still in a cast, to deliver this evidence to Catherine and others. It is revealed that the pregnant woman is a surrogate. They think that a man and woman, one of them the biological mother, are responsible. They also learn of a new crime scene with the same MO. It seems that the family there might be the killers of the first group of people. Who killed them?

 

The fourth part has Catherine talking about her daughter Lindsay. Lindsay isn’t returning texts at all or doing anything like that. Maxine orders Catherine to take a break for a few hours. Penny finds another bloody handprint. Meanwhile, Lindsay and Catherine talk to each other. It turns out that Lindsay is a camgirl now. They do have some disagreements about how to live their lives. It turns out that Catherine was a stripper at one point. Did the original show focus on that at all? And how were they able to make contact if Lindsay blocked her mother? And why would a family member block another’s phone number anyways?

 

Penny seems to be going too hard into this case but after a crime scene montage, she is able to find important info relating to the case. There is a random man in a photo who connects to the mustached man from earlier. He says that he’s the father and that Juliet was important. Juliet was the pregnant woman. Lucia is the biological mother. There are two sisters of hers who are twins. They find Lucia holding a person hostage. Catherine takes control of this. She wants people to clear out of the place where they are at.

 

The fifth part has Catherine trying to negotiate Lucia who is holding her sister hostage and this sister might be injured. She had left baby koalas. It is Darcy that is being held hostage. I don’t understand a lot of this, other than that Lucia seems psychotic. Catherine yammers on about a lot of things. She just wanted someone to love.

 

There is a fight for the weapon as Catherine is able to subdue the suspect. Lucia is arrested. We hear the song Fields of Gold in the background. Is this closing montage making this show too much like Flashpoint or Cold Case? Maybe too many crime shows end this way. Penny was correct in thinking that this was a cry for help. Catherine gets emotional dealing with the baby that is still there. Who gets custody and whose baby is that? I’m confused and we might never know.

 

On the next CSI: Vegas, there are three deaths at the same place at the same time as they seek to find out what caused this and why. I guess that we will find out in the next episode what will happen. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Season 2 Episode 3

I’ve had two major issues with my laptop that shouldn’t be much of an issue, but are still enough of one to point out. One is that it sometimes suddenly freezes. I then have to reset it and it takes a while with me having to redo work I was in the middle of. The other is that the internet doesn’t always work as I randomly get disconnected at times for no good reason. It doesn’t always reconnect. I am wondering if both of these issues relate to me putting the laptop to sleep instead of constantly using it or turning it off and then back on.

 

There were more special subsets of the America rock part of Schoolhouse Rock that I have not yet gotten into yet. I might as well get to the one about the Electoral College called I’m Gonna Send Your Vote to College.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByiogRyb6Ds

 

Now getting to the next boss from Ocarina of Time, we get to Volvagia, the boss of the fire temple. I am amazed based on the animation how you aren’t damaged at one point in the lead up to the fight.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQHd3T66TM

 

Now I’m going to mention some characters from NCIS: New Orleans. This was the only time that I was rooting for two characters to have sex before this show. I wanted Chris and Meredith Brody to have sex. But they never wound up together. She was written off of the series with Sonja Percy getting a manufactured romance with Chris that also didn’t go much anywhere until she was written off the show. Chris was ultimately killed off at one point. My only consolation is that both of the women appeared in at least one sex scene with different men.

 

Movie update: I’ve decided that it is in my best interest for now to tell you about the movies that I watch in this blog now instead of my blog on Survivor. You will have to read the post on Borneo published right after the 43^rd season is done being written about to get caught up on some of the list. For now, I will tell you how the list is currently set up.

 

Here’s how the movie list currently stands right now. Tuesday’s list is Back to the Future part 2, Celtic Woman: Destiny, Fireproof, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and One Night with the King. Wednesday’s list is Bean: the Movie, Despicable Me 2, Ice Age, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Star Wars: The Emperor Strikes Back, and Worship Dance. Thursday’s list is Adventures in Babysitting, Beauty and the Beast, The Great Race, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, Popeye, and Toy Story 3. Saturday’s list is Avatar, The Best Years of Our Lives, Finding Nemo, Madagascar 3 with commentary, Pleasantville, and The Sound of Music. Sunday’s list is Baby Boom, A Few Good Men, Liar Liar, Runaway Bride, Vantage Point, and A Wrinkle in Time. Monday’s list is American Dreamz, crossover tape, Johnny English Reborn with commentary, Nature Documentaries, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood.

 

On Tuesday, I watched Celtic Woman: Destiny. I have this link up with my Madam Secretary blog from watching that concert onward in whatever blog has the movie updates in it. I wanted to put those updates in this blog. It is in my best interest to do that this time. Enjoy where I left off doing that in my Survivor blog.

 

https://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/episode-from-11-6-2016.html

 

I replaced that with The Emperor’s New Groove. On Wednesday, I was busy getting caught up on shows on my laptop so I didn’t see a movie from that list then. On Thursday, I watched Beauty and the Beast. I replaced that with Bambi.

 

The first part has people thinking that a woman is dead. We then get to a sex scene or pre sex scene with Josh and his fuckbuddy, I mean, girlfriend. They don’t hook up because he is called into a crime scene. Those always happen at the worst time, am I right? Maxine is the lady who’s feeling alright. Thanks to the power of Kid Dynamite! I mean, the lady investigating the crime scene. Most, if not all, of the team is there. There is blood on her chest. Maybe the baby was teething really early. They have to find the trail that the killer left.

 

The second part had more investigations of the dead woman, Mindy. Maybe she was too inquisitive. She kept asking why and had to be offed as a result. These people wouldn’t answer her questions like these people would:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR-qdjtyYyc

 

Mindy’s sister (I think) wasn’t told by Mindy that she was going to their mom’s house. There was something on the bullet that they found. They think that a monster truck might have hit her. Are they sure that it wasn’t Will Smith? He’s been known to hit. Serena is a new CSI which is making Allie a bit weird. Is she the person that’s having sex with Josh? I can’t tell, but I think so. Chris was talking to Allie about her.

 

Allie wants everyone to know and confess that she’s the queen of jigsaw puzzles. I heard that Saw can be a huge problem for people. But I haven’t yet seen any of those movies. While talking to suspect #1, they have to figure out how a broken headlight got into either Mindy or her car. He claims that it was an accident and that she was already dead. He plays a recording with her calling for help after she was shot. This man is (or was) her husband. It is a bigger search area than they thought.

 

The third part has the team doing weapon testing over what was done potentially at the crime scene. They talk to a group of teens. There is a disagreement over whether there were fireworks or gunshots. There is almost a fight over this. That wasn’t that long of a segment. Maxine was shot.

 

The fourth part has people taking her to the hospital before we finally get to Catherine in this episode. Josh thinks that it was his fault since he was preoccupied, I think. Catherine wants to make sure that he doesn’t blame himself for what isn’t his fault. Josh takes charge of the group. Chris and Allie find more information. Allie and Catherine talk to suspect #2 who didn’t seem to care at first that she was being questioned for murder.

 

Beau (who isn’t named Bo as I said before) needs water to help uncover part of the crime scene. They go to a construction site to tear it apart for potential evidence. Maybe they will find Jimma Hoffa. Or maybe no one ever will. I think that they find something, but I can’t tell yet what.

 

The fifth part has more stuff being investigated as usual. Maxine is recovering well and will be okay. Meanwhile, Josh is still upset at his perceived failure. He figures out more about what was going on. Mindy’s death was an accident. Allie finds a missing piece. It better not be from Autism Speaks. I hate them. Allie thinks that Cache, one of the teens who was bullied from the other kids, shot above these other kids which lead to the accidental death of Mindy. His foster mother, suspect #2, shot Maxine as she was cleaning up the crime scene.

 

Mindy’s husband didn’t like being considered a suspect. But he was still partly responsible for her death even as he isn’t guilty of anything outside of failure to report a crime. There is then a scene that I think relates to the recurring missing person case that we haven’t seen much of on this episode outside of this part now. Josh is still upset that he wasn’t there. He makes amends in the hospital.

 

On the next CSI: Vegas, there was not just a kill. There was an overkill. And that’s about all that I can get from the promo. I wonder why promos suck so much. There can be more gathered from them than we get. Oh, well. This is probably what we will always get. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Season 2 Episode 2

I mentioned last year that I was doing a Christmas boycott, as I call it, of the website of Amazon. I typically do this where I don’t do something from when they air the first Christmas commercial of the year until the end of the year. While it was harder to do Christmas shopping without using the Amazon website for the rest of the year, I did manage to do it. And then an Amazon facility was stuck by a tornado. It made me feel guilty and now I won’t do a boycott the next time should it be Amazon again.

 

This year, the boycott is of The World Cup. It aired the first Christmas commercial of the year this year, barely beating out Amazon. I don’t watch it anyways. This will be an easy one to give up. Of course, there are potential problematic Christmas boycott possibilities. One would be Google which I rely on to blog and email. I would scale back my use of it and not do some blogs, but would still use it. Another one would be YouTube. I normally use it to post Christmas videos on facebook during December, but wouldn’t do that if that were to happen and am unsure if I could give it all up for that long. This is a site that I have boycotted once before. The other problem would be Wal-Mart as I still use it some, even as I want to give it up.

 

Continuing on to more of America Rock, the next video to share of it would be called Three Ring Government, which explains the way American government works. It is not the last of the America rock video as two of them came much later.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPd98CbbMk

 

Continuing on to more of the Ocarina of Time bosses, I was kind of annoyed that after kid Link does what are affectively a grass, fire, and water dungeon, that the next three dungeons that adult Link does are affectively also a grass, fire, and water dungeon. It is in the Forest Temple that one faces Phantom Ganon.

 

This type of fighting where you do the ball of light hit back and forth between him and the boss is done a lot more throughout the whole series of Legend of Zelda including later in the game and both as part of the final boss in Twilight Princess and in The Wind Waker. It is just a bit dumb that the boss would take a break from bouncing it back and forth to you in order to get hit, but that has to happen in order for you to win the fight.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpD0xXqRg8

 

Still thinking more about the show, you still might be wondering if I’m wanting Allie and Josh to have sex at some point in time. The answer is still yes. I will get to the only other characters that I have ever wanted to have sex before in the next post of this blog, I hope, when I get to covering it in the next episode that I cover.

 

The first part has people finding a body in a mannequin at a haunted house. The team is sent to investigate the death of “Fred” and a man named Jean is at the crime scene acting very strange. Catherine is not allowed at the casino she used to be a part of. She is escorted out, but the woman doing this wants to help her.

 

The second part has Jean talking to the police there. He cannot go outside during the day as he has a condition that prevents this. He gets angry talking about this as he doesn’t like being labeled a suspect. Catherine looks more into her case. There are two new people in the ME office, a brother and sister team. The brother is the assistant. I guess that he’s learned by now what he has to be at this point in life. The team looks for missing people around this time and find the likely victim.

 

The third part has people talking to the widow of the victim, Tim. There were issues between Tim and the owners of the haunted house. There is paint related to the case. It seems that Bo had a massive screw up that Allie has to help him overcome. She was too hard on him at some point in time. Meanwhile, Josh isn’t hard on her, if you know what I mean. There were 57 coats of paint put on Tim’s body. That might be why he was very realistic as a mannequin. But how did his real body show through?

 

The team goes back to the haunted house which is somehow still in operation. They find a lot of paint behind a wall and find where Tim was both painted and first killed. I guess that the plot just thickened.

 

The fourth part has more evidence found in the case at hand. An eyelash was found that lead to Jean being arrested. He snuck into the employee only section of the haunted house at times. Meanwhile, Catherine is looking for evidence. There are a lot of blue flags and also some red flags as well. She thinks that the body was moved that they are looking for. They are convinced that this woman is dead.

 

Allie can’t find a murder weapon. When given the hint of pieces, she looks further and finds what seems to be what they are looking for. She tagged the fingerprints under a florescent light, it seems. There is nothing that they can link to Jean. Allie is worried that he will get out while Maxine was worried back when he was arrested just how this could potentially piss him off.

 

The fifth part still has Allie obsessing over the doll of possibly her that lead to Jean getting arrested. Back at a crime scene, they find shoes that prove that Bo did not screw up at all, at least fully. What would you call that style of music that happens with the crime scene montages anyways? It turns out that someone that I did not fully understand how they played a role in this episode earlier is responsible.

 

This man was having sex with Tim’s fiancée. Tim went to the haunted house which leads to the confrontation that killed him. His fiancée is also arrested for being an accessory after the fact. Catherine is called by Jodi, the woman from earlier who wants to help Catherine. Grace is likely dead. Jodi knows a lot, but won’t reveal much. There is then a confrontation between Jean, who lost his job and will lose his residence. It seems more cordial than it probably should be. But there is still a lot of animosity between Jean and Allie as he parts with this doll and creepy music plays.

 

On the next CSI: Vegas, someone was found dead in their car. Killers always leave a trail. And I can’t tell yet what all else might happen for sure. What I do know is that I need way more sleep than I’m getting and this is even with a nap today. I hope to be back soon with more of the show. Just know that the next blog post will be on a Sunday after the episode airs as I won’t be able to post about it the day of the episode as next week Thursday will be yielded to another blog for hopefully the only time this season, depending on how long the season lasts this year. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.