Season 2 Episode 11

You know what I realize? That since Marg Helgenberger, who plays Catherine, is busy with other projects as she does this show, that probably explains why we are seeing less of her this season than we could otherwise see. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I enjoy the newbies of this show being given their better chance to shine. On the other, I don’t like her being underused throughout the season especially since this might be her only return to the franchise because I’m guessing the next season will have another returning cast member from the original season.

 

Continuing on with more of Science Rock, there’s a song that they did about the skeletal system called Them Not-So-Dry Bones. It seems to be inspired by and even use some of the lyrics of Dem Dry Bones. I like Dem Dry Bones better and wonder if this song is supposed to cut off or only seems like it does. It could be an uploading error or to avoid going beyond fair use. (I’m almost certain that me accidentally going beyond fair use is why there is a warning over one of my posts in my Madam Secretary blog, but am currently unsure as I wasn’t told why that was.) I’ll get to Dem Dry Bones in the next blog post.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4Im3jBWUc

 

The first boss of The Wind Waker is Gohma. This version is obviously different from the one that we saw in the Deku tree at the beginning of Ocarina of Time. I’m not sure why they have the same name when they look different enough to me.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0apQlANJUcQ

 

The original singer of True Colors is Cyndi Lauper. I’m going to include her version of that song now. I will feature more of this song in the next two posts as there is even more that I can milk out of it thanks to a cover of it that appeared in a movie that I’ve seen and like.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8

 

Continuing on with the next part of Songs from the Heart, the next song that was in the concert wasn’t on the DVD and I’m not entirely sure if this is where it belongs in the place at the concert. But this is my best guess as to where Carolina Rua goes as I’m pretty sure that a different version of this had Chloe on stage at the end. When I watch the concert, I even pause it after the previous song to watch this one and then go back to the rest of the concert. This isn’t the only part of the concert when this happens, a song being randomly cut but somehow the official concert version of the song is available online.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOMf-8lGLnw

 

Now having mentioned some about nomenclature during the previous post, I now feel like sharing one of the greatest Weird Al songs, one called Word Crimes. It does explain things like the phrase I could care less, which means you do care, at least a little. Most people who say that actually mean that they couldn’t care less.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

 

Football team ranking update: There are 32 NFL teams and I have a ranking for a lot of them. The bottom ones are 32- Patriots, 31- Bears, 30- Cardinals, and 29- Falcons. As for the highest teams on down, they are 1- Rams, 2- 49ers, 3- Chiefs, 4- Colts, 5- Raiders, 6- Steelers, 7- Titans, 8- Broncos, 9- Chargers, 10- Jaguars, 11- Buccaneers, 12- Texans, 13- Dolphins, 14- Eagles, 15- Panthers, 16- Browns, 17- Bengals, 18- Vikings, 19- Lions, and 20- Packers. I will get to the next three in the next post.

 

In this old link from my Madam Secretary blog, I do a bit of comparing deaths that Republicans make a big deal about. I can talk a bit about that more. I also talk some about which team did better in the Rams versus Chargers seasons over the years from 2017 to 2022. Basically, the Rams got a great new coach starting in their 2017 season and they always had a better record than the Chargers from then until 2021. Then the Chargers got a new coach while the Rams had a terrible season with the Rams doing way worse and the Chargers going into postseason in the 2022 season.

 

I talked a bit about speedruns and want to post a speedrun race at some point in time. I might do that some, but I still have yet to find one between just two players that work well or one between three players either. I’ve found good ones between four players. I also talk about an injury affecting Tim Daley who plays Henry and it was sort of written onto the show with scenes being affected as a result.

 

I talked some about the size of the Supreme Court. It started with just six justices (one of them the chief justice), then it went to seven at one point, was expanded to nine, and went all the way to ten. It has nine outside of for a long time in 2016 when it only had eight. I will do research as to who won Nobel Peace Prizes and if any went to a secretary of state from the US. I do a quote about soccer versus rugby from Invictus. I also talk about something Jimmy Kimmel related, but have largely switched instead to Jimmy Fallon and now want to share a video relating to football from the Tonight Show since I mentioned a part with Jimmy Kimmel and football.

 

https://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/episode-from-1-29-2017.html

 

WARNING! Political section

 

There is a lot that I want to do mentioning political countdowns. I realize that I could mention some dates and people that have certain set end of dates of their time in office, but I won’t single any of them out. This is partly because I don’t want to say them in this blog, but largely because I don’t want to delay future acrostic poems for a long amount of time.

 

Speaking of poems, I will be more likely to first cover states that have gubernatorial elections in 2023 and then in 2024 if I can as long as there is still more to blog about the season. That is why I singled out Louisiana first. I will be counting down to that state’s primary sometime only if one of the following happens: 1- I have all of the countdowns updated to this year, 2- I see the one for Wisconsin’s primary show up in memories on facebook, or 3- I see a political commercial for any Kentucky election that will happen this year. Note that any new countdown that I start on facebook will be put in the cast updates of my Good Wife blog.

 

There are three different types of election countdowns. One is to primaries that different states have. I want to countdown to the one Indiana will have in 2024, but a date for that has not yet been set. I’ll have to wait a while. Another is general elections. And the last is countdowns until someone is out of office. I will only share that last one here if it is to January 3^rd of an odd numbered year which is the set last date of members of Congress and Senate.

 

I have combined primaries and general elections in addition to primaries and countdowns to the end. I will now combine countdowns to the end with one to the general election. I have yet to combine all three into one grouping and can only group four together at most with as many as I want going on all at once.

 

I have six countdowns going on at once, with three already combined that I’ll get to the days away now. I don’t want to combine all of the general elections into one. Thus, 2025’s elections will not be combined with the ones in 2023, 2024, and 2026. I am also wanting one to the end of Mike Parson’s term to stand on its own for now as well. I at least only want it combined with things that come before it. Thus, it will be the countdown to Jeff Landry’s last day in office that I will countdown to even though he may yet win a different office. Anyways, it is 299 days until the 2023 elections, 631 days until the 2024 elections, and 1,390 days until the 2026 elections.

 

END POLITICAL SECTION

 

Movie update: On Friday, I finally finished watching Despicable Me 2. I would have finished it sooner, but I chose to watch it in French with English subtitles instead of just in regular English. On Saturday, I watched The Princess Bride. I replaced that with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. On Sunday, I had other plans for lunch so I didn’t watch a movie then. On Wednesday, I watched part of crossover tape 2. I do not always know how I will watch that tape or how long it will tape year after year. I do know that this time, I watched just the first part of Invasion covering Supergirl. I will watch more later. On Tuesday, I watched Toy Story 3. That will obviously be replaced by Toy Story 4. Here is a video called Everything Great about Toy Story 3:

 

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

 

The first part has a possibly relevant recap. I like recaps. They are always nice to have. I wrote about them in my TV blog. Anyways, a woman is thinking that a Reggie might be there only Reggie is dead yet still stealing food. Beau and another person find a non verbal boy in this place. The team tries to get evidence from him. Beau seems to connect with him well. He has an interesting ear. The person who seems to be ordering the murders of the season (I’m guessing the as of yet unnamed big bad) might have sent them a thank you note.

 

It seems that a woman named Sam who is missing and might have been dismissed as a mere runaway is looked for again. They find a dead woman named Kara who might have been dumped for a while since she is at least one week dead. They also think that a person named Michael was buried alive. Another thing that they wonder is if other missing women have been killed and buried around there as well.

 

The second part has more of the investigation at hand. Kara was possibly also buried alive, being held as a prisoner who was raped a lot. They think that she gave birth, likely to a child from rape. There could be others. It is possible that the kid was reunited or first got to meet his grandparents. Bees and honey could be one of the keys to this case. A lot happened that I miss and find hard to summarize.

 

The third part has a person being interrogated, but he claims that he was gay with Kara as his beard so that he could keep her secrets as well. The kid rejects his sandwich, perhaps as a joke, only to be freaked out when offered water. I can’t make sense of all of what’s going on in the show. Catherine helps with the case as the honey angle is talked about which I also don’t quite understand right now. But at least I know it was an episode this season. They could find other bodies.

 

Kara was pregnant before she disappeared as they find Jake, the father of the boy who I think if named Michael? And there might not be a Sam like I said there was. In the meantime, Penny is still convinced that there are bodies buried in the riverbed that is dried up. They find a dead baby of Kara.

 

The fourth part has it rules that drowning was what happened to Kara that lead to the death of her and maybe her daughter. They have to talk to Michael as he is the only one who might know. Water scares him. While at the house, Beau goes downstairs and finds a lot of mold there which is weird to him as it would be. He finds a place that seems to be a secret basement or passage or something.

 

The fifth part has an apartment being revealed in the basement with only one way in or out. Pete is evil. Michael was protected from him. They think that Kara might be unrelated to the other missing high school girls. I think that different characters keep changing the pronunciation of Kara’s name which is why I was confused a bit. They realize that the room was filled with water due to a burst pipe that killed her and almost killed Michael as well in addition to her daughter. Jake was the captor.

 

Beau is convinced that Mary had to know something about this case and can’t get custody on Michael. She wouldn’t let her husband go on the trips that she did. But she is guilty this time and arrested as well with Michael talking again. And this person named Sam is found and taking custody of Michael. I wish that I understood more of that part of the story, who this Sam person is. Maybe it will be touched upon more later? I guess we’ll see for sure or not. Beau wants to work in the lab only and not in the field at all. There are no scenes from next time so I guess that I’ll be back whenever with the next episode that probably isn’t next week. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.