America's Got Talent Finale

I didn't follow this show religiously. Yet, I had my favorite and the winner wasn't him. Eli Mattson impressed me with his voice and piano playing. Unfortunately, the opera singer named Neal E. Boyd won the million and the gig in Las Vegas. That isn't to say that he doesn't have talent. He has an amazing voice. I am just truly amazed that America voted for an opera singer to win a talent show.

Current Perspective of the Prime Time TV Season

I am not a huge watcher of TV, but this year I have caught a few of shows hoping to recapture their viewers after the big strike last year.

Heroes

Season two lost a lot of the momentum that was gained with the inaugural run. Some of those problems have been corrected. Other haven't been. I, personally, think that the worst thing the show ever did was introduce characters that could travel through time at will. It just made the plot so convoluted that it is hard to follow at times. Also one of the shows most popular characters, Hiro, has moved from being a pinnacle of the plot to being almost annoying. Apparently one of the best shows of a couple years ago didn't even crack the top twenty this year. I don't want it to seem like I am totally down on this show. I watched the first two shows of the season and still enjoy it. The only problem is that they apparently alienated their core audience and are going to have to work hard to get them back.

Fringe

This show keep getting more and more interesting as time goes by. As a long time X-files fan, this show is right up my alley. I watched the pilot and was somewhat worried about the direction that the show was taking but it has sense been providing me with great entertainment. The only problem is that I wonder if the audience can suspend disbelief long enough to get hooked. Also, JJ Abrams better not pull his usual stunts by never given the audience any answers or I will write him off completely. Alias was not funny.

House

You know, this show has grown on me over the last couple seasons. I am a late bloomer, meaning that I never watched the first couple seasons. This year is shaping up to be quite interesting with the character progression that is happening. Some people don't enjoy the show because they say that Dr. House could not exist in the real world. There is just one main problem with that mindset. The whole point of TV is that we are supposed to watch happenings that are directly related to the real world because, frankly, the real world is boring.

The Mentalist

Here is a show that surprised me. I missed the pilot live, but caught it online after "Fringe" was over. My main question is, why do my favorite shows have to compete with each other in the same time slot?!  Now, I am not sure about the staying power of this show but it intrigued me enough to watch it next week. Apparently I wasn't the only one watching because it cracked the top ten in ratings.

There are other shows that I am looking forward to this season. They include: CSI: Las Vegas and Californication.

I am actually pretty upset that they cancelled Shark because that was a good show with great acting and dialogue. 

Senate Passes a Bailout for Wall Street

Well, in case you haven't heard, the senate has passed the much touted bail out plan. Unfortunately, I think that they got a little preemptive in there assessment of the supposed crisis. There is no doubt that there is a crisis right now. Credit has been frozen for a little while now and thousands of people have been feeling the effects of the overzealous companies. The unfortunate part is that the SEC recently took action (thanks shotsacrossthebow). The SEC action just might make any bailout plan redundant. Now some may tout me as being a liberal monkey completely unconnected with the whole crisis. Well, they are wrong. I felt the effects of this situation faster than most people outside of the large companies that recently filed for chapter 11. Currently, I am a student at the University of Tennessee and have been waiting over two months for my student loans to get dispersed. Even before anyone was talking about the possibility of this mess affecting the average college student, I was feeling it. The good news is that with the SEC changes, even before the bailout plan passed, my loans were getting squared away so I wouldn't end up homeless. Unfortunately every American is going to have to shell out over two grand for a possible temporary fix.

Related links:

Fed injects 630 billion into the financial system

Some schools have been having problems with Edamerica liquidity (I want to point out that UTK has just been cleared for disbursement for some students soon)