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Reaper Episode 3

In Reaper episode 2, Sam accepted his fate as the devil’s bounty hunter (then again, that’s what I thought in episode 1 as well), and as a reward, the Devil set it up so that he would be working with Andi in the garden center.

Sam’s day starts off with his toothbrush having a large bug on it. It doesn’t get any better from there, as any time he tries to put anything in his mouth, it’s covered in bugs. As Bert is feeding Sam his apple, which needless to say looks odd to those around them, Andi comes up and invites him to a lecture at her college and then out for coffee after. He rejects this because he’s stupid or something.

Ted offers Sam a promotion to assistant manager of the plumbing department, with a message that he’s going to spend the rest of his life working at The Work Bench. Sam tells the Devil he just wants something that doesn’t suck. The Devil tells him he’ll need to come up with a better plan than that, but in the meantime, he shows him some pictures of dead people, who all got killed by bugs. Sam and his sidekicks follow a van with a giant bug and think they’ve located the escaped soul, but a bunch of bugs fly in and kill him, so that lead’s out the window. It does, however, lead them to an apartment complex where the soul lives.

Andi met a guy at school who’s trying to convince her to quit her job and go to school full time. They’ll have to deal with that later, but for now they have to worry about the federal offense of stealing and opening other people’s mail, as Sock grabbed the mail from the apartment complex and is investigating it to see if there’s anything out of the ordinary.

Bert and Sam sneak into Josie’s office looking for Harold Bunsen, who was the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, then disappeared in 1972. This week’s vessel is a toaster. As usual, their first attempt at using it is a failure, and this time, in the process of escaping, they leave a clue behind telling Harold where they’ll be.

Ted calls Sam and Andi to his office. Sam rejects the job offer, so Ted gives it to Andi. She says no and blurts out her plans to quit. While they’re out celebrating, or pretending to celebrate, the Devil shows up and says Sam’s embarassing him because he’s not getting the soul or the girl.

Harold shows up at The Work Bench and blames Gloria, a jealous woman going after anyone she thinks is coming between them, for the murders. Armed with a fog machine, a toaster, and some long extension cords, they head back to Bunsen’s apartment. Gloria outsmarts them, and while Sam and Ben check the apartment, she corners Sock and convinces him to spill the beans about the plan, which is prety easy because it’s Sock. Ben and Sam come in to find Sock in trouble, but Harold walks in, so she lets him go. Harold tells her he never loved her and just stayed with her out of fear. The boys then realize the toaster is a bug zapper and was working in its original state, but they just didn’t realize it. After unfixing the toaster, they’re able to capture Gloria and zap her back to Hell.

As we can probably come to expect, there’s a hidden meaning in this. Because Harold didn’t say how he truly felt, a bunch of people died, and he lived a miserable life. Sam’s able to relate to this. He runs to Andi’s school to tell her he’s upset that she quit, but when he gets there, he finds out all the classes were cancelled because of a tip the school received about the building being filled with asbestos. Once again, the Devil comes through for Sam.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 4 Magic, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.

Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 4

In episode 3, Will decided to be an idiot and win a challenge he didn’t need to win, which pretty much meant he was screwing himself over no matter who he picked. His partner got to keep her boytoy, and while Hollie and Josh were eliminated, Erin and Jesse still want revenge.

We start off with Rebecca picking up right where she left off, getting into bed with her “distraction.” Not shy about this fact, they wake up Nicole, who gets up and leaves and starts crying. She worries about what people will think about her, but I don’t think anyone has a problem with her. She comes to the conclusion that Rebecca is the problem, making another person who wants to get rid of Will/Rebecca.

The challenges for the week were picked by the public on The CW website based on their favorite of three choices. For the beauties: rocket science, computer science, and social science. For the geeks: massage by geek, fashion by geek, and body by geek. They don’t tell them which challenges are chosen, so they have to study for all of them.

Shay tries to teach Joshua how to squeeze his butt cheeks together, which goes over as well as can be expected. He’s the Richard of the show, minus the ADD. Will and Rebecca hope for the massage challenge since she’s in school for massage. Luke reveals he doesn’t have any use for that team either.

America has indeed chosen massage. Big surprise. Chicks with fake boobs in bikinis. Shay’s full of confidence, saying her partner’s probably going to suck at this. Each geek must massage each beauty (Sam included) for three minutes and will be judged on how they do. Dave uses the typewriter technique. Because his mother likes to be massaged that way. William’s a scratcher. Somebody goes a little too high when massaging their legs. Three people tied for second place, one point away from the winner. Will, John, and Joshua came in second. The winner of the geek challenge is Jesse, which was way too obvious because they made such a big deal about how they were afraid of Will winning.

Rebecca breaks down crying already, even though she hasn’t even competed in her challenge yet. After the challenge, Will goes to Erin to try to plead his case. She takes offense because he kept putting it off until after Jesse won the challenge. Not letting himself get down, Will believes Rebecca’s serious about the challenge, as we go to a scene of her wasting her time with Sam. Sam said earlier he felt bad about Nicole being upset, but he’s still ignoring her and not bother to study with her.

For the beauties, America has chosen rocket science. Each beauty must assemble and launch a rocket. Like the last challenge that increased Rebecca’s odds of staying in the house, this challenge increases Sam’s, as he’s the clear favorite here. This is an example of where the male beauty is unfair. Sam wins the challenge, coming in ahead of Rebecca, meaning if she goes home, it’s ultimately his fault. But better her than him I suppose. If nothing else, it does at least give him the opportunity to choose Rebecca’s opponents. Nicole gives him advice of who to pick, telling him to send someone she thinks can beat them (but telling Sam she thinks they can’t).

Jesse picks Will and Rebecca. Rebecca says it’s about revenge, but Erin denies it. Sam chooses William and Jen, as Nicole suggested. They must again study all three subjects. Rebecca starts crying in her confessional (again), saying she needs this change. Apparently making out with Sam counts as change. People volunteer to help Jen because she actually tried to do something to get to know them. Rebecca’s crying (it’s like watching Amber in BB8) that nobody wants to help her. Jasmine tells Will to get people to help, but Rebecca refuses to let him.

Jen gets her first question right, but Rebecca misses hers. Jen gets her second question wrong, as does Rebecca, giving Jen a 1-0 lead. William gets his first question right, but Will misses his. Rebecca and Will have been eliminated. He played too hard, and she was more interested in a guy. A fitting boot, one everybody but Sam will be happy with. Rebecca feels they were setup, which they were (just not by Sam), but considering they didn’t get a single question right, it really doesn’t matter who they went up against.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 5, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Heroes Blog Launches

I’ve been thinking about adding additional Heroes content to dingoRUE, as it is one of the most popular shows on this site. I didn’t want to overwhelm the site with Heroes coverage, however. So to that end, I’ve decided to launch a Heroes blog. dingoRUE will continue to feature its current Heroes coverage (recaps, previews, and the occasional news story), but regular Heroes updates will be on heroes.dingorue.com. Hope to see you there. If this goes well, I will consider adding additional blogs for other shows.

NBC, CBS, CW Order More Scripts

As we near a possible writers strike, the networks are scrambling to get more scripts from their new shows, Variety reports.

NBC has ordered three more scripts for Chuck, Bionic Woman, Life, and Journeyman. CBS has ordered four more scripts of Cane. The CW has ordered three more scripts of Aliens in America.

Most of these shows will probably be picked up for a second season, and these orders are a sign of this. Bionic Woman aside, NBC’s probably not thrilled with the performance of any of these but doesn’t have much choice. The CW, meanwhile, dumped all its top performers but a couple, so they’ll take what they can get at this point. The only show that looks like it may be in danger is Cane.

Regis Philbin Hosting Million Dollar Password

Well, it was only a matter of time before this happened. CBS will be updating the game show Password and has brought Regis Philbin to host it. The network has ordered 6 episodes of the series. Those of you paying attention a few years back saw ABC run Regis ragged in “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” by airing it almost every damn night.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 4 Preview

Here are 3 minutes of preview video clips of Heroes Season 2 episode 4 The Kindness of Strangers. Contains spoilers. Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another preview of episode 4 later in the week, along with a live blog from the east coast the night the show airs.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 4 Preview, Part 2

Scenes include Claire’s parents discussing whether she’s met a boy, Angela Petrelli trying to get a cleaned up Nathan on the right path, and Micah with his new family.

Survivor: China Episode 4

In Survivor: China episode 3, Jean-Robert made some enemies, but Leslie talked herself right out of the game.

Jean-Robert is discussing his “strategy” of doing nothing then trying to pretend he’s doing something so all of a sudden people are impressed with him. Courtney’s not buying it.

Yet another person gets upset with Dave, this time it’s Sherea. Even though I’m not a fan of Dave, she’s being unnecessarily aggressive (downright bitchy) for no reason here.

Reward is for a fisherman and his family to go to camp, cook a meal, and teach the tribe how to fish. Courtney sits out for Fei Long. Tribes must move a flaming ball in pairs of two using sticks like chopsticks. Fei Long wins 3-2. They decide to kidnap Dave. Hopefully he learned a lesson from Leslie.

Dave says he feels like he’s on vacation. He sees it as an opportunity to get on their good side because some people in his own tribe are causing him trouble. Todd thinks Dave’s a nutcase but is pretending to be nice. Dave foolishly thinks he can trust Todd, as does everybody else. He gives the hidden immunity idol clue to Todd.

Now Dave’s tribe is finding out what it’s like to actually work. Well, some members of his tribe are finding that out. Sherea, who hasn’t done anything all along, just stays in bed watching everybody else work. She’s trying to conserve energy for the challenges. Apparently it takes a lot of energy to suck at challenges or something.

The fisherman’s family comes with regurgitating fishing birds. Jean-Robert spent some time in Thailand a long time ago and is able to speak some Mandarin with the family, proving to be a valuable asset in translating. After they catch some fish, they teach the tribe how to use the nets.

At the immunity challenge, tribes are dressed in traditional Chinese armor. They will throw meteor hammers at their opponent’s vases and defend their vases with bamboo poles. Jean-Robert sits out for Fei Long. First round is Denise/Peih Gee against Courtney/Sherea. Peih Gee blocks one of Courtney’s shots, but Sherea still scores one. Todd and James dominate the next round to take a 3-1 lead. Amanda/Aaron go against Jaime/Eric in the third round. Jaime hits two at once to tie the game at 3, but Amanda retakes the lead 4-3. Fei Long wins immunity.

The boot choice is between Dave and Sherea, again the person who’s arguing with Dave. As far as I’m concerned, she needs to go. Her contribution in challenges isn’t worth a great deal, and that’s really all she’s willing to offer.

Votes:
Dave
Sherea
Dave
Dave
Dave

Dave has been voted off the island. Stupid tribe. No wonder they can’t win anything. If Sherea offered some value to the game, I’d be all for the vote, but she’s completely useless, making this pitiful.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Survivor: China Episode 5 Love Is in the Air, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

Bionic Woman Episode 3

On Bionic Woman episode 2, Jaime decided she’s okay with joining the agency, where she learns that doing so will allow her to help save countless lives.

Jaime learns that, with practice, she can hack into herself and change the information. She then learns she’s got a GPS in her so they can track exactly where she is, which upsets her because she feels it’s an invasion of privacy. Jonas calls her and tells her to stop a guy from leaving. He’s not real into the whole being cooperative thing, so she needs to use force.

Sarah Corvis goes to see Jay’s father Anthony, who tells her he can help her if she brings him Jaime.

Jonas assigns Jaime to babysit a “spirited” teenage girl to avoid a war with Canada.

Becca and Jaime are talking about family and how Becca’s a packrat saving everything from their past. Becca tells her she saves everything because she doesn’t like secrets.

Following some odd hard to follow flashing sequences that may or may not be flashbacks/dreams/insanity, Sarah shows up and wakes up Jaime, telling her to meet her alone without backup. She tells Jaime she needs her, too. Jaime goes to Jonas and agrees to help bring her in but wants him to promise if they bring her in, they’ll help her.

When she shows up to meet Sarah, Sarah tells her she’s sick and needs her help to get well. She tells the story of how Will revived her from the dead. Sarah wants Jaime to save her life by correcting her from losing her way again with the more advanced technology in the newer design. The brilliant tactical thinker she is, Sarah decides to tell Jaime that Will was just using her, so she doesn’t get anywhere. Not yet anyway. Before they can really get to the bottom of things, though, backup shows up, and Sarah has to run away.

The fact that backup showed up convinces Jaime to want to help Sarah some, which the argument she heard didn’t appear like it would accomplish in itself. There’s concern that she was going to say something that Jonas didn’t want to be revealed.

Four guys show up and get into a fight with Jaime because they’re after the girl she’s watching. Sarah just sits back and enjoys the show, waiting for an admission she’s needed. Once she hears the word, they kick ass together, which is followed by Sarah again saying she needs Jaime’s bionics so she doesn’t die.

As a show of good faith, Sarah teaches Jaime how to visualize the tracker and disable it with her thoughts, allowing her to no longer have someone watching her every move. Jaime wants Sarah to go back with her, but she’s not having any of that since she doesn’t trust them anyway, plus with Will’s death, there aren’t any surgeons there.

And now we finally figure out what the heck was going on earlier in the episode (or at least I finally figured it out). Could have done without the creepy visual effects. Anthony talks about how she killed her sister and how Jaime will never trust her until she can relate to her. The previous scene replays, where Sarah was sideswiped by a truck, with her sister in the passenger seat.

When she gets home, Sarah’s chatting with Becca, pretending to be their new neighbor. Sarah threatens to kill Becca but proves Jaime right when she says there is some humanity left in her. Then Jaime turns her tracker back on and threatens to kill Sarah the next time she sees her near her family. She is, again, warned that she can’t trust the people she’s working with, and that Will didn’t love her but just studied her.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Bionic Woman episode 4 Face Off, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

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