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Spoilers for Miracles, The Patient

Honestly. I feel like such a slut, but I'm totally in love with Skeet Ulrich on Miracles. He just gets twitchier and sweeter and cuter every week. When he asked Raina if he could kiss her at the end, I was all giggly and overcome by his innocence and sweetness. And those huge, haunted eyes! Sigh.

The episode was somewhere in the middle between that incredible pilot and the second episode -- it had a lot of strong stuff, and a very definite X-Files feeling, maybe even moreso than the other two. I'm a complete sucker for those guardian angel/hitchhiker ghost stories, so the ending made me extremely happy. I'd had a feeling she would turn out to be a spirit of some kind; I'm glad that she turned out to be a benign one and that the evil possession was in the patient. For a moment they had me on the line with Raina, wondering if she would turn out to be causing the mischief, so I'm glad that it turned out to be some evil entity ("merry prankster!" -- Angus cracks me up)taking up residence in the patient.

Again visually they're doing wonderful things with cues and color. Each episode seems to get darker and grainier, and I wonder if that's intentional to signal Paul's getting deeper into the "darkness" that everyone referred to last night. But the episode gave more fullness to his character -- they're allowing him to show humor now, and Keen and Evelyn too, and there's more of a sense that they're really working with each other and are more human characters, rather than stock figures spouting lines about the coming apocalypse.

I know this show is doomed, but I'm just nuts for it.

Spoilers for Veritas

The cheese factor keeps getting upped a notch here. This was so funny -- gods hanging around, keeping track of glass skulls (and that the gods take the form of one of my favorite bad actors, the guy who played Gallo on Witchblade, among other shows), and all the attendant nonsense. But it played so well! You can tell everyone is caught up in the goofy mayhem. I can't stand the actress they were trying to pass off as a Lara Croft type in this ep, and pray they don't bring her back if the show survives, but it probably won't last that long for me to worry. She was just so annoying; there was nothing charming or cool about her.

I loved that when they held up the crystal skulls, sometimes you could see the mold seams from where they poured the resin. That was too, too funny. And it's a hoot to see all the La Femme Nikita locations show up again, after Witchblade, but it's even funner that some of the shots on these locations are almost block for block how they were used in LFN. Good old Toronto.

And anyway, I just want the show to concentrate on the damn slashiness between Solomon and Vincent! Alex Cross and Arnold Vosloo are great together, and they have a total Dr. Quest and Race Bannon committed-life partners-in-adventure vibe going. So screw the damn Johnny Quest replacement (does that mean his tutor is Hadji? And where's Bandit to round out the troupe?) by 86'ing the kid and let Dr. Q and Race have some fund with mustache-twirling, badly accented bad guys, I say.