So here’s three weeks’ worth of reviews. What can I say old episodes of The X-Files are so far a lot less anger inducing than my present shows.

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x17 (in which I was stupidly optimistic) )

( Arrow 6x17 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x16 )

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x...I don’t care )

( Arrow 6x18 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x17 )

( Arrow 6x19 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x18 )

( Jane the Virgin 4x17 (s4 general) )

Also, baseball season has started so any shows that have been put on the back burner are likely to stay there.

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x15 )

( The X-Files 11x05-10 )

I do feel the need to write some post season (possibly/probably end of series again) TXF thoughts, how I felt about the revival in general and this season in specific, and to clean up some thoughts I had along the way.

( I just have feelings on the matter )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x14 )

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x16 )

( Arrow 6x16 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x15 )

So maybe before starting on this week’s shows, I should post the last several weeks’ worth of reactions. It was a slow couple weeks during the Olympics.

( Arrow 6x13 )

( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x12 )

( Supergirl 3x11-12 )

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x10 )

( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x13 )

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x11 )

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x12 )

( Arrow 6x14 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x11 )

At some point I’ll start watching all my shows again (at some other point I’ll finish catching up on shows I’ve been accumulating) but when I’m only watching a few I admit I tend to let posting the reviews slip. So here’s some catching up.

( The Good Place 2x08 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x06 )

( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x08 )

( The Good Place 2x09 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x07 )

( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x09 )

( The Good Place 2x10 )

( Agents of SHIELD 5x08 )

( Arrow 6x10 )

I’m going to do the DC-CW big crossover event as its own review post, including some pre and probably (definitely) post overall thoughts.

( So...that happened )

I really thought I would get more catching up done in the last couple weeks, but I did get one thing caught up on...granted it was Inhumans and I regret bothering, but I did get caught up.

( Supergirl 3x05 )

( Legends of Tomorrow 3x05 )

( Inhumans 1x05 )

( Arrow 6x05 )

( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x05 )

( Inhumans 1x06-8 )

I was already giving myself emotional whiplash since I was jumping back and forth between parts of my NaNo story where one part was super sugary cuteness and the other was trauma and depression. Then I went and watched this week's Legends and I'm just...arg. It's a lot of feelings.

Also, as a writing update, after a slow start I finally got my wordcount up to par, let's see how long I can keep it there.

I did forget to do the previous round of baseball thoughts, but I can do a few now

-NLCS retrospective
I realized about game 3 that I was actually rooting for the Dodgers. Emotionally I never strongly favored them, I would have been perfectly happy with the Cubs winning, but I did sort of want the Dodgers to win. And practically it quickly became obvious that they should win. They were the better team, as they have been so many times this season.

-ALCS retrospective
For a while there I wasn’t sure how this series was going to end; Houston started off so well, then the Yankees got hot, I figured Verlander could push it to a game 7 but then game 7’s are so unpredictable that I didn’t have any solid idea going in how it would go. I was always rooting for Houston, but I didn’t dislike the Yankees as much as I used to, they have a lot of players that I’ve liked in the past so I couldn’t actually be against them as much as I would have a few years ago.

However, it applies to both teams but especially the Yankees, that as a Rockies fan I get pissed off that the announcers just praise these teams for being so good at home when I know that if it were the Rockies all we would here about is how Coors field inflates their stats or whatever. Rockies players always have to have road stats that are just about as good as they are at home for people to take them seriously as hitters, never mind that they play half their road games in west coast pitcher-friendly parks.

That’s...a little off topic, but I’m glad for Houston.

-World Series thoughts
I hope the series goes the distance, as I always do since afterward there’s no baseball for several months and that makes me sad. But I kind of don’t see it taking that long, and whatever length it goes I wouldn’t bet against the Dodgers. They’ll have their pitchers lined up how they want them since they’ve had some time off; the Astros haven’t made much of a case that they can win on the road and LA has home field advantage; and the Dodger have just made everything look easy while the Astros have not. One could argue that they haven’t had to really battle anything this post season (or much of the season one could say), so if they run into a little bit of trouble we don’t know how prepared they are to fight back, but if that’s the one area I can think of where they don’t have the clear advantage, I’m still betting on the Dodgers.

So I think I should probably post this before all the CW shows start up this week and I end up with a lot of shows to have thoughts on. I’m not caught up on much, but here’s what I’ve been watching the last couple weeks.

( The Orville 1x01 )

( The Good Place 2x01 )

( The Orville 1x02 )

( The Orville 1x03 )

( The Good Place 2x02 )

( Inhumans 1x01 )

( Inhumans 1x02 )

( The Good Place 2x03 )

So I have started doing reactions of what I’m watching this year (so far just The Orville and The Good Place, though I’m going to start Inhumans and maybe Discovery when I get the chance), but for the moment I’m going to talk about something different. It’s that time of year when I talk baseball.

Especially this year since my Rockies are in the playoffs. We’ll see how long it lasts, but it’s been a fun season that I hope continues well into October.

And so Wild Card game predictions:

AL: Twins vs. Yankees
NY has to be favored since they came in ahead of Minnesota but I’m rooting for the Twins. I’m basically incapable of rooting for the Yankees plus I’m angling for a frozen world series between Minn. and Colorado. But I don’t really know enough about AL teams to know how to predict the outcome.

NL: Rockies vs. D-backs
Obviously I’m rooting for the Rockies, they’re my team, but in a one game showdown I’m not going to lay odds on either team. They’re played each other enough this season that there are no surprises coming; the D-backs definitely have the edge on the season series, though in Arizona they’re pretty even as I recall. It might come down to if Martinez is playing like a human again or still curb-stomping everybody. GO ROCKIES.