I find it odd that Huffington Post is making a big deal about Family Guy releasing some of the Windows 7 promo spots on YouTube, seeing as how they've actually showed a couple of them before commercial breaks on the last two episodes of the program itself. It's almost like the people writing about the Windows 7 "controversy" concerning the show don't actually watch the show! Maybe blogs and the mainstream media have something in common after all!

I just noticed last week that Shawn Ryan -- the brains behind The Shield -- is now an executive producer on Lie To Me. I'm a fan of the show already, so hopefully this doesn't give me unrealistic expectations for what's to come.

The current season of Heroes is titled "Redemption." The more I inexplicably continue to watch this show, the more incongruous this seems.

If I were to attach an over-arching theme to this current stretch of episodes, it would be "selfish decisions made with no regard for the consequences." Which seems like the opposite of redemption, unless it's redeeming yourself to yourself. Hiro cares only about fixing his (and Ando's) life. After all of the setup of doing good for others, Peter only cares about saving his brother. Claire just wants her normal bisexual experimentation at college. Parkman mostly wants Sylar out of his head. Tracy wants to run away and join the circus, ferchrissakes. Mohinder still has ADD for anything not concerning his father's work.

I know that none of these characters asked to be the heroes, but for a show nominally called Heroes, there's not a whole lot of heroics here.

And while we're on the subject, why does Samuel only sometimes have a weird trace of an Irish accent? I like Robert Knepper a lot, but his character makes no sense, even with his new backstory as some sort of Anakin Skywalker-esque chosen one of people with abilities.