LOVED this epi. Bobby was having so much fun, and Eames was enjoying her partner have fun. But man,



Yes, yes, much talking to my television tonight. I'm not crazy, I swear. Well, crazy for LOCI maybe.

LOL ! Fish from Barney Miller. That is to funny.

ITA.....our Alex is still rather testy yet.......think they really need to clear the air, going back all the way to Jo Gage.



Look at it this way.....at least it's not a ZZ Top kind of beard.

Glad I gave you a laugh!! BUT, doesn't he really look like Abe Vigoda?

LOL! True dat.....

They slid quickly by it but I do think we will see some resolution by the end of the season.

Hmmmm....let us take a look



Yep...you right!

I support that sentiment 100%.

I laughed....I cried....it became a part of me!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!

Bobby really is having fun with Eames. When he plays with the props, her face just lights up and he loves it. It's like he's performing for a child. I almost died laughing watching him play. It was sooo cute!

Maybe Ross was leaving from having already "visited" her before G/E got there....

Well Goddess and CIAddict
It is only an hour show. Maybe they couldn't fit all that in. LOL... but, I was suprised at Rogers missing that as well.

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ITA, it was cute. It was nice to see Eames smile, too. Especially, at good ole Bobby.

I noticed at the end, she was playing with the props, too. She loved it when he did the "body in half" trick. Really enjoyed seeing them having fun together, smiling, sharing those knowing looks again. I DO NOT like him looking so puffy and heavy. He still needs to work on losing weight before his knee/leg/whatever starts acting up again. And, please SHAVE!!! I don't mind the 5 o'clock shadow look on him, but the grey scraggly beard really makes him look much older. TOO much older, imo.

I've only been able to see the second half so far -- kids were watching "Ghostbusters" on SPIKE before they went to bed. If I'm not too tired, I'll catch the first half when it re-airs in 1 hour and 15 minutes....

I'm sure I'll have something more in depth to say later, but just seeing Bobby smiling that much made me feel so happy.


Just sayin!!!

sorry, had to modify my post....for some reason what I'd written wouldn't stay as a spoiler. True, maybe they couldn't fit all of that in a 40-45 minute show, but there's things that kind of jarred with me, basically the medical. Otherwise, great show tonight.

I don't mind the weight. I like my men big, but I do agree about the beard. It is not rockin my world. It covers up his mouth a little too much.

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I am very,very pleased with this episode. I'm glad Goren and Eames are getting along again. Eames really seemed to enjoy watching Bobby play with all the magic toys. It was nice to see Ross pick on someone else besides Bobby for once.

I love it all. The beard, the black clothes, even the weight. I think he's HOT. Sigh......

Well guys...it is 11 p.m. my time so I am going to head out. I'll be talking to you guys on the next Goren episode.

Love and Peace

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I don't like his beard either.... BUT HE DOES LOOK HOT IN THIS FRAME!!!!!!!!!!! (In the end of the episode!)

I think the beard is showing how Goren is feeling bad... (NOT THIS EPISODE) but it's all leading up to the Goren SEASON FINALE! So when they pull him out of a nosedive, and he sees how he is APPRECIATED, he will be happy ALL THE TIME and he will shave.... (Just a thought.)
Sometimes someone might let themselves go a little, if they have problems.... Bobby will get over them though....

"Vanishing Act" is one of my favorite episodes!!!!!!!!!
LOVED IT - LOVED IT - LOVED IT - LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm ready for the suits and ties again, "cuz every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man"......

You say cute, I say SHIPPY. So giddy, so in love.

I hate posting twice in a row, but the midnight re-airing is starting soon.

1. Has anyone noticed that in the opening credits when the music is playing, there is a shot of Bobby standing on the church pew after he used the patrolman to boost himself up, anyways, they have fuzzied out the face of the officer. Only VDO is visible in the shot. I have never notice it before. The young cop is sometimes on SVU now.

2. The dead magician looked like Sanjaya from American Idol.

3. Chris Lloyd did look like Abe Vigoda.

4. The technicial gal with the casket has been on a Logan/Wheeler episode before, she was hitting on Wheeler.

5. Beard looked hot fully grown in. Enough of the wardrobe. I swear he was wearing the same 2 outfits throught the show. Eames had that God-awful leather jacket too.

6. He was straddeling a chair several times, so HOT.

I've noticed and I'll bet it has something to do with not having to pay the actor residuals for every single episode when he only acted in one.

After I watched the show I turned the channel and found Dying Young. VDO looks sooooo yummy in his suit when he's dancing with Julia Roberts in the end. Oops, CI is on again. Better go watch it to see what I missed the first time around.

I thought the dead magician looked like Kris Angel. My daughter LOVES him and thinks he is SO hot.

I got to see the first half. Really good. This will be one of my fave epis, too...so much fun in it, so much joy.

Can't wait for re-runs during week so I can watch it again. May have to figure out how to use dvd-recorder.....it's not a dvr, you have to "record" onto the dvd's like burning them on the computer.....

I absolutely LOVED this epi...i won't go into details and spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet, but it was fun...kept you guessing who the perp was and had more of the "old" life of the characters. Great episode!

Whoa......I was thinking the same thing. Not that Kris Angel is hot, but that the dead magician looked like him.

Is anyone else disturbed by the decline in the show's writing and the choppy editing? I am a diehard VDO fan, and would watch him recite the phone book on Pay Per View, but.........the stories don't have the crisp writing of past years, and don't let VDO display the excellent acting skills he posses. Anyone else see a decline in the storylines and the overall writing quality?

My daughter and I LOVED this episode--Watching Bobby sooo giddy over magic was GREAT--I have just finished watching it twice and can't wait to see it again.

I thought this was a very fun and entertaining episode. Too late to say much



That's all for now but I really did enjoy this episode. From the commercial it looked like it would be a fun one and IMHO it was.

Loved this episode!
More comments tomorrow. So much to write about!
Arwen is going to sleep with a smile on her face!

OMG! I so agree!!

This just might be my new favorite picture of Bobby!!

Loved the episode-Vincent was so good acting like a kid with all the magic tricks and even Eames smiling at him-
Love having Christopher Lloyd in the episode-
Vincent's hair was glorious, not sure about the beard, think I would rather like clean-shaven or stubble-
But the magician reading them about betrayal and being a fraud-really shocked me when he said that-
Just love the banter between Goren and Eames-great episode-
Regi.

i am sometimes but not in this episode which i didn't see. These stories probably seem less subtantial because we had better episodes last season , meaning season 6 and somehow a bit different because more drama had been added . Now they didn't followed the narrative as they had left it the previous season , they just tried to satisfy everyone , changing the formula of the show . this is just an opinion , i might be mistaken ....

I have a DVD recorder, too. And I've been recording each episode on tape downstairs and on DVD upstairs--because, well, just in case one of them messes up. On the one upstairs I can also record from VHS to DVD or the other way around. But I've discovered that the picture quality is much better if I record directly from TV to the DVD.



I have to say that overall I haven't been disappointed. There are some episodes from this season and last that just don't "do it" for me. But in every season there have been one or two episodes that I didn't particularly care for. There has been a shift in the focus of the show the last two seasons, and at times the procedural stuff has suffered. But mostly I'm happy. And especially with this episode. I loved it! There are a couple of things I didn't really understand, but I have to watch it a few more times before I can say whether I just missed it or the writers just didn't address it. I don't know if anyone thought it was obvious who the murderer was--I leave those kind of critiques to smarter brains than mine. But I have to say that getting there was fast-paced, interesting, and just plain fun!

IMO, Bobby looked like a kid in a candy store! I love that side of him. Alex got a kick out of it as well it seems! The story line, kind of boring. I'm wanting some more intensity and action! Come on, kick it up some!!!!

Did anyone notice that Goren deferred and did not blurt out his theory until Ross noticed and asked him? I think that the "water carrier" remark is being addressed without a blatant showing. I also liked that when all three looked at the file, Goren did not ask for it from Eames, in fact he waited and gestured to get it from Ross.

I really liked this episode. It was so nice to see them smiling at one another again and just acting as a team. The tension between them from the past few eps just seem to gone.. until that bloody magician decided to play profiler on Bobby and Alex. GRRRRRR!!!!!! Nice to see Christopher Lloyd on tv again. Just something that struck me as odd, but when Bobby said at the end "you're under arrest" I don't know I had to do a double take. I'm so used to Eames saying that. Loved it when the magician put his hands to be handcuffed in front of him and Bobby said 'oh no, we learned our lesson from last time' and handcuffed him behind his back. So many good things about this ep. Too bad you can't watch it online.

Good catch, Teach! I noticed that he waited to be asked, but I didn't catch the bit with the file. I guess I'll just have to watch it again. And again.

I think that Eames and Ross are noticing his efforts to "get along", and I think that they both appreciate it. Except for that uncomfortable "reading" from the magician, Eames was more relaxed. It's nice to see them in tune and playing off one another so well.

the most fun I've had watching a G/E episode in a long time.

*bug*

I, too, really liked this episode. It seemed fun as well as an interesting case. I kept wondering exactly how the body got to the side show and who did it. And I LOVED that our favorite team was back. Bobby spilling the water on the other officer and playing with the magic props while talking was SO classis Bobby. And I loved how he was directing all of his joy at Alex. It was like he wanted her to come and play. For me, it was almost like it was his way of trying to heal the rift between them. I did notice, however, that even after the one guy - whose name I am blanking out on - kept bringing up the "betrayal", they still seemed to work together as a team. Yet, I also noticed that they really seemed to adress each other by name. Maybe I just missed it.

Oh, is is just me or did Rogers' hair look a little better? It looks like they added some low lights to it which warmed up her face a little. Of course, it could have just been the lighting.