Random Musings

Holy Toledo!  Doris Lessing just won the Nobel Prize for Literature!  That is awesome.  I love how instantly the literary commentators say things like "some of her works that are kind of sort of maybe near science fiction" dancing around the issue that she writes in a broad range of topics.   As if, since she's a "serious writer" by their standards, she couldn't possible write something that actually is genre.  Bah.  Good show Doris!


The wife and I just watched last thrusday's Smallville last night.  Um...what's with the suck?  Really.  I think that might qualify as the worst written and worst acted episode ever.  I really hope its not a sign of the season to come.  Just when we're hitting the time when Supes starts getting interesting, when he begins to take on the mantle that will eventually make him Superman.   I could get into specific details as to why the episode sucked.  But I won't.


While I am thinking about TV though...um, what's with all these TV shows where they can't resist showing the characters who are supposedly dead really soon.   Smallville, and Heroes too.   I mean, how suspenseful is it, if you disappear for like one or two episodes before the audience knows you're alive.  Heck, before other people know you're alive.  Is it contractual?  Do they have to do it because the actors require being in some certain number of episodes or something?

Random Musings

Holy Toledo!  Doris Lessing just won the Nobel Prize for Literature!  That is awesome.  I love how instantly the literary commentators say things like "some of her works that are kind of sort of maybe near science fiction" dancing around the issue that she writes in a broad range of topics.   As if, since she's a "serious writer" by their standards, she couldn't possible write something that actually is genre.  Bah.  Good show Doris!


The wife and I just watched last thrusday's Smallville last night.  Um...what's with the suck?  Really.  I think that might qualify as the worst written and worst acted episode ever.  I really hope its not a sign of the season to come.  Just when we're hitting the time when Supes starts getting interesting, when he begins to take on the mantle that will eventually make him Superman.   I could get into specific details as to why the episode sucked.  But I won't.


While I am thinking about TV though...um, what's with all these TV shows where they can't resist showing the characters who are supposedly dead really soon.   Smallville, and Heroes too.   I mean, how suspenseful is it, if you disappear for like one or two episodes before the audience knows you're alive.  Heck, before other people know you're alive.  Is it contractual?  Do they have to do it because the actors require being in some certain number of episodes or something?