Got through another few pages of the short story this morning. It’s slow going, but worth it, I think. I’m still making some fairly major structural changes, moving paragraphs and sentences, deleting, adding, smoothing. Maybe by the end of tomorrow’s session I’ll have made it to the end and I can print the beastie out and take a look at the big picture to see what I’ve done.
In addition to another batch of archival reviews, I added two new reviews to Onyx: The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon and
The Friends of Meager Fortune by New Brunswick author David Adams Richards.
Eureka was good last night. Another take on Rip Van Winkle, but they managed to both salvage the guy who wakes up after five decades and find a way to get him into age-appropriate condition. I liked the way the sub-plot about Carter’s mystery woman tied into his present-day relationship with his daughter.
Big Brother 8 is going nuclear. I won’t spoil any of the behind-the-scenes stuff I’ve read about events of the past few days, but I don’t know how they’re going to cram all this into tomorrow’s episode and still have time for a vote and an HoH competition. I thought it was hilarious last night when Amber (aka Wah-mber) tried to “make a deal” with Daniele and ended up giving away the farm (with appropriate cash register sound effects) without any prompting whatsoever. I hope she never tries to buy a car without having someone else along or else she’s going to get in deep financial trouble. I wonder if she will break down in tears on The Power of 10.
I have to confess I was a little disappointed with Eureka last night; though I enjoyed the little twist at the end with regards with how Fargo’s grandfather really did end up in the cryogenic chamber, I thought that the rapid aging and its halt was a little too convenient, and I thought that the actor did a pretty poor job of pulling off the aged version of himself. The intertwined themes of love and guilt were strong ones, but the emotion was overwritten. I wasn’t terribly convinced by the subplot involving Jack Carter’s former girlfriend.
On the other hand, I commend the writers for wanting to tell a story that goes beyond the boundaries normally established by shows on the Science Fiction channel (they churn out some good shows, like BSG, and show really awful clunkers, like Flash Gordon). So good for them.
One thing that has bugged me about this season is the increased “girlification” of Joe Lubo. Last season she was tough, into guns, really into the whole cop thing. This season she’s lost the interest in guns, and the only nod to her former ambitions as a cop was a mention a couple of weeks ago that she really wants a promotion. Maybe some producer somewhere decided that one strong woman character was enough on that show.
I only saw the first few episodes from last season. That was from the era we think of as “before we got cable,” so i didn’t really get to know the characters all that well.
The best episodes are the ones that have Matt Frewer in them, in my opinion!