I’m nearly 2/3 of the way through editing Ghost Inn. The chapter I’m at now is a fairly crucial one, as it represents a change in motivation for a couple of major characters and I want to make sure it happens organically (I hate that word!) and that I didn’t force it so that subsequent events play out as expected. I’m fairly sure that when I wrote it in the first place the scene turned out differently than I anticipated. But that was during a 5 a.m. blur of creativity during NaNoWriMo, so now I’m almost afraid to read it again in case it sucks. And if it sucks, I have some heavy work ahead of me.
House popped back into TV lives for an hour after a several week hiatus—and before a several week hiatus. The episode finished off the David Morse story arc that’s been running most of the season. I liked Morse’s character and I fully empathized with his goals. Any way you look at it, his character was 100% right. Sure, he was reacting out of his initial humiliation, but his detective nose led him in the right direction and his evaluation of House wasn’t wrong in any sense. That’s good writing—when the supposed heavy is someone who is morally right. Makes me wonder why we root for House when he’s such a so-and-so. Sure, he’s brilliant, but he’s arrogant, insensitive, brash and bullying. Yet, we want him to get away with his bullshit. When he turns out not to have reformed after all, we accept it with a shrug. “That’s House.” It’s hard to imagine a more reprehensible protagonist outside of a Stephen R. Donaldson novel.
I liked Boston Legal last night, which made a detour to New Orleans for a case that mimics the real life arrest of a doctor charged with homicide. Up is down and down is up. Denny Crane emerges from his fog just often enough to deliver the bon mots.
