Reading and viewing

[bunrab]

Recently read:
1. an awful lot of magazines. Although there was much science news, none of it was so fascinating that I have to repeat it for you here.
2. Undead and Unpopular, the latest in the Betsy the Vampire Queen series by MaryJanice Davidson - it was OK, though not as much fun as previous volumes - there wasn't actually a lot happening in this volume.

As to viewing, well, "The Lost Room." I'm sure at least half my flist also saw this. And I'm sure we all had fun picking apart the gaping holes in logic and the assorted continuity errors, but it was nonetheless an OK miniseries. My favorite was Margaret Cho as Suzy Kane. I'm sure there will be many exegeses (I'm assuming that's the plural of exegesis, and I'm too lazy to go find out for sure) on various pop-culture themes here, and maybe a few doctoral dissertations out of it. At least one of them will have to include the fact that the pawn-shop owner was obviously Jewish, and do a bit of comparison to, at the very least, Shylock. But my pick would be an exploration of those glasses, which "stop combustion" but somehow don't stop, let's see, the motor vehicle that the wearer is driving, or for that matter the internal metabolism of the wearer or all those around him... ah, who am I kidding, who ever expected logic and consistency in a TV show? This is why I don't watch more TV.

Comments

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

I rather enjoyed the series. Sure, the plot logic was pretty low, but I thought the premise was reasonably different, the characters interesting, and the dialogue writing not too lame.

I must say, even being fairly sensitive to it, I was not in the least struck by the Shylock angle you saw (nor, for that matter, the Jewish angle at all). Far more power-hungry than greedy, and the power in question motivated by a madness logical enough in its way.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

the dialogue writing not too lame

Ahem. "Look out, he's got a comb!"