Read this morning that Castle has been renewed for a second season. Yay! Not many TV series with writers as protagonists, especially a dapper writer like the one played by Nathan Fillion. And his counterpart, Detective Beckett, isn’t a dumb cop, either. They make perfect foils for each other.
My Storytellers Unplugged essay Telling Stories will go live tomorrow morning. I’m going to be traveling for the next several days, including tomorrow, but thanks to the magic of WordPress’s dashboard, I don’t need to be around my computer to post something. Hmmm…there’s a story idea–alibi by automated posting engine.
The Grey’s Anatomy season finale had one of the most effective surprises I’ve seen in ages. It took me a few seconds to get the significance of the reveal, which takes you all the way back to series premiere. Like Lost, it was a cliffhanger that might have been better served with at least a glimpse into what’s going to happen next. However, I don’t think we need to wait until 2010 to find out who lives and who doesn’t. Just until the end of contract negotiations with the respective actors.
We watched The Reader last night, starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet. An interesting film with no easy answers, only questions. Hannah was clearly participated in atrocities, and she seemed to have little sense even years later that there was anything morally objectionable about what she did. However, as the law professor stated, there is a difference between what is moral and what is legal. Clearly, what she did might be interpreted as legal at the time of the offense. The law professor also talked about people who withheld information for reasons best known only to themselves, and that is, in fact, what drives this movie. Hannah withheld a secret that might have mitigated her punishment, and Michael withheld the same secret, though it wasn’t obvious what changed his mind. Probably his conflict over the nature of what his former lover was capable of doing.
