I’m about halfway through the new short story in progress and I just discovered what it’s really about. I often think I know what it’s about, but sometimes I figure out along the way that it’s actually about something else. Funny, that. I have no idea how that happens. After I finished the morning session, I started thinking about the main character and his sidekick and I understood what they were going through and what parts of their lives might come bubbling to the surface as a result. Fascinating. Hastily scrawled notes on a Post-It note for tomorrow morning’s session.
You probably don’t recognize the name Roberts Blossom, but I bet you recognize the face. The version of it shown here is from Christine, but he was also in Home Alone, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Doc Hollywood, Slaughterhouse Five, Escape from Alcatraz and a gazillion other films. He died recently at the age of 87.
Well, wasn’t that an unexpected turn of events on The Closer? I knew the season was going to be at least in part about Brenda’s decision to send that killer to a certain death after he got off on a technicality. But I wondered what was going to become of Pope, destined to work in the traffic division. The last 60 seconds of the episode may have answered that question. Didn’t see that coming. The case was also handled well. Lots of bodies to get things going and that rap video playing again and again. I didn’t miss the tattoo that was so prominently displayed by the unseen woman in the video and figured it would come into play at some point. Not quite the way I expected, though.
What better way to launch a new season of Eureka than to launch a rocket into orbit, accidentally. The “boy meets house” shtick was a little goofy, but the show is a little goofy. Still, I always like it. Looks like Fargo’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
If you don’t subscribe to Starz, you can still watch the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day on their website. Not sure if they’ll stream all the episodes, but it would be cool if they did.
Have you seen the trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie, A Game of Shadows? It’s on the Apple website. New to the cast this time are Naoomi Rapace from The Girl With/Who films, Jared Harris from Mad Men and Fringe and Stephen Fry as Mycroft. Can’t wait.
I wonder if Chazz Palminteri decided not to return to Rizzoli & Isles as Rizzoli’s father. I guess that would explain his absence from his daughter’s medal ceremony and the talk of divorce. A good first episode. Lorraine Bracco was less of a ditz than she has been in the past, though putting her in Maura’s guest house might not be a great idea. They handled the implications of Jane’s injury well, I thought. The first bomb blast was a little confusing. There were so many well-dressed people getting into similar black cars that I thought at first they were trying to make us think it was Jane’s car. If that’s what they were trying to do, shame on them for that bit of blatant misdirection.
