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truepennyTIME: 43 min.
DISTANCE: 5.3 mi.
TOTAL: 222 mi.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone 1.2, "What It Seems"
SHIRE RECKONING: Still slogging toward Weathertop.
Okay, I'm sorry, that is not Sheriff Bannerman. There are many other things I could say about melodrama and undoing all the really lovely subtle stuff King does in the novel about the part wherein Johnny Smith is NOT a hero, and knows it, but I'll just go with the complaint that, you know, King HAS an explanation of what the "dead zone" is, and it's (a.) creepy, (b.) poetic in an intensely practical way, and (c.) plausible. All of which puts it ahead of the platitudinous blather provided by the show.
otoh, it is a pleasure to watch David Ogden Stiers doing what he does best.
DISTANCE: 5.3 mi.
TOTAL: 222 mi.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone 1.2, "What It Seems"
SHIRE RECKONING: Still slogging toward Weathertop.
Okay, I'm sorry, that is not Sheriff Bannerman. There are many other things I could say about melodrama and undoing all the really lovely subtle stuff King does in the novel about the part wherein Johnny Smith is NOT a hero, and knows it, but I'll just go with the complaint that, you know, King HAS an explanation of what the "dead zone" is, and it's (a.) creepy, (b.) poetic in an intensely practical way, and (c.) plausible. All of which puts it ahead of the platitudinous blather provided by the show.
otoh, it is a pleasure to watch David Ogden Stiers doing what he does best.
