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truepennyTIME 43 min.
DISTANCE 5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 232 mi.
NOTES: Return of the dreaded shin-splints. Managed to work through them, though.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone, "Enigma"
SHIRE RECKONING: Following cunningly hidden path toward Weathertop. Sam is reciting poetry.
1. Please do not put Anthony Michael Hall in turtlenecks. They make him look like a bulldog.
2. PREDICTABLE PREDICTABLE PREDICTABLE. As soon as Tommy was introduced, I knew that either (a.) she'd had his baby or (b.) he'd murdered her. It probably tells you everything you need to know about me that I was hoping for (b.), even though I knew it was (a.).
3. This show has a consistent failure to ask obvious questions or clear obvious lines of action. Last time, Johnny kept failing to ASK THE KID WHAT HE WANTED TO DO ABOUT HIS OWN LIFE. This time, he kept not asking what happened to Tommy, and the idea that the dead ringer for Abigail that Arthur saw might be her GRANDDAUGHTER was An! Astonishing! Revelation!, even though it was the simplest and most logical solution to the conundrum.
4. I didn't like the way the show seemed to want me to have sympathy for Tommy. This is a guy who no sooner meets his BEST FRIEND'S FIANCÉE than he starts trying to cut said best friend out under said best friend's nose. I'm sorry, this is the behavior of an A-1 asshole--as is not answering the letter when said best friend's fiancée writes and tells you she's going to have your kid. No, I have no sympathy for him. I'm fucking glad he's the (PREDICTABLE) old man sitting alone on a park bench feeding the swans.
5. If Arthur's hot shit with cryptography (as the show goes out of its way to imply), he's unlikely to be absorbed in a newspaper cryptogram for more than five minutes. Certainly, he's not going to sit there oblivious to his best friend macking on his girl night after night. (Also, there was a moment--a brief shining moment--where I thought the show was going to go in a different direction, that Arthur saw Abigail's ghost because she had become encoded in that corner of New York, and that Arthur saw her because he was a cryptographer, especially good, as he tells Johnny, at piecing together a signal through heavy static. This would, of course, fit in with hypothesis (b.) in #2 above, and would have been actually really cool.)
That's probably enough.
DISTANCE 5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 232 mi.
NOTES: Return of the dreaded shin-splints. Managed to work through them, though.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone, "Enigma"
SHIRE RECKONING: Following cunningly hidden path toward Weathertop. Sam is reciting poetry.
1. Please do not put Anthony Michael Hall in turtlenecks. They make him look like a bulldog.
2. PREDICTABLE PREDICTABLE PREDICTABLE. As soon as Tommy was introduced, I knew that either (a.) she'd had his baby or (b.) he'd murdered her. It probably tells you everything you need to know about me that I was hoping for (b.), even though I knew it was (a.).
3. This show has a consistent failure to ask obvious questions or clear obvious lines of action. Last time, Johnny kept failing to ASK THE KID WHAT HE WANTED TO DO ABOUT HIS OWN LIFE. This time, he kept not asking what happened to Tommy, and the idea that the dead ringer for Abigail that Arthur saw might be her GRANDDAUGHTER was An! Astonishing! Revelation!, even though it was the simplest and most logical solution to the conundrum.
4. I didn't like the way the show seemed to want me to have sympathy for Tommy. This is a guy who no sooner meets his BEST FRIEND'S FIANCÉE than he starts trying to cut said best friend out under said best friend's nose. I'm sorry, this is the behavior of an A-1 asshole--as is not answering the letter when said best friend's fiancée writes and tells you she's going to have your kid. No, I have no sympathy for him. I'm fucking glad he's the (PREDICTABLE) old man sitting alone on a park bench feeding the swans.
5. If Arthur's hot shit with cryptography (as the show goes out of its way to imply), he's unlikely to be absorbed in a newspaper cryptogram for more than five minutes. Certainly, he's not going to sit there oblivious to his best friend macking on his girl night after night. (Also, there was a moment--a brief shining moment--where I thought the show was going to go in a different direction, that Arthur saw Abigail's ghost because she had become encoded in that corner of New York, and that Arthur saw her because he was a cryptographer, especially good, as he tells Johnny, at piecing together a signal through heavy static. This would, of course, fit in with hypothesis (b.) in #2 above, and would have been actually really cool.)
That's probably enough.
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Date: 2009-07-17 10:26 pm (UTC)Story?
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Date: 2009-07-17 10:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-17 10:35 pm (UTC)I am willing to wait. I just like the idea of a cryptographer of ghosts.
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Date: 2009-07-17 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-29 05:29 pm (UTC)By living out the lives of these people in the past, Johnny experiences passion and sexual desire and intimacy that is missing from his own life. And at the end, he provides two people with a reunion that he himself is denied. The episode was about Johnny giving two people what he can't have.
Admittedly, I've been told by some that I only regard this Johnny Smith as a great character and Michael Hall as a great actor because I empathize with Johnny's isolation and loneliness and Hall pushes all my personal buttons when he performs these aspects of the character.