I hope I never love another TV show, ever again.
But, Cindy, can't you love what's there without mourning what's not? I mean, I really wish there were more Hepburn/Tracy films (like, a LOT), but that doesn't take away from my enjoyment of the ones that exist. I wish there were 20 more Heyer novels, but not having more doesn't take away from the ones that exist. There are always going to be reasons why we don't get enough of a piece of art we love--the producers run out of money, or a lead actor gets sick of a role, or the writer has a baby and takes time off or it gets canceled or whatever. To my mind, the important thing is what IS there and that it got made at all. I love going to the theatre, and plays are by nature evanescent, but the fact that they have limited runs or will close when the producers aren't making ebough money never keeps me from loving them while I am in the audience, even though I don't have the pleasure of re-watching one gets from film or TV.
But, Cindy, can't you love what's there without mourning what's not? I mean, I really wish there were more Hepburn/Tracy films (like, a LOT), but that doesn't take away from my enjoyment of the ones that exist.
Films and books, I have no problem loving, because they're completed works. I want to fall in good solid like. Put it this way, I'm not looking for TV love, because when I do, it seems I look in all the wrong places.
Cindy, I think you are confusing your TV viewing habbits with my relationship habbits.
I have a question about the ending of the episode -- how does everyone know where to go, and get there in time? Web and Paul show up pretty handily, but the baddie didn't need to get off there, did he? How was Danny to get from one station to the next in time to meet the same train?
Oh one comment relevent to the show (as opposed to odds of survival).
I don't actually think the "Silence of the Lambs" comparison is a good one. It uses a SOTL trope, but that is not the same thing. All the discussion of pulp upthread makes me realize that a better comparison is Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction".
You're going to have to expand on that, TB, cause I'm not really seeing it.
Peter Coyote's character is sort of giving me a younger Cigarette Smoking Man vibe. Not the whole evil manipulator of mankind thing (well, maybe a little), but more the craggy fella who knows more about what's really going on than anyone else in the room kinda thing.
Seconding P-C. I tried to stretch
noir-update
wide enough to fit, but it kept slipping loose of my grasp and smacking me in the nose.
Sorry PC - this a drive by - umm the playfulness with genre conventions - playing by classic pulp fiction rules while subverting to whole game. The thing is once it hit me, it just seems obvious. Probably I'm just nuts.
There are certainly enough conventions to subvert in the criminal investigation arena. There used to be a show on about vampires that had almost as rich a field of expectations to twist out of the ground, screaming.
