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nightdog_barks33 down, none to go. Done with the zaps. They gave me a certificate that mentions my "courage, determination and good nature." HA, HOW LITTLE THEY KNOW ME. *g*
Still reading -- finished Wade Davis' Into the Silence and it was GREAT. Am now reading Connie Willis' two-volume novel Blackout/All Clear, and am wondering, I am sorry to say, how it EVER won the Hugo and Nebula awards. And I'm a fan of Connie Willis -- her Doomsday Book is an absolute marvel, very well worth the read, and Passage is melancholy and beautiful and very strange. Blackout/All Clear ... not so much. As one reviewer said on Amazon, somewhere in all that padding is a great novel trying to get out. Oy.
I enjoyed it. I didn't think it lived up to its billing -- there are very few episodes I'd put in the "brilliant," "game-changing," "iconic" category, and this wasn't one of them. When the episode opened with House's version of how Foreman got him to take the case, it was interesting and funny and pitch-perfect and I thought perhaps we were going to get a revisit of "Three Stories." I wish we had.
I thought Jesse Spencer was very good, Peter Jacobson was great, Jeffrey Wright was ... so-so. Seriously, I'm sorry, but I thought as a foil for House, both David Morse and Chi McBride had more presence. Parts of the episode were ridiculous -- a middle-school chem teacher not wearing any protective gear for a class experiment? Taub is suddenly a heart surgeon? One guy gets to decide House's fate, in a room that looks more like it belongs in a Transylvanian castle than a modern hospital? Still, I enjoyed it, in that ... hour of enjoyable television kind of way.
Eh. Sometimes it wears me out talking about House.
And ... that's all I got.
Still reading -- finished Wade Davis' Into the Silence and it was GREAT. Am now reading Connie Willis' two-volume novel Blackout/All Clear, and am wondering, I am sorry to say, how it EVER won the Hugo and Nebula awards. And I'm a fan of Connie Willis -- her Doomsday Book is an absolute marvel, very well worth the read, and Passage is melancholy and beautiful and very strange. Blackout/All Clear ... not so much. As one reviewer said on Amazon, somewhere in all that padding is a great novel trying to get out. Oy.
I enjoyed it. I didn't think it lived up to its billing -- there are very few episodes I'd put in the "brilliant," "game-changing," "iconic" category, and this wasn't one of them. When the episode opened with House's version of how Foreman got him to take the case, it was interesting and funny and pitch-perfect and I thought perhaps we were going to get a revisit of "Three Stories." I wish we had.
I thought Jesse Spencer was very good, Peter Jacobson was great, Jeffrey Wright was ... so-so. Seriously, I'm sorry, but I thought as a foil for House, both David Morse and Chi McBride had more presence. Parts of the episode were ridiculous -- a middle-school chem teacher not wearing any protective gear for a class experiment? Taub is suddenly a heart surgeon? One guy gets to decide House's fate, in a room that looks more like it belongs in a Transylvanian castle than a modern hospital? Still, I enjoyed it, in that ... hour of enjoyable television kind of way.
Eh. Sometimes it wears me out talking about House.
And ... that's all I got.