I have been watching a lot of episodic programming lately in place of my normal amount of movies. Perhaps it is because the selection and quality of movies haven't been so great. But I find that even when a good movie that I am anxious to see hits the stores that I still take my time to see them after completing the said seasons of what show I am currently watching at the time. Right now, a HBO series titled, Carnivale, is in my DVD drive and I cannot for the life of me function or focus on anything else until this show is over. It's not anything spetacularly special or anything. The character development and storyline is well written and the plot premise is very unique. It is oddly enough somewhat similar to a story I have been wanting to write for so very long (those of you who read this probably know of which one). Even though it is not exactly the same, the whole good versus evil, one person per generation for each side bit is dead on. This seems to always be the case with my briliant plots. And like I said when I saw Jacob's Ladder for the first time, I will say it again, "BASTARDS!" Well, at the very least I can admit that the creators and writers for this show are probably better at conveying a story than I am. Anyway, to get back on point, I am not exactly sure what is chasing me to watch these shows such as Carnivale, Nip/Tuck, Lost, Sopranos, Rescue Me, Deadwood, etc, etc... honestly, try as I have, I cannot glimpse any reason for my preference these days for this over a good ole movie, which is why I am bringing it up here. I thought that perhaps if any of you two readers of mine had any insights or ideas, it could perhaps get the ball rolling in my own head so I could psychoanalyze it to death (like I do everything else) and finally be done with the notion.
-sib
(oh... sorry goober... S.I.B.)