So I am currently watching Carnivale on DVD. It is part of my catching up on those series that I missed the first time round. As you know I watch as I ride the GO train to work each day.
As an aside, I always wanted to take a course where I read all the books I am supposed to have read in my life. I have never read the so-called classics such as "To Kill a Mockingbird". I am a lawyer and was at a conference where a lawyer talked for 1 hour about how all lawyers should base themselves on the lawyer in the book. She started with the words... "I do not have to tell you the plot because I am sure everyone in here has read it and if you haven't you should leave now." I wanted to just get up and leave... but thought that probably was a bad idea for my professional career. The thing is, I could probably carry on a conversation about the book (as I know the details and the meaning in the Jeopardic sense).
Double aside... "In a Jeopardic sense" is a term I have just now invented to describe the fact that I can answer questions about a subject without knowing anything real about it. The list of things that this covers ranges from books to spirituality. I know enough about a lot of things that I can seemingly converse about them without actually knowing anything about them in any meaningful way. Interestingly, is a learned skill. A lot of people would say that is bad. I think that it is a sign of the times. Our current lives elevate the trivial over the wise. I embrace this fully.
I'll take "They said it on TMZ" for two hundred, Alex.
It seems to me that in many ways television series are what books used to be. We all converse about them. Did you see the new Game of Thrones? What do you think about the season finale for Walking Dead? I can't believe Snooki is pregnant! Very few people want to converse about the Art of Fielding. Unless it is being turned into a movie. Or it involves a vampire/love triangle/Steve Jobs. Any of those things and all bets are off.
I am trying to become a Rhodes Scholar of the cablebox.
Which leads me back to Carnivle. It is a very interesting little series. It is slow as molasses in one sense, but playing with very large themes with huge implications. It is all about a carnival during the depression, where two individuals have been chosen to be the avatars of evil and good. I do not know where it is going but it has been interesting so far. It reminds me of a weird mix of Lost, Heroes and Twin Peaks.
I am just at the beginning and the show is making me think there is some larger story to tell.
But that larger story is not going to be told. I know the show gets cancelled after the second season on a cliff hanger. So I am watching a series I know will ultimately have no pay-off. That said I am watching a series that I know will not end with disappointment. I kind of wish that had happened with Heroes. If there were no second season it would have just ceased to exist and I could remember it fondly for what it was going to be rather than the utter mess it turned into.
As they say - "it is better to be silent and let people assume you are stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". If the show never ends - then there can be no argument that there was no ending to the show. That seems pretty profound to me. Maybe I am wise after all.
I am on a Go train trip to nowhere and I am enjoying the ride.
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