Movie Review: I didn’t loop for Looper
Maybe I’m getting overly cynical in my old age. Maybe I’ve come to expect more from Hollywood than just a good concept. Maybe I don’t think Hollywood gives its audience any credit for being able to spot plot holes in movies and question where the writer was when making certain decisions.
Warning: Spoilers ahead
Looper is a movie about a time travel. In one aspect. It’s only one way travel. I was fine with that. Loopers are paid assassins (in our future) that kill people sent from far into the future. Their job is to kill and dispose of corpses. Attached to the ‘hit’ is their pay. Okay, I’m fine with that. Works for me.
Loopers are eventually ‘retired’ and this is called ‘closing the loop’. Eventually their future self is sent back and they must kill their future self. I was also fine with this. They get a golden payday. All is good.
Our protagonist says “Most loopers aren’t forward thinkers.” This means that most of these loopers are dullards that figure there’s no way out for them and accept their fate. Partying, doing drugs, etc. I’m still on board. So far it was a good ride. There are even TKs in this future the loopers live in. People with telekinetic ability. Wonderful. I’m 100% into this movie at this point.
One of the loopers fails to close his loop. He lets the guy get away. “Letting your loop run.” This is a very bad thing. All sorts of things can go wrong. At this point I’m still on board. The looper boss (a guy sent back from the future that set all this up) has this loop closed the hard way. Basically by kill both the present and future person. Not a pretty sight.
Then our protagonist is supposed to close his loop. In one scene he sees himself failing, but then succeeds, but he knows how to get away. It’s like a future flashback. Very cool the way they did this. I got it. It was creepy. It made a weird sort of sense. Even now I still get chills thinking about this concept.
The future version starts to see how things are changing. He experiences the memories because now things are changing. His goal is to save not only his life, but the life of his wife who he’d seen killed. Brilliant! There’s some maniac in the future that’s screwing everything up and closing all the loops. Present protag needs to kill future protag. The ‘boss’ is after both of them because as we know, letting the loop run is a bad thing. Awesome!
The future self somehow got knowledge of where this future bad guy came from. He knows the birthdate and hospital. He’s going to save the future by killing this kid.
Wait a minute. What?
This little flashback is weird. I kind of got it, but it felt like it came out of the blue. I was still okay. Future protag was remembering things present protag was doing and was able to avoid him and beat him. I was still okay. Future protag could see the effects of his actions on the future and take steps to make sure things went the way he wanted. This was getting a little twisted, but I figured things would work out. Let’s see where this goes.
Present protag ends up with one of the addresses of the kids that future protag is out to kill. By coincidence he ends up on the farm where the one kid future protag needs to kill to save the future. He likes the mom and the kids seems alright, so he’s out to protect them.
Meanwhile future protag doesn’t see any of this and has no memory even though he could remember everything else that had happened to future protag. <sigh>. So he kills one kid. Then the second kid is the son of present protag’s girlfriend. Kills that one as well even though present protag is with the one kid that needs to be killed. Well, I guess it’s better to be safe than sorry and just kill them all off, eh?
Of course we get to the paradoxical climax. Future protag is kills the girl and misses the kid. Present protag is too far away to do anything. Even though he’s been able to make corrections because of this loop that creates the future bad guys, he sees only one way to close this loop. Rather than know what he’s going to cause happen, he kills himself.
Okay, seriously? This guy was a forward thinker. He was able to change his present and future multiple times by seeing the result of his actions. But in the end when all is known, he kills himself? Why? He knows all he needs to do is kick the drug habit, not lead the life future self led, and presto, all is fixed. Perhaps he can even prevent being caught and brought back to the past. There are so many other options than killing himself.
I was on board with this movie right up until the end. I found the ending weak and lacking imagination. It felt like an easy way out from having to explain anything. It left me with the big question of why, if future protag can see how the action play out and remembers everything and present protag can make changes to the timeline was killing himself the ONLY option?
Now I understand that we don’t want another Groundhog Day type of movie (that was brilliant in its own right) but this all could have been accomplished better with multiple loops of trying to solve the riddle. Much like the original Time Machine where the time travelers keeps going back in time to save his fiancée only to realize that there’s no way to change the past once its written and the futility of his efforts lead him to other discoveries. Present protag could have done more or seen that no matter what he did, death was the only solution. How did he know that by killing himself the kid still wouldn’t grow up to be a monster in the future? We didn’t see that option play out or any other option. Why did future protag not see what was happening and realize?
The end was a mash of the end scene playing out once. Mom dies, kid rides off on a train and becomes the future bad guy. The memory loop would have impacted future protag just like it affected present protag. He could have ended the loop right there, but present protag saw it all play out when future protag was the one who would have seen the effects of his actions and been able to stop it. Not present protag.
I sighed. I mumbled. I groaned. I was happy with the movie right up until the ending. This movie could have ended a thousand different ways. They picked one of the ways that, in the end, I felt cheated. However, I will watch this movie again. Perhaps more than once. Twelve Monkeys had a similar loop just like this movie, but that one the present protag had no idea it was future protag that died and could do nothing to change the course of events. He could only realize at the last moment as he died what all the events meant and how they played out.
I love me some time travel. I’ll give this one a second chance. Perhaps there’s something I missed. Perhaps I’m being too cynical. Perhaps I just need to detach my brain when I watch a movie. There is a lot of good in the movie, I just wish it had ended differently. Not a strong finish to a strong movie.
That’s my opinion. What’s yours?
Until Next Time!
WOO WOO!
Daily Update: Yes, two in a row this week!
Yesterday I got a lot accomplished, but not everything on my list. I now have at least two new items to add to that list. One I need to address right away (today) the other can wait a bit, but it still important.
The Tahoe will from now and forever be known as Sputtery Tahoe. Yesterday it got new shoes, new brakes, and an alignment. All went well, but I had this feeling as my friend and I were doing the brakes and I looked at the battery that I haven’t replaced that battery since we bought the Tahoe in 2003 or 2004. Yeah. It was dipping in power last night as I drove to the store and back. I’ll be taking it to get a new battery today.
The other issue is a bent lower control arm. This is what’s making the alignment go out of whack as often as it does. I need to get the part from a junk yard and the shop that did the alignment will put that in for me for a minimal cost (and realign if needed).
Needless to say all the running around yesterday wore me out something fierce. So I decided to watch a movie that I’ll review soon. I didn’t get any writing done save the daily update. Hopefully some will happen tonight.
This morning we’re having breakfast with the Millicans and then I’ll need to get out and do some more with Sputtery Tahoe. My hope is that it won’t be as expensive as Sputtery Truck was earlier in the year. A New battery, an oil change, and a wash and it should be running good once more. We’ll see how that goes.
My body and brain are still waking up. Hopefully I’ll get some writing in today as well as a little photoshop playing around. I also watched a couple tutorials last night and I really want to get in there and play some more. It’s fun to see just how powerful a tool Photoshop has become. I used to have a very old version of the tool and it was ok, but was hard to use. Probably because 1) I didn’t know what I was doing and 2) I didn’t know what I wanted to do and 3) Youtube didn’t exist.
It’s hard to imagine what people did before youtube and all these great forums. I mean, I learned HTML 1.0 from a 5 page print out and a overstuffed book Teach Yourself HTML in 21 days. Both I consumed in a day and I was building web pages. The internet changed faster than anyone would have predicted. Now you can learn to do almost anything you want just by doing a search. That’s what I’ve started to do with both illustrator and photoshop.
So why am I learning? Other than my favorite daughter is taking a class? That’s one of my top secret projects. I’m having fun learning, but I’ve wanted to do this project for quite some time. Just like with my other top secret project and the Action Pack Podcast, it’ll be an ongoing thing.
I’m off to go eat some breakfast and do some more work with Sputtery Tahoe.
Until Tomorrow!
WOO WOO!
Daily Update: Still not so daily anymore
I’m giving thoughts of starting my daily blogging once again. Maybe, I’m not so sure just yet.
I woke up this morning feeling full of vim and vigor. I haven’t been sleeping good…or much. My favorite daughter has 1st period meaning she starts school at 7am. Yes, we only live a couple minutes away, but we’re still getting up at 5am. My body and brain (old as they are) are still adjusting after a couple months. Last night we went to bed early and didn’t have to wake up early this morning. My body woke me up at 6am. <sigh>
I have many things to do today that I’ve been putting off. Here’s the short list
- haircut
- new shoes for the Tahoe
- new brakes for the Tahoe
- wash the Tahoe
- Oil Change on the Tahoe (seeing a theme here?)
- Replace a sparking outlet
- clean the dust off the floor fan
So I’ve got a few things to do. Why am I sitting here typing? I just felt the need. I haven’t been writing much this week. Brain has been exhausted and stressed. Work has been one distraction after another keeping me from my major project. Roofers have been banging away on my roof. The rain we just got caused a few days of crushing pressure.
Despite all that I did manage to knock out a few thousand words, record, edit, and produce an episode of the Action Pack Podcast. Watch my favorite daughter play volleyball. And go eat some sushi with the Millicans. All in all it’s been a good week.
Sputtery Truck, you remember him, it doing great with no major issues. I’ll be getting him an oil change in the coming weeks as well.
Where am I with my writing? I’m quickly approaching the 375,000 word mark on the year. Yes, I’m just as astonished as you are. No, really. I’m floored by that number. I still have 2 1/2 months to go yes so I’m confident that I’ll be able to hit my 450,000 word mark on the year. I’ve already set up my spread sheet for next year, and I’ll share those goals in a future post.
My favorite daughter is taking a digital arts class for school. She needs to learn illustrator and photoshop. Got those for home now and I’ve been toying around with those. I’ve watched a few videos, tried out a couple of things. Just quick things that I’m not going to post just yet, but hopefully in the future I’ll have something for you to look at. Right now it’s just fun to play with a new toy. It has bitten into my writing time, but then so has Angry Birds. Now learning graphics has eating into my angry birds time 🙂
What else have I been up to? What? You mean that’s not enough? Okay, okay. Fine
I’m currently working on two secret projects. I will be producing these under different names under different blogs. I just want to see what happens with them when I’m not pushing or promoting my own work. I will be telling a select few, getting their input, and seeing what happens from there. Both of them will be very different, but fun all the same. Of course this means I’ll have two more URLs to register for these two projects and hopefully they’ll pay off in the end.
What? You want more? Okay then.
Mike Plested and I have completed our beta edits on Jack Kane and the Statue of Liberty. What does this mean to you? It means that if you have a computer, an e-reader, and/or an email address you can send me a message, comment on this post, DM me in twitter, message me on facebook, or however you want to contact me, and I’ll send you a beta copy of the story. There’s no rush to get this back. We’re just looking for readers to get opinions, feedback, and spot any issues that we might have overlooked in the writing. Interested? No? Okay, it’s a YA SteamPunk Super Hero novel. Interested now? Drop me a line.
That about sums it up for what’s going on around here. I’ll try to do this more frequently once again. Now that I’ve gotten on a better writing cycle, I feel better about posting daily (or semi-daily). We’ll see how it goes.
Until Tomorrow (Maybe!)!
WOO WOO!
Daily Update: Where’s Jay Been?
Wow, it’s been a LONG time since I posted here. This will likely be a brief post. I’m sorry about that. Let’s try and sum up, shall we?
My Favorite Daughter is doing AWESOME with her volleyball. The team had a rocky start, but they’ve really pulled it together and dominated their last few games. They’ve got another game tonight (2 a week) a tournament on Saturday (the second of two) and should end up with a winning record at the end of the season. I couldn’t be more proud at how well she’d advanced over the past year with her playing. As for school she’s taking honors classes, AP classes, has an incredible workload and combined with volleyball is keeping very busy. Even with all that going on she’s holding up an ‘A’ average and, again, I couldn’t be more proud.
The wife has gone back to work. She took her mandatory time off over the summer and is quite happy to be back at H&R Block. She doesn’t do taxes, she does a lot of admin type work so her busy season in now versus after the 1st of the year when people want their taxes done. She’s in charge of things like setting up the hiring interviews, making sure the tax pros have done all their training, setting up the offices, working with the office leaders, and so much more I lose track at times.
My work is about as busy as it can be. I had one major project wind down and another wind up. I’m knee deep in a project that I started two years ago. The first iteration fell into the swamp. Last year we had new requirements and did the same project again. That one burned and then fell into the swamp. This year we’ve taken on more requirements and we’re building on the foundation from the previous two years and hopefully this one will have HUGE tracts of land…er…be successful for what the clients are looking for. Fortunately that issues have never been from my end, but rather due to issues with one of the systems we’re trying to interface with. I’ve got my fingers crossed this will all come together.
On the writing front. Well, I took a good break. I didn’t intend to stop writing, but I did have a large dip when I stopped doing the daily updates. I don’t know that I’ll do them daily, but I might start doing them more now that I’m at a better place with my fiction writing. I didn’t want my blogging to be a major portion of the words I wrote this year and that was happening. I was blogging a lot, and not writing any fiction. I’ve reversed that trend and I’ve gotten so things in the works.
In the time I’ve been silent I’ve written 3 new short stories and have submitted those to pro-level magazines. I’ve also re-written a couple older stories that I loved (one around 15,000 words) and submitted those to pro-level magazines as well. In all I have 7 pieces out waiting for replies. One has been short-listed (meaning it might get picked up) and one has been accepted by an anthology. The others are in various stages of waiting, a couple have been rejected at least once, but I’m keeping them out there until they find a home this time. I would love to self-publish them, but I think I want that validation that my writing is something others are taking seriously and being that I see lots of downloads of my works, I see almost no comments. If you’ve read something of mine, I’d love to hear what you thought.
An interesting note. I had thoughts that the lack of my posting on this blog would mean a complete lack of traffic on the site. I’m amazed to see that people are still stopping by and checking things out. That warms my heart more than you can know. I’ll try to keep posting on a slightly more irregular basis. I have words to write before I start work so…
Until Tomorrow (or next time)!
WOO WOO!
Action Pack Podcast S01E06
Action Pack Podcast S01E06.
The latest episode of the Action pack Podcast is now ready for your enjoyment. Please down, listen, and enjoy (not necessarily in that order)
Weekly Rant – Not just silly, but stupid
Back when I was a kid we watched a lot of television in the evenings intended for family viewing. Shows like Happy Days, The Brady Bunch, I even remember watching old movies like Abbot and Costello and the Monkees. All of these wire similar in that they were funny most of the time and other moments serious. Overall lighthearted shows that were fun to watch then and I’m sure I would still enjoy then today. Well, maybe not so much the Monkees, but I’d be willing to give them a chance.
Many sit-coms I watched as a kid were silly, funny, some a little over the top, but they concentrated on one of a handful of characters with a great supporting cast. I can’t point to one older show I used to watch and think… wow, this is just stupid.
Then there are the shows my favorite daughter likes to watch. It started with the Hanna Montana days and The Amanda Bynes show. These shows played a lot on older plot lines from the shows I used to watch so I’d know what was going to happen long before it happened. The shows were funny and often times silly. Playing on the success of these shows many other shows spawned off. Drake and Josh came directly from the Amanda Bynes show. It was alright, but sometimes dipped into the “are they really doing that” realm, but was still a watchable, even if predictable, show.
Yes, I watch a lot of TV with my favorite daughter. Often times against my will and many times while I’m sitting and writing. As my favorite daughter would say. “DON’T JUDGE ME!”
Recently she’s started to watch a number of newer shows on both Disney and Nickelodeon. From shows like Big Time Rush that plays on the story lines from the Monkees, but dipping into the really dumb humor. Not just dumb, but downright stupid. Even then there are still points in the show that I feel are alright as this a band doing silly things. I get that. It’s what they’re trying to do.
But then I see some newer shows she’s watching. Each character no matter how minor has an over the top personality and does things that no real person would do. Not just silly or dumb things, but stupid and annoying. To the point it makes the shows unwatchable. At least to me. When my favorite daughter would watch Hanna Montana she would laugh, giggle, and sometimes even think. These new shows I’ll watch her as she watches the shows and she doesn’t laugh, she more wrinkles her face in confusion. I finally had to ask.
Me: Are you even enjoying this show?
MFD: Not really. This is kind of dumb.
Me: Dumb? How so?
MFD: People don’t act like that. This is just stupid.
I don’t think she’s canceled any of her recordings, but it’s nice to see that she’s at least steering away from these shows. Much like some reality shows I can feel my IQ dropping the longer the television is on. There’s no moral. There’s no point. There’s little entertainment. I see almost nothing of conversational value.
Who are these shows hoping to attract? Is there really a generation of kids out there that feel this is quality entertainment? That this is a good way to spend their time? I used to think that all movies and TV shows were aimed at 13 year old girls (and sometimes boys) but now I see these shows and can’t understand what their target audience is.
I try to avoid television as much as possible. I really do. But it’s not always that easy. I think I’ll throw another book at my favorite daughter and see how she responds. Perhaps I need to write faster to she’ll have more to read. Yeah, that’s the ticket. I’ll go write something.
Until Next Time!
WOO WOO!
Daily Update: Going Dark
Yes, I’ve had a blast posting my Daily Updates. I’m not sure if they’ve helped or hindered my writing process .For the time being I’m going to stop posting them and concentrate on writing fiction. If I have news, I’ll post about it. If I don’t, you won’t hear from me for a while. Just saying.
Why? I need to get some regular fiction written. I’ve got my eye on a couple of anthologies that I’d like to submit to. I want to get some short fiction out to magazines. I’d like to finish Of Gnomes and Dwarves: Book 1. I’d like to finish To Fall From the Sky. I’d like to write a lot more fiction.
Now, yes, the daily updates only take a short amount of time to write, but I don’t think they’re helping with my over all goal. Yes I ramble. Yes I’m getting words out. But I’m not getting any actual content out there. I need to be doing more of that and less of this.
I’m not sure if I’ll continue with my weekly rants and Unorthodox Writing Tips or not. Again, I’m not accomplishing what I want to do with those so I figure, why continue doing something if it’s not working. So the entire blog may go dark. I will post more erratically, but my posts will be more updates on what’s happening and if, as I said, something important happens.
As far as something important: The story I submitted to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine has moved from the 1st round to the 2nd round. I think I’ve sent over a dozen stories to them over th years and this is the first to make it past the first round. This is exciting for me. I’m very happy with the story. For it to advance is a huge step. It will sit in round 2 for 2-3 weeks before it gets moved into round 3 where it may sit for 2-3 months before getting picked up to be published. Yes, publishing is a very slow process.
This has been a huge boost to my confidence in that I think I’m finally doing something right. This is one of the main reasons I’ve decided to go dark on the blog for the coming days so I can concentrate on what I need to do to get my blog to where I want it and to get my writing more advanced than it currently is. I need more fiction out there and I want to pick up more publishing credits.
So if you need me, I’ll still be around. Just not as active.
Until Next Time!
WOO WOO!
Unorthodox Writing Tips 41 – Once you stumble
I had an unbroken streak of writing daily updates that ran from the beginning of the year until just a few weeks ago. That streak broke while I was on vacation and I had intended to get back on the horse once I arrived at home. I got a few out, but not as consistently as I had done. It’s not so daily anymore, but rather than focus on what happened, I need to focus on what I need to do to get back on track.
Combined with the loss of focus, there are also a number of other things that are weighing on my mind. None of these things are under my control and there’s really nothing I can do about them, yet I’ve been obsessing about them for a few days now.
One was the loss of a family pet. You get very attached to animals. It’s not easy to just say “Oh, it was just a dog.” There’s now a hole where that dog used to be. It was very difficult for my favorite daughter to take and I keep worrying about her.
There’s also submissions I have out that I’ve been waiting to hear word back from. For several months now. Waiting sucks and while I obsess about one thing, why not a few others.
Then I read a few bad reviews of a story I wrote. The people I sold the story to loved it. It’s not getting bashed because the writing is bad. So I shouldn’t let this get to me. But I have.
And finally there is someone online that I respect and based on comments I’ve read and posts I’ve read from this person, I get the feeling that this person thinks I’m an internet troll for some reason. I could reach out to this person, but I’ve only had one interaction over the years and that was in person, not over the internet. So I’m unsure how the person really thinks of me. This has bothered my deeply but rather than be an internet troll and reach out to the person and ask “What did I do and how can I correct this?” I think the best course of action is to just avoid contact with the person all together. The last thing I want to do is gain the reputation of being an internet troll or anything like that.
So with all this weighing on my mind, it’s been difficult for me to type up words. Yes, I’ve been obsessing. Yes. I need to stop obsessing. How? I need to take my own advice. Just sit down and write. If I’m in the mood or not, the only way to get back on track is to sit and type like a fury. None of these things are under my control and as difficult as it might be to put them aside it’s better for me to just move forward.
I can’t bring a dog back from the dead. I can’t make a publisher or agent read my submission faster, I can’t change people’s feelings about my story (and it’s folly to try). I also can’t change a person’s feeling about me if, as I suspect, those feelings have been there for a long time.
What can I control? My word count. I can sit and write my stories. I can escape into my own little world that I have complete control over and have my characters do my bigging. I can bring them to life and hopefully entertain people along the way. I have a blast when I write and it helps me forget about all those things in my life that are out of my control. Even if it’s only for an hour a day, that little bit will get me further along.
Yes, I stumbled. I have a hole in my daily streak of writing. But I had a wonderful vacation. Yes, there are things that are outside my ability to control, but shouldn’t stop me from writing. I need to take a page from Jay Lake. The man has cancer. Again. This is the fourth time for him and the outlook is bleak. He’s still blogging daily. I’m not 100% sure but I think he’s still writing fiction daily. He’s a mess mentally (if you read his blog you’ll understand why) but he’s still writing. Yes, I can obsess and still write.
You can do the same. You can be depressed and still write. You can have something in your life that you can’t control and still write. If you have free time you can sit down and type words. Writing can be therapeutic. It may even help you get past that which you’re obsessing about. You might even be able to channel that negative energy into your character, have them deal with a similar situation, and have them resolve it. Write what you know. Use that negative energy to your benefit.
I’m going to go do that right now.
Until Next Time!
WOO WOO!
Weekly Rant: Coming up Next
You know what I love about sporting events. You never know what’s going to happen. Oh, sure, you can assume Team A is going to beat Team B because the score is 7 – 0, but there have been those miracle upsets. Basically it’s the element of surprise. Will there be an upset? Will the team come out of this slump and win? Should I cheer for the underdog in this event?
Then we get televised sporting events. For the most part these are broadcast live. You still don’t know what’s going to happen until it actually happens. If it’s a close game you’ll be on the edge of your seat cheering for your team to hold it together long enough to win.
I won’t go into NBC’s coverage of the Olympics.
Then there are times you’ll go to the movies. There might be a trailer for a movie you want to see and the trailer will entice you. It’ll hint at just enough to pique your curiosity and give you just enough that you need to go see that movie.
On the flip side, there are trailers that sum up a movie in 2 minutes, give you all the best lines, and then you feel no compulsion to go see the movie whatsoever. What’s the point when they pretty much showed you the build up, the conflict, resolution, and ending? Do they not know how to make a trailer that doesn’t give away the movie?
Then we get back to television. There are so many shows on now days that if you record something you might accidentally hear about this, that, or the other thing if you’re not careful. It’s not always easy. Some people like to save up an entire season and it can all be blown away by one stray tweet or facebook post. But for the most part, regular television is safe in that you usually don’t know what’s going to happen until it happens.
There there’s all the reality shows on television. Nearly any reality television at this point. Be it a cooking show, housewives, Kardashians, property buying/renovation, etc. If you watch the first 30-60 seconds of the show, they’ll show you all the good parts of the show. Then they’ll show the ‘coming up’ on the first commercial break. And again on the next commercial break. Before it gets to the end of the show you’ll know everything that’s going to happen 15 minutes before it happens and it’s very anti-climatic. They’ll show the exciting parts all at the beginning and what’s the point of watching the show.
The wife and I were watching TV last night and a backyard renovation program came on. In the first 30 seconds of the program they showed the before of the back yard, the demolition, the construction, and the finished job. I blinked and thought, well, there’s 30 minutes I don’t need to waste.
This is becoming more and more common in a lot of different shows. I have to wonder, they’ve got 20 minutes or so of program to fill a 30 minute time slot (yes, some shows have crazy amounts of commercials). They’ll spend 5 minutes of their programming to show you what’s coming up next. If you didn’t record the program, you’ll know and you can skip that next segment of the program. Do they have so little content that they need to fill it in with ‘coming up’? Is their show so uninteresting that they need to give away all the excitement that might build up? Why bother making the program if you’re just going to give away all the good bits before they happen?
As a writer, it’s all about the element of surprise. You want to hint at things and build up and then slap the reader in the face. If I put something at the beginning of my book that said “Coming up in 150 pages, you’ll see Character X kill Character Y in a surprise twist that pits a man against his long lost brother. The rest is all build up so just skip ahead 150 pages to see his incredible death as the sword pierces his heart and suffer the anguish as Character X realized what he’s done.” Well, what’s the point in reading the story? Even reading the climax? You now know what’s going to happen. The rest is all just BS filler now because there’s no surprise. No excitement. Where’s the fun in that?
I do my best to steer clear of reality television. I try to DVR all I can. I do my best to fast forward when I see “Coming up!” I really do. It’s not always that easy. I think this is why I like watching something on NetFlix or DVD that I know nothing about. Like Cowboy BeBob that I just started watching. I know nothing about this show. I know it’s Anime. It’s gotten some great ratings. It looks interesting. So I started watching it. I can tell you that I’m not hooked just yet, but I’m going to give it a few episodes. I got hooked on Full Metal Alchemist rather quickly.
What do you do when you’re watching a program? Does the ‘Coming Up Next’ portion bother you? Do you skip ahead? DVR? NetFlix? Avoid TV? I’d love to hear from you.
Until Next Time!
WOO WOO!
J.R. Murdock 