I have this nagging sense that I’ve kibitz about this before, but a quick glance over my saved blogs (dear lord they are starting to pile up) say I haven’t, so here I go.  Authorial Fait: when the author makes something happen because they just wanted it to happen, not because it makes plot or [...]

Forewarning: Spoilers for Lost Season 2 here-in. I forgot to grouse about one movie idiom that I really dislike, and it happens in horror quite a bit, but it also happens all over the place.  That is the death of the romantic interest to propel plot and drama.  Now, I don’t hate it completely.  It [...]

So, couple of my recent posts have been lamenting the lack of “day-to-day” interactions that are fairly telling of characters and happen whether we want them to or not, be it members of our family, birthdays, etc.  So, what better thing than to defend and profess some feelings on the exact reason they aren’t around?  [...]