Ouch (and some TV-show recaps)!

Yo folks. Foot is gouty again, grr. Not severely so, but it's there. If it becomes a full-grown flare, it would be the first attack since March 2006 when I was in Perth. But whatever, I'll deal with it. Serves me right for neglecting to take the meds, heh. Sigh. Ouch.

Anyways right now I'm working three days a week, Sundays to Tuesdays, with the rest of the week focusing on my music (theoretically). It's pretty cool that my company allows me to do this, but it sucks that I've got to get (appropriately) a 50% pay cut. Ouch.

Still, that should give me more time for A Christmas Carol (which opens in about three weeks, shriek!) and The Edge (which resumes rehearsals in a few weeks, shriek!). And in about an hour I'm meeting some people to discuss FTL (which, if it happens, would be in about a year, shriek!) Ouch.

On a totally separate matter, I guess it's pretty clear that I ain't gonna do the recaps for tv shows as I did last year and which I'd promised for this year. But I am gonna mention a couple of things (SPOILER WARNING!! Read no further if you don't wanna know!)

First off, Supernatural. The show has really upped its endgame this season. Y'see, last season ended with the older brother Dean being killed by a demon's hellhounds and being dragged off to an eternity in hell. The final scene of season 3 showed Dean in some purgatory-like place with hooks through his body, bleeding while he screamed for his brother to save him. Ouch.

Cut to Season 4, where Dean wakes up in a grave, well and alive. He makes his way out, eventually finds his way back to his shocked brother, but is seemingly pursued by an invisible force that creates an awful high-pitched ringing when it manifests that destroys objects and shatters glass. They visit a psychic, whose eyes get burned out when she demands to see this invisible force. The boys are terrified: what is this force, and how does it have the power to pull Dean out of hell? What does it want in return, and how come other demons are terrified of it??

Eventually we do come face-to-face with this entity, and the reveal is awesomeness exemplified. The force powerful enough to yank Dean out of Hades is an angel, sent from heaven on God's bidding to save Dean from the flames. And thus Supernatural adds another layer of complexity to the plot, notching the series up to epic apocalyptic level, by incorporating the belief that if there is a hell and there are demons, then there must be a heaven and angels, both fighting on opposite sides — with the boys caught in the middle. Dean asks the angel, "Why me?" and the angel says, in what has to be the show's best episode-ending scene, "Because God commanded it. Because He has work for you."

Awesome.


On another note, fans of the J Love Hewitt-led Ghost Whisperer are in an uproar over the latest episode, where her loving, supportive husband Jim is killed. In a terrible cliff-hanging scene, he sits by her side and tells her to remember him this way and that he loves her... and then she looks at the hospital bed and sees that her husband is dead, and she is talking to his ghost. Many are decrying the horribleness (horribility??) of this plot development as he's been her rock for the past three and a half seasons... but I, for one, am interested to see where this goes, because apparently the dude who plays her husband isn't leaving the show (at least, not just yet). Methinks this is just to give the dude something more to do on the series. Now, if only they could do the same for the lovely, talented but indecently underused Camryn Manheim, too...

Finally, is anyone watching Chuck? Awesomeness. "Carmichael. Charles Carmichael." Totally cool. And on the flipside, Brothers and Sisters is getting a tad less interesting than previous seasons, what with the development of the siblings' purported half-sister Rebecca discovering that she isn't their half-sister, only to end up dating and sleeping with the youngest brother Justin, while another new half-sibling has emerged on the horizon. The hunt for the latest purported half-sibling continues. It's still rather engrossing — but only if the Justin-Rebecca thing doesn't gross you out first.

Oh look. I guess I did do a tv-show recap after all.

Ouch.