Pon Farr

May 14th, 2007Blog0 comments

Recommended: The Lost Room, a Sci-Fi Channel mini-series. You probably already know the premise; saying more about it here would spoil too much. It’s on DVD now, so I think that you should just watch it.

One thing I would like to remark about the series is how enemies become allies become enemies become allies; they also did a great job with the idea of how fanboyism/subcultures can develop around a seemingly paranormal phenomenon. Just watch it and we’ll talk about it afterwards.

I am getting more and more agitated as The Sopranos draws to a close. There are three episodes left after last night’s. And last night’s episode was pretty massive on the Richter scale.

It’s going to feel weird knowing that the show is over. Before I would equate it to the death of an individual, but thinking about it now, that doesn’t seem like an apt comparison. The show really feels like more of a novel than a serialized TV show. Now we’re coming upon the last few pages. Although maybe I am trying to avoid anthropomorphizing the show so I can feel less sad about its ending. I like the show that much.

Seeing the end is kind of nice because it gives completion to the thing. There it all is, on the shelf, final from front to back. The end of something resonates as powerfully with its contents as its beginning. We’ll see how this all goes.