No spoilers here, but I very much enjoyed the House season premiere. Yes, there were some things, especially in the last 20 minutes, that required a suspension of disbelief/were fixed too easily, but that’s why TV is a guilty pleasure (for me, at least) – I don’t want to analyze it to death. I definitely teared up at the Talent Show part and the music box.  Hugh Laurie was oh so good in this episode.

I would like to pull together some coherent thoughts on a single topic, but after an hour of trying and failing, I am thinking it is just not going to happen. There are about five different things I could babble about and yet I keep starting paragraphs and erasing sentences.

Do you know what I HATE? Overhearing people talk about TV shows and getting really simple plot details confused/wrong. I also hate overhearing people talk about “you know that movie, with that guy, when he’s doing that thing and there’s that other guy…” when the movie they’re trying to figure out is REALLY OBVIOUS.

This should not bother me because a) I rarely see movies. I have not seen most of the “classic” movies of my generation (Dirty Dancing, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Star Wars,  Pulp Fiction), and therefore, have no place to judge others for not being able to figure out a movie and b) Ditto for TV shows.

HOWEVER, given that, if the movie is something that even I know, then EVERYONE should know it without having to play the “you know that movie where…” game, because I’m pretty sure that everybody knows that movie with Morgan Freeman, where they’re in prison, in like the 50s, and the other guy, Morgan Freeman’s friend,  Didn’t Do It, and he escapes.

I hope I didn’t spoil Shawshank for anyone. That’s actually my favorite movie ever, even though a) based on the evidence, Andy Duphrane would have never been convicted. Prosecution definitely doesn’t meet burden of proof and b) I actually had someone explain to me a long theory about how Andy Duphrane was actually guilty, and I was just like “No, shut up, Andy Duphrane would never kill his wife, but then it had me thinking and is that the point? Are we really not supposed to know if he’s guilty or not? Because the movie does a pretty obvious job of the “Andy is like, for real innocent” angle. I’ve really only skimmed the short story, so I don’t know if it’s more ambiguous in writing.

I would like to adjust my attitude as of late to be more like Morgan Freeman in the last ten minutes of that movie, where he hopes because “Hope is a good thing. Maybe even the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.”

Given the details that I’m not going to go into exactly WHY House last night was especially touching,  maybe I would do well to remember that thing about hope. Especially given my daily existential crises about the future. But that’s another entry all together. Although not one of the five things I was thinking of when I sat down to write today.