I should probably just
start this off with admitting that I’m not all that thrilled so far with
Superstition. I’m still trying to
determine why exactly but I am leaning more and more toward the fact that I may
just be tired of everything that happens having to do with some external, and
mostly evil, force. It’s not that
I have a problem with the supernatural or even the fact that there really are
(or aren’t – whichever you think is fine with me!) external forces, both
good and evil, out there. It’s
more that I just want something good to happen (like Frank asking Karen to marry
him) that isn’t because someone has triumphed over bloodsuckers, come back to
earth in human form, or lit a candle. I
just wanted them to want to get married, so sue me.
It’s possible that I’m just suffering from an overall need for good
old soap opera romance since lately the only shows I catch are GH and PC and GH
is definitely lacking in that department. PC
does better, but I’m tired of the only romance I’m seeing being between
people that either aren’t alive anymore or people that are being driven
half-nuts by vampires, angels or candles.
There have been things
I’ve enjoyed lately though, mostly the humor that has been more up-front so
far during this arc. And I was
overjoyed to see Rafe and Ed again. Their
dialogue is ridiculous, corny and still absolutely hysterical to me (don’t
forget, GH is not funny these days so I’m deprived of humor too!). Ed, swatting Rafe on the arm, says “You better straighten up and fly right” and I am
grinning away. Conscience duty?
Priceless stuff. Have I mentioned that I love them? Anyway, let’s get to the “commenting”. You should know that my cable has been the bane of my
existence lately, which translates to: I have missed several days over the last
while. So forgive me if I am way
out of line with my comments according to what you saw, because I probably
didn’t see it. I have read the
ABC recaps which are not much help but at least it was something. Feel free to correct me, but don’t yell at me!
I’ll give you my cable company’s number if you want to rant at
someone J!
Livvie is oscillating
between half-sanity and complete lunacy. I’m
trying not to be too hard on her, I realize she’s been through things that
would make her a little paranoid but she is handling it like a crazy person.
Burn all your best friend’s favorite treasured belongings??
She’s flakier than grandma’s piecrust.
Seeing Jack lately with Jamal and Alison (without Livvie in the vicinity)
has reminded me that he is my least favorite character (no problem with BP’s
acting, just the character!) mainly due to his proximity to Livvie.
And not to be too snotty about it, but that whack on the head shut her up
now didn’t it?
Paige was annoying,
Rebecca is even more annoying – who would have guessed?
I thought Lucy’s idea
about the candle shop was very “Lucy like” and made sense.
If real people found candles that affected how people felt and acted, you
better believe they’d be available for $9.99
at your local store before you could say “light one up”.
Jamal and Livvie are
apparently speed readers, it was nothing short of amazing the way they plowed
through those stacks of papers Livvie (who is also apparently a master
researcher because for me to come out of the library with that much useful stuff
copied I would need days, if not weeks) had. Sometimes Jamal had only to glance at the sheet to know an
entire story about Rebecca – I guess the days of plopping characters at a
table with piles of paper and then coming back to them a day later to see them
exhausted, surrounded by empty take-out containers but ready to recap what they
have found, are over.
Isn’t Karen looking
great lately? Maybe it’s just
that (until this week anyway) she’s smiling more or something. And I have to say too that I find Ricky way less boring when
he’s around Karen. I like Frank
and Karen okay too so I’m not saying I want this to go where it may be going,
but Ricky and Karen seemed to have a little chemistry and Ricky is another one
that looks much better when he smiles. And
I had absolutely no use for Ricky before that so…I’ll wait and see!
I don’t know if it’s
because I know it’s not her real hair or what, but Rebecca’s hair is just
awful. Very fake looking.
Yea Frank!
Something weird happens and what does he do?
Runs straight to doctor Kevin, before I could even order him to!
I liked that for a change. One
problem though was Kevin assuming that just because Frank mentioned a candle
that it was linked to the other candles around town.
Last I heard Glade still manufactures more candles than Rebecca.
I thought the stuff with
Chris and the cop was funny. I do
wonder though about the wisdom of burning a candle in a closed space such as an
elevator – particularly when there is heavy breathing going on.
Oh, Karen, you put up
with me calling you a whore and pushing you around a bit the other day and it
made me realize that you are a keeper (that is essentially what he said, I
swear, replay your tape!). Please
will you marry me??? And she says
yes. Great.
And, on top of that, in the middle of the proposal he decides that the
mood isn’t quite right, and that’s because even though there are about 30
candles distributed on every possible flat surface in the room, he needs to
light three more to make it perfect? Whatever.
So, IF we believe
Rebecca, then the candles aren’t evil and can’t make a person feel something
they don’t already feel. She said
they bring out what is already in a persons heart.
That does explain why different people feel different things around the
same candles. Chris, for instance,
wasn’t immediately affected like the policewoman was, which makes sense since
he is still mourning Eve and isn’t his usual skirt-chasing self.
And the Trouble candle definitely affected Livvie much more than Jack.
It’s an interesting idea to have these candles bring out what people
are truly feeling. Livvie has
obvious fears about her mother’s mental problems passing on to her. As for Frank, well, he has some big problems in there
somewhere! At first I thought maybe
it was some sort of fear of intimacy, but when he brought up Karen’s past as a
stripper I realized they are probably just going for the fact that he has
repressed fears about her past. Thus
the Desire candle brings out the worst in him and he sees her sexuality as
negative. Poor Karen, hasn’t she
been through all that a time or two?
The candles can’t make
you do anything that you didn’t somewhere, down deep want to happen.
Scary! And they can magnify
your deepest fears. Scarier! Move
out of town, all of you, now! With
all the stuff in your closets, you people are in serious trouble.
I also wonder if we
don’t maybe need to add a few characters (permanent ones) sometime soon.
Who are Kevin and Lucy going to cheat on each other with next?
There are no prospects on canvas for Chris.
Ian either (after proper mourning).
And keep Kevin away from
Rebecca in case he has repressed longing for Paige. I do not want to watch that!
Thanks for reading!
I love to hear what you’re thinking so thanks for writing too!
Sherry
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