55\u00a0 bar steep rise 0mph E dew-point 39\u00a0 Beltane<\/p>\n
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Kate cleared a bunch of dogwood canes, pulled up weeds, pruned out a juniper (yesterday), deadheaded the daffodils and generally worked herself into a stupor. (In Norwegian, this is a good thing.)\u00a0 She’s been on vacation this week and has enjoyed herself immensely planting, pruning, carrying.\u00a0 (Again, in Norwegian, this constitutes a vacation.)\u00a0 I admire and appreciate her doggedness, but it doesn’t count as a\u00a0vacation attitude in my Celtic\/Germanic perspective.\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever turns your crank.<\/p>\n
Battlestar Galactica is the most nuanced and unpredictable show on television, bar none.\u00a0 It is a good science fiction novel brought to the screen and that is so rare as to be a marvel, a marvel that continues week after week.\u00a0 There no good guys and bad guys, no bad robots and good robots.\u00a0 No, there are humans and robots who, in some situations, act for the common good and, in other situations, act out of selfish or malicious motives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Science Fiction channel will finish the Battlestar Galactica series this season, but it will not tail off into the land of unfinished television shows. It will end as a novel ends, with an ending that ties together various plotlines and provides a final surprise and aha.\u00a0 How do I know?\u00a0 Because that’s how good writing works, and this is good writing.\u00a0 I would like to see this as a precedent for TV shows where the story has a trajectory, a climax and a denouement, not the eternal extension of the storyline in a cynical attempt to exploit viewer interest for every last drop of advertiser revenue.\u00a0 Viewers will return if the fiction has characters with complex lives, difficult hurdles to overcome and a convincing fate.<\/p>\n
More work outside tomorrow.\u00a0 This may be the last big push for a while since Kate goes back to work on Tuesday and I have MIA and a docent class luncheon on Monday with Woolly’s in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
55\u00a0 bar steep rise 0mph E dew-point 39\u00a0 Beltane \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon Kate cleared a bunch of dogwood canes, pulled up weeds, pruned out a juniper (yesterday), deadheaded the daffodils and generally worked herself into a stupor. (In Norwegian, this is a good thing.)\u00a0 She’s been on vacation this week and has enjoyed … Continue reading It Will End as a Novel Ends<\/span>