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1. After all the BCS Bowls, I am very tired. These were some great games, but they really need to go back to having them on New Year's. I really didn't relish dragging my carcass into work having stayed up past 1 AM night after night.
2. Jesus is Jewish, right? Aren't there any stories about his Bar-Mitzvah? I hadn't thought about it until today, but now that I have, I really gotta know. What was His torah portion? Has somebody already done a "The Bar-Mitzvah of the Christ" or do I have to call up Mel?
3. Scrubs is back on, and it seems to have picked up nicely. They even did a nice bit tonight that did actually humanize Kelso just a little bit. Nice portrayal of the challenge of being in a position to have to make life and death decisions, when you have limited resources. While I do like the idea that we won't have to make compromises - that there is always a right and wrong way... I'm more interested by scarcities. By cases where there really is no obvious right choice. Stories where the question is, how do you make the hard choice. Not making the hard choice because it's there to do or to prove some point about yourself (see Wesley Windham-Price) but because circumstances genuinely require it. And it was great, because Dr. Bob Kelso is a character that no one is going to woobify or romanticize, as happens when the bastard in question is a self-pitying, handsome younger man. We see the glimmer under Kelso, that maybe he does have a heart and he does care. That he's not just a guy who runs a hospital - that he's a Doctor with some of the virtues that the profession can embody. But he's still Bob Kelso, and this illumination doesn't somehow magically excuse what he's been shown to be over the past five seasons. (And flashbacks indicating what he's been throughout his career.)
4. Continuing from above. Joss Whedon is creative and very clever. Bill Lawrence is better.
2. Jesus is Jewish, right? Aren't there any stories about his Bar-Mitzvah? I hadn't thought about it until today, but now that I have, I really gotta know. What was His torah portion? Has somebody already done a "The Bar-Mitzvah of the Christ" or do I have to call up Mel?
3. Scrubs is back on, and it seems to have picked up nicely. They even did a nice bit tonight that did actually humanize Kelso just a little bit. Nice portrayal of the challenge of being in a position to have to make life and death decisions, when you have limited resources. While I do like the idea that we won't have to make compromises - that there is always a right and wrong way... I'm more interested by scarcities. By cases where there really is no obvious right choice. Stories where the question is, how do you make the hard choice. Not making the hard choice because it's there to do or to prove some point about yourself (see Wesley Windham-Price) but because circumstances genuinely require it. And it was great, because Dr. Bob Kelso is a character that no one is going to woobify or romanticize, as happens when the bastard in question is a self-pitying, handsome younger man. We see the glimmer under Kelso, that maybe he does have a heart and he does care. That he's not just a guy who runs a hospital - that he's a Doctor with some of the virtues that the profession can embody. But he's still Bob Kelso, and this illumination doesn't somehow magically excuse what he's been shown to be over the past five seasons. (And flashbacks indicating what he's been throughout his career.)
4. Continuing from above. Joss Whedon is creative and very clever. Bill Lawrence is better.