I finished American Gothic with equal satisfaction and disappointment. My satisfaction came from Lucas’ masterfully done fake death and the neverending tension of the denouement between Lucas, Caleb and Merlyn. <\/p>\n
My disappointment lay in <\/p>\n
Additionally, Merlyn also suffered from devolution. She started off as a dull Pure Guardian Angel, then showed more ambivalence, texture and humanity when she borrowed an unborn baby’s soul in order to reincorporate and experience life again. After this, her increasingly violent and vengeful pursuit of Lucas — “an eye for an eye,” she said before trying to snap his neck in one ep — suggested less moral clarity and more moral greyness. Interestingly enough, she seemed as much in danger of abusing her powers and becoming like Lucas as Caleb was of becoming like Lucas. Then she reverted to her dull sacrificial state in the end and conveniently died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
After American Gothic, I have several options.<\/p>\n
I’ve always wanted to see Nip\/Tuck, and season 5<\/a> is on Hulu. I want to see if Julian McMahon can do a better job than he did in Charmed.<\/p>\n Roswell’s angle of powerful half-aliens living among us has intrigued me for a long time, since I’ve engaged in an epic on the same subject, so there’s season 1<\/a> of that on Hulu.<\/p>\n Select eps of Outer Limits,<\/a> an hour-long attempt at a modern Twilight Zone, are also on Hulu.<\/p>\n Though I’ve already blasted<\/a> New Amsterdam as boring, it’s still so bad that I can’t look away. Season 1 continues<\/a> on Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finished American Gothic with equal satisfaction and disappointment. My satisfaction came from Lucas’ masterfully done fake death and the neverending tension of the denouement between Lucas, Caleb and Merlyn. My disappointment lay in the reduction of Gail, once an interesting, assertive character, into a witless walking womb who, for some reason, was in love… Continue reading After American Gothic come other shows.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reproductive-rights-and-rape-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}