We were watching Instinct tonight while having dinner (after using the BBQ, chicken on the BBQ tastes better than baked chicken any day).\u00a0 The episode we were watching featured a story about an author who was dying of cancer and decided to use her time left to enact revenge on the people who wronged her.\u00a0 However, what stood out to me was that the authors featured in the story all lived in large spacious homes in New York City.<\/p>\n
Of course the story explained it to me as a wealthy lover paying the bills for his mistress, the unpublished author, and the published author, who happened to be the lover’s ex-wife, was a famous author who had written a few books.\u00a0 So in the end these spacious homes sort of make sense… I guess.\u00a0 However, I’ve been to New York a few times, and I’ve seen features and stories about the price of homes in New York City and I wonder how accurate are they really.<\/p>\n
Then when I dissect the episode I find I missed the writer’s point – to enjoy the story.\u00a0 It was a great story, a successful author, who’s lost her mother, father and siblings in a car accident, has her best story ever written stolen.\u00a0 A woman who marries and has her husband cheat on her repeatedly and store a mistress in Tribeca.\u00a0 Then this woman has cancer and decides the dish of revenge is just cold enough to be served.\u00a0 She murders the mistress and blames it on the man who stole her idea.<\/p>\n
The story was great, if not overshadows by a main plot about Lizzie’s deceased fiance and a chance he was crooked before his death.\u00a0 \u00a0I have to admire writers for television they always have to have the long game in mind (even when the show is cancelled – Deception).\u00a0 Now a days television makes comebacks, Will & Grace, Roseanne, Full House.\u00a0 \u00a0Killing a character isn’t as commonplace (unless you’re Grey’s Anatomy, then it just feels like a cheap thrill – but that’s a whole different story for another day).\u00a0 You want to have your original cast if you bring it back, it’s a boasting factor – all the original cast!<\/p>\n
Writers for television have to think in seasons while still giving fans a thrill in 30-60 mins (more like 20-45 once you take out the commercials).\u00a0 They have to weave a web so intricate you keep coming back for more while giving you enough in a single episode to not feel like you wasted your time.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s elegant the way it is pulled off and other times it can feel rushed and thrown in.<\/p>\n
I get that, it’s my big beef with book 2s, and they have to do season 2s and episode 2s.\u00a0 Going on my theory that number 2 isn’t always the least favourite for me.\u00a0 BBC’s Sherlock, Episode 2, Season 1 is the worst episode of all of them, in second place Episode 2, Season 2.\u00a0 However, Episode 2 season 3 is quite likely my favourite from the series.<\/p>\n
All this is to say – I’m still in writer’s block on Book 2… here’s to keeping at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"