Venting Jordon

I couldn't resist going over to the IMDB and venting my opinion about Crossing Jordon:

Predictable and not authentic

The series is supposedly set in Boston, but is about as authentically Bostonian as a Philly cheese steak (I think it's mostly filmed in Toronto - it's DEFINITELY not filmed in Boston). Apart from that, I found it painfully predictable. Some episodes haven't just *blurred* the line between real science and the supernatural, they've plowed up the ground that the line was drawn on and dynamited the underlying bedrock.

In other words, for a show which purports to have a mystery element, the writers simply don't play fair with the viewers.

The show also suffers from more than a tinge of "Providence" syndrome - the heroine is SOOO perfect, almost always right when she bucks the system (except for a few "very special" plots where she makes a mistake"), and every man is in love with her. Annoying!

I did like the characters of Bug and Nigel. They were funny and well-acted. But they don't make up for poor writing and utterly stale plots.

I suspect the comment will get a lot of bad ratings from fans of the show. Oh well.

Venting Jordon

I couldn't resist going over to the IMDB and venting my opinion about Crossing Jordon:

Predictable and not authentic

The series is supposedly set in Boston, but is about as authentically Bostonian as a Philly cheese steak (I think it's mostly filmed in Toronto - it's DEFINITELY not filmed in Boston). Apart from that, I found it painfully predictable. Some episodes haven't just *blurred* the line between real science and the supernatural, they've plowed up the ground that the line was drawn on and dynamited the underlying bedrock.

In other words, for a show which purports to have a mystery element, the writers simply don't play fair with the viewers.

The show also suffers from more than a tinge of "Providence" syndrome - the heroine is SOOO perfect, almost always right when she bucks the system (except for a few "very special" plots where she makes a mistake"), and every man is in love with her. Annoying!

I did like the characters of Bug and Nigel. They were funny and well-acted. But they don't make up for poor writing and utterly stale plots.

I suspect the comment will get a lot of bad ratings from fans of the show. Oh well.

Habeus Corpus

You might want to read this: The White House Warden

BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.

Emphasis added, because I think it's necessary. And it gets worse from there. Once this bill is signed - and it will be, very soon - we will no longer be free.

The Supreme Court may overturn some or even all of it, but I wouldn't count on it.

Habeus Corpus

You might want to read this: The White House Warden

BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.

Emphasis added, because I think it's necessary. And it gets worse from there. Once this bill is signed - and it will be, very soon - we will no longer be free.

The Supreme Court may overturn some or even all of it, but I wouldn't count on it.