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Sunday Afternoon Hodgepodge for June 7, 2009.
-Well, scratch JD from the suspect pool. I'm unsure yet whether Henry killed JD to prevent him from spilling the beans to anyone about what really happened on the day his parents died, or if Henry merely found JD before Abby did and then wandered off in search of help. Last night, I was willing to eliminate Henry as a suspect because they so clearly wanted him to be, but now I'm still betting on Henry. Abby offered him a picture of his family and then quickly recanted. Why would she recant? Why wouldn't Henry want a picture of his family, and why doesn't he have many pictures of them? Were they consumed in a fire? If so, it would lend credence to my suspicion that Henry blew up Officer Crispy and pretty much solidify my belief that Henry was and is the real terror of Harper's Island. Maybe they were confiscated when Henry went into a mental institution. Henry told Sheriff Mills that Uncle Marty and he forced JD into Bedlam, but what if that was revisionist history? What if they both went into the mental institution, with Henry better able to mimic normality than JD. JD was clearly depressed, but I'm betting Henry is a sociopath clever enough to finesse his way into a rich girl's knickers.
Sully said that JD and Henry "used to be" best friends. What happened to change that? It's clearly the linchpin to the current events on the island.
Sully's an ass, and I hope he dies painfully, but why is Madison's life more important than the others'? Because she's nine? Why is it perfectly acceptable to sacrifice the old and infirm in survival movies, but not children? Children are, by and large, every bit as useless as elders and cripples, but no one even considers sacrificing them to the dubious god of "the greater good". To even think it brands you a heartless asshole worthy of hellfire, but the same people who would stone you to death for suggesting it would cheerfully abandon the fat woman with a broken leg or the ninety-year-old chain smoker. Why does Madison's status as a child mean that strangers should potentially forfeit their lives to ensure her survival?
I was still glad when Trish slapped Sully stupid, however, because no one should be abandoned to a killer.
And Cal is awesome. He's like Colin Creevey all grown up. So very Gryffindor. I hope he lives, but fully expect him to die a noble death.
"It's all about you, Abby," JD wheezed. And it's all but certain that Abby Mills is Abby Wakefield. Is the killer John Wakefield, come to claim his daughter? Is it Sarah Mills, who faked her murder in a bid to escape from the secretly abusive Sheriff Mills, only to be driven insane? Is it Abby, killing people in a dissociative fugue? Is it Henry, killing because he is also a Wakefield descendant obsessed with Abby? Or is it Trish Wellington, who might sense Abby and Henry's connection and resent it? She's been looking decidedly odd of late, though this can also be attributed to grief. It could also be John, who's likely spent years stewing over Abby's rejection and abandonment. Each has a connection to Abby and could fulfill JD's cryptic dying declaration.
My money's still on Henry, but it's not as sure a lock as it was last week.
-I've been reading Dan Simmons' The Terror which is an atmospheric, delightfully creepy historical horror/suspense thriller about a lost Arctic expedition and what might have befallen the doomed crew. It's predicated on real events and historical figures, but skewed to the eerily fantastical, with a tongueless Eskimo witch and a formless creature stalking the Arctic wastes in search of blood.
-I've set aside Caleb Carr's Angels and Demons. It started out with such promise but eventually bogged down into a tired courtroom drama with a cast of fusty Victorian tightasses. Reading it was like tuning in to an episode of CSI, only to have the Ben stone-era cast of Law and Order crash through the set ceiling and stage a theatrical coup. Add that to the fact that I had scant sympathy for anyone except the Linares baby and the quiet Cyrus Montrose, and I simply decided to waste my increasingly myopic eyesight on more interesting fare. It's as disappointing and turgid as The Alienist was refreshing and exciting.
-I watched Pathfinder this morning. Pure cheese, but also chock full of Karl Urban manflesh, including a shot of his gloriously bare, copulating ass. Why you'd take time to bump uglies while hordes of armored Viking warriors are in search of you, I don't know, but mmmm.
Sully said that JD and Henry "used to be" best friends. What happened to change that? It's clearly the linchpin to the current events on the island.
Sully's an ass, and I hope he dies painfully, but why is Madison's life more important than the others'? Because she's nine? Why is it perfectly acceptable to sacrifice the old and infirm in survival movies, but not children? Children are, by and large, every bit as useless as elders and cripples, but no one even considers sacrificing them to the dubious god of "the greater good". To even think it brands you a heartless asshole worthy of hellfire, but the same people who would stone you to death for suggesting it would cheerfully abandon the fat woman with a broken leg or the ninety-year-old chain smoker. Why does Madison's status as a child mean that strangers should potentially forfeit their lives to ensure her survival?
I was still glad when Trish slapped Sully stupid, however, because no one should be abandoned to a killer.
And Cal is awesome. He's like Colin Creevey all grown up. So very Gryffindor. I hope he lives, but fully expect him to die a noble death.
"It's all about you, Abby," JD wheezed. And it's all but certain that Abby Mills is Abby Wakefield. Is the killer John Wakefield, come to claim his daughter? Is it Sarah Mills, who faked her murder in a bid to escape from the secretly abusive Sheriff Mills, only to be driven insane? Is it Abby, killing people in a dissociative fugue? Is it Henry, killing because he is also a Wakefield descendant obsessed with Abby? Or is it Trish Wellington, who might sense Abby and Henry's connection and resent it? She's been looking decidedly odd of late, though this can also be attributed to grief. It could also be John, who's likely spent years stewing over Abby's rejection and abandonment. Each has a connection to Abby and could fulfill JD's cryptic dying declaration.
My money's still on Henry, but it's not as sure a lock as it was last week.
-I've been reading Dan Simmons' The Terror which is an atmospheric, delightfully creepy historical horror/suspense thriller about a lost Arctic expedition and what might have befallen the doomed crew. It's predicated on real events and historical figures, but skewed to the eerily fantastical, with a tongueless Eskimo witch and a formless creature stalking the Arctic wastes in search of blood.
-I've set aside Caleb Carr's Angels and Demons. It started out with such promise but eventually bogged down into a tired courtroom drama with a cast of fusty Victorian tightasses. Reading it was like tuning in to an episode of CSI, only to have the Ben stone-era cast of Law and Order crash through the set ceiling and stage a theatrical coup. Add that to the fact that I had scant sympathy for anyone except the Linares baby and the quiet Cyrus Montrose, and I simply decided to waste my increasingly myopic eyesight on more interesting fare. It's as disappointing and turgid as The Alienist was refreshing and exciting.
-I watched Pathfinder this morning. Pure cheese, but also chock full of Karl Urban manflesh, including a shot of his gloriously bare, copulating ass. Why you'd take time to bump uglies while hordes of armored Viking warriors are in search of you, I don't know, but mmmm.