This time out, I'm tackling the cable show Burn Notice.  I discuss how the show handle its Constant Jeopardy Syndrome construction (it does it well!).

I'd actually meant to write about some other mythic motifs in regard to this show (Michael as Savior and as Shapechanger), but with the summer episodes' cliffhanger, I was struck with admiration on how the show continually lets Michael make progress toward his goal, and yet also changes the nature of the goal both as a professional object and a personal one.

So, yes, I am once again sending you to the Scribbler's Guide blog!  Enjoy, and comment where you will (I will find you! ;-) )

After spending more time wrangling with the Mythcon program book's lay out (somehow it got plagued with some ghost headers that messed up some pages), I was finally able to post the next installment  on the Scribbler's Guide blog. 

This time, I take on Dr. Gregory House, misanthrope.  He's "divine" did you know?


More of these short analyses coming -- and all of the ideas I'm drawing on can be found in The Scribbler's Guide to the Land of Myth.  Try it!  You'll like it!

My day started with going out to the archery range and doing a bit of shooting.  Then I headed over to my regular comic shop to pick up the week's comics (because I hadn't gotten there on New Comic Day - AKA Wednesday).  And then, to the ArcLight Theaters where Star Trek was showing.  I had not actually had anything to eat, so I selected a show 45 minutes later, so I could get a burger.

Happily fed, I went into the theater and got comfortable.

And thoroughly enjoyed the film. 

My friend eldritchhobbit  has compared Star Trek to the Arthuriad.  And I agree with her in a lot of ways.

( Boldly go along with me here )

Okay, so in the background, I have the Sleuth Channel on, and they are running a marathon of NCIS episodes.  I love the show: the characters are fun.  Supporting character Timothy McGee has an ongoing plot-line of being a writer of thriller novels.  So the plot of the episode on at this moment is built around that.

McGee is suffering from writer's block.  He's stuck on his second novel, being a writer who doesn't plan out the plot ahead of time.  His affection as a writer includes writing at an old manual typewriter, instead of on a computer.  He also bases his characters on the people around him (including his co-workers).  So when the models for two characters in his unfinished novel turn up dead, it points to someone who has access to his highly guarded manuscript.  Except, that in addition to there being only two people (Tim and his agent) who have seen the incomplete manuscript, McGee shreds everything else.  How is the killer reading it?

( Spoilers follow - if you haven't seen the episode! You have been warned! )