I liked the Bill when it was about the crimes and stuff. A case by case tv show. It's shit these days, which is really sad.
And that's precisely why I like Agatha Christie's novels. There's a puzzle, there's the psychology and I love guessing who did it in the end. And they're quaintly old fashioned and barely mention any blood or anything. I hear the 20s swing as I read them.
If there's psychology, if there's the testing of the human spirit against horrible darkness and coming out of the other side, I can totally get behind it. If it's a repeated churning out of rape and child/woman murder to a formulaic structure that uses these horrible things like short skirts in a car commercial from the 70s, that's when I start getting cynical and angry.
It's one of those things I definitely need a break from, but I do enjoy them. Or I did, I hope to again when I've healed a bit more.
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Date: 2009-03-28 06:35 am (UTC)And that's precisely why I like Agatha Christie's novels. There's a puzzle, there's the psychology and I love guessing who did it in the end. And they're quaintly old fashioned and barely mention any blood or anything. I hear the 20s swing as I read them.
If there's psychology, if there's the testing of the human spirit against horrible darkness and coming out of the other side, I can totally get behind it. If it's a repeated churning out of rape and child/woman murder to a formulaic structure that uses these horrible things like short skirts in a car commercial from the 70s, that's when I start getting cynical and angry.
It's one of those things I definitely need a break from, but I do enjoy them. Or I did, I hope to again when I've healed a bit more.