"Gets a pass"? What is this, night court? I liked the story, though I know it's flawed. (Most here consider it abruptly ended, and I think the writer admitted as much.) I wasn't so fond of "Inventing the Mulders," though I could recognize its expertise.
Maybe it's a matter of tone. I'm not particularly an angst fan, to put it mildly, and I find the quarrelsomeness of "Inventing the Mulders" oppressive. {And what does the title mean, anyhow? Marriage is being considered?)
"China," OTOH, has a kind of light weirdness about it, a vaguely threatening but still diverting approach that makes good use of an "other" POV. It keeps us guessing till the end, and then stops. I admit this is disappointing, but the weirdness of the tone holds. No, the problem of the ending is not the fruit. The fruit is fine. It's just that the length of the exposition has led us to expect that the fruit would, you know, bear fruit.
Someone who feels that "the whole point of a mystery is to solve it, elegantly and completely" is someone who enjoys a good detective novel but has no use for fairy tales or horror novels. I like all of them.
We can't knock twenty years off Selleck? I'm in love with Jon Stewart, all right-thinking people are, but I'm not sure he has the requisite inner pain. Anyhow, once we sign up the talent, we're going to run into script problems.
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Maybe it's a matter of tone. I'm not particularly an angst fan, to put it mildly, and I find the quarrelsomeness of "Inventing the Mulders" oppressive. {And what does the title mean, anyhow? Marriage is being considered?)
"China," OTOH, has a kind of light weirdness about it, a vaguely threatening but still diverting approach that makes good use of an "other" POV. It keeps us guessing till the end, and then stops. I admit this is disappointing, but the weirdness of the tone holds. No, the problem of the ending is not the fruit. The fruit is fine. It's just that the length of the exposition has led us to expect that the fruit would, you know, bear fruit.
Someone who feels that "the whole point of a mystery is to solve it, elegantly and completely" is someone who enjoys a good detective novel but has no use for fairy tales or horror novels. I like all of them.
We can't knock twenty years off Selleck? I'm in love with Jon Stewart, all right-thinking people are, but I'm not sure he has the requisite inner pain. Anyhow, once we sign up the talent, we're going to run into script problems.