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Last night was the season premiere of the tenth season of Bones. I have the first eight seasons on DVD, I had been debating whether to get the ninth. Last night they killed off the long running character Sweets. Even though he wasn't one of my favorite characters, I should have cared. They went to some lengths to get people to care last night, but I didn't. Over time Emily Deschanel has gone from thin and perky to nice looking in a matronly sort of way. David Boreanaz spent a season with dentures so poorly fitting they made him look 20 years older. He got that fixed years ago. At least for me time has caught up with Bones. I don't think they are trying any less hard. But I've seen the elephant. I don't care enough any more and I won't be watching this final season of Bones.
How to Get Away with Murder also premiered last night. I only watched 20 minutes of it. It looked quite good, but it just wasn't for me. The Paper Chase had an influence on it with a Professor Kingsley-type central character.
The movie The Paper Chase had a strong influence on me.
A) The movie was about the first year of law school and I was in the first months of grad school when I saw it.
B) I had a professor, who like Professor Kingsley seemed to be operating on a higher plane than everyone else and who every student in my class was afraid of.
C) I had a class that was being taught by the Socratic method like the class featured in The Paper Chase. Fortunately for me and my classmates, it was not taught by the above professor.
D) Like the protagonist in the movie The Paper Chase I'd fallen in love with a beautiful young woman that term.
It took a term and a half, but I figured out what scary professor really wanted and seeing no reason to be a hyper-competitive asshole I shared that knowledge with my fellow classmates. The girl and I split up, but I was in love with her for long afterward. The class which was taught by the Socratic method must have been a nightmare for most of the students. I know it was for my then girlfriend. The trick with the Socratic method is that the class needs students who don't actually need the class. Otherwise the thing will be a total failure. Some students may have been able to read, comprehend and process new information well enough to be able to keep ahead of the class. I salute them. Personally I'd taken a more rigorous version of the same class in my old university, taught by someone who was more interested in us learning than in testing us every minute of the class. So I was one of those folks who spouted the learned answers when called on every class meeting, while my poor girlfriend shivered in her seat beside me. The professor was a nice guy and helped her quite a bit outside of class. I helped her outside of class, too. But the class itself never ceased to be torture for her. Personally, I didn't need the class. She did and it didn't serve her very well. (And, yes, if she hasn't retired already, she is a professor in a related field now.)
Last night, I could figure out what was going on in the mysterious part of the episode without watching all of it. It looked like it could be interesting, but I couldn't get into it. The law has always seemed interesting, but my personal code of behavior would never have allowed me to get into criminal law. The main character in the series announces she doesn't care whether her clients are guilty or not. That's the right way to approach the job of being a defense attorney. But what kind of person can do that for a lifetime? My girlfriend's sister was a public defender and I was told that she had severe bouts of depression over having to defend one teenaged murderer after another. I wouldn't feel much better about being a prosecutor, if I wasn't certain in my own mind each defendant was guilty. And that's not going to happen in real life.
I'm sure the students in the class in How to Get Away with Murder will solve many murders. It's probably going to be a good show. But I don't need this class.
How to Get Away with Murder also premiered last night. I only watched 20 minutes of it. It looked quite good, but it just wasn't for me. The Paper Chase had an influence on it with a Professor Kingsley-type central character.
The movie The Paper Chase had a strong influence on me.
A) The movie was about the first year of law school and I was in the first months of grad school when I saw it.
B) I had a professor, who like Professor Kingsley seemed to be operating on a higher plane than everyone else and who every student in my class was afraid of.
C) I had a class that was being taught by the Socratic method like the class featured in The Paper Chase. Fortunately for me and my classmates, it was not taught by the above professor.
D) Like the protagonist in the movie The Paper Chase I'd fallen in love with a beautiful young woman that term.
It took a term and a half, but I figured out what scary professor really wanted and seeing no reason to be a hyper-competitive asshole I shared that knowledge with my fellow classmates. The girl and I split up, but I was in love with her for long afterward. The class which was taught by the Socratic method must have been a nightmare for most of the students. I know it was for my then girlfriend. The trick with the Socratic method is that the class needs students who don't actually need the class. Otherwise the thing will be a total failure. Some students may have been able to read, comprehend and process new information well enough to be able to keep ahead of the class. I salute them. Personally I'd taken a more rigorous version of the same class in my old university, taught by someone who was more interested in us learning than in testing us every minute of the class. So I was one of those folks who spouted the learned answers when called on every class meeting, while my poor girlfriend shivered in her seat beside me. The professor was a nice guy and helped her quite a bit outside of class. I helped her outside of class, too. But the class itself never ceased to be torture for her. Personally, I didn't need the class. She did and it didn't serve her very well. (And, yes, if she hasn't retired already, she is a professor in a related field now.)
Last night, I could figure out what was going on in the mysterious part of the episode without watching all of it. It looked like it could be interesting, but I couldn't get into it. The law has always seemed interesting, but my personal code of behavior would never have allowed me to get into criminal law. The main character in the series announces she doesn't care whether her clients are guilty or not. That's the right way to approach the job of being a defense attorney. But what kind of person can do that for a lifetime? My girlfriend's sister was a public defender and I was told that she had severe bouts of depression over having to defend one teenaged murderer after another. I wouldn't feel much better about being a prosecutor, if I wasn't certain in my own mind each defendant was guilty. And that's not going to happen in real life.
I'm sure the students in the class in How to Get Away with Murder will solve many murders. It's probably going to be a good show. But I don't need this class.
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I hear that The Flash is one of the promising new shows so I have to give it a look.