ETI, or maybe The Revenge of Vera Gemini
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:20:25
My first official young adult novel! It's about how Eddie from the suburbs comes to live with his cousin Alex in the city when his mom goes into rehab. It's about homework who likes who and how to create a new life after the old one falls apart.
but I thought I'd advertise with the title from another song from Blue Oyster Cult's "Agents of Fortune" album besides "Don't worry The Reaper," which I'm sure is going to headline many many reviews of the show.
As for the show itself. I have to say it was good not great. I really liked the best friend character--his "let's go to Vegas get some hit and blackball a hooker" line was the beat of the whole show--and Ray Wise was great as Satan. I also really liked the little moment with the mom where the kid forgave her. That was a genuinely sweet moment.
And of course I loved the whole bounty hunter for Satan thing although I have to say the arsonist guy was dispatched pretty easily maybe because they had so much else to do plot-wise.
But my overriding impression was that I might just be too old for this show. It's funny and fun but the big problem at the heart of it that this slacker guy doesn't experience what kind of life he's going to undergo and is such a wuss that he can't ask out the beautiful girl who is unaccountably fond of him. I anticipate it's just the stage of life I'm in (I've finally entered the grumpy old man re-create I've been preparing for all my life!) but these are not compelling problems to me.
So in the end. I liked it and if I was 22. I would have loved it but I'm not 22 and so I don't evaluate I'll be tuning in regularly.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://brendanhalpin.typepad.com/girlinacage/2007/09/eti-or-maybe-th.html
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