The fight of good vs. evil should not come across as a betrayed girlfriend out for revenge.
I cannot see Hex as a coming-of-age story when the protagonist only looks 17 but is actually 441 and there are no parental surrogates about. (This may be the fault of marketing not of the writers.)
Fondling weapons (or anything else) is not a valid substitution for character development and exposition.
Within the Hex universe, betrayal and double crosses appear to be worse behaviors than killing quasi-innocent people.
The characters who were beginning to be interesting-Mephistophales and Raphael-are gone.
Square pegs, square pegs, square … square pegs! Comcast On Demand has Square Pegs, that short-lived sitcom from 1982 that features losers who wanted to be popular, a pseudo-Valley Girl, and other high school stereotypes. It is, of course, a show of its time, but I remember enjoying it then. I enjoy it less now, but I still enjoy it. I continue to adore (non-sexually for those keeping score at home) the late Merritt Butrick's work in this show. I recall thinking he looked older than me then (who was in college) but was playing a high school student. (Indeed I see he was older than me, being about 22 at the time of Square Pegs.) I am still on occasion moved to use one of his lines, "It's a totally different head." BTW, Marshall and Slash (I swear that's the character's name!) are so touchy-feely in some eps that I wonder what was intended.
pamelas showed me selected eps from season 1 of Supernatural this weekend. I enjoyed the eps individually but still am not sold on the show. She did recommend I go to CW and watch the last two eps of season 1 online.
Live Free or Die Hard rocked! and exploded! and dude if you can see only one sequel this year, see Live Free or Die Hard. Die Hard finally has a sequel worthy of it. The stunts have an immediacy and personal weight for McClane that I think was missing in Die Harder and what parts of Die Hard: with a Vengence that I managed to sit through. The supporting characters are engaging (Justin Long, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kevin Smith); the villain (Timothy Olyphant) is a solid threat without being over the top; and the plot was respectable and moved along at a good pace. All in all, I cared again.