Kingdom Hospital
I enjoyed it even though I have yet to watch 'Riget'. Not saying I thoroughly understood the meaning of the SKKH anteater, but I figure it's either a spirit guide or artist Peter Rickman's id. It's got cool-looking teeth, though, whatever it's supposed to represent.
The crow was a nice touch, very Randall Flagg-ish with shades of 'Storm of the Century' (gonna start by eating your eyes). And I did notice the Nozz-o-la Soda truck (Dark Tower series soda brand) as well as the Little Tall shirt.
Seeing Rickman get hit by the van made me wince. A lot. Being in Maine, our newspapers were good about keeping us updated about Stephen's condition, which was touch and go for a while with plenty of operations in between. King discussed much of this in his book 'On Writing', but sitting there in front of the boobtube watching it replay really struck a nerve. It wasn't so much the sight of blood but the way Rickman's ankles were twisted around that got me feeling all woozy.
And I enjoyed the narration. Well-choreographed with disturbing opening scenes, I thought. Little Mary and her death bell, very cool. I also liked the two Down Syndrome hospital workers (the only ones that seem to know what's going on, kind of like the mice in Chris Noonan's 'Babe'.).
The whole premier was unabashedly surreal...from wild animals talking, some of them walking the hospital halls...to the doctors' names (Dr. Hook, Dr. Jesse James)...to the antics during brain surgery and the lack of personnel (and professionalism) throughout the hospital. Very weird, but I sort of liked it because it adds to the mystery. Would I like to be a patient there?--hell, no!--but then again, I've never liked being a patient in any hospital. The beds are too hard and IV trees a pain in the ass to manuever, and being woken up at midnight for a sleeping pill makes no sense at all, but maybe that's just me .
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the next episode of KH, if only to see more of the anteater ;-) Another thing I'm antipating is the remake of ''Salem's Lot', but that's because I like Rob Lowe more than David Soul (yep, I'm old enough to remember seeing 'Starsky and Hutch' on tv back when it was original).
I'm hoping we'll see more ghosts on KH, too. Lots more ghosts.
The crow was a nice touch, very Randall Flagg-ish with shades of 'Storm of the Century' (gonna start by eating your eyes). And I did notice the Nozz-o-la Soda truck (Dark Tower series soda brand) as well as the Little Tall shirt.
Seeing Rickman get hit by the van made me wince. A lot. Being in Maine, our newspapers were good about keeping us updated about Stephen's condition, which was touch and go for a while with plenty of operations in between. King discussed much of this in his book 'On Writing', but sitting there in front of the boobtube watching it replay really struck a nerve. It wasn't so much the sight of blood but the way Rickman's ankles were twisted around that got me feeling all woozy.
And I enjoyed the narration. Well-choreographed with disturbing opening scenes, I thought. Little Mary and her death bell, very cool. I also liked the two Down Syndrome hospital workers (the only ones that seem to know what's going on, kind of like the mice in Chris Noonan's 'Babe'.).
The whole premier was unabashedly surreal...from wild animals talking, some of them walking the hospital halls...to the doctors' names (Dr. Hook, Dr. Jesse James)...to the antics during brain surgery and the lack of personnel (and professionalism) throughout the hospital. Very weird, but I sort of liked it because it adds to the mystery. Would I like to be a patient there?--hell, no!--but then again, I've never liked being a patient in any hospital. The beds are too hard and IV trees a pain in the ass to manuever, and being woken up at midnight for a sleeping pill makes no sense at all, but maybe that's just me .
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the next episode of KH, if only to see more of the anteater ;-) Another thing I'm antipating is the remake of ''Salem's Lot', but that's because I like Rob Lowe more than David Soul (yep, I'm old enough to remember seeing 'Starsky and Hutch' on tv back when it was original).
I'm hoping we'll see more ghosts on KH, too. Lots more ghosts.