More Eli Stone

Hey, Look! a new entry! Sorry, I've got lots of thoughts, most of them irrelevant, but I'll see if I can remember to share them anyway. And, please, drink my milkshake — I'm lactose intolerant.

Now that I've watched a few episodes of Eli Stone (all but the last episode), I must say it's really grown on me. There's a certain predictability a la House (three wrong diagnoses and a final pronouncement), but the writers (yay writers!) really keep it interesting. And the last episode I watched (from 3/6) was a real I-can't-believe-they-did-it moment, really setting up for a good story arc over the rest of the season, however long or short it winds up being. I really like this show.

Eli Stone

Pardon me as I'm typing this standing up.

I had read about Eli Stone a few weeks ago. A very promising premise (precisely!) piqued my curiosity, much like Pushing Daisies: quirky, different, not something run-of-the-mill. Mr. Stone starts having hallucinations of George Michael singing "Faith" in his living room, the lobby at work, etc. He finds out (eventually) that he has an aneurysm (something apparently hereditary so maybe his dead dad wasn't just an alcoholic).

Overall, a very enjoyable show. And, no, I don't think this episode encourages parents to stop giving vaccinations to their children (the plot of episode one involved a mother who claims her son developed autism one week after receiving a vaccination. It's just a show, people.).

The only problem I have with the show is the concept of God they portrayed, which seems to be more the pantheistic (God is everything) style. We'll see where they go.