(Alternative title: fortune cookies by Sarah) Today is the thirtieth anniversary of my existence. They say that you’re supposed to get wiser as you get older, but to be honest, I don’t feel much of either. I’m sure my ten- or twenty-year-old selves would see the difference between me then…
Not all characters are likable. Not all of them are supposed to be or need to be… at least, not for a reader. But writers do have to like all the characters in a story — not necessarily because those characters are right or because they’re great people or even…
Let’s get this out of the way: Elementary lacks a certain je-totally-sais-quoi compared to other contemporary Sherlock Holmes TV series. Its mysteries often make little sense ; the bad guy is almost always the only next-tier guest actor who is not a canonical character; and in one of its recent episodes,…
One thing — okay, one of the many things — that troubled me about J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is how it deals with murder. In the third book, we learn along with Harry that there are three Unforgiveable Curses: the Imperius Curse, which forces the caster’s will upon…