prog | Carnivale is winding down

Ben's healing display this time makes me complain even more. So he can now power it by drawing the life out of animals? That makes what was once a ghastly expensive power dirt-cheap, in the scheme of things. Maybe he'll learn to burn local bacterial colonies as his next fuel source.

And if they're so antipolar to one another, why doesn't Ben also get sick when Justin uses his Owwie Beam? (I guess I could complain that it should also make everyone nearby feel healthier, but meh.)

(Funny: the filmmaker/GM I have mentioned in the past is also named Justin and owns a pair of those full-coverage black plastic eye thingies, which he wore himself in a self-cast role as a flaming angel of death or something.)

I'm interested in a stylistic standpoint how Justin and his political cronies are clearly supposed to be stirring up anti-Semitic sentiment among their slackjawed constituency, but never actually get around to saying the J-word or related, turning phrases like "the craven international Shylock" instead. It's a little weird, but I guess I can appreciate the scriptwriters avoiding being directly inflammatory about a lesser plot point.

I'm glad that Sophie's path is different than the cheesy one I was expecting. Actually her thing with Justin, and what it portends, is the most interesting thing going on right now for me.

"Three more episodes," intones the next-week-on voiceover. Good, I will watch those, and will probably just flush my HBO susbscription afterwards.