Lady Justice, and other superheroes
Jul. 14th, 2008 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseSpent the day on jury duty, waiting to see if I'm going to serve on the jury for an actually pretty high-profile case (for Juneau, anyway). I'm not going to say anything about the trial itself, obviously, but geez - performing jury service is even more hurry-up-and-wait than I imagined. I'm glad I had Jane Eyre with me. It was an interesting experience, though, even if it did mean a day of missed work and a rescheduled appointment, and even if by the end of the day I still didn't know if I was going to be selected. (I should know by tomorrow afternoon, though.)
The first disc of Heroes came in from Netflix, four days late, and Brian and I spent the evening watching the first several episodes (Disc 2 arrived on time and sat on our coffee table for a while by its lonesome). Given the series' admitted comic-book origins, I'm surprised at how grim and suspenseful it is. Don't get me wrong, it's very well done, just...skewed rather more toward the darker end of the storytelling spectrum than I was expecting. It's good that they have Hiro's character in the mix, I think - he provides some much-needed comic relief, as well as providing an example that we can hope the others follow. As Brian put it, "He's the only one who's using his powers for awesome." Hopefully his idealism will rub off some on the other characters - I think they'll be a lot more likable once they actually become, well, heroes.
The first disc of Heroes came in from Netflix, four days late, and Brian and I spent the evening watching the first several episodes (Disc 2 arrived on time and sat on our coffee table for a while by its lonesome). Given the series' admitted comic-book origins, I'm surprised at how grim and suspenseful it is. Don't get me wrong, it's very well done, just...skewed rather more toward the darker end of the storytelling spectrum than I was expecting. It's good that they have Hiro's character in the mix, I think - he provides some much-needed comic relief, as well as providing an example that we can hope the others follow. As Brian put it, "He's the only one who's using his powers for awesome." Hopefully his idealism will rub off some on the other characters - I think they'll be a lot more likable once they actually become, well, heroes.
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Date: 2008-07-15 01:28 pm (UTC)I wish I lived in Alaska so I could watch it with you! (Or, more accurately, I wish you could come visit me in Virginia and bring the movies with you so that we could watch movies AND take you shopping for some decent work clothes.) :)
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Date: 2008-07-15 01:31 pm (UTC)L.
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Date: 2008-07-16 05:00 pm (UTC)One of the things that made me wince, though: One of the potential jurors was an older woman who had both a juris doctorate degree and a decade's worth of experience in social work; she probably would have been the best-qualified of any of us to judge the proceedings, as she'd have a very good idea of both the legal and social-harm aspects. So, of course, she was the third person to be excused. >< When I told my mum about that, she said that attorneys will often excused the most experienced/qualified people, because the other jurors during deliberation will defer to their experience and thus skew the result, and obviously an attorney's going to have a harder time convincing someone who actually has a background in the issue at hand than someone who doesn't know anything about it.