My wife and I watch television from time to time together, it’s a nice way to relax a bit together.  We don’t actually have a tv of course, we get DVDs via Netflix and watch various shows in sequential order as is all the rage.  Usually we watch science fiction type show or CSI type shows, and right now we’re working our way through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  It’s kind of shameful to admit that, but she enjoys it as a guilty pleasure so I’m happy to watch it with her despite the fact that I’m really not a big fan of the show at all.

Anyhow, the point of this is that Julia has an amazing ability to predict the corny lines that the characters will say, very often getting word-for-word
accuracy.  I’m not so hot with the dialogue compared with Julia, but I can spot the plot movement And this isn’t recollection — we’ve never seen it before — it’s pure guesswork based on our predictive skills.  And despite how much I’d love to pat myself on the back for this, I give most of the credit to the terrible writing that makes both the plot and the dialogue extraordinarily easy to guess.   Anyhow, enough complaining — onto the next episode.