Day 575

I had so little sleep last night, maybe two hours tops, and I woke up feeling so, so tired that I was almost sleepwalking everywhere and had to call of my morning walk as I was worried that I’d nod off on my way round and fall flat on my face! However, I managed to get to the local shops and get the paper and did the G2 crossword:

I also finished watching the ‘Tru Calling’ boxset and watched half of ‘The Avengers’ - The Quick-Quick Slow Death’, ‘The Danger Makers’ and ‘The House That Jack Built’.

I watched ‘Tru Calling’ when it first came out, but I think it’s only in watching the boxset that I truly appreciate what it was doing, and the story is was telling (or what I understand the larger story to be). As it is the boxset does give you a complete-ish overall storyline, the last episode needs with all the main characters together and all happy/content, with only a few plot points/lines left hanging.

'Tru Calling' is well written, shot and acted, but on re-watching, for me, it's the mythology that stands out much more, above the weekly story/mystery, and the hints of future storylines makes it a pity that they weren’t able to further explore the mythology further (e.g. Harrison finding out that he and Tru’s father is working with Jack, Tru and Jack being able to take other people with them on their rewind days and explore parallel dimensions). As the series starts, we are very much on Tru’s side in saving lives, but the introduction of Jack muddies these waters.  

By saving people who were meant to have died, is Tru changing the future and moving from the path it was meant to take, e.g. if Tru saves a thirty-year-old, what effect that person’s choices and actions for the next fifty plus years have, could they become the next Hitler? Is Jack the good guy and Tru the baddie?

It was also nice to see the relationships between the characters grown and develop over the 25 episodes (except that we seem to lose Tru’s sister after the first ten or so episodes, she goes into rehab and is never heard from or referred to again!)