Damascus
I like Piper Perabo a whole lot. I think she's a good actress in a supermodel's body and she's therefore underappreciated. I hope she sticks around on House. I find the idea of House having his first stable relationship in the history of the show with a 26-year-old vegan nutritionist phenomenally entertaining.
Meanwhile, I do not find Benry entertaining at all. I am fucking sick of that guy. So much lying. So last night's ep was pretty much just an hour in la-la-land because I'm not inclined to even believe that his flashbacks are true. Benry is a useless character, narratively irrelevant, even more so now that he has been shown to be nothing more than yet another opportunistic gadfly on the back of the greater mystery of the island. Is Locke dead? Very possible (Terry O'Quinn just sold his house in Hawaii), but somehow continue to doubt it. What's Jacob's deal? Something new. Whatever else is going on on that island, I don't feel like the Phantom Menace is not a manifestation of something we've seen before. He might, however, be the center cog. We've been seeing a lot of caves lately. Three years later we're nearing the end of the setup.
I woke up at 4:30 or so when the thunderstorm was really getting going last night... and also because there was a car horn ringing out over the neighbourhood in one long, uninterrupted blare. Based on what the movies have told me I can only assume someone either flipped their car over, or was assassinated in their driver's seat by a double tap to the head. Horn went on for a solid half hour or more. But I fell back asleep and slept deep - it's always an entirely different level of narcosis when there's a thunderstorm happening outside. Like being back in the womb or something. I woke up late and the world was shiny.