But sometimes I end up in places I'd rather not be. Sometimes I understand what drives them too much and it frightens me. One guy still haunts me. "John" was the stereotypical shy guy. He'd watch guys try to pick up girls — a thirty-something-year-old man still stuck in adolescence. He didn't know how to interact with women and resorted to drugging them and performing homemade lobotomies on them. Desperate measures to make them stay with him. A sick, twisted man and yet, it was all about loneliness. He didn't want to be as alone for the rest of his life as he had been for the beginning of it. Desperate, depraved actions for a tiny bit of normalcy. Perceived love. A warm body to cuddle up to at night.
He said something that struck such a deep nerve, that we never get used to being alone. It's true. Here I am in my 40s, with no one to go home to and nothing to get me up in the morning but my job, really. Some days I just want that warm body to come home to. Someone to take care of and to take care of me. Such a simple thing and yet to many of us it feels completely unattainable.
Article comments
1 - ann
wow...great show, greater character, awecome blog. Law & Order CI is one of the most underrated shows on television and Goren is one of the most intriguing characters.
2 - Carly
FINALLY! Goren hits the mainstream. I've been a cultlike admirer of him for ages and have been waiting for his appeal to become more widespread.
3 - Trinket
I agree Ann. Goren is far to interesting not to be more of a mainstream character!
4 - susie
I love this series:-) Its refreshin3 to see someone focus on the Nicole/Bobby relationship dynamics.Those two are brilliant to3ether.Ive always thou3ht That Bobby would see her as the person he mi3ht have been,you know,"there but for the 3race of 3od," and all, and Ive wondered how that would influence his actions towards her.There are a million oppurtunities for intri3ue with these two.Thank you for writin3 what NEEDED to be written, and for writin3 it well.Keep em comin3:-)