How nice was it to see that that Pushing Daisies continued last night to explore how Ned figured out the rules to his "gift." I think they answered several of my questions from the first episode, including what dies when he brings fruit back to life. I still want to know about whether it's an equal and opposite reaction or whether it does not need to be "equal." We saw flowers die last night as Ned was bringing peaches back to life for his pies. Does it have to be flowers? Why could it not be a customer? I think the show will get there eventually, and I am beginning to have some faith in it.
It all makes me wonder if I'm too harsh, I want to know things like the the rules during the first episode and have a tendency to believe that if I'm not told them it's because they haven't been thought out. At the very least, I need promises up front that the rules are in place. Maybe it's a once bitten, twice shy kind of thing.
Happily, Chuck found out the main rule last night (one dead for one alive). That's the exact sort of thing that causes me great upset when it's drawn out, and let's not pretend there aren't shows that draw that sort of thing out. It's the exact sort of tension shows like to create and draw out and then have no idea quite how to solve, so it getting taken care of so early on really makes sense. And, it makes me happy, and really, that's what counts.
Also, for the record, any show that references Winnie the Pooh getting stuck in the opening to Rabbit's house is fantastic.
Then there was Kitchen Nightmares. Have I told you how much I like Kitchen NIghtmares, because I really, really like Kitchen Nightmares. What's more, last night the restaurant they were at, The Olde Stone Mill, is just an olde stone's throw away from where I grew up and spent (save school) the first twenty some-odd years of my life. Actually, I've even eaten at the restaurant. I thank the Powers That Be that there was no disgusting kitchen scene in the show last night. I love that scene, but to know that I shared a crab cake (or whatever it was that I ate as I honestly don't remember) with a roach or a mouse or a... gulp... rabies infected rat would have been distressing. Now I can just going to tell myself that the place was completely clean which is why there was no such scene.
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