Kingdumb Hospital

I'm not a Stephen King fan. I say that without irony. I like his stuff, as long as I agree with myself before reading that indeed much of the story will be pointless and weird and I'll get annoyed, but just deal with it because when he gets going, he gets going. I think he's got a fixation on songs getting stuck in your head.

Salem's Lot was good. The Dark Tower series is interesting enough, but I lean that way anyhow.
Then there's Kingdom Hospital. The problem with Kingdom Hospital is mostly that it moves at the pace and uses much of the style of a Stephen King book. Which can make it tiresome. Kind of hard to enjoy when you feel like you're spending chunks of an episode, or maybe an entire episode, just sort of jabbering about and "establishing characters." "Establishing characters" in Stephen King's world means getting a shot of all their stray thoughts and idiosyncracies every time you encounter them. They aren't developed so much as thrown over you.

Yeah, so, I'm debating whether or not I want to keep watching Kingdom Hospital. It bores me. Even the little "mysteries" that are always so fetching in a book are tiresome. Sorta like Chris Claremont's never-ending run on X-Men, when a subplot may develop for 3 years before it comes to a head... unless the subplot gets dropped. There probably wouldn't even be a need for an X-Men newsgroup if Claremont had just kept a firm rein on his subplots.

Anyhow, suffering. It's a good thing I don't have anything better to do.