I think we always have to remember that not everyone has the same level of education - I'm lucky in that; I have a degree in English and studied not only the book but the genre at Uni. - but not everyone has and some aspects of things that have come into popular culture are not what they appear to be unless you actually have studied something or know just that bit more about a subject for example, perfectly intelligent people think that the monster is Frankenstein not that he the is doctor, it doesn't make them obtuse or an idiot, it just means that maybe they haven't seen the various adaptations or read the book - I'd seen the original Boris Karloff film before Uni. and the Leonard Whiting version (only because I loved him in "Romeo and Juliet") but I hadn't read it, I was more into Stephen King at that point! - and I'd seen "Young Frankenstein" but if you haven't seen any of them, you might not know exactly what they or the book are about.
Another example would be monsoon; to most people it's a rain deluge but actually it's a wind. It's use in popular parlance is completely and utterly wrong and, if you've been to India, as we have, it's something you get told fairly quickly, as your first monsoon season approaches but who else would know?
"monsoon (noun) a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and South East Asia, blowing from the south-west between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon), or from the north-east between October and April (the dry monsoon)"
I think we all know all sorts of things, obscure and otherwise, we all just don't know everything.
And I'm hoping that it is just a one series thing - much as I'm sure it is going to be fab and I obviously want to see as much of Sean as is possible - I hate stuff that just meanders on and on. It seems to be a 'thing' these days that you have a series that is good for the first one and then is left at the end without all the loose ends tidied up so that, if it is successful, another series can be made rather than thinking of something new, much in the way that Hollywood prefers to re-make something that worked back in the day rather than to encourage creativity and produce something new and different that has to be taken a chance on. I get that the Hollywood situation is because it is all about the money but television these days is the new breeding ground for creativity so there is no excuse for the laziness. Obviously there are exceptions but I'd like a series to just do its thing and be finished. Unless you have the boxed set of DVDs, or it's something like "24" which was revamped every season, it's irritating not to have something just follow the story and character arc and be done so I'm hoping that "T.F.C." does its six episodes and all is finished, especially as we know Sean doesn't like to do more than one series anyway - didn't he say something like that about playing Ned? - and, realistically, how is it something that can develop all that much?
