Hi! Nice to meet you! My icon is from my old LJ account -- I used it for years there so thought I would keep it for continuity's sake. I have to admit that I saw the image and fell in love without knowing where it was from, although I did read the book many years ago.
Thanks to the previous comments I've been watching POI and I'm about halfway through season 1. I agree that it's become more interesting. I'm reluctantly going along with the idea that Howard deliberately obscured the details about the person assigned to him by the Machine, although it's still a pretty absurd setup. I like the slow reveal of the characters' backstories. Like you, I'm not much interested in gangster melodrama, and I have to admit that my attention wanders during some of those scenes. I generally tend to watch TV when I'm doing something else like exercising or even housework, so for me this show is just providing the necessary scaffolding for reading fic. :-)
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Date: 2019-01-26 02:44 pm (UTC)Thanks to the previous comments I've been watching POI and I'm about halfway through season 1. I agree that it's become more interesting. I'm reluctantly going along with the idea that Howard deliberately obscured the details about the person assigned to him by the Machine, although it's still a pretty absurd setup. I like the slow reveal of the characters' backstories. Like you, I'm not much interested in gangster melodrama, and I have to admit that my attention wanders during some of those scenes. I generally tend to watch TV when I'm doing something else like exercising or even housework, so for me this show is just providing the necessary scaffolding for reading fic. :-)