un-abide-able

i can't stand immaturity and stupidity in tv. and movies. and books, although not as much, because pure priggishness and selfishness and so on don't convey as well when you can't loathe the person's actual face. it just bothers me. i don't see how people can be that way. it doesn't make sense to me. these people are lacking something fundamental to being a decent human being, in my eyes.

i read pet sematary recently. or, i read the first 400 pages and then skimmed the rest. i had to do that with needful things as well. some of his books are kind of crappy. the guy's a doctor, and his kid's pet dies. his new friend, the old man across the street, shows him how to bring the pet back to life. but it comes back changed. not quite evil, but disgusting and repulsive and generally all-around wrong. so of course, king makes it that the doctor's 4-year old son gets crushed and dragged for 100 yards by an 18-wheeler. the neighbor, knowing what's on his mind, tells him the story of the evil reanimated 18-year old kid. the doctor, of course, still buries his kid there. the kid comes back, kills the neighbor (of course), and his mother. the doctor kills the cat (again) and his kid (again) and (of course) knowing what just happened, brings his wife back to life. of course, the reason this book sucks is that none of this makes sense. not in the scientific/supernatural sense of the word sense, but these people are stupid. beyond stupid. beyond incredibly mind-numbingly unimaginably idiotic. grief is grief, and i'll never know what was going through the guy's head and heart, but come on. the problem is that all of this stuff that is implausible, in terms of motivation and reasons, is explained by the force that powers the Indian burial ground, or some load of crap. oh, did i forget to mention it's an indian burial ground? that's evil? and "makes" the neighbor show the doctor the graveyard in the first place? and "makes" the kid get run over? and "makes" the doctor, who to be fair is having an internal debate about bringing back his son or letting him rest, dig him up and reanimate him?

king is a hack sometimes. it's a shame that all he has to do is waggle a lamp at his agent to get his next advance.

what is coincidental about this is that i'm watching the fifth season of buffy right now, and joyce has just died. very suddenly. not unexpectedly, but still. and the little sister, an intolerable brat, is demanding that willow (a witch) bring her back to life. what the hell? she's 14. that's not old enough to be expected to act with a modicum of intelligence?

i don't think i could handle having a selfish kid. i would end up beating the holy hell out of the brat, i'm fairly certain. it just doesn't make sense, selfishness.