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Kill me now.

Just finished watching The Forest on Netflix, a six-part French miniseries. I wouldn't have watched it if I'd known it involved rape and murder of teenage girls (not shown), but I forced myself to finish it. What a great mystery story. There were so many secrets hidden by townsfolk that kept the viewer guessing who did what to whom. The ending was excellent. And the soundtrack added to the tension throughout. It'll be interesting to see if the police case in my second act can come close to something that well-wrtten. Technically, I'm going for something more like Angels & Demons, so it doesn't need to be as intricate a web as the miniseries.

Thank you, Dagny. That makes sense.

Milano, Marino, Moretti, Michel(Angelo), Maria. Time to update my names bible before I use any more names with an M. And I've lost count of the number of names I have that end in o.

It's available in Canada. I live in Calgary. I agree about content problems, though. Since I no longer own a TV or have cable, I keep paying for Netflix. I just started a new series called The Forest. French with English subtitles, but the story is good so far. It's a mystery set in a small French town. As often as not, I rent a movie from Google. Just watched Terminator 2 again after many years. The liquid metal Terminator was awesome.

You should post that to Premium. It's really interesting. Older readers like thrillers and religious books. I better write faster before they all die off.

And Leto is history. I think I'm going to take a breather from Dune and skip to the Foundation series.

The best description of Jonathan I can give is that it's a train wreck in slow motion.

Chapter ten changes are up (Campagna meets Connor). Not enough changes to be worth annoying people for a fresh review. The most important thing is that the Antichrist is at least half human. That's one of the ways the cops will distinguish him from mere demons. If you douse a demon with holy water, he dissolves like the chief exorcist did in chapter eleven. I'm going to include toy water blasters among the weapons, filled with holy water. :-)

Next, a very quick polish of chapters eleven and thirteen, then I need to start plotting new stuff. It occurred to me that I could include another murder in this act, if I want to. Chapter twelve will include Campagna investigating Connor's early life, the first meeting of the task force hunting the Antichrist, and the evaluation of evidence from the historical murders.

Does it matter that the only detectives on the task force are Campagna and De Rosa? The rest are beat cops from the scenes at the basilica and the villa, chosen because they already know about the crucifixion. Mostly constables. Since this is no longer a conventional investigation with lots of clues and sleuthing, I figured the beat cops would be good for chase scenes, no-knock searches, and shootouts.

Those promotions for the inspectors seemed like a nice touch as I was writing it, but I just realized I now have to write Senior Inspector Campagna, where it used to be just Inspector Campagna. That's going to get tiresome. Also, technically, there is no Senior Inspector in the Vatican, but I don't care.