"Budge up, ye brimstone beast!" -- Well I've finished watching the Bleak House miniseries on PBS and have dived headlong into the 986-page novel itself, viva Dickens! Talk about absorbing...something really resonates when you have to wait week by week to find out what happens to the characters, and of course Dickens wrote the novel in monthly installments so I suppose that's how he wanted the story to be told, sloooowwly. Lost and The Sopranos operate on the same theory, but (so far) they are missing the delicious conclusion that ties everything together. The final two hours of BH had many more twists, turns, and dead bodies than I expected, plus a dusting of a happy ending. Watch for it on DVD, people...