Modern Day Sherlock Holmes on the BBC

Sherlock Holmes is indeed a Power of Reason character– Everything can be explained/deduced rationally and logically. “It’s elementary, my dear Watson.”

#TypesTuesday – Power of Truth in Burn Notice and The Mentalist

#TypesTuesday – Power of Truth characters are driven to look beneath the surface of things.

Power of Reason

These characters don’t believe in getting personally involved or emotionally entangled in any issue. They always try to maintain a sense of cool detachment and personal objectivity.

Bones – Reason & Love

These two characters exchange gifts to complement and complete each other. These gifts are personality traits missing in the other, differing points of view necessary to solving the case and critical skills or abilities lacking in their partner.

Sister Rose on Without A Trace

The television series, Without a Trace, is a classic Power of Truth story. A good friend, Sister Rose Pacatte, wrote about a recent episode “Miracle Worker” in her blog. http://sisterrose.wordpress.com/ My comments about her post are in (parenthesis). Sister Rose writes: Did you see Without a Trace last night? I thought it was extraordinary –… Continue reading Sister Rose on Without A Trace

The Dark Knight & The Power of Truth

In a Power of Truth film things are never what they seem. None of the major characters in The Dark Knight are what they seem at first glance. The tangled undergrowth of human duplicity catches and pulls at every character in the film.