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Watched The Cider House Rules last night, which was sort of a pleasant way to pass a couple of hours rather than a Great Moment In Cinema. There was nothing particularly wrong with it, and I did get kinda caught up in the story, but I also spent a lot of time noticing that Tobey Maguire's performance here seems to be near-identical to his performance in Spiderman, in that he spends a lot of time looking kinda slackjawed with surprise at the world around him and being hopelessly in love with someone else's girl and all. However, my mistake was not switching off the TV, because BBC2 was showing series 2 of 24. And at the end of the episode, they showed another. And at the end of that episode, they showed another. So I ended up watching three hours (actually only two, I think, as the "hours" are actually 40 minutes to allow room for advertising, which BBC tends to skip) of the story, and now I want to follow the damn thing and find out what happens next. This is, of course, doomed to failure as I have trouble identifying which day of the week it is a lot of the time, so following any sort of weekly serial inevitably breaks down within three weeks of my deciding to do so. Bah. Curse you, BBC2! *shakes fist*