August 24: A Deep Breath

To breathlessly anticipate new faces

And tales carved out from layers of history

With playfulness in interstitial spaces

While solving a dramatic mystery,

But then receive a quite familiar setting,

Recurring characters, gambits, and tropes,

As well scale issues that could use vetting-

Was it constructed just to dash my hopes?

What cynic put such petty thoughts inside

The womens’ heads and had them fight in leather,

Thus stopping them from walking alongside

The hero? I hope this is no bellwether.

Yet I en...