It's all about the journey

Remember this post?

Okay, so maybe I didn't exactly call it. I honestly wasn't that far off, but my theory was based on what I thought was a very clever directing move in ep 02. Turns out it was the opposite: bad directions given to the actors. I think. I would have liked to be there to be able to hear it. I do like the fact that it came full circle in how it ended where it all originally started.

I'm not being specific on purpose, because I don't want to spoil people. I honestly think it was a good story overall, and I'm probably saying this because I watched the whole thing in about 2 days. I would probably have lost interest if I had had to wait 3 months for the conclusion. Which is I think one of the main reasons the ratings weren't that great. It totally should have aired like In Treatment. HBO has it all right.

It was supposed to start raining on Thursday night. It's Sunday afternoon now, and still no sign of rain.

I can't wait till the season finale of Harper's Island, so I can finally say I SO CALLED IT!

*clears throat* Story is, I had no intention of watching that show (didn't even really know what it was about actually), and then two days ago when I came back from work on Sunday I was in the mood for something new so I went for the pilot to see what the story was. I've now watched the eleven aired episodes and am waiting for the last ones because I have a theory since ep 02, and so far nothing has happened to prove me wrong.

I'm not hooked on the show, despite having watched all the eps in a couple of days, but I see this as some kind of mystery/suspense novel. Once you've read chapter one it all becomes about one thing only: who's gonna die, and who's the bad guy.

That said, the writers of that show don't know the first thing about giving out information to the audience; it is so scripted it's indigestible. It acutally would have worked as a book, but this is not the same medium here, and they clearly didn't realise that when they were writing those scripts. Another bad point was ep 07 - Thrack, Splack, Sizzle. When you have a story happening so fast (talking days here), you don't make an episode totally out of rhythm with flashbacks in the middle of the show. It stands out in a bad way when that kind of show should really be seen as a whole.

Yes, I do have a couple of good points for you. The way they handled having people getting killed off one after the other without friends/family noticing did impress me. My favorite moment of the whole show is the Cal/Chloe discussion from ep 06 - Sploosh about the engagment ring, ending with Chloe saying "I don't think so." And the best cliffhanger was the ending of ep 05 - Thwack.

Anyway, I'm waiting now (I'm kinda pissed because I thought all the episodes had aired already).

 

( Friday Night Lights )

 

 

( Damages )

 

 

( Supernatural, spoilery for 421 - When The Levee Breaks )

I find it funny how the french network airing Supernatural promotes the show as much as the CW.

LD's new movie? A mix between Sliders' "The Last of Eden" and Supernatural's "The Benders".

I'm just back from the movie premiere and I'm wondering if the first edited draft wasn't twice as long as the final movie because there was so much more to say in every aspect, so much more that needed to be said.

My first thought was that the production had probably asked for a lot of things to be edited out (for whatever shitty reason), till I remembered that it was a french film and that the director has the final cut in France.

Not sure what to think.

Jared at the 09 LA Creation Con
"You know, a movie I loved was The Shawshank Redemption. Really cool characters, amazing story, beautifully made."

It's official. I love Jared Padalecki.

Thank god the show won't air for a couple of weeks. Because I can't keep posting SPN related stuff. It's not healthy.

( Reaction to SPN 418 The Monster At The End Of This Book )

Just proves once again that creator and writers know about every.single.thing going on in the fandom.

ETA I'd be EXTREMELY interested to watch this ep with someone who watches the show on a regular basis without knowing anything about the fandom.

No, it's not a joke. Friday Night Lights will be back for a fourth and fifth season (13 episodes each)! Now let's hope they'll be more like season 1 and 3 than season 2. But anyway, 26 more episodes of Kyle Chandler. Today is a beautiful day!

Three SPN posts in 10 days, that is just not right.

But this screencap right here?



See the end of the sleeve? Can you picture what Dean Smith sleeps in?

This makes me laugh to no end.

I've been doing some on my computer. So far I trashed 15Gb of files. Still not nearly enough, but it's a start.

And while skimming through my MX file I came across a very short piece I had written four years ago. It's a coda to the episode 102 - I Scream The Body Electric, and it focuses on the Brennan/Emma relationship. I had totally forgotten about it. And I had totally forgotten that this wasn't a random piece. I obviously had a plan, which was to write a coda with these characters for each episode. Seriously, there's a file with a list of almost all the episodes of the first two seasons with a couple of lines for each, explaining what the coda would have been about. That probably would have been nice to write back in the days. But I'm not doing it (yeah, no surprises here). I figured I could at least post the one that was finished, especially since it was supposed to be the first one anyway.

Where we began

I would really love to know how much money was put in the making of ER's finale episode. On how much money the producers agreed for each returning characters for example. But really, I want to know the final number.

I'm probably years late on this one too. But just in case, because that can't be left unseen.

for all the LOTR fans

Has someone out there read the book The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury? Can someone defend it?

Because what aired on NBC last night was very poor in terms of writing. Like regular american TV-shows, directing, photography, editing and acting were decent. But I could have written it. Meaning it was pretty bad. I don't have a lot of imagination, so usually when it comes to "how do I go from this to that?" I go for the easiest solution you could think of. And most of the time it sadly equals countless plot holes. That's exactly the case for every single scene of the first part of NBC's miniseries The Last Templar.

I guess the question is: bad script adaptation or weak book in the first place?


ETA Second part was exactly the same. Up until OMAR SHARIF?! Really?! That almost made up for everything else. Except totally not. But still, Omar.Sharif.

I still have time to decide, but here's the dilemna.

I've had it with X-Men since The Last Stand, I can't stand Hugh Jackman, couldn't care less about Wolverine. So I was pretty clear on the fact that I wouldn't go to the theater to see the spin-off on Wolverine. But just seconds ago I came across the cast list and... Ryan Reynolds, Liev Schreiber and Taylor Kitsch?! Are you kidding me?!

So now I'm undecided.