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Post by Calidore on Apr 29, 2023 18:00:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2023 1:35:38 GMT -5
I mean...accurate?! -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 30, 2023 20:01:03 GMT -5
She didn't kill the Wicked Witch of the East; her house did! And, she didn't meet her! She just saw the aftermath. So, no; not accurate. Now, if you are doing Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.... Crazed confectioner concocts scheme to lure 5 kids to his dangerous industrial site and proceeds to mete out justice to the brats. Slave labor sings and dances while it happens. For Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang..... Ineffective father rebuilds a car to shut up his kids, then leaves them alone with a government-sanctioned child-killer on the loose, then is revealed to be a BS artist, but at least he doesn't adopt a silly accent.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 1, 2023 8:03:27 GMT -5
My favorite "explain a movie plot badly" was Harry Potter (I watched them with my wife) ... boy spends 7 years being a third wheel.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2023 23:12:29 GMT -5
The Writers Guild of America is now officially on strike...
If it lasts like last time, I wonder how many of them will be pitching comic projects as happened last time. Some good comics came out of it, and some really bad comics came out of it.
-M
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2023 5:28:25 GMT -5
I’d like to look into this more (wasn’t there a writers’ strike around 2008/09?). An ‘existential crisis’ was mentioned in that thread. I do have much respect for writers, although I don’t pretend to know - yet - what this is about.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 2, 2023 12:26:03 GMT -5
I’d like to look into this more (wasn’t there a writers’ strike around 2008/09?). An ‘existential crisis’ was mentioned in that thread. I do have much respect for writers, although I don’t pretend to know - yet - what this is about. As usual it boils down to this: the suits want to continue to decrease the size of the profits pie for the writers, and by extension, for other creative and technical types.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 2, 2023 12:39:06 GMT -5
(wasn’t there a writers’ strike around 2008/09?) Yes, and I remember it pretty well considering that it was kind of the catalyst for the downturn of one of my favorite shows, Heroes
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Post by impulse on May 2, 2023 12:51:25 GMT -5
(wasn’t there a writers’ strike around 2008/09?) Yes, and I remember it pretty well considering that it was kind of the catalyst for the downturn of one of my favorite shows, Heroes Boy, that was something else. What a hell of a most of a first season, and then...woof.
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Post by Calidore on May 2, 2023 13:02:35 GMT -5
I’d like to look into this more (wasn’t there a writers’ strike around 2008/09?). An ‘existential crisis’ was mentioned in that thread. I do have much respect for writers, although I don’t pretend to know - yet - what this is about.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 3, 2023 15:11:46 GMT -5
Yes, and I remember it pretty well considering that it was kind of the catalyst for the downturn of one of my favorite shows, Heroes Boy, that was something else. What a hell of a most of a first season, and then...woof. I would suggest it was more due to the fact that they had one idea for the series and used it up by the end of the first season and didn't know where to go. They mostly just ended up repeating the same plot points, which is why I bailed. That and the fact that everyone was involved in the conspiracy behind things and just the idea of a conspiracy. I mean...... There was also the fact that I had read the comics they were ripping off, for the plot. Might have seemed original to Hollywood and the tv audience, but I read that stuff 20 years or more before.
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Post by impulse on May 3, 2023 16:40:25 GMT -5
I also read they originally intended to have a different cast each season, but of course the prospect of money was too popular to pass up, so they kept characters around well beyond their expiration point. Sylar should have been a one-and-done villain. I also think they went off the rails before the first season ended.
The show had a great beginning!
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Post by codystarbuck on May 4, 2023 20:56:29 GMT -5
I also read they originally intended to have a different cast each season, but of course the prospect of money was too popular to pass up, so they kept characters around well beyond their expiration point. Sylar should have been a one-and-done villain. I also think they went off the rails before the first season ended. The show had a great beginning! I would tend to agree with that.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2023 11:23:32 GMT -5
Just got back from my FCBD run to my lcs and now headed out to my Saturday D&D game. Big geek vibe today!
-M
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Post by Rob Allen on May 6, 2023 12:19:56 GMT -5
Right now I'm standing in line waiting for my lcs to open.
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