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553 2014-02-05 18:31:56
Re: Rowling Admits That Harry And Hermione Should Have Ended Up Together (24 replies, posted in Off Topic)
For a good, by which I mean bad, example of this, one need only look at the comic strip For Better or Worse. While never perfect, for awhile it was a very nice tale of a family aging in real time, the kids having crushes, relationships, going to college. Then, the creator realized that due to health reasons she'd probably have to retire, and decided to pick an end point and force all her characters to reach it. The result was... catastrophic 
She decided both of the original kids would end up married to their first boyfriend/girlfriend, and wrenched the story there. She truly did not understand what her characters were telling readers, as opposed to what she thought she was saying on her march to that final wedding.
554 2014-01-30 11:56:14
Re: Best / Worst of 2013 (121 replies, posted in Episodes)
Maybe someone had a plan to have a die-off on Earth to get the population down, and it's not working. "If we can get the population down to one billion, we can do something with the place. Deny them health care! Wait... you mean they're still reproducing, but now are just suffering a lot? Well, that's egg on our face!"
555 2014-01-28 10:45:45
Re: Doctor Who is awesome, yeah? (991 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Pertwee was an action Doctor, always doing hand to hand combat with aliens. Could be fun to return to that
557 2014-01-23 08:45:16
Re: Quentin Tarantino shelves western The Hateful Eight after script leak (14 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Gosh, this would be a good excuse for you guys to watch Bruce Dern in The Cowboys and do a commentary for it!
559 2014-01-22 17:24:49
Re: Quentin Tarantino shelves western The Hateful Eight after script leak (14 replies, posted in Off Topic)
The difference might be that this was a first draft, the kind of thing you don't want out there. The other leaks might have been closer to the shooting script.
560 2014-01-22 14:42:21
Re: So...how bout dem Oscars? (97 replies, posted in Off Topic)
If 'HER' wins the oscar, by definition it isn't science fiction.
(old author's joke: What's the difference between science fiction and speculative fiction? If you're paid over a certain amount per word, it's no longer science fiction.)
561 2014-01-22 12:10:08
Re: Best / Worst of 2013 (121 replies, posted in Episodes)
I mentioned in another thread that my sister hated Gravity. As she put it, once there was only one character, you know nothing would happen to her until the end of the movie so there was no suspense. I asked if she'd ever read Robinson Caruso, and she said 'no'
563 2014-01-14 17:06:56
Re: If you think the Oscars are big time... (2 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Nope I doubt I'll win anything, but I already have two nominations for best author
564 2014-01-14 16:55:02
Topic: If you think the Oscars are big time... (2 replies, posted in Off Topic)
565 2014-01-14 13:47:08
Re: FOX wants to change how pilots work. (5 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Well, not necessarily. Just like with films, something can be great but just not what people want to watch at the moment. It's also much easier to not see any ads for a new show if it's not on a network you usually watch. I wish them well, but once Football season is over I won't be watching FOX until fall so doubt I'll catch any great shows they premier then
566 2014-01-13 09:08:07
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
If you want WTF, you have to see how the original TV series ended. The network, upset at the amount of violence, made them throw out tons of finished animation late in the season, but gave them no extra money. The final two episodes are mostly just text and voiceover. Makes no bloody sense and insulted every viewer (although I liked it at the time). All these countless remakes are a reaction to that.
567 2014-01-12 20:42:04
Re: Suggest a Commentary 2.0: The Suggestioning (364 replies, posted in Episodes)
It's good, but not the best. It's also more about Gordon than Batman, telling how he came to Gotham and set himself apart from the corrupt cops there.
569 2014-01-12 19:04:28
Re: Suggest a Commentary 2.0: The Suggestioning (364 replies, posted in Episodes)
570 2014-01-12 11:16:41
Re: Suggest a Commentary 2.0: The Suggestioning (364 replies, posted in Episodes)
It is one of those phrases that sounds good, but there are enough exceptions it becomes somewhat meaningless. Some of my favorite characters did not start out with origin stories. The author instead dropped the reader into the most interesting part of that person's life, when they were who they were, and let us readers learn about them as they dealt with some problem. The Horatio Hornblower books, for example. There are prequels NOW, but if you read the publication dates you'll see we didn't get Midshipman Hornblower until the author realized he couldn't do much with the character as a 60 year old Admiral.
573 2014-01-09 19:27:08
Re: Um..Shia? (135 replies, posted in Off Topic)
The old saying in politics is you never want to be caught with a dead girl or a live boy. What's the Hollywood equivalent?
574 2014-01-09 15:05:19
Re: Behind The Scenes (Bandwidth Warning) (87 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Or Miss Grapebatch's school production of "Close Encounters of the Third Grade".
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