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I came to King late, partly thanks to picking bad examples for my first exposure. I tried the novel Tommyknockers, and bailed after one or two hundred pages. Next I got some audio versions of both King and Lovecraft short stories. Unfortunately, after a great reading of The Rats in the Walls I tried the King story which turned out to be a remake of that tale. So much for King 
It wasn't until The Drawing of the Three came out that I gave him another chance. There was a great review of The Gunslinger in a magazine, so I picked up the audio version read by King to listen to on a trip. Ended up finishing it before I even left, so went out and bought the tapes of him reading the second book and I've been a fan ever since. Not everything is good, but when he's on, he's on. Bag of Bones is excellent, especially read by King.
That's still the fantasy world. We never get back to the "real" world until the end.
Lots of aliens/monsters would have been better left only seen once. The more you bring them back, the more the writers feel they have to expand on them, and the less effective they become. Doctor Who is full of this kind of thing, both original and next gen. The Angels, in the episode "Blink", are fucking awesome. However, it only takes one more story with them (written by the same author) to already have them talking and with a personality. and ignoring the rules already set up. I'd be willing to bet we see some allied with the Doctor at some point...
That sounds like something more suited for the first DIF of a TV episode. I have to assume Terra Nova will get a quick DVD release over the summer.
I'm assuming you guys were watching the same full frame version I was. If so, the helicopter shadow in the opening would have been matted out for the wide screen theatrical version so was most likely a "fuck TV" error more then anything else.
Also... no Hong Kong Phooey references? There's no way Scatman Crothers should have gone down that easily with his mad fighting skills!
A panel topic that is always fun at conventions is, "How Not to Get Published", all the things you should do to make sure your manuscript never makes it out of the slush pile (the joke being the authors giving the talk don't want competition). You guys could do similar episodes: how not to get cast in anything, how not to get funding, etc.
Which, the house where I do most of my fucking, or the house that is fucking that barn over there?
For topics that really get you guys in a grove, at the 30 minute mark just have Teague stop the conversation for a moment, play the end theme, then play the intro again and continue the topic.
As for topics, an all Trey stories episode would be fun. Maybe one with all the names replaced by, say, Dusty and Buddy to draw from an old George Carlin bit.
When first discovering the podcast, I did pass on any film I really had no interest in watching. Especially those that you really have to see unspoiled to get the full effect. Once I was caught up, however, I eventually went back and just watched them with the commentary and said screw giving the film a chance
About the only time I had reservations about listening to the commentary of a film I liked was Avatar, but that didn't stop me from giving it that first listen.
Depends on how fast you rubbed them together.
The interesting thing is, the idea of an afterlife really came late. Originally, you worshiped gods so they wouldn't kill you. Add the fact the local King/Pharaoh said THEY were god, and you had a real, practical reason to sacrifice that goat that had nothing to do with imaginary friends.
It would be interesting to adapt the original books and not the cartoon. Those, from what I understand, are social satire (one reason everyone is named after their job). Also, ALL they say is "smurf", making the international version much easier to create
There's a difference between not believing and rejecting, at least for me. I don't believe Diet Mountain Dew tastes good, but as I've never even had it I'm not going to reject the idea out of hand
Nobody mentioned it in the episode, but the original Howard the Duck comic book is a important lesson for all you creative types out there. Before he was given his own title to work on, the creator stuck Howard in the background of another comic he was working on for Marvel on a work-for-hire basis. Part of the contract was that Marvel owned everything in that book. Therefore... they successfully claimed they owned all rights to the character and the creator lost control of it. It was one of the events that launched the whole movement for writers and artists instead of publishers to own their creations.
I kind of like the advice to new writers given, I think, by Larry Niven: If something is keeping you from writing... let it.
Just realized, this news means you guys really have to do Prince of Darkness soon
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