Cranberry found a great interview with Bryan Fuller, in which he talks a lot about
Wonderfalls
and
Dead Like Me,
as well as his new projects.
The site isn't work-safe, though, as it's sorta porny.
The relevant bit for the Timsters:
I learned a lot from Tim in terms of story structure and just how to run a show, like working with the writers and doing rewrites. There is a lot that I learned from him that I’m walking away from Wonderfalls with so I’m eager to apply a lot of those things on the next show.
Hee, he sent me the link, actually, saying "this is an interview I did with a porn site!" It is a pretty good article. I thought it was interesting that he made some of his Dead Like Me gripes public.
We've also both been interviewed for an article in a Tribune weekly in South Florida (and I think the reporter talked to Caroline, too), although I don't know when that one comes out.
I liked Bryan before, but I loved him more after reading that interview.
Sci-Fi Wire has a brief article/interview thingy about Tim's work on adapting TMiaHM. [link]
The light marriages are still there.
I believe he said "line marriages".
The light marriages are still there.
I think this is supposed to be "line marriages."
The catapult is still there...The idea is this sort of Ferris wheel thing that takes it up over the gravity well and drops to Earth.
Oh, God, no! The lunar catapult is a
linear
motor. [link] Like a railgun [link]
for cargo containers. See also: [link]
Maybe he was thinking of Artsutanov's rotating skyhook. See [link] and [link]
But that is a
very
different launch device than what is used in TMiaHM, and one impossible to protect from attack.
I've given the citizens of Luna ocular 'ident stamps,' which are the equivalent of prisoner tattoos, and Mike finds a way into the personalized signature of people, so he can show himself to you, but no one else can see him. So that's maybe the thing I added.
I don't understand this part. Is he saying Mike will appear to Manny (and the audience), but will be invisible to passers-by?
Geek high five!
t slaps DCP
::high-fives Betsy back::
I was twelve the first time I read TMiaHM, so making sense of how the catapult worked was much more important to me than figuring out why different forms of marriage were considered scandalous.
I'm a lot older now, and I have more confidence that a linear motor would work as a lunar catapult than a line marriage would work anywhere, but at least Heinlein explained them both well enough that I remember them.
