JenP: The cabal needs a pirate. IJS.
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
SailAweigh - Apr 07, 2006 8:50:45 am PDT #9327 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Jackal - Apr 07, 2006 12:02:34 pm PDT #9328 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.
So just saw "Gem" - yet another good episode and I did a double take when Almost Human was mentioned causing me to spend the rest of that scene looking for demons from Buffy and Angel. Without rewatching I think I saw the Beast, one of the Scourge, Skip and something that may or may not have been Spike's head.
Web seems determined to keep Rebecca from forgetting her past and I guess that'll be coming to a head next week although my biggest question about the finale revolves around the logistics of how an 800lbs guy lures his victims to him.
Final thought: Keith Szarabajka and children does not seem to be a good combination.
evil jimi - Apr 08, 2006 4:29:52 am PDT #9329 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
bitmetv.org now has 12 eps of The Inside to ahem
BartlebyFink - Apr 08, 2006 3:37:42 pm PDT #9330 of 10001
One Hot Burrito!
Anyone want to invite me, so I can ahem?
Kessie - Apr 09, 2006 3:22:35 am PDT #9331 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
I´m aheming on mininova as I write this .... and I so wished I could have spec´d this show. *shakes fist against Fox*
Kristen - Apr 09, 2006 6:37:25 am PDT #9332 of 10001
I second that emotion. It would have an awesome show to spec. I wanted to do the (inevitable) Protected Witness is a Serial Killer episode.
I think Drive will probably be difficult to spec, in the same way that Lost, 24 and Desperate Housewives are difficult to spec.
Allyson - Apr 09, 2006 7:28:05 am PDT #9333 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
What would you spec for a show like Drive? It seems impossible to pick something similar enough in style to be able to prove you can write for it.
Kristen - Apr 09, 2006 7:34:46 am PDT #9334 of 10001
I would suppose that you would spec something more character based. Though I'm trying to think of anything on the air now that isn't a procedural but isn't highly serialized, and that people would be familiar with, and I'm coming up short. (Yes, I watch a lot of procedurals.) Maybe a Deadwood?
ETA: I know people have specced DH, Lost and 24. I just don't know of anyone who's had much success doing it.
EATA: Or, you know, just write the one-hour I Love Lucy...in which Lucy has an abortion...and it lives.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 09, 2006 10:38:11 am PDT #9335 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Do you have to write spec scripts for scripted shows, seeing as how the script itself isn't generally intended to be shot? From the description I'm wondering if writing out a fictional Worst Day Ever for The Amazing Race contestants might not get something of the necessary feel.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 09, 2006 10:44:33 am PDT #9336 of 10001
What is even happening?