Soaps are supposed to be here. In the Crafts thread.
Right. Sir. Honey.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Cass - Dec 30, 2006 3:11:05 pm PST #2580 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 30, 2006 3:14:03 pm PST #2581 of 10001
What is even happening?
Soaps are here, except for when we're spoiling them.
Kevin - Dec 30, 2006 3:20:04 pm PST #2582 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Ah, I hadn't realised. Do we have enough soap viewers to justify a seperate soap topic thing?
Kevin - Dec 30, 2006 4:25:54 pm PST #2583 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Huh, just caught this on IMDB. Somebody who worked on the set of the Drive pilot a few months back said they were told the remaining episodes of Drive will be shot 'real time', a la 24. That true? I like the concept as I think it'd lend urgency to the race, but surely it'd be a bitch to shoot.
Jackal - Dec 30, 2006 4:29:15 pm PST #2584 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.
I asked Tim this in my email interview a few months ago:
TM: It's nothing like 24. And again, because of the wide canvass of the premise, it can literally go anywhere narratively.
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2006 6:28:19 pm PST #2585 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I find 24's "real time" gimmick extremely annoying. I think it makes the storytelling awkward, what with the split screens and all.
Kevin - Dec 30, 2006 11:09:23 pm PST #2586 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Real time is only gimmicky when they do things like spilt screen, if you ask me. I don't mind the concept of each show representing an hour in the life of people in the race, although if it's being done like that it would make race-based 'flash back in timeline' sequences confusing.
One thing I've picked up from comments online so far about Drive is how much resistance to the premise there is. I wasn't expecting that. From the lines put out in the Variety and Hollywood Reporter articles, people are picking up it's a Cannonballesque program. In a bad way. Hopefully the trailers don't make it look like Firefly did on FOX (ie FOX's trailers for Firefly resembled Spaceballs, if you ask me).
Laga - Dec 30, 2006 11:46:16 pm PST #2587 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I still remember my reaction to the Firefly trailers. Oh joy, another crappy Sci-Fi TV show. Is that Alan Tudyk? Oh well I suppose I'll give it a try. But then I got all confused missing the first five minutes of Train Job and thinking I'd missed an hour. I kept thinking I wanted to catch another episode but the next thing I knew it had been cancelled.
Kevin - Dec 31, 2006 12:16:33 am PST #2588 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
FOX Firefly promo: [link] (you have to watch it imagining you don't know the characters).
Laga - Dec 31, 2006 12:45:02 am PST #2589 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yeah that is. It's horrifying. If it wasn't for recognizing Alan Tudyk I never would have watched the show at all.
I also avoided watching Fight Club because of the trailers. I wonder what other great things with sucky trailers I have missed.