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shadowkat1. Every new TV pilot in the works
Hmmm...outside of the fact that I don't think we need any more television shows at the moment, and wow that's a lot of them..I got tired and gave up mid-read -- the following ones leaped out at me:
*Triangle
What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants — from throughout history — to survive and somehow find a way home.
Jumped out at me -- because it sounds like a remake of Fantastic Journey which was this weird sci-fi series that aired on NBC from February - June 1977.
The series concerns a family and their associates who charter a boat out into the Caribbean for a scientific expedition. After an encounter in the area of the Bermuda Triangle with an unnatural green cloud, the group find themselves shipwrecked on a mysterious uncharted island from which they are unable to escape.
Anyone else remember it? Probably not. My parents were into wildly obscure television series in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, I got used to series I loved being cancelled very quickly.
Also...
Considering how low in the ratings Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been there's a lot of series that seem to be based on the same "Musical Themed" concept.
And there's...a musical themed spin-off of Riverdale entitled Katy Keene, about Broadway hopefuls in NY. (I wonder if it will be as dark as Riverdale?)
They also have one about a small town in New Hampshire that discovers and invaluable resource and immediately declares itself a new country (I'm assuming succeeding from both New Hampshire and the US? Called "The Republic of Sarah".) First of all, my suspension of disbelief leap-frogged out the window, because I'm sorry, small town's can't succeed from the US that easily except in the minds of crazy-ass television writers, apparently. Other than that it could be entertaining, I'd just have to tell the part of my brain that doesn't buy it -- to shut up.
And...
Evil
A series about the battle between science and religion, EVIL focuses on a skeptical female clinical psychologist who joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
By: Robert King & Michelle King, Liz Glotzer
So the X-Files meets the Exorcist? They need a new title.
Next
A propulsive, fact-based thriller grounded in the latest A.I. research, neXt features a brilliant but paranoid former tech CEO who joins a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent and her team to stop the world’s first artificial intelligence crisis: the emergence of a rogue A.I. with the ability to continuously improve itself. Marrying pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand, the series also presents us with a villain like we’ve never seen before, one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.
I've no clue what this about. My mind shut-down halfway through the description.
The Hypnotist’s Love Story
After a string of failed romances, successful hypnotherapist Ellen is optimistic about her current boyfriend. But then he reveals a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend (Heathern Graham) has been following him for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued — and oddly thrilled by the stalker, entirely unaware that they’ve already met. Stars Heather Graham as Sasha, Liza Lapira as Julia.
By: Heather Graham, Katie Wech, Liane Moriarty
So..the best-selling Aussie writer is jumping into television writing now?
(By the way, I like her much better than Jo Jo Moyes, who I can't read, and Jodi Picoult.) My mother read this book. I read What Alice Forgot and The Husband's Secret, which I enjoyed but the plot didn't work -- the ending was off on both.
The Lost Boys
Welcome to sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat… and a secret underworld of vampires. After the sudden death of their father, two brothers move to Santa Carla with their mother, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead. Based on the feature film from Warner Bros. Pictures.
By: Heather Mitchell, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge, Mike Karz, Bill Bindley, Rebecca Franko
The original movie I think heavily inspired the writers of Buffy. It could be good. Depends on casting and writing. The original was fantastic -- because of Keifer Sutherland. He was good in that role -- it may be his best role.
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
An innovative musical dramedy about a whip-smart but socially awkward girl in her late 20s who is suddenly able to hear the innermost thoughts of people around her as songs and even big musical numbers that they perform just for her. With this new ability at her disposal, she is able to use her “gift” to not only help herself understand people in her life, but also to help others around her.
By: Austin Winsberg, Paul Feig, Jessie Henderson
Reminds me of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but not as innovative or satiric.
2. I'm with oursin, can't find a common thread in Good Reads 200 Most Difficult Novels List either. For a bit, I thought it was the books you want to impress others that you read list...that is until Stephen King's Gunslinger and Gone with the Wind popped up. I can't really imagine bragging about reading either. Or Atlas Shrugged for that matter.
Good Reads is admittedly diverse in age, gender, demographics, nationality, pretty much everything. And I'm guessing they probably polled people on what their most difficult book was and tallied the points? (shrugs) People do define reading difficulty differently. Not everyone defines it in regards to the writer's style, sometimes it's the subject matter, or in the case of Little Women having seen one too many adaptations...and thinking, eh, bored now.
Sometimes I struggle to finish a book because the subject matter doesn't engage me or the style puts me off or the story irritates or annoys me to such an extent that I want to burn the book in effigy. I mean there are other reasons why I couldn't finish a book or get through it or found it difficult -- outside of just an incomphrensible writing style that would require a degree in linguistics to figure out (I'm looking at you Foucaul't Pendalum, Finnegan's Wake and well anything by Gaddis, really).
But...
IT is admittedly an odd list.
We have Little Women and...well Gone with the Wind, Ulyssess, Finnegan's Wake, House of Leaves, Atlas Shrugged, next to Stephen King's Gunslinger, Moby Dick, Jane Eyre,
and Little Bee.
While I can understand the stream of consciousness writers being there -- and they all are, without exception, I do wonder about some of the fantasy literary genre and children's novels.
Gone with the Wind and Atlas Shrugged -- I'd have put on it. Couldn't get through either. Made it about 200 pages into Gone before giving up, and 800 or so into Atlas. I recommend skipping Atlas and reading Anthem instead, it's shorter and not as aggravating. Gone? I recommend watching the movie instead -- shorter and more entertaining, also weirdly, not quite as disturbing or racist. (Weirdly, because the movie is both of those things. There's a reason the networks don't show it every Easter like they used to. I remember it being televised once a year around Easter in the 1970s-1990s. It has not aged well.)
There's an awful lot of Neil Gaiman -- I'm guessing someone on Good Reads finds Neil Gaiman's style hard to read? Also Ken Kessey -- which actually I sort of agree with it.
Lots of Russian writers -- because people suck at translating them, I'm guessing? Also a lot of German writers -- same problem.
3. It snowed then it sleeted, then it rained. Snow will be gone by tomorrow -- I hope, otherwise it's a slushy mess to walk through to and from various trains. Days like these, I envy people who drive. I much rather drive in the crap them walk in it...although definitely feel safer doing the walking. And on Thursday it will be 56 degrees again. Meanwhile Seattle got 10 inches of snow. And there are polar bears invading a Russian Fishing Village.
Hmmm...outside of the fact that I don't think we need any more television shows at the moment, and wow that's a lot of them..I got tired and gave up mid-read -- the following ones leaped out at me:
*Triangle
What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants — from throughout history — to survive and somehow find a way home.
Jumped out at me -- because it sounds like a remake of Fantastic Journey which was this weird sci-fi series that aired on NBC from February - June 1977.
The series concerns a family and their associates who charter a boat out into the Caribbean for a scientific expedition. After an encounter in the area of the Bermuda Triangle with an unnatural green cloud, the group find themselves shipwrecked on a mysterious uncharted island from which they are unable to escape.
Anyone else remember it? Probably not. My parents were into wildly obscure television series in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, I got used to series I loved being cancelled very quickly.
Also...
Considering how low in the ratings Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been there's a lot of series that seem to be based on the same "Musical Themed" concept.
And there's...a musical themed spin-off of Riverdale entitled Katy Keene, about Broadway hopefuls in NY. (I wonder if it will be as dark as Riverdale?)
They also have one about a small town in New Hampshire that discovers and invaluable resource and immediately declares itself a new country (I'm assuming succeeding from both New Hampshire and the US? Called "The Republic of Sarah".) First of all, my suspension of disbelief leap-frogged out the window, because I'm sorry, small town's can't succeed from the US that easily except in the minds of crazy-ass television writers, apparently. Other than that it could be entertaining, I'd just have to tell the part of my brain that doesn't buy it -- to shut up.
And...
Evil
A series about the battle between science and religion, EVIL focuses on a skeptical female clinical psychologist who joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
By: Robert King & Michelle King, Liz Glotzer
So the X-Files meets the Exorcist? They need a new title.
Next
A propulsive, fact-based thriller grounded in the latest A.I. research, neXt features a brilliant but paranoid former tech CEO who joins a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent and her team to stop the world’s first artificial intelligence crisis: the emergence of a rogue A.I. with the ability to continuously improve itself. Marrying pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand, the series also presents us with a villain like we’ve never seen before, one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.
I've no clue what this about. My mind shut-down halfway through the description.
The Hypnotist’s Love Story
After a string of failed romances, successful hypnotherapist Ellen is optimistic about her current boyfriend. But then he reveals a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend (Heathern Graham) has been following him for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued — and oddly thrilled by the stalker, entirely unaware that they’ve already met. Stars Heather Graham as Sasha, Liza Lapira as Julia.
By: Heather Graham, Katie Wech, Liane Moriarty
So..the best-selling Aussie writer is jumping into television writing now?
(By the way, I like her much better than Jo Jo Moyes, who I can't read, and Jodi Picoult.) My mother read this book. I read What Alice Forgot and The Husband's Secret, which I enjoyed but the plot didn't work -- the ending was off on both.
The Lost Boys
Welcome to sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat… and a secret underworld of vampires. After the sudden death of their father, two brothers move to Santa Carla with their mother, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead. Based on the feature film from Warner Bros. Pictures.
By: Heather Mitchell, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge, Mike Karz, Bill Bindley, Rebecca Franko
The original movie I think heavily inspired the writers of Buffy. It could be good. Depends on casting and writing. The original was fantastic -- because of Keifer Sutherland. He was good in that role -- it may be his best role.
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
An innovative musical dramedy about a whip-smart but socially awkward girl in her late 20s who is suddenly able to hear the innermost thoughts of people around her as songs and even big musical numbers that they perform just for her. With this new ability at her disposal, she is able to use her “gift” to not only help herself understand people in her life, but also to help others around her.
By: Austin Winsberg, Paul Feig, Jessie Henderson
Reminds me of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but not as innovative or satiric.
2. I'm with oursin, can't find a common thread in Good Reads 200 Most Difficult Novels List either. For a bit, I thought it was the books you want to impress others that you read list...that is until Stephen King's Gunslinger and Gone with the Wind popped up. I can't really imagine bragging about reading either. Or Atlas Shrugged for that matter.
Good Reads is admittedly diverse in age, gender, demographics, nationality, pretty much everything. And I'm guessing they probably polled people on what their most difficult book was and tallied the points? (shrugs) People do define reading difficulty differently. Not everyone defines it in regards to the writer's style, sometimes it's the subject matter, or in the case of Little Women having seen one too many adaptations...and thinking, eh, bored now.
Sometimes I struggle to finish a book because the subject matter doesn't engage me or the style puts me off or the story irritates or annoys me to such an extent that I want to burn the book in effigy. I mean there are other reasons why I couldn't finish a book or get through it or found it difficult -- outside of just an incomphrensible writing style that would require a degree in linguistics to figure out (I'm looking at you Foucaul't Pendalum, Finnegan's Wake and well anything by Gaddis, really).
But...
IT is admittedly an odd list.
We have Little Women and...well Gone with the Wind, Ulyssess, Finnegan's Wake, House of Leaves, Atlas Shrugged, next to Stephen King's Gunslinger, Moby Dick, Jane Eyre,
and Little Bee.
While I can understand the stream of consciousness writers being there -- and they all are, without exception, I do wonder about some of the fantasy literary genre and children's novels.
Gone with the Wind and Atlas Shrugged -- I'd have put on it. Couldn't get through either. Made it about 200 pages into Gone before giving up, and 800 or so into Atlas. I recommend skipping Atlas and reading Anthem instead, it's shorter and not as aggravating. Gone? I recommend watching the movie instead -- shorter and more entertaining, also weirdly, not quite as disturbing or racist. (Weirdly, because the movie is both of those things. There's a reason the networks don't show it every Easter like they used to. I remember it being televised once a year around Easter in the 1970s-1990s. It has not aged well.)
There's an awful lot of Neil Gaiman -- I'm guessing someone on Good Reads finds Neil Gaiman's style hard to read? Also Ken Kessey -- which actually I sort of agree with it.
Lots of Russian writers -- because people suck at translating them, I'm guessing? Also a lot of German writers -- same problem.
3. It snowed then it sleeted, then it rained. Snow will be gone by tomorrow -- I hope, otherwise it's a slushy mess to walk through to and from various trains. Days like these, I envy people who drive. I much rather drive in the crap them walk in it...although definitely feel safer doing the walking. And on Thursday it will be 56 degrees again. Meanwhile Seattle got 10 inches of snow. And there are polar bears invading a Russian Fishing Village.
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Date: 2019-02-15 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-15 01:36 pm (UTC)Ah, yep. Similar to The Great Gatsby -- which I had to explain to a friend years ago. She just didn't get metaphors or anything that wasn't literally spelled out. Had the same difficulty with the film Howard's End. While I think like that -- so for me, easy read.