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shadowkatThis is Day #26 of the 30 Day Television Challenge
The prompt: A scene or episode you loved or hated in a television series or mini-series.
I don't know this is hard - I don't tend to remember episodes or scenes from television series with few exceptions.
And I think I already used those shows. So in order to make this one possible for me to do and everyone else? No rules, do whatever you want.
I'm picking a Twilight Zone Episode. So yes, you can do stuff that predates the dawn of time, if you so desire. Sorry I got aggravated.
Time Enough at Last - starring Burgess Meredith sticks with me. I wouldn't say I loved it. I'd say it scares the bejesus out of me.
The prompt: A scene or episode you loved or hated in a television series or mini-series.
I don't know this is hard - I don't tend to remember episodes or scenes from television series with few exceptions.
And I think I already used those shows. So in order to make this one possible for me to do and everyone else? No rules, do whatever you want.
I'm picking a Twilight Zone Episode. So yes, you can do stuff that predates the dawn of time, if you so desire. Sorry I got aggravated.
Time Enough at Last - starring Burgess Meredith sticks with me. I wouldn't say I loved it. I'd say it scares the bejesus out of me.
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Date: 2020-10-22 10:57 pm (UTC)There's an episode of Angel I hated. I'm not going to look it up, but you probably know the one. Connor is back and he and Cordelia get it on while Angel jealously peeps in through the window. So ridiculously unlike Angel before that season. I turned it off and refused to watch Angel again till Charisma was off the show. Not her fault; the story they gave her just wasn't anything I wanted to watch.
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Date: 2020-10-22 11:20 pm (UTC)She was more interesting without them. Also, there was a disagreement between Greenwalt and Whedon - partly due to religious convictions. Greenwalt is Jewish and religious, Whedon is angry Atheist. Greenwalt went with the PTB being benevolent beings, and not manipulative ass holes, and wanted a redemption arc for a classical hero. Whedon wanted pure noir, and didn't believe Angel or Cordy's redemption was possible, and balked at it. So when Greenwalt left and Whedon took over - guess what happened? Add to that - Whedon didn't like CC, and Greenwalt did. And the studio apparently had issues with Greenwalt and CC on Angel - and called Whedon in to fix it. (I got all this via Dochawk on the ATPO, whose best friend was Greenwalt's production assistant. Doc also told me everything that was going to happen in Angel S4 - and he was right. So, I was spoiled for most of it.) I think Tim Minear pretty much saved S4 Angel - his episodes are actually pretty good.
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Date: 2020-10-22 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-23 01:28 am (UTC)Most television show-runners are. It's a nasty business. The entertainment business is the worst business to work for - filled to the brim with serial bullies, and narcissists. I got stories from people that made me want to run in the opposite direction screaming.
My brother has stories about Oliver Stone (who peed on his sets to mark territory), Tim Burton (who was an absolute perfectionist and bullied his assistants and made them work without sleep), Spielberg - who paid production assistants to follow his kids around to collect good ideas, Scean Young - he had to fill her bathtub with ice and water and risk electrocution - so she should get into character and the director (Kit Carson) made him do it. Sam Shepard stole writing credit on Paris, Texas from Kit Carson who wrote the film and directed it.
I can go on.
It's kind of amazing we've gotten great shows and great content out of it. It's odd, but I actually like Gellar better now than Whedon - she's sane.
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Date: 2020-10-22 11:24 pm (UTC)Being a glasses wearer, it taught me a lesson for sure: Be careful what you wish for. I guess it should hit home now more than then, because now I need glasses to read instead of to see at distances.
Yep. I need glasses to see distances and close up now. I have various pairs of reading glasses. Contacts. And bio-focals.
That episode scared me. And I struggle reading books and magazines - the print is small.
Methinks the computer is destroying my eyes, sometimes.
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Date: 2020-10-22 11:50 pm (UTC)https://youtu.be/GmiFeNrggvE
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Date: 2020-10-23 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-23 12:35 am (UTC)Whoever said life was fair, Henry?
The ending always seemed unnecessarily cruel to me; but lately, I've been thinking that Serling wanted to say something about how we're all interconnected in this world, whether we like it or not. Henry gets his desire to be alone with his books, but without society (specifically, his optometrist), he's stranded in the rubble.
Burgess was the best. He never let Serling down. Watch "The Little Black Bag" from Night Gallery sometime...
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Date: 2020-10-23 01:35 am (UTC)Oh definitely. There's the whole set-up, Burgess' character is constantly being interrupted, people are getting in the way. Finally, they are all gone - and damn, he can't read - without their help - because there's no one to fix the glasses or read him a book.
The books in of themselves aren't enough.
I'll pass on Night Gallery - I've enough troubles sleeping. Actually Haunting of Bly Manor - made sleep difficult for a couple of nights.
[ETA - The episode from Night Gallery that haunts me - is the one in which a man flushes a spider down the sink, comes back, and it's bigger, he does it again, and it's bigger still..that kind of killed Night Gallery for me for eternity.]
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Date: 2020-10-23 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
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