TV Shows

[Sgt PSN]

Guiding Light.

Name one serialized drama that was any good after it's 56th season.  Bring it on, smarty pants!   

[Hawk]

Guiding Light.

Name one serialized drama that was any good after it's 56th season.  Bring it on, smarty pants!   

Firefly.

[SD]

I was up till 3 lastnight reading the Walking Dead graphic novel, which is roughly the size of an encyclopedia. I only have a few hours left until I'm finished, but they could easily film ten seasons with 10-15 episodes assuming each is an hour in length.

name one serialized drama that was any good past a 6th season

I was putting the scope of the show into context to give people like yourself an understanding of how long the story line is. I wasn't necessarily suggesting they make 10 seasons. Even after I finish this there are 3-4 more books that follow, so it's even bigger than I speculated. Without giving away too much of the plot, the setting of the show stays in one spot for a majority of the story, and they could do 3-4 seasons based on that alone. Of course it might take 2-3 seasons just to get to that part.

And I know this isn't the book nerd thread, but if anyone wants to waste a weekend pick up the graphic novel. From a writing perspective it's basic, but the story is just as good as any post-apocalyptic book or zombie book I've ever read. The Road/World War Z etc. ain't got shtein on the Walking Dead.

[MDS]

the nerds who are loyal to the book are gonna get mad but its going to have to veer off from the book and get from big thing A to big thing B a lot quicker.

in fact it may distance itself from the book at some point, which wouldnt be awful. use it as a jumping off point then let darabont and the writers tell a story that works. leave the books as the books.

[Hawk]

Who cares where it veers... it's one epsiode in.. and frankly, I'm pissed I can't watch it yet.

[Rome]

[SD]

the nerds who are loyal to the book are gonna get mad but its going to have to veer off from the book and get from big thing A to big thing B a lot quicker.

in fact it may distance itself from the book at some point, which wouldnt be awful. use it as a jumping off point then let darabont and the writers tell a story that works. leave the books as the books.

The pilot did a great job of keeping loyal to the novel. In the book Rick doesn't hide in a tank. I won't say how he gets away, who helps him, or where he goes because it might ruin it. Just from looking at the names of the cast and some upcoming stills it's definitely going to veer off. When it gets to point B you'll know it. They could get to it by next season but there are so many great parts of the story they'd have to cut out to get there.

[SD]

Maher just had Bill O'Reilly on. Nothing Earth shattering but it was some decent back and forth. On a personal level I don't mind O'Reilly, don't always agree with him, but he's not as big of a toolbag as Rush/Hannity/Beck etc.

[Eagles_Legendz]

O'Reilly is a gigantic tool but he is light years ahead of his friends on Fox and conservative talk radio.

[Eagles_Legendz]

Just watched the interview.  Solid stuff.

I certainly don't agree with him on all (many?) things politically but he's not fundamentally evil, which essentially separates him from his Fox cohorts by itself.  He's essentially the right wing version of Chris Matthews, though perhaps more condescending (even if I think it's mostly tongue in cheek), which is fine.  The problem is O'Reilly comes off as a leftist in comparison to his colleagues.

I saw a quote from Maher in a previous interview with O'Reilly that I really liked when O'Reilly asked about extremes on both sides.  He said that there are extreme people on both sides, but there isn't a condensed movement on the left like exists on the right.  I think that is spot on.  There are plenty of loons on the left, but it isn't one gigantic movement and it is an outlier, whereas extremism on the right is starting to becoming synonymous with the norm.

[ice grillin you]

the difference is no one can find the extremists on the left....where as the maniacs on the right are front in center in our every day lives

im sure somewhere in an oregon basement there is a radical hippie planning a whaling boat attack

while the extremists on the right ran the entire country for most of the last decade

[Rome]

O'Reilly isn't a political pundit.   He's a television personality who got hired by Fox to spew their right-wing rhetoric. 

He was previously the host of farging celebrity imbecile-fest Inside Edition, for God's sake.

[Tomahawk]

Haha good point. I'd forgotten about Inside Edition

[Munson]

Haha good point. I'd forgotten about Inside Edition

[Hawk]

Got home at 3... Walking Dead was on.. Great show.. but why is the wife such a whore?