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    Jesse Alexander On Day One, Spaceships And Dungeons & Dragons

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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    08/31/09

    In reply to Jesse Alexander On Day One, Spaceships And Dungeons & Dragons
    Brother-man plays D&D?

    *slaps hand on the table* Sold. I'll be there for the premier.
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    Image of The Squid The Squid
    08/30/09

    In reply to Jesse Alexander On Day One, Spaceships And Dungeons & Dragons
    I don't like this "transmedia storytelling" trend. It's great to have more stories about characters I love, but I draw the line when it becomes mandatory to my understanding of the story.

    Star Trek: Countdown was very close to the line. It was a good comic, and made the movie much more logical; but without having read the comic, I would have seen Nero as a flat, two-dimensional villain whose motivations are not properly explained. As far as I'm concerned that's a huge flaw. If you can't tell the complete story without making fans search for the rest of the information, something's wrong.
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    Image of Jesse Alexander Jesse Alexander
    08/30/09

    @The Squid: I agree with you. Every piece of a Transmedia Story must stand on its own. You shouldn't need to have seen any of the other pieces of story to enjoy whatever it is you're checking out.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/30/09

    In reply to Jesse Alexander On Day One, Spaceships And Dungeons & Dragons
    One. Of. Us!
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    08/30/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Gabba gabba!
    We accept you! We accept you! We accept you!
    One of us!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/31/09

    @Briareosdx: So we can come over and sleep at your house, right, Jesse?
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    Image of 1ofsixbillion 1ofsixbillion
    08/25/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    Stargate Universe: Dark stargate, I'm all in.

    The Human Target: Simple yet fun.

    V: I really don't like invasion shows but the clips I've seen so far look great.

    The Vampire Diaries: Cancel now before I have to start throwing things at my tv.

    Past Life: I am more than willing to stab the producers of this piece of trash just so it doesn't get on the air and cause plummeting of the median IQ that already happened during the airing of medium and the ghost whisperer.

    FlashForward: The clips so far looks good but if it has the polar bear(black myst) syndrome then I wish it to the depths of hell known only as fox on friday night.

    Day One & Eastwick: I have not seen anything on either.
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    BlueBeard promoted this comment 1ofsixbillion was starred 1ofsixbillion was unstarred
    Image of MattLive MattLive
    08/25/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    And we lost Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles for these shows?
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    BlueBeard promoted this comment MattLive was starred MattLive was unstarred
    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    08/26/09

    @MattLive: I miss T:TSCC. It wasn't perfect, but it seemed it was always getting better.
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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    08/25/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    If they can make Human Target as good as Peter Milligan did, it should be awesome. Unfortunately, Executive Meddling seems to have already commenced, since the premise of the show would give star Brad Chase (I can't remember his real name!) nothing to do.
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    Image of kelz kelz
    08/25/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    I picked Past Life, but since we're comparing these series with a show that actually did get promoted, I should have changed my vote (bye Eastwick!)
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    08/25/09

    @kelz: I picked Eastwick, but only because comparing Past Life to My Own Worst Enemy would be insulting to My Own Worst Enemy.

    I don't know anything about Vampire Diaries, but this reminds me of that one year in the 80s when all the vampire movies came out at once (Once Bitten comes to mind, but there were more).

    Vampires are retarded.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/25/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    I picked Eastwick because I am hoping that it will get canceled before by wife gets into it and makes me watch it with her.
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    Image of skc15 skc15
    08/25/09

    @reddingofish: seconded. That and I bristle at the thought that this is how John Updike wants his latter-day legacy to be. What, did his kids reverse-mortgage his house?
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/25/09

    @skc15: I'm glad they waited until he passed away so he would not have to see it.
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    Image of iCurmudgeon iCurmudgeon
    08/24/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    I'm voting for Defying Gravity because it's already fallen off everyone's radar here.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    08/25/09

    @iCurmudgeon: I watch every new "genre" show every year, but I'm not watching that one, nor planning to. I don't know how representative I am, but good choice.
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    Image of finite_elephant finite_elephant
    08/25/09

    @Dirk Angry: I've been watching it. It's a bunch of people with complicated, intertwined backgrounds revealed in flashbacks, while in the present they're in a finite environment that also harbors some sort of maybe mystical, maybe super high-tech...thing straight out of Clarke that won't be revealed until they need a ratings boost.

    So it's kind of like "Lost"....in Space.
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    Image of CParis CParis
    08/25/09

    @finite_elephant:
    No - think "General Hospital"...in space.
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    BlueBeard promoted this comment CParis was starred CParis was unstarred
    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    08/24/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    V and/or FlashForward

    Because they have so far to fall and they're on ABC.

    Stargate Universe is already grandfathered in for a second season thanks to SG1 pulling itself along for what, 10 seasons? That's enough weight for at least 2 more possible spin offs not counting SGU.

    Eastwick and Vamp Diaries have grandfathered audiences(Desperate Housewives, the Twi-kids), who will if not watching because they like them, will watch so they can complain.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    08/24/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    "v" will survive on 80's nostalgia, Stargate Universe will make it through one season on sheer momentum, The Vampire Diaries will make it on the adolescent fang vote. Dunno about the rest.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/24/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    wish i could pick more than one of these
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    08/24/09

    @gorehound: Just fume about V being YARM and get it over with.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    08/24/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    Eastwick is about Satanic whores? Why didn't they name it Satanic Whores? Or Satan's Bitches? I'm sure it'd get lot more viewership that way.

    (Yes, I know the name's from the movie, but why bother keeping just a part of the name of the adaptation of another work?)

    The word Eastwick just doesn't sound like something anybody can get excited about.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/24/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    It was a hard choice between Eastwick
    and The Vampire Diaries.
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    Eugenia promoted this comment Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    08/24/09

    In reply to Which New TV Show Will Be This Year's My Own Worst Enemy?
    Day One, so bad they named it twice.

    Five internet dollars says Eastwick is going take Charmed spot ie lame show that gets a fantasy following.
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