May 2012
4 posts
Beware the Doppeldeaner →
associatevidiot:
Few great TV shows can continue to thrive without their original showrunners. The seasons of Joss Whedon’s Buffy and Angel that he entrusted to Marti Noxon and Jeffrey Bell are universally considered both series’ weakest. …
Intro to Television Adaptation
Sony expelled Dan Harmon.
Less than twenty-four hours in and there are already plenty of posts about it, not least of which is Harmon’s own account. All of them note that the new showrunners, Moses Port & David Guarascio, were more recently consulting producers on “Happy Endings.” Some wonder about how the tone of the show might change without Harmon at the wheel. Others...
A reprogrammed, debugged TRON.
Either Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz learned to write better at some point between their screenplay for TRON: LEGACY and now — an uncertain notion, given their cutesy-wutesy dwarves-hatching-from-eggs episode of Once Upon a Time — or it’s a lot easier to craft an entertaining story without studio executives breathing down your neck. Whatever the case, their pilot episode for...
Hoosier Daddy
It’s Thursday night. The 10 year old wants to stay up to see the season finale of one of his favorite shows. He sings along with the theme. ”Jabba the Hutt, Jabba the Hutt, Jabba the Hutt, Jabba the Hutt…” The 7 year old dances along.
Yes, yes, it’s a school night. But the 10 year old is a fan of “Parks and Recreation.” I can’t help that NBC...
