Comment preview: I watched an old John Candy movie recently called Delirious. The premise is pretty simple. Candy is a producer and writer of a soap who feels creative control is being wretched away from him. On his way to a record fare he is in a car crash and wakes up in ....

Comment preview: As an actor, I can second a lot of what Urethral_Instigation said, especially the difference between a single camera set-up and a multi camera set-up (soap operas usually use 2, sometimes 3 cameras) Also, soap operas operate on a **breakneck** schedule by ....

Comment preview: This is likely very good news. The writing room is understaffed, underpaid, and overworked. They're not treated like TV writers, in fact it's a nonunion shop and a lot of them aren't exactly the cream of the writing field anyway, as better writers won't pu ....

Comment preview: Most British TV will be written entirely by 1 or 2 people, who will also be the series creator. You go to a TV company with a pitch, and if they like it, they say "OK, now go and write me six episodes" because that's about how much one person can write in ....

Comment preview: The writers openly admitted that they were writing the story as they went along, and it sure showed. Stuff like the idea of a Final Five, who the Final Five were, Starbuck, Daniel, and so many other integral plot points to the show were sloppily thought up ....

Comment preview: Frank looked like he had finally slowed down this year to me, so I sincerely doubt in getting a few more good seasons from him. I would love to see him finish out his career here in SF, though in a reduced role in favor of more Hyde time and Hunter, once ....

Comment preview: An interesting thing happened in television some 45 years ago. A Peruvian network broadcasted a soap opera called 'Simplemente Mar a'. It told the rags to riches story of a single mother who worked her way up by becoming a seamstress and getting an educati ....

Comment preview: I just really wish I could have seen the version of Dexter where they kept the same writers/production staff from seasons 1-4 instead of the garbage that they have thrown at us in these past few seasons with the new writers/production staff. Season 3 wasn' ....

Comment preview: Shitty *writing* too. The writing is *so crucial* and it often gets overlooked. "Anaken you're breaking ma hurrrtt. You're going down a path I can't follow." Even Natalie Portman couldn't make *that* sound good. "It's over Anaken. I have the high ground." ....

Comment preview: It's the density of the humor. That was probably why it "failed" during its initial run. There's so many jokes that, at any one moment, there's usually three funny things going on: one person is saying something really funny, while someone else is reacti ....

Comment preview: I remember reading the scene in this image and the scene you're talking about while it was coming out in issues. At the time it read like the culmination of years worth of storytelling and interpersonal character dynamic between Bats and Gordon. It was a c ....

Comment preview: Andy Robinson's Garak always takes the cake for me, even when matched against the likes of nominally "better" actors like Patrick Stewart. It's not *just* acting -- much credit must be given to the writers -- but I am hard pressed to think of a character t ....

Comment preview: Anything after the first season was garbage. An overpowered Sylar or Peter wasn't the problem, we actually got a kick out of seeing them do their little doomsday battle... But instead of a childish Hiro growing to become the asskicking Ninja Hiro, we just ....

Comment preview: As an English major, most professors are pretty self-conscious about these sorts of things and acknowledge the unique problems women writers face. Look at how much every genre that is explicitly for the enjoyment of women gets mocked or derided as not bein ....

Comment preview: Season Two had shit writing. The characters don't do shit for half the episodes, Sofia missing is a very lazy plot device that the writers drag on forever. AMC basically fucked the show over by demanding double the episodes, and fucking over Frank Darabont ....

Comment preview: Wow. This is one giant bullshit soap box article. There are no fucking facts out. None. And this loser is going off of who saying this? WHO? A few losers on twitter? The vast majority of fans, including all I have seen on the excellent NHL community on red ....

Comment preview: There has been a drop in quality. The new episodes watch like a show written by TV writers, about like a good soap opera. People may say it's slow, but that's because it's still paced at a more or less literary speed but the storytelling is failing; they ....

Comment preview: You articulated that very well, and got at the heart of how the show is almost entirely propped up by the sensible worldbuilding and dramatic writing of George R.R. Martin. With only an outline to work with, D&D have reverted entirely to writing a tele ....

Comment preview: I google translated it: >I can already somewhat betrayed by the end of the War of the Seven Kingdoms (but only at the bottom)! >First, a few notes: >This book series is very overrated. Jorge R. R. Maertyn steals like the proverbial Raben other aut ....

Comment preview: My last bf is a full blown sociopath. When he first was posted to our unit (Army) everyone thought he was fun, he joked around, he was a single Dad so we all figured he was doing his best. Our relationship sprang up pretty quick and it didn't take long foe ....

Comment preview: some random person on the internet started a blog about these fictional characters' lives. it was basically like a teen soap opera, except they used photos of actual people from my high school to portray these characters. anyway, the real life people found ....

Comment preview: God, I hate when people try to downplay this stuff. I'm really not trying to sound like a douche here or anything, but it just irks me. To start, not every single detail in every frame is necessarily significant. If, however, the show establishes a pattern ....

Comment preview: I have 2 complaints: 1) **Emilia Clarke's acting.** Kind of regressing back to Season 2 it looks like. She's trying to be operatic and queenly. But why bring in Jorah, her "closest friend", and act all formal and regal? It just feels like a bad soap op ....

Comment preview: Did anyone else feel like she was a total stereotype? I'm pretty sure her character's name on the casting list was "Sassy, black, no-nonsense nurse." Quick summary of black people in Rosewood. Maya St. Germain Traits: bisexual, so into smoking weed, it's r ....

Comment preview: I'm 7 episodes in (and I really struggled to get this far) and I'm now wondering whether to continue. I probably will as I've invested this much time already but I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to continue. The biggest problems I have with the show: 1. ....