OT: BSG - wtf?

Randallw · #1 March 25th, 2009, 09:38 PM

One problem I've read about is that two of the first five were characters which weren't even there from the begginning, being characters that were introduced for whatever reason and then popularity made them permanent. In other words there was never any plan from the beggining for them to be main characters. Clearly the writers had no plan from the start and just randomnly picked a bunch of characters people wouldn't expect because after all those characters were never planned.

I can imagine what it's like for people who have been watching. I have a series of novels called Chung Kuo where rebels are fighting against a worldwide Chinese government. It was always an eight book series, but suddenly at the end, after decades of general espionage, intrigue and war the leader of the rebellion turns into a giant transdimensional spider Chaos spirit, and they save their world by using the help of an alternate version of one of the main characters who wasn't abandoned as a child and in a world where the Chinese didn't take over. WTF? I thought, thinking he just didn't have a plan for ending. Lately I've read he asked for a ninth book but his publishers wouldn't let him.

Xrati · #2 March 27th, 2009, 11:04 AM

If you think that is really bad creativity, I just read a couple of days ago about a movie reviving the "Three Stooges."

What the Frack!!!

Jim Carrey is going to play Curly? - I DON'T THINK SOOOOO!!!!!

There are no new ideas out there! Just remakes of the originals are becoming the trend...

gregebowman · #3 March 29th, 2009, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Xrati

If you think that is really bad creativity, I just read a couple of days ago about a movie reviving the "Three Stooges."

What the Frack!!!

Jim Carrey is going to play Curly? - I DON'T THINK SOOOOO!!!!!

There are no new ideas out there! Just remakes of the originals are becoming the trend...

And get this, they've hired Sean Penn to be Larry!!!???? WTF

I thought he tried his hand at comedy when he starred with Madonna in a movie or two. But Larry? I can see him being Moe, especially when Moe hits the other two, but I just can't see him as a curly haired comedian.

Randallw · #4 March 29th, 2009, 08:44 PM

Then Benicio Del Toro plays the third one. Having never seen these Stooges I don't know if that makes sense.

gregebowman · #5 March 30th, 2009, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Randallw

Then Benicio Del Toro plays the third one. Having never seen these Stooges I don't know if that makes sense.

Well, if you remember, he did win an Oscar for playing a dude with the same type of haircut that Moe wore.

Randallw · #6 March 31st, 2009, 08:03 PM

Well as I said I've never seen these stooges. Who's Moe?

What role was it Del Toro won for? The only role of his I've seen is the guy in Usual Suspects.

Baron Munchausen · #7 April 1st, 2009, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Randallw

Well as I said I've never seen these stooges. Who's Moe?

You lucky dog. My advice to you is to never ask that question again. In fact, never ask anything about the three stooges again. And get yourself one of those filtering browser proxies (like Proxomitron) and setup a filter to kill anything that mentions "three stooges" before it even reaches your browser. You'll need it to remain sane when that movie comes out. There will probably be a revival of the old movies, too.

If you don't follow my advice you'll eventually find yourself exposed to one of the worst mind-f***'s ever produced by American "pop culture". The Stooges are even worse than the stupidest, trashiest Saturday Morning cartoons ever produced. Yes, even worse the Rubik's Cube: the cartoon.