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Current Talk '03 I / You Know Who You Are (Part2)...
« on: June 06, 2003, 12:46:32 AM »
and you know that you want these (Part2). So, here are some captures from episode #969:
Enjoy!
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Congratulations, ProfStokes!
How do you manage to do all you do and still keep up the posts?
That doesn't mean that I want everything to proceed at a snail's pace either, but there is a happy medium.
Aren't you glad I have some powers of self control left?
MB, please stop snickering!
Maybe if we ALL shout loud enough,
[size=16]RINGO[/size]
would hear us & drop us a line & know how's he's doing.
Is there some sort of lag time developing between when a post appears on the thread, when it appears on the Info Center and when the blue "new" indicator comes on the board?
I've been noticing for a couple of days that I'm seeing posts in one place and not in the others for some time....and things that I've already read are suddenly turning up some time later as "new"....and I'm finding things listed on the Info Center that I didn't see even though I'd just logged off the thread in question....?
The breakneck pacing, where if one missed even one episode, one might have missed a plot point that might never actually be explained again, didn't really take shape with a vengeance until the last year of DS - a point which will begin soon after the complete shift of focus to 1970PT.
Now you'll really think I'm the devil's advocate ...
but to tell the truth, when I heard that this was the case during the last SciFi run, I thought that sounded (and was!) terribly exciting! How rich and novel for a daily serial program to break with tradition -- break the mold -- and go its own way at breakneck speed.
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I found it exhilirating trying to keep up -- and the pace made sure I didn't miss an episode!
Had the show on this a.m. briefly and was reminded again of a fleeting memory that comes and goes in relation to this storyline.
I remember a voiceover from Jonathan Frid advising fans to tune in for a special episode that was going to explain the background and true motives of the Leviathans. The voiceover played over the end titles of several shows during the week in Jan. (?) 1970, a week that, if memory serves, ended with the broadcast of the episode in which Barnabas spills the beans to Julia.
Fascinating if only because it rates as DS' only clip show, though some of the "clips" were restagings with new material.
I also remember a similar voice over leading up to the broadcast of the second show run yesterday (Tuesday) on Sci Fi. Frid, or maybe the program announcer, advised fans to be sure and tune in for an episode that would have pivotal importance in the story. The episode that resulted did indeed seem very exciting to me at the time. I was pretty much unaware of the widespread fannish dislike of Leviathan; I thought it was a very cool storyline.
Does anybody else remember this second announcement regarding yesterday's show? (You'd obviously have had to be watching back in 1970 to be able to remember it!)
Plotting by committee is SUCH a grand way to write a story. Especially when it appears the committee was never all in the same room at one time.
"What did we do yesterday?"
"I don't remember."
"Never mind...just change it today."
"Works for me!"
I'm not sure what it is
and having now paid lots of money too shameful to mention
i like the idea of J with the Jennings boys living on some island or is that my dream!
Just another housekeeping chore, eh?
Ack!...sometimes I completely forget the time difference.
... He feared that if the show employed anything approaching the slower pacing of the first years of the show (to great effect, I agree, Stuart), the audience would quickly lose interest and tune out. Talk about being completely out of touch with most of your audience.
Not to be the devil's advocate , but isn't that exactly what was (perceived to be) "wrong" with the first year of the show -- remember, DS was nearing cancellation with its first year of slow-moving drama.