I bought the comic books which were, from art to plot, awful.  I also bought the MR novels which were, from writing to plot, equally awful.  But for about a year, after DS went off the air, that's all we had left, save those lucky enough to have the comic series run in their newspaper's "funnies" (and the plots were equally awful while the artwork was acceptable). 

Gerard

You know what gets me, MB, with the OS?  It wasn't the outdoor sets that ended up as blooper whoopsies (which we all love).  Even though ABC spent a lot of money on those sets (whether interior or exterior), far above all other soap operas at that time, whoopsies were expected because it's not like DS had the budget of Doctor Zhivago.

What gets me is that in the first several seasons, if it was daytime and characters were outside, it was daylight.  In black-and-white, the background was bright.  In color, the background was blue to look like a day sky.  If it was a night scene, the background was black.  And then, for some unknown reason, those bright or blue backgrounds vanished.  Whether it was two p.m. or two a.m. the background was always black and showed night.  That went on until the fateful day in April '71.  That just drove me nuts.

Well, anyway, back to the original topic, with or without palm trees.  But if I see one, just one, you know what's going to happen.  If this proposed series does happen (I've already stated I'm skeptical), I'll be happy.

Gerard
P.S.  I love palm trees.  I lived in Nevada, California and Arizona.  But they don't belong in Maine.  Get that computer CGI or whatever it's called into operation.

I stopped at our local Walgreen's yesterday to buy toothpaste.  Christmas stuff is already on the shelves.

Gerard

Quote from: Gerard on September 18, 2019, 01:52:01 AM

I guess all that rain kept everything green.  Plausible explanation.

Sorry. It rains frequently during the winter in New England. And in all my 60+ years of living here, there has never been one winter season in which the grass has stayed green and the trees have had green leaves.

Try again... 

Well, MB, did your lawn consist of grass carpeting that rumpled up when someone was struggling on top of it, or did your trees have two pieces of plywood that served as roots which showed up when knocked over?  Well, did they?  Hhhmmmm......

I rest my case!

Gerard
P.S.  And don't tell me you had PALM TREES!

MB, back in the '90's, when  lived in Alaska, a friend came to visit me for two weeks, and he'd watch DS with me when it was re-ran on the old Sci-Fi network.  He asked me:  "Why is it always thunderstorming?"  I guess all that rain kept everything green.  Plausible explanation. 

Gerard 

In the classic '76 cinematic version of Carrie, set also in Maine, what does one see in the background, palm trees, palm trees, palm trees, PALM TREES! 

That's why I liked the '02 version better, filmed in Vancouver.  No palm tre.....oh, you know what I'm saying.

Once again, if I see so much as just one of those things if this gets off the ground, I'm going to you-know-who and get his lawyers on it. 

Gerard
P.S.  Join me in a class-action lawsuit.  We'd clean up. 

If this actually comes to fruition and I so much as see ONE palm tree, I'm going to throw my Joesette's Music Box through the TV screen.

Gerard

One of our local channels reran Gilligan's Island for several years, airing at five p.m.  And on every Halloween night, it would show the episode where Gilligan dreamed he was a vampire. 

Gerard