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Messages - patrickm

1831
play a few hands of liars poker...you should be a whiz at this.

1833
"Maybe her movie could feature a sequence with ice skating monsters!!"

Why not...  Could call it The Story of Joey.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« on: February 22, 2020, 02:29:29 AM »
I know you defended Echevarria previously MB, saying this was his style...but that doesn't mean it was any good.  I looked up his work resume and he was pretty much a flop as a comic artist. This issue was the last work he did in comics. (He did a couple of graphic novels that have yet to be published ...wonder why?) then went into painting art. His style might look better as a painting but it sure didn't work in comics. Everything he drew looked like a eye chart for a quack optometrist trying to sell patients glasses. I was a subscriber to the comics originally and admire the thought and effort you put in for analysis MB, but truthfully the artwork is so horrible, I couldn't and can't even follow the story. In this case, a one and done issue was deserved.

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C: Ugh... smells like pork and beans and sauerkraut for dinner again!

V: (Thinking) Yum... never got that at the foundling home.

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Roger counting to 1,000 while playing hide and seek with David.

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I only got to watch about 15 minutes before I had to leave for work but taped it. Was really surprised the show was in color. Looked and felt very similar to Bonanza but had never seen the series before.

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For those of you who get Grit channel, Diana Millay's episode of Tales of Wells Fargo entitled The Gold Witch will air this Monday afternoon at 4pm.

1840
when he heard Vicki and Carolyn getting high in Vicki's room because it meant that the way was clear for him to have a nude play date with Sarah without being interrupted.

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Larry Fine's uncle.... Notso Fine.

1843
he was Elizabeth's secret boy toy.

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Well, I admire your optimism MB, but I really think you're glossing over reality here. Despite the limited number of openings for new shows which worked against Dark Shadows from the get go, the CW didn't just go out of their way not to select DS but REALLY went out of their way not to. Walker was given a series go without even a pilot, Kung Fu was a rejected project from a completely different network for pilot...but worst of all Lost Boys was given a redo for a 2nd pilot -almost unheard of these days. It's pretty clear if they are going forward with a vampire themed project, it's Lost Boys not DS. As for sister networks picking up DS, the CW is a sister network to CBS - which also owns Showtime and CBS Sports channel. In the Viacom merger, CBS just acquired an eclectic bunch of cable channels including TV Land, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, BET and Paramount Network. None of which are even remotely compatible with DS. (Could you imagine DS on BET with Wesley Snipes as Barnabas or moving Collinwood to Nashville for Paramount Network ...lol)

Nobody wants a DS reboot to happen more than me and I feel Perry's project has a lot of promise, it just feels like 1991 all over again. I organized the NBC rally here in Orlando. and with the rallies , letter and phone call campaign, I really thought DS had a good chance of getting renewed. Wrong. It wasn't till after the fact we learned that Warren Littlefield who took over NBC programming from Brandon Tartikoff hated the show and had no intention of renewing it. No matter how big the fan effort was, the fix was in. I get that same feeling now. I looked up what pilot scripts cost and Perry got the standard fee of around $40,000. The cost of shooting a pilot is a million or more, so what the CW has invested to this point is minimal. I would imagine the rights will reverent back to Perry at some point to shop around or just put out there. Networks are copycats, so if Lost Boys makes it to series and does well, DS will get another look see for sure. Otherwise, I think this project is a goner.

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do you take White Lightning in your coffee, or are you a Old Grand-Dad person?