This is probably the point where I should admit that I've never read Jaws. Or The Godfather… But wait—are you saying Benchley revised and rewrote Jaws over the years in different editions?

That's currently what I do while in grad school—teach several small tutorials (20 or so students) and mark papers and sometimes meet one on one with students. It's basically not far from being a TA—I get paid, but not enough to live on, especially with a kid—and I am gonna assume the school is paying for the house…

Yes, like a lot of books that make better movies/tv shows, the concept and even plot points are often there, but the writing isn't particularly good (or is lousy). Of course some obvious examples out there are Jaws and (some might argue this) The Godfather. Sometimes these authors are prolific. The author of 13…

But you said they weren't well written. I'm still confused :P (I get that you're a fan though—which is more than fair.) The Vanity Fair article did have his friends coming to his defense on some of those issues with comments like "IF he were alive, he SOOO would have changed his mind about climate change"

I do too, but don't really get the SFU/Girls analogy you're using…

(Although Girls is almost over too, but maybe they didn't know when they'd get this done…)

Agreed about 13 Reasons (though they should have changed it to 8 Reasons). Of course there are a ton of movies based on books with great concepts but not great writing, out there. But…

After that completely awful film of Mysteries of Pittsburgh finally happened (a Chabon novel that SHOULD have been relatively easy to film) I wouldn't blame Chabon if he never wants to see a film adaptation of his work again. (And yes, Wonder Boys was pretty good)

So they weren't well written and had "really messed up ideas" and… What wasn't particularly wrong with them again?

Yeah, I'm no fan, but gained some admiration for the man after that article.

To be fair, while there are grumbles of a possible second season now, it was set to just be a miniseries and they probably realized these ads would air once it was over…

He sure likes to go on about the pretty ladies… I mean, I never paid any attention to the out-of-nowhere rumours, but…

I have zero desire to see this—but my mind is blown that one of my fave film composers, Legrand, did Smurfs and the Magic Flute, which I loved as a kid. But, I don't think, after those YouTube clips, that I'll be tracking down the soundtrack.
However, Kelly Asbury, the director, gave a thoughtful interview mainly…

Right but then maybe she should get Head Librarian written on her lunch bag instead of her name

I thought of that—but Richard's boy died, I take it—I don't think that means he lost his shade…

Things like Julia acting more… well humane, doesn't bug me. As others have said, after kinda getting what she almost did to Quentin and her jail time, you can tell that she is trying very hard to make the right decisions—she just has to stop and think about them for a second—they don't come naturally without her…

I dunno—at the risk of sounding awful, my immediate thought when she hooked up with Mr Sketchy at the bar was that I seriously doubt she had condoms with her (thinking more about potential STIs than pregnancy…)

Yeah—it rang as cartoony and not branded in any kind of reality. I mean MAYBE if it was a controversial gay play or musical it would make a bit more sense—not the incredibly straight (by musical theatre standards) 1776. Even the good old Westboro Baptist "Church" wouldn't bother, let alone a random group of people…

This is definitely true. Still—he has had a lot on his mind lately…

Yeah, I suppose it might be different if I grew up with them, but growing up on the West Coast and the prairies, when I moved to Montreal for 10 years I drank significantly less milk (granted, I don't think I even ever bought a pitcher…) It always unreasonably irks me when people call this a *Canadian* thing.