Made that comment to my son last night, about the Six Feet Under vibe with old Sam... (Hug your kitty for me!)

Really? I loved the 4th season.

I was so looking forward to the final season. Really primed for a big finish. And they fumbled the ball. As others have said, it felt needlessly rushed after years of setup. As if the writers had to catch a flight out of town and scribbled down three pages of plot points to wrap things up with no subtlety at all.

As…

Those two chances to kill Beta bugged me as well. You get the drop on him, stab and/or shoot him before he can turn the tables. Even when I thought the bullet was an actual chest wound, I still thought, double-tap, make sure he stays down. And I don’t know what the prison woman was thinking. That he’d stand there and…

I think the Taylor Swift song is about mass school shootings and how it’s up to young people to push for changes in laws to regulate/limit assault weapon access. To not tire in this fight. Because those in power are avoiding any responsibility for gun deaths. These days, students go into schools thinking about where…

Perhaps Bron is counting on, “a Lannister always pays his debts.”

What theaters should do to help with planning is to disclose how long trailers will last. 15 min, 20 min. Longer. That way, you know the actual start time of the 3 hour movie. You get tickets for 8PM, but the movie itself doesn’t start until 8:24PM. You can time that to hit the rest room at 8:20. Alternately, have a…

Your last sentence sums up my experience of season 2. I’m not feeling as connected to the story as I was in season one. And I was a big fan of season 1, so this is disappointing to me. The mini-plots don’t seem as compelling. Everything feels random, even the coincidences, such as both sides ending up at money’s table…

I was about to post the same thing about Carol. I replayed that scene and heard her mention the highwaymen had belongings of people who left and never returned, implying that they were murdered by the highwaymen, making them a clear and present threat. They only spared her to make them “even” with her for sparing the…

A lot of people seem to like that original novelization prologue. And a lot of people think the less explained about Michael the better. I think he comes across as more dangerous (and terrifying) when he’s unpredictable and unknowable. There was a murder scene in the book where my editor wondered if I should get more…

At some point I decided that the Michael Myers POV scenes would be in present tense. I thought that MM would live in the moment, that he neither dwells on the past or plans for the future. So there’s always an immediacy and expediency to his actions. 

Thanks! One of my goals is to build and extend suspense. And I think some scenes in the film fly by so fast the suspense doesn’t get a chance to build. (BTW: I only now noticed the notifications about replies. I had been out of the grays a while ago, but back in them again under this new comment system.)

Do you believe in the Boogeyman? You should.

I had the privilege of writing Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization, which comes out four days after the film’s October 19 release. Can’t wait to see the film itself. So glad to see so many positive reviews. FYI: The basis for my novelization was the screenplay and many, many set photos.

My question is WHY? Why don’t we own the digital copy, the same way we own a physical book or CD when we buy it? Just because they CAN revoke it we have to give up the right to own it? Often the price is the same; on some occasions the digital versions costs more than the paper/vinyl/CD. If the digital rights were…

I don’t think anyone has talked about the Ship of Fools title cards shown before the trial. (They basically told us don’t believe the ‘sane’ majority. They are the ones not in their right minds.) But those, combined with Farouk showing up at the trial without his (faulty) psychic dampening headband on opens up the…