"Can Game of Thrones season two live up to season one?"

"(Blank) is like a Velveeta enema" is my new favorite saying. And I don't even know what it means.

That may be what they're saying now. I find it difficult to believe.

So, I'm guessing that, somewhere along the line, the producers realized that there was simply no way that the story they started with was sustainable — and yet the show was inexplicably popular. "Oh, hey, we can make it sort of an anthology! That'll work!"

I'll rephrase. "Wait — you're saying [all religion] isn't a psychotic illness?"

Wait — you're saying Christian religious guilt isn't a psychotic illness?

Meh.

Mostly, I think the concept went away because all the relevant examples failed. Although popular with a niche crowd, Firefly failed; Serenity eventually earned back its budget, but it was viewed as a failure by the studio. The Chronicles of Riddick failed. Solaris failed. Even Battlestar Galactica failed from a…

Jesus, what an asshole.

So that's what happened to Dad. One evening, he went out for a six-pack of Stag and he just never came back.

No, I think all the necromongers where that way. Remember, they called normal people "breeders" as an insult.

I have to admit — I liked the Riddick movies. I liked Pitch Black, even though it was a thinly veiled ripoff of Aliens. I liked The Chronicles of Riddick, even though it had such a remarkably different tonal quality from the first movie, and introduced nonsense concepts such as the Necromongers being "half dead," or…

I can't watch that without hearing the Star Trek "fight" music. You know it — duh duh duh duh DUH duh da duh duh!

And then there's this: [imgur.com]

Fringe has never made any damn sense. I don't know why I should be disappointed that it isn't starting to make sense at this point.

Analyzing a work to understand what worked about it and what didn't work about it and why is an essential component of understanding how to create one's own work.

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It's always fascinating to read comments about writing fiction from people who know jack all about writing fiction.

"Gene L. Coon...," he mused disgustedly.

I need my pain.