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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Various Ponderings of TV in Two Aspects

If I could make a TV series I would. I would love to create an ongoing serial like Lost or Twin Peaks or Carnivale, something with an ensemble caste and something really weird going on. If I could I'd make the Big Novel that TV series, since it already has a large cast. I could probably even get it around three seasons, sat twenty-three episodes each. That would come of to around sixty-nine episodes. I could do everything I want with that story and more. But I don't know if it would be picked up, and if so someone would want me to tune it down or something like that. Maybe I could run it past HBO and keep it cheaper then Carnivale, which seems to have been one of reason it was cut. I'm fine with not even having that many scenes, it will only help the synchronicity.
Anyways, I'm also looking into getting back into the Wold Newton game. I plan on taking a look into the background of Dale Cooper, of Twin Peaks' fame, as well as taking a look into the alleged marriage of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler.
I think that Dale might be a descendant of Holmes and Adler, possibly through Archie Goodwin. I'm having trouble finding many fictional Cooper's, but I did find two. First, Jed Cooper from the western film Hang 'Em High, and Anthony Cooper, who's Locke's father in Lost. Is Dale Cooper the son of Anthony Cooper? I've done some calculations on when Dale was born, which is 1956, the same year as Locke. My guess is that Anthony was married, produced Dale in this marriage and that Locke is an illegitimate child. The fact that Locke is an illegitimate child goes with what is shown in the Lost episode Cabin Fever as well as Locke's back story. I'm probably going to avoid making any more guesses about this, since there is very little information about Dale's past available. I'm guessing that Dale was aware of what his father was doing, was ashamed and that helped lead to his joining the FBI. I will also bring forth that Anthony didn't spend much time raising Dale and their relationship was probably never very close.

Monday, August 27, 2007

The Angels have the Phone Box

I just watched an episode of Doctor Who and boy was it cool. Basically it's about this woman named Sally Sparrow who must get the Tardis back to the Doctor who has been sent back to 1969 by the Weeping Angels who are really scarry statues that come alive when your not looking and kill you.
The best part of it was the secret message the Doctor hide as a DVD Easter Egg. The Easter Egg is encountered before, as Sally's friend's brother is obsessed with the Easter Egg he found in various DVDs. Later, when Sally has it all figured out, she has a conversation with the Doctor on the screen, which he can do because he has the transcript that was written down by her friend's brother who makes comments such as "I love that part, the Angels got the Phone Box. I have that on a T-shirt."
Alright, if that dosn't work. Here's a link. Yes, I do love Wikipedia.
I think it would be very cool to be the Doctor, or have a life like the Doctor where I get to travel time in a super cool phone box thing. That and I could just be walking along when a complete stranger says my name and tells me to take these notes because the fate of the universe hangs in the balance or something. That and I could see Woodstock twice!