Comments on: See It To Believe It http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/ SEXY, SASSY, SMART ROMANTIC FICTION Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:19:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Angie http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10119 Angie Sun, 27 May 2007 17:18:14 +0000 http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10119 <i>That’s not the only issue in the books versus TV debate. Books have the benefit of ending at some point. There tends to be a payoff within 300+ pages. Questions get answered. The plot makes some logical sense. Dead people stay dead - usually.</i> you're right, usually true for books. Unless your name is Robert Jordan ;) Exhibit A: (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>) <i>Jordan gave the working title of the 12th book as A Memory of Light. As one of the attendees told Dragonmount.com, Jordan also warned that the final volume of the saga <b>"could be a 1500-page monster" because he has so many dangling plot threads to wrap up in a single volume</b>. He maintains that A Memory of Light will remain one volume "whether it is 1500 pages long, Tor has to invent a new binding system, or it comes with its own library cart".</i> That’s not the only issue in the books versus TV debate. Books have the benefit of ending at some point. There tends to be a payoff within 300+ pages. Questions get answered. The plot makes some logical sense. Dead people stay dead - usually.

you’re right, usually true for books. Unless your name is Robert Jordan ;)

Exhibit A: (from Wikipedia)
Jordan gave the working title of the 12th book as A Memory of Light. As one of the attendees told Dragonmount.com, Jordan also warned that the final volume of the saga “could be a 1500-page monster” because he has so many dangling plot threads to wrap up in a single volume. He maintains that A Memory of Light will remain one volume “whether it is 1500 pages long, Tor has to invent a new binding system, or it comes with its own library cart”.

]]> By: Pat L. http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10079 Pat L. Fri, 25 May 2007 11:43:23 +0000 http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10079 Just to let you know I finished Lori Foster's Simon Says - and it was wonderful. Thanks for sending it to me in the contest. I will be forwarding my review to you soon. Lori really knows how to write a good story with fantastic characters. Just to let you know I finished Lori Foster’s Simon Says - and it was wonderful. Thanks for sending it to me in the contest. I will be forwarding my review to you soon.

Lori really knows how to write a good story with fantastic characters.

]]> By: Emma G. http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10071 Emma G. Thu, 24 May 2007 18:49:10 +0000 http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10071 The commercials are why I love my DVR (digital video recorder--similar to Tivo). We wait until fifteen minutes or half an hour into the show to start watching, so that we can fast forward through all the commercials! It's particularly nice to do with LOST, because they have the most frequent commercial breaks ever, and it just drives us nuts to watch it in real time. The commercials are why I love my DVR (digital video recorder–similar to Tivo). We wait until fifteen minutes or half an hour into the show to start watching, so that we can fast forward through all the commercials! It’s particularly nice to do with LOST, because they have the most frequent commercial breaks ever, and it just drives us nuts to watch it in real time.

]]> By: Sue A. http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10069 Sue A. Thu, 24 May 2007 18:05:14 +0000 http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10069 ABC details 'Lost's' final years - 48 more episodes over three seasons ending in 2009-10. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/07/television.lost.reut/index.html I somehow missed this and it turns out that for once there is an end in sight. I'm feeling ambivalent about this, but I know that the show's quality will be mantained by knowing what they're working towards, instead of padding the show with filler episodes to stretch out the storyline indefinitely only to be cancelled without much notice to finish the show properly. I really hate that about television. They've cancelled so many beloved shows without giving them and their fans a proper finish. So they have three years (16 episodes each year) to piece all the bits together to give us the whole picture of LOST. ABC details ‘Lost’s’ final years - 48 more episodes over three seasons ending in 2009-10.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/07/television.lost.reut/index.html

I somehow missed this and it turns out that for once there is an end in sight. I’m feeling ambivalent about this, but I know that the show’s quality will be mantained by knowing what they’re working towards, instead of padding the show with filler episodes to stretch out the storyline indefinitely only to be cancelled without much notice to finish the show properly. I really hate that about television. They’ve cancelled so many beloved shows without giving them and their fans a proper finish.

So they have three years (16 episodes each year) to piece all the bits together to give us the whole picture of LOST.

]]> By: Pat L. http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10068 Pat L. Thu, 24 May 2007 17:15:57 +0000 http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10068 Ok, I clicked "this" - how in the world did you get that copy of the article? Do you have any answers who it might be? And I wonder if Kate was going back to Sawyer (he would be wondering where she was). Ok, I clicked “this” - how in the world did you get that copy of the article?
Do you have any answers who it might be? And I wonder if Kate was going back to Sawyer (he would be wondering where she was).

]]> By: Pat L. http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10067 Pat L. Thu, 24 May 2007 17:15:46 +0000 http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10067 Ok, I clicked "this" - how in the world did you get that copy of the article? Do you have any answers who it might be? And I wonder if Kate was going back to Sawyer (he would be wondering where she was). Ok, I clicked “this” - how in the world did you get that copy of the article?
Do you have any answers who it might be? And I wonder if Kate was going back to Sawyer (he would be wondering where she was).

]]> By: Pat L. http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10066 Pat L. Thu, 24 May 2007 17:13:37 +0000 http://helenkaydimon.com/blog/2007/05/see-it-to-believe-it/#comment-10066 I havent watched all of the Lost episodes, so last night my girlfriend and I watched it and she filled me in. It looks like to me that the present is going to be Hell for Jack (in the present and back off the island) as Ben predicted. So who died - was it the little black boys dad? Or are you telling me there was not answer to that. From what I saw last nite, are all the bad guys from the Island gone? And what is the deal with John Lock? Was he a bad guy all along? How come he was going to shoot Jack? I havent watched all of the Lost episodes, so last night my girlfriend and I watched it and she filled me in.

It looks like to me that the present is going to be Hell for Jack (in the present and back off the island) as Ben predicted.

So who died - was it the little black boys dad? Or are you telling me there was not answer to that. From what I saw last nite, are all the bad guys from the Island gone? And what is the deal with John Lock? Was he a bad guy all along? How come he was going to shoot Jack?

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