| Oh GAWD.... |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|11:31 am] |
Major allegations of vote fraud in New Hampshire
Major allegations of vote fraud in New Hampshire are circulating after Hillary Clinton reversed a mammoth pre-polling deficit to defeat Barack Obama with the aid of Diebold electronic voting machines, while confirmed votes for Ron Paul in the Sutton district were not even counted.
It begins already...
Mind you, considering this isn't exactly a major news outlet, and indeed seems to be written by a guy representing something called "Prison Planet," your mileage may vary. Merely posted for knowledge. |
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| Yet another "One More Day" related post |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|12:06 pm] |
I've been thinking.
And this will probably go over the heads of a few of you, but let me ramble anyway.
This whole "One More Day"/"Brand New Day" fiasco with Spider-Man... where they essentially blew up Peter Parker's world, in order for editorial staff and writers to get themselves out of a hole they dug themselves into, that got deeper and deeper to the point where it was out of control... and then used an excuse where they said the current setup was limiting the KINDS of stories that can be told with Spidey, and this really was the only way to go about it (despite please and examples to the contrary)?
Doesn't this sound a little like what BBC Books editorial did in the Eighth Doctor novels?
You know, where the writers and editors had dug themselves into a hole with the Faction Paradox/future war story arc that had been an ingrained part of the line since Lawrence Miles' Alien Bodies, not to mention the utter fanwank and needless contiuity referencing that had gotten completely out of control? So the solution was, to blow up Gallifrey, blow up Faction Paradox, kill every single Time Lord except the Doctor, and give the Doctor amnesia for what he'd done, all under the aegis of "starting over" and "telling the kinds of stories that can't be told now with the current set up the way it was?"
Yeah, and how did that work out?
Well, other than pissing off a LOT of fans, which, isn't really the biggest tragedy in the world... not much. To be quite frank, in my opinion, the vast majority of the novels published after The Ancestor Cell, the novel in which the KA-BOOM happened, COULD HAVE JUST AS EASILY TAKEN PLACE WITH GALLIFREY IN EXISTENCE THAN WITHOUT IT. Plus, all the needless continuity questions that arose ANYWAY. Not to mention, Lawrence Miles STILL managed to write a Faction Paradox story ANYWAY, even if nobody figured it out at the time...
The end result? Within two years, the books were back to being mired in its OWN continuity, readers were alienated, and, maybe not so coincidentally, the books were being stocked less and less on shelves, due to a major American distributor going bankrupt, and the BBC taking older ones out of print. And then they went down to a bi-monthly schedule, until, finally, of course, the new TV series was announced and the novels line as they were then was moribund.
Yeah. Something to ponder for Spidey now. Creatively, AND financially. |
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| GRR |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|11:12 pm] |
It would appear the Supreme Court is upholding Indiana's insane voter ID law.
Anything for the regime to keep their tenuous grip on this nation... |
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