{"id":279,"date":"2009-01-05T20:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2009-01-05T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T08:30:28","slug":"a-belated-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/a-belated-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Belated Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier;\">And what have I got to say for my reading and viewing for 2008?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>147 books, comics and scripts were picked up and read, all bar 19 right through, with the most memorable being:\n<ul>\n<li><b>Pamela Douglas<\/b>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-TV-Drama-Succeed-Professional\/dp\/1932907343\" target=\"_blank\">Writing the TV Drama Series<\/a>, <b>Mark Haddon<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spot-Bother-Mark-Haddon\/dp\/0385520514\" target=\"_blank\">A Spot of Bother<\/a> and <b>Ruth L Ozeki<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Year-Meat-Ruth-Ozeki\/dp\/0330490443\" target=\"_blank\">My Year of Meat<\/a>;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Kyle Baker<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plastic-Man-Lam-Kyle-Baker\/dp\/1401203434\" target=\"_blank\">Plastic Man on the Lam!<\/a>, <b>Laurence Hyde<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Southern-Cross-Novel-South-Seas\/dp\/1897299109\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Cross<\/a>, <b>Jason<\/b>&#8216;s<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/03\/jason-rules\/\">*<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Living-Dead-Jason\/dp\/1560977949\/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product\" target=\"_blank\">The Living and the Dead<\/a>, <b>Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Quitter-Harvey-Pekar\/dp\/140120399X\" target=\"_blank\">The Quitter<\/a>, <b>Joe Sacco<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestine_(Sacco_comic)\" target=\"_blank\">Palestine<\/a>, <b>Stan Sakai<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usagi_Yojimbo\" target=\"_blank\">Usagi Yojimbo<\/a>, <b>Marjane Satrapi<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Persepolis-Story-Childhood-Marjane-Satrapi\/dp\/0375422307\" target=\"_blank\">Persepolis<\/a>, and <b>Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y_The_Last_Man\" target=\"_blank\">Y: The Last Man<\/a>;<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><b>Phillipe Claudel<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/awards-information\/ivelovedyousolong_screenplay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve Loved You So Long<\/a>, <b>Frank Darabont<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Purported_Indiana_Jones_4_original_screenplay_draft\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods<\/a>, <b>Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli and William Norris<\/b>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089885\/\" target=\"_blank\">H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s The Reanimator<\/a>, <b>Frank Nugent<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Searchers_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">The Searchers<\/a>, <b>M Night Shyamalan<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0949731\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Happening<\/a>, and <b>Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Some_Like_It_Hot\" target=\"_blank\">Some Like it Hot<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>113 features and television series were watched on a screen, with 20 stopped part-way through, the most memorable being:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Closer\" target=\"_blank\">The Closer Season 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Escape_to_River_Cottage\" target=\"_blank\">Escape to River Cottage<\/a>, <b>Matthew Weiner<\/b>&#8216;s<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/box-watch-mad-men\/\">*<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_Men\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Men Season 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radarswebsite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Te Radar<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Off the Radar<\/i>, <b>Shawn Ryan<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Shield\" target=\"_blank\">The Shield Seasons 4-7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sports_Night\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Night<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/i-heart-sports-night\/\">*<\/a>), and <b>David Simon<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wire_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">The Wire Seasons 3-5<\/a>;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0783238\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dead Girl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0805564\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lars and the Real Girl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0465538\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Clayton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093565\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moonstruck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093565\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Scanner Darkly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0465602\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoot &#8216;Em Up<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367089\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Squid and the Whale<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0473308\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waitress<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yep, my book readin&#8217;s <i>waaay<\/i> down, but I&#8217;ve recently rediscovered it over the break with three (non-picture) books on the go.  (But will I finish them?).<\/p>\n<p>Hardcopy scripts were courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzwg.org.nz\" target=\"_blank\">guild<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nzwg.org.nz\/assets\/AntTimpsonScripts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Timpson Collection<\/a>.  Softcopies, as always, were courtesy of <b>Don<\/b> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplyscripts.com\" target=\"_blank\">Simply Scripts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very quiet year for film watching.  How quiet?  I&#8217;ve only seen two films apiece in <b>Roger Ebert<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081205\/COMMENTARY\/812059997\" target=\"_blank\">2008 picks<\/a> and <b>Lynden Barber<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeswiredopen.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/favourite-films-of-2008-quiz.html\" target=\"_blank\">faves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that was because 2008 was a year for a <i>lot<\/i> of box watching.  While some people mourn the loss of <i>Bionic Woman<\/i>, and <i>The Sopranos<\/i>, I&#8217;ve got my own problems with the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/the-shield-in-memorandum\/\">end of <i>The Shield<\/i><\/a> and <i>The Wire<\/i>.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I&#8217;m glad they finished when they did: better to choose your terms of departure than overstay your welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The universe shall provide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And what have I got to say for my reading and viewing for 2008? 147 books, comics and scripts were picked up and read, all bar 19 right through, with the most memorable being: Pamela Douglas&#8216; Writing the TV Drama Series, Mark Haddon&#8216;s A Spot of Bother and Ruth L Ozeki&#8216;s My Year of Meat; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/a-belated-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Belated Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,9,4,6],"tags":[43,44,30,38],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-film","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-michael-clayton","tag-my-year-of-meat","tag-the-wire","tag-y-the-last-man"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}