I especially liked his rapport with Cliff, and how he always asked Woody for a beer in an amusing way.
That said the Naked and the Dead was just depressing.
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That said the Naked and the Dead was just depressing.
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It was always very popular in out house for Christmas charades.
That sounds scary, still could have been worse.
2 Came running.
The killer inside me.
Daisy pulls it off.
Could this be a new thread, the worst idea for charades?
I think Lionel Blair was the worst idea for charades.
The biggest issue for the sitcoms in critique is not the 'flat share' or 'two people don't get on' thing. It's simply bad writing.
Clunky dis-jointed dialogue, hammy one-liners and no characters.
I'm sure they'll be a hit show set in an office quite soon, with two people in their 30s who don't get on, but the difference with the sitcoms on here is it'll read like a proper script.
Writing a sitcom isn't about picking the most obtuse and random idea you can. It's about likeable characters, good jokes and good plots.
Don't follow rules that in the opening post, just write something interesting and funny. That's the hard bit, as the sitcoms in critique have shown.
Sigh, I think I'm giving up on this thread. I guess I thought it would be fun, or something, to experiment in wrting in a different style.
These weren't meant to be guidelines about how to write the ultimate sitcom. Rather just an interesting creative exercise.
You give up too easy, that's your problem.
It's because I'm so often beaten.
To quote Theodore Roosevelt.
I have often been driven to my knees by the realisation I know had no where else to go.
Beaten by whom? A couple of writers who don't wish to take part in your project? So what? Your reasons for writing the manifesto still stand. Go write something that abides by them and see what comes out of the other end. It's an experiment. Your experiment. Don't measure it by its popularity - measure it by whether or not it improves your writing.
Ok will do, and thanks. Give me a few days, I'm busy mining for Kryptonite, in case Superman goes crazy.
Did you used to be sootyjp, or am I utterly mental?
Quote: zooo @ June 29 2008, 11:11 AM BSTDid you used to be sootyjp, or am I utterly mental?
Are the two options mutually exclusive?
Don't rub it in!
Nope sootyj all the way.
Interestingly enough our name actually comes from the Dogme movement - but because we were a bunch of lads we changed it to Ladme. And because that sounded stupid we changed it to Ladma. People still insist on writing it as LADMA for some reason though. It's not an acronym. And it's not short for Lad's Mag. We're also not trained at LAMDA.