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  1. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    On the other hand, this season articulates a theme we were discussing some time ago: "How do we live with our own survival." I have a feeling that this season is about a sudden desperation to make "sense" of it all. For anyone who's ever read a Dean Koontz novel this is the moment when he...
  2. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    Season 3? I'm half way in. It's lost some of it's edge writing wise. It's less sophisticated in it eases into various subjects, more 'on the nose' in a typical TV sort of way. It also might show some signs of being cut to time, compressed in various ways or just more crudely managed. It's...
  3. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Having seen the series again and spent more time focusing on the subtitles I can now relay that this was textually (in dialog) no problem at all. The scope's reticle wires have supposedly been coated in radium. This would NOT create an, impossible for 1930, light amplifying effect, it would...
  4. MikeKardec

    Advice For Writers -- Structure

    VERY few editors are reading potential novels, analyzing their structure, and then accepting or rejecting the work in any relationship to said structural analysis. VERY FEW. Maybe none. Most start reading, get bored or irritated with the material, chuck it into the "out" bin and pick up...
  5. MikeKardec

    Advice For Writers -- Structure

    Since there are a good many writers here I thought I'd explore some ideas I've been experimenting with both in my own work and considering in examples of in the work of others. Today I'm going to deal with structure: Structure is the geometrical "proof" of your story. It is the all important...
  7. MikeKardec

    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    You may be disagreeing with me but I am certainly not disagreeing with you! Obviously (hopefully), I was commenting on the potential contained in an alternative to the historical Japanese mentality. There's still a lot of learning possible from studying WWII, especially the early parts...
  8. MikeKardec

    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    One subtle aspect to Japan's involvement in China was a sense of shame that China, the mother culture, had been in such disarray (30 year multi sided civil war). Some Japanese sources discuss Japan's need to bring China back to order and civilization ... of course with Japan as the governing...
  9. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Oh God! That got me laughing! When I was teaching writing I found that many of my students were really afraid to "go there" do the stuff that made them feel and would make an audience feel. They were in love with high minded concepts and throwing around a lot of jargon that they had learned...
  10. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The more I think about this "concise movie storytelling" issue the more I think it's going to get worse. Writing silent movies and watching silent movies helped train filmmakers to get things done simply. I don't know if silents even show up in film making curriculum any longer or anywhere...
  11. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I'm sure that these statements are correct. I've known a lot of top scientists in my life. Few had truly open minds. Most were terrified of being embarrassed by any connection to an outlandish theory or idea. You'll hear a statement something like: "most physicists distinguish themselves...
  13. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    You have to take it for what it's worth. There is SOMETHING there, some fire beneath the smoke, but it could be the fire of a Polish guy that made it all up, it could be a real thing that just isn't that exciting but was still covered up. It might be, I think many of these guys would probably...
  14. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I remember agreeing with you on the PC aspects at the time I saw it but can't remember any specific complaint. Filmmakers, the sort of people who go out and hammer films together (this includes actors), LOVE any kind of film where they can actually go DO IT, as no effects, few stages, out in...
  15. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    As you probably know there are a thousand versions of this story, the sheer proliferation of them is mind blowing and probably an indication of some fundamental Jungian archetype. Edgar Rice Burroughs did TWO versions, The Rider and The Mad King (the latter being notable for being written about...
  16. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    Well, okay. We've looped back around to the "Nazi Bell" conspiracy, which fascinates me as much as I believe it is BS. There are a number of lesser versions of this story, the most interesting of which being that there were a number of these devices scattered around Europe and that they were...
  17. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Jaws is one of the most cleanly composed, beautifully made films of all time. Since then Spielberg occasionally will do a sequence that has this sort of elegance (the nightclub, "that's Oscar Schindler!" sequence for example) but as far as I can remember he's never replicated it in a whole...
  19. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yeah, I'm kind of middling on the guy ... except for Hannah. I like that one. I just got back from Mile 22, bad title. A so-so action flick when it comes to it's minimal story, but one that is quite intense and where everything is delivered in a top notch way. Peter Berg films ALWAYS look...
  20. MikeKardec

    Show us your Guns!

    Full Stock, Double Set Trigger, Mannlicher Schonauer .270, ca~1950, with 4x Kahles Scope and Griffin and Howe mount, shooting Federal blue box 130s. Needless to say I was bagged up but, for a full stock, it IS accurate! MS actions are smooth but not "fast" ... just as an Enfield is fast but...
  21. MikeKardec

    Lost Cities!

    Thinking more about the "discredit" concept: I first experienced this in an argument long ago with a woman who was actually a dear friend of mine, an early 'studies studies' Phd. student from Berkley. I won't get into which 'studies' she studied because that would move this subject in a more...
  22. MikeKardec

    Lost Cities!

    Hancock is onto a lot of good stuff, his main problem is that he had to go through a phase of writing about a certain amount of more wacky/sensational material to get there. Kudos to him for sticking with it but the rest of us need to realize that people like him are valuable for the questions...
  23. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Wonderful. This will set the film, at least the parts with Ford playing Indy, in the early 1980s.

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