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  1. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    I'm always unhappy with the way movie characters experience grief, often with a great wailing in the moment and then (as you said) nothing. My own experiences and my observation of others suggests reality runs to shock (sometimes with vocal expression) then numbness then long term somewhat...
  2. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    Some new thoughts ... and a spoiler alert (personally, spoilers never spoil anything for me and I'll try to be careful, but just in case): There were some things that seemed quite poorly directed or written at certain moments, especially the whole plot surrounding the character of "The...
  3. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    It's worth noting that although John Smith is played by a British actor who could easily have been hired to play a GERMAN, the character however, as you can tell by his name, is American. "John Smith," American Everyman. Not a random choice of names. This TV series is also interesting in the...
  4. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I believe I have broken through to a structure that allows me to say what I need to say and to be a nice companion piece to the intro to Volume One. Finally! As is typical, it's not too different than what I started with. There often seems to be a period of meandering that I have to do as I...
  5. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    The same issues to a vastly lesser degree appear in all of our lives. Our business or family causes us to make moral compromises. We close our eyes to things that could be an issue because there is a higher (or simply more powerful) cause that comes first ... or just simple convenience. We...
  7. MikeKardec

    The British Fairbairn and Sykes fighting knife

    Ah HA! My Dad's has a 3, I checked earlier. It says 3 and then underneath "Made in England" or something of the sort.
  8. MikeKardec

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    It's also one of the few cars of it's sort that a tall guy can fit in ... probably because there is no sunroof. It's all pulled apart at the moment, Wes Ingram is rebuilding the fuel injection and the top of the engine. I'd mostly owned American V8s from the '60s, some sporty cars (Mustang...
  9. MikeKardec

    The British Fairbairn and Sykes fighting knife

    I'm not entirely sure this is correct. Here's what I know which is limited yet meaningful: My father had one with what you label the 'post war handle' it was locked in a trunk with a bunch of stuff left over from WWII and the key had been lost for years, since the 1950s almost certainly. He...
  10. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    I try to see everything just because I'm in the business of staying on top of what's out there in entertainment. Every so often I subscribe to a new service and cancel the last, binge watching what I missed by not being subscribed to them all. I agree, the quickest way to go broke (besides...
  11. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    Yeah. They make the pilot available and wait to see how it does and what the commentary is like before the go with the series. Prime is probably only worth it if you use all of it's advantages, like free shipping. The internet video streaming is clunky, at least if you have a mac, I finally...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I always feel that a bit of distance and then a rewrite is like having a dialog with the material. Once you have some distance you stop imposing your initial attitudes and it can start telling you what it wants to become. I think it's super important to be open to letting it tell you what it...
  14. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    I totally respect that. Allow me this alternate case, however ... not to suggest that it is the choice for everyone. I always like to think of film, TV or theater adaptations as a separate story set in a similar universe or like the "cover" of a popular song. Dick wrote in an era that...
  15. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    Pilots are dealt with differently at different places. Amazon does a pilot and then waits while they see how the public salutes it before they go ahead with the series ... the wait can be rather long. Other cable outlets just do a pilot so the executives and producers can see and correct the...
  16. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    I'm well into this and enjoying it a good deal ... grim as it is. It takes an episode or two to settle down, I almost didn't bother after episode one but then decided to try it while I exercised. The story got subtler, the art direction and cinematography found a groove and I started finding...
  17. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I'm back doing some research, rereading "Two Bit Culture" which is a history of the American paperback. I doubt I'll find too much more stuff but it does put me back in the right frame of mind after having to be Mr Contract. It's kind of cool, I worked down the hall from Ian Ballantine in NYC...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Yuk! Feel better! On blurbs, it never hurts for me to remind myself that for back of the book type copy you do not have to tell a condensed version of the story, it's often better to just tell enough hook a possible reader. Sell it, don't tell it. When I was doing a lot of art direction and...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I hear you, and I've noticed the same sort of problems though I find that if I leave the work alone for a modest period of time (not on a broadcast sort of deadline) I can slip into those pesky paragraphs more easily and make adjustments that are invisible. The scripts I've written have always...
  21. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Short is always hard. But there is something cathartic about it. Maybe that is because I'm always happier when I'm rewriting and I actually know where I'm going. On this recent project I've constantly been wanting to explain about how paperbacks created category fiction, you know selling by...
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    ... or what are you trying to avoid writing? I'm trying to not avoid writing the introduction to a book ... but instead I'm here writing this. Can you tell it's got me a bit punchy? I'm about 15 partial tries into a piece that, once it's done will free me up considerably. And it will be done...
  23. MikeKardec

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    The Rider and The Mad King are two of my favorites, or at least they were years ago. The Rider is sort of a more compact version of The Mad King and both are a bit of a rip off of Prisoner of Zenda but both are good stories nonetheless. The Rider was written first, I believe. It's very...

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