tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20515365.post1336256397023614565..comments2023-10-09T07:18:49.258-07:00Comments on Working Dead Productions: An Open Letter to The Creators of HavenThe Working Deadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516757941688921732noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20515365.post-77341192776568360642010-10-23T15:19:16.126-07:002010-10-23T15:19:16.126-07:00It would not be my intent to get you to watch Have...It would not be my intent to get you to watch Haven. At it's best it was still very mediocre. I'll probably watch next season as well, but there isn't really any reason to go back to Haven if you hadn't been watching already. The Colorado Kid, however, is a great read, and pretty short. You should be able to finish it in an empty afternoon. Be be warned that it really is the epitome of King's tendency to not explain why things happen or where they come from.<br /><br />Also, I'd suggest picking up Under The Dome. It rehashes a lot of his themes, but it also comes across as a distillation of all of those themes; a very direct, quick moving attack. The ending left a bit to be desired, but that could be said about most of his books.<br /><br />And Lost. I'll disagree with you a bit, because I still liked the ending. But this would take up an entire conversation, so we'll leave it at that for now.The Working Deadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516757941688921732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20515365.post-14062152610846016312010-10-23T07:25:18.385-07:002010-10-23T07:25:18.385-07:00I never made it past the first episode of Haven. J...I never made it past the first episode of Haven. Just really didn't interest me at all.<br /><br />The downside is that it also made me not want to read the King book. Now, I have not read a Stephen King book since Hearts in Atlantis over 10 years ago (I was batting 1.000 up to that point on reading him, but he just started to lose me). I had been thinking about going back and picking up where I left off, but watching the first episode of Haven made me change my mind.<br /><br />But, I do respect your take on everything, and you have pretty much convinced me that perhaps I should check out The Colorado Kid eventually after all.<br /><br />As for Haven, I am going to respect your opinion on that one as well, but in the opposite way. I just don't feel like launching into a series that is only going to get marginally better, and then leave a viewer frustrated that none of it makes sense. <br /><br />Look, you could say that for much of the series that Lost didn't make a lick of sense either, but they somehow tied it all together... I guess. The difference was that it was the style, direction, writing and acting that held you together until that finale, which many loved, but by which I was annoyed. (Probably because it went exactly where I thought it was going to be from the start. I was hoping for a less theologically sappy and sloppy closure.)Rik Tod Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12903694670356107788noreply@blogger.com