I haven't actually seen any of it yet, but I understand that it is to The OC or Beverley Hills 90210 what the L-Word is to Sex and the City or Friends.
Perhaps my masterpiece is Citizen Dane, the tale of the enigmatic Olaf the Bard, documenting his rise from lowly town crier all the way up to composer of EPIC POEMS for his Viking lords. On the way, it also explores Olaf's gradual disillusionment with the Valhallan Dream and his dependence on mead and tavern wenches, before Olaf finally becomes a hardened shell of his former self.
And while all this is going on, there's also the mystery of WHO IS ROSENGARD and then right at the end it's revealed that Rosengard was Olaf's childhood longboat which represented the happiest time in his life. SHEER BRILLIANCE. Orson Welles, you bastard. I can't believe you got there first.
I have BRILLIANT (for a given value of brilliant) original wacky ideas and no enthusiasm to follow them through AND IT IS KILLING ME. Oh, here is a musical about narrative causality and people who can't sing! Here is a television program set in a radio station where everyone talks in song titles! And then picking up a pen or looking at an empty and mocking word document crushes my fragile spirit and I must go and lie down somewhere and eat biscuits :(
Write the Tudor Romcom; The world will love you for it.
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And while all this is going on, there's also the mystery of WHO IS ROSENGARD and then right at the end it's revealed that Rosengard was Olaf's childhood longboat which represented the happiest time in his life. SHEER BRILLIANCE. Orson Welles, you bastard. I can't believe you got there first.
*g* Can I Metaquote?
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I myself have invented a couple of things that already existed, such as "leg warmers" and "west side story".
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Write the Tudor Romcom; The world will love you for it.
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THE WAYS IN WHICH I WOULD WATCH THIS: LET ME COUNT THEM.
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