I love that series. I have only peripheral awareness of the comics, but it feels like this adaptation is being done wisely (not trying to be too close to the comics, mostly).
Jeff of Earth-J > Luis Olavo de Moura DantasMarch 5, 2025 at 6:39am
I wasn't reading Invincible initially, but there was a discussion of it on the old board which talked me into it. I read it in tpb format. Just about the time I got caught up, the discussion petered out. I eventually stopped buying the tpbs because I squeezed them into my eyeballs so quickly that I didn't retain a lot. Much of what I read I come to regret buying in periodical format when the collection is released, but in this case I started with the tpbs (not "trade-waiting" because Ididn't really know how good the series was at the time). Now I kind of regret buying the tpbs because I wish I had them in omnibus format. I've considered watching the cartoon, but I'm pretty strict with myself about avoiding the adaptation until and unless I am fully familiar with the original version.
Here's an oddity among our viewing.... We never really watched Gilmore Girls, so we decided we'd try it as one of our "in-rotation" series (I had been re-watching Mad Men, and we will have to return to Parks & Rec in a months or two). We're rather liking the first season: fun dialogue and quirky characters.
Weirdness watching them this way. Star Hollow changes dramatically after the pilot. Turns out that they filmed the first ep in Unionville, Ontario (which is still used in some establishing shots). However, all subsequent eps were filmed on the Warner Bros. backlot town. The two locales share some superficial similarities (including a downtown park gazebo), but the shift is a bit jarring when viewed back to back. It's like Arnold's being Arthur's in the first episode of Happy Days.
Similarly, Lucas and Mark's new homestead was burned to the ground in the first episode of The Rifleman. It was supposed to have been rebuilt (in-story) on the same spot, but it is obviously not the same location as the rest of the series.
Tracy was watching Gilmore Gilrs when we were first married. (It was still on the air then.) I didn't watch it with her at first, but eventually got caught up in the characters/story, and we went back and watched it all from the beginning. There are some behind-the-scenes shenanigans that change the tone of the last season or so; nothing radical, but a definate change. So I've seen the whole series through, once.
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JMarch 6, 2025 at 6:04pm
The Waltons made their debut in the TV movie, The Homecoming. Apart from the fact that John, Livvy, and Grandpa were played by different actors, the Walton house and Godsey's store were entirely different structures than we see in the series.
The Smallville high school jacket S changed between the pilot and subsequent episodes. It looks a lot like the Superman insignia in the pilot.
I remember watching The Homecoming several times growing up, yet I've never seen even a single episode of The Waltons (although I did read the Mad magazine parody "The Dulltons" many times).
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JMarch 7, 2025 at 6:40am
The first few seasons were regular viewing at my house-- my parents having both grown up in large families during the Depression. Interest faded after a while, and the show itself drifted into something unrecognizable.
My mother loves Gilmore Girls! I got her all the seasons on DVD.
My concise description is that if you're over 30, you're in love with the mother Lorelei and if you're under 30, you're in love with the daughter, Rory.
...and if you're over 60 you're in love with the grandmother, Emily.
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JMarch 7, 2025 at 6:42am
Not so certain about that one, personally, but we're only about seven episodes in. Characters grow. I know that Rory and Paris eventually become friends, for example, and Paris right now can barely act like a human being, much less a likeable one.
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I love that series. I have only peripheral awareness of the comics, but it feels like this adaptation is being done wisely (not trying to be too close to the comics, mostly).
I wasn't reading Invincible initially, but there was a discussion of it on the old board which talked me into it. I read it in tpb format. Just about the time I got caught up, the discussion petered out. I eventually stopped buying the tpbs because I squeezed them into my eyeballs so quickly that I didn't retain a lot. Much of what I read I come to regret buying in periodical format when the collection is released, but in this case I started with the tpbs (not "trade-waiting" because Ididn't really know how good the series was at the time). Now I kind of regret buying the tpbs because I wish I had them in omnibus format. I've considered watching the cartoon, but I'm pretty strict with myself about avoiding the adaptation until and unless I am fully familiar with the original version.
Here's an oddity among our viewing.... We never really watched Gilmore Girls, so we decided we'd try it as one of our "in-rotation" series (I had been re-watching Mad Men, and we will have to return to Parks & Rec in a months or two). We're rather liking the first season: fun dialogue and quirky characters.
Weirdness watching them this way. Star Hollow changes dramatically after the pilot. Turns out that they filmed the first ep in Unionville, Ontario (which is still used in some establishing shots). However, all subsequent eps were filmed on the Warner Bros. backlot town. The two locales share some superficial similarities (including a downtown park gazebo), but the shift is a bit jarring when viewed back to back. It's like Arnold's being Arthur's in the first episode of Happy Days.
Similarly, Lucas and Mark's new homestead was burned to the ground in the first episode of The Rifleman. It was supposed to have been rebuilt (in-story) on the same spot, but it is obviously not the same location as the rest of the series.
Tracy was watching Gilmore Gilrs when we were first married. (It was still on the air then.) I didn't watch it with her at first, but eventually got caught up in the characters/story, and we went back and watched it all from the beginning. There are some behind-the-scenes shenanigans that change the tone of the last season or so; nothing radical, but a definate change. So I've seen the whole series through, once.
The Waltons made their debut in the TV movie, The Homecoming. Apart from the fact that John, Livvy, and Grandpa were played by different actors, the Walton house and Godsey's store were entirely different structures than we see in the series.
The Smallville high school jacket S changed between the pilot and subsequent episodes. It looks a lot like the Superman insignia in the pilot.
I remember watching The Homecoming several times growing up, yet I've never seen even a single episode of The Waltons (although I did read the Mad magazine parody "The Dulltons" many times).
The first few seasons were regular viewing at my house-- my parents having both grown up in large families during the Depression. Interest faded after a while, and the show itself drifted into something unrecognizable.
My mother loves Gilmore Girls! I got her all the seasons on DVD.
My concise description is that if you're over 30, you're in love with the mother Lorelei and if you're under 30, you're in love with the daughter, Rory.
...and if you're over 60 you're in love with the grandmother, Emily.
Not so certain about that one, personally, but we're only about seven episodes in. Characters grow. I know that Rory and Paris eventually become friends, for example, and Paris right now can barely act like a human being, much less a likeable one.
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