Pushing Daisies

[MacArthurBug]

And now Bryan Fuller is back at Heroes. Man, life just isn't fair.

Le sigh

And.. Darn it I knew pushing Daisies would break my heart.  After the first ep I remember saying "This show is brilliant, funny, sweet, and amazing. It'll never last"

Bah.  Now it'll be bought on dvd and put on the shelf I keep for failed series that I loved.

[Heradel]

I just hope the writers found out in time to give the show a real ending.

[Listener]

I just hope the writers found out in time to give the show a real ending.

From what I read, they did.

[Listener]

Bah.  Now it'll be bought on dvd and put on the shelf I keep for failed series that I loved.

Make room for Dollhouse. I guarantee you it doesn't last more than three weeks on Fox TV.

[izzardfan]

I'm pretty sure Pushing Daisies is as dead as Neds mom.  FOR SHAME.  That show ruled.  I really liked the sets they used...plus that narrator was hilarious.

The narrator is Jim Dale, who also read all of the Harry Potter books on audio.  He does a great job of giving each character an individual voice.

[Heradel]

Bah.  Now it'll be bought on dvd and put on the shelf I keep for failed series that I loved.

Make room for Dollhouse. I guarantee you it doesn't last more than three weeks on Fox TV.

At least it looks like they've shot/are finishing shooting the first 13, plus the pilot. So if they cancel we'll at least have as many episodes as Firefly had.

[Listener]

Bah.  Now it'll be bought on dvd and put on the shelf I keep for failed series that I loved.

Make room for Dollhouse. I guarantee you it doesn't last more than three weeks on Fox TV.

At least it looks like they've shot/are finishing shooting the first 13, plus the pilot. So if they cancel we'll at least have as many episodes as Firefly had.

I'm really tempted to not bother watching it. I've already had to take "Murder, Mal Wrote"* out of my lineup, even though it hasn't started yet. I just don't have the time.

* "Castle"

[Heradel]

Bah.  Now it'll be bought on dvd and put on the shelf I keep for failed series that I loved.

Make room for Dollhouse. I guarantee you it doesn't last more than three weeks on Fox TV.

At least it looks like they've shot/are finishing shooting the first 13, plus the pilot. So if they cancel we'll at least have as many episodes as Firefly had.

I'm really tempted to not bother watching it. I've already had to take "Murder, Mal Wrote"* out of my lineup, even though it hasn't started yet. I just don't have the time.

* "Castle"

I'm going to watch the first few, and hope the odds are on my favor that Fox can't possibly be that sadistic twice. I mean that would just be inconceivable.

Right?

Guys?

[in a small voice] Hello? [/in a small voice]

[eytanz]

I just hope the writers found out in time to give the show a real ending.

From what I read, they did.

From what I read, they didn't - Bryan Fuller explicitly stated the show ends on a cliffhanger.

[deflective]

if nothing else, the storyline will be wrapped up in a comic

this industry can't move onto the internet fast enough; away from the big studios to where individual viewers & donations will drive a series' survival.

[Heradel]

if nothing else, the storyline will be wrapped up in a comic

this industry can't move onto the internet fast enough; away from the big studios to where individual viewers & donations will drive a series' survival.

I prefer comics to nothing, but I've never been completely satisfied by the translation — I miss the actors.

[davedoty]

From what I've heard, there's a reason people have heard conflicting things.  Apparently they did some re-editing so that the final episode itself won't end on a cliffhanger after all, but that the big storylines that have been running (assumably things like Chuck's father, Emerson's daughter, and so on,) will all be left dangling.

I've also read Bryan Fuller say that he'd like to wrap those danglers up in a comic while pursuing a movie, so that this theoretical movie could be a fresh start attempt to gather in new viewers, rather than being bogged down in past continuity.

Haven't heard even a WISH for a movie in the last couple of interviews, though, so he may have given up on that idea.

[DKT]

Haven't heard even a WISH for a movie in the last couple of interviews, though, so he may have given up on that idea.

I'm gonna guess a lot of the movie hopes depend on DVD sales. Who knows? I never would've thought it possible, but it looks like a Veronica Mars movie might actually happen, so it's possible.

[Praxis]

The narrator is Jim Dale, who also read all of the Harry Potter books on audio.

*cough* Stephen Fry *cough*

[izzardfan]

The narrator is Jim Dale, who also read all of the Harry Potter books on audio.

*cough* Stephen Fry *cough*

Yes, Stephen Fry did HP audiobooks as well--for the United Kingdom versions--and though some reviews mention he does give the characters personalities, the excerpts I've heard weren't nearly as interestingly done.  Jim Dale does the U.S. versions and talks about that on his web site.  And Jim is the narrator for Pushing Daisies.

[stePH]

The narrator is Jim Dale, who also read all of the Harry Potter books on audio.

*cough* Stephen Fry *cough*

Yes, Stephen Fry did HP audiobooks as well--for the United Kingdom versions--and though some reviews mention he does give the characters personalities, the excerpts I've heard weren't nearly as interestingly done.  Jim Dale does the U.S. versions and talks about that on his web site. 

Overall I like Dale's readings over Fry's ... but Fry does Snape much, much better.  The quietly understated sarcasm of Fry's reading beats Dale's sneering melodrama villain any day.  You can almost hear the moustache-twirling when Dale reads Snape's lines.

[DKT]

And it looks like the unaired final episodes will be out on the DVDs in July.

[Clutron]

ABC will air the last 3 Pushing Daisies episodes this Saturday...What?  For Reals?  For Reals.

Check DISSSSSS

http://abc.go.com/primetime/pushingdaisies/index?pn=index


Mod: Moved from Dollhouse discussion.  Don't know what the hell it was doing over there.

[Talia]

Hehee. Been listening to Drabblecast? (RE: "Check DISSSS")

[Clutron]

Oh man, I loves me some Drabblecast...I listened to about 1.5 years of backlog while painting my house...now I can't paint w/out thinking of it...so I've pretty much been scarred for life.

Also, I put my post in dollhouse cuz I was too lazy to find the for reals Pushing Daisies thread and they mentioned this show in that thread...duh...that's how I roll 

[Clutron]

Anyone watching the last two pushing daisies?  MAN, how are they gonna wrap this up?  Any guesses?

[eytanz]

Anyone watching the last two pushing daisies?  MAN, how are they gonna wrap this up?  Any guesses?

I haven't seen the last few episodes yet (waiting for my girlfriend to catch up), but I'm pretty sure that they said they will not be wrapping up all the plot threads.

[davedoty]

They did their best to add some closure in postproduction, but as you can imagine, that's hard to do when the episode has already been filmed.

What steams me is that Bryan Fuller apparently asked if he needed to turn the 13th ep into a series finale, and was told no.  So if the producers hadn't dithered so long, we might have had some semblance of closure (although I doubt all the balls in play could have been wrapped up in a single hour.)

[DKT]

Wasn't Fuller a producer? Do you mean TV execs?

[davedoty]

Yes, the network execs.  Brain issue there.