I forgot they did movies of Slaughter-House 5 and Mother Night...I missed both somehow.
I've only read Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan and Slaughter-House Five. Three in the 1980s (which means I don't remember them that well) and Slaughter-House Five last week.
I don't think Stephen King is physically capable of not writing at least two novels per year.
Whether they are any good is a whole other issue...particularly since they stopped editing his work several years back, which is about around the time I stopped reading his work. I'm sorry, everyone needs a line editor, even if word is horrific about accepting line editing changes and you often don't know it hasn't...(okay rant on a separate topic). Anne Rice did the same thing (no editor, she doesn't think she needs one.).
If nothing else, as contested as it is, the Buffy series finale didn't screw up as monumentally as BSG (and, I'm told, Lost) did.
From what I've seen and heard? Whether people liked the BSG or LOST endings had a lot to do with their personal religious views. Both endings got a bit ....okay more than a bit...religious with a heavy Judeo/Christian motif.
They didn't work for me, but I can't decide if it was because I am admittedly not a big fan of Judeo/Christian heavy religious moral narratives...or if the plotting/structure was off? (Judeo/Christian mythos from my perspective has been overdone and not well. It can get sappy and sanctimonious. And Ron Moore does tend to go down that road a lot -- he did in Caprica, and in Deep Space Nine (which is why I had issues with DS9.) BSG -- it felt like the plotting was off somehow, and there were bits and pieces that just did not make any sense. (ex: Starbuck disappearing like a ghost as if she'd only come back to help Apollo, but had actually died, and the whole Earth that they landed on looking like a freshly mowed lawn, well manicured and taken care of...) To be fair? The first version of BattleStar Galatica got heavy handed with the Christian mythos...going so far as to introduce the devil and the angles of light in an episode. So...it's not surprising that they didn't feel the need to do it in version 2.0.
LOST? It made BSG look rather..subtle in comparison. I have a Lutheran friend, who is rather religious, who adored the ending of Lost. I found it heavy handed and obvious. (We discover the island is a sort of purgatory or limbo gateway between life and death...and at the very end everyone gets to relive their lives and solve all their problems then meets up together at the gates of heaven. ) BSG actually made more sense than LOST did. Because it didn't quite work that the Island was a way-station between heaven and hell, with God and the Devil making deals. Not when people could leave the island and live in the real world, then come back and die on it. Nor did it make a lot of sense that at the end everyone lives out some alternate existence where they never arrive on the island, and solve all their issues so they can come to heaven. But, I know people who loved it. (shrugs).
Buffy....I thought worked better. It was less heavy-handed. Of course Whedon isn't religious, so there's that. If anything he's anti-religious...and kept poking at it with a big stick. Yet, religious people had no problems with it -- so more subtle.
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Date: 2017-03-22 02:31 am (UTC)I've only read Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan and Slaughter-House Five. Three in the 1980s (which means I don't remember them that well) and Slaughter-House Five last week.
I don't think Stephen King is physically capable of not writing at least two novels per year.
Whether they are any good is a whole other issue...particularly since they stopped editing his work several years back, which is about around the time I stopped reading his work. I'm sorry, everyone needs a line editor, even if word is horrific about accepting line editing changes and you often don't know it hasn't...(okay rant on a separate topic). Anne Rice did the same thing (no editor, she doesn't think she needs one.).
If nothing else, as contested as it is, the Buffy series finale didn't screw up as monumentally as BSG (and, I'm told, Lost) did.
From what I've seen and heard? Whether people liked the BSG or LOST endings had a lot to do with their personal religious views. Both endings got a bit ....okay more than a bit...religious with a heavy Judeo/Christian motif.
They didn't work for me, but I can't decide if it was because I am admittedly not a big fan of Judeo/Christian heavy religious moral narratives...or if the plotting/structure was off? (Judeo/Christian mythos from my perspective has been overdone and not well. It can get sappy and sanctimonious. And Ron Moore does tend to go down that road a lot -- he did in Caprica, and in Deep Space Nine (which is why I had issues with DS9.) BSG -- it felt like the plotting was off somehow, and there were bits and pieces that just did not make any sense. (ex: Starbuck disappearing like a ghost as if she'd only come back to help Apollo, but had actually died, and the whole Earth that they landed on looking like a freshly mowed lawn, well manicured and taken care of...) To be fair? The first version of BattleStar Galatica got heavy handed with the Christian mythos...going so far as to introduce the devil and the angles of light in an episode. So...it's not surprising that they didn't feel the need to do it in version 2.0.
LOST? It made BSG look rather..subtle in comparison. I have a Lutheran friend, who is rather religious, who adored the ending of Lost. I found it heavy handed and obvious. (We discover the island is a sort of purgatory or limbo gateway between life and death...and at the very end everyone gets to relive their lives and solve all their problems then meets up together at the gates of heaven. ) BSG actually made more sense than LOST did. Because it didn't quite work that the Island was a way-station between heaven and hell, with God and the Devil making deals. Not when people could leave the island and live in the real world, then come back and die on it.
Nor did it make a lot of sense that at the end everyone lives out some alternate existence where they never arrive on the island, and solve all their issues so they can come to heaven.
But, I know people who loved it. (shrugs).
Buffy....I thought worked better. It was less heavy-handed. Of course Whedon isn't religious, so there's that. If anything he's anti-religious...and kept poking at it with a big stick. Yet, religious people had no problems with it -- so more subtle.