Dr Doran
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i heard that the main writer guy (fat guy with beard) said there just wasn't enought of an audience. But isn't that why the original Start Trek eventually got cancelled? Boy, were they wrong.
I liked Carnivale a lot, especially the set pieces, and I have them all on dvd. I admired the attempt to make an epic out of the 1930s and to include magic. But the writing wasn't tight. I could tell that no one really knew what was going to happen.
My favorite episodes: the double episode in Season 1 in which they go to that town to look at the mines and the people are like ghosts and the chubby daughter of the stripper has that terrible accident. The very end, when she is looking out of that window, is just terrifying.
The epic fistfight between Jones and Stompy, while meanwhile a very very gripping scene is happening in a truck between Nick Stahl and what's her name, the fortune teller's daughter.
The scene at the end of Season 1 when the Reverend has that confrontation with his priestly mentor in a church and his eyes turn black. SCARY.
The sight of the elephant on the road and yet another cast of freaks when they meet the remnants of the Something or Other Brothers' circus.
The fish turning up in the lake when The Kid heals the broken arm of the developmentally delayed musclebound son of the snake handler lady.
The weird scene on the hillock when Jonesy and the extremely attractive daughter of the stripper woman finally get together and she asks him to do something surprising because "the johns use the other way," or however she put it.
The show was long on effective imagery and short on tight writing. Still liked it a lot, though.
I liked Carnivale a lot, especially the set pieces, and I have them all on dvd. I admired the attempt to make an epic out of the 1930s and to include magic. But the writing wasn't tight. I could tell that no one really knew what was going to happen.
My favorite episodes: the double episode in Season 1 in which they go to that town to look at the mines and the people are like ghosts and the chubby daughter of the stripper has that terrible accident. The very end, when she is looking out of that window, is just terrifying.
The epic fistfight between Jones and Stompy, while meanwhile a very very gripping scene is happening in a truck between Nick Stahl and what's her name, the fortune teller's daughter.
The scene at the end of Season 1 when the Reverend has that confrontation with his priestly mentor in a church and his eyes turn black. SCARY.
The sight of the elephant on the road and yet another cast of freaks when they meet the remnants of the Something or Other Brothers' circus.
The fish turning up in the lake when The Kid heals the broken arm of the developmentally delayed musclebound son of the snake handler lady.
The weird scene on the hillock when Jonesy and the extremely attractive daughter of the stripper woman finally get together and she asks him to do something surprising because "the johns use the other way," or however she put it.
The show was long on effective imagery and short on tight writing. Still liked it a lot, though.