The main character can’t die at the end of chapter one!! C’mon.
A Squid, a Pebble, or a Policeman
24 responses to “A Squid, a Pebble, or a Policeman”
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Love Mitchell & Webb. And any time I think of the main character dying early on, I go to Feast, where the “Hero” dies immediately.
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Explain “Feast” please. I’m intrigued.
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Feast is a horror flick that has two sequels and gets progressively more ridiculous. I think it started out as a part of the “Project Greenlight” show, but I can’t be sure. It is marvelous in how awful it is.
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It wasn’t at the end of Chapter One, but it WAS pretty early on and a shock to the audience since she was a big star: Alfed Hitchcock’s movie “Psycho.”
Also, Drew Barrymore in “Scream,” and that one WAS at the end of Chapter One.
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Oh I get it! This guy’s the new AU spokesman, right? Or no wait! Not that.
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But maybe if we write a letter to Amazon… Only it’s not Amazon… but what if it is?
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I always remember “Executive Decision”, the movie, when Steven Segal died about 15 minutes in, I was surprised a major star would be killed off that fast.
There is also the English tv series “In the Flesh” where the main character is dead before the show even starts, lol.-
It was done to show that any character could die at any moment.
Then noone else died. :-D
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I think we just saw how JJ Abrams brainstorms new Star Trek scripts.
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Love this. Sounds like the inside of my head.
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I love David Mitchell, and was a bit sad to see him going on about Amazon’s “Rapacious near monopoly” and “the monopolistic, cynical and frankly life-crushing way that they operate.” during his Bookseller’s Association speech.
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/09/2014/david-mitchell-lambasts-rapacious-amazon/He’s an admitted luddite though, so I suppose he’s got to ludd.
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[…] Stealing this from Hugh Howey. Serious laughs. […]
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I actually did write that book. I mean, not THAT book, but yeah, with the squid. Just not with the squid part, or Sarah.
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[…] stole this from Hugh Howey. Great […]
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… yet this is what happens to me every November when I do Nano !
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I’m looking up all of these. I collect things that are so bad they are good. Shatner’s solo album is at the top of the list.
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I’m hiding behind a pen name because I had the (not) unusual experience of selling a book under contract to a respected small-hour imprint distributed by Orion in London (credible, ok?) and then halfway through the editing heard the publisher say, ‘Can you rewrite the book without the protagonist? I don’t like him very much.’
Yup. Been there. She didn’t want to kill the main character in Chapter One. She wanted to publish my book without the main character altogether.
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Fearless Reader, that’s hilarious!
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And here I thought this crap only happened in Hollywood. As someone here once said, in a similar situation: “You don’t do King Kong without the ape.”
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The main character dies at the end of Chapter 1?
Isn’t that what happens in Wool? ;-) -
Imma write a book called “The Main Character Dies At The End of Chapter One.”
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This one of my favorites. I quote this all the time.
I love Mitchell and Webb so much I bought the UK DVD’s and a region-free player, so that I could watch the 5 minutes worth of skits per episode not available on the Netflix versions.
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Just love this, love Mitchell!
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thanks for the interesting post!
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