I loved both the book and the movie so when I nitpick little issues, it's out of love.
Early in the movie Pete mentions to Ray "this GD Heat." If we assume that, as with the book, the movie takes place in Maine.... And we know that it takes place on May 1st... A quick Google search shows that the hottest it's ever been on May 1st in Maine is in the low 80s. Not so hot really.
Looking for beta readers willing to avoid flattery and instead focus on critique that will make the final manuscript publishable.
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Barefoot Brothers
Four teenage thieves. One unforgettable sentence. Six days to walk a hundred miles.
When Judge Henderson orders Gage, Jax, Angelo, and Tony to complete forty hours of documented walking instead of community service, they put it off until there's no time left. With probation about to expire, they're forced to cram all forty hours into one grueling six-day journey from Crown Hill Cemetery to the courthouse. To attract attention, they decide to walk the entire route barefoot while documenting every step online as the Barefoot Brothers.
At first, the boys are convinced they're the victims of an unfair system. But as blistered feet, buried secrets, and fractured loyalties test their resolve, the miles begin stripping away more than their excuses. Each step forces them to confront the choices that brought them here—and the kind of men they want to become.
A powerful coming-of-age novel about accountability, friendship, redemption, and discovering that the hardest journey isn't across a hundred miles of pavement—it's the one that leads home.
Here's why I like the line flubs on Dark Shadows. To me it actually makes it the most realistic of soap operas. In real life people don't make these perfect speeches that have zero mistakes or that have zero pauses or ums or ahs. When a character on Dark Shadows has to repeat a line, it makes it more believable that these are real people.
I'm on record in many forums as stating that my favorite author of all time is Jules Verne. Obviously, some of his books are better than others, but I've never read one that I did not like.
This past week I finished "In Search of the Castaways," also titled in some editions as "Captain Grint's Children." I enjoyed it. It was a great adventure with characters that I enjoyed. Just one little caveat. Sometimes I did find that the main cast were a little too goody-goody. Vern was all the time talking about how this character just admired this other character and these characters were completely put down by this character's stories or this character thought that this character was the noblest person in the world. Nobody ever clashes. Everyone just thinks the world of everyone else in the cast.
I remember noticing that also in the mysterious island. Has anyone else noticed this tendency?
I was thinking about Jack the other day, and if Jennifer left the show and it was just Jack. It occurred to me he could probably pull it off to become a villain. That prompted this question; which characters on the show do you think could pull off being a villain?