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03-15-2008, 11:36 PM
|  | ***PURR*** | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary, AB Canada
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| | | Save jPod
I am not sure if any of you read the Douglas Coupland book jPod but they made a tv show of it here for the CBC and now the fuckers have cancelled it. Anyway the show is great and you should download the episodes. It is pretty true to the concept of the book and has cool Couplandesque sayings and art between scenes. 
You can also try and save jPod at savejpod.ca where they have a petition to sign-- Save jPod! — Say No to Steve
It is just so sad when a great show gets shifted in the schedule and moved to Friday night when their key demographic won't even be home to watch the show...duh! |
03-15-2008, 11:39 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | At first I thought "well, I don't know if I'd really want Coupland televised". But then I figured it would have to be better than everything else on TV, so why the hell not?
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
03-15-2008, 11:41 PM
| | ***PURR*** | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary, AB Canada
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| | If you haven’t seen the show yet, watch full episodes online at CBC Television - jPod |
03-15-2008, 11:44 PM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by SmittenKitten  | Oh, it's Canadian?  I only just noticed.
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
03-16-2008, 12:00 AM
| | cletus+inga friends 4evR | | Join Date: Sep 2007
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| | | I got sent a preview copy about a year ago for a focus group thing, and tried to get it canned before it even aired. They didn't heed my advice and are suffering now.
Fuck you Alan Thicke. Fuck you right in your pompous ass. |
03-16-2008, 08:38 AM
|  | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | jpod is a favourite of mine. book wise.
keep books off tv!
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03-16-2008, 08:48 AM
|  | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by discolexy jpod is a favourite of mine. book wise.
keep books off tv! | Um... why? |
03-16-2008, 09:02 AM
| | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | yeah because when i read a book, it looks a certain way in my head. it's a personal experience. putting it on tv removes the imagination aspect. it means that ethan jarlewski will always look a certain way now, for example. you don't see them writing books about tv shows, so why this way? it pisses me off. they're different media.
it's just lazy. get your own story!
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03-16-2008, 09:09 AM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by discolexy yeah because when i read a book, it looks a certain way in my head. it's a personal experience. putting it on tv removes the imagination aspect. it means that ethan jarlewski will always look a certain way now, for example. you don't see them writing books about tv shows, so why this way? it pisses me off. they're different media.
it's just lazy. get your own story! | Um... dude, where've you been, people write books adapted from TV shows all the time!
And most stories are pretty similar to each other anyway. |
03-16-2008, 09:12 AM
| | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | name one book from a tv show?!
like a real actual book worth reading. not lizzie macguire or hannah montana shit.
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03-16-2008, 09:15 AM
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03-16-2008, 09:17 AM
| | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | no. but i'm about to
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03-16-2008, 09:19 AM
| | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | aaah yes. that's what i mean.
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03-16-2008, 09:49 AM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by discolexy name one book from a tv show?!
like a real actual book worth reading. not lizzie macguire or hannah montana shit. | Well you didn't specify good before, did you?
I just think you're being snobbish, tbh. Have you even watched the jPod show? |
03-16-2008, 09:55 AM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by kesh | I'd agree with some of the sentiment. Ideally anything, a book or a TV show, should be more specific to its medium, doing things that only a book or only a TV show can do. But most books and shows aren't like that.
I don't buy this stuff about "oh noes, I imagined things and now someone made a film of it and it's RUINED FOREVER" though. |
03-16-2008, 10:00 AM
| | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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Originally Posted by Ophiel Well you didn't specify good before, did you?
I just think you're being snobbish, tbh. Have you even watched the jPod show? | no. because i don't want to change the image i have in my head. because i loved reading jpod.
i'm not being snobbish, i bet jpod is an awesome tv show.. esp if coupland is involved. i just do not want.
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03-16-2008, 10:06 AM
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| | | That's just ridiculous, really. As if the image will just be gone forever the second someone suggests something different. There's been a few adaptations of novels I like, and I've never been incapable of reading them again without having that image or anything. |
03-16-2008, 02:03 PM
| | gr8 guy | | Join Date: Jan 2008
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| | | Wasn't one of the first things done when video capturing was invented was adaptions of books? |
03-16-2008, 05:40 PM
| | ***PURR*** | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary, AB Canada
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| | | Coupland was totally involved...he also made a movie based on Souvenir of Canada 1 & 2 | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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