You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Millennium When...

[Guest Sixth Seal]

Sheesh.  Me too.  One of the things I've been horribly disappointed in is the quality of apocalyptic novels out there.  Left Behind left me scratching my head and saying, "This is supposed to be the Antichrist?"  Ditto most of the stuff out there.  Stephen King's The Stand is, IMHO, the best apocalyptic novel written to date and the only one that comes close to matching Millennium's pathos.

Granted, you can find novels out there dealing with serial killers and forensics by the storefull, but they just don't have Millennium's sense that the evil of the villans is part of a greater whole.

I just really wish that I could find some more good stuff to assuage my Millennium cravings.  I think I need a Frank Black patch.  

[Guest LauraKrycek]

One of the things I've been horribly disappointed in is the quality of apocalyptic novels out there.  Left Behind left me scratching my head and saying, "This is supposed to be the Antichrist?"

Well, plus, "Left Behind" is from a Christian do-it-or-else POV.  The problem that a lot of people have is accepting the idea that Good can have stuff wrong with it;  it is a cold Light, as Susan Cooper said in her Dark is Rising sequence of books, which I highly recommend -- among my top 3 choices of books (all of which are actually sets of books, but not "series" like "The Saddle Club" or any of that crap).  Cold and unrelenting.  The Dark is inviting, coaxing, and makes itself look attractive (can you say Lucy Butler?  Or even Al Pepper?), which, of course, is not lucrative for Christians.  But anyway, I digress; they make it look like "Whoops, you messed up, suffer the wrath", I think.  But I wouldn't actually know because I wouldn't touch the books or movie(s?) with a ten foot pole.

And Frank Black patch?  If we could invent that, why not just invent several more seasons, all happening sometime during season 2?  Just have that time have actually been much longer than what we thought.

[Guest PROVO_SIX]

The brilliance of MM is its suitability to the TV screen.  The Stand, Left Behind...all were really bad, absolutely vomit-worthy -- imho.  I still marvel at how MM didn't stem from a book/novel first.  I've never been one to follow the credits and memorize lines, characters, names, but I give a lot of credit to 1013 and CC.  

You Know You've Been Watching Too Much MM When...

>>Never want to use an actual Polaroid camera to snap someone's picture.

[Guest metlakatla]

When you change the TV/movie porn name game to Millennium themes:

-All in "The Family"

-Welcome Back Peter

-This Old Man with Bob Villa

-NYPD Black

-Geibelhouse on the Prairie

-Faulty Powers

-A Guy, A Girl and Apocalypse

-My So Called Afterlife

-Franklin in the Middle

-Everybody Loves Satan

-Meet Frank Black

-Something about Marburg

-Peteless in Seattle

-The Empire Strikes Black

-Dances with Watts

[Bardo Thodol]

Just a little comment on the Left Behind Series.  I have read like the first 3 and a half of them.  And I will not be completing them - mainly because they are poorly written, repetative, and the just go on and on at times.  Just the poor writing alone made me give up on them.  Not to mention that their attempt at literally portraying the events of so called prophecy just winds up being more sci fi oriented than millennial or apocalyptic.

And, the ramblings about born again, fundamentalist, evangelical Christian doctrine was really humourous, if not laughable.

I will say this.  These books are a good insight into just how screwed up and ignorant the thought processes of fundamentalists are.

[Bardo Thodol]

When you change the TV/movie porn name game to Millennium themes:

-All in "The Family"

-This Old Man with Bob Villa

-Geibelhouse on the Prairie

-Faulty Powers

-A Guy, A Girl and Apocalypse

-My So Called Afterlife

-Franklin in the Middle

-Everybody Loves Satan

-Meet Frank Black

-Something about Marburg

  OMG!!!  Above are my favorites from your list!  Very funny!!!  LOL!

[Guest Sixth Seal]

I will say this.  These books are a good insight into just how screwed up and ignorant the thought processes of fundamentalists are.

You know, you might want to make sure that there aren't any born-again, evangelical, fundamentalist types around before you start making such wide-sweeping, bigoted statements.  Like myself, for example . . .

[voidprime]

..when you met the new girl who is named Lucy Butler.

Be Seeing You,

David Blackwell

[Guest metlakatla]

SS-

Definately with you on the dirth of good reads in this vein. I don't know if you've read it but Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Ecco is  an interesting read that has some pretty intriguing takes on secret societies, alternate historical interpretations, and the conspiracy of "the Plan". The ending may or may not disapoint but when viewed as a commentary on the derived and subscribed meanings of patterns (or lack thereof) it's pretty diverting intellectually (not something that can be said of some of the other tripe out there).

Vigilance

grey

[Guest Wellington]

Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Ecco

Hi

I have just begun to read it. The themes you mentioned were the essential points that lead me to it, as well as Ecco's prose. But I do not really like the hype about the Plan and the references the author chose to document his book. Makes me think the last two sentences are contradicting each other in a way, but that is Monday morning (bad excuse king) after all.

Regards