How To Adapt Books For Television

psyyyyych! (i’m bring that back, in case i didn’t tell you) i don’t know how to adapt books into tv shows, but that’s okay, neither does anyone else!

i’ll start with exhibit a: sex and the city

 

i’m actually not even qualified to determine how legit the transference of SATC is from book to tv to movie, mostly because the only reason i watch sex and the city is because one night i was watching 48 hours mystery and accidentally slipped onto my tv remote (save for another post). low and behold, sex and the city was on and i couldn’t stop watching it. i used to not be able to stand sjp ( sara jessica parker. i’m trendy like that) except for in failure to launch (again,save for another post and don’t judge) and considered myself to be the last person to watch this show. but now i can’t stop, i even downloaded the first season and have a season pass on my tivo.

i digress.

but now, the real reason i am writing this post:

exhibit b: gossip girl

i don’t think this really even counts as a book to tv adaptation. because i’m pretty sure all they did was read the first book while they where drunk at a a christmas party and then locked it away in a company desk. let’s be for real here for anyone who has read the book(s):

 

1. chuck and blair?!? for real?
2. chuck is straight?!?!?!?!? again, for real??
3. vanessa? where are her doc martens? her shaved head? her dgaf attitude???
4. jenny? where is her curly brown hair? her strange height? where are her unnaturally large breasts?
5. and where is chuck’s pet monkey, cupcake???

WHY?!?! at least bring back cupcake, that devious little monkey. i honestly don’t even care about everything else, just give me cupcake. and don’t even get me started on rufus. or aaron rose, he’s supposed to have dreads and smoke herbal cigs, instead he’s a douchey swinger.

what did i do to deserve this?

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Spring Semester Countdown: 14 More Days

and i am going nutz (that’s what the kids say these days). i have a practically full tivo and i don’t want to watch any of it. this is nothing new though, since i already finished

the bachelor

true/real beauty (the actual title escapes me)

gossip girl (don’t judge)

momma’s boys (again, don’t judge.)

i even took up knitting! i did all of this in a 6-hour time frame!

if the spring semester doesn’t start soon, i’m going to start drinking coffee and re-locate to starbucks. i’m sure i have a screenplay somewhere in my head. if not, i’ll probably just order a hot chocolate and write on imdb message boards and comment on gawker posts like i always do.

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I’ve decided that it would take a lot for my to kill myself

for example, baja blast would be discontinued like sprite remix (r.ip. dear friend, we had many good sessions). man, that mess is delicious. i’ve been secretly praying for a while that they would bottle what i like to call "heaven on tap" would be bottled. but if they did bottle it, i’d have absolutely no reason

to go to taco bell. really, you don’t know how many times i’ve wanted cheese fries from carl’s jr. but said taco bell just for the baja blast.

i would also be pretty upset if sawyer was killed/magically disappeared from LOST. now, i’m not sure if i would literally kill myself, or just wait around until LOST finished it’s run, but i’d be on very thin ice. for example, if sawyer was killed, then i went to taco bell and all the baja blast was gone, i’d probably take a family hostage inside of taco bell; john q style. i would also request that they send josh holloway and matthew fox to coax me out. i’m a middle child, i find neediness necessary.

d and lastly my boo, anderson cooper, would have to be taken off air. why? …what do you mean why? look at him. he’s the coop, the silver fox! even though i’m pretty sure his wardrobe only consists of those tight black tees [that i happen to lvoe] and suits, i’d take him anyway. on the inside, i slightly wish he would run for president;hell, i’d vote for his fine ass.*

*and so would you is you know what’s best.

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