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?

Filed under: adaptations, boo, books, fashion faux pa, gossip girl, hot mess, life support, oh no you didn't, pop culture, read, television

Living In Southern California Advantage #001

This isn’t really an advantage to living in Southern California as much as it is being a tourist, but I thought I’d post it anyway:

So, this one time I was at the Waterworld show (Don’t even get me started on why E.T. and Back To The Future were taken away from us but this show is still around…along with Backdraft) but anyway, apparently, Universal Studios shows are the place to go for actors in between jobs. For example, this guy: from Twilight which I don’t care about at all, and The O.C. which I totally cared about (and still has a special place in my heart) is/was totally in the Waterworld show! Along with some guy from CSI: New York, JAG, and Eva Longoria! Okay, I made that last one up, but she probably makes guest appearances from time to time. I don’t know why I’m so enthused with this, because no one i tell cares, but you should! Why? Because imagine all the other celebs floating around in the Van Helsing Haunted House or in the Homer Simpson costume. What if Neil Patrick Harris was apart of the tram ride before How I Met Your Mother was casting? And what if Joaquin Phoenix takes over this Twilight guy’s role in Waterworld? Important stuff people, important stuff.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go purchase season passes to Legoland, Disneyland, and Universal Studios.

P.S.

That Guy‘s name is Cam Gigandet and apparently, he totally has a ponytail in Twilight which is yet another reason I won’t be seeing it. (Look out for that post later).

P.P.S.

Am i the only one that thinks that scarf is completely unnecessary? Who the duece is running these GAP ads now days? Lindsay Lohan?! I’m not gonna hate though, he still looks DAMN GOOD. i should probably go rent The O.C. and the In The Land of Women. Oh dang! I just made a six degrees reference there:

Cam Gigandet is in Twilight with Kristen Stewart who was in In the Land of Women with Adam Brody, who was in The O.C. I could probably go all the way to Kevin Bacon but I’ve already crossed the line with these so…

Filed under: back off my man b!@&#!, cam gigandet, delicious, homefield advantage, read, six degrees of keving bacon, southern california