Luck

[GenuineRisk]

Well, at least there's still Game of Thrones.

[GenuineRisk]

Apologies if this has been posted before- this TV Guide article mentions that Stronach may have wanted to stop allowing the show to have Santa Anita as its location:

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Luck-HBO...n-1044949.aspx

[richard]

212-512-1000

I have called HBO at the above number and expressed my extreme dissapointment at their broken promise not to renew Luck. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...s-luck/254539/
" The cancellation of the series... is a devastating blow to horse racing."

Hope you'll make it through these dark days. LOL

[Indian Charlie]

We here at DT should create a spinoff of Luck and call it...

Phuck.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

We here at DT should create a spinoff of Luck and call it...

Phuck.

[trackrat59]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

We here at DT should create a spinoff of Luck and call it...

Phuck.

good one

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Hope you'll make it through these dark days. LOL

The Finger Lakes opener can't get here fast enough - all will be right with the world

[richard]

These numbers indicate ratings were indeed good. The combined viewings are the most meaningful because fans can watch the episodes when they want to. I am an On Demand viewer.

"The complex drama proved a challenge for viewers, and "Luck" fell far short of an HBO hit such as "The Sopranos," drawing as few as 500,000 for a weekly debut showing. But the combined figure that included DVR viewings was 4.8 million per episode, exceeding that of other HBO shows including "Treme," "Enlightened" and "Bored to Death.""

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/arti..._real_for_hbo/

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by richard

These numbers indicate ratings were indeed good. The combined viewings are the most meaningful because fans can watch the episodes when they want to.

"The complex drama proved a challenge for viewers, and "Luck" fell far short of an HBO hit such as "The Sopranos," drawing as few as 500,000 for a weekly debut showing. But the combined figure that included DVR viewings was 4.8 million per episode, exceeding that of other HBO shows including "Treme," "Enlightened" and "Bored to Death.""

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/arti..._real_for_hbo/

That's interesting. I was one of the DVR'ing viewers, as my husband is still watching that once good, but now exceedingly boring hour known as The Walking Dead and it runs the same time as Luck.

I guess, though, that Enlightened and Bored to Death are probably a lot cheaper to produce. I don't know about Treme, but rumors are it's done after its contracted 4th season.

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by richard

212-512-1000

I have called HBO at the above number and expressed my extreme dissapointment at their broken promise not to renew Luck. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...s-luck/254539/
" The cancellation of the series... is a devastating blow to horse racing."

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Well, at least there's still Game of Thrones.

That Eunuch reminds me of a few different people I've known.

That shifty MoFo who stands for nothing will be around right until the end when someone who stands for something finishes it off.

I think The Stark's have an edge over the Lanister's because they have a bastard son guarding the wall... and he knows the ins and outs of The White Riders.

The Lanister dwarf will be around till the last dog dies. He's a great charchter.

The blonde haired dragon lady is going to be an absolute menace.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

That Eunuch reminds me of a few different people I've known.

That shifty MoFo who stands for nothing will be around right until the end when someone who stands for something finishes it off.

I think The Stark's have an edge over the Lanister's because they have a bastard son guarding the wall... and he knows the ins and outs of The White Riders.

The Lanister dwarf will be around till the last dog dies. He's a great charchter.

The blonde haired dragon lady is going to be an absolute menace.

The series got me to read the books- I really liked the first three, but the second two are a little long without a lot happening (in my opinion, anyway). There's a lot more background in the books, which I found made the show even better on a second viewing.

I hope you're right about Tyrion- he's one of my favorite characters, too. I'm glad to see the actress who played Anne Boleyn in The Tudors showing up in Season Two. I thought The Tudors was a crap show, when all was said and done, but the first two seasons, when she was in it, were fun.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

The series got me to read the books- I really liked the first three.

I pirated the entire first season of Game of Thrones on Utorrent...and watched it all back-to-back for like 8 or 10 straight hours when I got sick.

I admire people who have the patience to read a book from start to finish with a story that involved. I could never do it.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

I pirated the entire first season of Game of Thrones on Utorrent...and watched it all back-to-back for like 8 or 10 straight hours when I got sick.

I admire people who have the patience to read a book from start to finish with a story that involved. I could never do it.

Honestly, I think the only reason I was able to read the book was because I'd seen the series already and understood what was going on. There are so many characters that if I went into the book not knowing anything about it, I think I'd have given up around page 30. I just don't have the focus for fiction books like I used to.

Come to think of it, Luck isn't any more complex than Game of Thrones, but I guess complexity is easier to take when there are swords and a lot of nekkid people.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Honestly, I think the only reason I was able to read the book was because I'd seen the series already and understood what was going on. There are so many characters that if I went into the book not knowing anything about it, I think I'd have given up around page 30. I just don't have the focus for fiction books like I used to.

Come to think of it, Luck isn't any more complex than Game of Thrones, but I guess complexity is easier to take when there are swords and a lot of nekkid people.

looked up game of thrones-sounds like it's based on the wars of the roses.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

looked up game of thrones-sounds like it's based on the wars of the roses.

The author mentions it as an inspiration, but having read the book, and knowing a bit about that period in English history, I don't think it really matches up all that closely. He pulls from a lot of historical events- he mentions using the Black Dinner of Scottish history (prior to the War of the Roses) as inspiration for an event in the third book, etc., but they're more springboards for his own world than the basis for a roman à clef.

Fun show, for sure. And has inspired a new term, "sexposition"- in which large amounts of otherwise boring background information is disseminated while attractive people are having sex.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Come to think of it, Luck isn't any more complex than Game of Thrones, but I guess complexity is easier to take when there are swords and a lot of nekkid people.

Luck seems very simple outside of the Dustin Hoffman charachter -- where a lot of stuff is going on and some of which I'm not exactly following.

I enjoy watching Luck...but it's so badly handcuffed by the time period it's based in.

Base Luck in the late 1800's -- make the Dustin Hoffman charachter Plunger Walton... you will have so many great angles and charchters of the time to work with. It couldn't possibly fail.

You'd have much better angles at every turn. You'd lose the Escalante charchter (obviously the best one on Luck) -- but his type of role could be replaced by someone like former slave Brown Dick. Brown Dick's Wiki page: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_D._Brown )

Brown Dick won the Belmont as a jockey in 1870, he won the Kentucky Derby as a trainer in 1877, and was the leading trainer at Churchill Downs in 1871 and 1872. You'd have the whole race thing with some black jockeys and trainers.

Charchters based on people like John Morrissey, Charles Reed, Pittsburgh Phil, and the butcher Dwyer Brothers would be obvious.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Luck seems very simple outside of the Dustin Hoffman charachter -- where a lot of stuff is going on and some of which I'm not exactly following.

I enjoy watching Luck...but it's so badly handcuffed by the time period it's based in.

Base Luck in the late 1800's -- make the Dustin Hoffman charachter Plunger Walton... you will have so many great angles and charchters of the time to work with. It couldn't possibly fail.

You'd have much better angles at every turn. You'd lose the Escalante charchter (obviously the best one on Luck) -- but his type of role could be replaced by someone like former slave Brown Dick. Brown Dick's Wiki page: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_D._Brown )

Brown Dick won the Belmont as a jockey in 1870, he won the Kentucky Derby as a trainer in 1877, and was the leading trainer at Churchill Downs in 1871 and 1872. You'd have the whole race thing with some black jockeys and trainers.

Charchters based on people like John Morrissey, Charles Reed, Pittsburgh Phil, and the butcher Dwyer Brothers would be obvious.

You've mentioned that before, and I do think it would be a great premise for a show, not to mention make for some great costume porn, so to speak. The budget, though, I imagine, would be astronomical for a TV show.

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

That Eunuch reminds me of a few different people I've known.

That shifty MoFo who stands for nothing will be around right until the end when someone who stands for something finishes it off.

I think The Stark's have an edge over the Lanister's because they have a bastard son guarding the wall... and he knows the ins and outs of The White Riders.

The Lanister dwarf will be around till the last dog dies. He's a great charchter.

The blonde haired dragon lady is going to be an absolute menace.

The Eunuch reminds me of Riot and King Joffrey reminds me of Obama.