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Very good. Sounds like a great outline for a series of novels. At least six or seven books if not more.
yes. It was a strong ending. Different from the novel, but still effective.
It's described in the novel that the troupe is fed by the communities it visits as a form of payment for the entertainment. In addition, the members hunt and go into the woods and harvest wild fruits and veggies. Most of the world's population is killed off by the virus so there is an abundance.The show does show them growing food at the airport and people hunting.
Hi Gary. Better late than never. A definition of a "Gig worker" from Wikipeida.
"Gig workers are independent contractors, online platform workers, contract firm workers, on-call workers, and temporary workers.Gig workers enter into formal agreements with on-demand companies to provide services to the company's clients.
In many countries, the legal classification of gig workers is still being debated, with companies classifying their workers as "independent contractors", while organized labor advocates have been lobbying for them to be classified as "employees", which would legally require companies to provide the full suite of employee benefits like time-and-a-half for overtime, paid sick time, employer-provided health care, bargaining rights, and unemployment insurance, among others.
Gig workers have high levels of flexibility, autonomy, task variety, and complexity. The gig economy has also raised some concerns. First, these jobs generally confer few employer-provided benefits and workplace protections. Second, technological developments occurring in the workplace have come to blur the legal definitions of the term's "employee" and "employer" in ways that were unimaginable when employment regulations in the United States like the Wagner Act of 1935 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 were written. These mechanisms of control can result in low pay, social isolation, working unsocial and irregular hours, overwork, sleep deprivation and exhaustion."
Gig economy might not have been a word or a concept in the late Seventies, but it did exist, and I believe it is made pretty clear that Stu is part of it.
I picked up the Blu-Ray boxed set of both mini-series Gary. I figured why not?
Gary I guess you have to chalk it up to the fact that SK wrote the book in the mid-seventies when such details could be found, but not with the rapid ease that the Internet provides. Also, I guess in the end it's Mr King's world and he can do what he wants when it comes to things like miles.
ABC kept the series on a fairly tight budget, so it was shot on 16mm film to save money. In 1994 large screen televisions were still something of a rarity so the filmed for the television perspective. In 1994 it didn't seem so cheap. I was 26 when it aired, and I thought it was pretty impressive for a television production. Now 29 years later I agree it looks rinky-dink in places. But thanks to the power of nostalgia, I am willing to overlook such things.
Often you will find such inconsistences in post-apocalyptic productions. In the novel it has the bulk of the corpses being located in their homes, churches (no atheists in foxholes) and cars. There are a few bodies scattered about. This is covered by the fact that some of the victims were delirious at the end and wandered about until they died. There are also a few dead soldiers, cops etc who stayed at their posts until the virus killed them. I chalk the staging of corpses in diners and so on as a way of showing the vast sweep of the disease. In the book most of the eateries close before the end due to a lack of customers and healthy employees to run the places.
Good points.
I also found the 2020 version of Las Vegas to be just stupid. It's made clear in the novel that Flagg's LV is a very serious and tightly run place. In the re-make it's like some type of modern-day version of Sodom and Gomorrah. Very poorly done.
I think they wanted him to seem like a small-town naive officer who had never worked a murder much less one that called his faith into question. I am not Mormon, but I grew up in Eastern Idaho in the Eighties. The Mormons were the clear majority then and everyday life was dominated by the church. I was 16 when the murders occurred, and I recall many of my Mormon friends having a hard time with the killers being not only family members to the victims but Mormons. They couldn't believe that Mormons were capable of such things. I believe that is what the writers were showing.
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