Does anyone else have great ideas as they’re first waking up? Ideas that, once you’re fully awake, aren’t so great any more?
I woke up earlier this week and immediately started pondering TV shows and their lack of sequels. My reasoning was something along the lines of “Why do movies have sequels, but tv shows don’t? They’re pretty similar, but except for a couple of cartoons, I can’t think of any TV shows that had sequels. And not spin-offs, they should have the same casts and be a continuation of the same plot and theme. That’d be really neat, they should make some.”
Once I fully woke up, I realized my idea would really be just bringing a show back after it had been cancelled. Oh well.
Now, calm your bad self. I know that Next Gen, DS9 andd Voyager were technically spinoffs. But they did have big plans for bringing the original back as a series called Star Trek: Phase II. This plan went by the way-side when Paramount realized how much bux was to be made on the silver screen, as evidenced by Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Thrid Kind.
And what about What’s Happening NOW? They had the whole cast back, except the dead mom and the daughter and Raj and… well, that was a sequel, anyway.
And After MAS*H Jamie Farr! Henry Morgan! Gary Burghoff! Can’t miss!
Do you consider Frasier to be a spin-off, or a sequel? A case could be made for either contention… if you were the kind of person who would make that kind of case, or be that contentious…
But I seem to have hijacked your post…
With regard to your OP… yes, I get a lot of great ideas in the middle of the night, or right when I wake… I used to keep a microcassette recorder by the bed, to record my sublime brilliance. Then I realized that I am an idiot, and no matter what kind of good idea I come up with, I will never follow through with it because of my obsession with internet porn and the all-you-can-eat-buffet at Sizzler.
whoa! maybe they do. maybe every show after the pilot could be considered a sequel!
back to the OP
Sadly for me all my great thoughts from early in the morning are pretty much along the lines of “It doesn’t really matter if I miss the midterm. I mean If I ace the final its still possible for me to passsssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.” Which is why I now use several alarm clocks all set to be extremely loud and annoying so that by the time I manage to get them all off there’s no way in hell I’d get back to bed.
ooh ooh, here’s another one. I’m always lying there and imagining a nice long tube with which I could connect my penis to the toilet and I could pee right there in bed man! Of course that usually leads to me making a mad dash to the bathroom before I ‘let go.’ It’s jsut dangerous to lay there half asleep with a full bladder imagining yourself peeing. Plus it’s just a catheter which makes me SHIVER badly.
Mission Impossible had a lame late-80s sequal series that lasted one season, and included some of the original cast.
I work second shift, thus I never wake up in the mornings with any kind of ideas. But at 12:30 p. m., yeah I have great notions for my next screenplay, but by the time I’m showered I realize that midi-chlorians are a pathetic. . . . Well, he should have not written this down immediatey after waking up. Even I wouldn’t have been that lame.
All the time. Early morning (and late night) is when I compose storylines or poems. Unfortunately, they never turn out to be very good storylines. It’s a lot easier to compose a beginning, a middle, and an ending than to flesh out transitions.
The poems are also usually lost in the translation from half-asleep brain to paper.
jessica