Chris Marquette Message Board

www.fanfiction.net/tv/Joan_of_Arcadia

There are nearly 40 pages of stories there, some of fantastic, others not so much.  I'm sure people won't mind sharing their favorites.  I remember a lot of us listing our favorites last year for another member.  I'll try to find those posts.

Also, Laura (magicalturkey) has a livejournal page where she publishes her stories, and she has written some wonderful JoA/Adam-Joan stories.  The link to reach her stories is:

http://community.livejournal.com/fic_cr … of+arcadia

I agree that it's VERY frustrating when they only release a season or two of a long-running season.  When it's a classic show from quite a few years back, I think they should do a series release.  Why milk the fans who've already waited twenty years or more.

And Mel, I think a lot of us would love to see that second season of "Huff".

Yeah, there's something going on other than the profit motive.  Some kind of internal politics that I don't understand.  I know that for "Ed" NBC, and Viacom/Paramount had the show creators go through and pick out the songs that the absolutely wanted to keep and the ones they wouldn't mind replacing.  They've gone through all 83 episodes and then the years pass and the network and Viamount still hasn't made a move.:rolleyes:  I don't think the demand goes up, I think people give up and move on.  Or, worse, give up and buy illegal copies.  I would think giving Rhino a cut would be infinitely preferable to THAT.

Hee!  I saw a picture of Belinda Montgomery go by up there.

I don't think it would cost too much to obtain the music rights later.  I just think that no one makes it a priority to do it.  It's a shame, too.  I think they could make a ton of money if they got season & series sets of those shows out there.  I hope someone does it for "The Wonder Years", because the score was one of the best parts of the show.  I saw a few episodes from the WKRP in Cincinnati disks, where the original songs were excised and replaced with "smooth jazz".  So sad.

Heh!  Elias Koteas was in a John Hughes movie.  Who knew?

Sand Serpants AND Ice Spiders?  Why do I have to miss all the classics?:P

Yeah, I think it's really rare for shows to have scripts written well in advance.  I think in a lot of cases they're desperately trying to have scripts slightly in advance of the shooting schedule.  And I think that's probably especially true of a show like "Joan of Arcadia" where the show runner is also the head writer.  So they're really short of time so that when they've made a bad call like this one they can't change their minds.

As it was it was just nauseating.  When you knew it was him but you hadn't seen his face yet?  Sickening!

Yeah, maybe if they'd had another episode they could've done it better.  Or (preferably) not done it at all.   But Bonnie seemed like someone who needed a friend.  And Adam (pre T&E) would've filled the bill nicely.  Then if he'd found he had feelings for her, and there was a bit of a romantic triangle, that would've been much more interesting than what they did.  To me anyway.

Oh yeah, he was wonderful in that scene in the hallway when he comforts Joan.  But I didn't like part of that stuff with Helen.  Which is weird, because I LOVED that relationship!

He made some really seminal movies from my college years.  He'll be missed.

I don't think the cheating thing was ever inevitable (or even within the bounds of possibility, if they'd been true to the character), but at some point I think the break-up was inevitable.  I remember really not liking him very much in "Shadows and Light" when he was talking to Helen about how complicated things were between he & Joan, but that he really needed Helen in his life.  Something like that.  It seemed to me like he'd already decided to break up with her and was trying to line up her mother as an ally, sort of.  Of course when he did what he did, that was out the window.  But it wasn't his finest hour.:fedup:  Wasn't his worst either, though.