Comments on: Friday Fiction: Pulling Through

by: Davidwhitewolf

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:21:45 +0000

POP, no he doesn’t. The screenplay gets rid of all those fantasy elements. IMO that makes it MUCH BETTER.

This iteration of the screenplay is the best in that it streamlines the action and consolidates characters, resulting in a more compelling and realistic plot, and completely eliminates everything after the barter faire. Fantasy elements like the cannibal looters and steel shutters are all but eliminated, and there’s no UN to be found anywhere. Just a better story overall. I could see this being done with Kirk Cameron and his wife in the lead roles.

by: Pop N Fresh

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:55:15 +0000

Does he still gas the UN in this one?

by: Scott

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:55:34 +0000

Just finished Patriots. It is not the most gripping literature, but it wasn’t meant to be so. If you read it more as a “how to guide” with a bit of entertainment mixed in, then you would be better off. I plan on going back through it with a highlighter.

It is pretty scary how fast things could fall under the right conditions. And, honestly, we were not that far off last year, and really still are not out of the woods yet.

I am next going to pick up “How to Survive TEOTWAWKI.”

by: Kyle

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:31:52 +0000

Like you said, “Patriots” is more of a treatise than a novel. As a novel, it’s TERRIBLE. Just terribly written with cardboard cutout characters. I still have a lot of problems with the core concepts to his philosophy that are just hardcore fantasy. BUT - some interesting food for thought therein.

by: Gudis

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:42:39 +0000

Holy shit that was some corny dialog:
LOOTER
Frick! He’s gettin’ away!