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Robert Summit		#41	[-]
(11/02/09 12:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The best way to watch a serial is just watch the first and last chapter. It improves the viewing experience immeasurably!! "If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right in the nose, and I'm just the fella that can do it!"
Buzz Dixon		#42	[-]
(11/02/09 1:23 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Depends; I'd say chapts 1-3, the resolution to 3 at the beginning of 4, then the penultimate and last chapters. Many times the penultimate chaper gave a recap of all the important stuff up to that point, so that would fill in the blanks. Of all the serials I've seen, I'd say only ZORRO'S FIGHTING LEGION had a real story that ran all the way through; the rest were just a series of chases and escapes. www.Snokie.Tumblr.com http://twitter.com/snokiestories
cjh5801		#43	[-]
(11/02/09 2:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The best way to watch a serial is just watch the first and last chapter... It may be the fastest, but I wouldn't say it's the best. I watch no more than one chapter a day (though I know purists prefer one a week), and a large part of the enjoyment for me is the mounting anticipation of getting through the damn thing. - Clark hollowaypages.com
clore103051		#44	[-]
(11/03/09 11:15 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The worst chapter ends that I can recall occurred in The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand. I can't even recall what they were, but some chapters didn't have a cliffhanger at all and there wasn't much in this one to keep one coming back in the first place.
rvoyttbots		#45	[-]
(11/03/09 9:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	cjh5801 wrote: The best way to watch a serial is just watch the first and last chapter... It may be the fastest, but I wouldn't say it's the best. I watch no more than one chapter a day (though I know purists prefer one a week), and a large part of the enjoyment for me is the mounting anticipation of getting through the damn thing. Lol I know the feeling. Serials are probably my least favorite type of entertainment. I remember slowly plowing thru THE MYSTERIOUS DR SATAN and being so happy when I finished the final chapter. "Holy greedy little bastard, Batman! Now, now, Robin ..." Last Edited By: rvoyttbots 11/03/09 9:41 PM. Edited 1 times.
Saturday8pm		#46	[-]
(11/04/09 3:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	HA, I got you all beat. The worst offender has gotta be, "Monster-a-Go-Go", where the "monster" astronaut simply disappears and they explain it by informing us that the "real" astronaut's capsule has suddenly splashed down days after the scheduled drop. Doesn't do much to explain the alien lookalike capsule that housed the offending astronaut ... anyway, to be seen for the beehive boogie scene, alas. Lulz
The Batman of Gotham		#47	[-]
(11/04/09 10:38 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	captainmarvel1957 wrote: I had the number on serials when I was eight years old in 1965 and saw the full Batman serial in a theater. At the end of one of the chapters, I think it was the first one, Batman is in a car that drives off of a sheer cliff. Horrors, I thought! Batman is really, really, screwed! There's no way he could survive that car crash! At the beginning of the next chapter we see that as the car was heading for the cliff Batman simply opened the car door and got out of the car. That moment awakened me to the subtle art of motion picture editing. I don't have a problem with this kind of thing in the serials ( other than it's simply a lame solution ). Showing us the part that we didn't get to see in the previous chapter is fine with me and I don't consider it a 'Cheat'. On the other hand, Tom Weaver gave us this example: TomWeaver999 wrote: One of the offenders that jumped right into my head was the ADVENTURES OF RED RYDER ending where Red's lying on the floor and a giant walk-in safe door falls on him on-camera; and then in the next chapter he gets up and runs away with time to spare, and the safe door just falls harmlessly to the floor. There's another Republic with a gristmill kind of a thing rolling over the hero in the chapter ending, and then he simply ain't there for it in the resolution. When the first chapter actually SHOWS you something happening - in this case, a safe door falling on top of someone and crushing them - but, in the following chapter it never happens... the person runs out of the way before the door can fall on him... THAT'S A CHEAT! - GJS
Buzz Dixon		#48	[-]
(11/05/09 1:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I think the [anti]climax of ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE should be mentioned: Hero stops world from exploding by flipping a switch. yawn. www.Snokie.Tumblr.com http://twitter.com/snokiestories
Saturday8pm		#49	[-]
(11/05/09 2:04 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Buzz ... sounds like "Goldfinger"!
atenolol		#50	[-]
(11/10/09 3:13 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Since last reading this thread, I have watched some more serials. The lamest cliffhanger was in THE ADVENTURES OF SMILING JACK. The hero is crawling in a window and the evil Nazi spy played by Rose Hobart pulls a gun and fires at him. She is perhaps five feet away. The next chapter has the hero climb right into the room with the remark that "You missed." Not only that, he is too dense to figure out she was the Nazi spy and buys her lame explanation that she thought he was someone else, and so the serial runs on for another few chapters.
Tom Powers		#51	[-]
(11/18/09 7:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	How could I have forgotten THE SHADOW? It's got the "non-escape" cliffhanger at least 3 or 4 times. Something explodes/collapses, the roof caves in, and two beams form an arch -- saving The Shadow from certain death.
Black Tigrrr.movieserialmess...		#52	[-]
(11/19/09 9:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Hey, I thought the Shadow was great
Pa Stark.movieserialmess...		#53	[-]
(11/19/09 11:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Black Tigrrr wrote: Hey, I thought the Shadow was great _______________________________ Yeah, but it had a really lame villain Remember, you can always trust Honest Pa Stark
Black Tigrrr.movieserialmess...		#54	[-]
(11/20/09 1:12 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	True. Only Pa Stark was more incompetent.
Buzz Dixon		#55	[-]
(11/20/09 5:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Black Tigrrr wrote: True. Only Pa Stark was more incompetent. I first mis-read that as "more incontinent" and thot "no wonder he was so mean!" www.Snokie.Tumblr.com http://twitter.com/snokiestories
Black Tigrrr.movieserialmess...		#56	[-]
(11/20/09 5:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Pa is more incontinent too

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