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Two Grim Reaper stories: Dead Like Me and A Dirty Job
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- āđāļāļĒāđāļāļĢāđāđāļĄāļ·āđāļ 23 āļ.āļĒ. 2020
- This was meant to be a rant about A Dirty Job but it's come off more as a love letter to Dead Like Me. Which I'm 100% ok with.
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I LOVE the Dead Like Me show. I have watched it countless times.
I'm due for a rewatch!
I have already started watching it again! Hahaha! Itâs crazy bc it never gets old to me.
loved Dead Like Me, the movie wasn't the best BUT at the end making George the new boss..now that would have been a new season of the show I would be interested in!
I think if the show hadn't been cancelled, we might have eventually got to that point. The bond between George and Rube was one of my favourite parts of the show
I love Dead Like Me, I own both season and the movie.
Always nice to meet a fellow Dead Like Me fan. It's been a few years since I've watched it and I feel like a rewatch is in order!
There were many unanswered questions left hanging by the abrupt last scene in S2 when Reggie woke up at George's grave to see George looking back at her. She knew she wasn't dreaming because of the candy left by George. Reapers were always placed after death far from where they lived and died - with two exceptions. The first was Rube. The other was George. Why would the Powers That Be do that? We learn that almost every detail is planned out by the PTB with just a few glitches here and there. Why did the PTB sidetrack for 70 years the money that Rube as a reaper tried to send to his family and then drop the unopened envelope back on his lap suddenly (his post office visit). It caused him to seek out his daughter and to be with her when she died. And she recognized him before she died. How did she know what reaper Rube looked like? There must have been a collision with her in his reaper past. And George because she worked as a reaper only a few blocks from her living family couldn't resist involving herself in their lives to the extent that Reggie believed she was about, something that was finally confirmed in that last scene. I posted two novels to substitute for our not getting follow on seasons. Search at the website Fanfiction.net for Dead Like Me Rebooted 2013 and 2014. Matters between the sisters remain quiet for 10 years as George realizes she needs to stay away and Reggie goes on with her own life, but events begin happening (PTB?) that trigger Reggie searching for and finding George (i.e. Reggie haunts George) and then there is a cascade of shite that bring many of the old characters onto collision courses. Since the original two seasons failed to provide backstories explaining Rube and Daisy the two books go into detail about why and what happened to them when alive. George and Delores have the final scene in second book.
I have to agree with your Dirty Job review. Some of the places the book took you had no value. I laughed to myself when I got to the end. I thought, what?!!!.
I think one of the most aggravating things about A Dirty Job was that there was a kernel of something good there, but it was just continuously ruined. ð
@@FullyBookedMelissa I fully agree. I never felt a great connection between Charlie and anyone else in the book, even his daughter. Lilly was the best connection but that was blown out of the water with Ray. I wanted to read another Moore book because I thought Fluke was excellent. I selected this book due to the large volume of this book being sold by Moore. Can you recommend another fantasy book that has the great connections that you mention?
Oh my gosh, I LOVED the rant about A Dirty Job! The racial stereotyping definitely sounds cringe-y and I totally see your point about how if every character is sarcastic and snarky, then that loses its meaning.
Dead like me is in tubi for free when I write this. There are definitely parts that didn't age well but so much good stuff in there. I was thinking about reading this book but ooof. I really like Grim reaper stories but I don't see many, alas I am not dealing with that much snark and racism.
Also the movie is on tubi but its so bad?? Ugh.
the movie is terrible! They disregarded the rules they had set up earlier, which completely changed the whole dynamic. I hated the movie so much! :P
I was most disappointed with the fact that instead of replacing Daisy's character with a side explanation, a transfer, moved up ,etc.. they re-cast the character,but lost her je'ne se que,as well as her character development. She was in a way still kinda class as well,but they turned her goofy trashy...
I loved Dead Like Me, though George is my least favorite character.ð This was great!!
George was definitely hard to love but she grew in me over time. Rube is always number one for me.
âAnd a Dirty Job was... a book.â ð
I see what you mean. So many people really like Mooreâs books. Youâve read others by the author?
It was my first Christopher Moore and probably my last ð