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10-03-2006, 05:58 PM
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Is anybody watching Friday Night Lights series tonight?
Is anybody watching the new series Friday Night Lights tonight?
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10-03-2006, 05:59 PM
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I'm definitely going to check it out...I loved the book, and the movie was OK. Hopefully it won't suck, but I'll at least give it a chance.
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10-03-2006, 06:45 PM
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The show, from what I've seen in the previews for it, the team is not Odessa Permian, which is the team the book and movie are based off of.
According to Wikipedia, this is true........
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The series is "inspired by" the book and the movie Friday Night Lights, not based on it. Set in current times, the action takes place in fictional Dillon, Texas. The fictional Dillon football field and Dillon High are the main settings, but Friday Night Lights also will be about families, friendships, dreams, hardships, and heartbreaks. The story is originally inspired by the book Friday Night Lights about the Permian High School Panthers of Odessa, Texas.
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10-03-2006, 08:43 PM
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Ill have to DL it tomorrow and check it out. Looks interesting
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10-03-2006, 08:51 PM
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if I don't take us down the field, bench me
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Friday Night Ripoffs
Tuned in tonight with pretty low expectations to the TV-show based on the hit movie Friday Night Lights. They managed to maneuver below what I expected.
After 10 min, it seemed like they had procrastinated until the network deadline. Then in a scramble to pull off a TV show, they copied as much as possible from the DVD. The opening scene was nearly a carbon-copy (TV interviews from practice, seated interviews, practice drills, even some dialogue).
They did a poor job repackaging the movie characters, and an even worse job casting them.
The P logo has been reused as well.
Mack Brown crashed the HS pep rally and was a jerk, telling the HS coach how to run his program. Tho he did say 'Some people think you've got to have a great QB to win a championship... that's obviously not true' 
I waited it out to see if the football game was any better... the pregame speech was awful, but I suppose that is to be expected by a stockbroker (Early Edition) pretending to be a football coach. The pregame shots were filled with ripoffs (longhaired FB nerves).
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10-03-2006, 09:00 PM
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The missus and I both gave it a thumbs down. (Both of us really liked the original movie, and that is a hard act to follow).
So much for the "Best Pilot of the Season" - as it was billed.
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10-03-2006, 09:01 PM
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