Talk:Life (American TV series)

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Are the audio book/meditation tapes he listens to unique to the show? 218.214.134.45 14:55, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- It appears that the audio books (Mainly heard through his Ipod) are unique the show, as described on the Official Life Forums at nbc.com (Thread title is "Zen - Now is not now it was then, Enlightenment Attainment") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.219.243 (talk) 23:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- That forum seems to be closed, but a blogger^[1] thinks the book is The Path of Zen by Alan Watts, narrated by Watts. And in hindsight, it does sound like Watts. But there is no such audiobook, is it possible they found clips of him or just a guy that sounds a lot like him to read the passages they want? The audiobook published by Macmillan is only 'all right' by comparison. Novemberknot (talk) 14:40, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ETA: What if it's Damian Lewis reading those snippets? He's a brit AND already on the pay-roll.Novemberknot (talk) 15:00, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Will a episode article be created for this show? --Mikecraig 22:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May I modify the episodes article page? --Dr. Cox 17:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Will Charlie Crews and Dani Reese have their own pages? Isagrimorie (talk) 05:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The pilot was rebroadcast on Bravo on the afternoon of 07 October 2007. Will episodes be regularly rebroadcast on Bravo? RahadyanS 17:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [1]. Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --Maniwar (talk) 03:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's actually quite humorous that Melissa Sagemiller was miscredited for her role in the show for all eleven episodes airing on NBC. She did not appear at all, having been replaced before the premier. --Ownage2214

Something like that is hard to screw up. My guess is it was a contractual thing. --Viper007Bond (talk) 08:46, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Life has been nominated as Best Series in the Rose d'Or. It is the only American series nominated in Festival. Source: Hollywood Reporter [2] -- Isagrimorie (talk) 03:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC) 03:43, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The picture of the cast, is of the original cast. The woman on the far right is Melissa Sagemiller not Brooke Langton. I have changed this three times so far, and someone keeps changing it back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.197.204 (talk) 03:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to be correct. See

• http://tvdramas.about.com/od/tvphotogalleries/ig/2007-New-Fall-Drama-Photos/NBC---Life-Cast.htm
• http://bats.imdb.com/media/rm176462080/nm0756089

—WWoods (talk) 05:38, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These two sections should NOT be in the main article space -- if the info is included at all, it should be placed in the sub for Merit Badge itself... and even that is questionable, as it seems somewhat trivia-ish in nature. Included below is the removed text, in case someone decides to clean it up and put it someplace better in the future. Cheers. JasonDUIUC (talk) 04:26, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

===Episode Guide===

===Merit Badge===

The pilot episode opens in a documentary type fashion, with other LAPD officers, prison officials, and various others recounting what they know about Detective Crews’s stay at Pelican Bay State Prison. Everyone thought he was guilty, including his wife (at the time), Jennifer Crews (now Jennifer Conover after remarriage). She divorced him. The tagline of the show is delivered when the interviewer turns his camera on Crews’s attorney, Constance Griffiths, and she says, “As I said at the press conference after Crews was exonerated, life was his sentence and life is what he got back.”

He then meets his new counterpart, Detective Dani Reese, and they work their first crime scene together, where he shows extraordinarily acute problem solving skills and intuition. He even had the idea to “question” a dog that was on the scene, thereby obtaining his first leads in the murder case. Along the way of solving the crime, Crews’s intuitive nature leads him to uncover small crimes that have nothing to do with the case. Crews uses his uncanny ability to connect with people on a primal level to extract information of several different types. Although initially wary of her new partner, Reese protects Crews when her Lieutenant, Karen Davis, looks for ways to get him separated from the Police Department.

There is plenty of speculation about the amount of the settlement Crews gained from his time in prison, which is 50 million dollars, but undisclosed in the Court Order. Intermixed within the day are quirks about Crews that seem to defy normal logic. Because he has been in prison for so long, he has lost continuity with the outside world and has trouble with small things like cell phones and the gadgets that come with them. One thing that constantly trips him up throughout the series is the Prison. Because he has to go there to tie pieces of various crimes together, he “takes himself out of the moment” when thinking about where he is going next (that place being the prison).

While visiting the prison, Crews speaks to a man named Rawls and he is able to connect with him because of their shared experience of doing time. It is here that the viewer gets the first taste of one of Crews’s mantras that everything is connected.

In the pilot, Detective Crews drives a Bentley Continental GT, and constantly reminds himself “not to get attached to the car.” Ted Early, Crews’s housemate, crushes the Bentley with the tractor while trying to drive it at an orange grove Crews purchased.

Crews carries a Beretta 92F as his duty weapon, and Reese carries a Glock 22.

Crews has a hidden room in his house in which he tracks his conspiracy wall. On it are photographs of and newspaper clippings about several of the key players who caused his wrongful arrest and conviction. He makes attempts in his spare time to track down and find information that will further clear his name and bring those responsible to justice.

Seems that the music played during the series is considered important - add a section that mentions what music is played in each episode? I can point out a few so far. MaxKnight (talk) 11:49, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Worth mentioning only if you can turn it into something that validates itself for a section in the article (information from the series creator, etc. about why the music is relevant, so on). Otherwise, adding what turns out to be a glorified bulleted list that just has accompanying text mentioning what episode the music can be heard in would be better off left to a fan site or something along the likes of TV.com and one of their numerous subdivisions for each individual episode at their guide. --99.186.111.95 (talk) 08:16, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction is too long, three paragraphs is the recommended *maximum*, not a target you should be aiming for. The broadcast information definitely does not belong in the introduction. It does not belong in an encyclopedia, you'd never find it in a real encylcopedia. It is news, it changes frequently, the people who add it are forcing other people to waste time on unnecessary maintenance and avoidable updates and constant corrections when they could be spending time on more interesting aspects of the articles. It is sad the show creators do not do a good job of promoting their own show and put this information on their own websites and I understand it can be helpful to readers of wikipedia but it just does not belong in an encyclopedia. Removed information included below but I strongly discourage anyone from adding it back in. -- Horkana (talk) 23:16, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The show is also broadcast on VOX in Germany, AXN/Telecinco in Spain, TV2 in Hungary, TV3+ in Denmark, RTL 5 in The Netherlands, Network Ten in Australia, ITV3/FX in the United Kingdom, Global and Showcase in Canada, italia 1 and Joi in Italy, TV3 in New Zealand, yes stars Action in Israel, TV3 in Norway , M-Net in South Africa, AXN in Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, Star World in India, TVB Pearl in Hong Kong, VT4 in Belgium, MTV3 in Finland, TVP2 in Poland, TF1 in France and ORF in Austria.^[1][2]

You also would be hard pressed to find an article on individual Pokemon, or to be honest, most TV shows to begin with. Arguing that a "real" encyclopedia wouldn't have the information doesn't really make a case for wikipedia to not have it. 98.203.174.254 (talk) 10:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]