For us, what makes a show successful are great characters, storytelling, humor and conflict.
Remembered fondly here as the "blogging granny" the internet has lost one its great characters.
We built the initial team to get promoted out of the old fourth division, with some great characters and some great players.
"He was one of the Battalion's great characters, always smiling and always ready to brighten the mood with his fellow Fusiliers, " Warrant Officer Ned Miller of the 2nd Fusiliers said in a statement.
The combination of a great film from a great director, with great characters and performances in a great story that reminds viewers of some other widely popular films, is no doubt proving to be a winning combination.
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Mr. NEUFELD: Well, when I finally did hit on the idea - thanks to Barry Smith, the editor of SMITH, where the comic is running - of doing the comic about real people who lived in New Orleans, we basically went on a three or four-month intensive search to find people that we thought would be great characters, subjects for the comic.
"We are working on a few stand-alone films... derived from great Star Wars characters, " Disney CEO Bob Iger told the CNBC channel on Tuesday.
Earlier this week, Disney chief executive Bob Iger told shareholders the company was also working on "some stand-alone movies featuring the great Star Wars characters".
Rather than trying to take virtual characters (and as great as even the new PS4 graphics look, game characters are still virtual) and turn them into live action actors, Wreck-It Ralph keeps these game characters within their computer-generated world.
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Aren't the fictional characters of great writing-- Hamlet, Raskolnikov, Emma Bovary--at least as compelling as real people?
One of the main things "Borderlands" may have lacked, "Borderlands 2" has in spades -- a great narrative with interesting characters.
The ways in which people watch TV and movies have changed immeasurably in the past 20 years, but consumers always seek out Disney's great stories and memorable characters.
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Given how great so many of the characters are, many people will probably choose to opt for casual and tune the difficulty up for more challenge.
Chaplin wrote and starred The Great Dictator in 1940, playing two characters in his first talking movie.
And it would be great to see their 'cosmic' characters break loose on film -- Captain Marvel, Nova, Ms. Marvel and so on.
Whenever Ms. Herzog pulls away from the spine of the plot to focus on the feelings of her characters, "The Great God Pan" takes wing.
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Not satisfied with piratey puns or bad jokes about the "poopdeck, " these people express themselves through cosplay -- the fan-centric practice of dressing up as fictional characters -- and take great pride in their imaginative creations.
The upperworld Irene and otherworldly Great-Great-Grandmother Irene, and their attendant characters, wear natural-waisted dresses.
John Travolta, Gene Hackman and George Clooney lined up to play his characters because they got all the great lines.
It was fast-paced, well acted, and full of action and humor as well as some really great drama between interesting, fleshed-out characters.
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The movie feels loose and easy, but it has actually been designed with great rigor, with its matching pairs of characters and bits of echoed dialogue.
The heart of "Metal Gear Solid" is a really great story told via information gleaned from other characters on the Codec and by watching the game's numerous FMV (full-motion-video) segments.
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The new enemies, weapons, and environments, not to mention the new cast of characters, all makes for a great reason to dip back into Borderlands 2 - if, that is, you ever stopped vault hunting in the first place.
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People have started to think and write in 140 characters, and we begin to see great and exclusive sentences, good words and thoughts spread by writers, politicians and personalities on Twitter.
The storyline occurs years after Anakin Skywalker won his race in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, " but many of the characters are still around and add some great dialogue in between races.
The characters that come here, they're great, you have a laugh.
They said the books were "full of loveable characters on wacky adventures" and destined for "great things".
Tate, Keith David, and Bokeem Woodbine put a great deal of heart into their performances, but because the characters are little more than types the film turns into one more indict-the-system polemic with little emotional pull.
"The Greeks were great storytellers and they have given us a colorful cast of characters to work with, " said Mark Showalter, Senior Research Scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
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