Short version: too cutely quirky; not dark enough. Ehh. We'll see if it stays that way.
can't be too dark in the promo, unless that's your schtick.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Wash ,'The Message'
Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Vortex - Jul 18, 2006 5:26:23 am PDT #9385 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Frankenbuddha - Jul 18, 2006 5:29:39 am PDT #9386 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
can't be too dark in the promo, unless that's your schtick.
No, but the review was based on the 2-hr pilot. I was just summing up what the Globe guy said about the show.
sumi - Jul 18, 2006 7:27:50 am PDT #9387 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Jul 18, 2006 7:31:05 am PDT #9388 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I thought that the Dresden Files were premiering in January. But this story says "this summer."
JenP - Jul 18, 2006 7:50:03 am PDT #9389 of 10001
Oh, I didn't realize the pilot was two hours. Must fix the VCR timer. Also. I have my computer back, and it WORKS!!!!
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2006 7:51:59 am PDT #9390 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Colin does not look like he's been punched in the face!
Man, I'm really responding to the core of these articles, aren't I?
Welcome back to the land of the conveniently computered, JenP!
JenP - Jul 18, 2006 7:54:26 am PDT #9391 of 10001
Thank you! It makes me so happy. Colin totally doesn't look like he's been punched the face.
Kalshane - Jul 18, 2006 8:01:13 am PDT #9392 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Okay, I thought that the Dresden Files were premiering in January. But this story says "this summer."
The assessment on the Jim Butcher forums is it's a typo, but it's all conjecture at this point, as nothing has been said by anyone in the know yet.
(ETA context)
sumi - Jul 18, 2006 9:00:21 am PDT #9393 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
It takes talent to type "summer" when you meant to type "January" - yeah?
Kalshane - Jul 18, 2006 11:05:59 am PDT #9394 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
It takes talent to type "summer" when you meant to type "January" - yeah?
Well, not typo so much as "error". From what I understand, The Dresden Files TV-movie was meant to be a summer thing. When Sci-Fi decided to pick it up for 12 episodes with the movie as the pilot, they pushed everything back to January to give them time to write and film the other 11 episodes so they could show everything back-to-back.
I don't know if filming has even started on the 11 regular episodes yet. I know Robert Wolfe posted in June that they were investigating the feasibility of actually filming the series in Chicago instead of Toronto (where the movie was filmed) but then posted again about a week later that it would be too expensive, but they were hoping to find room in the budget to film for a week or two in Chicago for some establishing shots.
It might be whoever wrote the article was still working from the original "movie" schedule instead of the updated series broadcast schedule. (Or maybe there's a lot of smoke and mirrors going on and we really are getting the series months earlier than expected. Which would be cool.)