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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I'm not positive there's actually a stigma to getting a show on certain nets.
Stigma's your word, not mine. I said "limited cachet" and I stand by that--NBC or HBO have more than Spike TV, and will for a while, even if they're not actually earning it (NBC has some coasting left in it, I suspect).
Largo, I was questioning the implication that network heads only cancel shows that they personally think are bad. Well, and also the idea that quality is some kind of objective, obvious thing that everyone agrees on. I think F&G got cancelled because it got lousy ratings. Which might well be a shame, but... that's how TV works.
Ancier was head of programming at the WB when they developed Buffy. And Felicity, and Dawson's Creek. Like it or not, DC was was a hit for the network and got a lot of good press. Before that he was at Fox, and gave the go-ahead for the first 13 episodes of The Simpsons. Etcetera. If he's an idiot, he's remarkably lucky.
And yeah, I don't see broadcast vs. cable prestige that being a huge factor. It's not like the networks go door to door, begging for scripts, while EPs and writers say, "No, sorry, you're not cool enough to give me money."
I stand corrected. About a lot of things.
ETA: Definitely, in the future, I'll know to think before I speak...er, post.
I hate it when Strega makes sense and lets the air out of my unrighteous indigination.
A troubled teensquito discovers dark secrets....Won't someone think of the larvae?
A troubled teensquito discovers dark secrets....
...when he sticks his proboscis where he shouldn't.
I like to believe that if I babble enough, sometimes I'll make sense accidentally. But if it helps offset things, I can explain how the Mario Bros. games were commie propaganda.
What were you indignant about?
Oh, I wanna hear the Mario/commie thing.
Well, it's a little guy in overalls who runs up to a castle, pulls down their flag and raises one with a red star on it. C'mon. Clearly a metaphor for the proletariat overthrowing the ruling class.
Also, the fish symbolize the church trying to knock you off the path to the glorious revolution, and the owls symbolize intellectuals, and the fact that the owls are actually mushrooms isn't important. Because they look like owls, damn it. Oh, and the slow-paced bullets represent the military-industrial complex.
Well, it's a little guy in overalls who runs up to a castle, pulls down their flag and raises one with a red star on it.
Huh. I can still sing the little song that plays when you reach the end of a level and jump onto the flag pole.