Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I wonder if this is why most network sci-fi shows take place in alternate-nows, rather than on spaceships
It probably also keeps production costs down, what with costuming and sets being less...uh, some word like "unique" except that you can be less it.
It probably also keeps production costs down
Oh, definitely that too. But I wonder if the lack of product placement adds to the financial stress on the network in any appreciable way.
Take the cash, Tom.
Yeah, I'm not that much of a gambling man....
I wonder if this is why most network sci-fi shows take place in alternate-nows, rather than on spaceships (Star Trek being the obvious exception).
Well, special effects and set construction would add a lot of costs to a sci-fi in space show. (eta: xpost)
BSG recently purchased the sets from a cancelled pilot - it was the only way they could afford to, um... do some stuff this season (too lazy to whitefont).
There was also a Ford Fusion featured in a recent episode of Smallville. Given that the town is probably the car crash capitol of the US (if not the world -- how many cars have the Kents gone through in the run of the show?), really was this a good placement?
It's easy to do a Star Trek product placement episode. You just do a time travel episode where meddling aliens from the 30th century try to destroy the federation by sabotaging the sponsor's product.
"But without the powerful torque of the Ford F-150, humanity would never have survived the Eugenics Wars!"
"I know. Their plan is devilish in its devilishness..."
"Wow, where'd you dig up that old relic?" "I KNOW! I didn't think there were any of these old Ford F-150s left anymore."
Also, there's always the holodeck.
"Wow, where'd you dig up that old relic?" "I KNOW! I didn't think there were any of these old Ford F-150s left anymore."
"They really did build them Ford Tough™"
gag
You could also do the old trick where a planet bases its society on just one thing from Earth.
"Are you telling me that their entire system of government is based on schematics for a "Truck" from the 20th century?"
"Indeed, Captain. A Ford F-150, to be precise. It would explain why their planet functions so efficiently."
That kind of stuff makes me want to shoot my TV with a Glock 9 mm.
Argh. My coworker told me this morning that he gave his two weeks.
I don't want to be a department of one.