Anya ,'Storyteller'
[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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
My first thought was, "Hey, that's against Prison Break !" Then I remembered that PB was on Fox, which means: perfect!!
Yeah, PB's season finale is March 19th, and 24 is supposed to be two hours on March 26th. Then the timeslot is open for TV's Hit Drive on April 2nd.
It would be possible to set up some really great viral marketing websites for Drive about The Race and such, very similar to what ABC does with Lost. See also: Heroes. I have toyed with this idea myself, but I don't want to step on the networks toes --Yeah, because FOX stomps back. I remember (the studio, not the network) going after Buffy fan-run spoiler sites. It was either during season 6 or 7. It was ridiculous.
I know a few people outside of fandom circles who have seen The Inside in real life on ITV4, and they said The Inside was too dark for them.
It got much too dark for me. Not for Scott, though. He was disappointed he didn't get to see Tim kill him -- still claims he's not dead until it airs on network TV. I thought The Inside was well done, but I just didn't want to be thinking about the stories. t /baby
What is it that makes a crime show "too dark"? The music, the lighting, the emphasis on the psyche of the criminal? The psyche of the investigators?
Of course, I loved Millennium. The Inside seemed to fall somewhere between that and Profiler to me.
I think it was a little bit of everything for me, aurelia. I've never had that reaction, before. Maybe because of Becky's background, and Web's ambiguity, and the fact that they were getting inside the criminals heads. I think The Inside was done more convincingly than I can remember seeing before, and for me, that might have been what made it too much. The nature of the crimes was pretty grizzly, too, from what I recall.
I did love the one with the little girl, though.
The nature of the crimes was pretty grizzly
You mean grisly, Cindy.
Unless you do mean Law and Order: Special Bears Unit.
Didn't you see that one with the bears?
So, it's Crimes Against Hairy Gay Men now?
Some of the characters and stories were on the too dark side for me, for a TV show. In a movie, I'd be fine with it. Why? Not sure off hand.
A majority of the episodes were fine with me, though. I did find Becky's character far too inaccessible at the beginning, but that wasn't to do with darkness.
Didn't you see that one with the bears?
Was it written by John Irving?
If shows like L&O-SVU where the victim gets raped and mutilated every episode isn't "too dark" for the average viewer, what is? I think The Inside was too dark because of the themes it explored. We're used to rape and torture and murder now, thanks to "ripped from the headlines" shows and the news itself. But The Inside dealt with things that "go too far" for the average viewer, I believe: women who kill babies, young girls kidnapped and abused who survive obviously damaged (we're supposed to overcome), children who murder, people who mutilate themselves to death... People aren't used to hearing about things like that, and they don't want to think about them. It's weird that a world that includes rape, murder, and torture could be insular and safe.
People can identify with the victims; that's scary but safe because it doesn't change their world - it's a scary world, but we're safe. But they don't want to explore the inside of dangerous, crazy people. They're uncomfortable with the reality of the person who outwardly seems normal but is very very not, and The Inside was about almost nothing else. What I loved about The Inside was how it turned all the usual expectations upside down, how it went to the taboo places that aren't supposed to exist, and I think that's exactly what made many other people flee.
Just thinking "out loud". Me, I loved every single episode, and found none of them too dark, possibly because there weren't any themes I hadn't already thought about, so they didn't push me out of my comfort zone. So maybe I'm not really different from the average viewer, I just have a higher tolerance for dark. Things like Saw, for example? Over the bar, for me.