I canna ken
Wow, haven't heard that in a while!
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
'The Message'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[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.
Kevin - Apr 30, 2007 11:24:28 pm PDT #6528 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
DCJensen - May 01, 2007 5:30:04 am PDT #6529 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I used "It's beyond my ken" a couple of weeks ago, and the helpdesk manager said "What?" He had never heard the phrase. Some geek.
§ ita § - May 01, 2007 5:35:00 am PDT #6530 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Some geek.
I didn't know it was a geeky phrase. Just Scottish. Wait...is it a Star Trek thing, or something?
sumi - May 01, 2007 6:01:43 am PDT #6531 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
The cancellation of Drive was mentioned in the Galactica Watercooler podcast this week.
Kat - May 01, 2007 6:33:14 am PDT #6532 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
There was a blurb on MeeVee [link]
Part that made me chuckle:
Fox and Tim Minear get along about as well as two teenage celebutants who wore the same shoes to a party.... the Fox execs just have the attention span of a fifth grader.
Kevin - May 01, 2007 6:54:28 am PDT #6533 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
But are they smarter than..
I'll stop now.
Stephanie - May 01, 2007 6:59:33 am PDT #6534 of 10001
Trust my rage
I don't get why FOX seems so schizophrenic when it comes to Tim and his shows. They love him enough to let him write, cast, and film the shows, but then they turn around and cancel them a few weeks later. I understand it's a numbers thing, but why do they approve his stuff in the first place if they are just going to cancel it three weeks after airing (or less).
(And don't get me wrong. I've liked all of Tim's shows. Wish there were more of them. But FOX's decision making process confuses me.)
Kevin - May 01, 2007 7:33:18 am PDT #6535 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Over inflated expectations? Clearly, they expected Drive to get much bigger numbers from the first episode.
The question is if that's actually over flated, or realistic from a business need point of view. And I don't think we know either way.
It's wacky in a way. Drive got more viewers than Firefly had overall. And The Inside. And Wonderfalls. And Angel. But it disappeared the quickest out of all of them.
Topic!Cindy - May 01, 2007 7:52:31 am PDT #6536 of 10001
What is even happening?
Well, Tim's deal is with the FOX studio, which is different than the FOX network. I mean FOX made Buffy the Vampire Slayer which aired on The WB and then UPN, but never on the FOX network. FOX studio also made Angel, which only ever aired on The WB, and Firefly and Wonderfalls, which did air on the FOX network. The studio loves Tim. The network thinks it's going to, but loses its soul, as soon as it sleeps with him.
Stephanie - May 01, 2007 8:03:24 am PDT #6537 of 10001
Trust my rage
If only we had an Orb of Thessala, maybe we could bring Drive back.
(wow, I'm such a geek!)