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.

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.

If only we had an Orb of Thessala, maybe we could bring Drive back.

(wow, I'm such a geek!)

The studio loves Tim. The network thinks it's going to, but loses its soul, as soon as it sleeps with him.

Does that make their marketing department The Circle of the Black Thorn?

You flatter them. Nothing but showy gypsy stuff.

Some geek.

I didn't know it was a geeky phrase. Just Scottish. Wait...is it a Star Trek thing, or something?

Not a star trek thing, but he has a history of discussions involving SF&Fantasy, and I wasn't limiting him to being a tech geek, just identifying him as a fellow geek, albeit a higher ranking one. The usage of ken is popular enough in SF&F for me to have picked it up there more than from the original scots.

He also refuses to try watching Firefly, so he is a bit suspect, already.

not worth saying twice

I used to hear it all the time when I lived in Aberdeen. Although it's also possible the people I knew were sci-fi/fantasy nerds.

I got it from living in the UK, no nerdity required.

I think my family says it.