Thanks, Strega.
That was kind of my thinking as well, Kristen. Thanks for articulating it.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
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.
Tamara - Jan 24, 2008 2:06:07 pm PST #9689 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
libkitty - Jan 24, 2008 8:00:05 pm PST #9690 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
About Journeyman, I missed it towards the end. Does anyone know if they had a chance to tie up ends before the end? I didn't like the concept of the show, but watched a couple of eps, and then the dang thing kept drawing me in more and more.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2008 8:09:48 pm PST #9691 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It pulled together some of the emotional ties, and did a good job of reseeding the field with new questions.
libkitty - Jan 24, 2008 9:03:14 pm PST #9692 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Thanks ita. I'll have to add it to my queue when (if) it becomes available.
Kristen - Jan 26, 2008 6:11:37 pm PST #9693 of 10001
The NY Times has an article about what TV might look like post strike:
Scripts have been junked, pilots have been canceled, deals with writers have been wiped off the books, and almost no one in the television industry has been able to make any plans during the past three months.
In an industry where business as usual means nobody knows anything, the three-month-old (and counting) writers’ strike has contributed a new state of uncertainty: Everybody knows even less.
Networks Ponder Poststrike Landscape
Strega - Jan 26, 2008 8:11:26 pm PST #9694 of 10001
Audiences then often decide that the regular episodes fail to live up to the pilot. One recent example: “Bionic Woman,” NBC’s remake of an old series, which got off to a roaring start thanks to a film-quality pilot and never measured up again.
I'm not sure that was the problem with Bionic Woman.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2008 8:34:10 pm PST #9695 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What do you think was the problem?
Strega - Jan 26, 2008 8:37:39 pm PST #9696 of 10001
That makes it sound like people thought the pilot was fantastic and then the quality dropped off. I thought the general response to the pilot was "That wasn't very good, but maybe it'll improve."
libkitty - Jan 26, 2008 9:00:35 pm PST #9697 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
That was my take on the pilot, although I heard raves from some. I kept wondering if we'd seen the same show.
Kevin - Jan 27, 2008 2:35:43 am PST #9698 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
My take on the Bionic Woman pilot: I went in thinking 'This could be great!'. Followed by 'It'll be great in a minute, right?'. Followed by 'Oh, it finished'.
I watched about half of the second episode, switched over and forgot about the show.
I'm finding The Sarah Connor Chronicles weirdly compulsive, also. (Even if I do keep calling it The Summer Glau Chronicles). The writing is laughably bad in places, but thematically there's some great stuff going on. It's one of those shows where I wish they would give Tim half an hour with each script and said 'MAKE IT NOT SUCK' - it'd be amazing, then.
Also, this made me laugh:
Two-thirds of Americans say they are aware of the strike but haven't been following it closely, according to a survey conducted for Entertainment Weekly. One-third of Americans correctly identified WGA as the acronym for the striking Writers Guild of America; 20 percent believed it was a women's professional golf association, the survey of 1,000 adults found.