Mal ,'War Stories'
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
BSG will be moving to Sunday at 10:00 pm Eastern/Pacific time starting on January 21st.
What the crap? Well, at least I don't watch anything on Sundays. But damn. Actually, that's sort of good because Avatar will be on hiatus at that time too, probably, so my Friday nights will be free.
What's The Dresden Files about?
Weirdness. Last I heard Dresden was supposed to be airing on Friday nights, with the assumption it would be before BSG once Who ran out. I wonder why they decided to move the both of them to Sunday night.
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What's The Dresden Files about?
A wizard, Harry Dresden, living in Chicago and working as a private detective. Based on a series of books by Jim Butcher (though they're changing a bunch of stuff for the show. In the books, Harry is very much a geek: plays D&D, quotes sci-fi movies, drives a battered old VW Bug named the Blue Beetle, etc. On the show, he's supposedly more of a regular guy and a hockey fan. They even changed his wizard's staff into a hockey stick. Needless to say, a lot of the books' fans, myself included, are worried about the changes, but are caustiously optimistic that the overall feel of the books will remain intact.)
Incidently, James Marsters does the audio versions of the books.
Whereas the scuttlebutt I'd heard would be that the non-space shows were all going to be on the same night.
Oh, I was so happy to have a Friday night show, again. Damn.
Sunday night. Huh. I wonder what the (ha! I almost wrote logic) reason is. Sci-fri Friday is just sort of disintegrating, isn't it?
Not that I'm not thrilled at any and all inclusions of hockey in genre TV, but wouldn't the Dresden character as written be a tailor-made viewpoint character for SciFi's stereotypical audience?
I'm so utterly confused by the metaphysics of the SPN verse that I think I'm going to have to take notes on the bus home to try to figure out what we know, what we don't know, and what I think about it all.
So, um, ita, I'll try to get back to you on that.
Not that I'm not thrilled at any and all inclusions of hockey in genre TV, but wouldn't the Dresden character as written be a tailor-made viewpoint character for SciFi's stereotypical audience?
No clue. The reason cited was Sci-Fi wanted the character to have more mass appeal. Which just makes me shake my head.
You're the Sci-Fi channel. The vast majority of your audience are geeks. The masses you're trying to appeal to aren't going to watch your channel anyway!
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You're the Sci-Fi channel. The vast majority of your audience are geeks.
Yes, but Sci-Fi, bless their souls, hates geeks. They'd much rather have 40 mainstream people watching occasionally than 20 committed geeks watching and rewatching obsessively. In fact, they're afraid that being known as the channel with the geek audience drives away the non-geeks.
t has flashbacks to Farscape campaign
t runs away before people start sending bras in plastic bags again
How do bras save Farscape ? Female demographic representation?