Me, I can't get past the idea of casting Billie Piper as Fanny Price. I mean, what on earth were they thinking?
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - Jan 27, 2008 7:30:22 pm PST #5770 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
beth b - Jan 27, 2008 8:28:34 pm PST #5771 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Well, I Tivoed it, we shall see.
Vortex - Jan 27, 2008 8:40:34 pm PST #5772 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Just realized that the cable's gone wonky. again. It did it this morning and didn't record something else.
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2008 9:01:49 pm PST #5773 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, I'll be checking it out later this week. Currently burning off an episode of Mission: Impossible.
You know what they didn't get in 1969? As retold by my extensive survey of Mission: Impossible and Stark Trek? Data on screens. They print on paper, they punch out on cards, they flash lights. But they don't have dynamically generated words on screens.
Kinda weird to look back on high tech shows lacking that, giving the ubiquity of readouts these days.
My left arm is randomly jacked up. Scratches, blisters, bruises, burns. Not sure what's up with that. I think it's off having a life from which the rest of me isn't benefitting.
Laga - Jan 27, 2008 9:04:16 pm PST #5774 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
hmm. It might be partying with my upper-left thigh.
Theodosia - Jan 28, 2008 2:07:40 am PST #5775 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
ita, I'm sure it has a lot to do with the relative small budgets for TV SFX at the time, and the lack of computing power to do it with, but then there's also the lack of imagination/experience to prevent them from thinking outside the box they knew. I know the first couple 'computers' I saw -- early 70s -- had telephonic modems (the handset actually placed in a cradle) and no screens -- the printer output was your feedback.
On the other hand, I'm OOOOOLD. Although, at least I was under 10 when TOS started up.
Tom Scola - Jan 28, 2008 2:34:11 am PST #5776 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Did you all check out the Google logo this morning?
Theodosia - Jan 28, 2008 2:39:38 am PST #5777 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hee, Tom! The biggest thing I miss in iGoogle is getting to see the special logos that come and go.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2008 3:09:34 am PST #5778 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
then there's also the lack of imagination/experience to prevent them from thinking outside the box they knew
That's what fascinates me. I mean, Star Trek was perfectly willing to try and reach beyond its budget in a number of areas, but I'm pretty sure dumping words on a screen wouldn't have been that expensive (was it being done on contemporaneous news shows?) to do badly.
I wonder when someone looked at the TV screen sideways and had a lightbulb go off.
And right now I just want us to get further away from the TV. I want my ePaper, dammit.
Okay, nap time.
Sue - Jan 28, 2008 3:27:46 am PST #5779 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Am I alone in thinking it really boring and weird with total charisma vacuums instead of actors?
No you're not. I've been finding all the Jane Austen adaptations so far very heavy and slow. Jane Austen for me, has always matched the romance with a lot of wit, and I really feel it's been missing here.
Also, I had just watched a couple of episodes of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, so I had a total mindbend to see Billie Piper go from high class whore to Fanny Price.