On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:53:59 -0500, Cory <my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>Rob Jensen wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:39:13 -0700, SFTV_troy <SFTV_troy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 1, 5:49 pm, Rob Jensen <ShutUp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> I think NBC Universal should buy the network out, and cherry pick
>>>> remaining shows -- move Reaper (into Chuck's timeslot), Smallville
>>>> and Supernatural (to Wednesdays, [with] Bionic Woman)
>>>
>>> If you gave those shows to NBC, they'd all be canceled in 6 months
>>> time. NBC has a lousy, lousy history with sci-fi or fantasy shows.
>>>
>>> NBC killed:
>>> - star trek
>>> - bionic woman (original)
>>> - buck rogers
>>> - seaquest
>>> - earth2
>>> - surface
>>>
>>> I'm going to throw Quantum Leap in there because, even though it was a
>>> popular show, NBC killed it just because "we don't like sci-fi". (The
>>> man who said that was some midget called Littlefield... felt...
>>> jerk... something like that.)
>>>
>>> NBC has left a bad taste in my mouth.
>>
>> Your problem is that of the shows you're citing, over half of them are
>> 10 years old or more (Seaquest, Earth 2), and often 20-25 years old
>> (BW:TOS, Buck Rogers, Trek:TOS) and the one recent one that you cite
>> was just plain terrible (Surface.)
>>
>> IOW, they're all straw men regarding NBC's current attitude toward the
>> SF genre, which includes embracing Heroes and the new BW,
>
>The new BW isn't going to fly... no matter how good it turns out to be.
> The reason? It's got Isaiah Wa****ngton in it, and people are still
>bitter towards him for allegedly referring to TR Knight as a "fa**ot" on
>the Grey's Anatomy set. The show made a fatal mistake, before it even
>aired an episode, by hiring Wa****ngton.
While I do also think (and continue to think/feel) that adding
Wa****ngton to the BW cast was a huge mistake, after seeing the pilot,
I don't think it's a fatal one wrt IW's reputation. He's only been
signed to 5-6 episodes, which is IMO a small enough number of eps to
tolerate his presence.
IMO, the new BW is *that* good.
It does make me wonder if they'll have a gay character on the show
during IW's run to counterbalance that the show is employing a known
bigot and/or hothead.
-- Rob
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It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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