"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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
> --
> LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
> 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.
I like it. Maybe have Wa****ngton's character 1. Be gay or 2. Be taken
out
by a gay character. Play into the issue. 1. Confident enough in his own
***uality to play a homo***ual, thereby "proving" he's not a homophobe, or
2. appeasing the more militant rainbow mafia members by puni****ng his
character with one that shares their views. Then again, there is the
majority of viewers who don't give a flying fig about his thoughts on the
subject.
r.
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