On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:20:35 -0400, "David E. Milligan"
<davideml@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
[A reviewer Milligan found doth sayeth:]
>An argument could be made that Fox did fix the show going
>forward, but its decision to air the original pilot despite its
>barely matching the next episode in look or tone is just not acceptable,
>even if you want to play the fiscal card. It looks as if "The Return
>of Jezebel James" was a casualty of the writers strike. Fox didn't
>want to pay to reshoot the pilot because it lost faith
>in the series' potential (which is also why it cut the episode order).
This is exactly why I've always described both RotJJ and New
Amsterdamn as "pre-cancelled."
>Since the network is going to win the season anyway, why not
>burn off the series as is? Who knows, maybe it'll work, right?
This is exactly why I've always described the airing of both RotJJ and
New Amsterdam at *all* as being, in each case, a Hail Mary Pass.
Of course, I've seen the first two episodes of New Amsterdam and it's
a show that was solid in both of those two episodes -- so I wonder
what Fox's problem with it was. I now wonder what the differences
between the pilot and second episodes of RotJJ will be like, but OTOH,
it does beg the question that if the pilot of RotJJ really *is* THAT
bad, why is Fox going ahead and airing the episodes *in* order in the
first place? It's not as if they didn't already have the bad habit of
show episodes completely out of order for GOOD shows. Is this
something like, "You know Fox has no faith in the series when it shows
the episodes IN order."[1] ([1] Does not apply to "24.")
-- 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.
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