(1) THEATER OF BOOM. Not just the popcorn, but the whole theater — “One Plus Partnership’s cinema interior resembles the aftermath of an explosion”.
One Plus Partnership‘s Exploded cinema in Wuhan, China, won the Civic, Culture and Transport category at Inside Festival 2015.
The Hong Kong-based interior design firm arranged angular blocks in different sizes and materials to create the impression that a huge explosion had taken place in the space.
…Lung says that the idea was to create a space that feels like it could be from a science-fiction film.
(2) THE BOMBS OF OTHER DAYS. The “10 Least Successful Science Fiction TV Spinoffs” at ScreenRant. Number 10 is one I’ve never even heard of before –
The sci-fi series Total Recall 2070 was Canadian-German co-production that, in theory, sounded wildly ambitious. It drew inspiration from not just one, but two of the most successful Philip K. Dick movie adaptations. Similar to Paul Verhoeven’s darkly humorous blockbuster Total Recall, the story revolved around modified memories and took place on a futuristic version of Earth as well as the newly-colonized Mars. But Total Recall 2070 also followed policemen hunting renegade androids in a neo-noir megalopolis akin to the one in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Philip K. Dick wasn’t mentioned in the show’s credits though, as the series barely resembled original stories these movies were based on.
Total Recall 2070 premiered on Canadian TV channel CHCH in January of 1999. It also aired on Showtime, where network executives toned down show’s violence, nudity and strong language considerably for an American audience. Total Recall 2070 aired for one 22-episode season before being canceled.
Unlike most of these other bombs, both characters in the #1 worst show have rebounded from failure and are currently quite popular.
(3) RELEASE THE PRISONER MOVIE! Ridley Scott is in negotiations to direct The Prisoner reports Deadline Hollywood.
I hear that Scott is in early negotiations on a deal to come aboard and direct The Prisoner, the screen version of the 1968 Patrick McGoohan British TV series. This has been a plum project at Universal for some time with numerous A-list scribes including Christopher McQuarrie writing drafts. The most recent version was by The Departed scribe William Monahan. The film is being produced by Bluegrass Films Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark. Scott’s Scott Free team will likely become part of it as they get the script that makes the director happy.
(4) BBC HAS A CLUE. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency has been ordered to series at BBC America. The Hollywood Reporter has the news.
BBC America is getting its graphic novel on.
Drama Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency has been picked up straight to series with an eight-episode order, the cable network announced Friday ahead of its time at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour.
Based on Douglas Adams’ graphic novels first published in 1987, the story centers on the titular holistic detective who investigates cases involving the supernatural. Chronicle‘s Max Landis will pen the series, which is a co-production between AMC Studios, Ideate Media and comics powerhouse IDW Entertainment as well as Circle of Confusion (The Walking Dead).
(5) BRUCE SHIPPED TO MUSEUM. The shark from Jaws has a date with destiny as a museum exhibit.
Bruce the shark, the famous seafaring predator from Jaws, has found a new home at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ museum.
The Academy announced Thursday that a full-scale model of the shark, the last surviving one from the 1975 movie, has been donated to the museum by Nathan Adlen. During filming of Jaws, director Steven Spielberg nicknamed the shark Bruce after his lawyer Bruce Ramer.
The Fiberglas model is the fourth and final version made from the original mold. Created for display at the Universal Studios Hollywood at the time of the film’s release, the prop remained a popular backdrop for photos until 1990, when it was moved to the yard of Aadlen Brothers Auto Wrecking, a firm in Sun Valley, Calif., that regularly bought or hauled used vehicles from Universal Studios. With the business slated to close this month, owner Nathan Adlen is giving the historic prop to the Academy Museum, which is set to open in 2018.
(6) IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR. Jo Lindsay Walton’s “My favorite looks back at 2015 of 2015” is a compilation of links to around 30 different writers’ year-end posts.
Come home 2015, you’re drunk. Please come home. We need you. We need you.
(7) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY BOYS
- Born January 8, 1926 — Kerwin Mathews. James H. Burns paid tribute to the actor, who passed away in 2007, in a File 770 post.
Mathews, of course, was the star of two Ray Harryhausen fantasy movies,The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Gulliver’s Travels, as well as the similarly-themed Jack the Giant Killer (the latter, one of my all-time favorite fantasy films, in fact!).
Mathews was a classic leading man, who had the unusual ability — still too easily overlooked when contemplating actors — to be believable in the wildest of celluloid special effects situations.
- Born January 8, 1941 – Terry Brooks, whose books the new Shannara Chronicles is based on.
- Born January 8, 1942 – Stephen Hawking
(8) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY REPLICANT
- Activated January 8, 2016 — Roy Batty, Nexus-6 class replicant from Blade Runner. The Sydney Morning Herald celebrates –
It’s a boy! It’s a Roy! For Blade Runner fans, 8 January 2016 is a date of major significance. It’s the “day of activation” for Roy Batty, one of the most charismatic and significant characters in this landmark movie. He’s a replicant, or android – and, although he might not be flesh and blood, he certainly makes us think about what it is to be human. He’s arguably the heart and soul of the movie, even more than its putative hero, played by Harrison Ford
Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is one of the most influential films of the 1980s, a philosophical science fiction-action work set in the near future that’s steeped in a sense of the past, a reflection on memory, identity, emotion, creation and invention that takes place in a dazzling yet downbeat neo-noir urban landscape. Loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, its events begin to unfold in November 2019, in a world in which highly realistic androids, known as replicants, have been built by a company called the Tyrell Corporation.
Batty (brilliantly played by Rutger Hauer) is a replicant from the Nexus-6 class, and he’s looking for answers to questions about his own past and future: how he was made, and how he can prolong his life and that of his Nexus-6 comrades. Ford plays a character called Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter. His job is to hunt down and kill replicants, who are illegal on Earth.
(9) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY BLOGS
- Born January 8, 2007 – The Book Smugglers. And they know how to celebrate – by publishing a book!
…And a brand new anthology: Tales of First Contact collects the five short stories from our First Contact series and is available now from your retailer of choice. Or you know, via a review copy – all you have to do is ask. We are also happy to offer giveaway copies – just let us know.
- Born January 8, 2015 — The B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog. They’re celebrating with a list of their 15 most-trafficked posts from their first year.
(10) A REVIEW FOR MILLENNIALS. Austin Walker at Giant Bomb interprets The Force Awakens for his particular generation — “Off the Clock: Space Opera Millennials and Their Grand Narratives”. BEWARE SPOILERS.
Like most of us in our own lives, each of these characters has a limited understanding of the universe, and especially of the past. What do other worlds look like? What was “the Galactic Empire” really? Is the Force real, and if so how does it work? Nowhere is this difference in understanding illustrated better than in how these characters view Han Solo: For Ren, he’s an uncaring father, for Finn, he’s a brilliant war hero, and for Rey he’s a legendary smuggler. Each finds their understanding challenged by a more complicated truth: Han was an absent dad because he cared so much; the great Rebellion war hero is a scoundrel without a plan…
(11) DS9 +1. Maxistentialism makes the argument in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine In 82.5 Hours” that it is the best series in the franchise.
But some time between fifth grade and now, I’ve come to recognize that while Star Trek: The Next Generation holds a special place in my heart, it is not the best incarnation of Star Trek. That title belongs to what writer Ronald D. Moore called Next Generation’s “bastard stepchild,” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Deep Space Nine is a remarkable show. It is unfairly overlooked as one of the foundational programs (like Buffy, The Sopranos, and Hill Street Blues) of our current golden age of television. DS9 introduced long, serialized stories about morally ambiguous characters to network television ten years before Battlestar Galactica, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones.
(12) DEL TORO. Guillermo del Toro is in talks to take over the Fantastic Voyage remake.
John King Tarpinian has little to say about the remake, but he remembers the year the original version came out:
When the original movie was in theaters my parents decided that summer vacation would be on Catalina Island. Being parents they decided the best place for a kid to be on the island was inland at a resort with a pool so he could go swimming…but I digress. One of the guests at the hotel was a Mr. Goff, who was some sort of designer of the sets. The thing I remember that impressed my parent was he also worked on an old black and white movie, Casablanca.
(13) LEVERAGING YOUR WORK. Luna Lindsey at the SFWA Blog has an impressive, multilayered strategy for “Tackling the Dreaded Bio” – a writing chore that’s not as simple as it looks.
What a Bio Accomplishes
Bios seem like such a chore, perhaps because we think of them as an obnoxious necessity rather than an opportunity. As writers, we also tend to dislike telling our own stories. And that’s exactly what a bio does.
When a reader bothers to check the bio, it’s because your story (or blog post, or appearance on a panel) has captured their interest. They want to know more and that’s awesome! A catchy bio will help them remember you, and they may even be inspired to seek out your other creations. That’s exactly what you want. Your bio will propel them into your other worlds. So make it good!
(14) AGAIN AND AGAIN. A Radio Times video identifies “18 actors who have travelled between the universes of Harry Potter and Doctor Who.”(This was posted a year ago. Have there been any more crossovers since then?)
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Alan Baumler, James H. Burns, and Will R. for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Will R.]
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I loved McGoohan’s Prisoner.
Am not sure a film could do the story justice.
Maybe…FIRST!
I think you are first, Robin
Re: Prisoner. I’m more interested in the Big Finish audio, myself…
(4) …what? I’ve got Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and the sequel, and they’re definitely not graphic novels. A quick online search turns up sources saying IDW plans to adapt them to graphic novels at some future date.
Good heavens, am I going to be… fifth?? Or perhaps only fourth.
Re: the animal of the year, in Japan it is already the Year of the Monkey, because they switched everything over to the solar calendar as of January 1, 1873–even though this throws off by one to two months a lot of traditional holiday associations, like plum blossoms as New Year decorations. (But even in mid-February the plum blossoms are iffy, so already people were used to making do with forced hothouse blossoms or completely artificial ones if the real thing didn’t appear in time.)
China uses the Western solar calendar for everyday stuff, just for convenience, but has kept the old lunar calendar for traditional holidays, as have Korea and Vietnam. The Wikipedia article is totally Sinocentric—accurate, just incomplete.
Surely not 5th?
And ooooooo
4) BBC HAS A CLUE. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency has been ordered to series at BBC America. The Hollywood Reporter has the news.
I have my doubts about The Prisoner movie though.
The Hollywood Reporter didn’t fact-check the Dirk Gently news very well. It’s never been a graphic novel according to my recollection and the wikipedia page.
Yeah, what’s this about Dirk Gently being a graphic novel? I had the novel novels years ago, but don’t recall any comics.
IDW did a 5-issue DIRK GENTLY comic last year.
The collected edition comes out later this month:
http://smile.amazon.com/Dirk-Gently-Interconnectedness-All-Kings/dp/163140508X
On the TV bombs, I watched the first episode of Caprica expecting to like it: sequel to BSG! Paula Malcolmson! But it didn’t grab me. Maybe I should give the series another shot sometime.
5) Wait, what? This is no museum, this is my apartment! Honest!
::tickbox::
both characters in the #1 worst show have rebounded from failure and are currently quite popular.
There was also an Australian K9 series in 2009-10. It wasn’t very good.
The BBC already did a Dirk Gently series back in 2010-12. I saw the first episode and enjoyed it, but never got around to the rest.
Emotionally, I really can’t handle It Was A Very Good Year
I love the song, but both my father and my elder brother did too; my father died relatively old, for a slave on the Death Railway; the few survivors usually died relatively young.
My mother died in a doctor’s waiting room, having been assured her that the pains in her arms and chest were psychological in nature.
My elder brother died relatively young; without any known reason since they don’t do autopsies in Cambodia; instead the bodies are cremated, not at all well by our standards.
So, the three people who I loved most died without my having any chance of how to to help them; Still, It was a Very Good Year
Wow, this is a really good roundup.
(2) THE BOMBS OF OTHER DAYS.
I must confess that I’ve not only heard of most of these, I watched a lot of them!
I nominated “Total Recall 2070” for the TV brackets. (I went looking for the DVD set on Amazon and Ebay and came up empty; if anyone can point me to where I might find it, I’d appreciate it.) The star was Michael Easton, who’s a writer in addition to being an actor; I own one of his poetry collections. Fun fact: he also starred on a daytime soap opera as a non-sparkly vampire!
I vaguely remember the “Planet of the Apes” TV series; I think Roddy McDowell was in it too, wasn’t he?
Ah, The Lone Gunmen. Unfortunately, they were better as sidekicks.
(11) DS9 +1. The best Trek? Yep yep yep. The multiseason arcs, the exploration of faith and religion, the great collection of fully realized secondary characters (Garak! Gul Dukat! Rom! Weyoun!), the moral ambiguity of many of the characters and storylines–oh hell yeah.
2) The Bombs of Other Days. I have a lot of fondness for the Planet of the Apes series. It had a big wide humanistic streak, with an emphasis on understanding and cooperation as keys to success, and on violence as almost always a negative-sum deal. It also got 3 novelizations by George Alec Effinger, which were of course not George at his best but were my introduction to his work.
(2) “Total Recall 2070” was actually a pretty good show. It got terrible time slots in syndication after the Showtime run. I liked it better than, say “Caprica”. Also liked TLG, but I don’t think it would have worked as a long-term show. I think I saw at least one episode of each of those. Maybe not the one that only lasted 3 episodes. But all of POTApes.
(4) Graphic Novel? That’s a funny way to describe the paperback I have.
(11) Absolutely correct. DS9 was extraordinary.
Oh, Stevie, that is particularly horrible. I’m so sorry.
This week finds me finally seeing the doctor about 2015’s consistent high blood pressure readings. After almost 40 years of normal readings, suddenly we’re in the stage 2 hypertension zone and staying there. I kept hoping it was a fluke and things would just go back to normal, especially considering other traditionally related risk factors/symptoms were absent. But it didn’t. So this week I got looked at, EKG’d, gonna get echo’d, picked up the meds today (which require me to swap my ibuprofen for tylenol and to swear off grapefruit, yay), picked up a bp monitor for home use–and am now hyperaware of every mention of heart disease and heart attacks. It’s rather new for this to be on my radar, but every time it pings, I sort of feel affirmed that yes, I have done the right thing to take this seriously.
I’m glad that I have a doctor who is taking it seriously too. It’s rage-inducing to read yet another story of doctors fatally misdiagnosing a woman’s symptoms as “psychological” (oh those hysterical wimmins!). I’m sorry for your loss, Stevie, and outraged by the way it came about.
I’m sorry for that, Stevie. Too many stories like that out there. And way to take care of yourself, Nicole. That’s hard to do. My girlfriend and I tend to wait until we feel Death looking over our shoulders to go to the doctor. Though yeah, the US health care system more than kinda encourages that.
Reading-wise… Just finished Ancillary Mercy. Was made a little nervous by a negative review that said the book didn’t have a proper ending, it just stopped, that Leckie had admitted as much. That review was almost a reverse spoiler. Holy crap did she land that ending. Excellent novel, great ending to the trilogy. So much awesomeness that seems obvious in retrospect but hit me by surprise as it came. I’d go back and reread the whole series, but I don’t have the time right now. I think I’m on to The Fifth Season next.
I’m realizing that Hugo reading, at least for the nominations, is tons of pressure. I normally flit back and forth between old books I haven’t read, new books I haven’t read, and old books and series I want to reread. I max out at about a page or page and a third a minute and I have various activities (music, relationship, work) that get in the way of my reading time. On the one hand, deciding I need to read up and nominate has meant reading moved from a guilty-ish pleasure* to a pleasurable responsibility, but it’s also been dictating what I can read.
* If that makes sense. I have trouble with guilt about “down time” when I could be practicing or doing something else “important” and reading has always been my ultimate down time.
If I’m recalling correctly, Deep Space 9 wasn’t a network show, but was syndicated.
Oh my god, Stevie. So sorry. 🙁
Re: DS9+1
Now, I like DS9, but it’s not what I think of in terms of a predecessor to “morally ambiguous” long-form shows. Granted, it’s a couple of years earlier than what I have in mind, but it took a couple of seasons to really dig into the gritty stuff.
So what’s my choice? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… Profit. Note that David Greenwalt is one of its creators; Profit aired in 1996, after which Greenwalt moved to Buffy the Vampire Slayer for a couple of years before co-creating Angel with Joss Whedon.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but in terms of morally ambiguous television, that looks pretty foundational to me.
Oh, and if the star of Profit looks familiar – Adrian Pasdar went on to play Nathan Petrelli on Heroes. 🙂
(1) THEATER OF BOOM. – Of all of these, I only regret that Caprica didn’t make it. It was really good, and just needed to improve it’s pacing IMO. Some amazing acting and characters though.
(11) DS9 +1. – Yes. Without a doubt.
Nicholas,
I watched the Dirk Gently series and thought it was pretty good. I was a bit surprised since I hated the novels and was ready to loathe the TV version too.
Stevie, I can’t express how angry your story of your mother’s death makes me. Too many doctors find it far too easy to dismiss women’s symptoms as “all in your head.”
Of course Deep Space Nine is the best series of the Trek franchise. It’s the only one that engages at all with the moral complexity of Starfleet being the military arm of one of the major policies in its part of the galaxy–and one not at all afraid to throw its weight around as needed.
I continue to readd and review. Read some fun stuff recently.
Also, note: Fifth fifth.
The three Lone Gunmen actors came to the Apple OS X ship party, at Moffett Field’s Hangar One – the big zeppelin hangar the Mythbusters used a few times. But since I’d given up on X-Files once I realized Scully was never going to be right (seriously, the mundane explanation has to be right at least *some* of the time) I didn’t have anything to say so I didn’t go chat with them.
Thank you all so much for your kind comments; it’s been almost 30 years since the first of those deaths: but I still dread picking up the phone, and I try very hard not to transfer my anxiety to my daughter, since her job provides her with plenty of opportunities with very scary things, and she really doesn’t need anymore.
Of course, if you live on this side of the pond, and have gout. and would like to take part in a study aimed at greatly reducing the pain, then please do get in touch via Mike, who has my email address. I think File770, in between being a hive of scum and villainy, can be rather good at matching things…
(4) BBC HAS A CLUE. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Oohh, I am looking forward to it and am curious to see how they approach it.
(11) DS9 +1
There is no doubt in my mind that it was the best Star Trek series. There is no doubt either that it was ground-breaking not only for a Star Trek series. I’m sure many will agree with both assertions, so is it really “unfairly overlooked as one of the foundational programs (like Buffy, The Sopranos, and Hill Street Blues) of our current golden age of television”?
The problem I have with DS9 is that it doesn’t really work on its own; it works because the Trek universe was established sufficiently strongly that it could handle a radically different take. (And DS9 isn’t really that radically different anyway.)
In other words, I guess I’m arguing that if Next Generation is A New Hope and Voyager is Return of the Jedi, then clearly DS9 is Empire Strikes Back.* It’s widely considered the best of the bunch, but there’s a strong argument that it probably wouldn’t have worked at all if it hadn’t been for what came before it, and it probably wouldn’t have its respected status were it not for what came afterwards.
*and, of course, this makes Enterprise the equivalent of the prequels, if I’m going to stretch my analogy past breaking point. 🙂
Personally, I think that Babylon 5 is the more impressive achievement for doing much the same thing as DS9 but without the benefit of an established universe to play in. (Then again, I also think that Voyager is a lot better than its reputation suggests. So what do I know?)
Superversive has put up a new round-table/podcast.
Lowlights to be found at
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(2) THE BOMBS OF OTHER DAYS
I watched “Galactica 1980” when it broadcast. It was dire.
As I recall it you had to be really interested in watching random-dudes-wandering-through-modern-LA.
It is a great pity “The K-9 Adventures” was never picked up. What were they thinking?
(4) BBC HAS A CLUE
“Dirk Gently” was a graphic novel? I had no idea.
I thought it was an undeveloped “Doctor Who” script, but my memory is fuzzy …
The first Dirk Gently book was a combination of two Doctor Who stories, the time trsveller hiding in a Cambridge College is from “Shada” which had done its location filming and the first of its studio sessions, but lost the other two due to a strike and rescheduling of studio priorities so was never transmitted. Travelling back to the start of life on Earth came from “City of Death” in which
the Grand Maestera one eyed alien had crashed his spaceship and wanted it not to have happened. Both scripts by Douglas Adams from his time as script editor for the series.It does get overlooked, I think for 2 reasons.
The first comes down to Babylon 5, and the not always friendly rivalry the 2 fandoms (where there wasn’t an overlap) had back when it aired, and to a lesser extent now, resulting in people being dismissive of DS9 as a poor copy of B5.
The second was it’s proximity to TNG, which was the new classic/ the true heir of TOS to a lot of fans. DS9 was (certainly initially) the also-ran, whenever most people talk about Trek, it tends to be TOS and TNG, and again being dismissive of DS9
Obvs, all this is IMO, as is my view that it’s a dumb view to have.
Forgotten birthday boy for today 1/8
Roy Batty http://boingboing.net/2016/01/08/happy-birthday-roy-batty.html
Back in the day I watched “Babylon 5” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and loved them both. The rest of the Star Trek franchise left me cold.
@Iphinome
Psst – #8!
Oh I am so sorry Stevie. 🙁
Currently circulating on The Twitters is this rather strange tale of author behavior:
http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/theauthorwhocyberstalkedme
@Iphinome
So, JCW was on his usual form then? The last time I had the energy to listen to one of those the whole way through he dominated the discussion, probably taking about half the air time.
TNG is my favorite Trek series, though I won’t deem it “the greatest”; it’s only my preference.
I watched DS9 for much of its run, but I couldn’t keep focused. Long arcs were one reason, and I began to feel like I was spending a lot of time watching an airport lobby. Arcs: I think Buffy was the first show I knew I’d enjoy but stayed away from anyway. I didn’t have enough undeclared time to dedicate a specific hour every week in order to grok it. Now I pass up most series fiction on TV and marvel at those who watch a passel of them and know all the relationships and plots for each well enough to comprehend their goings-on. I’m not deep.
But I’m not as bad as one of the letter writers at the “10 spinoffs” slideshow who has a familiar (and obscurely worded) plaint
Darn those SJWs, always putting their agenda into a long, lubricated message and cramming it up or ramming it down innocent fans, who just wanted a good time! Why do they insist on provoking thoughts, when any fule kno the important part is shiny spaceships, zap guns, and eye candy? And why do fans keep allowing them a, uh, margin of error?
Oh, and SOMETHINGTH!
@snowcrash okay my eyes passed right over that, I’m dumb^H^H^H^H inattentive.*
*I was required to stop saying that about myself. I’m enough of an Elizabeth Moon fangirl and frightened enough of her that when she told me never to say that, I decided I’d better listen.
@Mark yes he talked a lot, but you don’t need to listen to the whole thing, I did it for you, you can just collect all the good quotes to toss back when he denies it.
Peace Is My Middle Name said:
What Anthony said; also, you may have it mixed up with Life, the Universe, and Everything, which really was adapted from a completely undeveloped Doctor Who script.
@Rev Bob
Re: Profit
Huh, I remember that. Is that the show where the sociopathice Wall Street trader with the abusive childhood (or some kind of trauma) slept naked in a cardboard box?
I thought only a few episodes of that were ever aired. Is there a DVD of the series?
@Stevie: I am so sorry to hear about your mother’s death–the ongoing pattern of medical sexism hurting and killing women is so enraging.
(2) I’m sure there are some less successful shows like Logan’s Run than Stargate: Universe which managed two 10-episode seasons.
(3) Did we learn nothing from the 2009 mini-series? Maybe they could do a Danger Man/Secret Agent Man movie first and see how things go from there.
(4) Did we learn nothing from the 1.5 pilots for the American version of Red Dwarf?
(12) Did we learn nothing from the animated Fantastic Voyage series? Actually, I’d be cool with this if they solved one of the mysteries presented at the start of the first episode. That disappearing pirate ship, for example. As far as I know, they never went back to this list of mysteries the CMDF might solve.
I very much liked item (13) Leveraging Your Work. I’ve always wondered how people go about writing those bios. 🙂
@jack. I’ve been trying to blot my memory of that 2009 miniseries.
Re: DS9
Love it, it’s held up the best.
So if there’s one thing that strikes me about TV fandom is that it is very conservative towards whenever enough of the fandom came into it to form a community. The way the show/franchise was at that point becomes the right way, and all else is pale imitation. I think DS9 got short shrift for not being seasons 3-6 of TNG, because that’s when the periods fandom took off. I think Dr. Who fandom is prone to this as well. The line between fandom and fan dumb is a narrow one.
@redheadedfemme: (Profit)
It is, that’s true (four episodes weren’t aired), and there was, but it’s out of print. I have the full season set on my shelf, along with such other one-season wonders as The Lone Gunmen, the Clerks animated series, and Wonderfalls (another Joss-adjacent property!).