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Whacky, Little-Known Facts
Nov. 14th, 2009 09:42 pm...that some fans just never seem to get, or maybe never want to get, part eighty-five-hundredth:
Hey, did you know that there is often a LOT of temporal distance between shooting a TV pilot and starting to shoot a just-greenlit series? Truefax! This may explain why shows often seem to "fall off" after that wonderful pilot you all loved soooo much...because the cast, crew and even the PTB have sometimes had to cobble themselves back together on the sudden quick and dirty, and are struggling to find their feet/rhythm. In the intervening time, it's potentially possible that somebody (that lesbian P.O. on White Collar, for example) may have actually gotten another job, necessitating a change of actress--yes, that really might be it, as opposed to rotten producers somewhere going: "Why, there are far too many good lesbian person-of-color role models on TV as it is! Let us hasten to remove her girl-cooties from our manly-men show, ASAP!"
This same crazy fun-ness may also explain the syndrome in which you can almost always go, given any vaguely procedural setting, from: "Wow, that was...fun, and had potential" to "bwah?" to "buh-HOR-ing" to (occasionally) "Oh holy SHIT, this is the worst thing EVER" on a motherfuckin' dime, yo. See, for example: Fringe 1.02, Supernatural 1.02, Heroes 1.02, Buffy 1.02, X-Files 1.02, repeat repeat repeat.
Hell, some shows may take half an entire season to find their feet. Think back! Is it possible that this may (gasp!) have previously occurred even with stuff you like? The sainted Stargate: SG-1, perhaps? The sainted Farscape? It just might be so, might it not?!? And yet...given enough time...they still managed to salvage themselves.
Whacky, y'all. Whacky-dacky.
P.S.: Also true--no one owes you anything, ever, because you are not actually involved in the making of this product. Sorry.;)
Hey, did you know that there is often a LOT of temporal distance between shooting a TV pilot and starting to shoot a just-greenlit series? Truefax! This may explain why shows often seem to "fall off" after that wonderful pilot you all loved soooo much...because the cast, crew and even the PTB have sometimes had to cobble themselves back together on the sudden quick and dirty, and are struggling to find their feet/rhythm. In the intervening time, it's potentially possible that somebody (that lesbian P.O. on White Collar, for example) may have actually gotten another job, necessitating a change of actress--yes, that really might be it, as opposed to rotten producers somewhere going: "Why, there are far too many good lesbian person-of-color role models on TV as it is! Let us hasten to remove her girl-cooties from our manly-men show, ASAP!"
This same crazy fun-ness may also explain the syndrome in which you can almost always go, given any vaguely procedural setting, from: "Wow, that was...fun, and had potential" to "bwah?" to "buh-HOR-ing" to (occasionally) "Oh holy SHIT, this is the worst thing EVER" on a motherfuckin' dime, yo. See, for example: Fringe 1.02, Supernatural 1.02, Heroes 1.02, Buffy 1.02, X-Files 1.02, repeat repeat repeat.
Hell, some shows may take half an entire season to find their feet. Think back! Is it possible that this may (gasp!) have previously occurred even with stuff you like? The sainted Stargate: SG-1, perhaps? The sainted Farscape? It just might be so, might it not?!? And yet...given enough time...they still managed to salvage themselves.
Whacky, y'all. Whacky-dacky.
P.S.: Also true--no one owes you anything, ever, because you are not actually involved in the making of this product. Sorry.;)
