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Ouch about the significantly better FireStarter ratings being poo-pooed. Doesn't look real good for Rangers. I wonder if SciFi has a decent idea how much of their viewer base is into Horror or more just straight SciF like me? Was Firestarter intended on being a one-shot deal? I suppose with...

Oops, "These things gave the movie legs and great word of mouth from initial viewers, but the sheer WOW impact of those inital trailers overcame the lackings in three attributes I suggested." Should read as "These things gave the movie legs and great word of mouth from initial viewers, but...

Joe, Pillowrock, "The exception that proves the rule" IS a really dumb sounding expression at first glance, once you think about it. And it is soften misused to cover holes in shoddy logic. *I* take it as an appropriate usage when describing an example that superficially doesn't appear to...

Sorry for being MIA, guys. Trying to clarify my last post a bit, my main point (which may have been muddled since it all came together on the fly) was how that sense of connection to the familiar (if not actually *about* the familiar), and "relevance" (for want of a better word), help interest...

Savant, Your question about the (in)effectiveness of advertising or other factors in terms of people watching it, or not, in the first place is an interesting one. I've had a few possibly relevant discussions with with some others online. Difficculties may lie not just in the football game or...

Thanks fo rthe reply. I probably understated my generally negative opinion up above. Right after I watched LOTR I could describe my reaction as fighting feelings of disappointment, trying to dismiss them. There *were* after all some things to really like in the midst of the various groaners...

[Sysop - I know this isn't a topic per se, but I don't know of any other way on this site to shout for somebody's attention.] MS, I never saw where you posted about your personal opinion about B5:LOTR as a movie. I'd be quite interested to know what you think (here or point me to where you've...

About a totally black-and-white good versus evil struggle OR something with more shades of gray and layers of complexity slowly revealed... Which type of conflict did JMS find interesting enough to explore over ONE HUNDRED episodes... ... and which one was a nice 90minute popcorn movie that...

"Pure evil" sounds exactly like something JMS would NOT do over the long term, too simplistic and ultimately boring. Remember the Vorlon/Shadow dichotomy started to look like good/evil then turned into stifling order vs. "creative" destruction -- with MUCH more depth. ------------------...

GaribaldisHair(s?) said <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> About the "experienced team", IMHO it's not quite totally right. That's true for the 4 head peoples: JMS (script), Doug Nettle (production), Chris Franke (music) and Mike Vejar (directing). But the...

Dave Thomer put it best, I think: "In my case, that's only true in the sense that what I was expecting (or, more accurately, what I was hoping for) was something somehow new, exciting, or surprising, and the Hand were not that. The Hand had the same 'going back to the well' feeling that season...

I liked XXX's (I forget his/her handle) comments about watching the show "immersively" or "objectively". I wanted to be able to enjoy it in the former fashion but was jolted into the latter by the at-first-glance "been there, done that" of the Hand. I just think something is off-base when we...

Missing the point... Were any of you vets on the edge of your seat about the Hand? Excited about them AS PRESENTED? It sounds like the answer is No. Sure, we assume (hope) that a series would unfold into something new, different, more complex. But why not have a short term problem that...

Paraphrasing... "It only *looks* lame. There's more to it. You should know better." To which I reply... Why should it look lame in the first place? ------------------ newscaper, from the SciFi Channel Farscape BB

So we're just supposed to "ignore that man behind the curtain!" ? If it is supposed to be "obvious" to us existing B5ers that the Hand is a throwaway, isn't that a) Letting us down a bit, Lucas style, as the "faithful" don't get fully rewarded (given that they're the ones willing to carry a...